Intelligent Robotics and Applications: 4th International Conference, ICIRA 2011, Aachen, Germany, December 6-8, 2011, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7102)

The two volume set LNAI 7101 and 7102 constitute the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2011, held in Aachen, Germany, in November 2011. The 122 revised full papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. They are organized in topical sections on progress in indoor UAV, robotics intelligence, industrial robots, rehabilitation robotics, mechanisms and their applications, multi robot systems, robot mechanism and design, parallel kinematics, parallel kinematics machines and parallel robotics, handling and manipulation, tangibility in human-machine interaction, navigation and localization of mobile robot, a body for the brain: embodied intelligence in bio-inspired robotics, intelligent visual systems, self-optimising production systems, computational intelligence, robot control systems, human-robot interaction, manipulators and applications, stability, dynamics and interpolation, evolutionary robotics, bio-inspired robotics, and image-processing applications. Front Matter....Pages - Biomechatronics for Embodied Intelligence of an Insectoid Robot....Pages 1-11 Novel Approaches for Bio-inspired Mechano-Sensors....Pages 12-23 Helping a Bio-inspired Tactile Sensor System to Focus on the Essential....Pages 24-33 Robust Dataglove Mapping for Recording Human Hand Postures....Pages 34-45 Software/Hardware Issues in Modelling Insect Brain Architecture....Pages 46-55 Higher Brain Centers for Intelligent Motor Control in Insects....Pages 56-64 An Insect-Inspired, Decentralized Memory for Robot Navigation....Pages 65-74 Models of Visually Guided Routes in Ants: Embodiment Simplifies Route Acquisition....Pages 75-84 Robust Object Tracking for Resource-Limited Hardware Systems....Pages 85-94 Adaptive Rank Transform for Stereo Matching....Pages 95-104 Real Time Vision Based Multi-person Tracking for Mobile Robotics and Intelligent Vehicles....Pages 105-115 A Method for Wandering Trajectory Detection in Video Monitor....Pages 116-124 The Design of a Vision-Based Motion Performance System....Pages 125-134 Window Function for EEG Power Density Estimation and Its Application in SSVEP Based BCIs....Pages 135-144 Efficient Multi-resolution Plane Segmentation of 3D Point Clouds....Pages 145-156 3D Body Pose Estimation Using an Adaptive Person Model for Articulated ICP....Pages 157-167 Artificial Cognition in Autonomous Assembly Planning Systems....Pages 168-178 Self-optimization as an Enabler for Flexible and Reconfigurable Assembly Systems....Pages 179-188 Flexible Assembly Robotics for Self-optimizing Production....Pages 189-198 Meta-modeling for Manufacturing Processes....Pages 199-209 Control Architecture for Human Friendly Robots Based on Interacting with Human....Pages 210-219 Multi-modal Communication Interface for Elderly People in Informationally Structured Space....Pages 220-228 Motion Control Strategies for Humanoids Based on Ergonomics....Pages 229-240 Fuzzy Representations and Control for Domestic Service Robots in Golog....Pages 241-250 Minimum Jerk-Based Control for a Three Dimensional Bipedal Robot....Pages 251-262 Development of a Smart Motion Control Card with an IEEE-1394 Interface....Pages 263-274 Control System by Observer for a Hyper-redundant Robot....Pages 275-286 Towards a Multi-peclet Number Pollution Monitoring Algorithm....Pages 287-296 Self-balancing Controllable Robots in Education: A Practical Course for Bachelor Students....Pages 297-306 Intelligent Control Design in Robotics and Rehabilitation....Pages 307-316 Behavior Based Approach for Robot Navigation and Chemical Anomaly Tracking....Pages 317-327 Detection of Lounging People with a Mobile Robot Companion....Pages 328-337 Autonomous Control for Human-Robot Interaction on Complex Rough Terrain....Pages 338-347 A Modular Approach to Gesture Recognition for Interaction with a Domestic Service Robot....Pages 348-357 Safety System and Navigation for Orthopaedic Robot (OTOROB)....Pages 358-367 Approaching a Person in a Socially Acceptable Manner Using a Fast Marching Planner....Pages 368-377 Stiffness Identification for Serial Robot Manipulator Based on Uncertainty Approach....Pages 378-388 Serial Comanipulation in Beating Heart Surgery Using a LWPR-Model Based Predictive Force Control Approach....Pages 389-400 Application of Wavelet Networks to Adaptive Control of Robotic Manipulators....Pages 401-411 Development of a Deep Ocean Master-Slave Electric Manipulator Control System....Pages 412-419 Modelling of Flexible Link Manipulators....Pages 420-429 An Outline for an Intelligent System Performing Peg-in-Hole Actions with Flexible Objects....Pages 430-441 Framework for Use of Generalized Force and Torque Data in Transitional Levels of Autonomy....Pages 442-451 A New Solution for Stability Prediction in Flexible Part Milling....Pages 452-464 A Practical Continuous-Curvature Bézier Transition Algorithm for High-Speed Machining of Linear Tool Path....Pages 465-476 Design of a FPGA-Based NURBS Interpolator....Pages 477-486 Iso-scallop Trajectory Generation for the 5-Axis Machining of an Impeller....Pages 487-494 Swarm Robot Flocking: An Empirical Study....Pages 495-504 Self-reconfiguration Path Planning Design for M-Lattice Robot Based on Genetic Algorithm....Pages 505-514 Mobile Robot Controller Design by Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization in Multiagent Environments....Pages 515-524 Learning Intelligent Controllers for Path-Following Skills on Snake-Like Robots....Pages 525-535 Modular Behavior Controller for Underwater Robot Teams: A Biologically Inspired Concept for Advanced Tasks....Pages 536-547 BioMotionBot – A New 3D Robotic Manipulandum with End-Point Force Control....Pages 548-557 Adaptive Control Scheme with Parameter Adaptation - From Human Motor Control to Humanoid Robot Locomotion Control....Pages 558-568 Online Walking Gait Generation with Predefined Variable Height of the Center of Mass....Pages 569-578 Visual Control of a Remote Vehicle....Pages 579-588 Longitudinal and Lateral Control in Automated Highway Systems: Their Past, Present and Future....Pages 589-598 Surface Defects Classification Using Artificial Neural Networks in Vision Based Polishing Robot....Pages 599-608 Efficient Skin Detection under Severe Illumination Changes and Shadows....Pages 609-618 Back Matter....Pages - This two volume set LNAI 8917 and 8918 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2014, held in Guangzhou, China, in December 2014.