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Series in Robotics and Automated Systems - Vol. 11
RECENT TRENDS IN MOBILE ROBOTS
edited by Yuan F Zheng (Ohio State Univ.)
This book presents recent trends in the field as perceived by a global selection of researchers and experts. Subjects covered include motion planning of mobile robots in unknown environments, coordination between mobility and manipulability, computation environments for mobile robots, nonlinear control of mobile robots and environmental modeling using advanced sensing technologies. Issues ranging from progress in applications to fundamental problems are discussed.
Contents:
- Path Planning in Time-Varying Environments:
Distance Transform Based Path Planning for Robot Navigation (R Jarvis)
- Motion Planning in Time-Varying Environments (K Fujimura)
- Motion Planning Algorithms: Motion Planning of Multiple Mobile Robots Using Dynamic Groups (T Arai & J Ota)
- Theoretical and Experimental Evaluation of a Local-Minimum-Recovery Navigation Algorithm (Y-L Zhao)
- Mobile Robot Control: Nonlinear Control Design for Mobile Robots (C C de Wit et al.)
- Coordinating Locomotion and Manipulation of a Mobile Manipulator (Y Yamamoto & X-P Yun)
- Computers for Mobile Robots: Computers for Mobile Robots (J S Byrd)
- A Software Development Environment for Autonomous Mobile Robots (M A Salichs et al.)
- Intelligent Mobile Robots: Binary-Camera Vision for Guidance Control of the Automated Guided Vehicle (R M H Cheng & R Rajagopalan)
- An Intelligent Robotic Vehicle for Lunar and Martian Resource Assessment (F-Y Wang & P J A Lever)
- Neural Network Control of Legged Robots: Genetic Algorithms for Gait Synthesis in a Hexapod Robot (M A Lewis et al.)
- Distal Learning Applied to Biped Robots (S Stitt & Y F Zheng)
- Index
Readership: Computer scientists and engineers.
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Pub. date: Jan 1994 |
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