Intelligent Robotics and Applications

This three volume set LNAI 9244, 9245, and 9246 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2015, held in Portsmouth, UK, in August 2015. The 60 papers included in the first volume are organized in topical sections on analysis and control for complex systems; marine vehicles and oceanic engineering; drives and actuators modeling; biomechatronics in bionic dexterous hand; robot actuators and sensors; intelligent visual systems; estimation and identification; and adaptive control system.

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[31]  Giulio Sandini,et al.  Tactile Sensing—From Humans to Humanoids , 2010, IEEE Transactions on Robotics.

[32]  Yoshio Yamamoto,et al.  On-line path planning strategy integrated with collision and dead-lock avoidance schemes for wheeled mobile robot in indoor environments , 2008, Ind. Robot.

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[34]  Wolfram Burgard,et al.  Object identification with tactile sensors using bag-of-features , 2009, 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.

[35]  Kaspar Althoefer,et al.  Tactile image based contact shape recognition using neural network , 2012, 2012 IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems (MFI).

[36]  Gregory D. Hager,et al.  Tactile-Object Recognition From Appearance Information , 2011, IEEE Transactions on Robotics.

[37]  Magdi S. Mahmoud,et al.  Improved digital tracking controller design for pilot-scale unmanned helicopter , 2012, J. Frankl. Inst..

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[41]  Helge J. Ritter,et al.  A Probabilistic Approach to Tactile Shape Reconstruction , 2011, IEEE Transactions on Robotics.

[42]  Xian-Sheng Hua,et al.  Ensemble Manifold Regularization , 2009, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.

[43]  Kaspar Althoefer,et al.  Efficient Break-Away Friction Ratio and Slip Prediction Based on Haptic Surface Exploration , 2014, IEEE Transactions on Robotics.

[44]  Maurizio Valle,et al.  Tactile-Data Classification of Contact Materials Using Computational Intelligence , 2011, IEEE Transactions on Robotics.

[45]  Luigi Villani,et al.  Force Control , 2016, Springer Handbook of Robotics, 2nd Ed..

[46]  Takeo Kanade,et al.  Online environment reconstruction for biped navigation , 2006, Proceedings 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2006. ICRA 2006..

[47]  Alex Stacoff,et al.  Modelling of the ankle joint complex. Reflections with regards to ankle prostheses , 2004 .

[48]  Danica Kragic,et al.  ST-HMP: Unsupervised Spatio-Temporal feature learning for tactile data , 2014, 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).

[49]  Gordon Cheng,et al.  Directions Toward Effective Utilization of Tactile Skin: A Review , 2013, IEEE Sensors Journal.

[50]  P. Dasgupta,et al.  Air-cushion force sensitive probe for soft tissue investigation during minimally invasive surgery , 2009, 2008 IEEE Sensors.

[51]  Zoubin Ghahramani,et al.  Combining active learning and semi-supervised learning using Gaussian fields and harmonic functions , 2003, ICML 2003.

[52]  Kaspar Althoefer,et al.  Surface material recognition through haptic exploration using an intelligent contact sensing finger , 2012, 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.

[53]  J. Dai,et al.  An indentation depth—force sensing wheeled probe for abnormality identification during minimally invasive surgery , 2010, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Part H, Journal of engineering in medicine.

[54]  In-So Kweon,et al.  Relative Pose Estimation for an Integrated UGV-UAV Robot System , 2013, ICIRA.

[55]  Matthijs C. Dorst.  Distinctive Image Features from Scale-Invariant Keypoints , 2011 .