Machine Intelligence and Knowledge Engineering for Robotic Applications

I. Robot Vision.- Robot Vision.- 3-D Vision for Robot Applications.- On the Computation of Motion from a Sequence of Monocular or Stereo Images - An Overview.- Time Varying Image Analysis.- II. Knowledge Representation & Image Understanding.- Knowledge Representation for Robot Vision and Path Planning Using Attributed Graphs and Hypergraphs.- Knowledge-Based Systems for Robotic Applications.- Image Understanding for Robotic Applications.- III. Robot Control and Inference Systems.- Machine-Intelligent Robots: A Hierarchical Control Approach.- On the Application of Intelligent Planning Techniques in Industrial Robotics.- Analogical Reasoning by Intelligent Robots.- Knowledge-Based Real-Time Change Detection, Target Image Tracking & Threat Assessment.- IV. Task Planning and Expert Systems.- Task and Path Planning for Mobile Robots.- Task Planning and Control Synthesis for Flexible Assembly Systems.- MARS: An Expert Robot Welding System.- V. Software/Hardware Systems.- The Edinburgh Designer System as a Framework for Robotics.- Implementation of Complex Robot Subsystems on Distributed Computing Resources.- Autonomous Robot of the University of Karlsruhe.- VI. Poster Session.- Robotics Research at the Laboratory for Intelligent Systems, National Research Council of Canada.- VII. Future Directions IN Knowledge-Based Robotics.- VIII. List of Speakers.- IX. List of Participants.