Robotics, Vision and Control Fundamental Algorithms in MATLAB 2ed

So how does a robot work? Robots are data-driven machines. They acquire data, process it and take action based on it. The data comes from sensors measuring the velocity of a wheel, the angle of a robot arm’s joint or the intensities of millions of pixels that comprise an image of the world that the robot is observing. For many robotic applications the amount of data that needs to be processed, in real-time, is massive. For a vision sensor it can be of the order of tens to hundreds of megabytes per second.