Intelligent Robotics and Applications

The market demand for skills, knowledge and adaptability have positioned robotics to be an important field in both engineering and science. One of the most highly visible applications of robotics has been the robotic automation of many industrial tasks in factories. In the future, a new era will come in which we will see a greater success for robotics in non-industrial environments. In order to anticipate a wider deployment of intelligent and autonomous robots for tasks such as manufacturing, healthcare, ent- tainment, search and rescue, surveillance, exploration, and security missions, it is essential to push the frontier of robotics into a new dimension, one in which motion and intelligence play equally important roles. The 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA 2010) was held in Shanghai, China, November 1012, 2010. The theme of the c- ference was Robotics Harmonizing Life, a theme that reflects the ever-growing interest in research, development and applications in the dynamic and exciting areas of intelligent robotics. These volumes of Springer's Lecture Notes in Artificial Intel- gence and Lecture Notes in Computer Science contain 140 high-quality papers, which were selected at least for the papers in general sessions, with a 62% acceptance rate Traditionally, ICIRA 2010 holds a series of plenary talks, and we were fortunate to have two such keynote speakers who shared their expertise with us in diverse topic areas spanning the rang of intelligent robotics and application activities.

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This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2010, held in Shanghai, China, in November 2010. The 140 revised full papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. They are organized in topical sections on bionic dexterous hand; modeling and control systems involving hysteresis; control system modeling and applications; intelligent control and their applications; robot and automation in tunneling; robot mechanism and design; service robotics; computer vision and applications; sensor design, multi-sensor data fusion; industrial process control, manufacturing processes, and automation; mobile robotics; theory applications of heavy manipulators; robot vision; biomedical and rehabilitation engineering, and medical robotics; human-friendly robot partners; surface inspection, modeling and machining; modeling for robotics and manufacturing automation; robot and investigation.

Inhalt
Bionic Dextrous Hand.- Modeling and Control of Systems Involving Hysteresis.- Control System Modeling and Applications.- Intelligent Control and Their Applications.- Robot and Automation in Tunneling.- Robot Mechanism and Design.- Service Robotics.- Computer Vision and Applications.- Sensor Design, Multi-sensor Data Fusion.