Download or read book Intelligent Autonomous Systems 6 written by Enrico Pagello and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a long period, in which the research focused mainly on industrial robotics, nowadays scientists aim to build machines able to act autonomously in unstructured domains, and to interface friendly with humans, while performing intelligently their assigned tasks. Such intelligent autonomous systems are now being intensively developed, and are ready to be applied to every field, from social life to modern enterprises. We believe the following years will be increasingly characterised by their extensive use. This is dramatically changing the whole scenario of human society.