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This book can be cited as follows:

Nikolaus Correll, Bradley Hayes, Christoffer Heckman and Alessandro Roncone. Introduction to Autonomous Robots: Mechanisms, Sensors, Actuators, and Algorithms, MIT Press, 2022 (forthcoming).

@book{correll2022introduction,
  title={ Introduction to Autonomous Robots: Mechanisms, Sensors, Actuators, and Algorithms},
  author={Correll, Nikolaus and Hayes, Bradley, and Heckman, Christoffer, and Roncone, Alessandro},
  year={2022},
  edition={1st},
  publisher={MIT Press, Cambridge, MA}
}