Recent Advances in Robotics and Automation

There isn’t a facet of human life that has not been touched and influenced by robots and automation. What makes robots and machines versatile is their computational intelligence. While modern intelligent sensors and powerful hardware capabilities have giv

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Gourab Sen Gupta Donald Bailey Serge Demidenko Dale Carnegie (Eds.)

Recent Advances in Robotics and Automation

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Studies in Computational Intelligence Volume 480

Series Editor J. Kacprzyk, Warsaw, Poland

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Editors Gourab Sen Gupta Donald Bailey School of Engineering and Advanced Technology Massey University Palmerston North New Zealand

Dale Carnegie School of Engineering and Computer Science Victoria University of Wellington Wellington New Zealand

Serge Demidenko RMIT International University Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam

ISSN 1860-949X ISBN 978-3-642-37386-2 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-37387-9

ISSN 1860-9503 (electronic) ISBN 978-3-642-37387-9 (eBook)

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Guest Editorial

This special issue titled ‘‘Recent Advances in Robotics and Automation’’ in the book series of ‘‘Studies in Computational Intelligence’’ contains the extended version of the papers selected from those presented at the 5th Inter