Experimental Robotics VII (Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences)

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Rigelsford, J. (2003), "Experimental Robotics VII (Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences)", Industrial Robot, Vol. 30 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/ir.2003.04930cae.003

Experimental Robotics VII (Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences)

Experimental Robotics VII (Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences)

D. Rus and S. Singh (Eds.)Springer2001570 pp.ISBN 3-540-42104-1£82.50

Keywords: Robotics

“Experimental Robotics VII” presents 57 papers from the seventh International Symposia on Experimental Robotics held in Waikiki, Hawaii on 11-13 December 2000. The meetings focus on research where experiments have validated existing theories and principles.

The first section of the book presents seven papers that focus on Humanoids and Human-Robot Interaction. These include: “Haptically Augmented Teleoperation”, “Virtual Exoskeleton for Telemanipulation”, “Design, Implementation, and Remote Operation of the Humanoid HG” and “Cooperative Human and Machine Perception in Teleoperated Assembly”.

Section 2, Perception, comprises six papers including “Advancing Active Vision System by Improved Design and Control”, “S-NETS: Smart Sensor Networks” and “Height Estimation for an Autonomous Helicopter”. “Grasp Strategy Simplified by Detaching Assist Motion (DAM)”, “Force-Based Interaction for Distributed Precision Assembly”, “Design and Implementation of a New Discretely Actuated Manipulator” and “Design and Experiments on a Novel Biomechatronic Hand” are amongst the five papers presented in section 3, Assembly and Manipulation.

Sections 4 and 5 address Medical, Space and Field Applications, and Locomotion, respectively. Papers presented in these sections include “Experimental Demonstrations for a New Design Paradigm in Space Robots”, “Super Mechano-System: New Perspectives for Versatile Robotic Systems” and “Quadruped Robot Running With a Bounding Gait”.

Section 6, Multi-robot Systems, presents seven papers including “Towards A Team of Robots with Repair Capabilities: A Visual Docking System” while “Motion Planning for a Self-Reconfigurable Modular Robot” and “Robot Navigation for Automatic Model Construction Using Safe Regions” are amongst those addressed in section 7, Modelling and Motion Planning.

Amongst the six papers addressed in section 8, Control, are “Design of Life-Size Haptic Environments”, “Control of an Under Actuated Unstable Nonlinear Object” and “Singularity Handling on Puma in Operational Space formulation”. The final section of the book comprises eight chapters addressing Navigation and Localization. These include: “Autonomous Rover Navigation on Unknown Terrain Functions and Integration”, “An Underwater Vehicle Monitoring System and Its Sensor” and the abstract for “A New Generation of Light-Weight Robot Arms and Multifingered Hands”.

As the 271st addition to the Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences series, aspects of this book will appeal to a large part of the engineering community. It will be of special interest to those involved with assembly and manipulation, teleoperation, control and navigation of experimental robotics.

Jon Rigelsford