Robotics research : the First International Symposium

Abstract

The fifty-three contributions collected in this book present leading current research in one of fastest moving fields of artificial intelligence. Organized around a view of robotics as the intelligent connection of perception to they convey excitement of cross-disciplinary discussion by scholars from United States, Japan, France, United Kingdom, West Germany, and Australia.Chapters in book's first part explore connection between perception and action in three sections that deal with task level programming, integrated systems, and walking machines. The second part reports recent progress on perceptual basis of robotics, with chapters grouped in sections on visual inspection, three-dimensional vision, and (nonvisual) local sensing. The third part focuses on systems that facilitate action, with sections that discuss mechanisms, kinematics and dynamics, and feedback control. A final part considers application of robot systems to manufacturing, with chapters divided into two sections: on systems for manufacture and on robots and manufacture. The editors have written introductions to each of book's four major parts and eleven sections.This book is twelfth in The MIT Press Series in Artificial intelligence, edited by Patrick Henry Winston and Michael Brady.