Intelligent Robotics and Applications

The volume set LNAI 11740 until LNAI 11745 constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2019, held in Shenyang, China, in August 2019.

The total of 378 full and 25 short papers presented in these proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 522 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections as follows:

Part I: collective and social robots; human biomechanics and human-centered robotics; robotics for cell manipulation and characterization; field robots; compliant mechanisms; robotic grasping and manipulation with incomplete information and strong disturbance; human-centered robotics; development of high-performance joint drive for robots; modular robots and other mechatronic systems; compliant manipulation learning and control for lightweight robot.

Part II: power-assisted system and control; bio-inspired wall climbing robot; underwater acoustic and optical signal processing for environmental cognition; piezoelectric actuators and micro-nano manipulations; robot vision and scene understanding; visual and motional learning in robotics; signal processing and underwater bionic robots; soft locomotion robot; teleoperation robot; autonomous control of unmanned aircraft systems.

Part III: marine bio-inspired robotics and soft robotics: materials, mechanisms, modelling, and control; robot intelligence technologies and system integration; continuum mechanisms and robots; unmanned underwater vehicles; intelligent robots for environment detection or fine manipulation; parallel robotics; human-robot collaboration; swarm intelligence and multi-robot cooperation; adaptive and learning control system; wearable and assistive devices and robots for healthcare; nonlinear systems and control.

Part IV: swarm intelligence unmanned system; computational intelligence inspired robot navigation and SLAM; fuzzy modelling for automation, control, and robotics; development of ultra-thin-film, flexible sensors, and tactile sensation; robotic technology for deep space exploration; wearable sensing based limb motor function rehabilitation; pattern recognition and machine learning; navigation/localization.

Part V: robot legged locomotion; advanced measurement and machine vision system; man-machine interactions; fault detection, testing and diagnosis; estimation and identification; mobile robots and intelligent autonomous systems; robotic vision, recognition and reconstruction; robot mechanism and design.

Part VI: robot motion analysis and planning; robot design, development and control; medical robot; robot intelligence, learning and linguistics; motion control; computer integrated manufacturing; robot cooperation; virtual and augmented reality; education in mechatronics engineering; robotic drilling and sampling technology; automotive systems; mechatronics in energy systems; human-robot interaction.

Inhalt
Estimation of knee extension force using mechanomyography signals detected through clothing.- Angular velocity estimation of knee joint based on MMG signals.- Fingertip pulse wave detection and analysis based on PVDF piezoelectric thin film sensor.- Basic research on wireless remote control rabbit animal robot movement.- Design and Realization of A Bio-inspired Wall Climbing Robot for Rough Wall Surfaces.- the Graspable Algorithm for a Wall-climbing Robot with Claws.- Improved CPG model based on Hopf oscillator for gait design of a new type of hexapod robot.- A Novel Tracked Wall-Climbing Robot with Bio-Inspired Spine Feet.- A wall climbing robot arm capable of adapting to multiple contact wall surfaces.- Development of Control System with Double-closed Loop for a Multi-mode Wall-climbing robot.- Design of a Master-slave Composite Wall Climbing Robot System for Penstock Assembly Welding.- Numerical prediction of self-propulsion point of AUV with a discretized propeller and MFR method.-Underwater Image Restoration based on Red Channel and Haze-Lines prior.- A Survey of Underwater Acoustic SLAM System.- Improved Multi-Object Tracking Algorithm for Forward Looking Sonar Based on Rotation Estimation.- Numerical Simulation of Collision between an Oil Tanker and Ice .- Underwater de-scattering range-gated imaging based on numerical fitting and frequency domain filtering.- Threshold-dependent joint bilateral filter algorithm for enhancing 3D gated range-intensity correlation imaging.- A Launch and Recovery System for Unmanned Surface Vehicle based on Floating Bracket.- Finite Element Analyses of Working Principle of the Ultrasonic Needle-Droplet-Substrate System for Multiple-Function Manipulation.- Research on HDD-UJ Robot Joint Structure Design and Motion Regulation Strategy.- A Composite Controller for Piezoelectric Actuators based on Action Dependent Dual Heuristic Programming and Model Predictive Control.- Regenerative Chatter Control with Piezoelectric Actuator for Micro-structure Surface Turning.- Control and Testing of a Serial-Parallel XYZ Precision Positioner with a Discrete-Time Sliding Model Controller.- Modeling and Testing of a Novel Decoupled XY Nano-positioning Stage.- Effect of damping factor variation on eigenfrequency drift for ultrasonic motors.- Semantic Situation Extraction from Satellite Image based on Neural Networks.- Efficient ConvNet for Surface Object Recognition.- Deep Learning Based Fire Detection System for Surveillance Videos.- 3D Scanning and Multiple Point Cloud Registration with Active View Complementation for Panoramically Imaging Large-scale Plants.- Industrial Robot Sorting System for Municipal Solid Waste.- A Method Based on Data Fusion of Multiple Sensors to Evaluate Road Cleanliness.- A Grid-based Monte Carlo Localization with hierarchical free-form scan matching.- A Method to Deal With Recognition Deviation Based on Trajectory Estimation in Real-time Seam Tracking.- 3-D Dimension Measurement of Workpiece Based on Binocular Vision.- Co-simulation of Omnidirectional Mobile Platform Based on Fuzzy Control.- Static Hand Gesture Recognition for Human Robot Interaction.- Multi-sensor Based Human Balance Analysis.- Wrist motor function rehabilitation training and evaluation system based on human-computer interaction.- Novel Spread Spectrum Based Underwater Acoustic Communication Technology for Low Signal-to-Noise Ratio Environments.- Application of PMN-PT piezoelectric monocrystal in wideband transducer with composite rod matching layer.- Optimal Anti-Submarine Search Path for UUV via an Adaptive Mutation Genetic Algorithm.- An Improved Genetic Algorithm for Optimal Search Path of Unmanned Underwater Vehicles.- An Efficient Turning Control Method Based on Coordinating Driving for an Underwater Snake-like Robot with a Propeller.- A review of Biomimetic Artificial Lateral Line Detection Technology for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles.- Design and Experimental Study of a New Flexible Driven ParallelSoft Massage Robot.- A vacuum-powered soft linear actuator strengthened by granular jamming.- A Soft Robot for Ground Crawling: Design and Analysis.- An Active Steering Soft Robot for Small-bore T-branch Pipeline.- Analysis and Application of the Bending Actuators Used in Soft Robotics.- A control system framework model for cloud robots based on service-oriented architecture.- A novel method for finger vein segmentation.- WSMR dynamics based DWA for leader-follower formation control.- Adaptive Position and Force Tracking Control in Teleoperation System with Time-varying Delays.- Designer of A Multi-DOF Adaptive Finger for Prosthetic Hand.- Fuzzy Sliding Mode Control Based on RBF Neural Network for AUV Path Tracking .- Design of Control System and Human-Robot-Interaction System of Teleoperation Underwater Robot.- Detecting Untraversable Regions for Navigating Mobile Robot on Pedestrian Lanes.- A Prediction Method of Contact Force in Precise Teleoperation with Time Delay.- 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