Table of contents

The following topics are dealt with: vision and image-processing; omnidirectional vision; sensor-motor control; distributed sensor networks; self-localization and navigation; mobile robots and humanoids; multi-agent systems; multi-robot systems planning; reasoning and modeling; cooperation and collaboration; adversarial planning; heterogeneous agents; learning and adaptive systems simulation and visualization; disaster rescue information systems; adjustable autonomy; system integration and software engineering; real-time and concurrent programming; speech synthesis and natural language generation; search and rescue robots; biologically-inspired robots; embedded and mobile hardware; computer and robotic entertainment; robot soccer; and robots as a motivation tool for children.