The market demands for skills, knowledge and personalities have positioned robotics as an important field in both engineering and science. To meet these challenging - mands, robotics has already seen its success in automating many industrial tasks in factories. And, a new era will come for us to see a greater success of robotics in n- industrial environments. In anticipating a wider deployment of intelligent and auto- mous robots for tasks such as manufacturing, eldercare, homecare, edutainment, search and rescue, de-mining, surveillance, exploration, and security missions, it is necessary for us to push the frontier of robotics into a new dimension, in which motion and intelligence play equally important roles. After the success of the inaugural conference, the purpose of the Second Inter- tional Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications was to provide a venue where researchers, scientists, engineers and practitioners throughout the world could come together to present and discuss the latest achievement, future challenges and exciting applications of intelligent and autonomous robots. In particular, the emphasis of this year’s conference was on “robot intelligence for achieving digital manufact- ing and intelligent automations. ” This volume of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Computer Science contains accepted papers presented at ICIRA 2009, held in Singapore, December 16–18, 2009. On the basis of the reviews and recommendations by the international Program Committee members, we decided to accept 128 papers having technical novelty, out of 173 submissions received from different parts of the world.
Editors and Affiliations
School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Ming Xie
School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, P. R. China
Youlun Xiong
School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, P.R. China
Caihua Xiong
Institute of Industrial Research, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK
Honghai Liu
Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan
Zhencheng Hu
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Intelligent Robotics and Applications
Book Subtitle: Second International Conference, ICIRA 2009, Singapore, December 16-18, 2009, Proceedings
Editors: Ming Xie, Youlun Xiong, Caihua Xiong, Honghai Liu, Zhencheng Hu
