Robotics: Science and Systems IV (Mit Press) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262513099 ISBN 13: 9780262513098

Publisher: MIT Press, 2009

Synopsis

State-of-the-art robotics research on such topics as manipulation, motion planning, micro-robotics, distributed systems, autonomous navigation, and mapping.

Robotics: Science and Systems IV spans a wide spectrum of robotics, bringing together researchers working on the foundations of robotics, robotics applications, and analysis of robotics systems. This volume presents the proceedings of the fourth annual Robotics: Science and Systems conference, held in 2008 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. The papers presented cover a range of topics, including computer vision, mapping, terrain identification, distributed systems, localization, manipulation, collision avoidance, multibody dynamics, obstacle detection, microrobotic systems, pursuit-evasion, grasping and manipulation, tracking, spatial kinematics, machine learning, and sensor networks as well as such applications as autonomous driving and design of manipulators for use in functional-MRI. The conference and its proceedings reflect not only the tremendous growth of robotics as a discipline but also the desire in the robotics community for a flagship event at which the best of the research in the field can be presented.

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Oliver Brock is Alexander von Humboldt Professor at Technische Universität Berlin.

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The conference Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) was held at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich Switzerland, from June 25 to June 28, 2008. Robotics: Science and Systems is a single-track conference that aims to showcase the best research and the most exciting systems from all areas of robotics at a single conference to a broad audience. Special provisions are made to enable students to participate in this conference. This year, there were two different kinds of travel awards available to students.

Edition details

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0262513099
• ISBN 13: 9780262513098
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 317
• Editor: Brock Oliver, Trinkle Jeff, Ramos Fabio