Mechatronics and machine vision in practice / John Billingsley, Robin Bradbeer (eds.).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- Millimeter Wave Radar Visualization 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 Cord blood 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: -- Robotics for Agricultural Systems -- More Machine Vision Applications in the NCEA -- Index

Education.- Vision Techniques.- Vision Applications.- Robotic Techniques.- Medical Applications.- Agricultural applications.