Advanced robotics & intelligent machines

Abstract

* Section 1: Technologies for advanced robotics * Chapter 1: Recent developments in advanced robotics & intelligent systems * Chapter 2: Machine intelligence: architectures, controllers and applications * Chapter 3: Advanced control systems for robotic arms * Chapter 4: Intelligent gripping systems * Chapter 5: Force feedback control in robots and its application to decommissioning * Chapter 6: Tele-presence control of robots * Chapter 7: Sensing and sensor management for planning * Section 2: Applications * Chapter 8: Robotics in the nuclear industry * Chapter 9: Robots in surgery: a survey * Chapter 10: Intelligent autonomous systems for cars * Chapter 11: Walking machine technology: designing the control system of an advanced six-legged machine * Chapter 12: Handling of flexible materials in automation * Chapter 13: Robotics in food manufacturing * Chapter 14: Robotic milking * Section 3: Advanced concepts and procedures * Chapter 15: Intelligent sensing as a means to error free semiconductor wafer handling * Chapter 16: The concept of robot society and its utilisation in future robotics * Chapter 17: Miniature and micro robotics: technologies and applications * Chapter 18: Characteristics of robot behaviour * Chapter 19: A behaviour synthesis architecture for co-operant mobile robots * Chapter 20: Co-operant behaviour in multiple manipulators * Chapter 21: Neural networks in automation procedures * Chapter 22: Parallel processing, neural networks and genetic algorithms for real-time robot control