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The Internet Challenge: Technology and Applications
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 172

The Internet Challenge: Technology and Applications

The International Workshop on "The Internet Challenge: Technology and Applications" is the fifth in a successful series of workshops that were established by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Technische Universitat Berlin. The goal of those workshops is to bring together researchers from both universities in order to exchange research results achieved in common projects of the two partner universities or to present interesting new work that might lead to new cooperation. The series of workshops started in 1990 with the "International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence" and was continued with the "International Workshop on Advanced Software Technology" in 1994. Both workshops have been hosted by Shanghai Jiao Tong University. In 1998 the third workshop took place in Berlin. This "International Workshop on Communication Based Systems" was essentially based on results from the Graduiertenkolleg on Communication Based systems that was funded by the German Research Society (DFG) from 1991 to 2000. The fourth "International Workshop on Robotics and its Applications" was held in Shanghai in 2000 supported by VDIIVDE-GMA and GI.

Wearable Robotics in the Rehabilitation Continuum of Care: Assessment, Treatment and Home Assistance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 141
A Hybrid Physical and Data-drivApproach to Motion Prediction and Control in Human-Robot Collaboration
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 212

A Hybrid Physical and Data-drivApproach to Motion Prediction and Control in Human-Robot Collaboration

In recent years, researchers have achieved great success in guaranteeing safety in human-robot interaction, yielding a new generation of robots that can work with humans in close proximity, known as collaborative robots (cobots). However, due to the lack of ability to understand and coordinate with their human partners, the ``co'' in most cobots still refers to ``coexistence'' rather than ``collaboration''. This thesis aims to develop an adaptive learning and control framework with a novel physical and data-driven approach towards a real collaborative robot. The first part focuses on online human motion prediction. A comprehensive study on various motion prediction techniques is presented, i...

Investigation on Robust Codesign Methods for Networked Control Systems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 180

Investigation on Robust Codesign Methods for Networked Control Systems

The problem of jointly designing a robust controller and an intelligent scheduler for networked control systems (NCSs) is addressed in this thesis. NCSs composing of multiple plants that share a single channel communication network with uncertain time-varying transmission times are modeled as switched polytopic systems with additive norm-bounded uncertainty. Switching is deployed to represent scheduling, the polytopic uncertainty to overapproximatively describe the uncertain time-varying transmission times. Based on the resulting NCS model and a state feedback control law, the control and scheduling codesign problem is then introduced and formulated as a robust (minimax) optimization problem...

Haptics: Generating and Perceiving Tangible Sensations, Part I
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 440

Haptics: Generating and Perceiving Tangible Sensations, Part I

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-07-06
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  • Publisher: Springer

Annotation This book constitutes the proceedings of the conference on Haptics: Generating and Perceiving Tangible Sensations, held in Amsterdam, Netherlands in July 2010.

Experimental Robotics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 995

Experimental Robotics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-07-09
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  • Publisher: Springer

The International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER) is a series of bi-annual meetings, which are organized, in a rotating fashion around North America, Europe and Asia/Oceania. The goal of ISER is to provide a forum for research in robotics that focuses on novelty of theoretical contributions validated by experimental results. The meetings are conceived to bring together, in a small group setting, researchers from around the world who are in the forefront of experimental robotics research. This unique reference presents the latest advances across the various fields of robotics, with ideas that are not only conceived conceptually but also explored experimentally. It collects robotics contributions on the current developments and new directions in the field of experimental robotics, which are based on the papers presented at the 13the ISER held in Québec City, Canada, at the Fairmont Le Château Frontenac, on June 18-21, 2012. This present thirteenth edition of Experimental Robotics edited by Jaydev P. Desai, Gregory Dudek, Oussama Khatib, and Vijay Kumar offers a collection of a broad range of topics in field and human-centered robotics.

Distributed Optimisation for Multi-Robot Cooperative Manipulation Control in Dynamic Environments
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 188

Distributed Optimisation for Multi-Robot Cooperative Manipulation Control in Dynamic Environments

Since the manipulation tasks for robotic systems become more and more complicated, multi-robot cooperation has been attracting much attention recently. Furthermore, under the trend of human-robot co-existence, collision-free motion control is now also desired on multi-robot groups. This dissertation aims to design a novel distributed optimal control framework to deal with multi-robot cooperative manipulation of rigid objects in dynamic environments. Besides object transportation, the control scheme also tackles obstacle avoidance, joint-space performance optimisation and internal force suppression. The proposed control framework has a two-layer structure, with a distributed optimisation algo...

Haptics: Generating and Perceiving Tangible Sensations, Part II
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 476

Haptics: Generating and Perceiving Tangible Sensations, Part II

This book constitutes the proceedings of the conference on Haptics: Generating and Perceiving Tangible Sensations, held in Amsterdam, Netherlands in July 2010.

A Stable and Transparent Framework for Adaptive Shared Control of Robots
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 198

A Stable and Transparent Framework for Adaptive Shared Control of Robots

Robotic research and developments in computing technologies including artificial intelligence have led to significant improvements in autonomous capabilities of robots. Yet, human supervision is advisable and, in many cases, necessary when robots interact with real-world, outside-lab environments. This is due to the fact that complete autonomy in robots has not yet been achieved. When robots encounter challenges beyond their capabilities, a viable solution is to include human operators in the loop, who can support robots through teleoperation, taking complete control or shared control. This monograph focuses on a special form of shared control, namely mixed-initiative, where the final comman...

Advances in Telerobotics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 504

Advances in Telerobotics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-08-10
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  • Publisher: Springer

A fascinating book that covers in detail all of the most recent advances in Telerobotics. A must-read for scientists, researchers and students in teleoperation, it describes everything from methods and experimental results to applications and developments. Its three sections cover human system interfaces, control, and applications.