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Intelligent Robotics and Applications

4th International Conference, ICIRA 2011, Aachen, Germany, December 6-8, 2011, Proceedings, Part I

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 7101)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

Conference series link(s): ICIRA: International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications

Conference proceedings info: ICIRA 2011.

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Table of contents (63 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Progress in Indoor UAV

    1. On the Way to a Real-Time On-Board Orthogonal SLAM for an Indoor UAV

      • Mirco Alpen, Klaus Frick, Joachim Horn
      Pages 1-11
    2. Quadrocopter Localization Using RTK-GPS and Vision-Based Trajectory Tracking

      • Ulf Pilz, Willem Gropengießer, Florian Walder, Jonas Witt, Herbert Werner
      Pages 12-21
    3. Five-Axis Milling Simulation Based on B-rep Model

      • Yongzhi Cheng, Caihua Xiong, Tao Ye, Hongkai Cheng
      Pages 22-32
  3. Robotics Intelligence

    1. Exploration Strategies for Building Compact Maps in Unbounded Environments

      • Matthias Nieuwenhuisen, Dirk Schulz, Sven Behnke
      Pages 33-43
    2. An Experimental Comparison of Model-Free Control Methods in a Nonlinear Manipulator

      • Mateusz Przybyla, Rafal Madonski, Marta Kordasz, Przemyslaw Herman
      Pages 53-62
  4. Robotics Assembly Applications

    1. Integrative Path Planning and Motion Control for Handling Large Components

      • Rainer Müller, Martin Esser, Markus Janssen
      Pages 93-101
    2. Automatic Configuration of Robot Systems - Upward and Downward Integration

      • Gunther Reinhart, Stefan Hüttner, Stefan Krug
      Pages 102-111
    3. Process and Human Safety in Human-Robot-Interaction - A Hybrid Assistance System for Welding Applications

      • Carsten Thomas, Felix Busch, Bernd Kuhlenkoetter, Jochen Deuse
      Pages 112-121
    4. Operation Simulation of a Robot for Space Applications

      • Hui Li, Giuseppe Carbone, Marco Ceccarelli, Qiang Huang
      Pages 122-131
    5. Re-grasping: Improving Capability for Multi-Arm-Robot-System by Dynamic Reconfiguration

      • Burkhard Corves, Tom Mannheim, Martin Riedel
      Pages 132-141
    6. A Parallel Kinematic Concept Targeting at More Accurate Assembly of Aircraft Sections

      • Christian Löchte, Franz Dietrich, Annika Raatz
      Pages 142-151
    7. Dimensional Synthesis of Parallel Manipulators Based on Direction-Dependent Jacobian Indices

      • Marwène Nefzi, Clément Gosselin, Martin Riedel, Mathias Hüsing, Burkhard Corves
      Pages 152-161
  5. Rehabilitation Robotics

    1. Situated Learning of Visual Robot Behaviors

      • Krishna Kumar Narayanan, Luis-Felipe Posada, Frank Hoffmann, Torsten Bertram
      Pages 172-182
    2. Humanoid Motion Planning in the Goal Reaching Movement of Anthropomorphic Upper Limb

      • Wenbin Chen, Caihua Xiong, Ronglei Sun, Xiaolin Huang
      Pages 183-191

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About this book

The two volume set LNAI 7101 and LNAI 7102 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2011, held in Aachen, Germany, in November 2011.
The 122 revised full papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. They are organized in topical sections on progress in indoor UAV, robotics intelligence, industrial robots, rehabilitation robotics, mechanisms and their applications, multi robot systems, robot mechanism and design, parallel kinematics, parallel kinematics machines and parallel robotics, handling and manipulation, tangibility in human-machine interaction, navigation and localization of mobile robot, a body for the brain: embodied intelligence in bio-inspired robotics, intelligent visual systems, self-optimising production systems, computational intelligence, robot control systems, human-robot interaction, manipulators and applications, stability, dynamics and interpolation, evolutionary robotics, bio-inspired robotics, and image-processing applications.

Keywords

  • autonomous vehicles
  • behavior estimation
  • genetic optimization
  • particle swarm optimization
  • self-reconfigurable robot

Editors and Affiliations

  • Zentrum für Lern- und Wissensmanagement, Lehrstuhl für Informationsmanagement im Maschinenbau, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

    Sabina Jeschke

  • School of Creative Technologies, Intelligents Systems and Biomedical Robotics Group, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK

    Honghai Liu

  • ZLW/IMA, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

    Daniel Schilberg

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