The Path to Autonomous Robots

by Sukhatme, Gaurav Suhas

• ISBN13: 9780387857732
• ISBN10: 0387857737
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-14
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This collection of technical articles, written by leading international researchers in robotics, presents threads of modern robotics research. Topics explored in these chapters include:Mobile robots in extreme environments Autonomous spacecraft The design of networked robotic systems Robotic grasping using inputs from vision systems Advances in manipulation and mobility inspired by human control systems New directions in human-robot interaction A biomimetic approach to autonomous robot design Applying multi-task learning to inverse dynamics Researchers and students will be inspired by these contributions and the volume will undoubtedly spur further reading and research in the field.

Table of Contents

Recent Research in Autonomous Robots
Mobile Robots for Polar Remote Sensing	p. 3
Guidance and Control of Formation Flying Spacecraft	p. 25
Adaptive Sampling for Field Reconstruction With Multiple Mobile Robots	p. 45
Grasping Affordances: Learning to Connect Vision to Hand Action	p. 59
Intelligent Robotics for Assistive Healthcare and Therapy	p. 81
A New Direction in Human-Robot Interaction: A Lesson from Star Wars?	p. 99
Neurorobotics Primer	p. 105
Learning Inverse Dynamics by Gaussian Process Regression under the Multi-Task Learning Framework	p. 131
Tributes and Recollections from Former Students
Professor George Albert Bekey	p. 145
Current History of the Bekey Tribe	p. 151
Recollections and Tributes	p. 155
References	p. 161
Index	p. 175
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