Intelligent Robots - Sensing, Modeling And Planning
Intelligent Robots - Sensing, Modeling And Planning

Author: Bob Bolles

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 1997-12-04

Total Pages: 478

ISBN-13: 9814497258

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Rapid advances in sensors, computers, and algorithms continue to fuel dramatic improvements in intelligent robots. In addition, robot vehicles are starting to appear in a number of applications. For example, they have been installed in public settings to perform such tasks as delivering items in hospitals and cleaning floors in supermarkets; recently, two small robot vehicles were launched to explore Mars.This book presents the latest advances in the principal fields that contribute to robotics. It contains contributions written by leading experts addressing topics such as Path and Motion Planning, Navigation and Sensing, Vision and Object Recognition, Environment Modeling, and others.

Active Sensors for Local Planning in Mobile Robotics
Active Sensors for Local Planning in Mobile Robotics

Author: Penelope Probert Smith

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 9810246811

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This book describes recent work on active sensors for mobile robots. An active sensor interacts with its surroundings to supply data on demand for a particular function, gathering and abstracting information according to need rather than acting as a generic data gatherer. Details of the physical operation are hidden.The book deals mainly with active range sensors, which provide rapid information for local planning, describing extraction of two-dimensional features such as lines, corners and cylinders to reconstruct a plan of a building. It is structured according to the physical principles of the sensors, since to a large extent these determine the function of the sensors and the methods of processing. Recent work using sonar, optoelectronic sensors and radar is described. Sections on vision and on sensor management develop the idea of software adaptation for efficient operation in a changing environment.

Sensor Modelling, Design and Data Processing for Autonomous Navigation
Sensor Modelling, Design and Data Processing for Autonomous Navigation

Author: Martin David Adams

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9789810234966

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This invaluable book presents an unbiased framework for modelling and using sensors to aid mobile robot navigation. It addresses the problem of accurate and reliable sensing in confined environments and makes a detailed analysis of the design and construction of a low cost optical range finder. This is followed by a quantitative model for determining the sources and propagation of noise within the sensor. The physics behind the causes of erroneous data is also used to derive a model for detecting and labelling such data as false. In addition, the author's data-processing algorithms are applied to the problem of environmental feature extraction. This forms the basis of a solution to the problem of mobile robot localisation. The book develops a relationship between the kinematics of a mobile robot during the execution of successive manoeuvres, and the sensed features. Results which update a mobile vehicle's position using features from 2D and 3D scans are presented.

Robotics
Robotics

Author: Bruno Siciliano

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-08-20

Total Pages: 644

ISBN-13: 1846286417

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Based on the successful Modelling and Control of Robot Manipulators by Sciavicco and Siciliano (Springer, 2000), Robotics provides the basic know-how on the foundations of robotics: modelling, planning and control. It has been expanded to include coverage of mobile robots, visual control and motion planning. A variety of problems is raised throughout, and the proper tools to find engineering-oriented solutions are introduced and explained. The text includes coverage of fundamental topics like kinematics, and trajectory planning and related technological aspects including actuators and sensors. To impart practical skill, examples and case studies are carefully worked out and interwoven through the text, with frequent resort to simulation. In addition, end-of-chapter exercises are proposed, and the book is accompanied by an electronic solutions manual containing the MATLAB® code for computer problems; this is available free of charge to those adopting this volume as a textbook for courses.

Sensor Based Intelligent Robots
Sensor Based Intelligent Robots

Author: Henrik I Christensen

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 3540466193

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This book constitutes the thorougly refereed post-proceedings of an international workshop on sensor based Intelligent Robot held in Dagstuhl Castle, Germany in September/October 1998. The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed for inclusion in the book. Among the topics addressed are robot navigation, motion planning, autonomous mobile robots, wheelchair robots, interactive robots, car navigation systems, visual tracking, sensor based navigation, distributed algorithms, computer vision, intelligent agents, robot control, and computational geometry.

Intelligent Robotic Planning Systems
Intelligent Robotic Planning Systems

Author: Phillip C.-Y. Sheu

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9789810207595

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Discusses generic planning problems with robotics-specific considerations. Includes the recent results in reconfigurable robot planning, multiple robot planning, plan recovery, and planning in uncertain environments.

Vision Interface
Vision Interface

Author: Yee Hong Yang

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 9810241097

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This book contains selected papers presented at Vision Interface '98, held in Vancouver, Canada, in June 1998. It spans a wide spectrum of topics in computer vision and image processing. During the last three decades, the field of computer vision and image processing has grown at a phenomenal rate due to the development of innovative techniques coupled with the advance in hardware that have been made available at lower cost. Numerous practical applications are now being realized to justify the theme of Vision Interface '98 ? ?Real World Applications of Computer Vision?.

Biologically Inspired Intelligent Robots
Biologically Inspired Intelligent Robots

Author: Yoseph Bar-Cohen

Publisher: SPIE Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 9780819448729

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The multidisciplinary issues involved in the development of biologically inspired intelligent robots include materials, actuators, sensors, structures, functionality, control, intelligence, and autonomy. This book reviews various aspects ranging from the biological model to the vision for the future.

Advanced Robotics & Intelligent Machines
Advanced Robotics & Intelligent Machines

Author: J. O. Gray

Publisher: IET

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 9780852968536

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Advanced robotics describes the use of sensor-based robotic devices which exploit powerful computers to achieve the high levels of functionality that begin to mimic intelligent human behaviour. The object of this book is to summarise developments in the base technologies, survey recent applications and highlight new advanced concepts which will influence future progress.