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Bionics evolved in the 1960s as a framework to pursue the
development of artificial systems based on the study of biological
systems. Numerous disciplines and technologies, including
artificial intelligence and learningdevices, information
processing, systems architecture and control, perception, sensory
mechanisms, and bioenergetics, contributed to bionics research.
This volume is based on a NATO Advanced Research Workshop within
the Special Programme on Sensory Systems for Robotic Control, held
in Il Ciocco, Italy, in June 1989. A consensus emerged at the
workshop, and is reflected in the book, on the value of learning
from nature in order to derive guidelines for the design of
intelligent machines which operate in unstructured environments.
The papers in the book are grouped into seven chapters: vision and
dynamic systems, hands and tactile perception, locomotion,
intelligent motor control, design technologies, interfacing robots
to nervous systems, and robot societies and self-organization.
This volume contains papers presented at the NATO Advanced Research
Workshop (ARW) on "Sensors and Sensory Systems for Advanced
Robots", which was held in Maratea, Italy, during the week Apri I
28 - May 3, 1986. Participants in the ARW, who came from eleven
NATO and two non-NATO countries, represented an i nternat i ona I
assortment of d i st i ngu i shed research centers in industry,
government and academia. Purpose of the Workshop was to rev i ew
the state of the art of sensing for advanced robots, to discuss
basic concepts and new ideas on the use of sensors for robot
control and to provide recommendations for future research in this
area, There IS an almost unanimous consensus among invest i gators
in the fie I d of robot i cs that the add i t i on of sensory
capabi I ities represents the "natural" evolution of present
industrial robots, as wei I as the necessary premise to the
development of advanced robots for nonindustrial app I i cat ions.
However, a number of conceptua I and techn i ca I problems sti I I
challenge the practical implementation and widespread appl ication
of sensor-based robot control techn i ques. Cruc i a I among those
prob I ems is the ava i lab iii ty of adequate sensors.
Distributed autonomous robotic systems (DARS) are systems composed
of multiple autonomous units such as modules, cells, processors,
agents, and robots. Combination or cooperative operation of
multiple autonomous units is expected to lead to desirable features
such as flexibility, fault tolerance, and efficiency. The DARS is
the leading established conference on distributed autonomous
systems. All papers have the common goal to contribute solutions to
the very demanding task of designing distributed systems to realize
robust and intelligent robotic systems.
Atthedawnofthenewmillennium,
roboticsisundergoingamajortransformation
inscopeanddimension.Fromalargelydominantindustrialfocus,
roboticsisrapidly expanding into the challenges of unstructured
environments. Interacting with, - sisting, serving, and exploring
with humans, the emerging robots will increasingly
touchpeopleandtheirlives.
ThegoalofthenewseriesofSpringerTractsinAdvancedRobotics(STAR)isto
bring, in a timely fashion, the latest advances and developments in
robotics on the
basisoftheirsigni?canceandquality.Itisourhopethatthewiderdisseminationof
researchdevelopmentswillstimulatemoreexchangesandcollaborationsamongthe
researchcommunityandcontributetofurtheradvancementofthisrapidlygrowing
?eld. Sinceitsinceptionsomefourteenyearsago, ISER,
theInternationalSymposium on Experimental Robotics was published in
the Springer Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences
(LNCIS). With the launching of STAR, a more suitable
homeisfoundforthisandotherthematicsymposiadevotedtoexcellenceinrobotics
research.
TheEightheditionofExperimentalRoboticseditedbyBrunoSicilianoandPaolo
Dario offers in its ?fteen-chapter volume a collection of a broad
range of topics in
robotics.Thecontentsofthesecontributionsrepresentacross-sectionofthecurrent
stateofroboticsresearchfromoneparticularaspect: experimentalwork,
andhowit
re?ectsonthetheoreticalbasisofsubsequentdevelopments.Experimentalvalidation
ofalgorithms, designconcepts,
ortechniquesisthecommonthreadrunningthrough
thislargecollectionofwidelydiversecontributions. From its charming
venue to its excellent program, ISER culminates with this unique
reference on the current developments and new directions in the
?eld of
experimentalrobotics-atributetothecommitmentanddedicationofitshosts
California, USA OussamaKhatib November2002 STAREditor Preface The
International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER) is a series
of - annual meetings, which are organized in a rotating fashion
around North Am- ica,
EuropeandAsia/Oceania.PreviousvenueswereMontreal(Canada), Toulouse
(France), Kyoto (Japan), Stanford (USA), Barcelona (Spain), Sydney
(Australia), Honolulu (USA). The goal of these symposia is to
provide a forum for research in robotics that focuses on theories
and principles that are validated by experiments.
Themeetingsareconceivedtobringtogether, inasmallgroupsetting,
researchers
fromaroundtheworldwhoareintheforefrontofexperimentalroboticsresearch.
Thepost-symposiumExperimentalRoboticsproceedingshavetraditionallybeen
published by Springer-Verlag. In addition to the proceedings, these
symposia have produced compilation of video segments illustrating
the reported research, which areavailableasvideoproceedings. The
Eight International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER 02)
was held in the charming sea village of Sant'Angelo on the island
of Ischia in the gulf ofNaples,
Italyon8-11July2002.ThesymposiumwaschairedbyBrunoSiciliano andPaol
ISRR, the "International Symposium on Robotics Research," is one
of robotics pioneering symposia, which has established some of the
field's most fundamental and lasting contributions over the past
two decades. This book presents the results of the eleventh edition
of "Robotics Research" ISRR03, offering a broad range of topics in
robotics. The contributions provide a wide coverage of the current
state of robotics research: the advances and challenges in its
theoretical foundation and technology basis, and the developments
in its traditional and new emerging areas of applications. The
diversity, novelty, and span of the work unfolding in these areas
reveal the field's increased maturity and expanded scope, and
define the state of the art of robotics and its future direction.
"
ISRR, the "International Symposium on Robotics Research," is one
of robotics pioneering symposia, which has established some of the
field's most fundamental and lasting contributions over the past
two decades. This book presents the results of the eleventh edition
of "Robotics Research" ISRR03, offering a broad range of topics in
robotics. The contributions provide a wide coverage of the current
state of robotics research: the advances and challenges in its
theoretical foundation and technology basis, and the developments
in its traditional and new emerging areas of applications. The
diversity, novelty, and span of the work unfolding in these areas
reveal the field's increased maturity and expanded scope, and
define the state of the art of robotics and its future direction.
"
This book is a collection of papers on the state of the art in experimental robotics. Experimental Robotics is at the core of validating robotics research for both its systems science and theoretical foundations. Because robotics experiments are carried out on physical, complex machines, of which its controllers are subject to uncertainty, devising meaningful experiments and collecting statistically significant results, pose important and unique challenges in robotics. Robotics experiments serve as a unifying theme for robotics system science and algorithmic foundations. These observations have led to the creation of the International Symposia on Experimental Robotics. The papers in this book were presented at the 2002 International Symposium on Experimental Robotics.
Bionics evolved in the 1960s as a framework to pursue the
development of artificial systems based on the study of biological
systems. Numerous disciplines and technologies, including
artificial intelligence and learningdevices, information
processing, systems architecture and control, perception, sensory
mechanisms, and bioenergetics, contributed to bionics research.
This volume is based on a NATO Advanced Research Workshop within
the Special Programme on Sensory Systems for Robotic Control, held
in Il Ciocco, Italy, in June 1989. A consensus emerged at the
workshop, and is reflected in the book, on the value of learning
from nature in order to derive guidelines for the design of
intelligent machines which operate in unstructured environments.
The papers in the book are grouped into seven chapters: vision and
dynamic systems, hands and tactile perception, locomotion,
intelligent motor control, design technologies, interfacing robots
to nervous systems, and robot societies and self-organization.
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