Intelligent Robotics and Applications Second International Confe
This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2009, held in Singapore, in December 2009. The 128 revised full papers presented were thoroughly reviewe
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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Ming Xie Youlun Xiong Caihua Xiong Honghai Liu Zhencheng Hu (Eds.)
Intelligent Robotics and Applications Second International Conference, ICIRA 2009 Singapore, December 16-18, 2009 Proceedings
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Series Editors Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI and University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Ming Xie Nanyang Technological University Singapore 639798 E-mail: [email protected] Youlun Xiong Caihua Xiong Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan 430074, P. R. China E-mail: {ylxiong, chxiong}@mail.hust.edu.cn Honghai Liu University of Portsmouth PO1 3QL Portsmouth, UK E-mail: [email protected] Zhencheng Hu Kumamoto University Kumamoto 860-8555, Japan E-mail: [email protected]
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Preface
The market demands for skills, knowledge and personalities have positioned robotics as an important field in both engineering and science. To meet these challenging demands, robotics has already seen its success in automating many industrial tasks in factories. And, a new era will come for us to see a greater success of robotics in nonindustrial environments. In anticipating a wider deployment of intelligent and autonomous robots for tasks such as manufacturing, eldercare, homecare, edutainment, search and rescue, de-mining, surveillance, exploration, and security missions, it is necessary for us to push the frontier of robotics into a new dimension, in which motion and intelligence play equally important roles. After the success of the inaugural conference, the purpose of the Second International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications was to provide a venue where researchers, scientists, engineers and practitioners throughout the world could come together to present and discuss the latest achievement, future challenges and ex
