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Cutting Edge Robotics
Edited by Vedran Kordic, Aleksandar Lazinica and Munir Merdan, ISBN 3-86611-038-3, Hard cover, 784 pages, Publisher: Pro Literatur Verlag, Germany, Published: July 01, 2005 under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license, in subject Robotics
This book is the result of inspirations and contributions from many researchers worldwide. It presents a collection of wide range research results of robotics scientific community. Various aspects of current research in robotics area are explored and discussed. The book begins with researches in robot modelling & design, in which different approaches in kinematical, dynamical and other design issues of mobile robots are discussed. Second chapter deals with various sensor systems, but the major part of the chapter is devoted to robotic vision systems. Chapter III is devoted to robot navigation and presents different navigation architectures. The chapter IV is devoted to research on adaptive and learning systems in mobile robots area. The chapter V speaks about different application areas of multi-robot systems. Other emerging field is discussed in chapter VI - the human- robot interaction. Chapter VII gives a great tutorial on legged robot systems and one research overview on design of a humanoid robot.The different examples of service robots are showed in chapter VIII. Chapter IX is oriented to industrial robots, i.e. robot manipulators. Different mechatronic systems oriented on robotics are explored in the last chapter of the book.
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Book contents
- Chapter 1Dynamic Modelling and Adaptive Traction Control for Mobile Robots
- Chapter 2Rapid Prototyping for Robotics
- Chapter 3The Role of 3D Simulation in the Advanced Robotic Design, Test and Control
- Chapter 4Mechatronics Design of a Mecanum Wheeled Mobile Robot
- Chapter 5Tracking Skin-Colored Objects in Real-Time
- Chapter 6Feature Extraction and Grouping for Robot Vision Tasks
- Chapter 7Comparison of Demosaicking Methods for Color Information Extraction
- Chapter 8Robot Motion Trajectory-Measurement with Linear Inertial Sensors
- Chapter 9Supervisory Controller for Task Assignment and Resource Dispatching in Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks
- Chapter 10Design of a Generic, Vectorised, Machine-Vision library
- Chapter 11An Active Stereo Vision-Based Learning Approach for Robotic Tracking, Fixating and Grasping Control
- Chapter 12Managing Limited Sensing Resources for Mobile Robots Obstacle Avoidance
- Chapter 13Behaviour Based Mobile Robot Navigation with Dynamic Weighted Voting Technique
- Chapter 14Stochastic State Estimation for Simultaneous Localization and Map Building in Mobile Robotics
- Chapter 15Neural Networks in Mobile Robot Motion
- Chapter 16Generating Timed Trajectories for Autonomous Robotic Platforms: A Non-Linear Dynamical Systems Approach
- Chapter 17Coevolution Based Adaptive Monte Carlo Localization
- Chapter 18Autonomous Navigation of Unmanned Vehicles: A Fuzzy Logic Perspective
- Chapter 19Integrating Behaviors for Mobile Robots: an Ethological Approach
- Chapter 20Stabilization of Fuzzy Takagi - Sugeno Descriptor Models; Application to a Double Inverted Pendulum
- Chapter 21Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Dynamics Systems Based on RBF Network
- Chapter 22Multi-Layered Learning System for Real Robot Behavior Acquisition
- Chapter 23The Design of a Pair of Identical Mobile Robots to Investigate Cooperative Behaviours
- Chapter 24Cooperative Hunting by Multiple Mobile Robots Based on Local Interaction
- Chapter 25Market-Driven Multi-Agent Collaboration in Robot Soccer Domain
- Chapter 26The SocRob Project: Soccer Robots or Society of Robots
- Chapter 27RoboCup is a Stage which Impulse the Research of Basic Technology in Robot
- Chapter 28A Multi-Robot System Architecture for Trajectory Control of Groups of People
- Chapter 29Sharing and Trading in a Human-Robot System
- Chapter 30A Robotic System for Volcano Exploration
- Chapter 31A Simulator for Helping in Design of a New Active Catheter Dedicated to Coloscopy
- Chapter 32Development of a Range of Robot and Automation Prototypes for Service Applications
- Chapter 33Legged Robotic Systems
- Chapter 34Humanoid Robot Motion in Unstructured Environment - Generation of Various Gait Patterns from a Single Nominal
- Chapter 35Trajectory Planning of a Constrained Flexible Manipulator
- Chapter 36Position / Force Hybrid Control of a Manipulator with a Flexible Tool Using Visual and Force Information
- Chapter 37A Novel Parallel Engraving Machine Based on 6-PUS Mechanism and Related Technologies
- Chapter 38Pose Estimating the Human Arm Using Kinematics and the Sequential Monte Carlo Framework
- Chapter 39Cartesian Impedance Control of Flexible Joint Robots: A Decoupling Approach
- Chapter 40Collision-Free Path Planning in Robot Cells Using Virtual 3D Collision Sensors
- Chapter 41Exploring Open-Ended Design Space of Mechatronic Systems
- Chapter 42Online Identification for the Automated Threaded Fastening Using GUI Format
- Chapter 43Multilevel Intelligent Control of Mechatronical Technological Systems
- Chapter 44A Robot System for High Quality Belt Grinding and Polishing Processes
- Chapter 45Reconfigurable Mechatronic Robotic Plug-and-Play Controller

