Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment (AMiRE 2005)

Hardcover  XIV, 398 p. 264 illus.,  ISBN 3540284966      £115.50

This book contains the proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment (AMiRE 2005) held in Awara-Spa, Fukui, JAPAN, from September 20 to 22, 2005. Autonomous mobile Robots are in high demand for education and entertainment, especially human-friendly robots such as small pet robots and small biped robots. Autonomous robots are also useful for research and higher education, in other fields than robotics. The symposium theme has been "highly intelligent technology for robots", to realize the autonomy in unknown and dynamic environments including humans.

Written for researchers, graduate students and professionals in Robotics

Contents:

• Swarm-bot: A Novel Type of Self-Assembling Robot.
• Self-reconfigurable Robot with ATRON Modules.
• Technical Sessions.
• Autonomous Agent and Robot.
• Universal FPGA
• Microcontroller Module for Autonomous Minirobots.
• Seeing Empty Space in an Unknown Environment without Silhouettes.
• SubSim: An Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Simulation Package.
• Toward Micro Wall-Climbing Robots Using Biomimetic Fibrillar Adhesives.
• Teleworkbench: A Teleoperated Platform for Multi-Robot Experiments.
• Teleoperation of a Mobile Autonomous Robot Using Web Services.
• Bluetooth for Autonomus Mini-Robots and Scatternet Formation.
• Teleoperation of a Mobile Robot under Office Automation Floors with Visual Assistance.
• RoboCup Soccer Simulation.
• Developing a Goal Keeper for Simulated RoboCup Soccer and its Performance Evaluation.
• An Action Rule Discovery Technique from Simulated RoboCup Soccer Logs.
• Adapting Recognition of Shootable Situations by Learning from Experience and Observation in a RoboCup Simulated Soccer Game.