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6 Efficient and Precise Grasp Planning for Real World Objects
With the development of .exible and highly integrated dexterous grip** devices (e.g. fig.6.1) the research results on grasp and manipulation... -
4 Modelling and Controlling the Compliance of a Robotic Hand with Soft Finger-pads
Compliant pads greatly contribute to increase the robustness and the stability of grasps of robot hands, because of their conformability to the... -
7 Conclusions
Gyrover is a novel concept for mobility that has distinct advantages over conventional, statically stable vehicles. The concept has been veri.ed with... -
On-line Model Learning for Mobile Manipulations
In control system design, modeling the control objects is the foundation of high performance controllers. In most cases, the model is unknown before... -
A Vision of the New Civilization Era
This chapter is organized as follows. After stressing the importance of having a vision on the verge of the new era of knowledge civilization, we... -
A New Role of Systems Science Informed Systems Approach
This chapter is organized as follows. We show first that, while systems science is by its definition interdisciplinary, a split into soft systems... -
7 Geometrical Parameter Estimation and CF Recognition
This chapter presents the estimator component of the autonomous compliant motion system (see Fig. 1.2). This component... -
3 Literature Survey: Bayesian Probability Theory
This chapter presents some basic aspects of Bayesian probability theory [21, 153]. First of all, the difference between Bayesian and classical... -
8 Experiment: A Cube-In-Corner Assembly
This chapter validates the theory of the previous chapters with an experiment. The experiment consists of the estimation of the geometrical... -
6. Kinematic Control of UVMSs
A robotic system is kinematically redundant when it possesses more degrees of freedom than those required to execute a given task. A generic... -
6 Contact Modelling
This chapter describes the contact modelling for autonomous compliant motion assuming quasi-static, rigid, frictionless contacts. The contact models... -
E Partial Observation with the Kalman Filter
This appendix contains the proofs of Lemmas 7.1 and 7.2. These lemmas state that, for static systems, (i) a Kalman Filter can be run on only the... -
Research Issues in Web Structural Delta Mining
Web structure mining has been a well-researched area during recent years. Based on the observation that data on the web may change at any time in any... -
Cognitive User Modeling Computed by a Proposed Dialogue Strategy Based on an Inductive Game Theory
This paper advocates the concept of user modeling (UM), which involves dialogue strategies. We focus on human-machine collaboration, which is endowed... -
4 Kalman Filters for Nonlinear Systems
The Kalman Filter (KF) [137, 240] is a special case of Bayesian filtering theory. It applies to the estimation of a continuous-valued state x if the... -
Multi-knowledge Approach for Mobile Robot Identification of a Changing Environment
In this paper, a large environment is divided into sub-areas to enable a robot to apply precise localization technology efficiently in real time.... -
In Situ Autonomous Biomechanical Characterization
This paper presents a fully automated microrobotic system based on force/vision referenced control designed for cell mechanical characterization. The... -
Image-Based Visual Servoing for Mobile Robots with Catadioptric Camera
This paper presents an image-based visual servoing strategy for holonomic mobile robots equipped with a catadioptric camera. This kind of vision... -
Representation, Recognition and Generation of Actions in the Context of Imitation Learning
The paper deals with the development of a cognitive architecture for learning by imitation in which a rich conceptual representation of the observed... -
A Measurement-Theoretic Foundation of Rule Interestingness Evaluation
Many measures have been proposed and studied extensively in data mining for evaluating the interestingness (or usefulness) of discovered rules. They...