Intelligent Robotics and Applications [electronic resource] : 5th International Conference, ICIRA 2012, Montreal, QC, Canada, October 3-5, 2012, Proceedings, Part III / edited by Chun-Yi Su, Subhash Rakheja, Honghai Liu.

Hands-Free Head-Motion Interface Using Air Pillow -- A Self-localization System with Global Error Reduction and Online Map-Building Capabilities -- Sensor Classification Methods Applied to Robotics --  Design and Simulation of Bio-inspired Flexible Tactile Sensor for Prosthesis -- A Monitoring Network Based on Embedded Vision Nodes Suitable for Robotic Systems -- Conceptual Design and Kinematic Analysis of a Parallel Rotational Robot --  Attitude Control of the Unicycle Robot Using Fuzzy-Sliding Mode Control -- Evaluation of Response Models to a Series of Commands in a Telerobotics Supervisory Control System -- An Embedded Control System for Automatic Guided Vehicle -- Predictive Delay Compensation for Camera Based Oscillation Damping of a Multi Link Flexible Robot -- Control of an Ostrich-Like Knee Joint for a Biped Robot Based on Passive Dynamic Walking --  Adaptive Neural Network Control of Robot with Passive Last Joint -- 4M-Model Based Bionic Design of Artificial Skeletal Muscle Actuated by SMA -- Design Considerations of a Robotic Head for Telepresence Applications -- Scaling Studies for an Actively Controlled Curvature Robotic Pectoral Fin -- Control of a Passive-Dynamic-Walking-Based Biped Model with Semicircular Feet for a Small Stair Step -- Evaluation of a Proposed Workspace Spanning Technique for Small Haptic Device Based Manipulator Teleoperation -- Prior Knowledge Employment Based on the K-L and Tanimoto Distances Matching for Intelligent Autonomous Robots -- Interactive Features for Robot Viewers --  Searching Energy-Efficient Route in Rough Terrain for Mobile Robot with Ant Algorithm -- Real-Time Recognizing Human Hand Gestures -- Safe Robot Learning by Energy Limitation -- Motion Recovery of Parallel Manipulators Using Task-Decomposition Approach -- Derivation of Dynamic Equations of Serial Robot Manipulators with Coupled Ideal Joint Motion -- Mechatronics Design Applied to the Concept of Service Robot to Clean Storage Tanks -- Research on the Impact of the Number of Wheels and Layouts to the Performances of Omni-Directional Chassis -- A Novel Distributed Tuned Mass Damper Design Approach -- The Basic Component of Computational Intelligence for AX-12 Robotic Arm Manipulator -- Guiding Sampling-Based Motion Planning by Forward and Backward Discrete Search -- Kinematic Modeling of a Heavy-Duty Forging Manipulator -- Simultaneous Localization and Map Building for Wheeled Robot with Colored Measurement Noise -- A Comparison of Different Metaheuristic Algorithms for Optimizing Blended PTP Movements for Industrial Robots -- Stable Gait Planning for Biped Robot's Lower Limb Based on Natural ZMP Trajectories -- Numerical and Analytical Methods for Synthesis of Central Pattern Generators -- Trajectory Planning for Omni-Directional Mobile Robot Based on Bezier Curve, Trigonometric Function and Polynomial -- A Low-Cost, Practical Localization System for Agricultural Vehicles -- Static Gait Control for Quadruped Robot -- Accurate Correction of Robot Trajectories Generated by Teaching Using 3D Vision by Laser Triangulation -- Improved Method of Robot Trajectory in IBVS Based on an Efficient Second-Order Minimization Technique -- Tactile Sensors Based Object Recognition and 6D Pose Estimation -- Graph-Based Detection of Objects with Regular Regions -- Semantic Interpretation of Novelty in Images Using Histograms of Oriented Gradients -- Far-Field Terrain Perception Using Max-Margin Markov Networks -- An Adaptive Trajectory Prediction Method for Ping-Pong Robots -- A New Method of Stereo Localization Using Dual-PTZ-Cameras -- Monocular Depth from Motion Using a New Closed-Form Solution -- Fast Template Matching of Objects for Visual SLAM -- Body Pixel Classification by Neural Network -- Robust Recognition against Illumination Variations Based on SIFT -- Robust Real-Time Stereo Edge Matching by Confidence-Based Refinement -- A Symbol Identifier Based Recognition and Relative Positioning Approach Suitable for Multi-robot Systems -- New Stereovision Self-calibration Method and Its Application in Vision Guided Approaching -- A Real-Time On-Board Orthogonal SLAM for an Indoor UAV -- An Infrastructure-Free Indoor Navigation System for Blind People -- Q-Tree: Automatic Construction of Hierarchical State Representation for Reinforcement Learning -- Navigation and Localization for Autonomous Vehicle at Road Intersections with Low-Cost Sensors -- On-Road Motion Planning for Autonomous Vehicles -- On the Development of an Open-Source Vehicle Dynamics Simulation -- A Study of New Path Planning Algorithm Using Extended A* Algorithm with Survivability.