Cutting Edge Robotics ISBN 3-86611-038-3 hard cover, 784 pages Edited by: Vedran Kordic, Aleksandar Lazinica and Munir Merdan Publisher: Pro Literatur Verlag, Germany / ARS, Austria Publication date: July 2005 Price: 50 Euro incl. package & postage |Download the full text of this book|

About the Book 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

01Dynamic Modelling and Adaptive Traction Control for Mobile robots
Abdulgani Albagul, Wahyudi Martono & Riza Muhida

02Rapid Prototyping for Robotics
Imme Ebert-Uphoff, Clement M. Gosselin, David W. Rosen & Thierry Laliberte

03The Role of 3D Simulation in the Advanced Robotic Design, Test and Control
Laszlo Vajta & Tamas Juhasz

04Mechatronics Design of a Mecanum Wheeled Mobile Robot
Peter Xu

05Tracking Skin-Colored Objects in Real-time
Antonis A. Argyros & Manolis I.A. Lourakis

06Feature Extraction and Grouping for Robot Vision Tasks
Miguel Cazorla & Francisco Escolano

07Comparison of Demosaicking Methods for Colour Information Extraction
Flore Faille

08Robot Motion Trajectory-Measurement with Linear Inertial Sensors
Bernard Favre-Bulle

09Supervisory Controller for Task Assignment and Resource Dispatching in Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks
Vincenzo Giordano, Frank Lewis, Prasanna Ballal & Biagio Turchiano

10Design of a Generic, Vectorised, Machine-Vision Library
Bing-Chang Lai & Phillip John McKerrow

11An Active Stereo Vision-Based Learning Approach for Robotic Tracking, Fixating and Grasping Control
Nan-Feng Xiao & Saeid Nahavandi

12Managing Limited Sensing Resources for Mobile Robots Obstacle Avoidance
Juan Carlos Alvarez, Rafael C. Gonzalez, Diego Alvarez & Antonio M. Lopez

13Behaviour Based Mobile Robot Navigation with Dynamic Weighted Voting Technique
Shamsudin H.M. Amin, Rosbi Mamat & Tan Chee Kwong

14Stochastic State Estimation for Simultaneous Localization and Map Building in Mobile Robotics
Juan Andrade-Cetto, Teresa A. Vidal-Calleja & Alberto Sanfeliu

15Neural Networks in Mobile Robot Motion
Danica Janglova

16Generating Timed Trajectories for Autonomous Robotic Platforms: A Non-Linear Dynamical Systems Approach
Cristina Manuela Peixoto dos Santos

17Coevolution Based Adaptive Monte Carlo Localization
Luo Ronghua, Hong Bingrong &Li Maohai

18Autonomous Navigation of Unmanned Vehicles: A Fuzzy Logic Perspective
Nikos C. Tsourveloudis, Lefteris Doitsidis & Kimon P. Valavanis

19Integrating Behaviors for Mobile Robots: An Ethological Approach
Jose Maria Canas Plaza & Vicente Matellan Olivera

20Stabilization of Fuzzy Takagi-Sugeno Descriptor Models. Application to a Double Inverted Pendulum
Thierry Marie Guerra , Sebastien Delprat & Salim Labiod

21Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Dynamics Systems Based on Rbf Network
Ho Dac Loc, Nguyen Thi Phuong Ha & Luong Van Lang

22Multi-Layered Learning System for Real Robot Behavior Acquisition
Yasutake Takahashi & Minoru Asada

23The Design of a Pair of Identical Mobile Robots to Investigate Cooperative Behaviours
Dale. A. Carnegie, Andrew Payne & Praneel Chand

24Cooperative Hunting by Multiple Mobile Robots Based on Local Interaction
Zhi-Qiang Cao, Min Tan, Saeid Nahavandi & Nong Gu

25Market-Driven Multi-Agent Collaboration in Robot Soccer Domain
Hatice Kose, Kemal Kaplan, Cetin Mericli, Utku Tatlidede & Levent Akin

26The SocRob Project: Soccer Robots or Society of Robots
Pedro U. Lima & Luis M. M. Custodio

27 RoboCup is a Stage Which Impulse the Research of Basic Technology in Robot
Cheng Xian-yi & Xia De-shen

28A Multi-Robot System Architecture for Trajectory Control of Groups of People
Edgar A. Martinez-Garcia, Akihisa Ohya & Shinichi Yuta

29Sharing and Trading in a Human-Robot System
Kai Wei Ong, Gerald Seet & Siang Kok Sim

30A Robotic System for Volcano Exploration
Daniele Caltabiano & Giovanni Muscato

31A Simulator for Helping in Design of a New Active Catheter Dedicated to Coloscopy
Georges Dumont & Christofer Kuehl

32Development of a Range of Robot and Automation Prototypes for Service Applications
Bing Lam Luk, Alexandar Djordjevich, Shiu Kit Tso & King Pui Liu

33Legged Robotic Systems
Giuseppe Carbone & Marco Ceccarelli

34Humanoid Robot Motion in Unstructured Environment – Generation of Various Gait Patterns from a Single Nominal
Miomir Vukobratovic, Dejan Andric & Branislav Borovac

35Trajectory Planning of a Constrained Flexible Manipulator
Atef A. Ata & Habib Johar

36Position/Force Hybrid Control of a Manipulator with a Flexible Tool Using Visual and Force Information
Jian Huang, Isao Todo & Tetsuro Yabuta

37A Novel Parallel Engraving Machine Based on 6-PUS Mechanism and Related Technologies
Kong Ling-fu & Zhang Shi-hui

38Pose Estimating the Human Arm using Kinematics And the Sequential Monte Carlo Framework
Thomas Moeslund

39Cartesian Impedance Control of Flexible Joint Robots: A Decoupling Approach
Christian Ott, Alin Albu-Schaeffer, Andreas Kugi & Gerd Hirzinger

40Collision-Free Path Planning in Robot Cells Using Virtual 3D Collision Sensors
Tomislav Reichenbach & Zdenko Kovacic

41Exploring Open-Ended Design Space of Mechatronic Systems
Zhun Fan, Jiachuan Wang & Erik Goodman

42Online Identification for the Automated Threaded Fastening Using GUI Format
Nicola Ivan Giannoccaro & Mongkorn Klingajay

43Multilevel Intelligent Control of Mechatronical Technological Systems
Tugengold Andrei Kirillovich, Ryzhkin Anatoliy Andreevich, Lukianov Evjeny Anatolievich & Wojciechowicz Boleslaw

44A Robot System for High Quality Belt Grinding and Polishing Processes
Bernd Kuhlenkoetter & Xiang Zhang

45Reconfigurable Mechatronic Robotic Plug-and-Play Controller
Johan Potgieter, Jonathan Zyzalo & Olaf Diegel