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Making Robots Smarter

Combining Sensing and Action Through Robot Learning

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  • © 1999

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Editors:
  1. Katharina Morik

    1. Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

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  2. Michael Kaiser

    1. ABB Turbosystems AG, Baden, Switzerland

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  3. Volker Klingspor

    1. SerCon — IBM Deutschland GmbH, Dortmund, Germany

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Learning in Execution and Control

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction to Skill Learning

      • M. Kaiser, R. Dillmann
      Pages 3-16

    3. Learning Function Approximators

      • C. Baroglio, A. Giordana, R. Piola
      Pages 17-44

    4. Learning Sensor Assisted Assembly Operations

      • M. Nuttin, H. Van Brussel
      Pages 45-52

    5. Learning and Re-Calibration in Flexible Assembly

      • M. Nuttin, H. Van Brussel
      Pages 53-64

    6. Contact Estimation for Compliant Motion Control

      • R. Suárez, L. Basañez, J. Rosell
      Pages 65-84

    7. Learning Sensor-Based Navigation

      • J. del R. Millán, C. Torras
      Pages 85-107

    8. Learning to Control a Visual Sensing System

      • M. Accame
      Pages 109-125

  3. Learning for Human-Robot Interaction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
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    2. Learning In Human-Robot Communication

      • M. Kaiser, H. Friedrich, V. Klingspor, K. Morik
      Pages 129-136

    3. Learning To Classify

      • T. Rauber, M. Barata
      Pages 137-160

    4. Learning a Taxonomy of Failures in Assembly

      • L. Seabra Lopes, L. Camarinha-Matos
      Pages 161-184

    5. Incremental Signal to Symbol Processing

      • K. Morik, S. Wessel
      Pages 185-198

    6. Learning Understandable Concepts for Robot Navigation

      • V. Klingspor, K. Morik
      Pages 199-224

    7. Program Optimization for Real-Time Performance

      • A. Rieger, V. Klingspor
      Pages 225-240

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 241-271
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About this book

Making Robots Smarter is a book about learning robots. It treats this topic based on the idea that the integration of sensing and action is the central issue. In the first part of the book, aspects of learning in execution and control are discussed. Methods for the automatic synthesis of controllers, for active sensing, for learning to enhance assembly, and for learning sensor-based navigation are presented. Since robots are not isolated but should serve us, the second part of the book discusses learning for human-robot interaction. Methods of learning understandable concepts for assembly, monitoring, and navigation are described as well as optimizing the implementation of such understandable concepts for a robot's real-time performance.
In terms of the study of embodied intelligence, Making Robots Smarter asks how skills are acquired and where capabilities of execution and control come from. Can they be learned from examples or experience? What is the role of communication in the learning procedure? Whether we name it one way or the other, the methodological challenge is that of integrating learning capabilities into robots.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

    Katharina Morik

  • ABB Turbosystems AG, Baden, Switzerland

    Michael Kaiser

  • SerCon — IBM Deutschland GmbH, Dortmund, Germany

    Volker Klingspor

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Making Robots Smarter

  • Book Subtitle: Combining Sensing and Action Through Robot Learning

  • Editors: Katharina Morik, Michael Kaiser, Volker Klingspor

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5239-0

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1999

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-8562-2Published: 30 June 1999

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-7388-9Published: 12 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-5239-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 271

  • Topics: Artificial Intelligence

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