edited by H Bunke (Univ. Bern, Switzerland) , T Kanade (Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA) , & H Noltemeier (Univ. Würzburg, Germany)

Table of Contents (72k)
Preface (49k)
Chapter 1: Dynamic Environmental Modeling by the C-Tree (915k)

This edited and reviewed volume consists of papers that were originally presented at a workshop in the Scientific Center at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany. It gives an overview of the field and presents the latest developments in the areas of modeling and planning for sensor based robots. The particular topics addressed include active vision, sensor fusion, environment modeling, motion planning, robot navigation, distributed control architectures, reactive behavior, and others.

• Dynamic Environmental Modeling by the C-Tree (K Verbarg & H Noltemeier)
• Competitive Strategies for Autonomous Systems (C Icking & R Kelin)
• Boundary Extraction for Rasterized Motion Planning (H Mueller)
• Collision Detection: A Geometric Approach (P Jimenez & C Torras)
• Planning with Uncertainty of Vision (Y Shirai)
• Applications of Fractal Image Encoding (P Levi et al.)
• Model-Based Multisensory Robot Vision (H Bunke et al.)
• Local Environment Modeling Through Integrated Stereo & Motion Analysis (R C Bolles et al.)
• Localisation, Environmental Modelling and Path Planning for Autonomous Mobile Robot Navigation (R Jarvis)
• Hierarchical Control for Navigation Using Heterogeneous Models (P Pirjanian & H I Christensen)
• PRIAMOS: An Advanced Moblie System for Service, Inspection, and Surveillance Tasks (R Dillmann et al.)
• A Distributed Control Architecture for Autonomous Robot Systems (T Laengle et al.)
• Bio-Based Control for Intelligent Autonomous Systems (T C Henderson & A A Efros)
• Image-Guided Robotic Radiosurgery (J R Adler et al.)
• A Nonlinear Circuit Theory for Physically Understanding Dextrous Robot (Human) Motions (S Arimoto)
• and other papers