This volume is an edition of the papers selected from the 13th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, ICAR 2007, held in Jeju, Korea, August 22-25, 2007, with the theme: "Viable Robotics Service to Human." It is intended to deliver readers the most recent technical progress in robotics, in particular, toward the advancement of robotic service to human.

Inhalt

I: Novel Mechanisms.- Summary of Novel Mechanisms.- Feasibility Study of Robust Neural Network Motion Tracking Control of Piezoelectric Actuation Systems for Micro/Nano Manipulation.- Hybrid Formation Control for Non-Holonomic Wheeled Mobile Robots.- Novel Tripedal Mobile Robot and Considerations for Gait Planning Strategies Based on Kinematics.- Safe Joint Mechanism Based on Passive Compliance for Collision Safety.- A Guidance Control Strategy for Semi-autonomous Colonoscopy Using a Continuum Robot.- Fully-Isotropic T1R3-Type Redundantly-Actuated Parallel Manipulators.- Early Reactive Grasping with Second Order 3D Feature Relations.- II: Perception Guided Navigation and Manipulation.- Summary of Perception Guided Navigation and Manipulation.- Link Graph and Feature Chain Based Robust Online SLAM for Fully Autonomous Mobile Robot Navigation System Using Sonar Sensors.- Services Robots Navigating on Smart Floors.- Control of Many Agents by Moving Their Targets: Maintaining Separation.- Improved Mapping and Image Segmentation by Using Semantic Information to Link Aerial Images and Ground-Level Information.- Active Visual Search by a Humanoid Robot.- Visual Control of a Micro Helicopter under Dynamic Occlusions.- Visual Servoing from Spheres with Paracatadioptric Cameras.- Dynamic Targets Detection for Robotic Applications Using Panoramic Vision System.- Vision-Based Control of the RoboTenis System.- Particle Filter Based Robust Recognition and Pose Estimation of 3D Objects in a Sequence of Images.- Preliminary Development of a Line Feature-Based Object Recognition System for Textureless Indoor Objects.- Modelling of Second Order Polynomial Surface Contacts for Programming by Human Demonstration.- Robot Self-modeling of Rotational Symmetric 3D Objects Based on Generic Description of Object Categories.- III: Human-Robot Interaction and Intelligence.- Summary of Human-Robot Interaction and Intelligence.- Dynamic Speech Interaction for Robotic Agents.- Hand Posture Recognition Using Adaboost with SIFT for Human Robot Interaction.- Multimodal Navigation with a Vibrotactile Display in Computer Assisted Surgery.- Two Arms Are Better Than One: A Behavior Based Control System for Assistive Bimanual Manipulation.- A Customizable, Multi-host Simulation and Visualization Framework for Robot Applications.- Imitation of Walking Paths with a Low-Cost Humanoid Robot.- Intelligent Robot Software Architecture.- Ontology-Based Semantic Context Modeling for Object Recognition of Intelligent Mobile Robots.