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Next Wave in Robotics

14th FIRA RoboWorld Congress, FIRA 2011, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, August 26-30, 2011 Proceedings

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Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS, volume 212)

Conference series link(s): FIRA: FIRA RoboWorld Congress

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Table of contents (34 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. A Motion Tutoring System by Using Virtual-Robot and Sensors

    • Tae-Jin Kim, Kyoung-Tae Lee, Nam-Hyeok Kim
    Pages 1-7
  3. An Adaptive Component Model for Autonomous Mobile Robots

    • Jinhui Zhu, Huaqing Min, Yingju Liang, Mingjie Liang, Chang’an Yi, Mei Zhang et al.
    Pages 8-16
  4. Toward Safe Human Robot Interaction: Integration of Compliance Control, an Anthropomorphic Hand and Verbal Communication

    • Said Ghani Khan, Alexander Lenz, Guido Herrmann, Tony Pipe, Chris Melhuish
    Pages 17-24
  5. Gait Planning of Humanoid Robots Walking on Stairs

    • Bi Sheng, Min Huaqing, Zhuang Zhongjie, Xia tuo, Mo Huaxi, Chen jian et al.
    Pages 25-33
  6. A Versatile Kit for Teaching Intelligent Mobile Robots

    • Juing-Huei Su, Chyi-Shyong Lee, Hsin-Hsiung Huang, Shih-Wei Chao, Sheng-Hong Lin, Yu-Cheng Wu
    Pages 42-49
  7. A Novel Approach of Robust Active Compliance for Robot Fingers

    • Jamaludin Jalani, Said Ghani Khan, Guido Herrmann, Chris Melhuish
    Pages 50-57
  8. Facial Expression Generation Using Fuzzy Integral for Robotic Heads

    • Bum-Soo Yoo, Se-Hyoung Cho, Jong-Hwan Kim
    Pages 58-65
  9. Implementations and Controls of a 3-DOF Parallel Link Joint Module

    • Po-Chun Chia, Cheng-Wei Dong, Chung-Hsien Kuo
    Pages 66-77
  10. A SoPC-Based Surveillance System

    • Yuan-Pao Hsu, Hsiao-Chun Miao, Sheng-Han Huang
    Pages 86-93
  11. Dynamic Patrol Planning in a Cooperative Multi-robot System

    • Kao-Shing Hwang, Jin-Ling Lin, Hui-Ling Huang
    Pages 116-123
  12. Vision-Based Robot Manipulator Design

    • Ching-Chang Wong, Yi-Jiun Shen, Chih-Cheng Liu, Meng-Tzu Huang, Yu-Ren Huange, Chen-Yuo Yang
    Pages 124-131
  13. Planar Robot Position and Orientation Measurement Using a Monocular Vision

    • Yin-Tien Wang, Kuo-Wei Chen, Po-Hsin Li, Chen-Tung Chi
    Pages 132-139
  14. Robot Pose and Velocity Estimation Using a Binocular Vision

    • Yin-Tien Wang, Shi-Hao Wang, Ying-Chieh Feng, Jin-Yi Lin
    Pages 140-146
  15. Learning of Facial Gestures Using SVMs

    • Jacky Baltes, Stela Seo, Chi Tai Cheng, M. C. Lau, John Anderson
    Pages 147-154

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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th RoboWorld Cup and Congress of the Federation of International Robosoccer Association, FIRA 2011, held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan in August 2011.

The 34 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the proceedings out of a total of 110 contributed papers presented at FIRA 2011. The papers address a broad variety of current topics in robotics research, particularly in robot soccer.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Electrical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City, Taiwan

    Tzuu-Hseng S. Li

  • National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, Taichung, Taiwan

    Kuo-Yang Tu

  • Department of Electrical Engineering, Nationan Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

    Ching-Chih Tsai

  • Department of Applied Electronics Technology, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Chen-Chien Hsu

  • National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

    Chien-Cheng Tseng

  • National University of Singapore, Singapore

    Prahlad Vadakkepat

  • Department of Computer Science,, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

    Jacky Baltes

  • Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

    John Anderson

  • Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Ching-Chang Wong

  • Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

    Norbert Jesse

  • Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan

    Chung-Hsien Kuo

  • Institute of System Information and Control, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

    Haw-Ching Yang

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Next Wave in Robotics

  • Book Subtitle: 14th FIRA RoboWorld Congress, FIRA 2011, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, August 26-30, 2011 Proceedings

  • Editors: Tzuu-Hseng S. Li, Kuo-Yang Tu, Ching-Chih Tsai, Chen-Chien Hsu, Chien-Cheng Tseng, Prahlad Vadakkepat, Jacky Baltes, John Anderson, Ching-Chang Wong, Norbert Jesse, Chung-Hsien Kuo, Haw-Ching Yang

  • Series Title: Communications in Computer and Information Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23147-6

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag GmbH Berlin Heidelberg 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-23146-9Published: 25 August 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-23147-6Published: 25 August 2011

  • Series ISSN: 1865-0929

  • Series E-ISSN: 1865-0937

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 292

  • Number of Illustrations: 67 b/w illustrations, 199 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Image Processing and Computer Vision, Robotics and Automation

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