The Path to Autonomous Robots Essays in Honor of George A. Bekey /

This collection of technical articles, written by leading international researchers in robotics, presents threads of modern robotics research. Also included are brief reminiscences of the former students of Professor George A. Bekey, reflecting on his remarkable 50-year career as an innovative educa...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Sukhatme, Gaurav (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2009.
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • Recent Research in Autonomous Robots
  • Mobile Robots for Polar Remote Sensing
  • Guidance and Control of Formation Flying Spacecraft
  • Adaptive Sampling for Field Reconstruction With Multiple Moblie Robots
  • Grasping Affordances: Learning to Connet vission to Hand Action
  • Intelligent Robotics for Assistive Healthcare and Therapy
  • A New Direction in Human-Robot Interaction; A Lesson from star Wars?
  • Neurorobotics Primer
  • Learning Inverse Dynamics by Gaussian process Begrression under the Multi-Task Learning Framework
  • Tributes and Recollections from Former Students
  • Professor George Albert Bekey
  • Current History of the Bekey Tribe
  • Recollections and Tributes.