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The Path to Autonomous Robots

Essays in Honor of George A. Bekey

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  • © 2009

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Editors:
  1. Gaurav Sukhatme

    1. Viterbi School of Engineering, Dept. Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, U.S.A.

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  • A sampling of modern research in Autonomous Robots

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Table of contents (11 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-14
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  2. Recent Research in Autonomous Robots

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2
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    2. Mobile Robots for Polar Remote Sensing

      • Christopher M. Gifford, Eric L. Akers, Richard S. Stansbury, Arvin Agah
      Pages 1-22

    3. Guidance and Control of Formation Flying Spacecraft

      • Fred Y. Hadaegh, Singh Gurkirpal, Behcet AçikmeÅŸe, Daniel P. Scharf, Milan Mandić
      Pages 1-19

    4. Adaptive Sampling for Field Reconstruction With Multiple Moblie Robots

      • Bin Zhang, Gaurav S. Sukhatme
      Pages 1-13

    5. Grasping Affordances: Learning to Connet vission to Hand Action

      • Charles de Granville, Di Wang, Joshua Southerland, Andrew H. Fagg, Robet Platt Jr.
      Pages 1-22

    6. Intelligent Robotics for Assistive Healthcare and Therapy

      • Ayanna M. Howard, Sekou Remy, Chung Hyuk Park, Hae Won Park, Douglas Brooks
      Pages 1-17

    7. A New Direction in Human-Robot Interaction; A Lesson from star Wars?

      • Gerard Jounghyun Kim
      Pages 1-6

    8. Neurorobotics Primer

      • M. Anthony Lewis, Theresa J. Klein
      Pages 1-25

    9. Learning Inverse Dynamics by Gaussian process Begrression under the Multi-Task Learning Framework

      • Dit-Yan Yeung, Yu Zhang
      Pages 1-12

  3. Tributes and Recollections from Former Students

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2
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    2. Professor George Albert Bekey

      • Gaurav S. Sukhatme
      Pages 1-6

    3. Current History of the Bekey Tribe

      • H. Pete Schmid, Monte Ung
      Pages 1-3

    4. Recollections and Tributes

      • Dan Antonelli, Arun Bhadoria, Willis G. Downing Jr., Huan Liu, Michael Merritt, L. Warren Morrison et al.
      Pages 1-5

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 1-16
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About this book

The principal chapters of this book form a collection of technical articles sp- ning many areas of research in robotics, these are followed by a set of short r- iniscences and tributes written by former students of Professor George A. Bekey. Professor Bekey, a pioneer in robotics, retired from the University of Southern C- ifornia (USC) in 2002 after serving on its faculty for forty years. He maintains an association with USC as University Professor Emeritus. Professor Bekey turned 80 in June 2008 - this is his Festschrift. As one of Professor Bekey’s former students, it has been my privilege to know him for many years. This book represents the collective warm feelings of his former students, who remember their association with him in the fondest terms. Part I of this book is composed of technical chapters representing threads of active robotics research knitted loosely together. In many cases the themes of the chapters have their origins in the work the authors did when they were graduate students with Professor Bekey. These chapters are written for the reader interested in a sampling of modern research in Autonomous Robots. It is my hope that, for the serious reader, these chapters will serve as invitations to explore the ?eld via further reading and research.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Viterbi School of Engineering, Dept. Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, U.S.A.

    Gaurav Sukhatme

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Path to Autonomous Robots

  • Book Subtitle: Essays in Honor of George A. Bekey

  • Editors: Gaurav Sukhatme

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-85774-9

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2009

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-85773-2Published: 03 December 2008

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-4675-1Published: 05 November 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-85774-9Published: 18 December 2008

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 178

  • Number of Illustrations: 80 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Control, Robotics, Mechatronics

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