Handbook of Robotics Chapter 59 : Robot Programming by Demonstration

Handbook of Robotics Chapter 40: Multiple Mobile Robot Systems

Workspace Boundary Avoidance in Robot Teaching by Demonstration Using Fuzzy Impedance Control

The present paper investigates an intuitive way of robot path planning, called robot teaching by demonstration. In this method, an operator holds the robot end-effector and moves it through a number of positions and orientations in order to teach it a desired task. The presented control architecture applies impedance control in such a way that the end-effector follows the operator’s hand with d...

Handbook of Robotics Chapter 8 : Robotic Systems Architectures and Programming

Springer Handbook of Robotics: Chapter 37

This chapter provides a comprehensive introduction in to the simultaneous localization and mapping problem, better known in its abbreviated form as SLAM. SLAM addresses the problem of a robot navigating an unknown environment. While navigating the environment, the robot seeks to acquire a map thereof, and at the same time it wishes to localize itself using its map. The use of SLAM problems can ...

Social mechanisms of robot programming by demonstration

The special issue collects a subset of the best papers presented at the ICRA’05 workshop on the Social Mechanisms of Robot Programming by Demonstration. The workshop took place on April 21st 2005 in Barcelona, Spain, at the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’05). Eleven of the best papers presented at the workshop were subsequently submitted for peer review before publication in t...