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Table of Contents: “…A New Neuro-fuzzy Inference System for Insurance Forecasting -- Swarm Intelligence-based Approach for Macroscopic Scale Odor Source Localization Using Multi-robot System -- Quality Improvement of Vietnamese HMM-based Speech Synthesis System Based on Decomposition of Naturalness and Intelligibility Using Non-negative Matrix Factorization -- Predicting Early Crop Production by Analysing Prior Environment Factors -- An Evolutionary-based Term Reduction Approach to Bilingual Clustering of Malay-English Corpora -- Estimation Localization in Wireless Sensor Network Based on Multi-Objective Grey Wolf Optimizer -- New Block Ciphers for Wireless Mobile Networks -- Managing Secure Personal Mobile Health Information -- Design Adaptive-CTC Controller for Tracking Target Used Mobile Robot-pan Tilt-stereo Camera System -- A Study on Fitness Representation in Genetic Programming -- Comparing Modified PSO Algorithms for MRS in Unknown Environment Exploration -- Toward Cyber Security Architecture Framework.>.…”
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Table of Contents: “…About the Editors xv -- Preface xix -- Acronyms xxi -- Part I Methodologies 1 -- 1 Infrastructure Robotics: An Introduction 3 Dikai Liu and Gamini Dissanayake -- 1.1 Infrastructure Inspection and Maintenance 3 -- 1.2 Infrastructure Robotics 6 -- 1.2.1 Inspection and Maintenance of Steel Bridges 7 -- 1.2.2 Climbing and Wheeled Robots for Inspection of Truss Structures 8 -- 1.2.3 Robots for Underwater Infrastructure Maintenance 10 -- 1.3 Considerations in Infrastructure Robotics Research 11 -- 1.4 Opportunities and Challenges 13 -- 1.5 Concluding Remarks 15 -- Bibliography 15 -- 2 Design of Infrastructure Robotic Systems 19 Kenneth Waldron -- 2.1 Special Features of Infrastructure 19 -- 2.2 The Design Process 20 -- 2.3 Types of Robots and Their Design and Operation 21 -- 2.4 Software System Design 23 -- 2.5 An Example: Development of the CROC Design Concept 23 -- 2.6 Some Other Examples 27 -- 2.7 Actuator Systems 30 -- 2.8 Concluding Remarks 31 -- Bibliography 31 -- 3 Perception in Complex and Unstructured Infrastructure Environments 33 Shoudong Huang, Kai Pan, and Gamini Dissanayake -- 3.1 Introduction 33 -- 3.2 Sensor Description 35 -- 3.2.1 2D LiDAR 35 -- 3.2.2 3D LiDAR 35 -- 3.2.3 Sonar 36 -- 3.2.4 Monocular Camera 36 -- 3.2.5 Stereo Camera 36 -- 3.2.6 GRB-D Camera 37 -- 3.3 Problem Description 37 -- 3.4 Theoretical Foundations 38 -- 3.4.1 Extended Kalman Filter 39 -- 3.4.2 Nonlinear Least Squares 40 -- 3.4.3 Environment Representations 42 -- 3.4.4 Mapping Techniques 44 -- 3.4.5 Localization Techniques 47 -- 3.4.6 SLAM Techniques 49 -- 3.5 Implementation 53 -- 3.5.1 Localization 54 -- 3.5.2 Slam 54 -- 3.6 Case Studies 55 -- 3.6.1 Mapping in Confined Space 55 -- 3.6.2 Localization in Confined Space 55 -- 3.6.3 SLAM in Underwater Bridge Environment 56 -- 3.7 Conclusion and Discussion 56 -- Bibliography 57 -- 4 Machine Learning and Computer Vision Applications in Civil Infrastructure Inspection and Monitoring 59 Shuming Liang, Andy Guo, Bin Liang, Zhidong Li, Yu Ding, Yang Wang, and Fang Chen -- 4.1 Introduction 59 -- 4.2 GNN-Based Pipe Failure Prediction 60 -- 4.2.1 Background 60 -- 4.2.2 Problem Formulation 61 -- 4.2.3 Data Preprocessing 61 -- 4.2.4 GNN Learning 62 -- 4.2.5 Failure Pattern Learning 64 -- 4.2.6 Failure Predictor 65 -- 4.2.7 Experimental Study 65 -- 4.3 Computer Vision-Based Signal Aspect Transition Detection 67 -- 4.3.1 Background 67 -- 4.3.2 Signal Detection Model 67 -- 4.3.3 Track Detection Model 69 -- 4.3.4 Optimization for Target Locating 72 -- 4.4 Conclusion and Discussion 75 -- Bibliography 77 -- 5 Coverage Planning and Motion Planning of Intelligent Robots for Civil Infrastructure Maintenance 81 Mahdi Hassan and Dikai Liu -- 5.1 Introduction to Coverage and Motion Planning 81 -- 5.2 Coverage Planning Algorithms for a Single Robot 82 -- 5.2.1 An Offline Coverage Planning Algorithm 82 -- 5.2.2 A Real-Time Coverage Planning Algorithm 86 -- 5.3 Coverage Planning Algorithms for Multiple Robots 90 -- 5.3.1 Base Placement Optimization 90 -- 5.3.2 Area Partitioning and Allocation 93 -- 5.3.3 Adaptive Coverage Path Planning 97 -- 5.4 Conclusion 101 -- Bibliography 102 -- 6 Methodologies in Physical Human-Robot Collaboration for Infrastructure Maintenance 105 Marc G. …”
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