Mobile Robots, Toward New Applications ISBN 978-3-86611-314-5 hard cover, 600 pages Edited by: Aleksandar Lazinica Publisher: Pro Literatur Verlag, Germany / ARS, Austria Publication date: December 2006 Price: 80 Euro incl. package & postage |Download the full text of this book|

About the Book 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.

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Table of Contents

Humanoid Robots

01Humanoid Robot Navigation Based on Groping Locomotion Algorithm to Avoid an Obstacle
Hanafiah Yussof, Mitsuhiro Yamano, Yasuo Nasu and Masahiro Ohka

02Biped Without Feet in Single Support: Stabilization of the Vertical Posture With Internal Torques
Formalsky Alexander and Aoustin Yannick

03A Musculoskeletal Flexible-Spine Humanoid Kotaro Aiming at the Future in 15 years' time
Ikuo Mizuuchi

04Modelling of Bipedal Robots Using Coupled Nonlinear Oscillators
Armando Carlos de Pina Filho, Max Suell Dutra and Luciano Santos Constantin Raptopoulos

05Ground Reference Points in Legged Locomotion: Definitions, Biological Trajectories and Control Implications
Marko B. Popovic and Hugh Herr

06Robotic grasping: a generic neural network architecture
Nasser Rezzoug and Philippe Gorce

07Compliant actuation of exoskeletons
H. van der Kooij , J.F. Veneman and R. Ekkelenkamp

08Safe motion planning for human-robot interaction: design and experiments
Dana Kulic and Elizabeth Croft

Human-Robot Interaction

09Command, Goal Disambiguation, Introspection, and Instruction in Gesture-Free Spoken Dialogue with a Robotic Office Assistant
Vladimir A. Kulyukin

10Develop Human Safety Mechanism for Human-Symbiotic Mobile Manipulators: Compliant Hybrid Joints
Zhijun Li, Jun Luo, Shaorong Xie and Jiangong Gu

11Exploratory Investigation into Influence of Negative Attitudes toward Robots on Human-Robot Interaction
Tatsuya Nomura, Takayuki Kanda, Tomohiro Suzuki and Kensuke Kato

12A New Approach to Implicit Human-Robot Interaction Using Affective Cues
Pramila Rani and Nilanjan Sarkar

13Cognitive Robotics: Robot Soccer Coaching using Spoken Language
Alfredo Weitzenfeld and Peter Ford Dominey

14Interactive Robots as Facilitators of Children’s Social Development
Hideki Kozima and Cocoro Nakagawa

15Research and Development for Life Support Robots that Coexist in Harmony with People
Nobuto Matsuhira, Hideki Ogawa, Takashi Yoshimi, Fumio Ozaki and Hideaki Hashimoto

Special Applications

16Underwater Robots Part I: current systems and problem pose
Lapierre Lionel

17Underwater Robots Part II: existing solutions and open issues
Lapierre Lionel

18An Active Contour and Kalman filter for Underwater Target Tracking and Navigation
Muhammad Asif & M.R. Arshad

19Robotics Vision-based Heuristic Reasoning for Underwater Target Tracking and Navigation
Kia Chua and Mohd. Rizal Arshad

20The surgeon's third hand: An interactive robotic C-arm fluoroscope
Norbert Binder, C hristoph Bodensteiner, Lars Matthäus, Rainer Burgkart and Achim Schweikard

21Facial Caricaturing Robot COOPER with Laser Pen and Shrimp Rice Cracker in Hands exhibited at EXPO2005
Takayuki Fujiwara, Takashi Watanabe, Takuma Funahashi, Katsuya Suzuki and Hiroyasu Koshimizu

22Learning Features for Identifying Dolphins
Luiz Gonçalves, Adelardo Medeiros and Kaiser Magalde

23Service Robots and Humanitarian Demining
Maki K. Habib

24Feasibility Study on an Excavation-Type Demining Robot “PEACE”
Yoshikazu Mori

25Attitude Compensation of Space Robots for Capturing Operation
Panfeng Huang and Yangsheng Xu

26Omni-directional Mobile Microrobots on a Millimeter Scale for a Microassembly System
Zhenbo Li and Jiapin Chen

27Study of Dance Entertainment Using Robots
Kuniya Shinozaki, Akitsugu Iwatani and Ryohei Nakatsu

28Experimental Robot Musician
Tarek Sobh, Kurt Coble and Bei Wang

29On the Analogy in the Emergent Properties of Evolved Locomotion Gaits of Simulated Snakebot
Ivan Tanev Thomas Ray and Katsunori Shimohara

30A Novel Autonomous Climbing Robot for Cleaning an Elliptic Half-shell
Houxiang Zhang, Rong Liu, Guanghua Zong and Jianwei Zhang