Advances in Service Robotics

This book consists of 18 chapters about current research results of service robots. Topics covered include various kinds of service robots, development environments, architectures of service robots, Human-Robot Interaction, networks of service robots and basic researches such as SLAM, sensor network, etc.

Book Description

This book has some examples of the research activities on Service Robotics going on around the globe, but many chapters in this book concern advanced research on this area and cover interesting topics. Therefore I hope that all who read this book will find lots of helpful information and be interested in Service Robotics. I am really appreciative of all authors who have invested a great deal of time to write such interesting and high quality chapters.

Table of Contents

• Intelligent Unmanned Store Service Robot “Part Timer”
• The Development of an Autonomous Library Assistant Service Robot
• Human – Robot Interfacing by the Aid of Cognition Based Interaction
• The Context-Awareness for the Network-based Intelligent Robot Services
• Development of Intelligent Service Robotic System Based on Robot Technology Middleware
• An ITER Relevant Robot for Remote Handling: On the Road to Operation on Tore Supra
• Local and Global Isotropy Analysis of Mobile Robots with Three Active Caster Wheels
• UML-Based Service Robot Software Development: A Case Study
• Universal Design with Robots Toward the Wide Use of Robots in Daily Life Environment
• Development of Common Platform Technology for Next-Generation Robots
• Intelligent Space for Human Centered Robotics
• Development of a Sensor System for an Outdoor Service Robot
• Real-time Map Update Using Pose Reliability of Visual Features
• Urbano, an Interactive Mobile Tour-Guide Robot
• Localization and Mapping for Service Robots: Bearing-Only SLAM with an Omnicam
• Developing a Framework for Semi-Autonomous Control
• Deployment of Wireless Sensor Network Using Mobile Robots to Construct an Intelligent Environment in a Multi-Robot Sensor Network
• Modularity in Service Robotics

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