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
SLIP Model-based Foot-to-Ground Contact Sensation via Kalman Filter for Miniaturized Quadruped Robots.- Stability Analysis and Fixed Radius Turning Planning of Hexapod Robot.- The Mechanical Design and Torque Control for the Ankle Exoskeleton During Human Walking.- Stable 3D Biped Walking Control with Speed Regulation Based on Generalized Virtual Constraints.- Specular Surface Measurement with Laser Plane Constraint to Reduce Erroneous Points.- Viewpoint Planning of Robot Measurement System Based on V-REP Platform.- Research on Measurement and Deformation of Flexible Wing Flapping Parameters.- Robot Programming Language Based On VB Scripting for Robot Motion Control.- A study of real-time EEG-feedback on attention combined with virtual reality.- Continuous estimation of grasp kinematics with real-time surface EMG decomposition.- Intelligent Robot Arm: Vision-based Dynamic Measurement System for Industrial Applications.- Research on Autonomous Face Recognition System for Spatial Human-robotic Interaction based on Deep Learning.- KPCA-based Visual Fault Diagnosis for Nonlinear Industrial Process.- Data Denosing Processing of the Operating State of the Robotic Arm of Coal Sampling Robot.- A study on step-by-step calibration of robot based on multi-vision measurement.- Characteristic Frequency Input Neural Network for Inertia Identification of Tumbling Space Target..- An FFT-based method for analysis, modeling and identification of kinematic error in harmonic drives.- Real-Time Human-Posture Recognition for Human-Drone Interaction using Monocular Vision.- HSVM-based human activity recognition using smartphones.- Human-AGV Interaction: Real-time Gesture Detection Using Deep Learning.- Coverage Path Planning for Complex Structures Inspection Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV).- Development of Four Rotor Fire Extinguishing System for Synchronized Monitoring of Air and Ground for Fire Fighting.- A Small Envelope Gait Control Algorithm based on FTL Method for Snake-Like Pipe Robot.- Trajectory Tracking Control of Wheeled Mobile Robots Using Backstepping.- The Design of Inspection Robot Navigation Systems Based on Distributed Vision.- Mobile Robot Autonomous Navigation and Dynamic Environmental Adaptation in Large-Scale Outdoor Scenes.- Movement Analysis of Rotating-finger Cable Inspection Robot.- Autonomous Indoor Mobile Robot Exploration Based on Wavefront Algorithm.- Multi-robot path planning for complete coverage with genetic algorithms.- Design and Magnetic Force Analysis of Patrol Robot for Deep Shaft Rigid Cage Guide.- Improved Driving Stability with Series Elastic Actuator and Velocity Controller.- Monocular vision-based dynamic moving obstacles detection and avoidance.- Path planning based navigation using LIDAR for an Ackerman Unmanned Ground Vehicle.- Improved Simple Linear Iterative Clustering Algorithm Using HSL Color Space.- Active Affordance Exploration for Robot Grasping.- Multi-Vehicle Detection and Tracking Based on Kalman Filter and Data Association.- Multi-scale Feature Fusion Single Shot Object Detector Based on DenseNet.- Semi-direct Tracking and Mapping with RGB-D Camera.- Two-person Interaction Recognition Based on Video Sparse Representation and Improved Spatio-Temporal Feature.- Human Interaction Recognition based on the Co-occurring Visual Matrix Sequence .- A stereo matching method combining feature and area information for power line inspection.- Image Stitching Based on Improved SURF Algorithm.- Neural Network based Electronics Segmentation.- Visual-based Crack Detection and Skeleton Extraction of Cement Surface.- Visual Servoing Control Based on Reconstructed 3D Features.- Landmark based eye ratio estimation for driver fatigue detection.- Automatic analysis of calibration board image orientation for online hand-eye calibration .- Image Deblurring Based on Fuzzy Kernel Estimation in HSV Color Space.- Infrared and Visible Image Fusion: A Region-based Deep Learning Method.- A Coarse RegistrationAlgorithm between 3D Point Cloud and CAD Model of Non-cooperative Object for Space Manipulator.- Dexterity-based dimension optimization of Muti-Dof robotic manipulator.- Design and Experimental Analysis of a Planar Compliant Parallel Manipulator.- Safety and waterproof design of multi-functional assisted bath robot.- Dynamics Analysis of 3-CPaR&R1R2 Hybrid Mechanism with Joint Clearance.- Underactuated robot passability analysis and optimization.- A Novel Hedgehog-inspired Pin-array Robot Hand with Multiple Magnetic Pins for Adaptive Grasping .- Kinematic analysis of a flexible planar 2- DOF parallel manipulator.- Dual-source fluid bending and side-swing compound multi-joint finger.- Design and Simulation of a Miniature Jumping Gliding Robot on Water Surface.- Towards Intelligent Maintenance of Thermal Power Plants: A Novel Robot for Checking Water Wall Tube .- Configuration Change and Mobility Analysis of a novel metamorphic parallel mechanism constructed with (rA) joint .