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Autonomous Robots and Agents

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  • © 2007

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Editors:
  1. Subhas Chandra Mukhopadhyay

    1. Institute of Information Sciences and Technology, Massey University (Turitea Campus), Palmerston North, New Zealand

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  2. Gourab Sen Gupta

    1. School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Singapore Polytechnic, Singapore

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Part of the book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI, volume 76)

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Table of contents (30 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Toward Hierarchical Multi-Robot Urban Search and Rescue: Development of a ‘Mother’ Agent

    • David A. Williamson, Dale A. Carnegie
    Pages 1-7

  3. Multi-Robot Search and Rescue: A Potential Field Based Approach

    • J. L. Baxter, E. K. Burke, J. M. Garibaldi, M. Norman
    Pages 9-16

  4. Probabilistic Target Search Strategy

    • R. Jarvis, M. Marzouqi
    Pages 17-23

  5. Localisation and Mapping With a Mobile Robot Using Sparse Range Data

    • Jochen Schmidt, Chee K. Wong, Wai K. Yeap
    Pages 25-33

  6. Applying High-Level Understanding to Visual Localisation for Mapping

    • Trevor Taylor
    Pages 35-42

  7. Development of an Optical Three-Axis Tactile Sensor for Object Handing Tasks in Humanoid Robot Navigation System

    • Hanafiah Yussof, Masahiro Ohka, Hiroaki Kobayashi, Jumpei Takata, Mitsuhiro Yamano, Yasuo Nasu
    Pages 43-51

  8. Clustering Methods in Flock Traffic Navigation Based on Negotiation

    • Carlos Astengo-Noguez, RamÓn Brena-Pinero
    Pages 53-60

  9. Using Learned Features from 3D Data for Robot Navigation

    • Michael Happold, Mark Ollis
    Pages 61-69

  10. A Centre-of-Mass Tracker Integrated Circuit Design in Nanometric CMOS for Robotic Visual Object Position Tracking

    • S. M. Rezaul Hasan, Johan Potgieter
    Pages 71-81

  11. Non-Iterative Vision-Based Interpolation of 3D Laser Scans

    • Henrik Andreasson, Rudolph Triebel, Achim Lilienthal
    Pages 83-90

  12. RoboSim: A Multimode 3D Simulator for Studying Mobile Robot Co-Operation

    • G. Seet, S. K. Sim, W. C. Pang, Z. X. Wu, T. Asokan
    Pages 91-99

  13. A Mobile Robot for Autonomous Book Retrieval

    • Aneesh N. Chand, Godfrey C. Onwubolu
    Pages 101-107

  14. Trajectory Planning for Surveillance Missions of Mobile Robots

    • Luiz S. Martins-Filho, Elbert E. N. Macau
    Pages 109-117

  15. An Evolutionary Approach to Crowd Simulation

    • Tsai-Yen Li, Chih-Chien Wang
    Pages 119-126

  16. Application of a Particle Swarm Algorithm to the Capacitated Open Pit Mining Problem

    • Jacques A. Ferland, Jorge Amaya, Melody Suzy Djuimo
    Pages 127-133

  17. Automatic Adjustment for Optical Axes in Laser Systems Using Stochastic Binary Search Algorithm for Noisy Environments

    • Nobuharu Murata, Hirokazu Nosato, Tatsumi Furuya, Masahiro Murakawa
    Pages 135-144

  18. An Analysis of the Chromosome Generated by a Genetic Algorithm Used to Create a Controller for a Mobile Inverted Pendulum

    • Mark Beckerleg, John Collins
    Pages 145-152

  19. Robust Flight Stability and Control for Micro Air Vehicles

    • M. Meenakshi, M. Seetharama Bhat
    Pages 153-162

  20. An Ecological Interface Design Approach to Human Supervision of a Robot Team

    • H. Furukawa
    Pages 163-170
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About this book

Robots and autonomous agents have permeated every aspect of human life. They are not only omnipresent on the shop floors; they have pervaded our homes and are around us everywhere. Design methodologies and implementation techniques of intelligent machines are making progress in leaps and bounds. Smart interaction, cooperation, and pro-activeness are the hallmarks of modern intelligent machines.

This book deals with the theoretical and methodological aspects of incorporating intelligence in "Autonomous Robots and Agents". Challenges faced in the real world to accomplish complex tasks, which require collaborative efforts, and methods to overcome them, are detailed. Several informative articles deal with navigation, localization and mapping of mobile robots, a problem that engineers and researchers are grappling with all the time.

This edited volume is targeted to present the latest state-of-the-art methodologies in Robotics. It is a compilation of the extended versions of the very best papers selected from the many that were presented at the 3rd International Conference on Autonomous Robots and Agents (ICARA 2006) which was held at Palmerston North, New Zealand from 11-14 December, 2006. Scientists and engineers who work with mobile robots will find this book very useful and stimulating.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Information Sciences and Technology, Massey University (Turitea Campus), Palmerston North, New Zealand

    Subhas Chandra Mukhopadhyay

  • School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Singapore Polytechnic, Singapore

    Gourab Sen Gupta

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