The Future of Humanoid Robots - Research and Applications

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Издательство InTech, 2011, -310 pp.This book provides state of the art scientific and engineering research findings and developments in the field of humanoid robotics and its applications. The book contains chapters that aim to discover the future abilities of humanoid robots by presenting a variety of integrated research in various scientific and engineering fields such as locomotion, perception, adaptive behavior, human-robot interaction, neuroscience and machine learning.Without a dose of imagination it is hard to predict whether human-like robots will become viable real-world citizens or whether they will be confined to certain specific purposes. However, we can safely predict that humanoids will change the way we interact with machines and will have the ability to blend perfectly into an environment already designed for humans.This book’s intended audience includes upper-level undergraduates and graduates studying robotics. It is designed to be accessible and practical, with an emphasis on useful information to those working in the fields of robotics, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, computational methods and other fields of science directly or indirectly related to the development and usage of future humanoid robots. The editor of the book has extensive research and development experience, and he has patents and publications in the area of humanoid robotics, and his experience is reflected in editing the content of the book.Periodic Tasks and Locomotion Control Performing Periodic Tasks: On-Line Learning, Adaptation and Synchronization with External Signals Autonomous Motion Adaptation Against Structure Changes Without Model Identification Design of Oscillatory Neural Network for Locomotion Control of Humanoid RobotsGrasping and Multi-Fingered Robot Hand Grasp Planning for a Humanoid Hand Design of 5 D.O.F Robot Hand with an Artificial Skin for an Android Robot Development of Multi-Fingered Universal Robot Hand with Torque Limiter MechanismInteractive Applications of Humanoid Robots Exoskeleton and Humanoid Robotic Technology in Construction and Built Environment Affective Human-Humanoid Interaction Through Cognitive Architecture Speech Communication with Humanoids: How People React and How We Can Build the System Implementation of a Framework for Imitation Learning on a Humanoid Robot Using a Cognitive Architecture A Multi-Modal Panoramic Attentional Model for Robots and Applications User, Gesture and Robot Behaviour Adaptation for Human-Robot Interaction Learning Novel Objects for Domestic ServiceCurrent and Future Challenges for Humanoid Robots Rob’s Robot: Current and Future Challenges for Humanoid Robots