Experimental Robotics IV The 4th International Symposium, Stanford, California, June 30 – July 2, 1995

This is the fourth of the biennial Experimental Robotics symposia which are designed to bring together, in a small group setting, researchers from around the world who are at the forefront of experimental robotics research. The symposia are designed to provide a forum for the presentation and discus...

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Other Authors: Khatib, Oussama (Editor), Salisbury, Kenneth J. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1997, 1997
Edition:1st ed. 1997
Series:Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Symbolic modelling and experimental determination of physical parameters for complex elastic manipulators
  • Learning compliant motions by task-demonstration in virtual environments
  • Motion control for a hitting task: A learning approach to inverse mapping
  • Experimental verification of progressive learning control for high-speed direct-drive robots with structure flexibility and non-collocated sensors
  • Accurate positioning of devices with nonlinear friction using fuzzy logic pulse controller
  • Platooning for small public urban vehicles
  • Robust vehicle navigation
  • Dynamic analysis of off-road vehicles
  • An autonomous guided vehicle for cargo handling applications
  • Robots that take advice
  • Towards principled experimental study of autonomous mobile robots
  • Mission programming: Application to underwater robots
  • Specification, formal verification and implementation of tasks and missions for an autonomous vehicle
  • Collective and cooperative group behaviours: Biologically inspired experiments in robotics
  • Distributed robotic manipulation: Experiments in minimalism
  • A general framework for multi-robot cooperation and its implementation on a set of three hilare robots
  • Cooperative autonomous low-cost robots for exploring unknown environments
  • An object-oriented framework for event-driven dextrous manipulation
  • Toward obstacle avoidance in intermittent dynamical environments
  • Integrating grasp planning and visual servoing for automatic grasping
  • contact and grasp robustness measures: Analysis and experiments
  • Performance limits and stiffness control of multifingered hands
  • Real-time vision plus remote-brained design opens a new world for experimental robotics
  • Experimental validation of an active visual control scheme based on a reduced set of image parameters
  • Task oriented model-driven visually servoed agents
  • Experiments in hand-eye coordination using active vision
  • An experimental study on motion control of a biped locomotion machine using reaction wheels
  • Real-time programming of mobile robot actions using advanced control techniques
  • Experimental study on modeling and control of flexible manipulators using virtual joint model
  • Experimental research on impact dynamics of spaceborne manipulator systems
  • An operational space formulation for a free-flying, multi-arm space robot
  • Experimental research of a nonholonomic manipulator
  • Mobile manipulation of a fragile object
  • Empirical verification of fine-motion planning theories
  • Estimating throughput for a flexible part feeder
  • Interest of the dual hybrid control scheme for teleoperation with time delays for proceeding of ISER'95
  • Robot force control experiments with an actively damped compliant end effector
  • Improved force control for conventional arms using wrist-based torque feedback
  • Indoor navigation ofan inverse pendulum type autonomous mobile robot with adaptive stabilization control system
  • Motion and perception strategies for outdoor mobile robot navigation in unknown environments
  • Programming symmetric platonic beast robots
  • Visual positioning and docking of non-holonomic vehicles
  • An intelligent observer
  • The development of a robotic endoscope
  • The extender technology: An example of human-machine interaction via the transfer of power and information signals
  • Coordinated and force-feedback control of hydraulic excavators
  • Experiments with a real-time structure-from-motion system
  • Robotic perception of material: Experiments with shape-invariant acoustic measures of material type
  • Multi-level 3D-tracking of objects integrating velocity estimation based on optical flow and kalman-filtering
  • Experimental approach on artificial active antenna
  • Low cost sensor based obstacle detection and description
  • Parameter sensitivity analysis for design and control of tendon transmissions
  • Stiffness isn't everything
  • In pursuit ofdynamic range: Using parallel coupled actuators to overcome hardware limitations
  • Total least squares in robot calibration