Recent Progress in Robotics

by Lee, Sukhan; Suh, Il Hong; Kim, Mun Sang

• ISBN13: 9783540767282
• ISBN10: 3540767282
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-14
• Publisher: Springer Nature

Summary

This volume is an edition of the papers selected from the 13th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, ICAR 2007, held in Jeju, Korea, August 22-25, 2007, with the theme: "Viable Robotics Service to Human." It is intended to deliver readers the most recent technical progress in robotics, in particular, toward the advancement of robotic service to human.

Table of Contents

Novel Mechanisms
Summary of Chapter I	p. 3
Feasibility Study of Robust Neural Network Motion Tracking Control of Piezoelectric Actuation Systems for Micro/Nano Manipulation	p. 5
Hybrid Formation Control for Non-Holonomic Wheeled Mobile Robots	p. 21
Novel Tripedal Mobile Robot and Considerations for Gait Planning Strategies Based on Kinematics	p. 35
Safe Joint Mechanism Based on Passive Compliance for Collision Safety	p. 49
A Guidance Control Strategy for Semi-autonomous Colonoscopy Using a Continuum Robot	p. 63
Fully-Isotropic T1R3-Type Redundantly-Actuated Parallel Manipulators	p. 79
Early Reactive Grasping with Second Order 3D Feature Relations	p. 91
Perception Guided Navigation and Manipulation
Summary of Chapter II	p. 109
Perception Guided Navigation
Link Graph and Feature Chain Based Robust Online SLAM for Fully Autonomous Mobile Robot Navigation System Using Sonar Sensors	p. 113
Services Robots Navigating on Smart Floors	p. 133
Control of Many Agents by Moving Their Targets: Maintaining Separation	p. 145
Improved Mapping and Image Segmentation by Using Semantic Information to Link Aerial Images and Ground-Level Information	p. 157
Active Visual Search by a Humanoid Robot	p. 171
Visual Control of a Micro Helicopter under Dynamic Occlusions	p. 185
Perception Guided Manipulation
Visual Servoing from Spheres with Paracatadioptric Cameras	p. 199
Dynamic Targets Detection for Robotic Applications Using Panoramic Vision System	p. 215
Vision-Based Control of the RoboTenis System	p. 229
Particle Filter Based Robust Recognition and Pose Estimation of 3D Objects in a Sequence of Images	p. 241
Preliminary Development of a Line Feature-Based Object Recognition System for Textureless Indoor Objects	p. 255
Modelling of Second Order Polynomial Surface Contacts for Programming by Human Demonstration	p. 269
Robot Self-modeling of Rotational Symmetric 3D Objects Based on Generic Description of Object Categories	p. 283
Human-Robot Interaction and Intelligence
Summary of Chapter III	p. 301
Human-Robot Interaction
Dynamic Speech Interaction for Robotic Agents	p. 303
Hand Posture Recognition Using Adaboost with SIFT for Human Robot Interaction	p. 317
Multimodal Navigation with a Vibrotactile Display in Computer Assisted Surgery	p. 331
Two Arms Are Better Than One: A Behavior Based Control System for Assistive Bimanual Manipulation	p. 345
Intelligence
A Customizable, Multi-host Simulation and Visualization Framework for Robot Applications	p. 357
Imitation of Walking Paths with a Low-Cost Humanoid Robot	p. 371
Intelligent Robot Software Architecture	p. 385
Ontology-Based Semantic Context Modeling for Object Recognition of Intelligent Mobile Robots	p. 399
Author Index	p. 409
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