Sharing a Vision

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

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      Pages 1-9

3. Part I: Systems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. The Co-Opticon System: Interface, System Architecture, and Implementation of a Collaboratively Controlled Robotic Webcam

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      Pages 13-22

   3. The Tele-Actor System: Collaborative Teleoperation Using Networked Spatial Dynamic Voting

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      Pages 23-37

4. Part II: Algorithms

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-39

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   2. Exact Frame Selection Algorithms for Agile Satellites

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      Pages 41-69

   3. Approximate and Distributed Algorithms for a Collaboratively Controlled Robotic Webcam

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      Pages 71-88

   4. An Approximation Algorithm for the Least Overlapping p-Frame Problem with Non-Partial Coverage for Networked Robotic Cameras

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      Pages 89-102

   5. Unsupervised Scoring for Scalable Internet-Based Collaborative Teleoperation

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      Pages 103-113

5. Part III: Deployment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115

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   2. Projection Invariants for Pan-Tilt-Zoom Robotic Cameras

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      Pages 117-137

   3. Calibration Algorithms for Panorama-Based Camera Control

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      Pages 139-151

   4. On-Demand Sharing of a High-Resolution Panorama Video from Networked Robotic Cameras

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      Pages 153-163

   5. Conclusions and Future Work

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      Pages 165-171

6. Back Matter

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By the dawn of the new millennium, robotics has undergone a major transf- mation in scope and dimensions. This expansion has been brought about by the maturity of the ?eld and the advances in its related technologies. From a largely dominant industrial focus, robotics has been rapidly expanding into the challenges of the human world. The new generation of robots is expected to safely and dependably co-habitat with humans in homes, workplaces, and c- munities, providing support in services, entertainment, education, healthcare, manufacturing, and assistance. Beyond its impact on physical robots, the body of knowledge robotics has produced is revealing a much wider rangeof applications reaching across diverse research areas and scienti?c disciplines, such as: biomechanics, haptics, n- rosciences, virtual simulation, animation, surgery, and sensor networks among others. In return, the challenges of the new emerging areas are proving an ab- dant source of stimulation and insights for the ?eld of robotics. It is indeed at the intersection of disciplines that the most striking advances happen. The goal of the series of Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR) is to bring, in a timely fashion, the latest advances and developments in robotics on thebasisoftheirsigni?canceandquality.Itisourhopethatthewiderdissemi- tion of research developments will stimulate more exchanges and collaborations among the research community and contribute to further advancement of this rapidly growing ?eld.

• Collaborative Teleoperations
• Networked Robots
• Networked Teleoperations
• Robotic Cameras
• Telerobotics
• algorithms
• robot

From the reviews:

“This monograph is aimed at researchers interested in surveillance problems, focusing on problems associated with a robotic camera collaboratively controlled by multiple users on the Internet. The match between teleoperated robotic cameras and the requirements of natural environment observation is explored. The monograph provides solutions to problems of natural environment observation and outlines future research directions.” (IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol. 30, August, 2010)

• Texas A&M University, College Station, USA

  Dezhen Song

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