Ebook: Machine Intelligence and Knowledge Engineering for Robotic Applications

This book is the outcome of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Machine Intelligence and Knowledge Engineering for Robotic Applications held at Maratea, Italy in May 1986. Attendance of the workshop was by invitation only. Most of the participants and speakers are recognized leaders in the field, representing industry, government and academic c0mrnunity worldwide. The focus of the workshop was to review the recent advances of machine intelligence and knowledge engineering for robotic appli­ cations. It covers five main areas of interest. They are grouped into five sections: 1. Robot Vision 2. Knowledge Representation and Image Understanding 3. Robot Control and Inference Systems 4. Task Planning and Expert Systems 5. Software/Hardware Systems Also included in this book are a paper from the Poster Session and a brief report of the panel discussion on the Future Direction in Knowledge-Based Robotics. Section I of this book consists of four papers. It begins with a review of the basic concepts of computer vision, with emphasis on techniques specific for robot vision systems. The next paper pre­ sents a comprehensive 3-D vision system for robotic application.

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This book is the outcome of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Machine Intelligence and Knowledge Engineering for Robotic Applications held at Maratea, Italy in May 1986. The focus is on the review of recent advances of machine intelligence and knowledge engineering for robotic applications. The papers, contributed by top researchers representing industry, government and the academic community, span the full range of robot vision and sensing, machine intelligence and knowledge-based systems, task planning, trajectory planning, tracking, control and hardware/software systems development. The greater part of the technical content is new and unique. The approaches taken are based on the reasoning that third generation robot tasks will need more sophisticated control and sensing systems, machine intelligence and knowledge-based systems to guide them than the current second-generation robots. Short papers on the state of research by industrial authors are also included.

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This book is the outcome of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Machine Intelligence and Knowledge Engineering for Robotic Applications held at Maratea, Italy in May 1986. The focus is on the review of recent advances of machine intelligence and knowledge engineering for robotic applications. The papers, contributed by top researchers representing industry, government and the academic community, span the full range of robot vision and sensing, machine intelligence and knowledge-based systems, task planning, trajectory planning, tracking, control and hardware/software systems development. The greater part of the technical content is new and unique. The approaches taken are based on the reasoning that third generation robot tasks will need more sophisticated control and sensing systems, machine intelligence and knowledge-based systems to guide them than the current second-generation robots. Short papers on the state of research by industrial authors are also included.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XIV
Robot Vision....Pages 1-19
3-D Vision for Robot Applications....Pages 21-81
On the Computation of Motion from a Sequence of Monocular or Stereo Images — An Overview....Pages 83-103
Time-Varying Image Analysis....Pages 105-112
Knowledge Representation for Robot Vision and Path Planning Using Attributed Graphs and Hypergraphs....Pages 113-143
Knowledge-Based Systems for Robotic Applications....Pages 145-189
Image Understanding for Robotic Applications....Pages 191-220
Machine-Intelligent Robots: A Hierarchical Control Approach....Pages 221-234
On the Application of Intelligent Planning Techniques in Industrial Robotics....Pages 235-267
Analogical Reasoning by Intelligent Robots....Pages 269-282
Knowledge-Based Real-Time Change Detection, Target Image Tracking and Threat Assessment....Pages 283-297
Task and Path Planning for Mobile Robots....Pages 299-330
Task Planning and Control Synthesis for Flexible Assembly Systems....Pages 331-353
Mars: An Expert Robot Welding System....Pages 355-385
The Edinburgh Designer System as a Framework for Robotics....Pages 387-406
Implementation of Complex Robot Subsystems on Distributed Computing Resources....Pages 407-435
Autonomous Robot of the University of Karlsruhe....Pages 437-462
Robotics Research at the Laboratory for Intelligent Systems National Research Council of Canada....Pages 463-476
Future Directions in Knowledge-Based Robotics....Pages 477-481
Back Matter....Pages 483-488

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This book is the outcome of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Machine Intelligence and Knowledge Engineering for Robotic Applications held at Maratea, Italy in May 1986. The focus is on the review of recent advances of machine intelligence and knowledge engineering for robotic applications. The papers, contributed by top researchers representing industry, government and the academic community, span the full range of robot vision and sensing, machine intelligence and knowledge-based systems, task planning, trajectory planning, tracking, control and hardware/software systems development. The greater part of the technical content is new and unique. The approaches taken are based on the reasoning that third generation robot tasks will need more sophisticated control and sensing systems, machine intelligence and knowledge-based systems to guide them than the current second-generation robots. Short papers on the state of research by industrial authors are also included.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XIV
Robot Vision....Pages 1-19
3-D Vision for Robot Applications....Pages 21-81
On the Computation of Motion from a Sequence of Monocular or Stereo Images — An Overview....Pages 83-103
Time-Varying Image Analysis....Pages 105-112
Knowledge Representation for Robot Vision and Path Planning Using Attributed Graphs and Hypergraphs....Pages 113-143
Knowledge-Based Systems for Robotic Applications....Pages 145-189
Image Understanding for Robotic Applications....Pages 191-220
Machine-Intelligent Robots: A Hierarchical Control Approach....Pages 221-234
On the Application of Intelligent Planning Techniques in Industrial Robotics....Pages 235-267
Analogical Reasoning by Intelligent Robots....Pages 269-282
Knowledge-Based Real-Time Change Detection, Target Image Tracking and Threat Assessment....Pages 283-297
Task and Path Planning for Mobile Robots....Pages 299-330
Task Planning and Control Synthesis for Flexible Assembly Systems....Pages 331-353
Mars: An Expert Robot Welding System....Pages 355-385
The Edinburgh Designer System as a Framework for Robotics....Pages 387-406
Implementation of Complex Robot Subsystems on Distributed Computing Resources....Pages 407-435
Autonomous Robot of the University of Karlsruhe....Pages 437-462
Robotics Research at the Laboratory for Intelligent Systems National Research Council of Canada....Pages 463-476
Future Directions in Knowledge-Based Robotics....Pages 477-481
Back Matter....Pages 483-488
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