INTELLIGENT ROBOTS - SENSING, MODELING AND PLANNING

by Hartmut Noltemeier, Horst Bunke

Collects 26 papers based on a workshop held at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany in September 1996. Topics covered path and motion planning; navigation and sensing; localization and visibility; vision, shape and object recognition; environment modeling; fixture design and grasping; distributed systems; and ecological systems, learning, and robot control. Two applications chapters discuss technology requirements for advanced service robots, and integration of automated guided vehicles into manufacturing plants. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

466 pages, Hardcover

Published December 5, 1997