Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice, 2002 Book

	Self-Calibration of an Active Vision System for 3D Robot Vision	3
	Silicon Retina Sensing Guided by Omni-directional Vision	13
	Vision Guidance for a Climbing Cleaning Robot	23
	Measuring Flank Tool Wear on Cutting Tools with Machine Vision - A Case Solution	33
	A Floating Point Genetic Algorithm for Affine Invariant Matching of Object Shapes	41
	Programmable Focussing Mechanism for the Vision System of a Gold Wire Bonding Machine	55
	Using a Panoramic Camera for 3D Head Tracking in an AR Environment	63
	Fabric Defect Classification using Wavelet Frames and Minimum Classification Error-based Neural Network	77
	Multi-sensor Fusion in a Flexible Workcell Environment	87
	Active Control of Internal Turning Operations Using a Boring Bar	97
	Automatic Foundry Brake Disk Inspection through Different Computer Vision Techniques, Using a New 3d Calibration Approach	105
	Force-guided Compliant Motion in Robotic Assembly: Notch-locked Assembly Task	115
	A PVDF-based Micro-Newton Force Sensing System for Automated Micro-Manipulation	125
	Resolving the Tasks of the Dynamics for the Control of a Single-Planimetric Multimobile Manipulator	135
	Design and Control of a Parallel Robot Based on the Design for Control Approach	145
	ROCON - A Virtual Construction Kit, Visualization Tool and Remote Control System for Mechatronic Devices	153
	Development of a Novel Multi-module Manipulator System: Dynamic Model and Prototype Design	161
	On-line Evolution of a Robot Arm Control Program Using a Memorized Function	169
	Design of a Gravity Compensation System for Flexible Structure-mounted Manipulators	177
	Relay-based Friction Modeling Technique for Servo-Mechanical Systems	187
	Automated Micro-assembly of MEMS by Centrifugal Force	197
	An Efficient Distributive Tactile Sensor for Recognising Contacting Objects	205
	A Prototype Mechatronic System for Inspection of Date Fruits	213
	Visual Counting of Macadamia Nuts	221
	Machine Vision Application to Grading of White Pepper Berries	229
	Autonomous Agricultural Robot	237
	Fuzzy Multivariable Control of Meat Chiller	245
	Control of the Sugar Cane Harvester Topper	253
	A new Beacon Navigation System	263
	Space and Time Sensor Fusion and Multi-sensor Integration for Indoor Mobile Robot Navigation	271
	Multi-purpose Autonomous Robust Carrier for Hospitals (MARCH)	287
	Communication with an Underwater ROV Using Ultrasonic Transmission	295
	Reactive Agent Architecture for Underwater Robotics Vehicles	305
	Development of a Chinese Calligraphy Robot	315
	Automated People Counting Using Model Template Matching and Head Search	323
	Automatic Facial Expression Recognition for Human-Robot Interaction	333
	Development of an Expressive Social Robot	341
	Gesture Recognition for Commanding Robots with the Aid of Mechatronic Data-glove and Hidden Markov Model	349
	A Novel Mechatronic System for Non-Invasive Lumpectomy of the Breast Tissue	359
	Author Index	367
	Subject Index	371