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Presents Rodney Brooks's initial formulation of and contributions to the development of the behavioural approach to robotics. The text shows the philosophical/technical ideas that put the "bottom-up" approach in the forefront of research in not only Artificial Intelligence but in cognitive science.
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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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• 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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• Physical Human Robot Interaction and Haptics.- Session Overview Physical Human-Robot Integration and Haptics.- A Unified Passivity Based Control Framework for Position, Torque and Impedance Control of Flexible Joint Robots.- Wave Haptics: Encoderless Virtual Stiffnesses.- Reality-Based Estimation of Needle and Soft-Tissue Interaction for Accurate Haptic Feedback in Prostate Brachytherapy Simulation.- Haptic Virtual Fixtures for Robot-Assisted Manipulation.- Planning.- Session Overview Planning.- POMDP Planning for Robust Robot Control.- On the Probabilistic Foundations of Probabilistic Roadmap Planning.- Humanoids.- Session Overview Humanoids.- Humanoid HRP2-DHRC for Autonomous and Interactive Behavior.- Android Science.- Mimetic Communication Theory for Humanoid Robots Interacting with Humans.- Mechanism and Design.- Session Overview Mechanisms and Design.- Design of a Compact 6-DOF Haptic Device to Use Parallel Mechanisms.- Hybrid Nanorobotic Approaches to NEMS.- Jacobian, Manipulability, Condition Number and Accuracy of Parallel Robots.- SLAM.- Session Overview Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping.- Subjective Localization with Action Respecting Embedding.- D-SLAM: Decoupled Localization and Mapping for Autonomous Robots.- A Provably Consistent Method for Imposing Sparsity in Feature-Based SLAM Information Filters.- Field Robots.- Session Overview Field Robotics.- Field D*: An Interpolation-Based Path Planner and Replanner.- Tradeoffs Between Directed and Autonomous Driving on the Mars Exploration Rovers.- Surface Mining: Main Research Issues for Autonomous Operations.- Robotic Vision.- Session Overview Robotic Vision.- Bias Reduction and Filter Convergence for Long Range Stereo.- Fusion of Stereo, Colour and Contrast.- Automatic Single-Image 3d Reconstructions of Indoor Manhattan World Scenes.- Robot Design and Control.- Session Overview Robot Design and Control.- One Is Enough!.- A Steerable, Untethered, 250 x 60 m MEMS Mobile Micro-Robot.- Some Issues in Humanoid Robot Design.- That Which Does Not Stabilize, Will Only Make Us Stronger.- Underwater Robotics.- Session Overview Underwater Robotics.- Improved Estimation of Target Velocity Using Multiple Model Estimation and a Dynamic Bayesian Network for a Robotic Tracker of Ocean Animals.- Techniques for Deep Sea Near Bottom Survey Using an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle.- Advances in High Resolution Imaging from Underwater Vehicles.- Learning and Adaptive Behavior.- Session Overview Learning and Adaptive Behavior.- Using AdaBoost for Place Labeling and Topological Map Building.- Emergence, Exploration and Learning of Embodied Behavior.- Hierarchical Conditional Random Fields for GPS-Based Activity Recognition.- Networked Robotics.- Session Overview Networked Robotics.- Networked Robotic Cameras for Collaborative Observation of Natural Environments.- Interfaces and Interaction.- Session Overview Interfaces and Interaction.- Haptic Communication Between Humans and Robots.- A Vestibular Interface for Natural Control of Steering in the Locomotion of Robotic Artifacts: Preliminary Experiments.- How Social Robots Will Help Us to Diagnose, Treat, and Understand Autism.- Invited Overview Talk.- Expo 2005 Robotics Project.- Robotics Science (Panel Discussion).- Position Statement: Robotics Science.
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This volume contains 50 papers presented at the 12th International Symposium of Robotics Research, which took place October 2005 in San Francisco, CA. Coverage includes: physical human-robot interaction, humanoids, mechanisms and design, simultaneous localization and mapping, field robots, robotic vision, robot design and control, underwater robotics, learning and adaptive behavior, networked robotics, and interfaces and interaction.
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