Martin Buss - Böcker

At the dawn of the new millennium, robotics is undergoing a major transformation in scope and dimension. From a largely dominant industrial focus, robotics is rapidly expanding into the challenges of unstructured environments. Interacting with, assi- ing, serving, and exploring with humans, the emerging robots will increasingly touch people and their lives. The goal of the new series of Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR) is to bring, in a timely fashion, the latest advances and developments in robotics on the basis of their signi cance and quality. It is our hope that the wider dissemination of research developments stimulates exchanges and collaborations among the research community and contributes to further advancement of this rapidly growing eld. The edited volume by Manuel Ferre, Martin Buss, Rafael Aracil, Claudio M- chiorri and Carlos Balaguer is focused on the most recent advances in telerobotics, a technology that deals with the inclusion of a human operator in the control loop of a remote robot. Telerobotics encompasses an area at the crossroads of several scienti c disciplines such as mechatronics, control, communication, computers, sensor-based recognition, multimodality and even teleoperation through Internet.

"Sense of Touch and its Rendering" presents a unique and interdisciplinary approach highlighting the field of haptic research from a neuropsychological as well as a technological point of view. This edited book is the outcome of the TOUCH-HapSys European research project and provides an important contribution towards a new generation of high-fidelity haptic display technologies. The book is structured in two parts: A. Fundamental Psychophysical and Neuropsychological Research and B. Technology and Applications. The two parts are not however separated, and the many connections and synergies between the two complementary domains of research are highlighted in the text. The eleven chapters discuss the recent advances in the study of human haptic (kinaesthetic, tactile, temperature) and multimodal (visual, auditory, haptic) perception mechanisms. Besides the theoretical advancement, the contributions survey the state of the art in the field, report a number of practical applications to real systems, and discuss possible future developments.

"Sense of Touch and its Rendering" presents a unique and interdisciplinary approach highlighting the field of haptic research from a neuropsychological as well as a technological point of view. This edited book is the outcome of the TOUCH-HapSys European research project and provides an important contribution towards a new generation of high-fidelity haptic display technologies. The book is structured in two parts: A. Fundamental Psychophysical and Neuropsychological Research and B. Technology and Applications. The two parts are not however separated, and the many connections and synergies between the two complementary domains of research are highlighted in the text. The eleven chapters discuss the recent advances in the study of human haptic (kinaesthetic, tactile, temperature) and multimodal (visual, auditory, haptic) perception mechanisms. Besides the theoretical advancement, the contributions survey the state of the art in the field, report a number of practical applications to real systems, and discuss possible future developments.

Human Centered Robotic Systems must be able to interact with humans such that the burden of adaptation lies with the machine and not with the human. This book collates a set of prominent papers presented during a two-day conference on "Human Centered Robotic Systems" held on November 19-20, 2009, in Bielefeld University, Germany. The aim of the conference was to bring together researchers from the areas of robotics, computer science, psychology, linguistics, and biology who are all focusing on a shared goal of cognitive interaction. A survey of recent approaches, the current state-of-the-art, and possible future directions in this interdisciplinary field is presented. It provides practitioners and scientists with an up-to-date introduction to this dynamic field, with methods and solutions that are likely to significantly impact on our future lives.

Human Centered Robotic Systems must be able to interact with humans such that the burden of adaptation lies with the machine and not with the human. This book collates a set of prominent papers presented during a two-day conference on "Human Centered Robotic Systems" held on November 19-20, 2009, in Bielefeld University, Germany. The aim of the conference was to bring together researchers from the areas of robotics, computer science, psychology, linguistics, and biology who are all focusing on a shared goal of cognitive interaction. A survey of recent approaches, the current state-of-the-art, and possible future directions in this interdisciplinary field is presented. It provides practitioners and scientists with an up-to-date introduction to this dynamic field, with methods and solutions that are likely to significantly impact on our future lives.

At the dawn of the new millennium, robotics is undergoing a major transformation in scope and dimension. From a largely dominant industrial focus, robotics is rapidly expanding into the challenges of unstructured environments. Interacting with, assi- ing, serving, and exploring with humans, the emerging robots will increasingly touch people and their lives. The goal of the new series of Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR) is to bring, in a timely fashion, the latest advances and developments in robotics on the basis of their signi cance and quality. It is our hope that the wider dissemination of research developments stimulates exchanges and collaborations among the research community and contributes to further advancement of this rapidly growing eld. The edited volume by Manuel Ferre, Martin Buss, Rafael Aracil, Claudio M- chiorri and Carlos Balaguer is focused on the most recent advances in telerobotics, a technology that deals with the inclusion of a human operator in the control loop of a remote robot. Telerobotics encompasses an area at the crossroads of several scienti c disciplines such as mechatronics, control, communication, computers, sensor-based recognition, multimodality and even teleoperation through Internet.

Die vierte Auflage dieses gut eingführten Buches präsentiert eine breite Übersicht über statische, dynamische und stochastische Verfahren der Optimierungstheorie. Dazu gehören sowohl klassische (aber nach wie vor bedeutende) Optimierungsverfahren, die sich in der Anwendung bereits vielfach bewährt haben, als auch jüngere Entwicklungen, die für zukünftige Anwendungen besonders vielversprechend erscheinen.Bei einem Großteil der Verfahren werden mathematische Ableitungen und Hintergrundinformationen in verständlicher Form mitgeliefert; so ist im Zusammenhang mit der weiterführenden, spezialisierten Literatur ein vertieftes Studium der Sachverhalte erleichtert. Der Text beinhaltet viele Beispiele zur Veranschaulichung der Verfahrensweisen. Darüber hinaus enthalten einige Kapitel eine Anzahl anspruchsvoller Anwendungen mit praktischer Relevanz.

Das Buch führt anschaulich und verständlich in das Gebiet der intelligenten Verfahren ein. In geschlossenen Darstellungen zeigt es zuerst die theoretischen Grundlagen und anschließend praktische Beispiele, wobei bei den Beispielen auch fehlerhafte Ansätze gezeigt werden.Ausgehend von linearen Systemen und ihren Einschränkungen werden nichtlineare Systeme sowie grundlegende Lernverfahren eingeführt. Darauf aufbauend werden intelligente Verfahren, z.B. der lernfähige, nichtlineare Beobachter, entwickelt sowie die Identifikation von nichtlinearen Systemen und deren Optimierung behandelt.  Anschließend werden Regelungsverfahren von nichtlinearen Systemen vorgestellt, wobei die modellbasierte adaptive Regelung sowie die Regelung von unbekannten Systemen Schwerpunkte sind. Den Abschluss bildet ein Kapitel über Fuzzy-Logik.Die Verfahren können bei vielen nichtlinearen Systemen angewendet werden und wurden bereits äußerst erfolgreich in der Medizin, in der Robotik und in der Getriebesteuerung von Hybridfahrzeugen eingesetzt.Neu an der zweiten Auflage sind Kapitel über robuste Schätzverfahren und Concurrent Learning.Die ZielgruppenDas Werk richtet sich an Studierende  und Wissenschaftler der Ingenieurwissenschaften, Informatik und Mathematik sowie Ingenieure in der Praxis.