Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics XII

Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics XII

Author: Ken Goldberg

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-05-06

Total Pages: 942

ISBN-13: 3030430898

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This book presents the outcomes of the 12th International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR 2016). WAFR is a prestigious, single-track, biennial international meeting devoted to recent advances in algorithmic problems in robotics. Robot algorithms are an important building block of robotic systems and are used to process inputs from users and sensors, perceive and build models of the environment, plan low-level motions and high-level tasks, control robotic actuators, and coordinate actions across multiple systems. However, developing and analyzing these algorithms raises complex challenges, both theoretical and practical. Advances in the algorithmic foundations of robotics have applications to manufacturing, medicine, distributed robotics, human–robot interaction, intelligent prosthetics, computer animation, computational biology, and many other areas. The 2016 edition of WAFR went back to its roots and was held in San Francisco, California – the city where the very first WAFR was held in 1994. Organized by Pieter Abbeel, Kostas Bekris, Ken Goldberg, and Lauren Miller, WAFR 2016 featured keynote talks by John Canny on “A Guided Tour of Computer Vision, Robotics, Algebra, and HCI,” Erik Demaine on “Replicators, Transformers, and Robot Swarms: Science Fiction through Geometric Algorithms,” Dan Halperin on “From Piano Movers to Piano Printers: Computing and Using Minkowski Sums,” and by Lydia Kavraki on “20 Years of Sampling Robot Motion.” Furthermore, it included an Open Problems Session organized by Ron Alterovitz, Florian Pokorny, and Jur van den Berg. There were 58 paper presentations during the three-day event. The organizers would like to thank the authors for their work and contributions, the reviewers for ensuring the high quality of the meeting, the WAFR Steering Committee led by Nancy Amato as well as WAFR’s fiscal sponsor, the International Federation of Robotics Research (IFRR), led by Oussama Khatib and Henrik Christensen. WAFR 2016 was an enjoyable and memorable event.


Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics XV

Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics XV

Author: Steven M. LaValle

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-12-14

Total Pages: 573

ISBN-13: 3031210905

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This book includes significant recent research on robotic algorithms. It has been written by leading experts in the field. The 15th Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR) was held on June 22–24, 2022, at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. Each chapter represents an exciting state-of-the-art development in robotic algorithms that was presented at this 15th incarnation of WAFR. Different chapters combine ideas from a wide variety of fields, spanning and combining planning (for tasks, paths, motion, navigation, coverage, and patrol), computational geometry and topology, control theory, machine learning, formal methods, game theory, information theory, and theoretical computer science. Many of these papers explore new and interesting problems and problem variants that include human–robot interaction, planning and reasoning under uncertainty, dynamic environments, distributed decision making, multi-agent coordination, and heterogeneity.


Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics

Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics

Author: Ken Goldberg

Publisher: A K Peters/CRC Press

Published: 1995-05-10

Total Pages: 576

ISBN-13:

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Algorithms, the heart of robotics, form the connection between data collected by sensors and the robotís activities. They also serve as a medium to describe the foundations and principles of robotics.Paper Topics Include: Motion Planning * Navigation * Manipulation * Grasping * Assembly * Controllability * Recognizability * Learning and Distributed Control * Task-Specific Manipulator Design * Simulation of Linkages and Collisions * Completeness and Complexity Measures * Computational Algebra and Geometry


Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics VI

Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics VI

Author: Michael Erdmann

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2005-06-23

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 9783540257288

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Robot algorithms are abstractions of computational processes that control or reason about motion and perception in the physical world. Because actions in the physical world are subject to physical laws and geometric constraints, the design and analysis of robot algorithms raise a unique combination of questions in control theory, computational and differential geometry, and computer science. Algorithms serve as a unifying theme in the multi-disciplinary field of robotics. This volume consists of selected contributions to the sixth Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics. This is a highly competitive meeting of experts in the field of algorithmic issues related to robotics and automation.


Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics VIII

Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics VIII

Author: Gregory S. Chirikjian

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-02-04

Total Pages: 673

ISBN-13: 3642003117

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This book contains selected contributions to WAFR, the highly-competitive meeting on the algorithmic foundations of robotics. They address the unique combination of questions that the design and analysis of robot algorithms inspires.


Probabilistic Robotics

Probabilistic Robotics

Author: Sebastian Thrun

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2005-08-19

Total Pages: 668

ISBN-13: 0262201623

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An introduction to the techniques and algorithms of the newest field in robotics. Probabilistic robotics is a new and growing area in robotics, concerned with perception and control in the face of uncertainty. Building on the field of mathematical statistics, probabilistic robotics endows robots with a new level of robustness in real-world situations. This book introduces the reader to a wealth of techniques and algorithms in the field. All algorithms are based on a single overarching mathematical foundation. Each chapter provides example implementations in pseudo code, detailed mathematical derivations, discussions from a practitioner's perspective, and extensive lists of exercises and class projects. The book's Web site, www.probabilistic-robotics.org, has additional material. The book is relevant for anyone involved in robotic software development and scientific research. It will also be of interest to applied statisticians and engineers dealing with real-world sensor data.


Modern Robotics

Modern Robotics

Author: Kevin M. Lynch

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-05-25

Total Pages: 545

ISBN-13: 1107156300

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A modern and unified treatment of the mechanics, planning, and control of robots, suitable for a first course in robotics.


Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics XIII

Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics XIII

Author: Marco Morales

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-05-07

Total Pages: 962

ISBN-13: 3030440516

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This book gathers the outcomes of the thirteenth Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR), the premier event for showcasing cutting-edge research on algorithmic robotics. The latest WAFR, held at Universidad Politécnica de Yucatán in Mérida, México on December 9–11, 2018, continued this tradition. This book contains fifty-four papers presented at WAFR, which highlight the latest research on fundamental algorithmic robotics (e.g., planning, learning, navigation, control, manipulation, optimality, completeness, and complexity) demonstrated through several applications involving multi-robot systems, perception, and contact manipulation. Addressing a diverse range of topics in papers prepared by expert contributors, the book reflects the state of the art and outlines future directions in the field of algorithmic robotics.


Planning Algorithms

Planning Algorithms

Author: Steven M. LaValle

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-05-29

Total Pages: 844

ISBN-13: 9780521862059

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Planning algorithms are impacting technical disciplines and industries around the world, including robotics, computer-aided design, manufacturing, computer graphics, aerospace applications, drug design, and protein folding. Written for computer scientists and engineers with interests in artificial intelligence, robotics, or control theory, this is the only book on this topic that tightly integrates a vast body of literature from several fields into a coherent source for teaching and reference in a wide variety of applications. Difficult mathematical material is explained through hundreds of examples and illustrations.


Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics X

Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics X

Author: Emilio Frazzoli

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-02-14

Total Pages: 625

ISBN-13: 3642362796

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Algorithms are a fundamental component of robotic systems. Robot algorithms process inputs from sensors that provide noisy and partial data, build geometric and physical models of the world, plan high-and low-level actions at different time horizons, and execute these actions on actuators with limited precision. The design and analysis of robot algorithms raise a unique combination of questions from many elds, including control theory, computational geometry and topology, geometrical and physical modeling, reasoning under uncertainty, probabilistic algorithms, game theory, and theoretical computer science. The Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR) is a single-track meeting of leading researchers in the eld of robot algorithms. Since its inception in 1994, WAFR has been held every other year, and has provided one of the premiere venues for the publication of some of the eld's most important and lasting contributions. This books contains the proceedings of the tenth WAFR, held on June 13{15 2012 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The 37 papers included in this book cover a broad range of topics, from fundamental theoretical issues in robot motion planning, control, and perception, to novel applications.