This book serves as a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners in related fields, providing timely insights into recent progress in robotics and artificial intelligence. Today, AI's capabilities exceed human limitations. As AI generates texts, images, and videos, the boundaries between virtual reality and the physical world are becoming increasingly blurred. We are entering a new era in which AI agents can act on our behalf. With the continued development of AI agent systems, ro...

Unlock Korean fluency with 1000 Common Phrases: Learn Korean Through Simple Sentences. This practical guide is perfect for beginners and intermediate learners, featuring the 1000 most common Korean phrases in easy-to-understand sentences. Mastering these essential phrases and their contexts will significantly boost your comprehension and communication skills in Korean. Each sentence is paired with a clear English translation, making it ideal for self-study or classroom use.Whether y...

Unlock Korean fluency with 1000 Common Words: Learn Korean Through Simple Sentences. Designed for beginners and intermediate learners, this guide introduces the 1000 most common Korean words using straightforward sentences. These words make up 80-85% of everyday conversations, so mastering them will greatly enhance your ability to understand and communicate in Korean. Each sentence includes a clear English translation, making it a valuable tool for self-study or classroom use.Whethe...

This book provides users with cutting edge methods and technologies in the area of big data and visual analytics, as well as an insight to the big data and data analytics research conducted by world-renowned researchers in this field. The authors present comprehensive educational resources on big data and visual analytics covering state-of-the art techniques on data analytics, data and information visualization, and visual analytics.Each chapter covers specific topics related to bi...

We are starting to enter a post-COVID-19 life. While this pandemic has made everyone’s life challenging, it also expedited the transition of our everyday lives into a new form, often called “The New Normal.” Although many people often use the terminology, perhaps we still do not have consensus about what it is and what it should be like. However, one thing that is clear namely that robotics and artificial intelligence technologies are playing a critical role in this transition phase of our...

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of bio-inspired systems and robotics by integrating theoretical foundations with cutting-edge applications and real-world case studies.Departing from traditional approaches, it uniquely emphasizes interdisciplinary methodologies that bridge automation, Bio-inspired System, and Unmanned System, while spotlighting regional advancements from Asia to provide a global perspective on innovation. Covering a wide range of topics including but not limite...

This book aims at serving the researchers and practitioners in related fields with a timely dissemination of the recent progress on robotics and artificial intelligence. This book is based on a collection of papers presented at the 9th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RiTA), held at KAIST in Daejeon, Korea, in a hybrid format, on December 16–17, 2021. Humankind is getting through the third year of COVID-19 pandemic. While this pandemic has made ev...

This book presents scientific and practical developments in the emerging trends of human-centric robotics in unstructured environments, covering Human–Robot Collaboration, Mobile Robotics and Manipulation, Field Robotics, Aerial Robotics, Humanoids, and Autonomous Driving. It offers insights into the latest scientific and technological development in robot–human interactions, advanced autonomy, and robust designs for real-world applications. This edition's approach is characterized by stro...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Robotics, ICR 2023, held in Baku, Azerbaijan, during October 25–29, 2023.The 33 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 56 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: focused the foundations and means of collaborative behavior of one or more robots physically interacting with hu-mans in operational environments conf...

This book is used at the graduate or advanced undergraduate level and many others. Manned and unmanned ground, aerial and marine vehicles enable many promising and revolutionary civilian and military applications that will change our life in the near future. These applications include, but are not limited to, surveillance, search and rescue, environment monitoring, infrastructure monitoring, self-driving cars, contactless last-mile delivery vehicles, autonomous ships, precision agriculture...

The new edition of this book presents updated perspectives in vision-based applications. These contributions are focused on optoelectronic sensors, 3D and 2D machine vision technologies, robot navigation, control schemes, motion controllers, intelligent algorithms, and vision systems. The authors focus on applications of unmanned aerial vehicles, autonomous and mobile robots, industrial inspection applications and structural health monitoring. Recent advanced research in measurement and ot...

This book addresses many applications of artificial intelligence in robotics, namely AI using visual and motional input. Robotic technology has made significant contributions to daily living, industrial uses, and medicinal applications. Machine learning, in particular, is critical for intelligent robots or unmanned/autonomous systems such as UAVs, UGVs, UUVs, cooperative robots, and so on. Humans are distinguished from animals by capacities such as receiving visual information, adjusting t...