Brain, Body and Machine (eBook)

Proceedings of an International Symposium on the Occasion of the 25th Anniversary of McGill University Centre for Intelligent Machines

Jorge Angeles, Benoit Boulet, James J. Clark, Jozsef Kovecses, Kaleem Siddiqi (Herausgeber)

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2010 | 2010
327 Seiten
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-642-16259-6 (ISBN)

Infos

The reader will find here papers on human-robot interaction as well as human safety algorithms, haptic interfaces, innovative instruments and algorithms for the sensing of motion and the identification of brain neoplasms, even a paper on a saxophone-playing robot.

Inhalt

Force and Visual Control for Safe Human-Robot Interaction.- 3D Automatic Segmentation of the Hippocampus Using Wavelets with Applications to Radiotherapy Planning.- Rigid Registration of 3D Ultrasound and MRI: Comparing Two Approaches on Nine Tumor Cases.- A New Approach to Virtual Mirroring for View Integration.- Designing a Metric for the Difference between Gaussian Densities.- Physical Asymmetries and Brightness Perception.- A Learning-Based Patient Repositioning Method from Limited-Angle Projections.- Image and Video Region Saliency Based on Space and Motion.- Generalized PCA via the Backward Stepwise Approach in Image Analysis.- Performance of MRF-Based Stereo Algorithms for Cluttered Scenes.- Medial Spheres for Shape Approximation.- A Heuristic Algorithm for Slicing in the Rapid Freeze Prototyping of Sculptured Bodies.- Robust Design of 2nd Order Terminal ILC Using ?-Analysis and a Genetic Algorithm Approach.- Development of an Anthropomorphic Saxophone-Playing Robot.- Human Safety Algorithms for a Parallel Cable-Driven Haptic Interface.- Hybrid Stabilizing Control for the Spatial Double Inverted Pendulum.- Closed-Loop Control of Plasma Osmolality.- Cooperative Exploration, Localization, and Visual Map Construction.- Sliding-Mode Velocity and Yaw Control of a 4WD Skid-Steering Mobile Robot.- On the Design and Validation of an Intelligent Powered Wheelchair: Lessons from the SmartWheeler Project.- Devon Island as a Proving Ground for Planetary Rovers.- Leader-Follower Cucker-Smale Type Flocking Synthesized via Mean Field Stochastic Control Theory.- Dynamic Locomotion with a Wheeled-Legged Quadruped Robot.- Underactuated Cable-Driven Robots: Machine, Control and Suspended Bodies.- Computing the Rigid-Body Acceleration Field from Nine Accelerometer Measurements.- Singularity Analysis of a Six-Dof Parallel Manipulator Using Grassmann-Cayley Algebra and Gröbner Bases.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.10.2010
• Reihe/Serie: Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing
• Reihe/Serie: Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing
• Zusatzinfo: 327 p. 167 illus.
• Verlagsort: Berlin
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Maschinenbau
• Schlagworte: algorithms • Anthropomorph • Artificial Intelligence • Body • brain • Development • Genetic Algorithm • Genetic algorithms • Image Analysis • machine • Mobile Robot • proving • robot • Robotics • sensing
• ISBN-10: 3-642-16259-2 / 3642162592
• ISBN-13: 978-3-642-16259-6 / 9783642162596