Intelligent Robotics and Applications Third International Conference, ICIRA 2010, Shanghai, China, November 10-12, 2010. Proceedings, Part I

The market demand for skills, knowledge and adaptability have positioned robotics to be an important field in both engineering and science. One of the most highly visible applications of robotics has been the robotic automation of many industrial tasks in factories. In the future, a new era will come in which we will see a greater success for robotics in non-industrial environments. In order to anticipate a wider deployment of intelligent and autonomous robots for tasks such as manufacturing, healthcare, ent- tainment, search and rescue, surveillance, exploration, and security missions, it is essential to push the frontier of robotics into a new dimension, one in which motion and intelligence play equally important roles. The 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA 2010) was held in Shanghai, China, November 10–12, 2010. The theme of the c- ference was “Robotics Harmonizing Life,” a theme that reflects the ever-growing interest in research, development and applications in the dynamic and exciting areas of intelligent robotics. These volumes of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Artificial Intel- gence and Lecture Notes in Computer Science contain 140 high-quality papers, which were selected at least for the papers in general sessions, with a 62% acceptance rate Traditionally, ICIRA 2010 holds a series of plenary talks, and we were fortunate to have two such keynote speakers who shared their expertise with us in diverse topic areas spanning the rang of intelligent robotics and application activities.

Bionic Dextrous Hand.- Cartesian Impedance Control on Five-Finger Dexterous Robot Hand DLR-HIT II with Flexible Joint.- Changeable Grasping Force Unit for Under-Actuated Gripper with Self-adaptive Grasping.- Efficient Grasp Planning with Reachability Analysis.- Development of an Anthropomorphic Prosthetic Hand for Man-Machine Interaction.- Dexterous and Self-adaptive Under-Actuated Humanoid Robot Hand: GCUA Hand II.- A Novel Coupled and Self-adaptive Under-actuated Grasping Mode and the COSA-DTS Hand.- Empirical Copula Driven Hand Motion Recognition via Surface Electromyography Based Templates.- A Continuous Control Scheme for Multifunctional Robotic Arm with Surface EMG Signal.- Modeling and Control of Systems Involving Hysteresis.- On the Robust Control of Systems Preceded by Differential Equation-Based Hysteresis Nonlinearities.- A Generalized Play Operator for Modeling and Compensation of Hysteresis Nonlinearities.- Hysteresis Modeling of Piezoelectric Actuators Using the Fuzzy System.- On PSO Based Bouc-Wen Modeling for Piezoelectric Actuator.- Operator-Based Robust Nonlinear Control for Ionic Polymer Metal Composite with Uncertainties and Hysteresis.- Modeling of Hysteresis Nonlinearity Based on Generalized Bouc-Wen Model for GMA.- Control System Modeling and Applications.- Motion Dynamics Modelling of an Electric Wheel Robot.- Sliding Mode Control of Hybrid Joints for Wheeled Mobile Manipulators with Markovian Switching and Bounded Torques.- Timestamp Based Predictive Robot Control System over Real-Time Industrial Ethernet.- Design and Experimental Research on a Fast Zero-Finding Algorithm Based on the Incremental Angle Encoder.- Decentralized Synchronization and Output Tracking Control of Nondiffusively Coupled Complex Dynamical Networks.- Manipulation of a Mobile Modular Manipulator Interacting with the Environment with the Assistance of Tactile Sensing Feedback.- An RTC-Based Intelligent Programming System for Service Robots.- Marine Engine State Monitoring System Using Distributed Precedence Queue Mechanism in CAN Networks.- Modeling and Fault Tolerant Controller Design for PM Spherical Actuator.- Intelligent Control and Their Applications.- Artificial Neural Network to Predict the Surface Maximum Settlement by Shield Tunneling.- Applying Grey-Fuzzy-Fuzzy Rule to Machine Vision Based Unmanned Automatic Vehicles.- AWARE: Autonomous Wireless Agent Robotic Exchange.- Application of Wearable Miniature Non-invasive Sensory System in Human Locomotion Using Soft Computing Algorithm.- The Mathematical Model and Control Scheme of a Four-Legged Robot Based on GZ-I and Note Module.- Robot and Automation in Tunneling.- Electromechanical Coupling Model for Cutterhead Driving System of Shield Machines.- Dimension Optimization of an Orientation Fine-Tuning Manipulator for Segment Assembly Device.- Rotation and Gate Movement Compound Control of Screw Conveyor Hydraulic System with Disturbance Compensation.- Applications of the Overlapping Nodes Method in Simulating Crack-Expansion under the Action of TBM Cutter.- The Simulation Analysis of the TBM Disc Cutter Phase Angle.- The Design of Shield Tunnelling Machine Cutter Header’s Cutting Performance Test Bed.- The Effect of TBM Hydraulic Piping System Parameters on FSI Vibration.- Station Point Optimization of Total Station in Shield Tunneling Method Based on Set-Covering.- Study on Earth Pressure Acting on Cutter Face Based on Nonlinear Optimization.- Incident Angle Measurement of Collimated Laser Based on the Pinhole Principle.- Robot Mechanism and Design.- A Novel Design for the Self-reconfigurable Robot Module and Connection Mechanism.- The Forward Kinematics Analysis of 6-3 Stewart Parallel Mechanisms.- Portable Multi-axis CNC: A 3-CRU Decoupled Parallel Robotic Manipulator.- Carton Motion-Moment Diagram and Stiffness Characteristics.- Flexible Foot Design for Biped Walking on Uneven Terrain.- 4WD Skid-Steer Trajectory Control of a Rover with Spring-Based Suspension Analysis.- Topology and Analysis of Three-Phalanx COSA Finger Based on Linkages for Humanoid Robot Hands.- Design of a Bionic Saltatorial Leg for Jumping Mini Robot.- Asymmetrical Prototype of a Five-Wheeled Robot and Maneuver Analysis.- Development of Controllable Two-Way Self-locking Mechanism for Micro In-Pipe Robot.- Trench-Crossing Capability Analysis of a Reconfigurable Tracked Mobile Robot.- Service Robotics.- Automatic Cooking Robot with a Novel Feeding System.- Multi-sensor Based Autonomous Underwater Manipulator Grasp.- The Targets Pursuit for Multi-robot System with Hybrid Wireless Sensor Networks.- A Fast Robot Path Planning Algorithm Based on Image Thinning.- Automatic Micro-manipulation Based on Visual Servoing.- Self-calibration of a Stewart Parallel Robot with a Laserranger.- Real-Time Binaural Sound Source Localization Using Sparse Coding and SOM.- Design and Control of a Hydraulic-Actuated Leg Exoskeleton for Load-Carrying Augmentation.- Computer Vision and Applications.- Globally Optimal and Region Scalable CV Model on Automatic Target Segmentation.- The Registration of UAV Down-Looking Aerial Images to Satellite Images with Image Entropy and Edges.- Fast 3D Time of Flight Data Segmentation Using the U-V-Histogram Approach.- Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) Parametric Optimization Using Taguchi Design of Experiments.- Robust Visual Monitoring of Machine Condition with Sparse Coding and Self-Organizing Map.- An Evolving Machinery Fault Diagnosis Approach Based on Affinity Propagation Algorithm.- Closed Form Solution for the Scale Ambiguity Problem in Monocular Visual Odometry.- Recognizing 3D Human Motions Using Fuzzy Quantile Inference.- Evaluating the Fuzzy Coverage Model for 3D Multi-camera Network Applications.- Emotion Recognition in Facial Image Sequences Using a Combination of AAM with FACS and DBN.- Sensor Design, Multi-sensor Data Fusion.- An Analysis of Node Localization Error Behavior in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Consensus Target Tracking in Multi-robot Systems.- A Decentralized Junction Tree Approach to Mobile Robots Cooperative Localization.- Optimized Particles for 3-D Tracking.- Design of a Finger-Tip Flexible Tactile Sensor for an Anthropomorphic Robot Hand.