Intelligent Robotics and Applications Third International Confer
The market demand for skills, knowledge and adaptability have positioned robotics to be an important field in both engineering and science. One of the most highly visible applications of robotics has been the robotic automation of many industrial tasks in
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Honghai Liu Han Ding Zhenhua Xiong Xiangyang Zhu (Eds.)
Intelligent Robotics and Applications Third International Conference, ICIRA 2010 Shanghai, China, November 10-12, 2010 Proceedings, Part I
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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 Honghai Liu The University of Portsmouth, School of Creative Technologies Portsmouth PO1 2DJ, UK E-mail: [email protected] Han Ding Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Robotics Institute, Shanghai 200240, China E-mail: [email protected] Zhenhua Xiong Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Robotics Institute, Shanghai 200240, China E-mail: [email protected] Xiangyang Zhu Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Robotics Institute, Shanghai 200240, China E-mail: [email protected]
Library of Congress Control Number: 2010936828 CR Subject Classification (1998): I.4, I.5, I.2, I.2.10, H.4, C.2 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence ISSN
0302-9743
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3-642-16583-4 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-642-16583-2 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
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Preface
The market demand for skills, knowledge and adaptability have positioned robotics to be an important field in both engineering and science. One of the most highly visible applications of robotics has been the robotic automation of many industrial tasks in factories. In the future, a new era will come in which we will see a greater success for robotics in non-industrial environments. In order to anticipate a wider deployment of intelligent and autonomous robots for tasks such as manufacturing, healthcare, entertainment, search and rescue, surveillance, exploration, and security missions, it is essential to push the frontier of robotics into a new dimension, one in which motion and intelligence play equally important roles. The 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA 2010) was held in Shanghai, China, November 10–12, 2010. The theme of the conference was “Robotics Harmonizing Life,” a theme that reflects the ever-growing interest in research, development and applications in
