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Field and Service Robotics

Results of the 9th International Conference

  • Presents state-of-the-art research in Field and Service Robotics
  • Results of the 9th International Conference on Field and Service Robotics FSR held at Brisbane, Australia, Dec. 2013
  • Written by leading experts in the field

Part of the book series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR, volume 105)

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Table of contents (35 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-12
  2. Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Hierarchical Classification in AUV Imagery

      • M. S. Bewley, N. Nourani-Vatani, D. Rao, B. Douillard, O. Pizarro, S. B. Williams
      Pages 3-16
    3. Mapping 3D Underwater Environments with Smoothed Submaps

      • Mark VanMiddlesworth, Michael Kaess, Franz Hover, John J. Leonard
      Pages 17-30
  3. Outdoor Driving

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31
    2. Towards Autonomous Mobile Robots for the Exploration of Steep Terrain

      • Braden Stenning, Lauren Bajin, Christine Robson, Valentin Peretroukhin, Gordon R. Osinski, Timothy D. Barfoot
      Pages 33-47
    3. Drivable Road Detection with 3D Point Clouds Based on the MRF for Intelligent Vehicle

      • Jaemin Byun, Ki-in Na, Beom-su Seo, Myungchan Roh
      Pages 49-60
    4. Predicting Terrain Traversability from Thermal Diffusivity

      • Chris Cunningham, Uland Wong, Kevin M. Peterson, William L. “Red” Whittaker
      Pages 61-74
    5. Modular Dynamic Simulation of Wheeled Mobile Robots

      • Neal Seegmiller, Alonzo Kelly
      Pages 75-89
  4. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91
    2. Autonomous River Exploration

      • Sezal Jain, Stephen Nuske, Andrew Chambers, Luke Yoder, Hugh Cover, Lyle Chamberlain et al.
      Pages 93-106
    3. Outdoor Flight Testing of a Pole Inspection UAV Incorporating High-speed Vision

      • Inkyu Sa, Stefan Hrabar, Peter Corke
      Pages 107-121
    4. Inspection of Penstocks and Featureless Tunnel-like Environments Using Micro UAVs

      • Tolga Özaslan, Shaojie Shen, Yash Mulgaonkar, Nathan Michael, Vijay Kumar
      Pages 123-136
    5. Autonomous Aerial Water Sampling

      • John-Paul Ore, Sebastian Elbaum, Amy Burgin, Baoliang Zhao, Carrick Detweiler
      Pages 137-151
    6. Enabling Aircraft Emergency Landings Using Active Visual Site Detection

      • Michael Warren, Luis Mejias, Xilin Yang, Bilal Arain, Felipe Gonzalez, Ben Upcroft
      Pages 167-181
    7. INS Assisted Monocular Visual Odometry for Aerial Vehicles

      • Ji Zhang, Sanjiv Singh
      Pages 183-197
  5. Control

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-199
    2. An Attitude Controller for Small Scale Rockets

      • Florian Kehl, Ankur M. Mehta, Kristofer S. J. Pister
      Pages 201-214
    3. Posture Reconfiguration and Navigation Maneuvers on a Wheel-Legged Hydraulic Robot

      • Christopher Yee Wong, Korhan Turker, Inna Sharf, Blake Beckman
      Pages 215-228

About this book

FSR, the International Conference on Field and Service Robotics, is a robotics Symposium which has established over the past ten years the latest research and practical results towards the use of field and service robotics in the community with particular focus on proven technology. The first meeting was held in Canberra, Australia, in 1997. Since then the meeting has been held every two years in the pattern Asia, America, Europe.

Field robots are non-factory robots, typically mobile, that operate in complex and dynamic environments; on the ground (of earth or planets), under the ground, underwater, in the air or in space. Service robots are those that work closely with humans to help them with their lives. This book present the results of the ninth edition of Field and Service Robotics, FSR13, held in Brisbane, Australia on 9th-11th December 2013. The conference provided a forum for researchers, professionals and robot manufactures to exchange up-to-date technical knowledge and experience. This book offers a collection of a broad range of topics including: Underwater Robots and Systems, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles technologies and applications, Agriculture, Space, Search and Rescue and Domestic Robotics, Robotic Vision, Mapping and Recognition.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

    Luis Mejias, Peter Corke

  • Autonomous Systems Laboratory QCAT Technology Court, CSIRO ICT Centre, Pullenvale, Australia

    Jonathan Roberts

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Field and Service Robotics

  • Book Subtitle: Results of the 9th International Conference

  • Editors: Luis Mejias, Peter Corke, Jonathan Roberts

  • Series Title: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07488-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-07487-0Published: 31 July 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34471-3Published: 24 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-07488-7Published: 15 July 2014

  • Series ISSN: 1610-7438

  • Series E-ISSN: 1610-742X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 530

  • Number of Illustrations: 35 b/w illustrations, 289 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Robotics and Automation, Artificial Intelligence

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