This collection of technical articles, written by leading international researchers in robotics, presents threads of modern robotics research. Topics explored in these chapters include:
Mobile robots in extreme environments
Autonomous spacecraft
The design of networked robotic systems
Robotic grasping using inputs from vision systems
Advances in manipulation and mobility inspired by human control systems
New directions in human-robot interaction
A biomimetic approach to autonomous robot design
Applying multi-task learning to inverse dynamics
Researchers and students will be inspired by these contributions and the volume will undoubtedly spur further reading and research in the field.
