Innovations in Robot Mobility And Control

by Patnaik, Srikanta; Jain, Lakhmi C.; Tzafestas, Spyros G.; Resconi, Germano; Konar, Amit

• ISBN13: 9783540268925
• ISBN10: 3540268928
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-11-15
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

There has seen the shift in paradigms from autonomous systems to tele-robots to mobile robots and multi robots systems. As tele-robot fits into very limited areas of applications, mobile robot became the major research area in many disciplines. These mobile robots being inherently autonomous started possessing little amount of intelligence with it as the research era of intelligent robot started. In this edited volume, the main thrust has been given to robot mobility and control.

Table of Contents

1 Multi-Robot Systems	1	(64)
Pedro U. Lima and Luis M. Custódio
2 Vision-Based Autonomous Robot Navigation	65	(40)
Quoc V. Do, Peter Lozo and Lakhmi C. Jain
3 Multi View and Multi Scale Image Based Visual Servo for Micromanipulation	105	(30)
Rajagoplalan Devanathan, Sun Wenting, Chin Teck Chai and An-drew Shacklock
4 Path Planning in Dynamic Environments	135	(20)
Roman Smierzchalski and Zbigniew Michalewicz
5 Intelligent Neurofuzzy Control of a Robotic Gripper	155	(46)
J.A. Dominguez-López, R.I. Damper, R.M. Crowder and C.J. Harris
6 Voronoi-Based Outdoor Traversable Region Modelling	201	(50)
Cristina Castejón, Dolores Blanco, Beatriz L. Boada and Luis Moreno
7 Using Visual Features for Building and Localizing within Topological Maps of Indoor Environments	251	(22)
Paul E. Rybski, Franziska Zacharias, Maria Gini, and Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos
8 Intelligent Precision Motion Control	273
Kok Kiong Tan, Sunan Huang, Ser Yong Lim and Wei Lin