Towards Service Robots for Everyday Environments Recent Advances in Designing Service Robots for Complex Tasks in Everyday Environments /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Prassler, Erwin (Editor), Zöllner, Marius (Editor), Bischoff, Rainer (Editor), Burgard, Wolfram (Editor), Haschke, Robert (Editor), Hägele, Martin (Editor), Lawitzky, Gisbert (Editor), Nebel, Bernhard (Editor), Plöger, Paul (Editor), Reiser, Ulrich (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012.
• Series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, 76
• Subjects: Engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Robotics.; Automation.; Robotics and Automation.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

People have dreamed of machines, which would free them from unpleasant, dull, dirty and dangerous tasks and work for them as servants, for centuries if not millennia. Service robots seem to finally let these dreams come true. But where are all these robots that eventually serve us all day long, day...

Table of Contents:

• Service robots in everyday environments: Where are we? Where are they?
• System architecture
• Task planning and execution control
• Self-modeling, monitoring and adaptation for manipulation robots
• Perception
• Mobility, manipulation and grasping in everyday environments
• Interactive robot teaching
• Robot development process and tools.