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• pt. I. Technology. Robust layered control system for a mobile robot
• Robot that walks: emergent behaviors from a carefully evolved network
• Learning a distributed map representation based on navigation behaviors
• New approaches to robotics. pt. II. Philosophy. Intelligence without representation
• Planning is just a way of avoiding figuring out what to do next
• Elephants don't play chess
• Intelligence without reason.

Until the mid-1980s, AI researchers assumed that an intelligent system doing high-level reasoning was necessary for the coupling of perception and action. In this traditional model, cognition mediates between perception and plans of action. Realizing that this core AI, as it was known, was illusory, Rodney A. Brooks turned the field of AI on its head by introducing the behavior-based approach to robotics. The cornerstone of behavior-based robotics is the realization that the coupling of perception and action gives rise to all the power of intelligence and that cognition is only in the eye of an observer. Behavior-based robotics has been the basis of successful applications in entertainment, service industries, agriculture, mining, and the home. It has given rise to both autonomous mobile robots and more recent humanoid robots such as Brooks' Cog. This book represents Brooks' initial formulation of and contributions to the development of the behavior-based approach to robotics. It presents all of the key philosophical and technical ideas that put this "bottom-up" approach at the forefront of current research in not only AI but all of cognitive science.
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• Humanoid Robotics.- Time-Varying Affective Response for Humanoid Robots.- The Co-simulation of Humanoid Robot Based on Solidworks, ADAMS and Simulink.- From RoboNova to HUBO: Platforms for Robot Dance.- BunnyBot: Humanoid Platform for Research and Teaching.- Teen Sized Humanoid Robot: Archie.- Interdisciplinary Construction and Implementation of a Human Sized Humanoid Robot by Master Students.- Human Robot Interaction.- Safety Aspects in a Human-Robot Interaction Scenario: A Human Worker Is Co-operating with an Industrial Robot.- Integration of a RFID System in a Social Robot.- A Practical Study on the Design of a User-Interface Robot Application.- Infrared Remote Control with a Social Robot.- BlogRobot: Mobile Terminal for Blog Browse Using Physical Representation.- An Exploratory Investigation into the Effects of Adaptation in Child-Robot Interaction.- Devious Chatbots - Interactive Malware with a Plot.- Towards Better Human Robot Interaction: Understand Human Computer Interaction in Social Gaming Using a Video-Enhanced Diary Method.- Promotion of Efficient Cooperation by Sharing Environment with an Agent Having a Body in Real World.- Interaction Design for a Pet-Like Remote Control.- Experiences with a Barista Robot, FusionBot.- Mutually Augmented Cognition.- How Humans Optimize Their Interaction with the Environment: The Impact of Action Context on Human Perception.- Development of a Virtual Presence Sharing System Using a Telework Chair.- PLEXIL-DL: Language and Runtime for Context-Aware Robot Behaviour.- Ambient Intelligence in a Smart Home for Energy Efficiency and Eldercare.- Education and Entertainment.- Intelligent Technologies for Edutainment Using Multiple Robots.- Remote Education Based on Robot Edutainment.- Not Just "Teaching Robotics" but "Teaching through Robotics".- A Proposal of Autonomous Robotic Systems Educative Environment.- Mechatronics Education: From Paper Design to Product Prototype Using LEGO NXT Parts.- Fostering Development of Students' Collective and Self-efficacy in Robotics Projects.- From an Idea to a Working Robot Prototype: Distributing Knowledge of Robotics through Science Museum Workshops.- Teaching Electronics through Constructing Sensors and Operating Robots.- Learning from Analogies between Robotic World and Natural Phenomena.- Integrating Robot Design Competitions into the Curriculum and K-12 Outreach Activities.- Teamwork and Robot Competitions in the Undergraduate Program at the Copenhagen University College of Engineering.- Cooperative Robotics.- Multiagents System with Dynamic Box Change for MiroSot.- Multi Block Localization of Multiple Robots.- Soty-Segment: Robust Color Patch Design to Lighting Condition Variation.- Task-Based Flocking Algorithm for Mobile Robot Cooperation.- Analysis of Spatially Limited Local Communication for Multi-Robot Foraging.- AMiRESot - A New Robot Soccer League with Autonomous Miniature Robots.- Robotic System Design.- BeBot: A Modular Mobile Miniature Robot Platform Supporting Hardware Reconfiguration and Multi-standard Communication.- System Design for Semi-automatic AndroSot.- Learning, Optimization, Communication.- Extended TA Algorithm for Adapting a Situation Ontology.- An Integer-Coded Chaotic Particle Swarm Optimization for Traveling Salesman Problem.- USAR Robot Communication Using ZigBee Technology.
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th This volume is an edition of the papers selected from the 12 FIRA RoboWorld C- gress, held in Incheon, Korea, August 16-18, 2009. The Federation of International Robosoccer Association (FIRA - www. fira. net) is a non-profit organization, which organizes robotic competitions and meetings around the globe annually. The RoboSoccer competitions started in 1996 and FIRA was - tablished on June 5, 1997. The Robot Soccer competitions are aimed at promoting the spirit of science and technology to the younger generation. The congress is a forum in which to share ideas and future directions of technologies, and to enlarge the human networks in robotics area. The objectives of the FIRA Cup and Congress are to explore the technical dev- opment and achievement in the field of robotics, and provide participants with a robot festival including technical presentations, robot soccer competitions and exhibits - der the theme "Where Theory and Practice Meet. " th Under the umbrella of the 12 FIRA RoboWorld Incheon Congress 2009, six int- national conferences were held for greater impact and scientific exchange: th * 6 International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems (CIRAS) th * 5 International Symposium on Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment (AMiRE) * International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR) * International Conference on Advanced Humanoid Robotics Research (ICAHRR) * International Conference on Entertainment Robotics (ICER) * International Robotics Education Forum (IREF) This volume consists of selected quality papers from the six conferences.
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• Multi-agent Systems and Distributed Control.- Human-Machine Interaction.- Rehabilitation Robotics.- Industrial Robot and Robot Manufacturing.- Sensors and Actuators.- Robot Grasping and Control.- Mobile Robotics and Path Planning.- Robotic Vision, Recognition and Reconstruction.- Robot Intelligence and Learning.
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The two volume set LNAI 10984 and LNAI 10985 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2018, held in Newcastle, NSW, Australia, in August 2018. The 81 papers presented in the two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 129 submissions. The papers in the first volume of the set are organized in topical sections on multi-agent systems and distributed control; human-machine interaction; rehabilitation robotics; sensors and actuators; and industrial robot and robot manufacturing. The papers in the second volume of the set are organized in topical sections on robot grasping and control; mobile robotics and path planning; robotic vision, recognition and reconstruction; and robot intelligence and learning.
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• Rol based on MATLAB and the real-time controller
• Design and Analysis of Motor Control System for Drilling Fluid Continuous Wave Generator Based on Improved Active Disturbance Rejection Control and Hysteresis Current Control
• Trajectory Planning based on Optimal Control and Exact Derivatives
• Co-simulation Based on ADAMS and Simulink for Direct Yaw Moment Control System of 4WD-EV
• LI Zhanfeng, Du Shuang. Simulation Analysis of PID Closed-Loop Control of Current of SBW
• Characteristic Analysis and Disturbance Control of Hydraulic Transmission System for Driving Torque Extraction Electric Power Generation in Coal Sampling Robot
• Appearance-Based Gaze Tracking: A Brief Review
• Language and Robotics: Complex Sentence Understanding
• Dynamic Motion Planning Algorithm in Human-Robot Collision Avoidance
• Dynamics modeling of a 2-DOFs mechanism with rigid joint and flexible joint
• Haptic Joystick Impedance Control with Gravity Compensation
• Landmark-Based Virtual Path Estimation for Assisted UAV FPV Tele-Operation with Augmented Reality
• Concurrent Probabilistic Motion Primitives for Obstacle Avoidance and Human-Robot Collaboration e System of the Assistive Gait Training Robot
• A Noninvasive Calibration-free and Model-free Surgical Robot for Automatic Fracture Reduction
• Force Modeling of Tool-tissue Interaction Force during Suturing
• Minimally invasive instrument joint design based on variable stiffness of transmission efficiency
• An improved arti cial potential eld method for mobile robots using environmental information
• Towards End-to-End Speech Recognition with Deep Multipath Convolutional Neural Networks
• Robot Intelligent Trajectory Planning based on PCM guided Reinforcement Learning
• Fast Robot Motor Skill Acquisition Based on Bayesian inspired Policy Improvement
• Control of Nameplate Pasting Robot for Sand Mold Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning
• Robot Intelligent Trajectory Planning based on PCM guided Reinforcement Learning
• Way-Point Tracking Control of Underactuated USV Based on GPC Path Planning
• Neural Networks-Based PID Precision Motion Control of a Piezo-Actuated Microinjector
• Force/Motion Hybrid Control of Three Link Constrained Manipulator Using Sliding Mode
• Development of workshop management system for assembly production process
• Dynamic Scheduling of Dual-Resource Constrained Blocking Job Shop
• Study on No-wait Flexible Flow Shop Scheduling with Multi-Objective
• Dynamic Behavior Analysis and Multi-sensor Modal Information Fusion for Robotic Milling System
• Adaptive Impedance Control for Robotic Polishing with an Intelligent Digital Compliant Grinder
• Path Planning of UAV-UGV Heterogeneous Robot System in Road Network
• Automatic programming for dual robots to grinding intersecting curve
• A HoloLens Based Augmented Reality Navigation System for Minimally Invasive Total Knee Arthroplasty
• R-3RPS robot-based mathematical modeling for a military flight simulator
• Innovation Ability Cultivation Quality Evaluation Model of Machinery Postgraduate by Mechatronics Engineering
• DOREP: an educational experiment platform for robot cont.

The volume set LNAI 11740 until LNAI 11745 constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2019, held in Shenyang, China, in August 2019. The total of 378 full and 25 short papers presented in these proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 522 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: collective and social robots; human biomechanics and human-centered robotics; robotics for cell manipulation and characterization; field robots; compliant mechanisms; robotic grasping and manipulation with incomplete information and strong disturbance; human-centered robotics; development of high-performance joint drive for robots; modular robots and other mechatronic systems; compliant manipulation learning and control for lightweight robot. Part II: power-assisted system and control; bio-inspired wall climbing robot; underwater acoustic and optical signal processing for environmental cognition; piezoelectric actuators and micro-nano manipulations; robot vision and scene understanding; visual and motional learning in robotics; signal processing and underwater bionic robots; soft locomotion robot; teleoperation robot; autonomous control of unmanned aircraft systems. Part III: marine bio-inspired robotics and soft robotics: materials, mechanisms, modelling, and control; robot intelligence technologies and system integration; continuum mechanisms and robots; unmanned underwater vehicles; intelligent robots for environment detection or fine manipulation; parallel robotics; human-robot collaboration; swarm intelligence and multi-robot cooperation; adaptive and learning control system; wearable and assistive devices and robots for healthcare; nonlinear systems and control. Part IV: swarm intelligence unmanned system; computational intelligence inspired robot navigation and SLAM; fuzzy modelling for automation, control, and robotics; development of ultra-thin-film, flexible sensor s, and tactile sensation; robotic technology for deep space exploration; wearable sensing based limb motor function rehabilitation; pattern recognition and machine learning; navigation/localization. Part V: robot legged locomotion; advanced measurement and machine vision system; man-machine interactions; fault detection, testing and diagnosis; estimation and identification; mobile robots and intelligent autonomous systems; robotic vision, recognition and reconstruction; robot mechanism and design. Part VI: robot motion analysis and planning; robot design, development and control; medical robot; robot intelligence, learning and linguistics; motion control; computer integrated manufacturing; robot cooperation; virtual and augmented reality; education in mechatronics engineering; robotic drilling and sampling technology; automotive systems; mechatronics in energy systems; human-robot interaction.

• Cognitive Systems Introduction.- Component Science.- Architecture and Representations.- The Sensorimotor Approach in CoSy: The Example of Dimensionality Reduction.- Categorical Perception.- Semantic Modelling of Space.- Planning and Failure Detection.- Multi-modal Learning.- Situated Dialogue Processing for Human-Robot Interaction.- Integration and Systems.- The PlayMate System.- The Explorer System.- Lessons Learnt from Scenario-Based Integration.- Summary and Outlook.- Cross-Disciplinary Reflections: Philosophical Robotics.- Lessons and Outlook.
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Design of cognitive systems for assistance to people poses a major challenge to the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence. The Cognitive Systems for Cognitive Assistance (CoSy) project was organized to address the issues of i) theoretical progress on design of cognitive systems ii) methods for implementation of systems and iii) empirical studies to further understand the use and interaction with such systems. To study, design and deploy cognitive systems there is a need to considers aspects of systems design, embodiment, perception, planning and error recovery, spatial insertion, knowledge acquisition and machine learning, dialog design and human robot interaction and systems integration. The CoSy project addressed all of these aspects over a period of four years and across two different domains of application - exploration of space and task / knowledge acquisition for manipulation. The present volume documents the results of the CoSy project. The CoSy project was funded by the European Commission as part of the Cognitive Systems Program within the 6th Framework Program.
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• Intro; Preface; Organisation; Contents; Circumnutation: From Plants to Robots; 1 Introduction; 2 Continuum and Tendril Robots; 3 Circumnutation with Robot Tendrils; 3.1 Discussion; 4 Conclusions; References; Using Marker-Based Motion Capture to Develop a Head Bobbing Robotic Lizard; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Motion Capture of Animals; 1.2 Head Bobbing in Lizards; 2 Methods; 2.1 Motion Capture; 2.2 Construction of the Robot; 3 Results; 4 Conclusion and Future Work; References; An Architecture for Pattern Recognition and Decision-Making; 1 Introduction; 2 Implementation; 2.1 Condition; 2.2 The Brain

• 3 Experimental Setup3.1 Images; 3.2 Audio Samples; 3.3 Training and Testing; 4 Results and Interpretation; 5 Conclusion; References; Follow Flee: A Contingent Mobility Strategy for the Spatial Prisoner's Dilemma; 1 Introduction; 2 Related Work; 3 Methodology; 3.1 Environment and Agent Representation; 3.2 Movement Strategies; 3.3 Evolutionary Dynamics; 4 Experimental Results; 4.1 Experiment
• 1: Follow Flee and Walk Away vs. Naïve; 4.2 Experiment
• 2: Varying the Evolutionary Dynamics; 4.3 Experiment
• 3: Varying the Density; 4.4 Experiment
• 4: Walk Away vs. Follow Flee; 5 Conclusion; References

• Local Interaction of Agents for Division of Labor in Multi-agent Systems1 Introduction; 2 Social Interaction; 3 Proposed Task Allocation Algorithm; 4 Experiments; 4.1 Task Scenario; 4.2 Simulation Results; 5 Conclusion and Future Work; References; Rational Imitation for Robots; 1 Introduction; 2 The Cost Difference Model; 2.1 Rationale; 2.2 Formalization; 3 Methods; 4 Experiment
• 1: Modelling Experimental Findings; 5 Experiment
• 2: Learning Better Policies; 6 Discussion; References; Modular Neural Control for Object Transportation of a Bio-inspired Hexapod Robot; 1 Introduction

• 2 Modular Neural Control for Object Transportation2.1 Neural Oscillator Network (CPG); 2.2 Phase Switching Network (PSN); 2.3 Velocity Regulating Network (VRN); 2.4 Neural Control Parameters for Different Behavior Modes; 3 Experiments and Results; 4 Conclusion; References; An Adaptive Neural Mechanism with a Lizard Ear Model for Binaural Acoustic Tracking; 1 Introduction; 2 Background; 2.1 Lizard Peripheral Auditory System Model; 2.2 Input Correlation (ICO) Learning; 3 Materials and Methods; 3.1 The Adaptive Neural Architecture; 3.2 The Experimental Setup; 4 Results and Discussion

• 5 Conclusions and Future DirectionsReferences; Artificial Neural Network Based Compliant Control for Robot Arms; 1 Introduction; 2 Robot Arm Model; 3 Artificial Neural Network Based Compliant Control; 4 Simulation Results; 5 Conclusions; References; UESMANN: A Feed-Forward Network Capable of Learning Multiple Functions; 1 Background; 2 Motivation; 3 The UESMANN-BP Algorithm; 4 Methodology; 5 Experimental Results; 5.1 Logical Connectives; 6 The MNIST Database; 7 Training at Intermediate Modulation Values; 8 Conclusions and Further Work; References

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2016, held in Aberystwyth, UK, in August 2016. The 31 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. They cover the main areas in animat research, including the animat approach and methodology, perception and motor control, learning and adaptation, evolution, and collective and social behavior.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2018, held in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, in August 2018.The 21 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions. They cover the main areas in animat research, including the animat approach and methodology, perception and motor control, action selection and navigation, learning and adaptation, and collective and social behavior.
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• Online Learning of Human Navigational Intentions.- Autonomous Assistance Control based on Inattention of the Driver when Driving a Truck Tract.- The Robotic Archetype: Character Animation and Social Robotics.- A proposed Wizard of OZ architecture for a Human-Robot Collaborative drawing task.- Factors and Development of Cognitive and Affective Trust on Social Robots.- Smiles of Children with ASD May Facilitate Helping Behaviors to the Robot.- If drones could see: investigating evaluations of a drone with eyes.- Validation of the Design of a Robot to Study the Thermo-Emotional Expression.- Training Autistic Children on Joint Attention Skills with a Robot.- Robotic Understanding of Scene Contents and Spatial Constraints.- Social Robots and Wearable Sensors for Mitigating Meltdowns in Autism - A Pilot Test.- Autonomous Control through the Level of Fatigue Applied to the Control of Autonomous Vehicles.- Dialogue Models for Socially Intelligent Robots.- Composable Multimodal Dialogues based on Communicative Acts.- How Should a Robot Interrupt a Conversation between Multiple Humans.- Grasping novel objects with real-time obstacle avoidance.- Augmenting Robot Knowledge Consultants with Distributed Short Term Memory.- 3D Virtual Path Planning for People with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis through Standing Wheelchair.- Physiological differences depending on task performed in a 5-day interaction scenario designed for the elderly: a pilot study.- Character Design and Validation on Aerial Robotic Platforms Using Laban Movement Analysis.- Social Robots in Public Spaces: A Meta-Review.- On the Design of a Full-actuated Robot Hand with Target Sensing Self-adaption and Slider Crank Mechanism.- Towards Dialogue-based Navigation with Multivariate Adaptation driven by Intention and Politeness for Social Robots.- Design and Implementation of Shoulder Exoskeleton Robot.- Cooperative Control of Sliding Mode for Multi-Mobile Manipulators.- When Should a Robot Apologize? Understanding how Timing Affects Human-Robot Trust Repair.- "Let There be Intelligence!"- A Novel Cognitive Architecture for Teaching Assistant Social Robots.- Virtual Social Toys: A Novel Concept to Bring Inanimate Dolls to Life
• Modular Robotic System for Nuclear Decommissioning.- A new model to enhance robot-patient communication: Applying insights from the medical world
• Towards Crossmodal Learning for SmoothMultimodal Attention Orientation.- A Two-step Framework for Novelty Detection in Activities of Daily Living.- Design of Robotic System for the Mannequin-Based Disinfection Training.- Learning to Win Games in a Few Examples: Using Game-Theory and Demonstrations to Learn the Win Conditions of a Connect Four Game.- Semantics Comprehension of Entities in Dictionary Corpora for Robot Scene Understanding.- The CPS-triangle: a suggested framework for evaluating robots in relation to everyday life.- Feature-based Monocular Dynamic 3D Object Reconstruction.- Adaptive Control of Human-interacted Mobile Robots with Velocity Constraint.- Attributing human-likeness to an avatar: the role of time and space in the perception of biological motion.- Dancing Droids: An Expressive Layer for Mobile Robots Developed Within Choreographic Practice.- Semantic-based interaction for teaching robot behavior compositions using spoken language.- Comfortable Passing Distances for Robots.- Reduced Sense of Agency in Human-Robot interaction.- Comparing the Effects of Social Robots and Virtual Agents on Exercising Motivation.- The Relevance of Social Cues in Assistive Training with a Social Robot.- Attitudes of Heads of Education and Directors of Research towards the Need for Social Robotics Education in Universities
• Coordinated and Cooperative Control of Heterogeneous Mobile Manipulators.- Robotic Healthcare Service System to Serve Multiple Patients with Multiple Robots.- Perception of Control in Artificial and Human Systems: A Study of Embodied Performance Interactions.- A Robotic Brush with Surface Tracing Motion Applied to the Face.- MagicHand: In-Hand Perception of Object Characteristics for Dexterous Manipulation.- Robots and Human Touch in Care: Desirable and Non-Desirable Robot Assistance.- The Effects of Gaze Following Behaviours of Driving Agents on Human-Autonomous Car Interaction.- Virtual Reality Social Robot Platform: A Case Study on Arash Social Robot.- Novel Siamese Robot Platform for Multi-Human Robot Interaction.- An Attention-aware Model for Human Action Recognition on Tree-based Skeleton Sequences.- Predicting the Target in Human-Robot Manipulation Tasks.- Imitating Human Movement Using a Measure of Verticality to Animate Low Degree-of-Freedom Non-humanoid Virtual Characters.- Adaptive Neural Control for Robotic Manipulators Under Constrained Task Space.- Multi-pose face registration method for social robot.
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2018, held in Qingdao, China, in November 2018.The 60 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. The theme of the 2018 conference is: Social Robotics and AI. In addition to the technical sessions, ICSR 2018 included 2 workshops:Smart Sensing Systems: Towards Safe Navigation and Social Human-Robot Interaction of Service Robots.
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• Learning robot navigation behaviors by demonstration using a RRT* planner.- Adaptive Robot Assisted Therapy using Interactive Reinforcement Learning.- Personalization Framework for Adaptive Robotic Feeding Assistance.- A Framework for Modelling Local Human-Robot Interactions based on unsupervised learning.- Using Games to Learn Games: Game Theory Representations as a source for Guided Social Learning .- User Evaluation of an Interactive Learning Framework for Single-Arm and Dual-Arm Robots.- Formalizing Normative Robot Behavior.- Decision-Theoretic Human-Robot Interaction: Designing Reasonable and Rational Robot Behavior.- Physiologically Inspired Blinking Behavior for a Humanoid Robot.- Infinite personality space for non-fungible robots.- Investigating the Differences in Effects of the Persuasive Message's Timing During Science Learning to Overcome the Cognitive Dissonance.- Investigating the Effects of the Persuasive Source's Social Agency Level and the Student's Profile to Overcome the Cognitive Dissonance.- Responsive Social Agents
• Feedback-sensitive behavior generation for social interactions.- A Human-Robot Competition: Towards Evaluating Robots' Reasoning Abilities for HRI.- The Effects of Cognitive Biases in Long-term Human-Robot Interactions: Case Studies using three Cognitive Biases on MARC the Humanoid Robot.- Ethical Decision Making in Robots: Autonomy, Trust and Responsibility.- How Facial Expressions and Small Talk May Influence Trust in a Robot.- A Study on Trust in a Robotic Suitcase.- How Much Should a Robot Trust the User Feedback? Analyzing the Impact of Verbal Answers in Active Learning.- Recommender Interfaces: the More Human-like, the More Humans Like.- Designing a Social Robot to Assist in Medication Sorting.- Other-oriented Robot Deception: How can a robot's deceptive feedback help humans in HRI?.- Ethically-Guided Emotional Responses for Social Robots : Should I be Angry?.- Interactive Navigation of Mobile Robots Based on Human's Emotion.- Social Human-Robot Interaction: a new Cognitive and Affective Interaction-Oriented Architecture.- MuDERI: Multimodal Database for Emotion Recognition among Intellectually Disabled Individuals.- "How is his/her mood": A Question that a Companion Robot may be able to answer.- Emotion in Robots Using Convolutional Neural Networks.- Rhythmic Timing in Playful Human-Robot Social Motor Coordination.- The effects of an impolite vs. a polite robot playing rock-paper-scissors.- Qualitative User Reactions to a Hand-Clapping Humanoid Robot.- Nonlinear Controller of Arachnid Mechanism Based on Theo Jansen.- Designing and Assessing Expressive Open-Source Faces for the Baxter Robot.- Spontaneous Human-Robot Emotional Interaction through Facial Expressions.- Functional and Non-Functional Expressive Dimensions: Classification of the Expressiveness of Humanoid Robots.- Facing Emotional Reactions Towards a Robot - An Experimental Study Using FACS.- Head and Face Design for a new Humanoid Service Robot .- The Influence of Robot Appearance and Interactive Ability in HRI: A Cross-Cultural Study.- Congruency matters - How ambiguous gender cues increase a robot's uncanniness.- Collaborative Visual Object Tracking via Hierarchical Structure.- Data Augmentation for Object Recognition of Dynamic Learning Robot.- Rotational Coordinate Transformation for Visual-Inertial Sensor Fusion.- Developing an Interactive Gaze Algorithm for Android Robots.- Recovery Behavior of Artificial Skin Materials after Object Contact.- One-shot evaluation of the control interface of a robotic arm by non-experts.- A Novel Parallel Pinching and Self-adaptive Grasping Robotic Hand.- PCSS Hand: An Underactuated Robotic Hand with a Novel Parallel-Coupled Switchable Self-adaptive Grasp.- JLST Hand: A Novel Powerful Self-Adaptive Underactuated Hand with Joint-Locking and Spring-Tendon Mechanisms.- Path Analysis for the Halo Effect of Touch Sensations of Robots on Their Personality Impressions.- A Human-robot speech interface for an autonomous marine teammate.- Annotation of Utterances for Conversational Nonverbal Behaviors.- Identifying Engagement from Joint Kinematics Data for Robot Therapy Prompt Interventions for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.- Social Robots and Teaching Music to Autistic Children: Myth or Reality?.- Development of an ABA Autism Intervention Delivered by a Humanoid Robot.- Interactive Therapy Approach through Collaborative Physical Play between a Socially Assistive Humanoid Robot and Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.- Examine the Potential of Robots to Teach Autistic Children Emotional Concepts: A Preliminary Study.- Longitudinal Impact of Autonomous Robot-mediated Joint Attention Intervention for Young Children with ASD.- Culture as a Driver for the Design of Social Robots for Autism Spectrum Disorder Interventions in the Middle East.- Robo2Box: A Toolkit to Elicit Children's Design Requirements for Classroom Robots.- Interaction with Artificial Companions: Presentation of an Exploratory Study .- Design and Development of Dew: An Emotional Social-Interactive Robot.- RASA: A Low-Cost Upper-Torso Social Robot Acting as a Sign Language Teaching Assistant.- Robust Children Behavior Tracking for Childcare Assisting Robot By Using Multiple Kinect Sensors.- Learning with or from the Robot: Exploring Robot Roles in Educational Context with Children.- Automatic Adaptation of Online Language Lessons for Robot Tutoring.- Robots in the Classroom: What Teachers Think about Teaching and Learning with Education Robots.- The Influence of a Social Robot's Persona on how it is Perceived and Accepted by Elderly Users.- From Social Practices to Social Robots - User-Driven Robot Development in Elder Care.- Co-design and robots: a case study of a robot dog for aging people.- An Effort to Develop a Web-Based approach to Assess the Need for Robots Among the Elderly.- Predicting the intention of human activities for real-time human-robot interaction (HRI).- The ENRICHME Project: Lessons Learnt from a First Interaction with the Elderly.- Design and Implementation of a Task-oriented Robot for Power Substation.- The MuMMER project: Engaging human-robot interaction in real-world public spaces.- Introducing IOmi - A Female Robot Hostess for Guidance in a University Environment.- Colleague or Tool?: Interactivity Increases Positive Perceptions of and Willingness to Interact With a Robotic Co-Worker.- Help Me! Sharing of Instructions Between Remote and Heterogeneous Robots.- Enabling Symbiotic Autonomy in Short-Term Interactions: a User Study.- Conceptual framework for RoboDoc: A New Social Robot for Research Assistantship.- Mechanical design of Christine, the friendly social robot for the service industry.- Influence of user's personality on task execution when reminded by a robot.- Comparing Ways to Trigger Migration between a Robot and a Virtually Embodied Character.- Does the Safety Demand Characteristic Influence Human-Robot Interaction?.- On Designing Socially Acceptable Reward Shaping.- Motivational Effects of Acknowledging Feedback from a Socially Assistive Robot.- Who am I? What are You? Identity Construction in Encounters between a Teleoperated Robot and People with Acquired Brain Injury .- Contribution towards Evaluating the Practicability of Socially Assistive Robots - by Example of a Mobile Walking Coach Robot.- Philosophy of Social Robotics: Abundance Economics.- Toward a Hybrid Society: The transformation of robots, from objects to social agents .- Iterative Design of a System for Programming Socially Interactive Service Robots.- Engagement Detection During Deictic References In Human Robot Interaction.- Making Turn-taking Decisions for an Active Listening Robot for Memory Training.- Look at me now: Investigating delayed disengagement for ambiguous human-robot stimuli.- Concurrency Simulation in Soccer.- Let the User Decide! User Preferences regarding Functions, Apps, and Interfaces of a Smart Home and a Service Robot.- Welcome to the Future - How Naive Users Intuitively Address an intelligent Robotics Apartment.- Better than Human: About the Psychological Superpowers of Robots .- A Method for Establishing Correspondences between Hand-Drawn and Sensor-Generated Maps.
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2016, held in Kansas City, MO, USA, in November 2016. The 98 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 107 submissions. The theme of the 2016 conference is Sociorobotics: Design and implementation of social behaviors of robots interacting with each other and humans. In addition to technical sessions, ICSR 2016 included three workshops: The Synthetic Method in Social Robotics (SMSR 2016), Social Robots: A Tool to Advance Interventions for Autism, and Using Social Robots to Improve the Quality of Life in the Elderly.
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• Learning Affordances for Assistive Robots.- Initial Design, Implementation and Technical Evaluation of a Context-aware Proxemics Planner for a Social Robot.- An Image based Non-verbal Behaviour analysis of HRI.- Do Social Rewards from Robots Enhance Offline Improvements in Motor Skills?.- How the Timing and Magnitude of Robot Errors Influence Peoples' Trust of Robots in an Emergency Scenarios.- The Iterative Development of the Humanoid Robot Kaspar: An Assistive Robot for Children with Autism.- The Interaction Between Voice and Appearance in the Embodiment of a Robot Tutor.- Shape It - The Influence of Robot Body Shape on Gender Perception in Robots.- A Telepresence Robot in Residential Care: Family Increasingly Present, Personnel Worried about Privacy.- Influence of Robot's Interaction Style on Performance in a Stroop Task.- `Autistic Robots' for Embodied Emulation of Behaviors Typically Seen in Children with Different Autism Severities.- Learning Relationships between Objects and Places by Multimodal Spatial Concept with Bag of Objects.- There once was a Robot Storyteller: Measuring the Effects of Emotion and non-verbal Behaviour.- Field testing of the influence of assistive wear on the physical fitness of nursing-care workers.- Developing Interaction Scenarios with a Humanoid Robot to Encourage Visual Perspective Taking Skills in Children with Autism - Preliminary Proof of Concept Tests.- Human-like Hand Reaching by Motion Prediction using Long Short-Term Memory.- User's Personality and Activity Influence on HRI Comfortable Distances.- A Need for Service Robots among Health Care Professionals in Hospitals and Housing Services.- Do you think I approve of that? Designing facial expressions for a robot.- Robotic Device to Mediate Human-Human Hug-Driven Remote Communication.- RoMa: A Hi-tech Robotic Mannequin for the Fashion Industry.- Walk the talk: Gestures in mobile interaction.- Gaze Behavioral Adaptation towards Group Members for Providing Effective Recommendations.- Subtle Reaction and Response Time Effects in Human-Robot Touch Interaction.- Young EFL learners' attitude towards RALL: an observational study focusing on motivation, anxiety, and interaction.- Design of a Cloud-Based Robotic Platform for Accompanying and Interacting with Humans.- Influence of Environmental Context on Recognition Rates.- Creating lively behaviors in social robots.- What Went Wrong and Why? Diagnosing Situated Interaction Failures in the Wild.- Toward 3D Printed Prosthetic Hands that can Satisfy Psychosocial Needs: Grasping Force Comparisons between a Prosthetic Hand and Human Hands.- Integrating a Humanoid Robot into ECHONET-based Smart Home Environments.- A Robot that Encourages Self-Disclosure by Hug.- Hand Gestures and Verbal Acknowledgments Improve Human-Robot Rapport.- Do Audio-Visual Stimuli Change Hug Impressions?.- Impact of Tutoring Strategies in Grounded Lexicon Learning.- Yes, Of Course? An Investigation on Obedience and Feelings of Shame towards a Robot.- Dance with me! Child-robot interaction in the wild.- Rethinking the Why of Socially Assistive Robotics through Design.- Role-oriented Designing: A Methodology to Designing for Appearance and Interaction Ways of Customized Professional Social Robots
• Exploring Users' Reactions Towards Tangible Implicit Probes for Measuring Human-Robot Engagement.- Gaze-Based Hints During Child - Robot GamePlay.- Gender Difference in Expectation for Domestic Robots: A Survey in Japan.- Motor Actions Predictions and Controls for the NAO Robot when Playing Hand Clapping Games.- The importance of mutual gaze in human-robot interaction.- About Decisions During Human-Robot Shared Plan Achievement: Who Should Act and How?.- Improving User's Performance by Motivation: Matching Robot Interaction Strategy with User's Regulatory State.- Social group motion in robots.- Shopping Mall Robots - Opportunities and Constraints from the Retailer and Manager Perspective.- Dynamic Gesture Recognition for Social Robots.- Embodiment, Privacy and Social Robots: May I remember you?.- A TV Chat Robot with Time-Shifting Function for Daily-Use Communication.- Naturalistic Conversational Gaze Control for Humanoid Robots - A First Step.- Design and Implementation of a Device Management System for Healthcare Assistive Robots: Sensor Manager System Version 2.- Dialogue Design for a Robot-Based Face-Mirroring Game to Engage Autistic Children with Emotional Expressions.- Look but Don't Stare: Mutual Gaze Interaction in Social Robots.- Recognition of Gestural Behaviors Expressed by a Humanoid Robotic Platform for Teaching Affect Recognition to Children with Autism - A Healthy Subjects Pilot Study.- A Visual Environment for Reactive Robot Programming of Macro-level Behaviors.- Hand in Hand with Robots: Differences between Experienced and Naive Users in Human-Robot Handover Scenarios.- Subjective Stress in Hybrid Collaboration.- Development of Control Mechanism for Safety Enhancement in Bilateral Control Robot Applications.- Understanding anthropomorphism: Anthropomorphism is not a reverse process of dehumanization.- An Evaluation Tool of the Effect of Robots in Eldercare on the Sense of Safety and Security.- Becoming Real: An Anthropological Approach to Evaluating Robots in the Real World.- Human Perceptions of the Severity of Domestic Robot Errors.- What Can We Learn from the Long-Term Users of a Social Robot?.- Adaptive Emotional Chatting Behavior to Increase the Sociability of Robots.- Measuring Children's Perceptions of Robots' Social Competence: Design and Validation.- Rule Extraction Method Considering Reliability for Synchronized Behavior of Group Robots in Multi-party Conversations.- Omnidirectional Traveling Instruction for Behavior Navigation.- News Application Adaptation based on User Sensory Profile.- Robot Compliant Behaviour with Mixed-Initiative Interaction in an Obstacle Avoidance Scenario.- "Xylotism": A Tablet-Based Application to Teach Music to Children with Autism.- Starting a Conversation by Multi-Robot Cooperative Behavior.- Adaptive Strategies for Multi-Party Interactions with Robots in Public Spaces.
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2016, held in Tsukuba, Japan, in November 2017.The 74 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 110 submissions. The theme of the 2017 conference is: Embodied Interactive Robots. In addition to the technical sessions, ICSR 2017 included four workshops: 1) Social Robot Intelligence for Social Human-Robot Interaction of Service Robots; 2) Human Safety and Comfort in Human-Robot Interactive Social Environments; 3) Modes of Interaction for Social Robots (MISR 2017): Postures, Gestures and Microinteractions; and 4) Religion in Robotics.
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• Locomotion.- Haptics.- Manipulation.- Perception.- Human-Robot Interaction.- Mapping and Localization.- Mechanisms.- Perception and Planning.- Sensor Networks.- Many-Robot Systems.- Interactive Presentations.- Plenary Talk.
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The International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER) is a series of bi-annual meetings which are organized in a rotating fashion around North America, Europe and Asia/Oceania. The goal of ISER is to provide a forum for research in robotics that focuses on novelty of theoretical contributions validated by experimental results. The meetings are conceived to bring together, in a small group setting, researchers from around the world who are in the forefront of experimental robotics research. This unique reference presents the latest advances across the various fields of robotics, with ideas that are not only conceived conceptually but also explored experimentally. It collects robotics contributions on the current developments and new directions in the field of experimental robotics, which are based on the papers presented at the 14th ISER held on June 15-18, 2014 in Marrakech and Essaouira, Morocco. This present fourteenth edition of Experimental Robotics edited by M. Ani Hsieh, Oussama Khatib, and Vijay Kumar offers a collection of a broad range of topics in field and human-ce ntered robotics.
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• Aerial Vehicles progress On Pico Air Vehicles.- Perception and Mapping.- Planning.- Systems and Integration.- Control.
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This volume presents a collection of papers presented at the 15th International Symposium of Robotic Research (ISRR). ISRR is the biennial meeting of the International Foundation of Robotic Research (IFRR) and its 15th edition took place in Flagstaff, Arizona on December 9 to December 12, 2011. As for the previous symposia, ISRR 2011 followed up on the successful concept of a mixture of invited contributions and open submissions. Therefore approximately half of the 37 contributions were invited contributions from outstanding researchers selected by the IFRR officers and the program committee, and the other half were chosen among the open submissions after peer review. This selection process resulted in a truly excellent technical program which featured some of the very best of robotic research. The program was organized around oral presentation in a single-track format and included for the first time a small number of interactive presentations. The symposium contributions contained in this volume report on a variety of new robotics research results covering a broad spectrum including perception, manipulation, grasping, vehicles and design, navigation, control and integration, estimation and SLAM. .
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• Efficient Multi-Robot Motion Planning for Unlabeled Discs in Simple Polygons.- Navigation of Distinct Euclidean Particles via Hierarchical Clustering.- Coalition Formation Games for Dynamic Multirobot Tasks.- Active Control Strategies for Discovering And Localizing Devices with Range-Only Sensors.- Aggressive Moving Obstacle Avoidance Using a Stochastic Reachable Set Based Potential Field.- Distributed Range-Based Relative Localization of Robot.- Computing Large Convex Regions of Obstacle-Free Space through Semidefinite Programming.- A Region-Based Strategy for Collaborative Roadmap Construction.- Efficient Sampling-based Approaches to Optimal Path Planning in Complex Cost Spaces.- Real-Time Predictive Modeling and Robust Avoidance of Pedestrians with Uncertain, Changing Intentions.- FFRob: An efficient heuristic for task and motion planning.- Fast Nearest Neighbor Search in SE(3) for Sampling-Based Motion Planning.- Trackability with Imprecise Localization.- Kinodynamic RRTs with Fixed Time Step and Best-Input Extension are not Probabilistically Complete.-Featureless Motion Vector-based Simultaneous Localization, Planar Surface Extraction, and Moving Obstacle Tracking.- Sparse Methods for Efficient Asymptotically Optimal KinodynamicPlanning.- Adaptive Informative Path Planning in Metric Spaces.- The Feasible Transition Graph: Encoding Topology and Manipulation Constraints for Multirobot Push-Planning.- Predict Collision Among Rigid and Articulated Obstacles with Unknown Motion.- Asymptotically Optimal Stochastic Motion Planning with Temporal Goals.- Resolution-Exact Algorithms for Link Robots.- Optimal Trajectories for Planar Rigid Bodies with Switching Costs.- Maximum-Reward Motion in a Stochastic Environment: The Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics Perspective.- Optimal Path Planning in Cooperative Heterogeneous Multi-robot Delivery Systems.- Composing Dynamical Systems to Realize Dynamic Robotic Dancing.-The Lion and Man Game on Convex Terrains.- RRT-X: Real-Time Motion Planning/Replanning for Environments with Unpredictable Obstacles.- Orienting Parts with Shape Variation.- Smooth and Dynamically Stable Navigation of Multiple Human-Like Robots.- Scaling up Gaussian Belief Space Planning through Covariance-Free Trajectory Optimization and Automatic Differentiation.- Planning Curvature and Torsion Constrained Ribbons in 3D with Application to Intracavitary Brachytherapy.- A Quadratic Programming Approach to Quasi-Static Whole-Body Manipulation.- On-Line Coverage of Planar Environments by a Battery Powered Autonomous Mobile Robot.- Finding a needle in an exponential haystack: Discrete RRT for Exploration of Implicit Roadmaps in Multi-Robot Motion Planning.- Stochastic Extended LQR: Optimization-Based Motion Planning Under Uncertainty.- An Approximation Algorithm for Time Optimal Multi-Robot Routing Decidability of Robot Manipulation Planning: Three Disks in the Plane.- A Topological Perspective on Cycling Robots for Full Tree Coverage.- Towards arranging and tightening knots and unknots with fixtures.- Asymptotically Optimal Feedback Planning: FMM Meets Adaptive Mesh Refinement.- Online Task Planning and Control for Aerial Robots with Fuel Constraints in Winds.-Pebble Motion on Graphs with Rotations: Efficient Feasibility Tests and Planning Algorithms.
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This carefully edited volume is the outcome of the eleventh edition of the Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR), which is the premier venue showcasing cutting edge research in algorithmic robotics. The eleventh WAFR, which was held August 3-5, 2014 at Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey continued this tradition. This volume contains extended versions of the 42 papers presented at WAFR. These contributions highlight the cutting edge research in classical robotics problems (e.g. manipulation, motion, path, multi-robot and kinodynamic planning), geometric and topological computation in robotics as well novel applications such as informative path planning, active sensing and surgical planning. This book - rich by topics and authoritative contributors - is a unique reference on the current developments and new directions in the field of algorithmic foundations.
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• Part I Global Robot Path Planning
• 1.
• Introduction to Mobile Robot Path Planning
• 2.
• Background on Artificial Intelligence Algorithms for Global Path Planning
• 3.
• Design and Evaluation of Intelligent Global Path Planning Algorithms 4.
• Integration of Global Path Planners in ROS
• 5.
• Robot Path Planning using Cloud Computing for Large Grid Maps
• Part II Multi-Robot Task Allocation
• 6.
• General Background on Multi-Robot Task Allocation
• 7.
• Different Approaches to Solve the MRTA Problem
• 8.
• Performance Analysis of the MRTA Approaches for Autonomous Mobile Robot .
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This book presents extensive research on two main problems in robotics: the path planning problem and the multi-robot task allocation problem. It is the first book to provide a comprehensive solution for using these techniques in large-scale environments containing randomly scattered obstacles. The research conducted resulted in tangible results both in theory and in practice. For path planning, new algorithms for large-scale problems are devised and implemented and integrated into the Robot Operating System (ROS). The book also discusses the parallelism advantage of cloud computing techniques to solve the path planning problem, and, for multi-robot task allocation, it addresses the task assignment problem and the multiple traveling salesman problem for mobile robots applications. In addition, four new algorithms have been devised to investigate the cooperation issues with extensive simulations and comparative performance evaluation. The algorithms are implemented and simulated in MATLAB and Webots.
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• 1. Introduction
• 2. Clusters and robots
• 3. Cluster programming
• 4. Robot motion
• 5. Sensors
• 6. Mapping and localization
• 7. Vision and tracking
• 8. Learning landmarks
• 9. Robot architectures
• Appendix I: Summary of OpenMPI man page for mpirun
• Appendix II: MPI datatypes
• Appendix III: MPI reduction operations
• Appendix IV: MPI application programmer interface.

In this book, we look at how cluster technology can be leveraged to build better robots. Algorithms and approaches in key areas of robotics and computer vision, such as map building, target tracking, action selection and landmark learning, are reviewed and cluster implementations for these are presented.The objective of the book is to give professionals working in the beowulf cluster or robotics and computer vision fields a concrete view of the strong synergy between the areas as well as to spur further fruitful exploitation of this connection. The book is written at a level appropriate for an advanced undergraduate or graduate student. The key concepts in robotics, computer vision and cluster computing are introduced before being used to make the text useful to a wide audience in these fields.
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• Part 1: Preparing for the Future of Work
• Chapter 1: Will Robots Replace You?
• Chapter 2: Technology Definitions
• Part 2: Robots are Working
• Chapter 3: Robotic Process Automation
• Chapter 4: Robots in Teams
• Chapter 5: Robots Without Arms
• Part 3: Making Sense for Robots and Society
• Chapter 6: Robots in a World of Data
• Chapter 7: Robots in Society
• Chapter 8: Work in the Future.

Understand the current and future research into technologies that underpin the increasing capabilities of automation technologies and their impact on the working world of the future. Rapid advances in automation and robotics technologies are often reported in the trade and general media, often relying on scary headlines such as "Jobs Lost to Robots." It is certainly true that work will change with the advent of smarter and faster automated workers; however, the scope and scale of the changes is still unknown. Automation may seem to be here already, but we are only at the early stages. Automation and Collaborative Robotics explores the output of current research projects that are improving the building blocks of an automated world. Research into collaborative robotics (cobotics) is merging digital, audio, and visual data to generate a commonly held view between cobots and their human collaborators. Low-power machine learning at the edge of the network can deliver decision making on cobots or to their manipulations. Topics covered in this book include: Robotic process automation, chatbots, and their impact in the near future The hype of automation and headlines leading to concerns over the future of work Component technologies that are still in the research labs Foundational technologies and collaboration that will enable many tasks to be automated with human workers being re-skilled and displaced rather than replaced What You Will Learn Be aware of the technologies currently being researched to improve or deliver automation Understand the impact of robotics, other automation technologies, and the impact of AI on automation Get an idea of how far we are from implementation of an automated future Know what work will look like in the future with the deployment of these technologies Who This Book Is For Technical and business managers interested in the future of automation and robotics, and the impact it will have on their organizations, customers, and the business world in general.
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• Current research in the field of robotics
• Educational activities in the field of robotics
• Interaction between robots and humans.

This book includes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 18th Annual RoboCup International Symposium, held in Joao Pessoa, Brazil, in July 2014. The 36 revised papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 submis-sions and include 11 champion-team papers, three special-track papers on open-source hardware and software, nine papers on the advancement of the RoboCup leagues track, and three best papers. The contributions present current research and educational activities in the field of robotics and artificial intelligence with a special focus on the interaction between robots and humans.

• Robotics.- Artificial intelligence.- Environment perception.- State estimation.- Pattern recognition.- Sensor fusion.- Action planning.- Control theory.- Robot learning.- Human-robot interaction.- Multi-agent systems.- Simultaneous localization and mapping.- Object manipulation.- Locomotion.- RoboCup.- Robot competition. .
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This book includes the post-conference proceedings of the 20th RoboCup International Symposium, held in Leipzig, Germany, in July 2016. In addition to the 38 contributions to the symposium, selected from 63 submissions, the book also contains 15 champion papers of teams winning individual leagues of the RoboCup 2016 competition, the Amazon Picking Challenge, and the Harting Open Source Award. The papers present current research in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence with a special focus to robot hardware and software, environment perception, action planning and control, robot learning, multi-robot systems, and human-robot interaction.
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• Communication in Soccer Simulation: On the Use of Wiretapping Opponent Teams.- Multi-Robot Fast-Paced Coordination With Leader Election.- Visual SLAM-Based Localization and Navigation for Service Robots: The Pepper Case.- Visual Mesh: Real-time Object Detection Using Constant Sample Density.- Fast Multi-Scale fHOG Feature Extraction Using Histogram Downsampling.- Combining Simulations and Real-Robot Experiments for Bayesian Optimization of Bipedal Gait Stabilization.- Learning Skills for Small Size League RoboCup.- Real-time Scene Understanding Using Deep Neural Networks for RoboCup SPL.- Training a RoboCup Striker Agent via Transferred Reinforcement Learning.- Playing Soccer Without Colors in the SPL: A Convolutional Neural Network.- End-to-End Deep Imitation Learning: Robot Soccer Case Study.- Designing Convolutional Neural Networks Using a Genetic Approach for Ball Detection.- ImageTagger: An Open Source Online Platform for Collaborative Image Labeling.- Mimicking an Expert Team Through the Learning of Evaluation Functions from Action Sequences.- Jetson, Where Is the Ball? Using Neural Networks for Ball Detection at RoboCup 2017.- Bridging the Gap - On a Humanoid Robotics Rookie League.- Context Aware Robot Architecture, Application to the Robocup@Home Challenge.- From Commands to Goal-based Dialogs: A Roadmap to Achieve Natural Language Interaction in RoboCup@Home.-RoboCupSimData: Software and Data for Machine Learning from RoboCup Simulation League.- Generation of Laser-Quality 2D Navigation Maps from RGB-D Sensors.- Towards Long-Term Memory for Social Robots: Proposing a New Challenge for the RoboCup@Home.- eEVA: Real-Time Web-Based Affective Agents for Human-Robot Interface.- Evaluation of Situations in RoboCup 2D Simulations Using Soccer Field Images.- Near Real-Time Object Recognition for Pepper Based on Deep Neural Networks Running on a Backpack.- Multimodal Movement Activity Recognition Using a Robot's Proprioceptive Sensors.- Survey of Rescue Competitions and Proposal of New Standard Task from Ordinary Tasks.- Adjusted Bounded Weighted Policy Learner.- Towards Real-Time Ball Localization Using CNNs.- Deep Learning for Semantic Segmentation on Minimal Hardware.- RoboCup Junior in the Hunter Region: Driving the Future of Robotic STEM Education Distributed Circumnavigation Control with Dynamic Spacings for a Heterogeneous Multi-Robot System.- Prediction of a Ball Trajectory for the Humanoid Robots: A Friction-Based Study.- RoboCup SSL 2018 Champion Team Paper.- Tech United Eindhoven Middle Size League Winner 2018.- Ichiro Robots Winning RoboCup 2018 Humanoid TeenSize Soccer Competitions.- NimbRo Robots Winning RoboCup 2018 Humanoid AdultSize Soccer Competitions.- HELIO
• S2018: RoboCup 2018 Soccer Simulation 2D League Champion.- UT Austin Villa: RoboCup 2018 3D Simulation League Champions.- Integrating the Latest Artificial Intelligence Algorithms in the RoboCup Rescue Simulation framework.- Robust and Flexible System Architecture for Facing the RoboCup Logistics League Challenge.- RoboCup@Work 2018 Team AutonOHM.- homer@UniKoblenz: Winning Team of the RoboCup@Home Open Platform League 2018.- ToBI - Team of Bielefeld: Enhancing the Robot Capabilities of the Social Standard Platform Pepper. .
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This book includes the post-conference proceedings of the 22nd RoboCup International Symposium, held in Montreal, QC, Canada, in June 2018. The 32 full revised papers and 11 papers from the winning teams presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. This book highlights the approaches of champion teams from the competitions and documents the proceedings of the 22nd annual RoboCup International Symposium. Due to the complex research challenges set by the RoboCup initiative, the RoboCup International Symposium offers a unique perspective for exploring scientific and engineering principles underlying advanced robotic and AI systems.
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• Active Compliance Control of the RED Hand: A PID Control Approach
• A Wearable Automated System to Quantify Parkinsonian Symptoms Enabling Closed Loop Deep Brain Stimulation
• Systematic and Realistic Testing in Simulation of Control Code for Robots in Collaborative Human-Robot Interactions
• Congratulations, it's a boy! Bench-marking children's perceptions of the Robokind Zeno-R25
• A Bioinspired Approach to Vision
• An Overview of the Ongoing Humanoid Robot Project LARMbot
• Force and Topography Reconstruction using GP and MOR for the TACTIP Soft Sensor System
• Agent-based Autonomous Systems and Abstraction Engines: Theory meets Practice
• Experimental evaluation of a multi-modal user interface for a robotic Service
• Enhancing Autonomy in VTOL Aircraft Based on Symbolic Computation Algorithms
• Development of an Intelligent Robotic Rein for Haptic Control and Interaction with Mobile Machines
• Infrastructure Mapping in Well-Structured Environments Using MAV
• Probabilistic Model Checking of Ant-Based Positionless Swarming
• Testing, Verification and Improvements of Timeliness in ROS Processes
• The Psi Swarm: A low-cost robotics platform and its use in an education setting
• Multi Robot Cooperative Area Coverage, Case Study: Spraying
• A Step Toward Mobile Robots Autonomy: Energy Estimation Models
• Toward Performance Guarantee for Autonomous Mobile Robotic Mission: An Approach for Hardware and Software Resources Management
• Using Google Glass in Human-Robot Swarm Interaction
• A virtual viscoelastic based aggregation model for self-organization of swarm robots system
• A Portable Active Binocular Robot Vision Architecture for Scene Exploration
• Kinematic Analysis of the Human Thumb with Foldable Palm
• Private Cloud Deployment Model in Open-Source Mobile Robots Ecosystem
• Efficient People-Searching Robot
• Accurate and Versatile Automation of Industrial Kitting Operations with SkiROS
• Introducing a 3D Physics Simulator Plugin for the ARGoS Robot Simulator
• Co-operative use of Marine Autonomous Systems to enhance navigational accuracy of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
• Human Management of a Robotic Swarm
• Texture Recognition Using Force Sensitive Resistors
• First Experiences towards Potential Impact of an Outdoor Shopping Assistant
• Evaluating Multi-Robot Teamwork in Parameterised Environments
• How to build and customize a high-resolution 3D laserscanner using off-the-shelf components
• Effects of residual charge on the performance of Electro-adhesive grippers
• A Data Set for Fault Detection Research on Component-Based Robotic Systems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference on Towards Autonomous Robotics, TAROS 2016, held in Sheffield UK, in June/July 2016. The 23 revised full papers presented together with 15 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 56 submissions. The overall program covers various aspects of robotics, including navigation, planning, sensing and perception, flying and swarm robots, ethics, humanoid robotics, human-robot interaction, and social robotics.

• Swarm and multi-robotic systems.- Human-robot interaction.- Robotic learning and imitation.- Robot navigation, planning and safety.- Humanoid and bio-inspired robots.- Mobile robots and vehicles.- Robot testing and design.- Detection and recognition.- Learning and adaptive behaviours.- Interaction.- Soft and reconfigurable robots.- Service and industrial robots.
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference on Towards Autonomous Robotics, TAROS 2017, held in Guildford, UK, in July 2017. The 43 revised full papers presented together with 13 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 submissions. The papers discuss robotics research drawn from a wide and diverse range of topics, such as swarm and multi-robotic systems; human-robot interaction; robotic learning and imitation; robot navigation, planning and safety; humanoid and bio-inspired robots; mobile robots and vehicles; robot testing and design; detection and recognition; learning and adaptive behaviours; interaction; soft and reconfigurable robots; and service and industrial robots.
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• Object manipulation and locomotion.- Soft and bioinspired robotics.- Path planning and autonomous vehicles.- Robotics vision and teleoperation.- HRI, assistive and medical robotics.- Swarm robotics.
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference on Towards Autonomous Robotics, TAROS 2018, held in Bristol, UK, in July 2018. The 38 full papers presented together with 14 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 68 submissions. The papers focus on presentation and discussion of the latest results and methods in autonomous robotics research and applications. The conference offers a friendly environment for robotics researchers and industry to take stock and plan future progress.
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• Introduction Rational Agents Strategic Games Coordination Partial Observability Mechanism Design Learning.
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Multiagent systems is an expanding field that blends classical fields like game theory and decentralized control with modern fields like computer science and machine learning. This monograph provides a concise introduction to the subject, covering the theoretical foundations as well as more recent developments in a coherent and readable manner. The text is centered on the concept of an agent as decision maker. Chapter 1 is a short introduction to the field of multiagent systems. Chapter 2 covers the basic theory of singleagent decision making under uncertainty. Chapter 3 is a brief introduction to game theory, explaining classical concepts like Nash equilibrium. Chapter 4 deals with the fundamental problem of coordinating a team of collaborative agents. Chapter 5 studies the problem of multiagent reasoning and decision making under partial observability. Chapter 6 focuses on the design of protocols that are stable against manipulations by self-interested agents. Chapter 7 provides a short introduction to the rapidly expanding field of multiagent reinforcement learning. The material can be used for teaching a half-semester course on multiagent systems covering, roughly, one chapter per lecture.
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• Introduction
• Kinematic Geometry of the PnP Robots
• Differential Kinematics of the Robots
• Kinematic Performance Criteria
• Elastostatics and Stiffness
• Rigid Multibody Dynamics
• Robot Elastodynamics
• Design optimization of parallel PnP Robots.

This book discusses the parametric modeling, performance evaluation, design optimization and comparative study of the high-speed, parallel pick-and-place robots. It collects the modeling methodology, evaluation criteria and design guidelines for parallel PnP robots to provide a systematic analysis method for robotic developers. Furthermore, it gathers the research results previously scattered in many prestigious international journals and conference proceedings and methodically edits them and presents them in a unified form. The book is of interest to researchers, R&D engineers and graduate students in industrial parallel robotics who wish to learn the core principles, methods, algorithms, and applications.
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• Part I. Multi-Robots Systems
• Part II. Data Fusion, Localization and Mapping
• Part III. Security and Dependability
• Part IV. Mobility.

This book compiles some of the latest research in cooperation between robots and sensor networks. Structured in twelve chapters, this book addresses fundamental, theoretical, implementation and experimentation issues. The chapters are organized into four parts namely multi-robots systems, data fusion and localization, security and dependability, and mobility.

• The DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals: Results and Perspectives.- Robot System of DRC-HUBO+ and Control Strategy of Team KAIST in DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals.- Team IHMC's Lessons Learned from the DARPA Robotics Challenge: Finding Data in the Rubble.- Developing a Robust Disaster Response Robot: CHIMP and the Robotics Challenge.- DRC Team NimbRo Rescue: Perception and Control for Centaur-like Mobile Manipulation Robot Momaro.- Team RoboSimian: Semi-autonomous Mobile Manipulation at the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals.- Director: A User Interface Designed for Robot Operation with Shared Autonomy.- Achieving Reliable Humanoid Robot Operations in the DARPA Robotics Challenge: Team WPI-CMU's Approach.- Team DRC-Hubo@UNLV in 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals.- Team SNU's Control Strategies to Enhancing Robot's Capability: Lessons from the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals 2015.- Team THOR's Entry in the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals 2015.- Collaborative Autonomy Between High-level Behaviors and Human Operators for Control of Complex Tasks with Different Humanoid Robots.- WALK-MAN Humanoid Platform.- An Architecture for Human-Guided Autonomy: Team TROOPER at the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals.- Team VALOR's ESCHER: A Novel Electromechanical Biped for the DARPA Robotics Challenge.- Perspectives on Human-Robot Team Performance from an Evaluation of the DARPA Robotics Challenge.- What Happened at the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals.
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The DARPA Robotics Challenge was a robotics competition that took place in Pomona, California USA in June 2015. The competition was the culmination of 33 months of demanding work by 23 teams and required humanoid robots to perform challenging locomotion and manipulation tasks in a mock disaster site. The challenge was conceived as a response to the Japanese Fukushima nuclear disaster of March 2011. The Fukushima disaster was seen as an ideal candidate for robotic intervention since the risk of exposure to radiation prevented human responders from accessing the site. This volume, edited by Matthew Spenko, Stephen Buerger, and Karl Iagnemma, includes commentary by the organizers, overall analysis of the results, and documentation of the technical efforts of 15 competing teams. The book provides an important record of the successes and failures involved in the DARPA Robotics Challenge and provides guidance for future needs to be addressed by policy makers, funding agencies, and the robotics research community. Many of the papers in this volume were initially published in a series of special issues of the Journal of Field Robotics. We have proudly collected versions of those papers in this STAR volume. .
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• Development of an Industry 4.0 demonstrator using Sequence Planner and ROS2.- ROS2 for ROS1 users.- Multi-Robot SLAM framework for ROS with Efficient Information Sharing.- Agile experimentation of robot swarms in large scale.- Lessons learned building a self-driving car on top of ROS.- Landing a UAV on a moving platform using a front facing camera.- Integrating the Functional Mock-up Interface with ROS and Gazebo.- An ARVA sensor simulator.- ROS Implementation for Untethered Microrobot Manipulation.- ClegS: A package to develop C-legged robots.- Video frames selection method for 3D Reconstruction depending on ROS-based monocular SLAM.- ROS Rescue: Fault Tolerance System for ROS.
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This book is the fifth volume in the successful book series Robot Operating System: The Complete Reference. The objective of the book is to provide the reader with comprehensive coverage on the Robot Operating System (ROS), which is currently considered to be the primary development framework for robotics applications, and the latest trends and contributing systems. The content is divided into six parts. Pat I presents for the first time the emerging ROS 2.0 framework, while Part II focuses on multi-robot systems, namely on SLAM and Swarm coordination. Part III provides two chapters on autonomous systems, namely self-driving cars and unmanned aerial systems. In turn, Part IV addresses the contributions of simulation frameworks for ROS. In Part V, two chapters explore robotic manipulators and legged robots. Finally, Part VI presents emerging topics in monocular SLAM and a chapter on fault tolerance systems for ROS. Given its scope, the book will offer a valuable companion for ROS users and developers, helping them deepen their knowledge of ROS capabilities and features. .
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