On the occasion of its 25th anniversary, McGill University's Centre for Intelligent Machines (CIM) invited outstanding researchers from academia and R\&D environments to discuss the state of the art in research areas of interest to CIM. The response is documented in the papers assembled here, under the umbrella of the {\em International Symposium on Brain, Body and Machine}, held in Montreal on November 10--13, 2010. Areas of interest include heuristic algorithms, computer vision, medical imaging, haptics, human-machine interaction, systems and control, robot design and control, and multibody system dynamics. Applications cover a road spectrum, from shape identification and reconstruction to drug-dose regulation and body-motion detection and control. Contributors come from research laboratories based all over the world, not only from academia, but also from government agencies and industry.
Author(s): Bruno Siciliano, Luigi Villani, Vincenzo Lippiello (auth.), Jorge Angeles, Benoit Boulet, James J. Clark, József Kövecses, Kaleem Siddiqi (eds.)
Series: Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing 83
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 327
Tags: Computational Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction
Front Matter....Pages -
Force and Visual Control for Safe Human-Robot Interaction....Pages 1-16
3D Automatic Segmentation of the Hippocampus Using Wavelets with Applications to Radiotherapy Planning....Pages 17-31
Rigid Registration of 3D Ultrasound and MRI: Comparing Two Approaches on Nine Tumor Cases....Pages 33-43
A New Approach to Virtual Mirroring for View Integration....Pages 45-55
Designing a Metric for the Difference between Gaussian Densities....Pages 57-70
Physical Asymmetries and Brightness Perception....Pages 71-82
A Learning-Based Patient Repositioning Method from Limited-Angle Projections....Pages 83-94
Image and Video Region Saliency Based on Space and Motion....Pages 95-109
Generalized PCA via the Backward Stepwise Approach in Image Analysis....Pages 111-123
Performance of MRF-Based Stereo Algorithms for Cluttered Scenes....Pages 125-136
Medial Spheres for Shape Approximation....Pages 137-148
A Heuristic Algorithm for Slicing in the Rapid Freeze Prototyping of Sculptured Bodies....Pages 149-162
Robust Design of 2 nd Order Terminal ILC Using μ -Analysis and a Genetic Algorithm Approach....Pages 163-174
Development of an Anthropomorphic Saxophone-Playing Robot....Pages 175-186
Human Safety Algorithms for a Parallel Cable-Driven Haptic Interface....Pages 187-200
Hybrid Stabilizing Control for the Spatial Double Inverted Pendulum....Pages 201-215
Closed-Loop Control of Plasma Osmolality....Pages 217-225
Cooperative Exploration, Localization, and Visual Map Construction....Pages 227-245
Sliding-Mode Velocity and Yaw Control of a 4WD Skid-Steering Mobile Robot....Pages 247-258
On the Design and Validation of an Intelligent Powered Wheelchair: Lessons from the SmartWheeler Project....Pages 259-268
Devon Island as a Proving Ground for Planetary Rovers....Pages 269-281
Leader-Follower Cucker-Smale Type Flocking Synthesized via Mean Field Stochastic Control Theory....Pages 283-298
Dynamic Locomotion with a Wheeled-Legged Quadruped Robot....Pages 299-310
Underactuated Cable-Driven Robots: Machine, Control and Suspended Bodies....Pages 311-323
Computing the Rigid-Body Acceleration Field from Nine Accelerometer Measurements....Pages 325-339
Singularity Analysis of a Six-Dof Parallel Manipulator Using Grassmann-Cayley Algebra and Gröbner Bases....Pages 341-352
