Intelligent Robotics and Applications

1. Front Matter

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2. Ubiquitous and Cooperative Robots in Smart Space

   1. A Ubiquitous and Cooperative Service Framework for Network Robot System

      • Yabo Liu, Jianhua Yang

      Pages 1-10

   2. The Hand-Bot, a Robot Design for Simultaneous Climbing and Manipulation

      • Michael Bonani, Stéphane Magnenat, Philippe Rétornaz, Francesco Mondada

      Pages 11-22

   3. Human Multi-robots Interaction with High Virtual Reality Abstraction Level

      • Khelifa Baizid, Zhao Li, Nicolas Mollet, Ryad Chellali

      Pages 23-32

   4. Laser Based People Following Behaviour in an Emergency Environment

      • Jose Maria Martínez-Otzeta, Aitor Ibarguren, Ander Ansuategi, Loreto Susperregi

      Pages 33-42

   5. RENS – Enabling a Robot to Identify a Person

      • Xin Yan, Sabina Jeschke, Amit Dubey, Marc Wilke, Hinrich Schütze

      Pages 43-54

   6. Classifying 3D Human Motions by Mixing Fuzzy Gaussian Inference with Genetic Programming

      • Mehdi Khoury, Honghai Liu

      Pages 55-66

   7. Pointing Gestures for a Robot Mediated Communication Interface

      • John-John Cabibihan, Wing Chee So, Medi Nazar, Shuzhi Sam Ge

      Pages 67-77

   8. View-Invariant Human Action Recognition Using Exemplar-Based Hidden Markov Models

      • Xiaofei Ji, Honghai Liu

      Pages 78-89

   9. A Local Interaction Based Multi-robot Hunting Approach with Sensing and Modest Communication

      • Wenwen Zhang, Jing Wang, Zhiqiang Cao, Yuan Yuan, Chao Zhou

      Pages 90-99

   10. Robot Formations for Area Coverage

       • Jürgen Leitner

       Pages 100-111

3. Advanced Control on Autonomous Vehicles

   1. Challenges of the Multi-robot Team in the GUARDIANS Project

      • Lyuba Alboul, Joan Saez-Pons, Jacques Penders, Leo Nomdedeu

      Pages 112-125

   2. Modelling and Control of a Train of Autonomous Electric Vehicles

      • Kamel Bouibed, Abdel Aitouche, Mireille Bayart

      Pages 126-134

   3. Organization and Operation of Electronically Coupled Truck Platoons on German Motorways

      • Ralph Kunze, Richard Ramakers, Klaus Henning, Sabina Jeschke

      Pages 135-146

   4. Navigation Method Selector for an Autonomous Explorer Rover with a Markov Decision Process

      • Simon Le Gloannec, Abdel-Illah Mouaddib

      Pages 147-156

   5. Discrete-Time Adaptive Sliding Mode Control of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle in the Dive Plane

      • Baoju Wu, Shuo Li, Xiaohui Wang

      Pages 157-164

   6. Emergent Behavior Control Patterns in Robotic Collectives

      • Razvan-Dorel Cioarga, Mihai V. Micea, Vladimir Cretu, Daniel Racoceanu

      Pages 165-173

4. Intelligent Vehicles: Perception for Safe Navigation

   1. An Improved Road Network Modeling and Map Matching for Precise Vehicle Localization

      • Chenhao Wang, Zhencheng Hu, Naoko Hamada, Keiichi Uchimura

      Pages 174-184

   2. A Vision System of Hazard Cameras for Lunar Rover BH2

      • Guicai Wang, Hehua Ju, Hongpeng Feng

      Pages 185-194

   3. Stereovision-Based Algorithm for Obstacle Avoidance

      • Lazaros Nalpantidis, Ioannis Kostavelis, Antonios Gasteratos

      Pages 195-204

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.

• automation
• computational intelligence
• defence robots
• e-mining
• edutainment
• eldercare
• homecare
• legged locomotion
• motion analysis
• motion planning
• robot
• robotics
• search and rescue
• security missions
• sensors
• rehabilitation psychology

• 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

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