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Field and Service Robotics: Results of the 8th International Conference

By Satoshi Tadokoro (eds.) , Fumitoshi Matsuno , Noritaka Sato , Kazuyuki Kon (auth.) , Kazuya Yoshida

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2014
ISBN
978-3-642-40685-0, 978-3-642-40686-7
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-40686-7
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
34 MB (35613352 bytes)
Series
Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics 92
Edition
1
Pages
658\648
Time added
2014-02-12 18:00:00
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Description

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.

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