City and town planning: architectural aspects

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.

Theorizing the Southeast Asian City as Text examines the ways in which culture, ethnicity, languages, traditions, governance, policies and histories interplay in the creation of the urban experiences in contemporary Southeast Asian cities.

Flexible robotic manipulators pose various challenges in research as compared to rigid robotic manipulators, ranging from system design, structural optimization, and construction to modeling, sensing, and control.

The main goal of this book is to prove analytically and validate experimentally that synchronization in multi-composed mechanical systems can be achieved in the case of partial knowledge of the state vector of the systems, i.

This book deals with locomotion control of biologically inspired robots realized through an analog circuital paradigm as cellular nonlinear networks.

With the impending demise of modernist planning, the footprints and corpses of failed modernist visions are littered everywhere.

This invaluable book comprehensively describes evolutionary robotics and computational intelligence, and how different computational intelligence techniques are applied to robotic system design.

Robotics is an exciting field in engineering and natural sciences.

An important obstacle in Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) is the significant degradation of haptic feedback (sensation of touch) to the surgeon about surgical instrument's interaction with tissue.

This book covers the most attractive problem in robot control, dealing with the direct interaction between a robot and a dynamic environment, including the human-robot physical interaction.

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

Telexistence is a fundamental concept which refers to the general technology that enables a human being to have a 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.

In this book, we look at how cluster technology can be leveraged to build better robots.

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

This book introduces an unified function approximation approach to the control of uncertain robot manipulators containing general uncertainties.

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

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a process where an autonomous vehicle builds a map of an unknown environment while concurrently generating an estimate for its location.

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

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

The book explores how build a mechanical inferences by making use of arithmetic operations on a string of numbers representing statements.

Robots are becoming more human, but could they also become sentient and have human-like consciousness?

Biomimetic Robotic Artificial Muscles presents a comprehensive up-to-date overview of several types of electroactive materials with a view of using them as biomimetic artificial muscles.

This book is devoted to mechatronic, chemical, bacteriological, biological, and hybrid systems, utilizing cooperative, networked, swarm, self-organizing, evolutionary and bio-inspired design principles and targeting underwater, ground, air, and space applications.

Incomplete Urbanism is a dynamic, hybrid interactive concept, which destabilizes the current architectural and urban theories and practices.

This book explains, using the example of endovascular intervention, the development of in vitro simulators for biomedical applications based on the scientific context in the robotics area and the explanation of the medical procedure to be simulated.

Present-day computers lack well-defined functions to accept various kinds of sensual information such as vision, hearing, and smelling (binding problem).

This book provides new information to understand the relationship between urban development and environmental change to the reader.