Errata

Despite my utmost effort the book has errors: typos, grammatical and substantive.  This page is for reporting substantive errors not typos. I am however interested in knowing about all errors so please email me at rvc@petercorke.com and provide enough information to locate the error, and tell me what you think the error is. By default I will acknowledge you, let me know if you don’t want this.

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Versions

There are currently three versions of the book – you can identify the version from the copyright page (page iv):

1. The second edition published in 2017.
2. The first edition, second printing, published in early 2013.
3. The first edition, first printing published in 2011.

All errata for the first edition can be found here.

Errata for second edition

Chapter 2

page 24

in the third paragraph on this page the coordinate frame names are reversed

“This type of matrix is known as a rotation matrix since it transforms a point from frame {V}{B}to {B}{V} and is denoted …”

thanks Manuel Zanutelli Cosio, added 20200517.

page 50

The equation at the top of the page has two terms swapped, it should be

\(𝐜′_2=𝐜′_3 \times 𝐜′_1\)

thanks Pekka Forsman, added 20180821.

page 60

In the 2D column of the table:

Orientation is a 3×3 2×2 rotation matrix

Pose is a 4×4 3×3 transformation matrix

thanks Erwin Coumans, added 20180110.

page 62

• Q11 is the same as Q9
• Q14, the app is no longer available.

thanks Haidar Obeid, added 20190806.

Chapter 3

page 65

The results on this page are computed based on

>> TB=SE3(1,2,0)*SE3.RzRx(pi/2)

a rotation about the x-axis, not z-axis as in the book.

Further down the page we should use the adjoint of TCB not TBC

>> vc = TBCTCB.Ad * vb;

thanks Willem Remie, added 20171203.

page 67

Two terms are swapped in (3.8), it should read

Thanks Nico Diefenbach, added 20200419.

page 68

The code line

w = w + wd*dt; attitude = attitude .* UnitQuaternion.omega(wd*dt);

should read

w = w + wd*dt; attitude = attitude .* UnitQuaternion.omega(w*dt);

since w*dt is the infinitesimal angular displacement which is converted to a unit quaternion and compounded with the attitude from the previous timestep.

thanks Chen Peng, added 20190811.

page 71

The equation for velocity is wrong, it should be

\(\dot{s}(𝑡)=5𝐴𝑡^4+4𝐵𝑡^3+3𝐶𝑡^2+2𝐷𝑡+𝐸 \)

The fourth term is \(2Dt\) not \(2D\) as printed.

thanks Ahmed Mohamed, added 20181202.

page 87

Equation (3.25) has a notational error, a superscript ended up on the wrong side of the dot operator.  It should read

thanks Ronghao Zheng, added 20190519.

page 88

The equation at the bottom of page 88 has the operands to the cross product reversed.  The code example at the top of page 90 is correct.

thanks Ronghao Zheng, added 20200517.

Chapter 4

page 105

In Fig 4.6, the top left shaded box should be labelled “distance control”, not “speed control”.

page 107

In the topmost equation,  there is an error in the 3-vector on the left-hand side.  The middle element, shown as   \(\dot{\omega}\) should be \(\dot{y}\).

thanks Andrew Vardy, added 20190114.

page 108

The second matrix equation has a missing term, the expression −𝑘𝜌cos𝛼 should be −𝑘𝜌𝜌cos𝛼.  The correct equation is:

thanks Iain McCulloch, added 20190407.

page 108

The last equation in the first row of equations on the page has some terms swapped, it should be

𝛽′=𝛽+𝜃∗

thanks Haidar Obeid, added 20180723.

Chapter 5

page 142

The variables start and goal are not set by the code example.

>> lp.plan('cost', [1 10 10])
>> lp.query(start, goal);>> lp.query([1 2 pi/2], [2 -2 0]);
A* path cost 35 
>> lp.plot()

page 146

>> plot_vehicle(p, 'box', 'size', [20 30], 'fill', 'r', 'alpha', 0.1)
>> plot_vehicle(p, 'box', 'size', [20 30], 'fillcolor', 'r', 'alpha', 0.1)

>> a1 = 1;
>> E = Rz('q1') * Tx(a1) * Tz('q2')
>> E = Rz('q1') * Tx(a1) * Tx('q2')

>> plot_poly(p1, 'wo', 'fill', 'b', 'alpha', 0.2);
>> plot_poly(p1, 'wo', 'fillcolor', 'b', 'alpha', 0.2);

>> plot_poly(p2, 'k', 'fill', 'r', 'alpha', 0.2)
>> plot_poly(p2, 'k', 'fillcolor', 'r', 'alpha', 0.2)

>> plot2(p)

>> plot2(squeeze(P(:,1,:))')

>> clf
>> for i=1:4
  hold on
  plot2(squeeze(p(:,i,:))')
end

>> T_C0 = SE3(0.3, 0.3, -2)*SE3.Rz(0.4);
>> vs = IBVS_sph(cam, 'T0', T_C0, 'verbose')
>> vs = IBVS_sph(cam, 'pose0', T_C0, 'verbose')

Appendix C

Page 605

Section C.2.1, the definitions of the vectors parallel and normal to the line are swapped.  The non homogeneous vector (−ℓ2,ℓ1) is a normal to the line, and (ℓ1,ℓ2)  is parallel to the line.

thanks Parker Lusk, added 20180121.