Recent Advances in Robotics and Automation

✍ Scribed by Benjamin Johnen, Carsten Scheele (auth.), Gourab Sen Gupta, Donald Bailey, Serge Demidenko, Dale Carnegie (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 342
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence 480
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The collection of papers presented in this book deals with the recent advancements in design methodologies, algorithms and implementation techniques to incorporate intelligence in robots and automation systems. Several articles deal with navigation, localisation and mapping of mobile robots, a problem that engineers and researchers are grappling with all the time. Fuzzy logic, neural networks and neurofuzzy-based CI techniques for real-world applications have been detailed in a few articles.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Neural Network Development and Training for the Simulation of Dynamic Robot Movement Behavior....Pages 1-13
Neural Network Control of Buoyancy-Driven Autonomous Underwater Glider....Pages 15-35
Autonomous Guided Car Using a Fuzzy Controller....Pages 37-55
On-Line Adaptive Fuzzy Modeling and Control for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle....Pages 57-70
Process Rescheduling and Path Planning Using Automation Agents....Pages 71-80
Model Based Path Planning Module....Pages 81-90
Autonomous Navigation and Mapping with CoreSLAM....Pages 91-101
A 3D Path Planning Approach Extended by Bifurcation Theory for Formation Flights....Pages 103-113
Self-enhancing Featureless Robot Localization with Fixed Memory Tags....Pages 115-125
Vision Based Control for Micro Aerial Vehicles: Application to Sense and Avoid....Pages 127-141
Design and Characterisation of a Full-Field Range Imaging Camera for Use in Mobile Applications....Pages 143-153
Improving Robustness of Vision Based Localization Under Dynamic Illumination....Pages 155-170
Optical-Inertial Tracking System with High Bandwidth and Low Latency....Pages 171-181
VUIR: A Vehicle Undercarriage Inspection Robot....Pages 183-192
Improving System Performance Via Reevaluation of Models....Pages 193-204
Smart Floor with Learning Capability for Mobile Robot System....Pages 205-215
High Level Sensor Data Fusion of Radar and Lidar for Car-Following on Highways....Pages 217-230
Closed-Loop Control of Patient Handling Robots....Pages 231-241
A Modular Hierarchical Control Scheme for Mobile Manipulation....Pages 243-261
Automated Test Case Generation for Industrial Control Applications....Pages 263-273
A Realistic Simulator for Humanoid Soccer Robot Using Particle Filter....Pages 275-288
Simulation of Humanoid Robot Vertebra....Pages 289-299
Flexible Automation in Facility Logistics....Pages 301-310
Application of Knowledge Driven Mobile Robots for Disassembly Tasks....Pages 311-321
Power Distribution Control Using Multi-Agent Systems....Pages 323-333
Human Upper Body Pose Region Estimation....Pages 335-344

✦ Subjects

Computational Intelligence; Robotics and Automation; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)