Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice - Billingsley, John.; Bradbeer, Robin; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2008)
Education -- Emergent Behaviour Real-time Programming of a Six-Legged Omni-Directional Mobile Robot Planning of Viennese Waltz Behaviour -- The Hong Kong Underwater Robot Challenge -- Dynamics and Control of a VTOL Quad-Thrust Aerial Robot -- Project-oriented Low Cost Autonomous Underwater Vehicle with Servo-visual Control for Mechatronics Curricula -- Coordination in Mechatronic Engineering Work -- Vision Techniques -- A Vision System for Depth Perception that Uses Inertial Sensing and Motion Parallax -- Rate Shape Identification Based on Particle Swarm Optimization -- Advanced 3D Imaging Technology for Autonomous Manufacturing Systems -- Vision Based Person Tracking and Following in Unstructured Environments -- Simple, Robust and Accurate Head-Pose Tracking Using a Single Camera -- Vision Applications -- Machine Vision for Beer Keg Asset Management -- Millimetre Wave Radar Visualisation System: Practical Approach to Transforming Mining Operations -- An Underwater Camera and Instrumentation System for Monitoring the Undersea Environment -- Visual Position Estimation for Automatic Landing of a Tail-Sitter Vertical Takeoff and Landing Unmanned Air Vehicle -- Minutiae-based Fingerprint Alignment Using Phase Correlation -- Robotic Techniques -- A Snake-like Robot for Inspection Tasks -- Modelling Pneumatic Muscles as Hydraulic Muscles for Use as an Underwater Actuator -- Automated Tactile Sensory Perception of Contact Using the Distributive Approach -- Blind Search Inverse Kinematics for Controlling All Types of Serial-link Robot Arms -- Medical Applications -- Distributive Tactile Sensing Applied to Discriminate Contact and Motion of a Flexible Digit in Invasive Clinical Environments -- Intelligent Approach to Cordblood Collection -- An Autonomous Surgical Robot Applied in Practice -- Development of an Intelligent Physiotherapy System -- Visual Prostheses for the Blind: A Framework for Information Presentation -- Computer-based Method of Determining the Path of a HIFU Beam Through Tissue Layers from Medical Images to Improve Cancer Treatment -- Agricultural Applications -- On-the-go Machine Vision Sensing of Cotton Plant Geometric Parameters: First Results -- Robotics for Agricultural Systems -- More Machine Vision Applications in the NCEA.
Keywords: Control engineering; Optical data processing; Robotics; Mechatronics; Engineering design; Artificial intelligence; Control and Systems Theory; Image Processing and Computer Vision; Control, Robotics, Mechatronics; Engineering Design; Artificial Intelligence; Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics