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Intelligent Robotics and Applications

4th International Conference, ICIRA 2011, Aachen, Germany, December 6-8, 2011, Proceedings, Part II

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 7102)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

Conference series link(s): ICIRA: International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications

Conference proceedings info: ICIRA 2011.

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Table of contents (59 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. A Body for the Brain: Embodied Intelligence in Bio-inspired Robotics

    1. Biomechatronics for Embodied Intelligence of an Insectoid Robot

      • Axel Schneider, Jan Paskarbeit, Mattias Schäffersmann, Josef Schmitz
      Pages 1-11
    2. Novel Approaches for Bio-inspired Mechano-Sensors

      • Alin Drimus, Arne Bilberg
      Pages 12-23
    3. Helping a Bio-inspired Tactile Sensor System to Focus on the Essential

      • Sven Hellbach, Marc Otto, Volker Dürr
      Pages 24-33
    4. Robust Dataglove Mapping for Recording Human Hand Postures

      • Jan Steffen, Jonathan Maycock, Helge Ritter
      Pages 34-45
    5. Software/Hardware Issues in Modelling Insect Brain Architecture

      • Paolo Arena, Luca Patané, Pietro Savio Termini, Alessandra Vitanza, Roland Strauss
      Pages 46-55
    6. Higher Brain Centers for Intelligent Motor Control in Insects

      • Roland Strauss, Tammo Krause, Christian Berg, Bianca Zäpf
      Pages 56-64
    7. An Insect-Inspired, Decentralized Memory for Robot Navigation

      • Holk Cruse, Rüdiger Wehner
      Pages 65-74
    8. Models of Visually Guided Routes in Ants: Embodiment Simplifies Route Acquisition

      • Bart Baddeley, Paul Graham, Andrew Philippides, Philip Husbands
      Pages 75-84
  3. Intelligent Visual Systems

    1. Robust Object Tracking for Resource-Limited Hardware Systems

      • Xiaoqin Zhang, Li Zhao, Shengyong Chen, Lixin Gao
      Pages 85-94
    2. Adaptive Rank Transform for Stereo Matching

      • Ge Zhao, Yingkui Du, Yandong Tang
      Pages 95-104
    3. Real Time Vision Based Multi-person Tracking for Mobile Robotics and Intelligent Vehicles

      • Dennis Mitzel, Georgios Floros, Patrick Sudowe, Benito van der Zander, Bastian Leibe
      Pages 105-115
    4. A Method for Wandering Trajectory Detection in Video Monitor

      • Ruohong Huan, Zhehu Wang, Xiaomei Tang, Yun Pan
      Pages 116-124
    5. The Design of a Vision-Based Motion Performance System

      • Cheng Ren, Shuai Ye, Xin Wang
      Pages 125-134
    6. Window Function for EEG Power Density Estimation and Its Application in SSVEP Based BCIs

      • Gan Huang, Jianjun Meng, Dingguo Zhang, Xiangyang Zhu
      Pages 135-144
    7. Efficient Multi-resolution Plane Segmentation of 3D Point Clouds

      • Bastian Oehler, Joerg Stueckler, Jochen Welle, Dirk Schulz, Sven Behnke
      Pages 145-156
  4. Self-optimising Production Systems

    1. Artificial Cognition in Autonomous Assembly Planning Systems

      • Christian Buescher, Marcel Mayer, Daniel Schilberg, Sabina Jeschke
      Pages 168-178
    2. Self-optimization as an Enabler for Flexible and Reconfigurable Assembly Systems

      • Rainer Müller, Christian Brecher, Burkhard Corves, Martin Esser, Martin Riedel, Sebastian Haag et al.
      Pages 179-188
    3. Flexible Assembly Robotics for Self-optimizing Production

      • Sebastian Haag, Nicolas Pyschny, Christian Brecher
      Pages 189-198

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About this book

The two volume set LNAI 7101 and 7102 constitute the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2011, held in Aachen, Germany, in November 2011.
The 122 revised full papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. They are organized in topical sections on progress in indoor UAV, robotics intelligence, industrial robots, rehabilitation robotics, mechanisms and their applications, multi robot systems, robot mechanism and design, parallel kinematics, parallel kinematics machines and parallel robotics, handling and manipulation, tangibility in human-machine interaction, navigation and localization of mobile robot, a body for the brain: embodied intelligence in bio-inspired robotics, intelligent visual systems, self-optimising production systems, computational intelligence, robot control systems, human-robot interaction, manipulators and applications, stability, dynamics and interpolation, evolutionary robotics, bio-inspired robotics, and image-processing applications.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Lehrstuhl für Informationsmanagement im Maschinenbau, RWTH Aachen, Zentrum für Lern- und Wissensmanagement, Aachen, Germany

    Sabina Jeschke

  • School of Creative Technologies, Intelligents Systems and Biomedical Robotics Group, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK

    Honghai Liu

  • ZLW/IMA, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

    Daniel Schilberg

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