Autonomous and Intelligent Systems

1. Front Matter

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2. Autonomous and Intelligent Systems

   1. Global Optimal Path Planning for Mobile Robots Based on Hybrid Approach with High Diversity and Memorization

      • Yun-Qian Miao, Alaa Khamis, Fakhreddine O. Karray, Mohamed S. Kamel

      Pages 1-10

   2. Small Tree Probabilistic Roadmap Planner for Hyper-Redundant Manipulators

      • Eric Lanteigne, Amor Jnifene

      Pages 11-20

   3. A Fuzzy Logic Approach for Indoor Mobile Robot Navigation Using UKF and Customized RFID Communication

      • M. Suruz Miah, Wail Gueaieb

      Pages 21-30

   4. Toward Opportunistic Collaboration in Target Pursuit Problems

      • Soheil Keshmiri, Shahram Payandeh

      Pages 31-40

   5. A Multi-agent Framework with MOOS-IvP for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles with Sidescan Sonar Sensors

      • Liam Paull, Sajad Saeedi G., Mae Seto, Howard Li

      Pages 41-50

   6. Three-Dimensional Path-Planning for a Communications and Navigation Aid Working Cooperatively with Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

      • Mae L. Seto, Jonathan A. Hudson, Yajun Pan

      Pages 51-62

   7. Autonomous Haulage Systems – Justification and Opportunity

      • Juliana Parreira, John Meech

      Pages 63-72

   8. Building a No Limit Texas Hold’em Poker Agent Based on Game Logs Using Supervised Learning

      • Luís Filipe Teófilo, Luís Paulo Reis

      Pages 73-82

3. Intelligent and Advanced Control Systems

   1. Autonomous Manipulation Combining Task Space Control with Recursive Field Estimation

      • Soo Jeon, Hyeong-Joon Ahn

      Pages 83-92

   2. Accessibility of Fuzzy Control Systems

      • Mohammad Biglarbegian, Alireza Sadeghian, William W. Melek

      Pages 93-101

   3. Thermal Dynamic Modeling and Control of Injection Moulding Process

      • Jaho Seo, Amir Khajepour, Jan P. Huissoon

      Pages 102-111

   4. Analysis of Future Measurement Incorporation into Unscented Predictive Motion Planning

      • Morteza Farrokhsiar, Homayoun Najjaran

      Pages 112-123

   5. Nonlinear Maneuvering Control of Rigid Formations of Fixed Wing UAVs

      • Ismail Bayezit, Baris Fidan

      Pages 124-133

   6. Intelligent Control System Design for a Class of Nonlinear Mechanical Systems

      • S. Islam, P. X. Liu, A. El Saddik

      Pages 134-145

   7. Trends in the Control Schemes for Bilateral Teleoperation with Time Delay

      • Jiayi Zhu, Xiaochuan He, Wail Gueaieb

      Pages 146-155

   8. Bilateral Teleoperation System with Time Varying Communication Delay: Stability and Convergence

      • S. Islam, P. X. Liu, A. El Saddik

      Pages 156-166

   9. Online Incremental Learning of Inverse Dynamics Incorporating Prior Knowledge

      • Joseph Sun de la Cruz, Dana Kulić, William Owen

      Pages 167-176

   10. Experimental Comparison of Model-Based and Model-Free Output Feedback Control System for Robot Manipulators

       • S. Islam, P. X. Liu, A. El Saddik

       Pages 177-188

   11. P-Map: An Intuitive Plot to Visualize, Understand, and Compare Variable-Gain PI Controllers

       • Dongrui Wu

       Pages 189-198

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Autonomous and Intelligent Systems, AIS 2011, held in Burnaby, BC, Canada, in June 2011, colocated with the International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, IACIAR 2011.
The 40 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on autonomous and intelligent systems, intelligent and advanced control systems, intelligent sensing and data analysis, human-machine interaction, and intelligent circuit analysis and signal processing.

• RFID networks
• agent systems
• computational intelligence
• machine learning
• motion planning
• robot navigation
• speech recognition

• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

  Mohamed Kamel, Fakhri Karray

• School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE), University of Orrawa, Ottawa, Canada

  Wail Gueaieb

• Faculty of Engineering and Material Science, Department of Mechatronics Engineering, German University in Egypt, New Cairo City, Egypt

  Alaa Khamis

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