Perception to Action: Sense, Plan, Do

Robots do not act on the world—they act on their understanding of it. Perception to Action: Sense, Plan, Do breaks down the continuous loop that turns raw sensor input into meaningful movement.
This book takes a pipeline-first view of autonomy. It follows how perception feeds planning, how plans become actions, and how action reshapes perception again. Rather than isolating vision, planning, or control, the book treats autonomy as a living loop that must stay coherent under noise, delay, and change.
The focus is on flow, not components. Readers learn why good perception fails without timely planning, why perfect plans collapse without execution awareness, and why real systems must constantly reconcile belief with reality.
This book examines:
• How sensors become decisions
• Why perception and planning cannot be separated
• How latency breaks autonomy
• Why feedback closes the intelligence loop
• How robots recover when assumptions fail
This book is for roboticists and system builders who think end-to-end. If intelligence lives in the loop—not in any single module—this book shows how sensing, planning, and action become one continuous system.