Intelligent Robotics and Applications

Hands-Free Head-Motion Interface Using Air Pillow.- A Self-localization System with Global Error Reduction and Online Map-Building Capabilities.- Sensor Classification Methods Applied to Robotics.- Design and Simulation of Bio-inspired Flexible Tactile Sensor for Prosthesis.- A Monitoring Network Based on Embedded Vision Nodes Suitable for Robotic Systems.- Conceptual Design and Kinematic Analysis of a Parallel Rotational Robot.- Attitude Control of the Unicycle Robot Using Fuzzy-Sliding Mode Control.- Evaluation of Response Models to a Series of Commands in a Telerobotics Supervisory Control System.- An Embedded Control System for Automatic Guided Vehicle.- Predictive Delay Compensation for Camera Based Oscillation Damping of a Multi Link Flexible Robot.- Control of an Ostrich-Like Knee Joint for a Biped Robot Based on Passive Dynamic Walking.- Adaptive Neural Network Control of Robot with Passive Last Joint.- 4M-Model Based Bionic Design of Artificial Skeletal Muscle Actuated by SMA.- Design Considerations of a Robotic Head for Telepresence Applications.- Scaling Studies for an Actively Controlled Curvature Robotic Pectoral Fin.- Control of a Passive-Dynamic-Walking-Based Biped Model with Semicircular Feet for a Small Stair Step.- Evaluation of a Proposed Workspace Spanning Technique for Small Haptic Device Based Manipulator Teleoperation.- Prior Knowledge Employment Based on the K-L and Tanimoto Distances Matching for Intelligent Autonomous Robots.- Interactive Features for Robot Viewers.- Searching Energy-Efficient Route in Rough Terrain for Mobile Robot with Ant Algorithm.- Real-Time Recognizing Human Hand Gestures.- Safe Robot Learning by Energy Limitation.- Motion Recovery of Parallel Manipulators Using Task-Decomposition Approach.- Derivation of Dynamic Equations of Serial Robot Manipulators with Coupled Ideal Joint Motion.- Mechatronics Design Applied to the Concept ofService Robot to Clean Storage Tanks.- Research on the Impact of the Number of Wheels and Layouts to the Performances of Omni-Directional Chassis.- A Novel Distributed Tuned Mass Damper Design Approach.- The Basic Component of Computational Intelligence for AX-12 Robotic Arm Manipulator.- Guiding Sampling-Based Motion Planning by Forward and Backward Discrete Search.- Kinematic Modeling of a Heavy-Duty Forging Manipulator.- Simultaneous Localization and Map Building for Wheeled Robot with Colored Measurement Noise.- A Comparison of Different Metaheuristic Algorithms for Optimizing Blended PTP Movements for Industrial Robots.- Stable Gait Planning for Biped Robot's Lower Limb Based on Natural ZMP Trajectories.- Numerical and Analytical Methods for Synthesis of Central Pattern Generators.- Trajectory Planning for Omni-Directional Mobile Robot Based on Bezier Curve, Trigonometric Function and Polynomial.- A Low-Cost, Practical Localization System for Agricultural Vehicles.- Static Gait Control for Quadruped Robot.- Accurate Correction of Robot Trajectories Generated by Teaching Using 3D Vision by Laser Triangulation.- Improved Method of Robot Trajectory in IBVS Based on an Efficient Second-Order Minimization Technique.- Tactile Sensors Based Object Recognition and 6D Pose Estimation.- Graph-Based Detection of Objects with Regular Regions.- Semantic Interpretation of Novelty in Images Using Histograms of Oriented Gradients.- Far-Field Terrain Perception Using Max-Margin Markov Networks.- An Adaptive Trajectory Prediction Method for Ping-Pong Robots.- A New Method of Stereo Localization Using Dual-PTZ-Cameras.- Monocular Depth from Motion Using a New Closed-Form Solution.- Fast Template Matching of Objects for Visual SLAM.- Body Pixel Classification by Neural Network.- Robust Recognition against Illumination Variations Based on SIFT.- Robust Real-Time Stereo Edge Matching by Confidence-Based Refinement.- A Symbol Identifier Based Recognition and Relative PositioningApproach Suitable for Multi-robot Systems.- New Stereovision Self-calibration Method and Its Application in Vision Guided Approaching.- A Real-Time On-Board Orthogonal SLAM for an Indoor UAV.- An Infrastructure-Free Indoor Navigation System for Blind People.- Q-Tree: Automatic Construction of Hierarchical State Representation for Reinforcement Learning.- Navigation and Localization for Autonomous Vehicle at Road Intersections with Low-Cost Sensors.- On-Road Motion Planning for Autonomous Vehicles.- On the Development of an Open-Source Vehicle Dynamics Simulation.- A Study of New Path Planning Algorithm Using Extended A* Algorithm with Survivability.