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Table of Contents

1. Overview and Preliminaries
2. Mobile Robots, Position, and Orientation
3. Translational and Rotational Dynamics
4. Flying and Swimming Robots
5. Articulated Robots
6. Transformation, Path Planning, and Trajectories
7. Time Response of Dynamic Systems
8. Dynamic Effects of Feedback Control
9. Analog and Digital Control Systems
10. Sensors and Actuators
11. Introduction to Optimization
12. Numerical Optimization
13. Dynamic Optimal Control
14. Formal Logic, Algorithms, and Incompleteness
15. Computers, Computing, and Sets
16. Probability and Statistics
17. Machine Learning
18. Introduction to Neural Networks
19. Shallow and Deep-Learning Neural Networks
20. Information, Search, and Expert Systems
21. State Estimation
22. Stochastic Control
23. Parameter Estimation and Adaptive Control
24. Task Planning and Multi-Agent Systems