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Field and Service Robotics

Results of the 8th International Conference

  • Recent leading research in Field and Service Robotics
  • Edited outcome of the 8th International conference on Field and Service Robotics, held at July 20-22, 2011, Matsushima, Miyagi, Japan
  • Written by leading experts in the field
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR, volume 92)

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Table of contents (43 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Utilization of Robot Systems in Disaster Sites of the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake

    • Fumitoshi Matsuno, Noritaka Sato, Kazuyuki Kon, Hiroki Igarashi, Tetsuya Kimura, Robin Murphy
    Pages 1-17
  3. Improvements to the Rescue Robot Quince Toward Future Indoor Surveillance Missions in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant

    • Tomoaki Yoshida, Keiji Nagatani, Satoshi Tadokoro, Takeshi Nishimura, Eiji Koyanagi
    Pages 19-32
  4. Collaborative Mapping of an Earthquake Damaged Building via Ground and Aerial Robots

    • Nathan Michael, Shaojie Shen, Kartik Mohta, Vijay Kumar, Keiji Nagatani, Yoshito Okada et al.
    Pages 33-47
  5. Three-Dimensional Thermography Mapping for Mobile Rescue Robots

    • Keiji Nagatani, Kazuki Otake, Kazuya Yoshida
    Pages 49-63
  6. Creating Multi-Viewpoint Panoramas of Streets with Sparsely Located Buildings

    • Takayuki Okatani, Jun Yanagisawa, Daiki Tetsuka, Ken Sakurada, Koichiro Deguchi
    Pages 65-79
  7. Disaster Back-up Support using GIS Contents Composed of Images from Satellite and UAV

    • Sota Shimizu, Taro Suzuki, Masaya Ogawa, Yoshiyuki Fukazawa, Yuzo Shibayama, Takumi Hashizume
    Pages 81-96
  8. Mine Detecting Robot System

    • SeungBeum Suh, JunHo Choi, ChangHyun Cho, YeonSub Jin, Seung-Yeup Hyun, Sungchul Kang
    Pages 97-109
  9. Experience in System Design for Human-Robot Teaming in Urban Search and Rescue

    • G. J. M. Kruijff, M. Janíček, S. Keshavdas, B. Larochelle, H. Zender, N. J. J. M. Smets et al.
    Pages 111-125
  10. Advancing the State of Urban Search and Rescue Robotics Through the RoboCupRescue Robot League Competition

    • Raymond Sheh, Adam Jacoff, Ann-Marie Virts, Tetsuya Kimura, Johannes Pellenz, Sören Schwertfeger et al.
    Pages 127-142
  11. Impression of Android for Communication Support in Hospitals and Elderly Facilities

    • Yoshio Matsumoto, Masahiro Yoshikawa, Yujin Wakita, Masahiko Sumitani, Masutomo Miyao, Hiroshi Ishiguro
    Pages 159-173
  12. Multi-Robot Formation Control via a Real-Time Drawing Interface

    • Sandro Hauri, Javier Alonso-Mora, Andreas Breitenmoser, Roland Siegwart, Paul Beardsley
    Pages 175-189
  13. Automated and Frequent Calibration of a Robot Manipulator-mounted IR Range Camera for Steel Bridge Maintenance

    • Andrew Wing Keung To, Gavin Paul, David Rushton-Smith, Dikai Liu, Gamini Dissanayake
    Pages 205-218
  14. Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems for Remote Gas Leak Detection and Localization in Industrial Environments

    • Samuel Soldan, Jochen Welle, Thomas Barz, Andreas Kroll, Dirk Schulz
    Pages 233-247
  15. To the Bookstore! Autonomous Wheelchair Navigation in an Urban Environment

    • Corey Montella, Timothy Perkins, John Spletzer, Michael Sands
    Pages 249-263
  16. A Trail-Following Robot Which Uses Appearance and Structural Cues

    • Christopher Rasmussen, Yan Lu, Mehmet Kocamaz
    Pages 265-279
  17. Construction of Semantic Maps for Personal Mobility Robots in Dynamic Outdoor Environments

    • Naotaka Hatao, Satoshi Kagami, Ryo Hanai, Kimitoshi Yamazaki, Masayuki Inaba
    Pages 281-296

About this book

FSR, the International Conference on Field and Service Robotics, is the leading single track conference of robotics for field and service applications. This book presents the results of FSR2012, the eighth conference of Field and Service Robotics, which was originally planned for 2011 with the venue of Matsushima in Tohoku region of Japan. However, on March 11, 2011, a magnitude M9.0 earthquake occurred off the Pacific coast of Tohoku, and a large-scale disaster was caused by the Tsunami which resulted, therefore the conference was postponed by one year to July, 2012. In fact, this earthquake raised issues concerning the contribution of field and service robotics technology to emergency scenarios. A number of precious lessons were learned from operation of robots in the resulting, very real and challenging, disaster environments. Up-to-date study on disaster response, relief and recovery was then featured in the conference. This book offers 43 papers on a broad range of topics including: Disaster Response, Service/Entertainment Robots, Inspection/Maintenance Robots, Mobile Robot Navigation, Agricultural Robots, Robots for Excavation, Planetary Exploration, Large Area Mapping, SLAM for Outdoor Robots, and Elemental Technology for Mobile Robots.

Reviews

From the book reviews:

“This book offers a must-read volume for researchers involved in the field of mobile robotics. … this book has a clear structure and is fairly readable. The topic covered may be adequate for graduate-level studies.” (Ramon Gonzalez Sanchez, Computing Reviews, October, 2014)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Aerospace Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

    Kazuya Yoshida

  • Tohoku University Graduate School of Information Sciences, Sendai, Japan

    Satoshi Tadokoro

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Field and Service Robotics

  • Book Subtitle: Results of the 8th International Conference

  • Editors: Kazuya Yoshida, Satoshi Tadokoro

  • Series Title: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40686-7

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-40685-0Published: 16 January 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-52081-9Published: 27 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-40686-7Published: 30 December 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1610-7438

  • Series E-ISSN: 1610-742X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 658

  • Number of Illustrations: 59 b/w illustrations, 367 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Robotics and Automation, Artificial Intelligence

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Buying options

eBook USD 129.00
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Hardcover Book USD 169.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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