Bøger i Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics serien

Do the words borrowed from the living organisms and used to describe robots play a role in the confusion about the status of the discipline of robotics?

This monograph introduces a unifying framework for mapping, planning and exploration with mobile robots considering uncertainty, linking such problems with a common SLAM approach, adopting Pose SLAM as the basic state estimation machinery.

This book presents the development of a new multimodal human-robot interface for testing and validating control strategies applied to robotic walkers for assisting human mobility and gait rehabilitation.

This book introduces novel thinking and techniques to the control of robotic manipulation. In particular, the concept of teleimpedance control as an alternative method to bilateral force-reflecting teleoperation control for robotic manipulation is introduced.

This overview by an award-winning researcher of the ways reinforcement learning can be applied to robotics includes new algorithms and applications. It assesses their success in benchmark tasks such as darts, table tennis, and ball-throwing and bouncing.

This book is for researchers, engineers, and students who are willing to understand how humanoid robots move and be controlled. The book starts with an overview of the humanoid robotics research history and state of the art. Biped walking control is discussed in depth, since it is one of the main interests of humanoid robotics.

Vision-based control of wheeled mobile robots is an interesting field of research from a scientific and even social point of view due to its potential applicability. This book presents a formal treatment of some aspects of control theory applied to the problem of vision-based pose regulation of wheeled mobile robots.

This book examines the main control aspects in dynamic robotic control of underwater vehicles. It presents a mathematical model with significant impact on the control strategy.

This book examines the requirements needed to ensure safety in human-robot coexistence. It focuses on the biomechanical level of injury assessment, addresses the physical evaluation of robot-human impacts and isolates major factors that cause human injuries.

Robots can't climb trees. Or can they? This volume features the work of leading experts who have tackled this kinematic conundrum, with motion analysis of tree-climbing animals and details of a novel robot engineered as a result of this research.

This book describes a number of techniques developed to solve a central problem in the navigation of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). It focuses in particular on localization methods and especially on simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM).

This book focuses on the problem of moving in a cluttered environment with pedestrians and vehicles. A framework based on Hidden Markov models is developed to learn typical motion patterns which can be used to predict motion on the basis of sensor data.

van der Linde provide a detailed description of their research on pneumatic biped robots at the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. The book covers the basic theory of passive dynamic walking and explains the implementation of pneumatic McKibben muscles in a series of successful prototypes.

Using novel model-based methods, this book bridges the gap between statistical mechanics and control theory by tackling challenges for a class of distributed systems involving a specific type of constitutive components, referred to as Smart Minimal Particles.

This book examines all aspects of localized slippage, including modeling and simulation as well as the construction of novel sensors with slip tactile perception.

With functional analyses both of human and robotic hands, this work sets out a new approach in anthropomorphic robot design with broad, systemic relevance. The techniques set a new standard in robot hand kinematics, fulfilling full sets of task criteria.

This book proposes semantic 3D object models as a novel representation of the robot's operating environment that satisfies these requirements and shows how these models can be automatically acquired from dense 3D range data.

This book presents novel learning techniques that enable mobile platforms with one or more robotic manipulators to autonomously adapt to new or changing situations.

This book moves toward the realization of domestic robots by presenting an integrated view of computer vision and robotics, covering fundamental topics including optimal sensor design, visual servo-ing, 3D object modelling and recognition, and multi-cue tracking, emphasizing robustness throughout.

This book presents an accurate, efficient pipeline for single camera-based 3D mapping of terrestrial and underwater environments. The authors offer a novel Structure from Motion algorithm that boosts accuracy by registering camera views directly with the maps.

This multidisciplinary review of signaling pathways that regulate circulatory and respiratory function focuses on those involved in cell signaling, from sensors and receptors on the cell surface to intracellular effectors that trigger molecule synthesis.

This book details the use of random finite sets (RFS) and finite set statistics (FISST) in robotics. It focuses on the representation of the environment and its uncertainty, and presents pseudo-code implementations of all the RFS techniques.

The authors have developed an internationally recognized expertise in this area. The purpose of this book is to summarize years of research and to present, in an attractive format, the expertise developed by the authors on a new technology for grasping which has achieved great success both in theory and in practice.

This clearly-expressed, well-organized book introduces designs and prototypes of nanorobotic systems in detail, examining innovative principles of three-dimensional manipulation force microscopy and parallel imaging/manipulation force microscopy.

This thorough treatment of 3D robotic mapping focuses on acquiring spatial models of physical environments through mobile robots. In it, new solutions to the 6D SLAM problem for 3D laser scans are proposed and a wide variety of applications are presented.

This book shows how to improve accuracy of position tracking, viewing rough terrain locomotion as a holistic problem. Proposes a mechanical structure allowing smooth motion over obstacles with limited wheel slip, using sensors which improve position estimates.

Written by Ron Alterovitz and Ken Goldberg, this monograph combines ideas from robotics, physically-based modeling, and operations research to develop new motion planning and optimization algorithms for image-guided medical procedures.

This book examines the feasibility of creating self-organizing robots, particularly at the molecular level, within current mechanical engineering limitations. It covers relevant topics such as design philosophy and self-organization in biological systems.