Research and Education in Robotics - EUROBOT 2010 : International Conference, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland, May 27-30, 2010 : revised selected papers

This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Conference on Research and Education in Robotics held in Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland, in May 2010. The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on mechanical design and system architecture, flexible robot strategy design, and autonomous mobile robot development. Front Matter....Pages - Improved Image Dominant Plane Extraction for Robot Navigation....Pages 1-13 Do Cognition and Robotics Share Common Ground? Some Answers from the MCS Perspective and an RH-Y Case Study....Pages 14-29 Elements of Hybrid Control in Autonomous Systems and Cognitics....Pages 30-45 Mechanical Design and System Architecture of a Tracked Vehicle Robot for Urban Search and Rescue Operations....Pages 46-56 Flexible Robot Strategy Design Using Belief-Desire-Intention Model....Pages 57-71 Using Quadtrees for Realtime Pathfinding in Indoor Environments....Pages 72-78 Robot Workshop and Contest for High-School Students Organized by “Politehnica” University of Bucharest....Pages 79-86 Requirements and Solutions in Applied Robotics....Pages 87-92 Estimation of Mobile Robot Pose from Optical Mouses....Pages 93-107 Performance Comparison of Vision Sensors and Processing Power of Two Robotic Platforms for Obstacle Avoidance....Pages 108-117 Combining Gaussian Processes and Conventional Path Planning in a Learning from Demonstration Framework....Pages 118-129 Development, Realization and Control of a Mobile Robot....Pages 130-140 Startup Robotics Course for Elementary School....Pages 141-148 Micromouse – Electronics on Wheels....Pages 149-167 Autonomous Mobile Robot Development in a Team, Summarizing Our Approaches....Pages 168-179 Distributed Control System in Mobile Robot Application: General Approach, Realization and Usage....Pages 180-192 A Modular and Scalable Electronic System for Mobile and Autonomous Robots....Pages 193-200 Back Matter....Pages -