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Mobile Robots: towards New Applications

Edited by: Aleksandar Lazinica

ISBN 978-3-86611-314-5, Hard cover, 600 pages
Publisher: InTech
Publication date: December 2006
Subject: Mobile Robotics

The range of potential applications for mobile robots is enormous. It includes agricultural robotics applications, routine material transport in factories, warehouses, office buildings and hospitals, indoor and outdoor security patrols, inventory verification, hazardous material handling, hazardous site cleanup, underwater applications, and numerous military applications. 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 new robotics research areas and disciplines are explored and discussed. It is divided in three main parts covering different research areas: Humanoid Robots, Human-Robot Interaction, and Special Applications. We hope that you will find a lot of useful information in this book, which will help you in performing your research or fire your interests to start performing research in some of the cutting edge research fields mentioned in the book.



Table of Contents

  1. Humanoid Robot Navigation Based on Groping Locomotion Algorithm to Avoid an Obstacle
    Hanafiah Yussof, Mitsuhiro Yamano, Yasuo Nasu and Masahiro Ohka
    1151 views, 453 downloads
  2. Underwater Robots Part II: Existing Solutions and Open Issues
    Lapierre Lionel
    1908 views, 975 downloads
  3. An Active Contour and Kalman Filter for Underwater Target Tracking and Navigation
    Muhammad Asif and Mohd Rizal Arshad
    1384 views, 528 downloads
  4. Robotics Vision-based Heuristic Reasoning for Underwater Target Tracking and Navigation
    Kia Chua and Mohd Rizal Arshad
    1129 views, 528 downloads
  5. The Surgeon's Third Hand an Interactive Robotic C-Arm Fluoroscope
    Norbert Binder, Christoph Bodensteiner, Lars Matthaeus, Rainer Burgkart and Achim Schweikard
    1082 views, 507 downloads
  6. Facial Caricaturing Robot COOPER with Laser Pen and Shrimp Rice Cracker in Hands Exhibited at EXPO2005
    Takayuki Fujiwara, Takashi Watanabe and Takuma Funahashi
    1114 views, 372 downloads
  7. Learning Features for Identifying Dolphins
    Luiz Goncalves, Adelardo Medeiros and Kaiser Magalde
    1085 views, 429 downloads
  8. Service Robots and Humanitarian Demining
    Maki K. Habib
    1213 views, 774 downloads
  9. Feasibility Study on an Excavation-Type Demining Robot PEACE
    Yoshikazu Mori
    1011 views, 377 downloads
  10. Attitude Compensation of Space Robots for Capturing Operation
    Panfeng Huang and Yangsheng Xu
    1003 views, 360 downloads
  11. Omni-directional Mobile Microrobots on a Millimeter Scale for a Microassembly System
    Zhenbo Li and Jiapin Chen
    1101 views, 417 downloads
  12. Study of Dance Entertainment Using Robots
    Kuniya Shinozaki, Akitsugu Iwatani and Ryohei Nakatsu
    956 views, 505 downloads
  13. Experimental Robot Musician
    Tarek Sobh, Kurt Coble and Bei Wang
    1302 views, 598 downloads
  14. On the Analogy in the Emergent Properties of Evolved Locomotion Gaits of Simulated Snakebot
    Ivan Tanev, Thomas Ray and Katsunori Shimohara
    969 views, 267 downloads
  15. Underwater Robots Part I: Current Systems and Problem Pose
    Lapierre Lionel
    1404 views, 891 downloads
  16. Research and Development for Life Support Robots that Coexist in Harmony with People
    Nobuto Matsuhira, Hideki Ogawa and Hiroshi Mizoguchi
    1162 views, 763 downloads
  17. Biped without Feet in Single Support: Stabilization of the Vertical Posture with Internal Torques
    Formalsky Alexander and Aoustin Yannick
    983 views, 312 downloads
  18. A Musculoskeletal Flexible-Spine Humanoid Kotaro Aiming at the Future in 15 Years Time
    Ikuo Mizuuchi
    1251 views, 542 downloads
  19. Modelling of Bipedal Robots Using Coupled Nonlinear Oscillators
    Armando Carlos de Pina Filho, Max Suell Dutra and Luciano Santos
    1156 views, 517 downloads
  20. Ground Reference Points in Legged Locomotion: Definitions, Biological Trajectories and Control Implications
    Marko B. Popovic and Hugh Herr
    968 views, 324 downloads
  21. Robotic Grasping: A Generic Neural Network Architecture
    Nasser Rezzoug and Philippe Gorce
    1056 views, 429 downloads
  22. Compliant Actuation of Exoskeletons
    H. van der Kooij, J.F. Veneman and R. Ekkelenkamp
    1103 views, 685 downloads
  23. Safe Motion Planning for Human-Robot Interaction: Design and Experiments
    Dana Kulic and Elizabeth Croft
    1228 views, 491 downloads
  24. Command, Goal Disambiguation, Introspection, and Instruction in Gesture-Free Spoken Dialogue with a Robotic Office Assistant
    Vladimir A. Kulyukin
    1175 views, 386 downloads
  25. Develop Human Safety Mechanism for Human-Symbiotic Mobile Manipulators: Compliant Hybrid Joints
    Zhijun Li, Jun Luo, Shaorong Xie and Jiangong Gu
    1119 views, 377 downloads
  26. Exploratory Investigation into Influence of Negative Attitudes toward Robots on Human-Robot Interaction
    Tatsuya Nomura, Takayuki Kanda, Tomohiro Suzuki and Kensuke Kato
    1263 views, 441 downloads
  27. A New Approach to Implicit Human-Robot Interaction Using Affective Cues
    Pramila Rani and Nilanjan Sarkar
    1206 views, 637 downloads
  28. Cognitive Robotics: Robot Soccer Coaching Using Spoken Language
    Alfredo Weitzenfeld and Peter Ford Dominey
    1035 views, 470 downloads
  29. Interactive Robots as Facilitators of Childrens Social Development
    Hideki Kozima and Cocoro Nakagawa
    1237 views, 646 downloads
  30. A Novel Autonomous Climbing Robot for Cleaning an Elliptic Half-Shell
    Houxiang Zhang, Rong Liu, Guanghua Zong and Jianwei Zhang
    1091 views, 538 downloads