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Alexander Zelinsky
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Department of Systems Engineering, Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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Table of contents (81 papers)
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- M. V. Srinivasan, J. S. Chahl, K. Weber, S. Venkatesh, S. W. Zhang, M. G. Nagle
Pages 12-16
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- Gamini Dissanayake, Martial Hebert, Anthony Stentz, Hugh Durrant-Whyte
Pages 40-45
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- Peter Corke, Jonathan Roberts, Graeme Winstanley
Pages 46-52
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- Jonathon C. Ralston, David W. Hainsworth
Pages 53-59
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- C. Laugier, Ph. Garnier, Th. Fraichard, I. Paromtchik, A. Scheuer
Pages 60-67
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- S. Scheding, E. Nebot, H. Durrant-Whyte
Pages 68-73
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- John E. Bares, David S. Wettergreen
Pages 74-81
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- David Wettergreen, Maria Bualat, Daniel Christian, Kurt Schwehr, Hans Thomas, Deanne Tucker et al.
Pages 82-89
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- V. Gromov, M. Malenkov, S. Fedoseev, A. Kemurdjian, A. Bogatchev, V. Koutcherenko et al.
Pages 90-95
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- Daniel Christian, David Wettergreen, Maria Bualat, Kurt Schwehr, Deanne Tucker, Eric Zbinden
Pages 96-103
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- Raja Chatila, Simon Lacroix
Pages 104-111
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- Tomoko Shiwa, Kazuya Yoshida
Pages 112-117
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- Hiroshi Ishiguro, Katsumi Kimoto
Pages 118-123
About this book
Joe Engelberger, the pioneer of the robotics industry, wrote in his 1989 book Robotics in Service that the inspiration to write his book came as a reaction to an industry-sponsored forecast study of robot applications, which predicted that in 1995 applications of robotics outside factories - the traditional domain of industrial robots - would amount to less than 1% of total sales. Engelberger believed that this forecast was very wrong, and instead predicted that the non-industrial class of robot applications would become the largest class. Engelbergers prediction has yet to come to pass. However, he did correctly foresee the growth in non-traditional applications of robots. Robots are now beginning to march from the factories and into field and service applications. This book presents a selection of papers from the first major international conference dedicated to field and service applications of robotics. This selection includes papers from the leading research laboratories in the world together with papers from companies that are building and selling new and innovative robotic technology. It describes interesting aspects of robots in the field ranging from mining, agriculture, construction, cargo handling, subsea operations, removal of landmines, to terrestrial exploration. It also covers a diverse range of service applications, such as cleaning, propagating plants and aiding the elderly and handicapped, and gives considerable attention to the technology required to realise robust, reliable and safe robots.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Systems Engineering, Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Alexander Zelinsky
