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Field and Service Robotics

Results of the 8th International Conference

  • Recent leading research in Field and Service Robotics
  • Edited outcome of the 8th International conference on Field and Service Robotics, held at July 20-22, 2011, Matsushima, Miyagi, Japan
  • Written by leading experts in the field
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR, volume 92)

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Table of contents (43 chapters)

  1. Terrain Mapping and Control Optimization for a 6-Wheel Rover with Passive Suspension

    • Pascal Strupler, Cédric Pradalier, Roland Siegwart
    Pages 297-310
  2. Robust Monocular Visual Odometry for a Ground Vehicle in Undulating Terrain

    • Ji Zhang, Sanjiv Singh, George Kantor
    Pages 311-326
  3. Modeling and Calibrating Visual Yield Estimates in Vineyards

    • Stephen Nuske, Kamal Gupta, Srinivasa Narasimhan, Sanjiv Singh
    Pages 343-356
  4. Forest 3D Mapping and Tree Sizes Measurement for Forest Management Based on Sensing Technology for Mobile Robots

    • Takashi Tsubouchi, Asuka Asano, Toshihiko Mochizuki, Shuhei Kondou, Keiko Shiozawa, Mitsuhiro Matsumoto et al.
    Pages 357-368
  5. Iterative Autonomous Excavation

    • Guilherme J. Maeda, David C. Rye, Surya P. N. Singh
    Pages 369-382
  6. Rock Recognition Using Stereo Vision for Large Rock Breaking Operation

    • Anusorn Iamrurksiri, Takashi Tsubouchi, Shigeru Sarata
    Pages 383-397
  7. Plowing for Rover Control on Extreme Slopes

    • David Kohanbash, Scott Moreland, David Wettergreen
    Pages 399-413
  8. Complementary Flyover and Rover Sensing for Superior Modeling of Planetary Features

    • Heather L. Jones, Uland Wong, Kevin M. Peterson, Jason Koenig, Aashish Sheshadri, William L. Red Whittaker
    Pages 415-429
  9. Motion Analysis System for Robot Traction Device Evaluation and Design

    • Scott J. Moreland, Krzysztof Skonieczny, David S. Wettergreen
    Pages 449-463
  10. Image-Directed Sampling for Geometric Modeling of Lunar Terrain

    • Uland Wong, Ben Garney, Warren Whittaker, Red Whittaker
    Pages 465-478
  11. Large Scale Monocular Vision-Only Mapping from a Fixed-Wing sUAS

    • Michael Warren, David McKinnon, Hu He, Arren Glover, Michael Shiel, Ben Upcroft
    Pages 495-509
  12. Super-Voxel Based Segmentation and Classification of 3D Urban Landscapes with Evaluation and Comparison

    • Ahmad Kamal Aijazi, Paul Checchin, Laurent Trassoudaine
    Pages 511-526
  13. Classification of 3-D Point Cloud Data that Includes Line and Frame Objects on the Basis of Geometrical Features and the Pass Rate of Laser Rays

    • Kazunori Ohno, Takahiro Suzuki, Kazuyuki Higashi, Masanobu Tsubota, Eijiro Takeuchi, Satoshi Tadokoro
    Pages 527-540
  14. Solid Model Reconstruction of Large-Scale Outdoor Scenes from 3D Lidar Data

    • Ciril Baselgia, Michael Bosse, Robert Zlot, Claude Holenstein
    Pages 541-554
  15. Gold-Fish SLAM: An Application of SLAM to Localize AGVs

    • Henrik Andreasson, Abdelbaki Bouguerra, Björn Åstrand, Thorsteinn Rögnvaldsson
    Pages 585-598

About this book

FSR, the International Conference on Field and Service Robotics, is the leading single track conference of robotics for field and service applications. This book presents the results of FSR2012, the eighth conference of Field and Service Robotics, which was originally planned for 2011 with the venue of Matsushima in Tohoku region of Japan. However, on March 11, 2011, a magnitude M9.0 earthquake occurred off the Pacific coast of Tohoku, and a large-scale disaster was caused by the Tsunami which resulted, therefore the conference was postponed by one year to July, 2012. In fact, this earthquake raised issues concerning the contribution of field and service robotics technology to emergency scenarios. A number of precious lessons were learned from operation of robots in the resulting, very real and challenging, disaster environments. Up-to-date study on disaster response, relief and recovery was then featured in the conference. This book offers 43 papers on a broad range of topics including: Disaster Response, Service/Entertainment Robots, Inspection/Maintenance Robots, Mobile Robot Navigation, Agricultural Robots, Robots for Excavation, Planetary Exploration, Large Area Mapping, SLAM for Outdoor Robots, and Elemental Technology for Mobile Robots.

Reviews

From the book reviews:

“This book offers a must-read volume for researchers involved in the field of mobile robotics. … this book has a clear structure and is fairly readable. The topic covered may be adequate for graduate-level studies.” (Ramon Gonzalez Sanchez, Computing Reviews, October, 2014)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Aerospace Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

    Kazuya Yoshida

  • Tohoku University Graduate School of Information Sciences, Sendai, Japan

    Satoshi Tadokoro

Bibliographic Information

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eBook USD 129.00
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Hardcover Book USD 169.99
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