Intelligent Robotic Systems

PREFACE -- CONTRIBUTORS -- I. INTRODUCTORY ISSUES -- 1. Introduction to Intelligent Robotic Systems /Spyros G. Tzafestas -- II. STRUCTURES AND PROGRAMMING OF INTELLIGENT ROBOTIC SYSTEMS -- 2. Theory and Design of Intelligent Robotic Systems /K. P. Valavanis -- 3. Hierarchy for Intelligent On-Line Execution /Robert B. Kelley -- 4. Skill-Based Expert Systems in Robotics /Rajko Tomovic -- 5. The Cellular Robotic System (CEBOT), a Self-Organizing System /Toshio Fukuda and Yoshio Kawauchi -- 6. Programming for Intelligent Robot Systems /Maria Gini and Giuseppina Gini -- III. MODELING AND CONTROL OF ROBOTIC SYSTEMS -- 7. Simplification of a Robot Dynamic Model Based on Manipulator System Performance /C. S. George Lee and Po Rong Chang -- 8. Dynamics-Based Control of Robotic Manipulators /M. B. Leahy, Jr., and K. P. Valavanis -- 9. Force-Feedback Control in Robotics Tasks /J-P. Merlet -- 10. Adaptive, Robust, and Fuzzy Rule-Based Control of Robotic Manipulators /Spyros G. Tzafestas -- 11. Flexible Robots: Modeling and Control /K. Desoyer, P. Kopacek, P. Lugner, and I. Troch -- IV. VISION AND TACTILE SYSTEMS IN INTELLIGENT ROBOTS -- 12. Intelligent Robotic Vision Systems /L. Van Gool, P. Wambacq, and A. Oosterlinck -- 13. Robot Vision: Geometric Classification for Automated Inspection /H. A. Nour Eldin and A. T. Alam Eldin -- 14. Robotic Tactile Sensing: Skinlike and Intrinsic Approach /Antonio Bicchi and Giorgio Buttazo -- V. APPLICATIONS -- 15. Intelligent Robotics for Space Applications /Paul S. Schenker -- 16. Human-Robot Cooperation: Toward an Advanced Teleoperation Mode /Philippe Coiffet and Philippe Gravez -- 1 7. Solving Jigsaw Puzzles Using a Robot /Grigore C. Burdea and Haim J. Wolfson -- 18. Flexible Work Cell Design by Simulation /Paul G. Ranky -- INDEX.;A multiplicity of techniques and angles of attack are incorporated in 18 contributions describing recent developments in the structure, architecture, programming, control, and implementation of industrial robots capable of performing intelligent action and decision making. Annotation copyright Book