Autonomous and Intelligent Systems : Second International Conference, AIS 2011, Burnaby, BC, Canada, June 22-24, 2011, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Autonomous and Intelligent Systems, AIS 2011, held in Burnaby, BC, Canada, in June 2011, colocated with the International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, IACIAR 2011. The 40 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on autonomous and intelligent systems, intelligent and advanced control systems, intelligent sensing and data analysis, human-machine interaction, and intelligent circuit analysis and signal processing. Front Matter....Pages - Global Optimal Path Planning for Mobile Robots Based on Hybrid Approach with High Diversity and Memorization....Pages 1-10 Small Tree Probabilistic Roadmap Planner for Hyper-Redundant Manipulators....Pages 11-20 A Fuzzy Logic Approach for Indoor Mobile Robot Navigation Using UKF and Customized RFID Communication....Pages 21-30 Toward Opportunistic Collaboration in Target Pursuit Problems....Pages 31-40 A Multi-agent Framework with MOOS-IvP for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles with Sidescan Sonar Sensors....Pages 41-50 Three-Dimensional Path-Planning for a Communications and Navigation Aid Working Cooperatively with Autonomous Underwater Vehicles....Pages 51-62 Autonomous Haulage Systems – Justification and Opportunity....Pages 63-72 Building a No Limit Texas Hold’em Poker Agent Based on Game Logs Using Supervised Learning....Pages 73-82 Autonomous Manipulation Combining Task Space Control with Recursive Field Estimation....Pages 83-92 Accessibility of Fuzzy Control Systems....Pages 93-101 Thermal Dynamic Modeling and Control of Injection Moulding Process....Pages 102-111 Analysis of Future Measurement Incorporation into Unscented Predictive Motion Planning....Pages 112-123 Nonlinear Maneuvering Control of Rigid Formations of Fixed Wing UAVs....Pages 124-133 Intelligent Control System Design for a Class of Nonlinear Mechanical Systems....Pages 134-145 Trends in the Control Schemes for Bilateral Teleoperation with Time Delay....Pages 146-155 Bilateral Teleoperation System with Time Varying Communication Delay: Stability and Convergence....Pages 156-166 Online Incremental Learning of Inverse Dynamics Incorporating Prior Knowledge....Pages 167-176 Experimental Comparison of Model-Based and Model-Free Output Feedback Control System for Robot Manipulators....Pages 177-188 P-Map: An Intuitive Plot to Visualize, Understand, and Compare Variable-Gain PI Controllers....Pages 189-198 Sufficient Conditions for Global Synchronization of Continuous Piecewise Affine Systems....Pages 199-211 Question Type Classification Using a Part-of-Speech Hierarchy....Pages 212-221 Exploring Wikipedia’s Category Graph for Query Classification....Pages 222-230 Combination of Error Detection Techniques in Automatic Speech Transcription....Pages 231-240 Developing a Secure Distributed OSGi Cloud Computing Infrastructure for Sharing Health Records....Pages 241-252 Extreme Learning Machine with Adaptive Growth of Hidden Nodes and Incremental Updating of Output Weights....Pages 253-262 Face Recognition Based on Kernelized Extreme Learning Machine....Pages 263-272 Detection and Tracking of Multiple Similar Objects Based on Color-Pattern....Pages 273-283 Argo Vehicle Simulation of Motion Driven 3D LIDAR Detection and Environment Awareness....Pages 284-293 Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition for Eddy Current Sensors, Used for Effective Land-Mine Detection....Pages 294-302 Velocity Measurement for Moving Surfaces by Using Spatial Filtering Technique Based on Array Detectors....Pages 303-310 Towards Unified Performance Metrics for Multi-robot Human Interaction Systems....Pages 311-320 Augmented HE-Book: A Multimedia Based Extension to Support Immersive Reading Experience....Pages 321-330 Human-Machine Learning for Intelligent Aircraft Systems....Pages 331-342 Haptic Data Compression Based on Curve Reconstruction....Pages 343-354 Diastolic Timed Vibrator: Applying Direct Vibration in Diastole to Patients with Acute Coronary Ischemia during the Pre-hospitalization Phase....Pages 355-365 Low Noise CMOS Chopper Amplifier for MEMS Gas Sensor....Pages 366-373 Modeling Reliability in Wireless Sensor Networks....Pages 374-383 Fading Compensation for Improved Indoor RF Tracking Based on Redundant RSS Readings....Pages 384-395 Redundant Reader Elimination Approaches for RFID Networks....Pages 396-405 NoC-MPSoC Performance Estimation with Synchronous Data Flow (SDF) Graphs....Pages 406-415 Back Matter....Pages -