The Path to Autonomous Robots Essays in Honor of George A. Bekey /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sukhatme, Gaurav. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2009.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Artificial intelligence.; Control engineering systems.; Computer Science.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Control , Robotics, Mechatronics.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-85774-9

This collection of technical articles, written by leading international researchers in robotics, presents threads of modern robotics research. Also included are brief reminiscences of the former students of Professor George A. Bekey, reflecting on his remarkable 50-year career as an innovative educa...

Table of Contents:

• Part I Recent Research in Autonomous Robots: Mobile Robots for Polar Remote Sensing
• Adaptive Sampling With Multiple Mobile
• Grasping Affordances: Learning to Connect Vision to Hand Action
• Intelligent Robotics for Assistive Healthcare and Therapy
• A New Direction in Human-Robot Interaction: A Lesson from Star Wars?- Neurorobotics Primer
• Learning Inverse Dynamics by Gaussian Process Regression under the Multi-Task Learning Framework
• Part II Tributes and Recollections from Former Students: Professor George Albert Bekey
• Current History of the Bekey Tribe
• Recollections and Tributes
• References
• Index.