Collaborative Perception, Localization and Mapping for Autonomous Systems
Collaborative Perception, Localization and Mapping for Autonomous Systems

Author: Yufeng Yue

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-11-13

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13: 9811588600

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This book presents the breakthrough and cutting-edge progress for collaborative perception and mapping by proposing a novel framework of multimodal perception-relative localization–collaborative mapping for collaborative robot systems. The organization of the book allows the readers to analyze, model and design collaborative perception technology for autonomous robots. It presents the basic foundation in the field of collaborative robot systems and the fundamental theory and technical guidelines for collaborative perception and mapping. The book significantly promotes the development of autonomous systems from individual intelligence to collaborative intelligence by providing extensive simulations and real experiments results in the different chapters. This book caters to engineers, graduate students and researchers in the fields of autonomous systems, robotics, computer vision and collaborative perception.

Special Topics in Information Technology
Special Topics in Information Technology

Author: Luigi Piroddi

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-01-01

Total Pages: 151

ISBN-13: 3030859185

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This open access book presents thirteen outstanding doctoral dissertations in Information Technology from the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Information Technology has always been highly interdisciplinary, as many aspects have to be considered in IT systems. The doctoral studies program in IT at Politecnico di Milano emphasizes this interdisciplinary nature, which is becoming more and more important in recent technological advances, in collaborative projects, and in the education of young researchers. Accordingly, the focus of advanced research is on pursuing a rigorous approach to specific research topics starting from a broad background in various areas of Information Technology, especially Computer Science and Engineering, Electronics, Systems and Control, and Telecommunications. Each year, more than 50 PhDs graduate from the program. This book gathers the outcomes of the thirteen best theses defended in 2020-21 and selected for the IT PhD Award. Each of the authors provides a chapter summarizing his/her findings, including an introduction, description of methods, main achievements and future work on the topic. Hence, the book provides a cutting-edge overview of the latest research trends in Information Technology at Politecnico di Milano, presented in an easy-to-read format that will also appeal to non-specialists.

Prediction and Recognition of Piracy Efforts Using Collaborative Human-centric Information Systems
Prediction and Recognition of Piracy Efforts Using Collaborative Human-centric Information Systems

Author: Éloi Bossé

Publisher: IOS Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1614992002

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Maritime piracy is the cause of widespread international concern, and the number of pirate attacks has increased substantially in recent years. Many commercial vessels are inherently vulnerable to attack because of their size and relative slowness, and technological improvements have resulted in smaller crews on large vessels, whilst the absence of enforcement agencies in international waters has served only to make pirates more daring. Collaborative human-centric information support systems can significantly improve the ability of every nation to predict and prevent pirate attacks, or to recognize the nature and size of an attack rapidly when prevention fails, and improve the collective response to an emergency. This book presents the papers delivered at the NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) Prediction and Recognition of Piracy Efforts Using Collaborative Human-Centric Information Systems, held in Salamanca, Spain, in September 2011. A significant observation from previous NATO Advanced Study Institutes and Workshops was that domain experts responsible for maritime security were not fully aware of the wide variety of technological solutions available to enhance their support systems, and that although technology experts have a general understanding of the requirements in security systems, they often lacked knowledge concerning the operational constraints affecting those who implement security procedures. This ASI involved both technology and domain experts, as well as students from related fields of study. It offered an opportunity for them to discuss the issues surrounding the prediction, recognition and deterrence of maritime piracy, and will be of interest to all those whose work is related to this internationally important issue.

ECAI 2016
ECAI 2016

Author: G.A. Kaminka

Publisher: IOS Press

Published: 2016-08-24

Total Pages: 1860

ISBN-13: 1614996725

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Artificial Intelligence continues to be one of the most exciting and fast-developing fields of computer science. This book presents the 177 long papers and 123 short papers accepted for ECAI 2016, the latest edition of the biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Europe’s premier venue for presenting scientific results in AI. The conference was held in The Hague, the Netherlands, from August 29 to September 2, 2016. ECAI 2016 also incorporated the conference on Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS) 2016, and the Starting AI Researcher Symposium (STAIRS). The papers from PAIS are included in this volume; the papers from STAIRS are published in a separate volume in the Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (FAIA) series. Organized by the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI) and the Benelux Association for Artificial Intelligence (BNVKI), the ECAI conference provides an opportunity for researchers to present and hear about the very best research in contemporary AI. This proceedings will be of interest to all those seeking an overview of the very latest innovations and developments in this field.

Internet of Vehicles. Technologies and Services Toward Smart Cities
Internet of Vehicles. Technologies and Services Toward Smart Cities

Author: Ching-Hsien Hsu

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-01-18

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 3030386511

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Internet of Vehicles, IOV 2019, which took place in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, in November 2019. The 23 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 101 submissions. The papers focus on providing new efficient solutions with digital intervehicular data transfer and overall communications. Yet, IOV is different from Telematics, Vehicle Ad hoc Networks, and Intelligent Transportation, in which vehicles like phones can run within the whole network, and obtain various services by swarm intelligent computing with people, vehicles, and environments.

Robotics Research
Robotics Research

Author: Tamim Asfour

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-02-17

Total Pages: 1023

ISBN-13: 3030954595

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This book contains the papers that were presented at the 17th International Symposium of Robotics Research (ISRR). The ISRR promotes the development and dissemination of groundbreaking research and technological innovation in robotics useful to society by providing a lively, intimate, forward-looking forum for discussion and debate about the current status and future trends of robotics with great emphasis on its potential role to benefit humankind. The symposium contributions contained in this book report on a variety of new robotics research results covering a broad spectrum organized into the categories: design, control; grasping and manipulation, planning, robot vision, and robot learning.

Cooperative Localization and Navigation
Cooperative Localization and Navigation

Author: Chao Gao

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2019-08-21

Total Pages: 807

ISBN-13: 0429016670

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This book captures the latest results and techniques for cooperative localization and navigation drawn from a broad array of disciplines. It provides the reader with a generic and comprehensive view of modeling, strategies, and state estimation methodologies in that fields. It discusses the most recent research and novel advances in that direction, exploring the design of algorithms and architectures, benefits, and challenging aspects, as well as a potential broad array of disciplines, including wireless communication, indoor localization, robotics, emergency rescue, motion analysis, etc.