The Path to Autonomous Robots: Essays in Honor of George A. Bekey

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.