Sensor Based Intelligent Robots

This book constitutes the thorougly refereed post-proceedings of an international workshop on sensor based Intelligent Robot held in Dagstuhl Castle, Germany in September/October 1998. The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed for inclusion in the book. Among the topics addressed are robot navigation, motion planning, autonomous mobile robots, wheelchair robots, interactive robots, car navigation systems, visual tracking, sensor based navigation, distributed algorithms, computer vision, intelligent agents, robot control, and computational geometry.

Markov Localization for Reliable Robot Navigation and People Detection.- Relocalisation by Partial Map Matching.- Localization and On-Line Map Building for an Autonomous Mobile Robot.- Interactive Learning of World Model Information for a Service Robot.- MAid: A Robotic Wheelchair Operating in Public Environments.- Interactive Robot Programming Based on Human Demonstration and Advice.- Towards Smarter Cars.- Active Control of Resolution for Stable Visual Tracking.- Near-Optimal Sensor-Based Navigation in an Environment Cluttered with Simple Shapes.- Realistic Environment Models and Their Impact on the Exact Solution of the Motion Planning Problem.- Robot Localization Using Polygon Distances.- On-Line Searching in Simple Polygons.- Distributed Algorithms for Carrying a Ladder by Omnidirectional Robots in Near Optimal Time.- Modeling and Stability Analysis of the Dynamic Behavior in Load Sharing Systems.- Recent Advances in Range Image Segmentation.- ISR: An Intelligent Service Robot.- Vision-Based Behavior Control of Autonomous Systems by Fuzzy Reasoning.