Intelligent Robotics and Applications : 5th International Conference, ICIRA 2012, Montreal, QC, Canada, October 3-5, 2012, Proceedings, Part III

The three volume set LNAI 7506, LNAI 7507 and LNAI 7508 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2012, held in Montreal, Canada, in October 2012. The 197 revised full papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 271 submissions. They present the state-of-the-art developments in robotics, automation and mechatronics. This volume covers the topics of robotics for rehabilitation and assistance; mechatronics and integration technology in electronics and information devices fabrication; man-machine interactions; manufacturing; micro and nano systems; mobile robots and intelligent autonomous systems; motion control; multi-agent systems and distributed control; and multi-sensor data fusion algorithms. Front Matter....Pages - Wireless Master-Slave FES Rehabilitation System Using sEMG Control....Pages 1-10 Intelligent Prescription-Diagnosis Function for Rehabilitation Training Robot System....Pages 11-20 Human Behavior Recognition by a Bio-monitoring Mobile Robot....Pages 21-30 Differentiated Time-Frequency Characteristics Based Real-Time Motion Decoding for Lower Extremity Rehabilitation Exoskeleton Robot....Pages 31-40 3D Semantic Map-Based Shared Control for Smart Wheelchair....Pages 41-51 Nonlinear Sliding Mode Control Implementation of an Upper Limb Exoskeleton Robot to Provide Passive Rehabilitation Therapy....Pages 52-62 sEMG-Based Control of an Exoskeleton Robot Arm....Pages 63-73 Approaches of Applying Human-Robot-Interaction-Technologies to Assist Workers with Musculoskeletal Disorders in Production....Pages 74-84 Simulation Study of an FES-Involved Control Strategy for Lower Limb Rehabilitation Robot....Pages 85-95 Development of a Rehabilitation Robot for Upper-Limb Movements....Pages 96-102 Dynamic Optimization with a New Performance Index for a 2-DoF Translational Parallel Manipulator....Pages 103-115 Research of Piezoelectric Printing Actuator for High-Power White LED Phosphor Coating....Pages 116-126 Development of OLED Panel Defect Detection System through Improved Otsu Algorithm....Pages 127-134 The Linkage Control Strategy for the Two-Phase Flow Dispensing System....Pages 135-144 The Transient Temperature Field Measurement System for Laser Bonding Process....Pages 145-152 Modeling of Electromagnetic Interference Noise Mechanism for Magneto-Rheological Damper....Pages 153-163 An Image Based Algorithm to Safely Locate Human Extremities for Human-Robot Collaboration....Pages 164-175 Research of a Multi-DOF Pathological Sampling Flexible Robot....Pages 176-185 Control by 3D Simulation – A New eRobotics Approach to Control Design in Automation....Pages 186-197 Human Intention Estimation Using Time-Varying Fuzzy Markov Models for Natural Non-verbal Human Robot Interface....Pages 198-206 Influence of Human Driving Characteristics on Path Tracking Performance of Vehicle....Pages 207-216 Single Machine Oriented Match-Up Rescheduling Method for Semiconductor Manufacturing System....Pages 217-226 Sub-regional Flank Milling Method....Pages 227-234 Robotics for the Benefit of Footwear Industry....Pages 235-244 Application of Grey Based Taguchi Method to Determine Optimal End Milling Parameters....Pages 245-254 Force Prediction in Plunge Milling of Inconel 718....Pages 255-263 Dynamic Cutter Runout Measurement with Laser Sensor....Pages 264-272 Structure and Electromagnetic Actuation Systems of Microrobot....Pages 273-280 Modeling of Rate-Dependent Hysteresis for Piezoelectric Actuator with MPI Model-Based Hammerstein System....Pages 281-290 Identification of Prandtl-Ishlinskii Hysteresis Models Using Modified Particle Swarm Optimization....Pages 291-300 Wireless Electrical Power to Sub-millimeter Robots....Pages 301-312 A Digital Lock-In Amplifier Based Contact Detection Technique for Electrochemical Nanolithography....Pages 313-322 Optimization of a Compliant Mechanical Amplifier Based on a Symmetric Five-Bar Topology....Pages 323-332 Hybrid Potential Field Swarm Optimization Based Novel Targeted Drug Delivery System Using Drug Loaded Nano Carriers....Pages 333-343 The CSUF Unmanned Utility Ground Robotic Vehicle....Pages 344-353 Guaranteed Mobile Robot Tracking Using Robust Interval Constraint Propagation....Pages 354-365 Trajectory Tracking of Wheeled Mobile Robot with a Manipulator Considering Dynamic Interaction and Modeling Uncertainty....Pages 366-375 Proposal and Evaluation of Integer Inverse Kinematics for Multijoint Small Robot....Pages 376-386 Velocity Selection for High-Speed UGVs in Rough Unknown Terrains Using Force Prediction....Pages 387-396 Modeling and Autonomous Control of Multiple Mobile Manipulators Handling Rigid Objects....Pages 397-406 A Mobile Robotic Platform for Generating Radiation Maps....Pages 407-416 Effect of Limiting Wheel Slip on Two-Wheeled Robots in Low Traction Environments....Pages 417-426 Nao Robot Localization and Navigation Using Fusion of Odometry and Visual Sensor Data....Pages 427-438 A Graph-Based Hierarchical SLAM Framework for Large-Scale Mapping....Pages 439-448 LOCOBOT - Low Cost Toolkit for Building Robot Co-workers in Assembly Lines....Pages 449-459 Model Identification and $\mathcal{H}_{\infty}$ Attitude Control for Quadrotor MAV’s....Pages 460-471 An Intelligent Approach to Hysteresis Compensation while Sampling Using a Fleet of Autonomous Watercraft....Pages 472-485 Concept of a Biologically Inspired Robust Behaviour Control System....Pages 486-495 MinPos : A Novel Frontier Allocation Algorithm for Multi-robot Exploration....Pages 496-508 Experimental Validation of the Extended Computed Torque Control Approach in the 5R Parallel Robot Prototype....Pages 509-518 Model-Free Robust Control for Fluid Disturbed Underwater Vehicles....Pages 519-529 Sliding-Mode Observer Based Flux Estimation of Induction Motors....Pages 530-539 A Gasoline Engine Crankshaft Fatigue Analysis and Experiment....Pages 540-550 High Precision Embedded Control of a High Acceleration Positioning System....Pages 551-560 Rapid Control Selection through Hill-Climbing Methods....Pages 561-570 Robust Mode-Free Sliding Mode Control of Multi-fingered Hand with Position Synchronization in the Task Space....Pages 571-580 An FPGA-Based Real-Time Solution for Networked Motion Control Systems....Pages 581-591 Synchronous Control for Trajectory Tracking in Networked Multi-agent Systems....Pages 592-602 Multirobot Behavior Synchronization through Direct Neural Network Communication....Pages 603-614 Virtual Field Testing for Performance Evaluation of Cooperative Multiple Robots....Pages 615-624 Leader-Follower Formation Control Using PID Controller....Pages 625-634 Internet-Based Telerobotics of Mobile Manipulators: Application on RobuTER/ULM ....Pages 635-644 Multi-agent Control Architecture of Mobile Manipulators: Pulling Doors Open....Pages 645-655 Planar Surface Area Transformation and Calculation Using Camera and Orientation Sensor....Pages 656-665 Multi-modal People Tracking for an Awareness Behavior of an Interactive Tour-Guide Robot....Pages 666-675 A Robotic Pan and Tilt 3-D Target Tracking System by Data Fusion of Vision, Encoder, Accelerometer, and Gyroscope Measurements....Pages 676-685 A DSmT-Based Approach for Data Association in the Context of Multiple Target Tracking....Pages 686-695 Planning Sensor Feedback for Assembly Skills by Using Sensor State Space Graphs....Pages 696-707 Back Matter....Pages - The three volume set LNAI 7506, LNAI 7507 and LNAI 7508 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2012, held in Montreal, Canada, in October 2012. The 197 revised full papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 271 submissions. They present the state-of-the-art developments in robotics, automation and mechatronics. This volume covers the topics of adaptive control systems; automotive systems; estimation and identification; intelligent visual systems; application of differential geometry in robotic mechanisms; unmanned systems technologies and applications; new development on health management, fault diagnosis, and fault-tolerant control; biomechatronics; intelligent control of mechanical and mechatronic systems. The three volume set LNAI 7506, LNAI 7507 and LNAI 7508 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2012, held in Montreal, Canada, in October 2012. The 197 revised full papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 271 submissions. They present the state-of-the-art developments in robotics, automation and mechatronics. This volume covers the topics of robot actuators and sensors; robot design, development and control; robot intelligence, learning and linguistics; robot mechanism and design; robot motion analysis and planning; robotic vision, recognition and reconstruction; and planning and navigation. 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.