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This book provides state-of-the-art scientific and engineering research findings and developments in the area of mobile robotics and associated support technologies around the theme of assistive robotics.

The book, written for a general educated public, compares the most important elements of the human nervous system to the corresponding capacities of robots.

Cities and countries around the world are focused on enhancing their living conditions through ways that go beyond the brick and mortar of urban planning.

50 Years of Urban Planning in Singapore is an accessible and comprehensive volume on Singapore's planning approach to urbanization.

Interest in control of climbing and walking robots has remarkably increased over the years.

Robot Hands and Multi-Fingered Haptic Interfaces is a monograph focusing on the comparison of human hands with robot hands, the fundamentals behind designing and creating the latter, and robotics' latest advancements in haptic technology.

Telexistence is a fundamental concept which refers to the general technology that enables a human being to have the real-time sensation of being at a place other than where he or she actually exists, while being able to interact with the remote environment, which may be real, virtual, or a combination of both.

This book treats visual feedback control of mechanical systems, mostly robot manipulators.

Over the past few decades, rapid urbanisation has threatened to erode public space, especially in emerging economies.

The 210 articles which are divided into 18 sections in this new reference work represent the most recent findings in cybernetics and systems research.

These proceedings comprise about 50 contributions from experts worldwide.

AIICSR '97 (Artificial Intelligence and Information-Control Systems of Robots) is one of the most traditional East-West professional meetings devoted to artifical intelligence (AI) and its applications in robots.

This volume provides doctorate students and professionals with basic and advanced material on modelling and control of complex mechanical systems, with particular emphasis on robotic manipulators.

This volume contains the research papers for the final Workshop of European Robotics Network (ERNET).

Soft computing is the common name for a certain form of natural information processing that has its original form in biology, especially in the function of human brain.

The main focus of this book is on the uses of computer vision for inspection and model based matching.

The proceedings provide state-of-the-art scientific and engineering research findings and developments in the area of mobile robotics and assistive technologies.

This book presents an extensive survey of the state-of-the-art research in parallel computational algorithms and architectures for robot manipulator control and simulation.

This volume focusses on the problem of planning in the context of robotics.

Advanced robot systems require sensory information to enable them to make decisions and to carry out actions in a versatile, autonomous way.

Automated manufacturing is the topic of the day in industry and thus also in R&D investigation in both industrial laboratories and academia.

This book explores a new rapidly developing area of robotics.

The Oxford University Robotics Research Group has been working for several years to improve the ability of automated guided vehicles.

This text features a broad array of research efforts in computer vision including low level processing, perceptual organization, object recognition and active vision.

This edited and reviewed volume consists of papers that were originally presented at a workshop in the Scientific Center at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany.

In recent years works done by most researchers towards building autonomous intelligent controllers frequently mention the need for a methodology of design and a measure of how successful the final result is.

This book derives techniques which allow reliable plans to be automatically selected by Intelligent Machines.

This book deals with a key area of industrial robotics - the automation of small batch assembly.

This book describes non-conventional methods of control of human extremities, emphasizing the fact that conventional approaches used in robotics are limited when used in humans for restoration of reaching and grasping (goal-oriented movements), and standing and locomotion (cyclic movements).

Research in Computer and Robot Vision is directed toward researchers and graduate students in the field of computer vision.

This book presents recent trends in the field as perceived by a global selection of researchers and experts.

This book introduces interesting topics, from concepts to the latest research, on cellular and micro robotic systems.

This book describes an approach to intelligent task planning in a robotic system.

The fusion of information from sensors with different physical characteristics, such as sight, touch, sound, etc.

Obstacle Avoidance in Multi-robot Systems: Experiments in Parallel Genetic Algorithms offers a novel framework for solving the path planning problem for robot manipulators.

Recently, there has been considerable research interest in neural network control of robots, and satisfactory results have been obtained in solving some of the special issues associated with the problems of robot control in an "e;on-and-off"e; fashion.

This invaluable book presents an unbiased framework for modelling and using sensors to aid mobile robot navigation.

Earth-moving is a common activity at mines, construction sites, hazardous waste cleanup locations, and road works.

This book surveys the history of automatic vehicle guidance based on the processing of visual information, starting from the very first projects worldwide up to the latest developments.

Insects are extremely successful creatures, thriving in our ever-changing and unpredictable world.

Rapid advances in sensors, computers, and algorithms continue to fuel dramatic improvements in intelligent robots.

This book is a collection of talks presented at the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.

Robots are being used in increasingly complicated and demanding tasks, often in environments that are complex or even hostile.

This volume is a guide to two types of transcendence of academic borders which seem necessary for understanding and modelling brain function.

This book presents the state of integration of wavelet theory and multiresolution analysis into soft computing.

This book introduces a practical approach to the modelling and computation of real-world systems.

This volume presents the editors' research as well as related recent findings on the applications of modern technologies in electrical and electronic engineering to the automation of some of the common manufacturing processes that have traditionally been handled within the mechanical and material engineering disciplines.