Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous Systems: Second International Workshop, MESAS 2015, Prague, Czech Republic, April 29-30, 2015, Revised Selected Papers

✍ Scribed by Jan Hodicky (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 248
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9055
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous Systems, MESAS 2015, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in April 2015. The 18 revised full papers included in the volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: state of the art and future of AS; MS experimental frameworks for AS; methods and algorithms for AS.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Developing an Ontology for Autonomous Entities in a Virtual Reality: The PRESTO Experience....Pages 3-16
Modelling and Simulation in the Autonomous Systems’ Domain – Current Status and Way Ahead....Pages 17-23
Improving Robotic and Autonomous Systems Information Interoperability....Pages 24-39
Modeling and Simulation for UAS Integration into the United States National Airspace System and NextGen....Pages 40-59
Modeling and Simulation Interoperability Concepts for Multidisciplinarity, Interdisciplinarity, and Transdisciplinarity – Implications for Computational Intelligence Enabling Autonomous Systems....Pages 60-74
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Interoperability Issues Reduction in Command and Control for Multi-robot Systems....Pages 77-89
Practical Applications and Experiments with the SyRoTek Platform....Pages 90-101
MedALE RTS Campaign: Data Analysis and Reporting....Pages 102-127
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
Collided Path Replanning in Dynamic Environments Using RRT and Cell Decomposition Algorithms....Pages 131-143
Virtual Operator Station for Teleoperated Mobile Robots....Pages 144-153
A State-of-the-Art SWIL (Software in the Loop) Electronic Warfare System Simulator for Performance Prediction and Validation....Pages 154-164
Employing Observation Angles in Pose Recognition; Application for Teach-and-Repeat Robot Navigation....Pages 165-172
Multispectral Stereoscopic Robotic Head Calibration and Evaluation....Pages 173-184
Marker-Less Augmented Reality for Human Robot Interaction....Pages 185-195
Comparison of Local Planning Algorithms for Mobile Robots....Pages 196-208
Exploration Mobile Robot for Coal Mines....Pages 209-215
A Generic Testing Framework for Test Driven Development of Robotic Systems....Pages 216-225
Multi-objective Aircraft Trajectory Optimization for Weather Avoidance and Emissions Reduction....Pages 226-239
Back Matter....Pages 241-241

✦ Subjects

Simulation and Modeling; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computation by Abstract Devices; Algorithm Analysis and Pro