FSR, the International Conference on Field and Service Robotics, is the leading single track conference of robotics for field and service applications. This book presents the results of FSR2012, the eighth conference of Field and Service Robotics, which was originally planned for 2011 with the venue of Matsushima in Tohoku region of Japan. However, on March 11, 2011, a magnitude M9.0 earthquake occurred off the Pacific coast of Tohoku, and a large-scale disaster was caused by the Tsunami which resulted, therefore the conference was postponed by one year to July, 2012. In fact, this earthquake raised issues concerning the contribution of field and service robotics technology to emergency scenarios. A number of precious lessons were learned from operation of robots in the resulting, very real and challenging, disaster environments. Up-to-date study on disaster response, relief and recovery was then featured in the conference. This book offers 43 papers on a broad range of topics including: Disaster Response, Service/Entertainment Robots, Inspection/Maintenance Robots, Mobile Robot Navigation, Agricultural Robots, Robots for Excavation, Planetary Exploration, Large Area Mapping, SLAM for Outdoor Robots, and Elemental Technology for Mobile Robots.
Author(s): Fumitoshi Matsuno, Noritaka Sato, Kazuyuki Kon (auth.), Kazuya Yoshida, Satoshi Tadokoro (eds.)
Series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics 92
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2014
Language: English
Pages: 658
Tags: Robotics and Automation; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Utilization of Robot Systems in Disaster Sites of the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake....Pages 1-17
Improvements to the Rescue Robot Quince Toward Future Indoor Surveillance Missions in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant....Pages 19-32
Collaborative Mapping of an Earthquake Damaged Building via Ground and Aerial Robots....Pages 33-47
Three-Dimensional Thermography Mapping for Mobile Rescue Robots....Pages 49-63
Creating Multi-Viewpoint Panoramas of Streets with Sparsely Located Buildings....Pages 65-79
Disaster Back-up Support using GIS Contents Composed of Images from Satellite and UAV....Pages 81-96
Mine Detecting Robot System....Pages 97-109
Experience in System Design for Human-Robot Teaming in Urban Search and Rescue....Pages 111-125
Advancing the State of Urban Search and Rescue Robotics Through the RoboCupRescue Robot League Competition....Pages 127-142
Estimating the 3D Position of Humans Wearing a Reflective Vest Using a Single Camera System....Pages 143-157
Impression of Android for Communication Support in Hospitals and Elderly Facilities....Pages 159-173
Multi-Robot Formation Control via a Real-Time Drawing Interface....Pages 175-189
Evaluation and Training System of Muscle Strength for Leg Rehabilitation Utilizing an MR Fluid Active Loading Machine....Pages 191-203
Automated and Frequent Calibration of a Robot Manipulator-mounted IR Range Camera for Steel Bridge Maintenance....Pages 205-218
Vertical Infrastructure Inspection Using a Quadcopter and Shared Autonomy Control....Pages 219-232
Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems for Remote Gas Leak Detection and Localization in Industrial Environments....Pages 233-247
To the Bookstore! Autonomous Wheelchair Navigation in an Urban Environment....Pages 249-263
A Trail-Following Robot Which Uses Appearance and Structural Cues....Pages 265-279
Construction of Semantic Maps for Personal Mobility Robots in Dynamic Outdoor Environments....Pages 281-296
Terrain Mapping and Control Optimization for a 6-Wheel Rover with Passive Suspension....Pages 297-310
Robust Monocular Visual Odometry for a Ground Vehicle in Undulating Terrain....Pages 311-326
Lighting-Invariant Visual Odometry using Lidar Intensity Imagery and Pose Interpolation....Pages 327-342
Modeling and Calibrating Visual Yield Estimates in Vineyards....Pages 343-356
Forest 3D Mapping and Tree Sizes Measurement for Forest Management Based on Sensing Technology for Mobile Robots....Pages 357-368
Iterative Autonomous Excavation....Pages 369-382
Rock Recognition Using Stereo Vision for Large Rock Breaking Operation....Pages 383-397
Plowing for Rover Control on Extreme Slopes....Pages 399-413
Complementary Flyover and Rover Sensing for Superior Modeling of Planetary Features....Pages 415-429
Path Planning and Navigation Framework for a Planetary Exploration Rover Using a Laser Range Finder....Pages 431-447
Motion Analysis System for Robot Traction Device Evaluation and Design....Pages 449-463
Image-Directed Sampling for Geometric Modeling of Lunar Terrain....Pages 465-478
Efficient Large-Scale 3D Mobile Mapping and Surface Reconstruction of an Underground Mine....Pages 479-493
Large Scale Monocular Vision-Only Mapping from a Fixed-Wing sUAS....Pages 495-509
Super-Voxel Based Segmentation and Classification of 3D Urban Landscapes with Evaluation and Comparison....Pages 511-526
Classification of 3-D Point Cloud Data that Includes Line and Frame Objects on the Basis of Geometrical Features and the Pass Rate of Laser Rays....Pages 527-540
Solid Model Reconstruction of Large-Scale Outdoor Scenes from 3D Lidar Data....Pages 541-554
Lightweight Laser Scan Registration in Underground Mines with Band-based Downsampling Method....Pages 555-567
Featureless Visual Processing for SLAM in Changing Outdoor Environments....Pages 569-583
Gold-Fish SLAM: An Application of SLAM to Localize AGVs....Pages 585-598
Design, Development, and Mobility Test of an Omnidirectional Mobile Robot for Rough Terrain....Pages 599-611
A Vector Algebra Formulation of Mobile Robot Velocity Kinematics....Pages 613-627
A Self-Learning Ground Classifier Using Radar Features....Pages 629-642
Development of a Low Cost Multi-Robot Autonomous Marine Surface Platform....Pages 643-658
