Description: Robots and Biological Systems: Towards a New Bionics? by Paolo Dario, Giulio Sandini, Patrick Aebischer Bionics evolved in the 1960s as a framework to pursue thedevelopment of artificial systems based on the study ofbiological systems. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Bionics evolved in the 1960s as a framework to pursue thedevelopment of artificial systems based on the study ofbiological systems. Numerous disciplines and technologies, including artificial intelligence and learningdevices, information processing, systems architecture and control, perception, sensory mechanisms, and bioenergetics, contributed to bionics research. This volume is based on a NATO Advanced Research Workshopwithin the Special Programme on Sensory Systems for RoboticControl, held in Il Ciocco, Italy, in June 1989. A consensusemerged at the workshop, and is reflected in the book, onthe value of learning from nature in order to deriveguidelines for the design of intelligent machines whichoperate in unstructured environments. The papers in the book are grouped into seven chapters: vision and dynamic systems, hands and tactile perception, locomotion, intelligent motor control, design technologies, interfacing robots to nervous systems, and robot societiesand self-organization. Table of Contents 1. Vision and Dynamic Systems.- Active Perception and Exploratory Robotics.- Object Identification and Search: Animate Vision Alternatives to Image Interpretation.- A Model of Human Feature Detection Based on Matched Filters.- Visualizing and Understanding Patterns of Brain Architecture.- Dynamic Vision.- A Model of the Acquisition of Object Representations in Human 3D Visual Recognition.- 2. Hands and Tactile Perception.- The Perception of Mechanical Stimuli Through the Skin of the Hand and Its Physiological Bases.- Borrowing Some Ideas from Biological Manipulators to Design an Artificial One.- Mechanical Design for Whole-Arm Manipulation.- Whole-Hand Manipulation: Design of an Articulated Hand Exploiting All Its Parts to Increase Dexterity.- Stable Grasping and Manipulation by a Multifinger Hand with the Capability of Compliance Control.- 3. Locomotion.- Mobile Robots — the Lessons from Nature.- Quadruped Walking Machine — Creation of the Model of Motion.- Biped Locomotion by FNS: Control Issues and an ANN Implementation.- How Fast Can a Legged Robot Run?.- Robot Biped Walking Stabilized with Trunk Motion.- 4. Intelligent Motor Control.- A New Concept of the Role of Proprioceptive and Recurrent Inhibitory Feedback in Motor Control.- Analogic Models for Robot Programming.- Structural Constraints and Computational Problems in Motor Control.- Motion Control in Intelligent Machines.- Control of Contact in Robots and Biological Systems.- Motor Control Simulation of Time Optimal Fast Movement in Man.- Constraints on Underspecified Target Trajectories.- Proposal for a Pattern Matching Task Controller for Sensor-Based Coordination of Robot Motions.- Sensory-Motor Mapping with a Sequential Network.- 5. Design Technologies.- Flexible Robot Manipulators and Grippers:Relatives of Elephant Trunks and Squid Tentacles.- Progress in the Design and Control of Pseudomuscular Linear Actuators.- Shape Memory Alloy Linear Actuators for Tendon-Based Biomorphic Actuating Systems.- CCD Retina and Neural Net Processor.- Retina-Like CCD Sensor for Active Vision.- Designing Artificial Structures from Biological Models.- Design Strategies for Gas and Odour Sensors Which Mimic the Olfactory System.- 6. Interfacing Robots to Nervous System.- Multi-Electrode Stimulation of Myelinated Nerve Fibers.- The Role of Materials in Designing Nerve Guidance Channels and Chronic Neural Interfaces.- Regeneration-Type Peripheral Nerve Interfaces for Direct Man/Machine Communication.- Integrated Bioelectronic Transducers.- 7. Robot Societies and Self-Organization.- A Robot Being.- Swarm Intelligence in Cellular Robotic Systems.- A Control Architecture for Cooperative Intelligent Robots.- Cellular Robotics — Construction of Complicated Systems from Simple Functions. Promotional Springer Book Archives Long Description Bionics evolved in the 1960s as a framework to pursue thedevelopment of artificial systems based on the study ofbiological systems. Numerous disciplines and technologies,including artificial intelligence and learningdevices,information processing, systems architecture and control,perception, sensory mechanisms, and bioenergetics,contributed to bionics research.This volume is based on a NATO Advanced Research Workshopwithin the Special Programme on Sensory Systems for RoboticControl, held in Il Ciocco, Italy, in June 1989. A consensusemerged at the workshop, and is reflected in the book, onthe value of learning from nature in order to deriveguidelines for the design of intelligent machines whichoperate in unstructured environments.The papers in the book are grouped into seven chapters:vision and dynamic systems, hands and tactile perception,locomotion, intelligent motor control, design technologies,interfacing robots to nervous systems, and robot societiesand self-organization. Details ISBN3540561587 Language English ISBN-10 3540561587 ISBN-13 9783540561583 Media Book Format Hardcover Series Number 102 Imprint Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K Place of Publication Berlin Country of Publication Germany Author Patrick Aebischer Edited by Patrick Aebischer Short Title ROBOTS & BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS TO Pages 786 Edition 1993rd DOI 10.1007/b45904;10.1007/978-3-642-58069-7 Publisher Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Edition Description 1993 ed. Series NATO ASI Series Year 1993 Publication Date 1993-06-14 Subtitle Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Workshop on Robots and Biological Systems, held at II Ciocco, Toscana, Italy, June 26–30, 1989 Alternative 9783642634611 DEWEY 003 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Illustrations XII, 786 p. We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:96249713;
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ISBN-13: 9783540561583
Book Title: Robots and Biological Systems: Towards a New Bionics?
Number of Pages: 786 Pages
Publication Name: Robots and Biological Systems: Towards a New Bionics?: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Workshop on Robots and Biological Systems, held at II Ciocco, Toscana, Italy, June 26-30, 1989
Language: English
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg Gmbh & Co. Kg
Item Height: 242 mm
Subject: Medicine, Engineering & Technology, Computer Science, Biology
Publication Year: 1993
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 2860 g
Author: Giulio Sandini, Paolo Dario, Patrick Aebischer
Item Width: 170 mm
Format: Hardcover
