Online Appearance-Based Place Recognition and Mapping

Konstantinos A Tsintotas, Loukas Bampis, Antonios Gasteratos

• Paperback | Engels | Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 133
• This book introduces several appearance-based place recognition pipelines based on different mapping techniques for addressing loop-closure detection ... Lees meer

Whole-Body Control for Multi-Contact Balancing of Humanoid Robots

Bernd Henze

• Paperback | Engels | Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 143
• Introduction.- Notation.- Modeling.- Cartesian Compliance.- Torque-Controlled Humanoid Robot TORO.- Whole-Body Control for Multi-Contact Balancing.- C... Lees meer

Biomechanics of Anthropomorphic Systems

• Paperback | Engels | Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 124
• Promotes interdisciplinary research on anthropomorphic systems at large and on humanoid robotics in particular Presents recent research from roboticis... Lees meer

The Human Hand as an Inspiration for Robot Hand Development

• Hardcover | Engels | Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 95
• "The Human Hand as an Inspiration for Robot Hand Development" presents an edited collection of authoritative contributions in the area of robot hands.... Lees meer

Applied Guidance Methodologies for Off-Road Vehicles

Javad Taghia, Jayantha Katupitiya

• Hardcover | Engels | Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 138
• This book provides methodologies for designing and implementing guidance algorithms for autonomous vehicles. These algorithms make important decision ... Lees meer

Whole-Body Impedance Control of Wheeled Humanoid Robots

Alexander Dietrich

• Paperback | Engels | Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 116
• Introducing mobile humanoid robots into human environments requires the systems to physically interact and execute multiple concurrent tasks. The mono... Lees meer

Omnidirectional Tilt-Rotor Flying Robots for Aerial Physical Interaction

Karen Bodie, Maximilian Brunner, Mike Allenspach

• Hardcover | Engels | Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 157
• This book deals with the study of tilt-rotor omnidirectional aerial robots and their application to aerial physical interaction tasks. Omnidirectional... Lees meer

Indoor Scene Recognition by 3-D Object Search

Pascal Meißner

• Paperback | Engels | Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 135
• This book focuses on enabling mobile robots to recognize scenes in indoor environments, in order to allow them to determine which actions are appropri... Lees meer

A Stable and Transparent Framework for Adaptive Shared Control of Robots

Ribin Balachandran

• Hardcover | Engels | Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 158
• Robotic research and developments in computing technologies including artificial intelligence have led to significant improvements in autonomous capab... Lees meer

Geometric and Numerical Foundations of Movements

• Hardcover | Engels | Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 117
• This book aims at gathering roboticists, control theorists, neuroscientists, and mathematicians, in order to promote a multidisciplinary research on m... Lees meer

Dance Notations and Robot Motion

• Hardcover | Engels | Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 111
• How and why to write a movement? Who is the writer? Who is the reader? They may be choreographers working with dancers. They may be roboticists progra... Lees meer

Inductive Biases in Machine Learning for Robotics and Control

Michael Lutter

• Hardcover | Engels | Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 156
• One important robotics problem is "How can one program a robot to perform a task"? Classical robotics solves this problem by manually engineering modu... Lees meer

Robot Dynamic Manipulation

• Hardcover | Engels | Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 144
• This book collects the main results of the Advanced Grant project RoDyMan funded by the European Research Council. As a final demonstrator of the proj... Lees meer

In-Hand Object Localization and Control: Enabling Dexterous Manipulation with Robotic Hands

Martin Pfanne

• Hardcover | Engels | Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 149
• This book introduces a novel model-based dexterous manipulation framework, which, thanks to its precision and versatility, significantly advances the ... Lees meer

Collision Detection for Robot Manipulators: Methods and Algorithms

Kyu Min Park, Frank C Park

• Hardcover | Engels | Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 155
• This book provides a concise survey and description of recent collision detection methods for robot manipulators. Beginning with a review of robot kin... Lees meer

Experimental Robotics

• Hardcover | Engels | Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 109
• The International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER) is a series of bi-annual meetings which are organized in a rotating fashion around North A... Lees meer

Human-Robot Interaction Strategies for Walker-Assisted Locomotion

Carlos A Cifuentes, Anselmo Frizera

• Hardcover | Engels | Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 115
• This book presents the development of a new multimodal human-robot interface for testing and validating control strategies applied to robotic walkers ... Lees meer

Implementing Cloud Robotics for Practical Applications

Ricardo C Mello, Moises R N Ribeiro, Anselmo Frizera-Neto

• Hardcover | Engels | Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 152
• This book explores cloud robotics by casting a light on key issues and proposing a novel approach towards implementation and practical aspects to allo... Lees meer

Online Appearance-Based Place Recognition and Mapping

Konstantinos A Tsintotas, Loukas Bampis, Antonios Gasteratos

• Hardcover | Engels | Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 133
• The revisiting problem in simultaneous localization and mapping.- Benchmarking.- Probabilistic appearance-based place recognition through hierarchical... Lees meer

Analysis and Synthesis of Compliant Parallel Mechanisms--Screw Theory Approach

Chen Qiu, Jian S Dai

• Paperback | Engels | Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 139
• This book addresses the design of compliant mechanisms, presenting readers with a good understanding of both the solid mechanics of exible elements an... Lees meer

Guiding Vector Fields for Robot Motion Control

Weijia Yao

• Hardcover | Engels | Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 154
• Using a designed vector field to guide robots to follow a given geometric desired path has found a range of practical applications, such as underwater... Lees meer

Methods for Appearance-Based Loop Closure Detection

Emilio Garcia-Fidalgo, Alberto Ortiz

• Hardcover | Engels | Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 122
• Addresses the vision-based loop closure detection problem from different points of view Deals with the problem of generating topological maps of the e... Lees meer

Model-Based Control of Flying Robots for Robust Interaction Under Wind Influence

Teodor Tomic

• Hardcover | Engels | Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 151
• This book addresses the topic of autonomous flying robots physically interacting with the environment under the influence of wind. It aims to make aer... Lees meer

Human-Aware Robotics: Modeling Human Motor Skills for the Design, Planning and Control of a New Generation of Robotic Devices

Giuseppe Averta

• Hardcover | Engels | Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 145
• This book moves from a thorough investigation of human capabilities during movements and interactions with objects and environment and translates thos... Lees meer