Mobile Robots, Perception & Navigation ISBN 3-86611-283-1 hard cover, 704 pages Edited by: Sascha Kolski Publisher: Pro Literatur Verlag, Germany / ARS, Austria Publication date: February 2007 Price: 80 Euro incl. package & postage |Download the full text of this book|

About the Book Today robots navigate autonomously in office environments as well as outdoors. They show their ability to beside mechanical and electronic barriers in building mobile platforms, perceiving the environment and deciding on how to act in a given situation are crucial problems. In this book we focused on these two areas of mobile robotics, Perception and Navigation. This book gives a wide overview over different navigation techniques describing both navigation techniques dealing with local and control aspects of navigation as well es those handling global navigation aspects of a single robot and even for a group of robots.

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Table of Contents

Perception

01Robot egomotion from the deformation of active contours
Guillem Alenya and Carme Torras

02Visually Guided Robotics Using Conformal Geometric Computing
Eduardo Bayro-Corrochano, Luis Eduardo Falcon-Morales and Julio Zamora-Esquivel

03One approach To The Fusion Of Inertial Navigation And Dynamic Vision
Stevica Graovac

04Sonar Sensor Interpretation and Infrared Image Fusion for Mobile Robotics
Mark Hinders, Wen Gao and William Fehlman

05Obstacle Detection Based on Fusion Between Stereovision and 2D Laser Scanner
Raphaël Labayrade, Dominique Gruyer, Cyril Royere, Mathias Perrollaz and Didier Aubert

06Optical Three-axis Tactile Sensor
Ohka, M.

07Vision Based Tactile Sensor Using Transparent Elastic Fingertip for Dexterous Handling
Goro Obinata, Dutta Ashish, Norinao Watanabe and Nobuhiko Moriyama

08Accurate color classification and segmentation for mobile robots
Raziel Alvarez, Erik Millán, Alejandro Aceves-López and Ricardo Swain-Oropeza

09Intelligent Global Vision for Teams of Mobile Robots
Jacky Baltes and John Anderson

10Contour Extraction and Compression-Selected Topics
Andrzej Dziech

Navigation

11Comparative Analysis of Mobile Robot Localization Methods Based On Proprioceptive and Exteroceptive Sensors
Gianluca Ippoliti, Leopoldo Jetto, Sauro Longhi and Andrea Monteriù

12Composite Models for Mobile Robot Offline Path Planning
Ellips Masehian and M. R. Amin-Naseri

13Global Navigation of Assistant Robots using Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes
María Elena López, Rafael Barea, Luis Miguel Bergasa, Manuel Ocaña and María Soledad Escudero

14Robust Autonomous Navigation and World Representation in Outdoor Environments
Favio Masson, Juan Nieto, José Guivant and Eduardo Nebot

15Unified Dynamics-based Motion Planning Algorithm for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle-Manipulator Systems (UVMS)
Tarun K. Podder and Nilanjan Sarkar

16Optimal Velocity Planning of Wheeled Mobile Robots on Specific Paths in Static and Dynamic Environments
María Prado

17Autonomous Navigation of Indoor Mobile Robot Using Global Ultrasonic System
Soo-Yeong Yi and Byoung-Wook Choi

18Distance Feedback Travel Aid Haptic Display Design
Hideyasu Sumiya

19Efficient Data Association Approach to Simultaneous Localization and Map Building
Sen Zhang, Lihua Xie and Martin David Adams

20A Generalized Robot Path Planning Approach Without The Cspace Calculation
Yongji Wang, Matthew Cartmell, QingWang and Qiuming Tao

21A pursuit-rendezvous approach for robotic tracking
Fethi Belkhouche and Boumediene Belkhouche

22Sensor-based Global Planning for Mobile Manipulators Navigation using Voronoi Diagram and Fast Marching
S. Garrido, D. Blanco, M.L. Munoz, L. Moreno and M. Abderrahim

23Effective method for autonomous Simultaneous Localization and Map building in unknown indoor environments
Y.L. Ip, A.B. Rad and Y.K. Wong

24Motion planning and reconfiguration for systems of multiple objects
Adrian Dumitrescu

25Symbolic trajectory description in mobile robotics
Pradel Gilbert and Caleanu Catalin-Daniel

26Robot Mapping and Navigation by Fusing Sensory Information
Maki K. Habib

27Intelligent Control of AC Induction Motors
Hosein Marzi

28Optimal Path Planning of Multiple Mobile Robots for Sample Collection on a Planetary Surface
J.C. Cardema and P.K.C. Wang

29Multi Robotic Conflict Resolution by Cooperative Velocity and Direction Control
Satish Pedduri and K Madhava Krishna

30Robot Collaboration For Simultaneous Map Building and Localization
M. Oussalah and D. Wilson