Robot Colonies

Author : Ronald C. Arkin,George A. Bekey
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781475764512

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Robot Colonies by Ronald C. Arkin,George A. Bekey Pdf

Robots in groups or colonies can exhibit an enormous variety and richness of behaviors which cannot be observed with singly autonomous systems. Of course, this is analogous to the amazing variety of group animal behaviors which can be observed in nature. In recent years more and more investigators have started to study these behaviors. The studies range from classifications and taxonomies of behaviors, to development of architectures which cause such group activities as flocking or swarming, and from emphasis on the role of intelligent agents in such groups to studies of learning and obstacle avoidance. There used to be a time when many robotics researchers would question those who were interested in working with teams of robots: `Why are you worried about robotic teams when it's hard enough to just get one to work?'. This issue responds to that question. Robot Colonies provides a new approach to task problem-solving that is similar in many ways to distributed computing. Multiagent robotic teams offer the possibility of spatially distributed parallel and concurrent perception and action. A paradigm shift results when using multiple robots, providing a different perspective on how to carry out complex tasks. New issues such as interagent communications, spatial task distribution, heterogeneous or homogeneous societies, and interference management are now central to achieving coordinated and productive activity within a colony. Fortunately mobile robot hardware has evolved sufficiently in terms of both cost and robustness to enable these issues to be studied on actual robots and not merely in simulation. Robot Colonies presents a sampling of the research in this field. While capturing a reasonable representation of the most important work within this area, its objective is not to be a comprehensive survey, but rather to stimulate new research by exposing readers to the principles of robot group behaviors, architectures and theories. Robot Colonies is an edited volume of peer-reviewed original research comprising eight invited contributions by leading researchers. This research work has also been published as a special issue of Autonomous Robots (Volume 4, Number 1).

Author : George A. Bekey
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Autonomous robots
ISBN : 0262025787

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Autonomous Robots by George A. Bekey Pdf

An introduction to the science and practice of autonomous robots that reviews over 300 current systems and examines the underlying technology.

Author : Jagannathan Kanniah,M. Fikret Ercan,Carlos A. Acosta Calderon
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781482210224

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Practical Robot Design by Jagannathan Kanniah,M. Fikret Ercan,Carlos A. Acosta Calderon Pdf

Designed for beginners, undergraduate students, and robotics enthusiasts, Practical Robot Design: Game Playing Robots is a comprehensive guide to the theory, design, and construction of game-playing robots. Drawing on years of robot building and teaching experience, the authors demonstrate the key steps of building a robot from beginning to end, wi

Author : Illah Reza Nourbakhsh
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262528320

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Robot Futures by Illah Reza Nourbakhsh Pdf

A roboticist imagines life with robots that sell us products, drive our cars, even allow us to assume new physical form, and more. With robots, we are inventing a new species that is part material and part digital. The ambition of modern robotics goes beyond copying humans, beyond the effort to make walking, talking androids that are indistinguishable from people. Future robots will have superhuman abilities in both the physical and digital realms. They will be embedded in our physical spaces, with the ability to go where we cannot, and will have minds of their own, thanks to artificial intelligence. In Robot Futures, the roboticist Illah Reza Nourbakhsh considers how we will share our world with these creatures, and how our society could change as it incorporates a race of stronger, smarter beings. Nourbakhsh imagines a future that includes adbots offering interactive custom messaging; robotic flying toys that operate by means of “gaze tracking”; robot-enabled multimodal, multicontinental telepresence; and even a way that nanorobots could allow us to assume different physical forms. Nourbakhsh examines the underlying technology and the social consequences of each scenario. He also offers a counter-vision: a robotics designed to create civic and community empowerment. His book helps us understand why that is the robot future we should try to bring about.

Author : Ivan Plander
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Artificial intelligence
ISBN : 9789814533904

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Artificial Intelligence and Information-control Systems of Robots '94 by Ivan Plander Pdf

Author : Judith Markowitz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781614514404

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Robots that Talk and Listen by Judith Markowitz Pdf

Robots That Talk and Listen provides a forward-looking examination of speech and language in robots from technical, functional, and social perspectives. Contributors address cultural foundations as well as the linguistic skills and technologies that robots need to function effectively in real-world settings. Among the most difficult and complex is the ability to understand and use language. Speech-enabled automata are already serving as interactive toys, teacher’s aides, and research assistants. These robots will soon be joined by personal companions, industrial co-workers, and military support automata. The social impact of these and other robots extends well beyond the specific tasks they perform. Contributors tackle the most knotty of those issues, notably acceptance of advanced, speech-enabled robots and developing ethical and moral controls for robots. Topics in this book include: • Language and Beyond: The True Meaning of “Speech Enabled” • Robots in Myth and Media • Enabling Robots to Converse • Language Learning by Automata • Handling Noisy Settings • Empirical Studies of Robots in Real-World Environments • Acceptance of Intelligent Robots • Managing Robots that Can Lie and Deceive • Envisioning a World Shared with Intelligent Robots

Author : Marco Dorigo,Marco Colombetti
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262041642

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Robot Shaping by Marco Dorigo,Marco Colombetti Pdf

foreword by Lashon Booker To program an autonomous robot to act reliably in a dynamic environment is a complex task. The dynamics of the environment are unpredictable, and the robots' sensors provide noisy input. A learning autonomous robot, one that can acquire knowledge through interaction with its environment and then adapt its behavior, greatly simplifies the designer's work. A learning robot need not be given all of the details of its environment, and its sensors and actuators need not be finely tuned. Robot Shaping is about designing and building learning autonomous robots. The term "shaping" comes from experimental psychology, where it describes the incremental training of animals. The authors propose a new engineering discipline, "behavior engineering," to provide the methodologies and tools for creating autonomous robots. Their techniques are based on classifier systems, a reinforcement learning architecture originated by John Holland, to which they have added several new ideas, such as "mutespec," classifier system "energy,"and dynamic population size. In the book they present Behavior Analysis and Training (BAT) as an example of a behavior engineering methodology.

Author : Yue Wang,Fumin Zhang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319405339

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Trends in Control and Decision-Making for Human–Robot Collaboration Systems by Yue Wang,Fumin Zhang Pdf

This book provides an overview of recent research developments in the automation and control of robotic systems that collaborate with humans. A measure of human collaboration being necessary for the optimal operation of any robotic system, the contributors exploit a broad selection of such systems to demonstrate the importance of the subject, particularly where the environment is prone to uncertainty or complexity. They show how such human strengths as high-level decision-making, flexibility, and dexterity can be combined with robotic precision, and ability to perform task repetitively or in a dangerous environment. The book focuses on quantitative methods and control design for guaranteed robot performance and balanced human experience from both physical human-robot interaction and social human-robot interaction. Its contributions develop and expand upon material presented at various international conferences. They are organized into three parts covering: one-human–one-robot collaboration; one-human–multiple-robot collaboration; and human–swarm collaboration. Individual topic areas include resource optimization (human and robotic), safety in collaboration, human trust in robot and decision-making when collaborating with robots, abstraction of swarm systems to make them suitable for human control, modeling and control of internal force interactions for collaborative manipulation, and the sharing of control between human and automated systems, etc. Control and decision-making algorithms feature prominently in the text, importantly within the context of human factors and the constraints they impose. Applications such as assistive technology, driverless vehicles, cooperative mobile robots, manufacturing robots and swarm robots are considered. Illustrative figures and tables are provided throughout the book. Researchers and students working in controls, and the interaction of humans and robots will learn new methods for human–robot collaboration from this book and will find the cutting edge of the subject described in depth.

Author : Peter Stone,Tucker Balch,Gerhard Kraetzschmar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003-06-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540453246

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RoboCup 2000: Robot Soccer World Cup IV by Peter Stone,Tucker Balch,Gerhard Kraetzschmar Pdf

This book is the fourth offical archival publication devoted to RoboCup and documents the achievements presented at the Fourth Robot World Cup Soccer Games and Conferences, RoboCup 2000, held in Melbourne, Australia, in August/September 2000. The book presents the following parts: introductory overview and survey, championship papers by the winners of the competitions, finalist papers for the RoboCup challenge awards, papers and posters presented at the workshop, team description of a large number of participating teams. This book is mandatory reading for the rapidly growing RoboCup community as well as a valuable source of reference and inspiration for R & D professionals interested in multi-agent systems, distributed artificial intelligence, and intelligent robotics.

Author : Richard Alami,Raja Chatila,Hajime Asama
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9784431358732

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Distributed Autonomous Robotic System 6 by Richard Alami,Raja Chatila,Hajime Asama Pdf

DARS is now a well-established conference that gathers every two years the main researchers in Distributed Robotics systems. Even if the field is growing, it has been maintained a one-track conference in order to enforce effective exchanges between the main researchers in the field. It now a well-established tradition to publish the main contributions as a book from Springer. There are already 5 books entitled "Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems" 1 to 5.

Author : Florea, Andrei George,Buiu, C?t?lin
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781522522812

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Membrane Computing for Distributed Control of Robotic Swarms: Emerging Research and Opportunities by Florea, Andrei George,Buiu, C?t?lin Pdf

Developments in bio-inspired computation have impacted multiple fields and created opportunities for new applications. In recent years, these techniques have been increasingly integrated into robotic systems. Membrane Computing for Distributed Control of Robotic Swarms: Emerging Research and Opportunities is an innovative reference source for the latest perspectives on biologically-inspired computation techniques for robot design and control. Highlighting a range of pivotal topics such as software engineering, simulation tools, and robotic security, this book is ideally designed for researchers, academics, students, and practitioners interested in the role of membrane computing in mobile robots.

Author : Gianluca Antonelli
Publisher : Springer
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319778990

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Underwater Robots by Gianluca Antonelli Pdf

A classic in underwater robotics. One of the first volumes in the “Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics” series, it has been a bestseller through the previous three editions. Fifteen years after the publication of the first edition, the fourth edition comes to print. The book addresses the main control aspects in underwater manipulation tasks. With respect to the third edition, it has been revised, extended and some concepts better clustered. The mathematical model with significant impact on the control strategy is discussed. The problem of controlling a 6-degrees-of-freedoms autonomous underwater vehicle is investigated and a survey of fault detection/tolerant strategies for unmanned underwater vehicles is provided. Inverse kinematics, dynamic and interaction control for underwater vehicle-manipulator systems are then discussed. The code used to generate most of the numerical simulations is made available and briefly discussed.

Author : Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 1801 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781466646087

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Robotics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications by Management Association, Information Resources Pdf

"This book explores some of the most recent developments in robotic motion, artificial intelligence, and human-machine interaction, providing insight into a wide variety of applications and functional areas"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Erol Sahin,William M. Spears
Publisher : Springer
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540305521

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Swarm Robotics by Erol Sahin,William M. Spears Pdf

Swarm robotics can be defined as the study of how a swarm of relatively simple physically embodied agents can be constructed to collectively accomplish tasks that are beyond the capabilities of a single one. Unlike other studies on multi-robot systems, swarm robotics emphasizes self-organization and emergence, while keeping in mind the issues of scalability and robustness. These emphases promote the use of relatively simple robots, equipped with localized sensing ability, scalable communication mechanisms, and the exploration of decentralized control strategies. This state-of-the-art survey is the first book devoted to swarm robotics. It is based on the First International Workshop on Swarm Robotics held in Santa Monica, CA, USA in July 2004 as part of SAB 2004

Author : Heiko Hamann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642133770

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Space-Time Continuous Models of Swarm Robotic Systems by Heiko Hamann Pdf

In this book, a generic model in as far as possible mathematical closed-formis developed that predicts the behavior of large self-organizing robot groups (robot swarms) based on their control algorithm. In addition, an extensive subsumption of the relatively young and distinctive interdisciplinary research field of swarm robotics is emphasized. The connection to many related fields is highlighted and the concepts and methods borrowed from these fields are described shortly.