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Artificial General Intelligence
Springer 2007; US$ 94.99This is the first book on current research on artificial general intelligence (AGI), work explicitly focused on engineering general intelligence ? autonomous, self-reflective, self-improving, commonsensical intelligence.Each author explains a specific aspect of AGI in detail in each chapter, while also investigating the common themes in the work of... more...
Practical PID Control
Springer 2006; US$ 159.99Proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controllers are the most adopted controllers in industrial settings. This book focuses on those functionalities that can provide significant improvements in PID performance in combination with parameter tuning. It covers PID-based control architectures (ratio and cascade control) and performance assessment. more...
Flexible Robot Manipulators
The Institution of Engineering and Technology 1753; US$ 118.00This book reports recent and new developments in modeling, simulation and control of flexible robot manipulators. The material is presented in four distinct components: a range of modeling approaches including classical techniques based on the Lagrange equation formulation, parametric approaches based on linear input/output models using system identification... more...
Springer Handbook of Automation
Springer 2009; US$ 159.99A handbook that incorporates various developments in automation. It presents a widespread conglomeration of application areas, such as medical systems and health, transportation, security and maintenance, service, construction and retail as well as production or logistics. It is suitable for automation experts, and for people new to this field. more...
Mobile Robot Navigation with Intelligent Infrared Image Interpretation
Springer 2009; US$ 99.99Describes an alternative to GPS navigation: a physics-based adaptive Bayesian pattern classification model that uses a passive thermal infrared imaging system to automatically characterize non-heat generating objects in unstructured outdoor environments for mobile robots. more...
Visual Perception for Manipulation and Imitation in Humanoid Robots
Springer 2009; US$ 99.99The development of humanoid robots is one of the most challenging research fields within robotics. One of the crucial capabilities of such a humanoid is the ability to visually perceive its environment. The present monograph deals with visual perception for the intended applications manipulation and imitation, supporting higher-level cognition. In... more...
Electroactive Polymer (EAP) Actuators as Artificial Muscles
SPIE 2004; US$ 87.55In concept and execution, this book covers the field of EAP with careful attention to all its key aspects and full infrastructure, including the available materials, analytical models, processing techniques, and characterization methods. In this second edition the reader is brought current on promising advances in EAP that have occurred in electric... more...
Eleventh Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence
IOS Press 2011; US$ 160.00This book contains the proceedings of the 11th Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI), held in Trondheim in May 2011. It presents 17 full papers and an additional six short papers and posters carefully selected from the submissions after thorough peer review. The papers are arranged in four main sections: machine learning, planning,... more...
Biologically Inspired Approaches for Locomotion, Anomaly Detection and Reconfiguration for Walking Robots
Springer Fachmedien 2011; US$ 84.99The increasing presence of mobile robots in our everyday lives introduces the requirements for their intelligent and autonomous features. Therefore the next generation of mobile robots should be more self-capable, in respect to: increasing of their functionality in unforeseen situations, decreasing of the human involvement in their everyday operations... more...
Starr-elastische Robotersysteme
Springer Fachmedien 2011; US$ 84.99Das Werk pr sentiert eine durchg ngige Methodik f r starre und elastische Roboter. Hauptaugenmerk wird auf eine effiziente mathematische Beschreibung dieser Roboter gelegt. Die Modelle dienen als Grundlage f r den Reglerentwurf. Die Regelung, inklusive der experimentellen Ergebnisse, wird anhand verschiedener Anwendungsbeispiele diskutiert: elastische... more...









