Proceedings 2002 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (Cat. No.02CH37292)

Abstract

The following topics are dealt with: localization; humanoid robots; flying robots; Petri nets; modular robots; calibration; programming; resource allocation; uncalibrated vision; virtual reality; motion planning; cooperating robots; sensing; binary actuation; mobile manipulation; industrial automation; fault tolerance; parallel robots; simulation; force-guided assembly; visual servo control; haptics; impedance control; omnidirectional robots; underwater robots; manufacturing; fixturing; cooperating manipulators; autonomous agents; Internet automation; micro locomotion; telerobotics; distributed manipulation; learning; biomedical robotics; micro assembly; hyper-redundant robots; skill acquisition; grasping; visual servo control; sensor-based planning; force control; nonholonomic robots; sensor fusion; SLAM human robot interaction; probabilistic roadmaps; fuzzy control; legged locomotion; space robotics; actuators; inspection; multirobot motion planning; robust control; navigation; aerial vehicles; CAD/CAM kinematics; pose detection; tracking; obstacle detection; obstacle avoidance; human assistance devices; teleoperator stability; stereo vision; service robots; multifinger hands; neural nets; learning; and jumping robots.