Robotics and Automation

This book examines ethical challenges in driving automation, building on the European Commission’s 2020 report. With contributions from philosophers, engineers, and designers, it addresses safety, privacy, fairness, responsibility, and human–machine interaction. Combining theory and practical strategies, it promotes a multidisciplinary approach to integrating ethics into autonomous vehicle design and regulation.

Driving Automation: A Human Factors Perspective explores how human factors shape the safe, effective adoption of self-driving cars. Covering driver performance, workload, interface design, monitoring, eco-driving, and failure response, it emphasizes human-centered automation. Aimed at students and professionals, it highlights how to maximize benefits while mitigating risks of vehicle automation.

This book introduces key technologies and methods for developing intelligent robots using the Robot Operating System (ROS). Covering robot basics, hardware/software components, and functions like vision, speech, and navigation, it blends theory and practice. Designed for beginners and courses, it offers practical guidance for building ROS-based service robots across applications.

This book teaches Python 3 unit test automation using libraries like doctest, unittest, nose2, pytest, and Selenium. It covers test creation, organization, execution, web browser automation, logging with Python and loguru, and test-driven development, providing practical guidance for automating, managing, and improving software testing workflows effectively.

Magnus Egerstedt’s Robot Ecology introduces a new framework for designing long-duration autonomous robots inspired by ecological principles. Emphasizing survivability and environmental constraints, it explores safe, effective behaviors beyond task optimization. Highlighting the SlothBot case study, the book offers a unified methodology for resilient, energy-efficient robots in uncertain natural environments.

In Robot Ethics, philosopher Mark Coeckelbergh explores moral questions raised by industrial, social, medical, and military robots. He examines responsibility, privacy, job loss, and life-or-death decision-making, arguing that robot ethics is ultimately about humans. Robots serve as mirrors, prompting reflection on morality, responsibility, and what it means to be human.

The practice of test automation is invaluable for modern software testers. This comprehensive guide for managers covers test automation in-depth for medium- to large-scale implementations, from the benefits of test automation to defining, building and implementing a test automation approach that is fit-for-purpose, to acquiring and executing test execution tools and frameworks.