Download or read book Vision Based Autonomous Robot Navigation written by Amitava Chatterjee and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-13 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph is devoted to the theory and development of autonomous navigation of mobile robots using computer vision based sensing mechanism. The conventional robot navigation systems, utilizing traditional sensors like ultrasonic, IR, GPS, laser sensors etc., suffer several drawbacks related to either the physical limitations of the sensor or incur high cost. Vision sensing has emerged as a popular alternative where cameras can be used to reduce the overall cost, maintaining high degree of intelligence, flexibility and robustness. This book includes a detailed description of several new approaches for real life vision based autonomous navigation algorithms and SLAM. It presents the concept of how subgoal based goal-driven navigation can be carried out using vision sensing. The development concept of vision based robots for path/line tracking using fuzzy logic is presented, as well as how a low-cost robot can be indigenously developed in the laboratory with microcontroller based sensor systems. The book describes successful implementation of integration of low-cost, external peripherals, with off-the-shelf procured robots. An important highlight of the book is that it presents a detailed, step-by-step sample demonstration of how vision-based navigation modules can be actually implemented in real life, under 32-bit Windows environment. The book also discusses the concept of implementing vision based SLAM employing a two camera based system.

Download or read book Robot Learning written by J. H. Connell and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building a robot that learns to perform a task has been acknowledged as one of the major challenges facing artificial intelligence. Self-improving robots would relieve humans from much of the drudgery of programming and would potentially allow operation in environments that were changeable or only partially known. Progress towards this goal would also make fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence by furthering our understanding of how to successfully integrate disparate abilities such as perception, planning, learning and action. Although its roots can be traced back to the late fifties, the area of robot learning has lately seen a resurgence of interest. The flurry of interest in robot learning has partly been fueled by exciting new work in the areas of reinforcement earning, behavior-based architectures, genetic algorithms, neural networks and the study of artificial life. Robot Learning gives an overview of some of the current research projects in robot learning being carried out at leading universities and research laboratories in the United States. The main research directions in robot learning covered in this book include: reinforcement learning, behavior-based architectures, neural networks, map learning, action models, navigation and guided exploration.

Download or read book Applications of Mobile Robots written by and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-03-20 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes a selection of research work in the mobile robotics area, where several interesting topics are presented. In this way we find a review of multi-agents, different techniques applied to the navigation systems, artificial intelligence algorithms, which include deep learning applications, systems where a Kalman filter estimator is extended for visual odometry, and finally the design of an on-chip system for the execution of cognitive agents. Additionally, the development of different ideas in mobile robot applications are included and hopefully will be useful and enriching for readers.

Download or read book Robot Navigation from Nature written by Michael John Milford and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-02-11 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering book describes the development of a robot mapping and navigation system inspired by models of the neural mechanisms underlying spatial navigation in the rodent hippocampus. Computational models of animal navigation systems have traditionally had limited performance when implemented on robots. This is the first research to test existing models of rodent spatial mapping and navigation on robots in large, challenging, real world environments.

Download or read book Advances in Robot Navigation written by Alejandra Barrera and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robot navigation includes different interrelated activities such as perception - obtaining and interpreting sensory information; exploration - the strategy that guides the robot to select the next direction to go; mapping - the construction of a spatial representation by using the sensory information perceived; localization - the strategy to estimate the robot position within the spatial map; path planning - the strategy to find a path towards a goal location being optimal or not; and path execution, where motor actions are determined and adapted to environmental changes. This book integrates results from the research work of authors all over the world, addressing the abovementioned activities and analyzing the critical implications of dealing with dynamic environments. Different solutions providing adaptive navigation are taken from nature inspiration, and diverse applications are described in the context of an important field of study: social robotics.

Download or read book Mobile Robots written by Zoran Gacovski and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2011-10-26 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book consists of 18 chapters divided in four sections: Robots for Educational Purposes, Health-Care and Medical Robots, Hardware - State of the Art, and Localization and Navigation. In the first section, there are four chapters covering autonomous mobile robot Emmy III, KCLBOT - mobile nonholonomic robot, and general overview of educational mobile robots. In the second section, the following themes are covered: walking support robots, control system for wheelchairs, leg-wheel mechanism as a mobile platform, micro mobile robot for abdominal use, and the influence of the robot size in the psychological treatment. In the third section, there are chapters about I2C bus system, vertical displacement service robots, quadruped robots - kinematics and dynamics model and Epi.q (hybrid) robots. Finally, in the last section, the following topics are covered: skid-steered vehicles, robotic exploration (new place recognition), omnidirectional mobile robots, ball-wheel mobile robots, and planetary wheeled mobile robots.

Download or read book MICAI 2002 Advances in Artificial Intelligence written by Carlos Coello Coello and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2002, held in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico in April 2002. The 56 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 85 submissions from 17 countries. The papers are organized in topical sections on robotics and computer vision, heuristic search and optimization, speech recognition and natural language processing, logic, neural networks, machine learning, multi-agent systems, uncertainty management, and AI tools and applications.

Download or read book Spatial Cognition III written by Christian Freksa and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-06-23 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third volume documents the results achieved within a priority program on spatial cognition funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG). The 23 revised full papers presented went through two rounds of reviewing and improvement and reflect the increased interdisciplinary cooperation in the area. The papers are organized in topical sections on routes and navigation, human memory and learning, spatial representation, and spatial reasoning.

Download or read book Robotic Navigation in Reduced Visibility Scenarios written by João Pedro Machado dos Santos and published by University of Coimbra. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Progress in Pattern Recognition Speech and Image Analysis written by Alberto Sanfeliu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-11-18 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2003, held in Havana, Cuba, in November 2003. The 82 revised full papers presented together with two invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 140 submissions. All current issues in pattern recognition, image processing, and computer vision are addressed as well as applications in domains like robotics, health, entertainment, space exploration, telecommunications, speech processing, data analysis, document recognition, etc.

Download or read book Concepts for Neural Networks written by Lawrence J. Landau and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concepts for Neural Networks - A Survey provides a wide-ranging survey of concepts relating to the study of neural networks. It includes chapters explaining the basics of both artificial neural networks and the mathematics of neural networks, as well as chapters covering the more philosophical background to the topic and consciousness. There is also significant emphasis on the practical use of the techniques described in the area of robotics. Containing contributions from some of the world's leading specialists in their fields (including Dr. Ton Coolen and Professor Igor Aleksander), this volume will provide the reader with a good, general introduction to the basic concepts needed to understan d and use neural network technology.

Download or read book Computational Intelligent Systems for Applied Research written by Da Ruan and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2002 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FLINS is an acronym for Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Technologies in Nuclear Science. FLINS 2002 is the fifth in a series of FLINS conferences and covers state-of-the-art research and development in computational intelligence for applied research in general and for nuclear science and engineering in particular. This book outlines the trends in computational intelligence in control, decision-making, and nuclear engineering, and presents the latest developments of computational intelligent systems in applied research and nuclear applications.

Download or read book MRSLAM Multi Robot Simultaneous Localization and Mapping written by João Alexandre Simões Martins and published by University of Coimbra. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nowadays, a collection of two or more autonomous mobile agents working together are denoted as teams or simply societies of mobile robots. In Multi-Robot Systems (MRS) robots are allowed to coordinate with each other in order to achieve a specic goal. In these systems, robots are far less capable as an entity, but the real power lies in the cooperation of the team. The simplicity of MRS has produced a wide set of applications such as in military tasks , searching for survivors in disaster hit areas, parallel and simultaneous transportations of vehicles and delivery of payloads. The success of single-robot Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) in the past two decades has led to research on Multi-Robot Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (MRSLAM). A team of robots is able to map an unknown environment faster and more and reliably. However, MRSLAM raises several challenging problems, including map fusion, unknown robot poses and scalability issues. Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filters (RBPFs) have been demonstrated as an eective solution to the problem of single robot Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), and a few extensions to teams of robots exist. However, these approaches are usually characterized by strict assumptions on both communication bandwidth and prior knowledge on relative poses between teammates. In this dissertation, we describe in detail a distributed MRSLAM approach using RBPF in the case of possibly constrained communication and unknown relative initial poses using Robot Operating System (ROS). We consider the environment as a two dimensional space with several obstacles, which are explored by a team of cooperative mobile robots, equipped with laser sensors. In order to eciently tackle the problem, the cooperation between agents and the memory space available for observations storage must be taken into account. Experimental results using a team of up to two robots in a large indoor area show the robustness and performance of the approach.

Download or read book Spatial Representation and Reasoning for Robot Mapping written by Diedrich Wolter and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-07-23 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates bene?ts of abstract and qualitative reasoning that have not received much attention in the context of autonomous robotics before. Bremen, Christian Freksa December 2007 Director of the SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition Preface This book addresses spatial representations and reasoning techniques for - bile robot mapping, providing an analysis of fundamental representations and processes involved. A spatial representation based on shape information is p- posed and shape analysis techniques are developed to tackle the correspondence problem in robot mapping. A general mathematical formulation is presented to provide the formal ground for an e?cient matching of con?gurations of objects. This book is a slightly revised version of my doctoral thesis submitted to the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Bremen, Germany. Manycontributeto the developmentofa dissertation,butsomeofthemstand out. Christian Freksa, I thank you for supporting and encouraging my work, for introducing me to interdisciplinary work, for giving me the freedom to develop this dissertation, and for providing an enjoyable atmosphere to work in. Longin Jan Latecki, thank you for countless in-depth discussions helping me to develop andtopositionmywork,forthefruitfulcollaboration,andformakingaresearch stay possible that has been very valuable to me. I thank the research groups in Bremen and Philadelphia for helpful discussions and feedback, in particular Jan Oliver Wallgrun. ̈ I also thank Kai-Florian Richter, Sven Bertel, and Lutz Frommberger for feedback on this work. Robert Ross, thank you for helping to proof-read this dissertation.

Download or read book Semantic Labeling of Places with Mobile Robots written by Óscar Martinez Mozos and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-01-10 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last years there has been an increasing interest in the area of service robots. Under this category we find robots working in tasks such as elderly care, guiding, office and domestic assistance, inspection, and many more. Service robots usually work in indoor environments designed for humans, with offices and houses being some of the most typical examples. These environments are typically divided into places with different functionalities like corridors, rooms or doorways. The ability to learn such semantic categories from sensor data enables a mobile robot to extend its representation of the environment, and to improve its capabilities. As an example, natural language terms like corridor or room can be used to indicate the position of the robot in a more intuitive way when communicating with humans. This book presents several approaches to enable a mobile robot to categorize places in indoor environments. The categories are indicated by terms which represent the different regions in these environments. The objective of this work is to enable mobile robots to perceive the spatial divisions in indoor environments in a similar way as people do. This is an interesting step forward to the problem of moving the perception of robots closer to the perception of humans. Many approaches introduced in this book come from the area of pattern recognition and classification. The applied methods have been adapted to solve the specific problem of place recognition. In this regard, this work is a useful reference to students and researchers who want to introduce classification techniques to help solve similar problems in mobile robotics.

Download or read book Computational Intelligent Systems For Applied Research Proceedings Of The 5th International Flins Conference Flins 2002 written by Pierre D'hondt and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2002-07-31 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FLINS is an acronym for Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Technologies in Nuclear Science. FLINS 2002 is the fifth in a series of FLINS conferences and covers state-of-the-art research and development in computational intelligence for applied research in general and for nuclear science and engineering in particular. This book outlines the trends in computational intelligence in control, decision-making, and nuclear engineering, and presents the latest developments of computational intelligent systems in applied research and nuclear applications.

Download or read book KI 99 Advances in Artificial Intelligence written by Wolfram Burgard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-07-31 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years, Arti?cial Intelligence technology has served in a great variety of successful applications. AI researchand researchershave contributed much to the vision of the so-called Information Society. As early as the 1980s, some of us imagined distributed knowledge bases containing the explicable knowledge of a company or any other organization. Today, such systems are becoming reality. In the process, other technologies have had to be developed and AI-technology has blended with them, and companies are now sensitive to this topic. TheInternetandWWWhaveprovidedtheglobalinfrastructure,whileatthe same time companies have become global in nearly every aspect of enterprise. This process has just started, a little experience has been gained, and therefore it is tempting to re?ect and try to forecast, what the next steps may be. This has given us one of the two main topics of the 23rd Annual German Conference on Arti?cial Intelligence (KI-99)held at the University of Bonn: The Knowledge Society. Two of our invited speakers, Helmut Willke, Bielefeld, and Hans-Peter Kriegel, Munich, dwell on di?erent aspects with di?erent perspectives. Helmut Willke deals with the concept of virtual organizations, while Hans-Peter Kriegel applies data mining concepts to pattern recognitiontasks.The three application forums are also part of the Knowledge Society topic: “IT-based innovation for environment and development”, “Knowledge management in enterprises”, and “Knowledgemanagementinvillageandcityplanningoftheinformationsociety”.