Experimental Robotics VII

Experimental robotics is at the core of validating robotics research for both its system science and theoretical foundations. Robotics experiments serve as a unifying theme for robotics system science and theoretical foundations. This book collects papers on the state of the art in experimental robo...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Rus, Daniela (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Singh, Sanjiv (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2001.
Edition:1st ed. 2001.
Series:Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, 271
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • Humanoids and Human-Robot Interaction
  • Haptically Augmented Teleoperation
  • Bilateral Teleoperation: Towards Fine Manipulation with Large Time Delay
  • Virtual Exoskeleton for Telemanipulation
  • Design of Programmable Passive Compliance for Humanoid Shoulder
  • Design, Implementation, and Remote Operation of the Humanoid H6
  • Cooperative Human and Machine Perception in Teleoperated Assembly
  • Regulation and Entrainment in Human-Robot Interaction
  • Perception
  • Advancing Active Vision Systems by Improved Design and Control
  • S-NETS: Smart Sensor Networks
  • Six Degree of Freedom Sensing For Docking Using IR LED Emitters and Receivers
  • Height Estimation for an Autonomous Helicopter
  • Ladar-based Discrimination of Grass from Obstacles for Autonomous Navigation
  • Reality-based Modeling with ACME: A Progress Report
  • Assembly and Manipulation
  • Grasp Strategy Simplified by Detaching Assist Motion (DAM)
  • Force-Based Interaction for Distributed Precision Assembly
  • Design and Implementation of a New Discretely-Actuated Manipulator
  • Design and Experiments on a Novel Biomechatronic Hand
  • Autonomous Injection of Biological Cells Using Visual Servoing
  • Medical, Space, and Field Applications
  • An active tubular polyarticulated micro-system for flexible endoscope
  • Towards semi-autonomy in laparoscopic surgery through vision and force feedback control
  • Optimized Port Placement for the Totally Endoscopic Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting using the da Vinci Robotic System
  • ETS-VII Flight Experiments For Space Robot Dynamics and Control
  • Experimental Demonstrations of a New Design Paradigm in Space Robotics
  • A first-stage experiment of long term activity of autonomous mobile robot - result of repetitive base-docking over a week
  • Locomotion
  • Comparing the Locomotion Dynamics of the Cockroach and a Shape Deposition Manufactured Biomimetic Hexapod
  • Super Mechano-System: New Perspective for Versatile Robotic System
  • Using Modular Self-reconfiguring Robots for Locomotion
  • Open-loop Verification of Motion Planning for an Underwater Eel-like Robot
  • Quadruped Robot Running With a Bounding Gait
  • Evidence for Spring Loaded Inverted Pendulum Running in a Hexapod Robot
  • Multi-robot Systems
  • A Framework and Architecture for Multirobot Coordination
  • Motion Control of Distributed Robot Helpers Transporting a Single Object in Cooperation with a Human
  • First Results in the Coordination of Heterogeneous Robots for Large-Scale Assembly
  • Towards A Team of Robots with Repair Capabilities: A Visual Docking System
  • Merging Gaussian Distributions for Object Localization in Multi-Robot Systems
  • Principled Communication for Dynamic Multi-Robot Task Allocation
  • Progress in RoboCup Soccer Research in 2000
  • Modeling and Motion Planning
  • View Planning via C-space Entropy for Efficient Exploration with Eye-in-Hand Systems
  • Motion Planning for a Self-Reconfigurable Modular Robot
  • Experimental comparison of techniques for localization and mapping using a bearing-only sensor
  • Robot Navigation for Automatic Model Construction using Safe Regions
  • Simulation and Experimental Evaluation of Complete Sensor-based Coverage in Rectilinear Environments
  • An interactive model of the human liver
  • Control
  • The Biomechanical Fidelity of Slope Simulation on the Sarcos Treadport Using Whole-Body Force Feedback
  • A New Approach to the Control of a Hydraulic Stewart Platform
  • Design of life-size haptic environments
  • Micro Nafion Actuators for Cellular Motion Control and Underwater Manipulation
  • Control of an under actuated unstable nonlinear object
  • Singularity Handling on Puma in Operational Space Formulation
  • Navigation and Localization
  • Autonomous Rover Navigation on Unknown Terrains Functions and Integration
  • Map Building and Localization for Underwater Navigation
  • Visually Realistic Mapping of a Planar Environment with Stereo
  • Incorporation of Delayed Decision Making into Stochastic Mapping
  • Tele-Autonomous Watercraft Navigation
  • An Underwater Vehicle Monitoring System and Its Sensors
  • Real Time Obstacle Detection for AGV Navigation Using Multi-baseline Stereo
  • A new Generation of Light-weight Robot Arms and Multifingerd Hands.