Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics VIII Selected Contributions of the Eighth International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics / edited by Gregory S. Chirikjian, Howie Choset, Marco Morales, Todd Murphey.

This volume is the outcome of the eighth edition of the biennial Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR). Edited by G.S. Chirikjian, H. Choset, M. Morales and T. Murphey, the book offers a collection of a wide range of topics in advanced robotics, including networked robots, distribut...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Chirikjian, Gregory S. (Editor), Choset, Howie (Editor), Morales, Marco (Editor), Murphey, Todd (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
Edition:	1st ed. 2010.
Series:	Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, 57 Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:	Robotics. Automation. Control engineering. Mechatronics. Artificial intelligence. Machinery. System theory. Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:	Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:	Loaded electronically. Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.

Table of Contents:

Networks
Probabilistic Network Formation through Coverage and Freeze-Tag
Planning Aims for a Network of Horizontal and Overhead Sensors
Mobile Wireless Sensor Network Connectivity Repair with K-Redundancy
Distributed Systems
On Endogenous Reconfiguration in Mobile Robotic Networks
Simultaneous Control of Multiple MEMS Microrobots
Simultaneous Coverage and Tracking (SCAT) of Moving Targets with Robot Networks
Cooperative Towing with Multiple Robots
Manipulation
Two Finger Caging: Squeezing and Stretching
A State Transition Diagram for Simultaneous Collisions with Application in Billiard Shooting
A Variational Approach to Strand-Based Modeling of the Human Hand
A Stopping Algorithm for Mechanical Systems
Robust Planning
Perceived CT-Space for Motion Planning in Unknown and Unpredictable Environments
Bounded Uncertainty Roadmaps for Path Planning
A Sampling Hyperbelief Optimization Technique for Stochastic Systems
Computational Minimalism
On the Value of Ignorance: Balancing Tracking and Privacy Using a Two-Bit Sensor
On the Existence of Nash Equilibrium for a Two Player Pursuit-Evasion Game with Visibility Constraints
On the Topology of Plans
Geometric Sensing
Mirror-Based Extrinsic Camera Calibration
On the Analysis of the Depth Error on the Road Plane for Monocular Vision-Based Robot Navigation
Sensor Beams, Obstacles, and Possible Paths
A Motion Planner for Maintaining Landmark Visibility with a Differential Drive Robot
Geometric Computations
On Approximate Geodesic-Distance Queries amid Deforming Point Clouds
Constrained Motion Interpolation with Distance Constraints
Generating Uniform Incremental Grids on SO(3) Using the Hopf Fibration
A Simple Method for Computing Minkowski Sum Boundary in 3D Using Collision Detection
Polyhedral Assembly Partitioning with Infinite Translations or The Importance of Being Exact
Realistic Reconfiguration of Crystalline (and Telecube) Robots
Kinodynamic Motion Planning by Interior-Exterior Cell Exploration
Stochastic Methods in Planning
Control of Probabilistic Diffusion in Motion Planning
Stochastic Motion Planning and Applications to Traffic
On Probabilistic Search Decisions under Searcher Motion Constraints
Planning with Reachable Distances
Medical Applications
3D Motion Planning Algorithms for Steerable Needles Using Inverse Kinematics
Modeling Structural Heterogeneity in Proteins from X-Ray Data
Minimum Resource Characterization of Biochemical Analyses for Digital Microfluidic Biochip Design
Path Planning for Flexible Needles Using Second Order Error Propagation
Planning
Path Planning among Movable Obstacles: A Probabilistically Complete Approach
Multi-modal Motion Planning in Non-expansive Spaces
Toward SLAM on Graphs
HybridSLAM: Combining FastSLAM and EKF-SLAM for Reliable Mapping
Discovering a Point Source in Unknown Environments.

Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics VIII Selected Contributions of the Eighth International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics / edited by Gregory S. Chirikjian, Howie Choset, Marco Morales, Todd Murphey.

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