Placeholder chapter page. Sections are produced by the book-skills pipeline.
Sections
- 1.1 Sensors as imperfect windows into the world
- 1.2 Physical-world AI vs digital/text AI: why measurement changes everything
- 1.3 Measurement, state, event, action: the four quantities
- 1.4 A taxonomy of modalities and task families
- 1.5 From raw signal to decision: the sensing chain
- 1.6 Sampling, latency, bandwidth, power, cost, and privacy as first-class constraints
- 1.7 The 2023-2026 shift: from bespoke pipelines to foundation models and agentic sensing
- 1.8 Book map: measure, clean, represent, infer, fuse, deploy
Lab 1
survey a dozen sensor datasets; classify each by sampling rate, dimensionality, modality, task, noise source, label cost, and deployment constraint.