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Robots and Biological Systems: Towards a New Bionics?

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Workshop on Robots and Biological Systems, held at II Ciocco, Toscana, Italy, June 26–30, 1989

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  • © 1993

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Editors:
  1. Paolo Dario

    1. ARTS Lab, Scuola Superiore S. Anna, Pisa, Italy

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  2. Giulio Sandini

    1. DIST, Università degli Studi di Genova, Genova, Italy

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  3. Patrick Aebischer

    1. Division de Recherche chirurgicale, Lausanne, Switzerland

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Table of contents (40 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. Vision and Dynamic Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Active Perception and Exploratory Robotics

      • Ruzena Bajcsy
      Pages 3-20

    3. Object Identification and Search: Animate Vision Alternatives to Image Interpretation

      • Michael J. Swain, Lambert E. Wixson, Dana H. Ballard
      Pages 21-42

    4. A Model of Human Feature Detection Based on Matched Filters

      • M. C. Morrone, D. C. Burr
      Pages 43-63

    5. Visualizing and Understanding Patterns of Brain Architecture

      • Alan Rojer, Eric L. Schwartz
      Pages 65-87

    6. Dynamic Vision

      • Harry Wechsler, Lee Zimmerman
      Pages 89-98

    7. A Model of the Acquisition of Object Representations in Human 3D Visual Recognition

      • S. Edelman, D. Weinshall, H. H. Bülthoff, T. Poggio
      Pages 99-118

  4. Locomotion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191
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    2. Mobile Robots - the Lessons From Nature

      • D. J. Todd
      Pages 193-206

    3. Quadarujped Walking Machine — Creation. of the Model of Motion

      • A. Morecki, T. Zielinska
      Pages 207-222

    4. Biped Locomotion by FNS: Control Issues and an ANN Implementation

      • F. Gideon
      Pages 223-238

    5. How Fast Can a Legged Robot Run?

      • Jeff Koechling, H. Marc
      Pages 239-269

    6. Robot Biped Walking Stabilized with Trunk Motion

      • Atsuo Takanishi
      Pages 271-291
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About this book

Bionics evolved in the 1960s as a framework to pursue the development of artificial systems based on the study of biological systems. Numerous disciplines and technologies, including artificial intelligence and learningdevices, information processing, systems architecture and control, perception, sensory mechanisms, and bioenergetics, contributed to bionics research. This volume is based on a NATO Advanced Research Workshop within the Special Programme on Sensory Systems for Robotic Control, held in Il Ciocco, Italy, in June 1989. A consensus emerged at the workshop, and is reflected in the book, on the value of learning from nature in order to derive guidelines for the design of intelligent machines which operate in unstructured environments. The papers in the book are grouped into seven chapters: vision and dynamic systems, hands and tactile perception, locomotion, intelligent motor control, design technologies, interfacing robots to nervous systems, and robot societies and self-organization.

Editors and Affiliations

  • ARTS Lab, Scuola Superiore S. Anna, Pisa, Italy

    Paolo Dario

  • DIST, Università degli Studi di Genova, Genova, Italy

    Giulio Sandini

  • Division de Recherche chirurgicale, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Patrick Aebischer

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Robots and Biological Systems: Towards a New Bionics?

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Workshop on Robots and Biological Systems, held at II Ciocco, Toscana, Italy, June 26–30, 1989

  • Editors: Paolo Dario, Giulio Sandini, Patrick Aebischer

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58069-7

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1993

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-56158-3Published: 14 June 1993

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-63461-1Published: 08 November 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-58069-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 786

  • Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Systems Theory, Control, Robotics and Automation, Health Informatics, Computer Appl. in Life Sciences, Pattern Recognition

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