Machine generated contents note: Utilization of Robot Systems in Disaster Sites of the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake / Robin Murphy -- Improvements to the Rescue Robot Quince Toward Future Indoor Surveillance Missions in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant / Eiji Koyanagi -- Collaborative Mapping of an Earthquake Damaged Building via Ground and Aerial Robots / Satoshi Tadokoro -- Three-Dimensional Thermography Mapping for Mobile Rescue Robots / Kazuya Yoshida -- Creating Multi-Viewpoint Panoramas of Streets with Sparsely Located Buildings / Koichiro Deguchi -- Disaster Back-up Support Using GIS Contents Composed of Images from Satellite and UAV / Takumi Hashizume -- Mine Detecting Robot System / Sungchul Kang -- Experience in System Design for Human-Robot Teaming in Urban Search and Rescue / M. Sulk -- Advancing the State of Urban Search and Rescue Robotics Through the RoboCupRescue Robot League Competition / Jackrit Suthakorn -- Contents note continued: Estimating the 3D Position of Humans Wearing a Reflective Vest Using a Single Camera System / Henrik Andreasson -- Impression of Android for Communication Support in Hospitals and Elderly Facilities / Hiroshi Ishiguro -- Multi-Robot Formation Control via a Real-Time Drawing Interface / Paul Beardsley -- Evaluation and Training System of Muscle Strength for Leg Rehabilitation Utilizing an MR Fluid Active Loading Machine / Masami Nakano -- Automated and Frequent Calibration of a Robot Manipulator-mounted IR Range Camera for Steel Bridge Maintenance / Gamini Dissanayake -- Vertical Infrastructure Inspection Using a Quadcopter and Shared Autonomy Control / Peter Corke -- Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems for Remote Gas Leak Detection and Localization in Industrial Environments / Dirk Schulz -- To the Bookstore! Autonomous Wheelchair Navigation in an Urban Environment / Michael Sands -- Contents note continued: A Trail-Following Robot Which Uses Appearance and Structural Cues / Mehmet Kocamaz -- Construction of Semantic Maps for Personal Mobility Robots in Dynamic Outdoor Environments / Masayuki Inaba -- Terrain Mapping and Control Optimization for a 6-Wheel Rover with Passive Suspension / Roland Siegwart -- Robust Monocular Visual Odometry for a Ground Vehicle in Undulating Terrain / George Kantor -- Lighting-Invariant Visual Odometry Using Lidar Intensity Imagery and Pose Interpolation / Timothy D. Barfoot -- Modeling and Calibrating Visual Yield Estimates in Vineyards / Sanjiv Singh -- Forest 3D Mapping and Tree Sizes Measurement for Forest Management Based on Sensing Technology for Mobile Robots / Toru Hayami -- Iterative Autonomous Excavation / Surya P. N. Singh -- Rock Recognition Using Stereo Vision for Large Rock Breaking Operation / Shigeru Sarata -- Plowing for Rover Control on Extreme Slopes / David Wettergreen -- Contents note continued: Complementary Flyover and Rover Sensing for Superior Modeling of Planetary Features / William L. Red Whittaker -- Path Planning and Navigation Framework for a Planetary Exploration Rover Using a Laser Range Finder / Takashi Kubota -- Motion Analysis System for Robot Traction Device Evaluation and Design / David S. Wettergreen -- Image-Directed Sampling for Geometric Modeling of Lunar Terrain / Red Whittaker -- Efficient Large-Scale 3D Mobile Mapping and Surface Reconstruction of an Underground Mine / Michael Bosse -- Large Scale Monocular Vision-Only Mapping from a Fixed-Wing sUAS / Ben Upcroft -- Super-Voxel Based Segmentation and Classification of 3D Urban Landscapes with Evaluation and Comparison / Laurent Trassoudaine -- Classification of 3-D Point Cloud Data that Includes Line and Frame Objects on the Basis of Geometrical Features and the Pass Rate of Laser Rays / Satoshi Tadokoro -- Contents note continued: Solid Model Reconstruction of Large-Scale Outdoor Scenes from 3D Lidar Data / Claude Holenstein -- Lightweight Laser Scan Registration in Underground Mines with Band-based Downsampling Method / George Kantor -- Featureless Visual Processing for SLAM in Changing Outdoor Environments / Ashley George -- Gold-Fish SLAM: An Application of SLAM to Localize AGVs / Thorsteinn Rognvaldsson -- Design, Development, and Mobility Test of an Omnidirectional Mobile Robot for Rough Terrain / Karl Iagnemma -- A Vector Algebra Formulation of Mobile Robot Velocity Kinematics / Neal Seegmiller -- A Self-Learning Ground Classifier Using Radar Features / James Underwood.
Summary:
FSR, the International Conference on Field and Service Robotics, is the leading single track conference of robotics for field and service applications. This book presents the results of FSR2012, the eighth conference of Field and Service Robotics, which was originally planned for 2011 with the venue of Matsushima in Tohoku region of Japan. However, on March 11, 2011, a magnitude M9.0 earthquake occurred off the Pacific coast of Tohoku, and a large-scale disaster was caused by the Tsunami which resulted, therefore the conference was postponed by one year to July, 2012. In fact, this earthquake raised issues concerning the contribution of field and service robotics technology to emergency scenarios. A number of precious lessons were learned from operation of robots in the resulting, very real and challenging, disaster environments. Up-to-date study on disaster response, relief and recovery was then featured in the conference. This book offers 43 papers on a broad range of topics including: Disaster Response, Service/Entertainment Robots, Inspection/Maintenance Robots, Mobile Robot Navigation, Agricultural Robots, Robots for Excavation, Planetary Exploration, Large Area Mapping, SLAM for Outdoor Robots, and Elemental Technology for Mobile Robots.
Series:
Springer tracts in advanced robotics, 1610-7438 ; v. 92
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