Traditional And Non Traditional Robotic Sensors

Author : Thomas C. Henderson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 463 pages
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Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642759840

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Traditional and Non-Traditional Robotic Sensors by Thomas C. Henderson Pdf

This book contains the written record of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Traditional and Non-Traditional Robotic Sensors held in the Hotel Villa del Mare, Maratea, Italy, August 28 - September 1, 1989. This workshop was organized under the auspicies of the NATO Special Program on Sensory Systems for Robotic Control. Professor Frans Groen from the University of Amsterdam and Dr. Gert Hirzinger from the German Aerospace Research Establishment (DLR) served as members of the organizing committee for this workshop. Research in the area of robotic sensors is necessary in order to support a wide range of applications, including: industrial automation, space robotics, image analysis, microelectronics, and intelligent sensors. This workshop focused on the role of traditional and non-traditional sensors in robotics. In particular, the following three topics were explored: - Sensor development and technology, - Multisensor integration techniques, - Application area requirements which motivate sensor development directions. This workshop'brought together experts from NATO countries to discuss recent developments in these three areas. Many new directions (or new directions on old problems) were proposed. Existing sensors should be pushed into new application domains such as medical robotics and space robotics.

Author : Thomas C Henderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1990-09-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3642759858

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Traditional and Non-Traditional Robotic Sensors by Thomas C Henderson Pdf

Author : Howard R Nicholls
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1992-12-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789814505789

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Advanced Tactile Sensing for Robotics by Howard R Nicholls Pdf

Advanced robot systems require sensory information to enable them to make decisions and to carry out actions in a versatile, autonomous way. Humans make considerable use of information derived through touch, and an emerging domain of robot sensing is tactile sensing. This book considers various aspects of tactile sensing, from hardware design through to the use of tactile data in exploratory situations using a multi-fingered robot hand. In the first part of the book, the current state of progress of tactile sensing is surveyed, and it is found that the field is still in an early stage of development. Next, some fundamental issues in planar elasticity, concerning the interaction between tactile sensors and the environment, are presented. Having established how the basic data can be derived from the sensors, the issues of what form tactile sensors should take, and how they should be used, are considered. This is particularly important given the infancy of this field. The human tactile system is examined, and then biological touch and its implications for robotics is looked at. Some experiments in dextrous manipulation using a robot hand are described, which apply some of these results. The integration of tactile sensors into a complete system is also considered, and another, novel, approach for using touch sensing in a flexible assembly machine is described. Both basic material and new research results are provided in this book, thus catering to different levels of readers. The chapters by world experts in different aspects of the field are integrated well into one volume. The editor and authors have produced a thorough and in-depth survey of all work in robot tactile sensing, making the book essential reading for all researchers in this emergent field. Contents:Introduction to Tactile SensingTactile Sensor DesignsProcessing and Using Tactile Sensor Data (H R Nicholls)Planar Elasticity for Tactile Sensing (R S Fearing)Integrating Tactile Sensors — ESPRIT 278 (Z G Rzepczynski)Distributed Touch Sensing (H R Nicholls & N W Hardy)The Human Tactile System (L Moss-Salentijn)Lessons from the Study of Biological Touch for Robotic Tactile Sensing (S J Lederman & D T Pawluck)Lessons from the Study of Biological Touch for Robotic Haptic Sensing (S J Lederman et al.)Object Recognition Using Active Tactile Sensing (P K Allen)Experiments in Active Haptic Perception with the Utah-MIT Dextrous Hand (P K Allen et al.)Future Trends in Tactile Sensing (H R Nicholls)Appendix — Basic Linear Elasticity (R S Fearing) Readership: Computer scientists and engineers. keywords:Tactile Sensing;Tactile Sensor;Force Sensing;Force Sensor;Image Processing;Intelligent Robotics;Haptics;Robot Gripper;Robot Grasping;Touch Sensing;Touch Sensor “The book is well presented, with copious references to the literature, and will certainly be accepted as a standard work of reference in this area.” Robotica

Author : R C Bolles,H Bunke,H Noltemeier
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1997-12-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789814497251

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Intelligent Robots — Sensing, Modeling and Planning by R C Bolles,H Bunke,H Noltemeier Pdf

Rapid advances in sensors, computers, and algorithms continue to fuel dramatic improvements in intelligent robots. In addition, robot vehicles are starting to appear in a number of applications. For example, they have been installed in public settings to perform such tasks as delivering items in hospitals and cleaning floors in supermarkets; recently, two small robot vehicles were launched to explore Mars. This book presents the latest advances in the principal fields that contribute to robotics. It contains contributions written by leading experts addressing topics such as Path and Motion Planning, Navigation and Sensing, Vision and Object Recognition, Environment Modeling, and others. Contents:Path and Motion PlanningNavigation and SensingLocalization and VisibilityVision, Shape, and Object RecognitionEnvironment ModelingFixture Design and GraspingDistributed SystemsEcological Systems, Learning, and Robot ControlApplications Readership: Researchers and scientists in intelligent robotics. keywords:Path Planning;Motion Planning;Dynamical Systems;Navigation and Sensing;Localization;Visibility;Object Recognition;Environment Modeling;Spatial Representation;Fixture Design;Grasping;Distributed Systems;Learning and Skill Acquisition;Robot Control

Author : Thierry Vieville
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642608421

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A Few Steps Towards 3D Active Vision by Thierry Vieville Pdf

T. Viéville: A Few Steps Towards 3D Active Vision appears as Vol. 33 in the Springer Series in Information Sciences. A specific problem in the field of active vision is analyzed, namely how suitable is it to explicitly use 3D visual cues in a reactive visual task? The author has collected a set of studies on this subject and has used these experimental and theoretical developments to propose a synthetic view on the problem, completed by some specific experiments. With this book scientists and graduate students will have a complete set of methods, algorithms, and experiments to introduce 3D visual cues in active visual perception mechanisms, e.g. autocalibration of visual sensors on robotic heads and mobile robots. Analogies with biological visual systems provide an easy introduction to this subject.

Author : H.R. Everett
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1995-07-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781439863480

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Sensors for Mobile Robots by H.R. Everett Pdf

The author compiles everything a student or experienced developmental engineer needs to know about the supporting technologies associated with the rapidly evolving field of robotics. From the table of contents: Design Considerations * Dead Reckoning * Odometry Sensors * Doppler and Inertial Navigation * Typical Mobility Configurations * Tactile and Proximity Sensing * Triangulation Ranging * Stereo Disparity * Active Triangulation * Active Stereoscopic * Hermies * Structured Light * Known Target Size * Time of Flight * Phase-Shift Measurement * Frequency Modulation * Interferometry * Range from Focus * Return Signal Intensity * Acoustical Energy * Electromagnetic Energy * Optical Energy * Microwave Radar * Collision Avoidance * Guidepath Following * Position-Location Systems * Ultrasonic and Optical Position-Location Systems * Wall, Doorway, andCeiling Referencing * Application-Specific Mission Sensors

Author : Jose Gerardo Rocha,Senentxu Lanceros-Mendez
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789537619312

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Sensors by Jose Gerardo Rocha,Senentxu Lanceros-Mendez Pdf

This book describes some devices that are commonly identified as tactile or force sensors. This is achieved with different degrees of detail, in a unique and actual resource, through the description of different approaches to this type of sensors. Understanding the design and the working principles of the sensors described here requires a multidisciplinary background of electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, physics, biology, etc. An attempt has been made to place side by side the most pertinent information in order to reach a more productive reading not only for professionals dedicated to the design of tactile sensors, but also for all other sensor users, as for example, in the field of robotics. The latest technologies presented in this book are more focused on information readout and processing: as new materials, micro and sub-micro sensors are available, wireless transmission and processing of the sensorial information, as well as some innovative methodologies for obtaining and interpreting tactile information are also strongly evolving.

Author : Satoru Goto
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789533071602

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Robot Arms by Satoru Goto Pdf

Robot arms have been developing since 1960's, and those are widely used in industrial factories such as welding, painting, assembly, transportation, etc. Nowadays, the robot arms are indispensable for automation of factories. Moreover, applications of the robot arms are not limited to the industrial factory but expanded to living space or outer space. The robot arm is an integrated technology, and its technological elements are actuators, sensors, mechanism, control and system, etc.

Author : C.S.George Lee
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642755309

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Sensor-Based Robots: Algorithms and Architectures by C.S.George Lee Pdf

Most industrial robots today have little or no sensory capability. Feedback is limited to information about joint positions, combined with a few interlock and timing signals. These robots can function only in an environment where the objects to be manipulated are precisely located in the proper position for the robot to grasp (i. e. , in a structured environment). For many present industrial applications, this level of performance has been adequate. With the increasing demand for high performance sensor-based robot manipulators in assembly tasks, meeting this demand and challenge can only be achieved through the consideration of: 1) efficient acquisition and processing of intemaVextemal sensory information, 2) utilization and integration of sensory information from various sensors (tactile, force, and vision) to acquire knowledge in a changing environment, 3) exploitation of inherent robotic parallel algorithms and efficient VLSI architectures for robotic computations, and finally 4) system integration into a working and functioning robotic system. This is the intent of the Workshop on Sensor-Based Robots: Algorithms and Architectures - to study the fundamental research issues and problems associated with sensor-based robot manipulators and to propose approaches and solutions from various viewpoints in improving present day robot manipula tors in the areas of sensor fusion and integration, sensory information processing, and parallel algorithms and architectures for robotic computations.

Author : Penelope Probert Smith
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789812811141

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Active Sensors for Local Planning in Mobile Robotics by Penelope Probert Smith Pdf

This book describes recent work on active sensors for mobile robots. An active sensor interacts with its surroundings to supply data on demand for a particular function, gathering and abstracting information according to need rather than acting as a generic data gatherer. Details of the physical operation are hidden. The book deals mainly with active range sensors, which provide rapid information for local planning, describing extraction of two-dimensional features such as lines, corners and cylinders to reconstruct a plan of a building. It is structured according to the physical principles of the sensors, since to a large extent these determine the function of the sensors and the methods of processing. Recent work using sonar, optoelectronic sensors and radar is described. Sections on vision and on sensor management develop the idea of software adaptation for efficient operation in a changing environment. Contents: The Mapping and Localisation Problem; Perception at Millimetre Wavelengths; Advanced Sonar: Principles of Operation and Interpretation; Smooth and Rough Target Modelling: Examples in Mapping and Texture Classification; Sonar Systems: A Biological Perspective; Map Building from Range Data Using Mathematical Morphology; Millimetre Wave Radar for Robotics; Optoelectronic Range Sensors; AMCW LIDAR Range Acquisition; Extracting Lines and Curves from Optoelectronic Range Data; Active Vision for Mobile Robot Navigation; Strategies for Active Sensor Management. Readership: Graduate students and final year undergraduate students in electrical and electronic engineering, systems and knowledge, robotics, image processing and artificial intelligence.

Author : Martin David Adams
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9810234961

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Sensor Modelling, Design and Data Processing for Autonomous Navigation by Martin David Adams Pdf

This invaluable book presents an unbiased framework for modelling and using sensors to aid mobile robot navigation. It addresses the problem of accurate and reliable sensing in confined environments and makes a detailed analysis of the design and construction of a low cost optical range finder. This is followed by a quantitative model for determining the sources and propagation of noise within the sensor. The physics behind the causes of erroneous data is also used to derive a model for detecting and labelling such data as false. In addition, the author's data-processing algorithms are applied to the problem of environmental feature extraction. This forms the basis of a solution to the problem of mobile robot localisation. The book develops a relationship between the kinematics of a mobile robot during the execution of successive manoeuvres, and the sensed features. Results which update a mobile vehicle's position using features from 2D and 3D scans are presented.

Author : K L Boyer,L Stark,H Bunke
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1995-02-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789814500883

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Applications of AI, Machine Vision and Robotics by K L Boyer,L Stark,H Bunke Pdf

This text features a broad array of research efforts in computer vision including low level processing, perceptual organization, object recognition and active vision. The volume's nine papers specifically report on topics such as sensor confidence, low level feature extraction schemes, non-parametric multi-scale curve smoothing, integration of geometric and non-geometric attributes for object recognition, design criteria for a four degree-of-freedom robot head, a real-time vision system based on control of visual attention and a behavior-based active eye vision system. The scope of the book provides an excellent sample of current concepts, examples and applications from multiple areas of computer vision. Contents:Range Estimation from Camera Blur by Regularized Adaptive Identification (L F Holeva)Modeling Sensor Confidence for Sensor Integration Tasks (K Hughes & N Ranganathan)From 3-D Scattered Data to Geometric Signal Description: Invariant Stable Recovery of Straight Line Segments (P Hébert et al.)Feature Extraction and Matching as Signal Detection (X-P Hu & N Ahuja)Non-Parametric Multiscale Curve Smoothing (P L Rosin)Integration of Geometric and Non-Geometric Attributes for Fast Object Recognition (L Grewe & A Kak)A Four Degree-of-Freedom Robot Head for Active Vision (F-L Du & M Brady)Control of Eye and Arm Movements Using Active, Attentional Vision (P A Sandon)Behavior-Based Active Vision (C S Pinhanez) Readership: Computer scientists and engineers. keywords:

Author : Aleksandar Rodić,Theodor Borangiu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319490588

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Advances in Robot Design and Intelligent Control by Aleksandar Rodić,Theodor Borangiu Pdf

This book presents the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Robotics in Alpe-Adria-Danube Region, RAAD 2016 held in Belgrade, Serbia, on June 30th–July 2nd, 2016. In keeping with the tradition of the event, RAAD 2016 covered all the important areas of research and innovation in new robot designs and intelligent robot control, with papers including Intelligent robot motion control; Robot vision and sensory processing; Novel design of robot manipulators and grippers; Robot applications in manufacturing and services; Autonomous systems, humanoid and walking robots; Human–robot interaction and collaboration; Cognitive robots and emotional intelligence; Medical, human-assistive robots and prosthetic design; Robots in construction and arts, and Evolution, education, legal and social issues of robotics. For the first time in RAAD history, the themes cloud robots, legal and ethical issues in robotics as well as robots in arts were included in the technical program. The book is a valuable resource for researchers in fields of robotics, engineers who implement robotic solutions in manufacturing, services and healthcare, and master’s and Ph.D. students working on robotics projects.

Author : Bir Bhanu,Chinya V. Ravishankar,Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury,Hamid Aghajan,Demetri Terzopoulos
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780857291271

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Distributed Video Sensor Networks by Bir Bhanu,Chinya V. Ravishankar,Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury,Hamid Aghajan,Demetri Terzopoulos Pdf

Large-scale video networks are of increasing importance in a wide range of applications. However, the development of automated techniques for aggregating and interpreting information from multiple video streams in real-life scenarios is a challenging area of research. Collecting the work of leading researchers from a broad range of disciplines, this timely text/reference offers an in-depth survey of the state of the art in distributed camera networks. The book addresses a broad spectrum of critical issues in this highly interdisciplinary field: current challenges and future directions; video processing and video understanding; simulation, graphics, cognition and video networks; wireless video sensor networks, communications and control; embedded cameras and real-time video analysis; applications of distributed video networks; and educational opportunities and curriculum-development. Topics and features: presents an overview of research in areas of motion analysis, invariants, multiple cameras for detection, object tracking and recognition, and activities in video networks; provides real-world applications of distributed video networks, including force protection, wide area activities, port security, and recognition in night-time environments; describes the challenges in graphics and simulation, covering virtual vision, network security, human activities, cognitive architecture, and displays; examines issues of multimedia networks, registration, control of cameras (in simulations and real networks), localization and bounds on tracking; discusses system aspects of video networks, with chapters on providing testbed environments, data collection on activities, new integrated sensors for airborne sensors, face recognition, and building sentient spaces; investigates educational opportunities and curriculum development from the perspective of computer science and electrical engineering. This unique text will be of great interest to researchers and graduate students of computer vision and pattern recognition, computer graphics and simulation, image processing and embedded systems, and communications, networks and controls. The large number of example applications will also appeal to application engineers.

Author : J. K. Aggarwal
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783662029572

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Multisensor Fusion for Computer Vision by J. K. Aggarwal Pdf

This volume contains revised papers based on contributions to the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Multisensor Fusion for Computer Vision, held in Grenoble, France, in June 1989. The 24 papers presented here cover a broad range of topics, including the principles and issues in multisensor fusion, information fusion for navigation, multisensor fusion for object recognition, network approaches to multisensor fusion, computer architectures for multi sensor fusion, and applications of multisensor fusion. The participants met in the beautiful surroundings of Mont Belledonne in Grenoble to discuss their current work in a setting conducive to interaction and the exchange of ideas. Each participant is a recognized leader in his or her area in the academic, governmental, or industrial research community. The workshop focused on techniques for the fusion or integration of sensor information to achieve the optimum interpretation of a scene. Several participants presented novel points of view on the integration of information. The 24 papers presented in this volume are based on those collected by the editor after the workshop, and reflect various aspects of our discussions. The papers are organized into five parts, as follows.