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Intelligent Robotics and Applications

5th International Conference, ICIRA 2012, Montreal, Canada, October 3-5, 2012, Proceedings, Part I

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  1. Chun-Yi Su

    1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

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  2. Subhash Rakheja

    1. Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

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  3. Honghai Liu

    1. School of Creative Technologies, The University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 7506)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

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Table of contents (70 papers)

  1. Intelligent Visual Systems

    1. Extracting Minimalistic Corridor Geometry from Low-Resolution Images

      • Yinxiao Li, Vidya N. Murali, Stanley T. Birchfield
      Pages 207-216

    2. Triangulation-Based Plane Extraction for 3D Point Clouds

      • Tobias Kotthäuser, Bärbel Mertsching
      Pages 217-228

    3. Evolutionary Computation for Intelligent Self-localization in Multiple Mobile Robots Based on SLAM

      • Yuichiro Toda, Shintaro Suzuki, Naoyuki Kubota
      Pages 229-239

  2. Application of Differential Geometry in Robotic Mechanisms

    1. Optimum Design of a Planar 3-DOF Parallel Manipulator for Good Motion and Force Transmissibility

      • Jie Yang, Yongzhi Hua
      Pages 240-249

    2. Singularity Analysis of the Planar 3-RRR Parallel Manipulator Considering the Motion/Force Transmissibility

      • Xiang Chen, Fugui Xie, Xin-jun Liu
      Pages 250-260

    3. Dimensional Synthesis of a Planar Parallel Manipulator for Pick-and-Place Operations Based on Rigid-Body Dynamics

      • Binbin Lian, Yimin Song, Gang Dong, Tao Sun, Yang Qi
      Pages 261-270

    4. Analytical Forward Kinematics for Two Kinds of Typical Tripods Part I: Closed-Form Solutions for Forward Kinematics Methods

      • You-Nan Xu, Xin-Jun Liu, Jin-Song Wang
      Pages 271-281

    5. Analytical Forward Kinematics for Two Kinds of Typical Tripods Part II: Analyzing for Their Workspaces, and Performances of the Forward Kinematics

      • You-Nan Xu, Xin-Jun Liu, Jin-Song Wang
      Pages 282-293

  3. Unmanned Systems Technologies and Applications

    1. Robust Sliding Mode Control Law Design for Unmanned Gyroplane

      • Jingchao Lu, Wei Chen
      Pages 294-301

    2. Realization of an Autonomous Team of Unmanned Ground and Aerial Vehicles

      • Marco Langerwisch, Markus Ax, Stefan Thamke, Thomas Remmersmann, Alexander Tiderko, Klaus-Dieter Kuhnert et al.
      Pages 302-312

    3. Design of Helicopter Cable-Orientation Control System Based on Finite-Element Modeling

      • Xiaoyan Wang, Xinmin Wang, Rong Xie, Yi Zheng
      Pages 313-322

    4. Research on Alignment of Camera and Receptacle during the Autonomous Aerial Refueling

      • Qiuling Jia, Shuzheng Shi, Yaohong Qu, Guangwen Li
      Pages 323-330

    5. Consensus Algorithms in a Multi-agent Framework to Solve PTZ Camera Reconfiguration in UAVs

      • Jose Luis Alarcon Herrera, Xiang Chen
      Pages 331-340

    6. Detection and Tracking of Underwater Object Based on Forward-Scan Sonar

      • Shaorong Xie, Jinbo Chen, Jun Luo, Pu Xie, Wenbin Tang
      Pages 341-347

    7. Structural Design and Analysis of 3-DOF Bionic Eye Based on Spherical Ultrasonic Motor

      • Jun Luo, Chaojiong Huang, Hengyu Li, Shaorong Xie, Youmin M. Zhang
      Pages 348-356

    8. Cooperative Control for UAV Formation Flight Based on Decentralized Consensus Algorithm

      • Yaohong Qu, Xu Zhu, Youmin M. Zhang
      Pages 357-366

    9. Segmentation and Classification of Side-Scan Sonar Data

      • Mahesh Khidkikar, Ramprasad Balasubramanian
      Pages 367-376

    10. Vision Guidance System for AGV Using ANFIS

      • Kyunghoon Jung, Inseong Lee, Hajun Song, Jungmin Kim, Sungshin Kim
      Pages 377-385

    11. Payload Drop Application of Unmanned Quadrotor Helicopter Using Gain-Scheduled PID and Model Predictive Control Techniques

      • Iman Sadeghzadeh, Mahyar Abdolhosseini, Youmin M. Zhang
      Pages 386-395

    12. UAV Flight Performance Optimization Based on Improved Particle Swarm Algorithm

      • Rong Xie, Xiaoyan Wang, Xinmin Wang, Hongshen Wei
      Pages 396-403
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The three volume set LNAI 7506, LNAI 7507 and LNAI 7508 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2012, held in Montreal, Canada, in October 2012. The 197 revised full papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 271 submissions. They present the state-of-the-art developments in robotics, automation and mechatronics. This volume covers the topics of adaptive control systems; automotive systems; estimation and identification; intelligent visual systems; application of differential geometry in robotic mechanisms; unmanned systems technologies and applications; new development on health management, fault diagnosis, and fault-tolerant control; biomechatronics; intelligent control of mechanical and mechatronic systems.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Mechanical Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

    Chun-Yi Su

  • Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

    Subhash Rakheja

  • School of Creative Technologies, The University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK

    Honghai Liu

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