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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: InTech
Publication date: July 2005
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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Table of Contents

1. Dynamic Modelling and Adaptive Traction Control for Mobile Robots
   Abdulgani Albagul, Wahyudi Martono and Riza Muhida
   1782 views, 620 downloads
   
2. Rapid Prototyping for Robotics
   Imme Ebert-Uphoff, Clement M. Gosselin, David W. Rosen and Thierry Laliberte
   1409 views, 969 downloads
   
3. The Role of 3D Simulation in the Advanced Robotic Design, Test and Control
   Laszlo Vajta and Tamas Juhasz
   1339 views, 754 downloads
   
4. Mechatronics Design of a Mecanum Wheeled Mobile Robot
   Peter Xu
   1694 views, 1951 downloads
   
5. Tracking Skin-Colored Objects in Real-Time
   Antonis A. Argyros and Manolis I.A. Lourakis
   1370 views, 519 downloads
   
6. Feature Extraction and Grouping for Robot Vision Tasks
   Miguel Cazorla and Francisco Escolano
   1225 views, 318 downloads
   
7. Comparison of Demosaicking Methods for Color Information Extraction
   Flore Faille
   1213 views, 663 downloads
   
8. Robot Motion Trajectory-Measurement with Linear Inertial Sensors
   Bernard Favre Bulle
   1452 views, 789 downloads
   
9. Supervisory Controller for Task Assignment and Resource Dispatching in Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks
   Vincenzo Giordano, Frank Lewis, Prasanna Ballal and Biagio Turchiano
   1076 views, 316 downloads
   
10. Design of a Generic, Vectorised, Machine-Vision library
    Bing-Chang Lai and Phillip John McKerrow
    1151 views, 388 downloads
    
11. An Active Stereo Vision-Based Learning Approach for Robotic Tracking, Fixating and Grasping Control
    Nan-Feng Xiao and Saeid Nahavandi
    1158 views, 433 downloads
    
12. Managing Limited Sensing Resources for Mobile Robots Obstacle Avoidance
    Juan Carlos Alvarez, Rafael C. Gonzalez, Diego Alvarez and Antonio M. Lopez
    1152 views, 403 downloads
    
13. Behaviour Based Mobile Robot Navigation with Dynamic Weighted Voting Technique
    Shamsudin H.M. Amin, Rosbi Mamat and Tan Chee Kwong
    1377 views, 526 downloads
    
14. Stochastic State Estimation for Simultaneous Localization and Map Building in Mobile Robotics
    Juan Andrade Cetto, Teresa A. Vidal Calleja and Alberto Sanfeliu
    1159 views, 450 downloads
    
15. Neural Networks in Mobile Robot Motion
    Danica Janglova
    1130 views, 509 downloads
    
16. Generating Timed Trajectories for Autonomous Robotic Platforms: A Non-Linear Dynamical Systems Approach
    Cristina Manuela Peixoto dos Santos
    1074 views, 366 downloads
    
17. Coevolution Based Adaptive Monte Carlo Localization
    Luo Ronghua, Hong Bingrong and Li Maohai
    1025 views, 286 downloads
    
18. Autonomous Navigation of Unmanned Vehicles: A Fuzzy Logic Perspective
    Nikos C. Tsourveloudis, Lefteris Doitsidis and Kimon P. Valavanis
    1623 views, 914 downloads
    
19. Integrating Behaviors for Mobile Robots: an Ethological Approach
    Jose Maria Canas Plaza and Vicente Matellan Olivera
    1418 views, 565 downloads
    
20. Stabilization of Fuzzy Takagi - Sugeno Descriptor Models; Application to a Double Inverted Pendulum
    Thierry Marie Guerra, Sebastien Delprat and Salim Labiod
    1214 views, 484 downloads
    
21. Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Dynamics Systems Based on RBF Network
    Ho Dac Loc, Nguyen Thi Phuong Ha and Luong Van Lang
    1214 views, 387 downloads
    
22. Multi-Layered Learning System for Real Robot Behavior Acquisition
    Yasutake Takahashi and Minoru Asada
    1150 views, 320 downloads
    
23. The Design of a Pair of Identical Mobile Robots to Investigate Cooperative Behaviours
    Dale Carnegie, Andrew Payne and Praneel Chand
    1155 views, 498 downloads
    
24. Cooperative Hunting by Multiple Mobile Robots Based on Local Interaction
    Zhi-Qiang Cao, Min Tan, Saeid Nahavandi and Nong Gu
    1067 views, 341 downloads
    
25. Market-Driven Multi-Agent Collaboration in Robot Soccer Domain
    Hatice Kose, Kemal Kaplan, Cetin Mericli, Utku Tatlidede and Levent Akin
    2221 views, 831 downloads
    
26. The SocRob Project: Soccer Robots or Society of Robots
    Pedro U. Lima and Luis M. M. Custodio
    1061 views, 371 downloads
    
27. RoboCup is a Stage which Impulse the Research of Basic Technology in Robot
    Cheng Xian-yi and Xia De-shen
    1141 views, 454 downloads
    
28. A Multi-Robot System Architecture for Trajectory Control of Groups of People
    Edgar A. Martinez-Garcia, Akihisa Ohya and Shinichi Yuta
    1100 views, 318 downloads
    
29. Sharing and Trading in a Human-Robot System
    Kai Wei Ong, Gerald Seet and Siang Kok Sim
    1138 views, 359 downloads
    
30. A Robotic System for Volcano Exploration
    Daniele Caltabiano and Giovanni Muscato
    1252 views, 750 downloads
    
31. A Simulator for Helping in Design of a New Active Catheter Dedicated to Coloscopy
    Georges Dumont and Christofer Kuehl
    1085 views, 360 downloads
    
32. Development of a Range of Robot and Automation Prototypes for Service Applications
    Bing Lam Luk, Alexandar Djordjevic, Shiu Kit Tso and King Pui Liu
    1222 views, 546 downloads
    
33. Legged Robotic Systems
    Giuseppe Carbone and Marco Ceccarelli
    1310 views, 644 downloads
    
34. Humanoid Robot Motion in Unstructured Environment - Generation of Various Gait Patterns from a Single Nominal
    Miomir Vukobratovic, Dejan Andric and Branislav Borovac
    1086 views, 338 downloads
    
35. Trajectory Planning of a Constrained Flexible Manipulator
    Atef A. Ata and Habib Johar
    1240 views, 441 downloads
    
36. Position / Force Hybrid Control of a Manipulator with a Flexible Tool Using Visual and Force Information
    Jian Huang, Isao Todo and Tetsuro Yabuta
    1291 views, 353 downloads
    
37. A Novel Parallel Engraving Machine Based on 6-PUS Mechanism and Related Technologies
    Kong Ling-fu and Zhang Shi-hui
    1033 views, 378 downloads
    
38. Pose Estimating the Human Arm Using Kinematics and the Sequential Monte Carlo Framework
    Thomas Moeslund
    1167 views, 421 downloads
    
39. Cartesian Impedance Control of Flexible Joint Robots: A Decoupling Approach
    Christian Ott, Alin Albu Schaffer, Andreas Kugi and Gerd Hirzinger
    1313 views, 524 downloads
    
40. Collision-Free Path Planning in Robot Cells Using Virtual 3D Collision Sensors
    Tomislav Reichenbach and Zdenko Kovacic
    1303 views, 529 downloads
    
41. Exploring Open-Ended Design Space of Mechatronic Systems
    Zhun Fan, Jiachuan Wang and Erik Goodman
    1366 views, 374 downloads
    
42. Online Identification for the Automated Threaded Fastening Using GUI Format
    Nicola Ivan Giannoccaro and Mongkorn Klingajay
    1194 views, 439 downloads
    
43. Multilevel Intelligent Control of Mechatronical Technological Systems
    Tugengold Andrei Kirillovich, Ryzhkin Anatoliy Andreevich, Lukianov Evjeny Anatolievich and Wojciechowicz Boleslav
    1032 views, 304 downloads
    
44. A Robot System for High Quality Belt Grinding and Polishing Processes
    Bernd Kuhlenkoetter and Xiang Zhang
    1239 views, 586 downloads
    
45. Reconfigurable Mechatronic Robotic Plug-and-Play Controller
    Johan Potgieter, Jonathan Zyzalo and Olaf Diegel
    1331 views, 653 downloads