Robotics : science and systems IV / edited by Oliver Brock, Jeff Trinkle, and Fabio Ramos.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Robotics: Science and Systems Conference, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Brock, Oliver.

Trinkle, Jeffrey C.

Ramos, Fabio.

Conference Name:

Robotics: Science and Systems Conference (4th : 2008 : Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)

Robotics: Science and Systems Conference

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Robotics--Congresses.

Robotics.

Mechanical engineering.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (334 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

State-of-the-art robotics research on such topics as manipulation, motion planning, micro-robotics, distributed systems, autonomous navigation, and mapping.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Organizing Committee; Program Committee; Sponsors; Multi-Sensor Lane Finding in Urban Road Networks; Laser and Vision Based Outdoor Object Mapping; Fast Probabilistic Labeling of City Maps; Clustering Sensor Data for Terrain Identification using a Windowless Algorithm; Distributed Localization of Modular Robot Ensembles; Controlling Shapes of Ensembles of Robots of Finite Size with Nonholonomic Constraints; Stochastic Recruitment; Prior Data and Kernel Conditional Random Fields for Obstacle Detection; SARSOP

Detection of Principal Directions in Unknown Environments for Autonomous Navigation Approximation Schemes for Two-Player Pursuit Evasion Games with Visibility Constraints; A Numerically Robust LCP Solver for Simulating Articulated Rigid Bodies in Contact; Hybrid Motion Planning Using Minkowski Sums; Bridging the Gap of Abstraction for Probabilistic Decision Making on a Multi-Modal Service Robot; Adaptive Body Scheme Models for Robust Robotic Manipulation; Bearing-Only Control Laws For Balanced Circular Formations of Ground Robots; CPG-based Control of a Turtle-like Underwater Vehicle; HyPE

Abstractions and Algorithms for Cooperative Multiple Robot Planar Manipulation A Local Collision Avoidance Method for Non-strictly Convex Polyhedra; BiSpace Planning; Structural Improvement Filtering Strategy for PRM; Model Based Vehicle Tracking for Autonomous Driving in Urban Environments; Improving Localization Robustness in Monocular SLAM Using a High-Speed Camera; Simplex-Tree Based Kinematics of Foldable Objects as Multi-body Systems Involving Loops; fMRI-Compatible Robotic Interfaces with Fluidic Actuation; Proofs and Experiments in Scalable, Near-Optimal Search by Multiple Robots

Planning Long Dynamically-Feasible Maneuvers for Autonomous Vehicles Friction-Induced Velocity Fields for Point Parts Sliding on a Rigid Oscillated Plate; Metastable Walking on Stochastically Rough Terrain; Target Enumeration via Integration Over Planar Sensor Networks; Using Recognition to Guide a Robot's Attention; Learning to Manipulate Articulated Objects in Unstructured Environments Using a Grounded Relational Representation; High Performance Outdoor Navigation from Overhead Data using Imitation Learning; Classifying Dynamic Objects

Probabilistic Models of Object Geometry for Grasp Planning Dynamic Modeling of Stick Slip Motion in an Untethered Magnetic Micro-Robot; Super-Flexible Skin Sensors Embedded on the Whole Body, Self-Organizing Based on Haptic Interactions; NanoNewton Force Sensing and Control in Microrobotic Cell Manipulation; Gas Distribution Modeling using Sparse Gaussian Process Mixture Models

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

"Papers presented at Robotics: Science and Systems 2008, held at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland, from June 25 to June 28, 2008"--Pref.

ISBN:

1-282-69432-4

9786612694325

0-262-25862-5

OCLC:

459795776

Publisher Number:

9786612694325