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• Keynotes.- Humanoids.- Human-centered Robotics.- Path Planning and Localization.- SLAM.- Visual Servoing.- Multiple Robots.- Identification and Control.- Design.- Medical Robotics.- Flying Robots.- Manipulation.- Haptics.- Walking Machines.- Field Robotics.
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This book is a collection of papers on the state of the art in experimental robotics. Experimental Robotics is at the core of validating robotics research for both its systems science and theoretical foundations. Because robotics experiments are carried out on physical, complex machines, of which its controllers are subject to uncertainty, devising meaningful experiments and collecting statistically significant results, pose important and unique challenges in robotics. Robotics experiments serve as a unifying theme for robotics system science and algorithmic foundations. These observations have led to the creation of the International Symposia on Experimental Robotics. The papers in this book were presented at the 2002 International Symposium on Experimental Robotics.
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• Intro
• Preface
• Welcome Address from the Founder of RAAD, Jadran Lenarčič
• Contents
• Robot Modeling and Identification
• Geometric Identification of Denavit-Hartenberg Parameters with Optical Measuring System
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Kinematic Parameters
• 3 Experimental Identification of DH Parameter
• 3.1 Experimental Setup
• 3.2 Results
• 4 Conclusion
• References
• Kinematics of the "Ai-Gerim" Robot Arm
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Direct Kinematics
• 3 Inverse Kinematics
• 4 Conclusion
• References

• Singularity Robust Inverse Kinematics of Serial Manipulators by Means of a Joint Arc Length Parameterization
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Kinematics in Terms of Path Parameter
• 2.1 Forward Kinematics
• 2.2 Inverse Kinematics
• 3 Kinematics in Terms of Arc Length
• 3.1 Arc Length Parameterization
• 3.2 Numerical Solution of the Initial Value Problem
• 4 A Singularity-Consistent Sampling Scheme
• 5 Simulation Results
• 6 Conclusion and Outlook
• References
• Simulation of the Effects of Backlash on the Performance of a Collaborative Robot: A Preliminary Case Study
• 1 Introduction

• 2 Dynamic Model of a UR5 Collaborative Robot
• 2.1 Moto-Reducers
• 2.2 Sensors
• 3 Simulations Results
• 4 Conclusions
• References
• Modeling and Analysis of an S-Shape Link for an Anthropomorphic Robotic Arm
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Problem Formulation
• 3 S-Shape Link Design and Analysis
• 3.1 Discretized Modelling
• 3.2 Augmentation of Compliance Matrix
• 4 Conclusion
• References s
• Parallelized Forward Kinematics Using Product of Exponentials in PyTorch
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Forward Kinematics Using Product of Exponentials
• 3 Parallelization Approach
• 3.1 Vector to so(3)

• 3.2 so(3) to Vector
• 3.3 Vector to se(3)
• 3.4 MatrixExp3
• 3.5 MatrixExp6
• 3.6 Full Product Implementation
• 4 Results
• 5 Conclusion
• References
• Simultaneous Calibration and Stiffness Identification of Flexible Link Robots Using Lumped Parameter Model
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Lumped Parameter Model
• 2.1 Kinematic Model
• 2.2 Dynamic Model
• 3 Parameter Identification
• 4 Results
• 5 Conclusion
• References
• Analysis of the Singularities Influence on the Forward Kinematics Solution and the Geometry of the Workspace of the Gough-Stewart Platform
• 1 Introduction

• 2 Mathematical Model of the Platform
• 3 Analysis of the Singularities Influence on the Forward Kinematics
• 4 Analysis of the Influence of Singularities on the Geometry of the Workspace
• 5 Conclusion
• References
• Perception and Learning
• Structure Synthesis for Extended Robot State Automata
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Related Work
• 3 Marking Formalism
• 4 Algorithms
• 5 Experiments
• 6 Conclusion
• References
• Intuitive Optimization of Kinesthetic Programmed Trajectories for Fiber Spraying
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Related Work
• 3 Optimization of Kinesthetic Programmed Trajectories

This book presents the proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Robotics in Alpe-Adria-Danube Region (RAAD), held in Klagenfurt, Austria, June 8-10, 2022. It gathers contributions by researchers from several countries on all major areas of robotic research, development and innovation, as well as new applications and current trends. The topics covered include: novel designs and applications of robotic systems, intelligent cooperating and service robots, advanced robot control, human-robot interfaces, robot vision systems, mobile robots, humanoid and walking robots, bio-inspired and swarm robotic systems, aerial, underwater and spatial robots, robots for ambient assisted living, medical robots and bionic prostheses, cognitive robots, cloud robotics, ethical and social issues in robotics, etc. Given its scope, the book offers a source of information and inspiration for researchers seeking to improve their work and gather new ideas for future developments.

• Chapter 1: Design Synthesis and Implementation of a Dynamic Loading Mechanism for Morphing Winglets.-
• Chapter 2: Towards Modeling Finger Joint Coordination for Natural Motion.-
• Chapter 3: A K-Means Clustering Approach to Segmentation of Maps for Task Allocation in Multi-Robot Systems Exploration of Unknown Environments.
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This volume gathers the latest fundamental research contributions, innovations, and applications in the field of design and analysis of complex robotic mechanical systems, machines, and mechanisms, as presented by leading international researchers at the 2nd USCToMM Symposium on Mechanical Systems and Robotics (USCToMM MSR), held in Rapid City, South Dakota, USA on May 19-21, 2022. It covers highly diverse topics, including soft, wearable and origami robotic systems; applications to walking, flying, climbing, underground, swimming and space systems; human rehabilitation and performance augmentation; design and analysis of mechanisms and machines; human-robot collaborative systems; service robotics; mechanical systems and robotics education; and the commercialization of mechanical systems and robotics. The contributions, which were selected by means of a rigorous international peer-review process, highlight numerous exciting and impactful research results that will inspire novel research directions and foster multidisciplinary research collaborations among researchers from around the globe.
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• Globally Optimal Joint Search of Topology and Trajectory for Planar Linkages.- Asymmetric Dual-Arm Task Execution Using an Extended Relative Jacobian.- Consensus-Based ADMM for Task Assignment in Multi-Robot Teams.- Rapidly-Exploring Quotient-Space Trees: Motion Planning Using Sequential Simplifications.- Optimally Convergent Trajectories for Navigation.- Introducing PIVOT: Predictive Incremental Variable Ordering Tactic for Efficient Belief Space Planning.- Fast and Fine Manipulation of RBCs in Artificial Capillary and Their Mysterious Behaviors.
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This book contains the papers that were presented at the 17th International Symposium of Robotics Research (ISRR). The ISRR promotes the development and dissemination of groundbreaking research and technological innovation in robotics useful to society by providing a lively, intimate, forward-looking forum for discussion and debate about the current status and future trends of robotics with great emphasis on its potential role to benefit humankind. The symposium contributions contained in this book report on a variety of new robotics research results covering a broad spectrum organized into the categories: design, control; grasping and manipulation, planning, robot vision, and robot learning.
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This book presents the proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Robotics in Alpe-Adria-Danube Region, RAAD 2021, held in Poitiers, France, 21-23 June 2021. It gathers contributions by researchers from several countries on all major areas of robotic research, development and innovation, as well as new applications and current trends. The topics covered include: novel designs and applications of robotic systems, intelligent cooperating and service robots, advanced robot control, human-robot interfaces, robot vision systems, mobile robots, humanoid and walking robots, bio-inspired and swarm robotic systems, aerial, underwater and spatial robots, robots for ambient assisted living, medical robots and bionic prostheses, cognitive robots, cloud robotics, ethical and social issues in robotics, etc. Given its scope, the book offers a source of information and inspiration for researchers seeking to improve their work and gather new ideas for future developments.
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• Part I. Aerial roots
• Radar-Inertial State Estimation and Obstacle Detection for Micro-Aerial Vehicles in Dense Fog
• Experimental Flights of Adaptive Patterns for Clouds Exploration with UAVs
• Design and Experimental Evaluation of Distributed Cooperative Transportation of Cable Suspended Payloads with Micro Aerial Vehicles
• CMPCC: Corridor-Based Model Predictive Contouring Control for Aggressive Drone Flight
• Multirotor Docking with an Airborne Platform
• Part II. Design and prototyping
• BAXTER: Bi-Modal Aerial-Terrestrial Hybrid Vehicle for Long-Endurance Versatile Mobility
• Design and Prototyping Characterization of Compliant Parallelogram Links for 3D-Printed Delta Manipulators
• L.U.N.A. -- A Laser-Mapping Unidirectional Navigation Actuator
• Hybrid Wheel-Leg Locomotion in Rough Terrain
• Digger Finger: GelSight Tactile Sensor for Object Identification Inside Granular Media
• Toward High Power-to-Weight Ratio Electro-hydrostatic Actuators for Robots
• Ori-Vent: Design and Prototyping of Accessible and Portable Origami-Inspired Ventilators
• Part III. Field robotics
• Towards a Reliable Heterogeneous Robotic Water Quality Monitoring System: An Experimental Analysis
• Experimental Evaluation of a Hierarchical Operating Framework for Ground Robots in Agriculture
• Autonomous Off-Road Navigation over Extreme Terrains with Perceptually-Challenging Conditions
• Online Soil Classification Using a UAS Sensor Emplacement System
• Simulation, Learning and Control Methods to Improve Robotic Vegetable Harvesting
• Incorporating Noise into Adaptive Sampling
• Part IV. Human-robot interaction
• A New Approach to Estimate the Apparent Mass of Collaborative Robot Manipulators
• A New Conversion Method to Evaluate the Hazard Potential of Collaborative Robots in Free Collisions
• Towards a Robotically Steerable System for High Dose Rate Brachytherapy
• Kinesthetic Curiosity: Towards Personalized Embodied Learning with a Robot Tutor Teaching Programming in Mixed Reality
• A Soft Robotic Cover with Dual Thermal Display and Sensing Capabilities
• Ensuring Stable and Transparent High Stiffness Haptic Interaction Using Successive Force Augmention with Time Domain Passivity Approach
• Part V. Machine learning
• Tactile-Based Self-supervised Pose Estimation for Robust Grasping
• Learning Visual Servo Policies via Planner Cloning
• Sampling Training Data for Continual Learning Between Robots and the Cloud
• Playing with Food: Learning Food Item Representations Through Interactive Exploration
• Data-Driven Design of Energy-Shaping Controllers for Swing-Up Control of Underactuated Robots
• A Recurrent Neural Network Approach to Roll Estimation for Needle Steering
• Part VI. Mapping and localization
• Monte-Carlo Localization on Metal Plates Based on Ultrasonic Guided Waves
• Crowd-Driven Mapping, Localization and Planning
• Visual Semantic Mapping and Localization Using Parameterized Road Lanes
• LION: Lidar-Inertial Observability-Aware Navigator for Vision-denied Environments
• The DARPA SubT Urban Circuit Mapping Dataset and Evaluation Metric
• Experimental Validation of Energy-Optimal Turning Radii for Skid-Steer Rovers Part VII. Multi-robots
• Swarm of Inexpensive Heterogeneous Micro Aerial Vehicles
• Sailing a Boat Through a Macroscopic Smart-Fluid Composed of a Robot Swarm
• Rapid and High-Fidelity Subsurface Exploration with Multiple Aerial Robots
• Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Formations of Multi-rotor Micro Aerial Vehicles: An Experimental Approach
• Distributed Heterogeneous Multi-robot Source Seeking Using Information Based Sampling with Visual Recognition
• To Boldly Dive Where No One Has Gone Before: Experiments in Coordinated Robotic Ocean Exploration
• Part VIII. Perception
• Composing Pick-and-Place Tasks by Grounding Language
• Multi-sensory Integration in a Quantum-Like Robot Perception Model
• Probabilistic Representation of Objects and Their support Relations
• MSL-RAPTOR: A 6DoF Relative Pose Tracker for Onboard Robotic Perception
• Robust Vision-Based Pose Correction for a Robotic Manipulator Using Active Markers
• Sensing Soft Robot Shape Using IMUs: An Experimental Investigation
• Part IX. Planning and control. Learning to Generate Cost-to-Go Functions for Efficient Motion Planning
• Using Nonlinear Normal Modes for Execution of Efficient Cyclic Motions in Articulated Soft Robots
• RAPID: An Algorithm for Quick Replanning Under Changed Dynamical Constraints
• High-Bandwidth Nonlinear Control for Soft Actuators with Recursive Network Models
• Within-Hand Manipulation Planning and Control for Variable Friction Hands
• Nonprehensile Riemannian Motion Predictive Control
• Correction to: Experimental Robotics.

This book is the volume of the proceedings for the 17th Edition of ISER. The goal of ISER (International Symposium on Experimental Robotics) symposia is to provide a single-track forum on the current developments and new directions of experimental robotics. The series has traditionally attracted a wide readership of researchers and practitioners interested to the advances and innovations of robotics technology. The 54 contributions cover a wide range of topics in robotics and are organized in 9 chapters: aerial robots, design and prototyping, field robotics, human-robot interaction, machine learning, mapping and localization, multi-robots, perception, planning and control. Experimental validation of algorithms, concepts, or techniques is the common thread running through this large research collection.
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• Prioritized SIPP Algorithm for Multi-Agent Path Finding Problem with Kinematic Constraints.- DronePort: Smart Drone Battery Management System.- Semantic Segmentation in the Task of Long-Term Visual Localization.- Algorithm for Radio Survey of the Cyber-Physical Systems Operating Areas Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.- Step Path Simulation for Quadruped Walking Robot.- The Problem Statement of Cognitive Modeling in Social Robotic Systems.- Adaptive Event Triggered Control of Nonholonomic Mobile Robots.- Development of a Multi-sensor Emotional Response System for Social Robots.- A Technique to Provide an Efficient System Recovery in the Fog- and Edge-environments of Robotic Systems, . Development of Matrix of Combined Force and Proximity Sensors for use in Robotics.- The Efficiency Improvement of Robots Group Operation by Means of Workload Relocation.- Visual Data Processing Framework for a Skin-Based Human Detection.- Classification of Aerial Manipulation Systems and Algorithms for Controlling the Movement of Onboard Manipulator.- "MEOW" - A Social Robot Platform for School.- A Framework to Process Natural Speech in Service Robots using a Combination of a Speech Recognition System, Universal Dependencies Extracted by means of the Stanford Parser and an Expert System.- Prioritizing Tasks within a Robotic Transportation System for a Smart Hospital Environment.- Dedicated Payload Stabilization System in a Service Robot for Catering.- Collision Avoidance for Mobile Robots using Proximity Sensors.- Analysis of Kinematic Diagrams and Design Solutions of Mobile Agricultural Robots.
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Robotics, ICR 2021, held in St. Petersburg, Russia, in October 2021. The 19 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. Challenges of human-robot interaction, robot control and behavior in social robotics and collaborative robotics, as well as applied robotic and cyber-physical systems are mainly discussed in the papers.
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• Collaborative Robotic Systems.- Robotic Systems Design and Simulation.- Robots Control.
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This book constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Modern Problems of Robotics, MPoR 2020, held in Moscow, Russia, in March 2020.The 16 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions. The volume includes the following topical sections: Collaborative Robotic Systems, Robotic Systems Design and Simulation, and Robots Control. The papers are devoted to the most interesting today's investigations in Robotics, such as the problems of the human-robot interaction, the problems of robot design and simulation, and the problems of robot and robotic complexes control. .
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• A Concept for a HRC Workspace Using Proximity Sensors.- Approach to Obstacle Localization for Robot Navigation in Agricultural Territories.- Person-Following Algorithm Based on Laser Range Finder and Monocular Camera Data Fusion for a Wheeled Autonomous Mobile Robot.- On the Problems of SLAM Simulation for Mobile Robots in the Arctic Conditions.- Data Exchange Method for Wireless UAV-aided Communication in Sensor Systems and Robotic Devices.- A Combination of Theta*, ORCA and Push and Rotate for Multi-agent Navigation.- Evaluation of Image Synthesis for Automotive Purposes.- Collision Detection in the Work of Collaborative Robots using an Intelligent System.- Method of Formation of Reference Movement Speed of Working Tool of Multilink Manipulator.- Distributing Tasks in Multi-Agent Robotic System for Human-Robot Interaction Applications.- A*-based Path Planning Algorithm for Swarm Robotics.- Modeling of Human-Machine Interaction in an Industrial Exoskeleton Control System.- Gesture-Based Intelligent User Interface for Control of an Assistive Mobile Information Robot.- Distributed Methods for Autonomous Robot Groups Fault-Tolerant Management.- Planning to Score a Goal in Robotic Football with Heuristic Search.- Q-learning of Spatial Actions for Hierarchical Planner of Cognitive Agents.- Modeling of Increased Rigidity of Industrial Manipulator.- Accurate Autonomous UAV Landing Using Vision-based Detection of ArUco-Marker.- Spatial Resolution-Independent CNN-based Person Detection in Agricultural Image Data.- Fast Face Features Extraction Based on Deep Neural Networks for Mobile Robotic Platforms.- An Estimation of Distributed Algorithms of the Fault-Tolerant Management in the Robot Groups.- Comparison of ROS-based Monocular Visual SLAM Methods: DSO, LDSO, ORB-SLAM2 and DynaSLAM.- Cooperative Guidance for Waypoint Following of Distributed Multi-UAV System.- Indoor vs. Outdoor Scene Classification for Mobile Robots.- Mathematical Modelling of Control and Simultaneous Stabilization of 3-DOF Aerial Manipulation System.- Comparative Analysis of Approaches to Depth Map Generation for Robot Navigation.- Approach to the State Analysis of Industry 4.0 Nodes based on Behavioral Patterns.- Humanoid Robot Soccer Player for RoboCup Junior League Competitions.- A Modular Deep Learning Architecture for Anomaly Detection in HRI.- Algorithms of Posteriori Multi-Objective Optimization for Robotic Gripper Design.- Energy-efficient Path Planning Algorithm on Three-dimensional Large-scale Terrain Maps for Mobile Robots.
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Robotics, ICR 2020, held in St. Petersburg, Russia, in October 2020. The 31 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions. Challenges of human-robot interaction, robot control and behavior in social robotics and collaborative robotics, as well as applied robotic and cyber-physical systems are mainly discussed in the papers.
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• On and Its Application in Interactive Control of Intelligent Wheelchair
• Cross-Subject EEG-Based Emotion Recognition with Deep Domain Confusion
• Development of Mixed Reality Robot Control System Based on HoloLens
• Improvement of Mask-RCNN Object Segmentation Algorithm
• The multi-section design of a novel soft pneumatic robot arm with variable stiffness
• Nonlinear Finite Element Simulation and Analysis of Double Circular Arc Spiral Bevel Gear Nutation Drive
• Design and analysis of gear profile of two-tooth difference swing-rod movable teeth transmission system
• TRANSMISSION ERROR SIMULATION ANALYSIS FOR RV REDUCER WITH ORTHOGONAL EXPERIMENT METHOD
• Design and finite element analysis of fiber-reinforced soft pneumatic actuator
• Configuration Design and Simulation of Novel Petal Tooth Nutation Joint Drive for Robot
• A bio-inspired self-repair approach for modular self-reconfigurable robots
• Reconfigurable design and structure optimization of SCARA
• Modular Design of 7-DOF Cable-Driven Humanoid Arms
• Design and Locomotion Analysis of a Retractable Snake-like Robot Based on 2-RRU/URR Parallel Module
• A Nonsqueezing Torque Distribution Method for an Omnidirectional Mobile Robot with Powered Castor Wheels
• A Two-Step Self-Calibration Method with Portable Measurement Devices for Industrial Robots Based on POE Formula
• Obstacle Avoidance of a redundant robot using virtual force field and null space projection
• Modeling of Torque Ripple for Integrated Robotic Joint alysis and Optimization of the Drive System of the Mobile Robot Arm in Unmanned Mining Working Face
• A Flexure-based XY Precision Positioning Stage with Integrated Displacement PVDF Sensor
• A Generalized Mathematical Model for the Bridge-type and Lever-type Mechanism
• A novel giant magnetostrictive driven-vibration isolation stage based on compliant mechanism
• Topological synthesis of compliant mechanisms using a level set-based robust formulation
• Design and Modeling of a Continuous Soft Robot
• Flexure-Based Variable Stiffness Gripper for Large-Scale Grasping Force Regulation with Vision
• Kinetostatic modeling of redundantly actuated planar compliant parallel mechanism
• Design of screw fastening tool based on SEA
• Design of Morphing Wing Leading Edge with Compliant Mechanism
• A Novel Flexure Deflection Device with Damping Function Towards Laser Reflector of 3D Lithography
• Design and Analysis of a Planar 3-DOF Large Range Compliant Mechanism with Leaf-type Flexure
• Video-Guided Sound Source Separation
• In-hand manipulation for active object recognition
• Designing Bionic Path Robots to Minimize the Metabolic Cost of Human Movement
• Adaptive whole-arm grasping approach of tumbling space debris by two coordinated hyper-redundant manipulators
• Development of Bolt Screwing Tool Based on Pneumatic Slip Ring
• Deep Grasping Prediction with Antipodal Loss for Dual Arm Manipulators
• Artificial Neural Network based Tactile Sensing Unit for Robotic Hand
• Bounded Recursive Optimization Approach for Pose Estimation in Robotic Visual Servoing
• The Energy Management for the impact/vibration control in the Non-cooperative Space Target Capture
• Force Analysis and Experiment of Variable Stiffness Soft Actuator Based on Particle Jamming
• Close-range Angles-only Relative Navigation of Multi-Agent Cluster for On-orbit Servicing Mission
• Deep learning based noise level classification of Medical images
• Deep Learning Based Gesture Recogniti.

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.

• Hm
• Multi-scale densely connected dehazing network
• Residual Attention Regression for 3D Hand Pose Estimation
• Fixation Based Object Recognition in Autism Clinic Setting
• Towards Deep Learning based Robot Automatic Choreography System
• An Underwater Robot Positioning Method based on EM-ELF Signals
• Stereo Visual SLAM Using Bag of Point and Line Word Pairs
• Design and Recognition of Two-Dimensional Code for Mobile Robot Positioning
• A Separate Data Structure For Online Multi-hypothesis Topological Mapping
• Indoor navigation system using the Fetch robot
• Keyframe-based dynamic elimination SLAM system using YOLO detection
• Monocular Visual-Inertial SLAM with Camera-IMU Extrinsic Automatic Calibration and Online Estimation
• An Online Motion Planning Approach of Mobile Robots in Distinctive Homotopic Classes by a Sparse Roadmap bstacle Crossing
• Designing, Modeling and Testing of the Flexible Space Probe-Cone Docking and Refueling Mechanism
• Dynamics modeling method of module manipulator using Spatial Operator Algebra
• Object Dimension Measurement Based on Mask R-CNN
• Research on Spatial Target Classification and Recognition Technology Based on Deep Learning
• Planetary Rover Path Planning Based on Improved A* Algorithm
• A Self-calibration Method of Lander Manipulator for Deep Space Exploration Mission
• A Hybrid Deep Reinforcement Learning Algorithm for Intelligent Manipulation
• Virtual-sensor-based Planetary Soil Classification with Legged Robots
• Virtual force senor based on PSO-BP neural network for legged robots in planetary exploration
• A Smooth Gait Planning Framework for Quadruped Robot Based on Virtual Model Control
• An Adaptive Parameter Identification Algorithm for Post-capture of a Tumbling Target
• Review of Research on the Chinese Space Station Robots
• Design of a Sensor Insole for Gait Analysis
• Multiple Features Fusion System for Motion Recognition
• Classification Methods of sEMG Through Weighted Representation-based K-nearest Neighbor
• A Soft Capacitive Wearable Sensing System for Lower-limb Motion Monitoring
• Fault diagnosis and prediction method of SPC for engine block based on LSTM neural network
• Real Time Object Detection Based on Deep Neural Network
• A Fast and Robust Template Matching Method with Rotated Gradient Features and Image Pyramid
• Surface Defect Inspection Under a Small Training Set Condition
• A Collision-free Path Planning Method using Direct Behavior Cloning
• 3D Pose Estimation of Robot Arm with RGB Images Based on Deep Learning
• Straightness error assessment of linear axis of CNC machine tool based on data-drive method
• View Invariant Human Action Recognition Using 3D Geometric Features
• Non-concentric Circular Texture Removal for Workpiece Defect Detection
• Sound source localization based on PSVM algorit.

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.

• Ning Method
• A Coarse Registration Algorithm between 3D Point Cloud and CAD Model of Non-cooperative Object for Space Manipulator
• Dexterity-based dimension optimization of Muti-Dof robotic manipulator
• Design and Experimental Analysis of a Planar Compliant Parallel Manipulator
• Safety and waterproof design of multi-functional assisted bath robot
• Dynamics Analysis of 3-CPaR & R1R2 Hybrid Mechanism with Joint Clearance
• Underactuated robot passability analysis and optimization
• A Novel Hedgehog-inspired Pin-array Robot Hand with Multiple Magnetic Pins for Adaptive Grasping
• Kinematic analysis of a flexible planar 2- DOF parallel manipulator
• Dual-source fluid bending and side-swing compound multi-joint finger
• Design and Simulation of a Miniature Jumping Gliding Robot on Water Surface
• Towards Intelligent Maintenance of Thermal Power Plants: A Novel Robot for Checking Water Wall Tube
• Configuration Change and Mobility Analysis of a novel metamorphic parallel mechanism constructed with (rA) joint hod for Snake-Like Pipe Robot
• Trajectory Tracking Control of Wheeled Mobile Robots Using Backstepping
• The Design of Inspection Robot Navigation Systems Based on Distributed Vision
• Mobile Robot Autonomous Navigation and Dynamic Environmental Adaptation in Large-Scale Outdoor Scenes
• Movement Analysis of Rotating-finger Cable Inspection Robot
• Autonomous Indoor Mobile Robot Exploration Based on Wavefront Algorithm
• Multi-robot path planning for complete coverage with genetic algorithms
• Design and Magnetic Force Analysis of Patrol Robot for Deep Shaft Rigid Cage Guide
• Improved Driving Stability with Series Elastic Actuator and Velocity Controller
• Monocular vision-based dynamic moving obstacles detection and avoidance
• Path planning based navigation using LIDAR for an Ackerman Unmanned Ground Vehicle
• Improved Simple Linear Iterative Clustering Algorithm Using HSL Color Space
• Active Affordance Exploration for Robot Grasping
• Multi-Vehicle Detection and Tracking Based on Kalman Filter and Data Association
• Multi-scale Feature Fusion Single Shot Object Detector Based on DenseNet
• Semi-direct Tracking and Mapping with RGB-D Camera
• Two-person Interaction Recognition Based on Video Sparse Representation and Improved Spatio-Temporal Feature
• Human Interaction Recognition based on the Co-occurring Visual Matrix Sequence
• A stereo matching method combining feature and area information for power line inspection
• Image Stitching Based on Improved SURF Algorithm
• Neural Network based Electronics Segmentation
• Visual-based Crack Detection and Skeleton Extraction of Cement Surface
• Visual Servoing Control Based on Reconstructed 3D Features
• Landmark based eye ratio estimation for driver fatigue detection
• Automatic analysis of calibration board image orientation for online hand-eye calibration
• Image Deblurring Based on Fuzzy Kernel Estimation in HSV Color Space
• Infrared and Visible Image Fusion: A Region-based Deep Lear.

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.

• Robot Control.- Learning & Skill Acquisition.- Grippers & Articulated Hands.- Robotic Systems & Task-Level Programming.-Manipulation Planning & Control.- Mobile Robots.- Sensing & Perception. Compliance & Force Control.- Legged Locomotion. Modelling & Control.
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The proceedings of a symposium which explored current developments in robotics research are presented in this volume. The contributors discussed such aspects of the field as manipulator control, mobile robots, perception, vision and control architectures.
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• Manipulation.- Vision.- Navigation.- Medical and bio-robotics.- Estimation and mapping.- Field robotics.- Estimation and control.- Navigation.- Estimation and Localization.- Design.- Cooperative Control.- Humanoids.
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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 contributions on the current developments and new directions in the field of experimental robotics, which are based on the papers presented at the 10th ISER held in Rio de Janeiro, July 2006.
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• Part I Novel Mechanisms.- Part II Perception Guided Navigation and Manipulation.- Part III Human-Robot Interaction and Intelligence.
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This volume is an edition of the papers selected from the 13th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, ICAR 2007, held in Jeju, Korea, August 22-25, 2007, with the theme: 'Viable Robotics Service to Human'. It is intended to deliver readers the most recent technical progress in robotics, in particular, toward the advancement of robotic service to human.
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• Part I. Linkage and manipulators
• Analytical Movement Optimization of Dual-Arm Planar Robots with Rotating Platform
• Inverse Kinematics and Velocity Analysis of a 6-DOF Hexapod-Type Manipulator with a Circular Guide
• Torque Minimization of Dynamically Decoupled R-R Spatial Serial Manipulators via Optimal Motion Control
• Kinematic Analysis of a Coaxial 3-RRR Spherical Parallel Manipulator Based on Screw Theory
• A Novel Design for an Autonomous Mobile Agricultural Fruit Harvesting Robot
• Part II. Parallel Manipulators
• A Comparison of Algebraic and Iterative Procedures for the Generation of the Workspace of Parallel Robots
• Symbolic Kinematics of Special 3-RSR Parallel Mechanism with Zero Coupling Degree
• Investigation of Interference-Free Workspace of a Cartesian (3-PRRR) Parallel Manipulator
• (Plus 2 other papers)
• Part III. Mechanics of robots (4 papers)
• Part IV. Mechanism deign (7 Papers)
• Part V. Actuators and control (3 papers)
• Part VI. Innovative Mechanism/Robot and their Applications (5 papers)
• Part VII. Special Session in Honor of Prof. Said Zeghloul (2 papers).

This book presents the proceedings of the 5th IFToMM Symposium on Mechanism Design for Robotics, MEDER 2021, held in Poitiers, France, 23-25 June 2021. It gathers contributions by researchers from several countries on all major areas of robotic research, development and innovation, as well as new applications and current trends. The topics covered include: theoretical and computational kinematics, mechanism design, experimental mechanics, mechanics of robots, control issues of mechanical systems, machine intelligence, innovative mechanisms and applications, linkages and manipulators, micro-mechanisms, dynamics of machinery and multi-body systems. Given its scope, the book offers a source of information and inspiration for researchers seeking to improve their work and gather new ideas for future developments.
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• Intro; Preface; Organization; General Chair; Co-chair; International Scientific Committee; Advisory Board; National Organizing Committee; Local Organizing Committee; Contents; Mechanical Design and Kinematics; An Integrated Taxonomy and Critical Review of Module Designs for Serial Reconfigurable Manipulators; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Module Categories
• Module Taxonomy and Typology; 2.1 First Aspect: Operation
• Active vs Passive; 2.2 Second Aspect: Connectivity
• Automatic vs User Operated and Multiplicity; 2.3 Third Aspect: Homogeneity vs Heterogeneity

• 3 State of the Art Module Designs as a Basis for the Design of Modules for a Self-metamorphic Manipulator System
• Identification of Major Design Perquisites4 Discussion and Future Work; Acknowledgement; References; Geometry and Inverse Kinematics of 3-PRRS Type Parallel Manipulator; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Geometry of the Parallel Manipulator; 3 Inverse Kinematics of the Parallel Manipulator; 4 Conclusions; References; Linear Motion Mechanisms for Fine Position Adjustment of Heavy Weight Platforms; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 The Concept; 3 Design of Motion Reducer; 4 Experiments

• 5 ConclusionsAcknowledgments; References; Compliant Mechanisms for Motion/Force Amplifiers for Robotics; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Some Structures of Mechanical Amplifiers; 3 Design of Motion Reducer/Force Amplifier; 3.1 The Two Levers Amplifier; 3.2 Bridge-Type and Rhombus Mechanical Amplifier; 3.3 Results; 4 Conclusion; Acknowledgment; References; Design and Control of a Flapping Wing System Test Bench; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Problem Background; 1.2 Related Works; 1.3 Considerations; 2 Requirements; 3 System Model; 3.1 Mechanical Model of the System; 3.2 Equations of Movement and Dynamics

• 4 Test Bench Design5 Test Bench Control System; 6 Test and Results; 7 Discussion; 8 Conclusion; References; Approximation of Inverse Kinematic Solution of a Metamorphic 3R Manipulator with Multilayer Perceptron; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 The Proposed Method; 2.1 The Metamorphic Manipulator with One Pseudo-Joint; 2.2 ANN Architecture; 3 Application and Discussion of Results; 4 Conclusions; Acknowledgement; References; Mechanical Design, Modeling and Simulation of Human-Size Cable-Driven Over-Actuated Robotic Arm; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Progress Beyond the State-of-the-Art

• 3 Mechanical Design of Robotic Arm4 Modeling and Simulation; 5 Conclusions and Future Work; Acknowledgements; References; Robot Control; Torque-Based Velocity Control for Safe Human-Humanoid Interaction; 1 Introduction; 2 Control Method; 2.1 Low-Level Torque Control (LLTC); 2.2 Torque-Based Velocity Controller; 3 Experimental Validation; 4 Conclusion; References; On an Analytic Generation of Null Space Spanners in Robotics; 1 Introduction; 2 Preliminaries and Algorithms Generating Kernels of a Symbolic Matrix; 3 Simulations; 4 Conclusion; References

This book presents the proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Robotics in Alpe-Adria-Danube Region, RAAD 2019, held at the Fraunhofer Zentrum and the Technische Universität in Kaiserslautern, Germany, on 19-21 June 2019. The conference brought together academic researchers in robotics from 20 countries, mainly affiliated to the Alpe-Adria-Danube Region and covered all major areas of robotic research, development and innovation as well as new applications and current trends. Offering a comprehensive overview of the ongoing research in the field of robotics, the book is a source of information and inspiration for researchers wanting to improve their work and gather new ideas for future developments. It also provides researchers with an innovative and up-to-date perspective on the state of the art in this area.

• Kinematic and Dynamic Modelling.- Joint Dominance Coefficients: A Sensitivity-Based Measure for Ranking Robotic Degrees of Freedom.- Learning Kinematics from Direct Self-Observation Using Nearest-Neighbor Methods.- Guidelines for Low Mass and Low Inertia Dynamic Balancing of Mechanisms and Robotics.- Motion Generation.- Probability-Based Robot Search Paths.- Mapping and Navigation of Mobile Robots in Natural Environments.- Sensor-Based Online Planning of Time-Optimized Paths in Dynamic Environments.- Sensor Integration.- Analysis of Strain Transfer to FBG's for Sensorized Telerobotic End-Effector Applications.- Intuitive Collision Avoidance of Robots Using Charge Generated Virtual Force Fields.- 6D Pose Uncertainty in Robotic Perception.- Robot Vision.- 3D Shape Detection for Mobile Robot Learning.- 3D Collision Detection for Industrial Robots and Unknown Obstacles Using Multiple Depth Images.- Reducing Motion Artifacts in Mobile Vision Systems via Dynamic Filtering of Image Sequences.- Robot Programming.- A Software Architecture for Model-Based Programming of Robot Systems.- Intuitive Robot Programming of Spatial Control Loops with Linear Movements.- Model-Based Programming "by Demonstration"- Fast Setup of Robot Systems (ProDemo).- Humanoid Robots.- New Concept for Wrist Design of the Humanoid Robot ARMAR.- Biological Motivated Control Architecture and Mechatronics for a Human-Like Robot.- Using the Torso to Compensate for Non-Minimum Phase Behaviour in ZMP Bipedal Walking.- Grasping.- Object-Specific Grasp Maps for Use in Planning Manipulation Actions.- Vision Controlled Grasping by Means of an Intelligent Robot Hand.- Learning an Object-Grasp Relation for Silhouette-Based Grasp Planning.- Efficient Parallel Random Sample Matching for Pose Estimation, Localization, and Related Problems.- Medical Robotics.- Automated Robot Assisted Fracture Reduction.- Path Planning for Robot-Guided Endoscopes in Deformable Environments.- Autonomous Helicopters.- An Unmanned Helicopter for Autonomous Flights in Urban Terrain.- Interaction of Altitude Control and Waypoint Navigation of a 4 Rotor Helicopter.- Cooperative Autonomous Helicopters for Load Transportation and Environment Perception.- Applications.- Robot on the Leash - An Intuitive Inexpensive Interface for Robots Using the Nintendo Wii Remote.- Robot Basketball: Ball Dribbling - A Modified Juggling Task.- Research on Exoskeletons at the TU Berlin.- Hard- and Software Architecture of a Small Autonomous Underwater Vehicle for Environmental Monitoring Tasks.
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This book is a collection of scienti c papers presented at the German Workshop on Robotics-a convention of researchers from academia and industry working on mathematical and algorithmic foundations of robotics, on the design and ana- sis of robotic systems as well as on robotic applications. As a new event of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur .. Robotik (DGR, German Robotics Society), the workshop took place at the Technische Universitat .. Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig on June 9-10, 2009. Covering some of the most important ongoing robotics research topics, this v- ume contains 31 carefully selected and discussed contributions. All of them were presented at the workshop that was attended by 80 researchers representing a wide range of research areas within robotics. The papers are organized in ten scienti c tracks: Kinematic and Dynamic Modeling, Motion Generation, Sensor Integration, Robot Vision, Robot Programming, Humanoid Robots, Grasping, Medical Rob- ics, AutonomousHelicopters, andRobotApplications.Two invitedtalksbyAntonio Bicchi and Atsuo Takanishi presented surveys of research activities in the elds of human-robotinteraction and humanoid robotics. The Program Committee was comprised of Karsten Berns, Oliver Brock, W- fram Burgard, Martin Buss, Thomas Christaller, Ru ..diger Dillmann, Bernd Fin- meyer, Martin Hagel .. e, Bodo Heimann, Dominik Henrich, Gerd Hirzinger, Alois Knoll, Helge-Bjorn .. Kuntze, Gisbert Lawitzky, Jur .. gen Rossmann, Roland Siegwart, Markus Vincze, and Heinz Worn...After an extensive review and discussion process, the committee met at February 17, 2009, and composed the scienti c program from a pool of 49 submissions.
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• Robot Software: Principles and Challenges.- Trends in Robot Software Domain Engineering.- Stable Analysis Patterns for Robot Mobility.- The CLARAty Project: Coping with Hardware and Software Heterogeneity.- Simulation and Testbeds of Autonomous Robots in Harsh Environments.- Writing Code in the Field: Implications for Robot Software Development.- Software Environments for Robot Programming.- Sidebar - Programming Commercial Robots.- Component-Based Robotics.- Trends in Component-Based Robotics.- CoolBOT: A Component Model and Software Infrastructure for Robotics.- ROCI: Strongly Typed Component Interfaces for Multi-robot Teams Programming.- Communication Patterns as Key Towards Component Interoperability.- Using MARIE for Mobile Robot Component Development and Integration.- Orca: A Component Model and Repository.- Sidebar - Software Architectures.- Robotic Software Frameworks.- Trends in Robotic Software Frameworks.- Reusable Robot Software and the Player/Stage Project.- An Integration Framework for Developing Interactive Robots.- Increasing Decoupling in the Robotics4.NET Framework.- VIP: The Video Image Processing Framework Based on the MIRO Middleware.- MRT: Robotics Off-the-Shelf with the Modular Robotic Toolkit.- Towards Framework-Based UxV Software Systems: An Applied Research Perspective.- Sidebar - Middlewares for Distributed Computing.- Software Environments for Networked Robotics.- Trends in Software Environments for Networked Robotics.- Advanced Teleoperation Architecture.- A Multi-robot-Multi-operator Collaborative Virtual Environment.- Modularity and Mobility of Distributed Control Software for Networked Mobile Robots.- Sidebar - Java3D for Web-Based Robot Control.
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This book reports on the concepts and ideas discussed at the well attended ICRA2005 Workshop on "Principles and Practice of Software Development in Robotics", held in Barcelona, Spain, April 18 2005. It collects contributions that describe the state of the art in software development for the Robotics domain. It also reports a number of practical applications to real systems and discuss possible future developments.
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