Carlos Balaguer

Manuel Ferre

Martin Buss

Rafael Aracil

Claudio Melchiorri

A fascinating book that covers in detail all of the most recent advances in Telerobotics. A must-read for scientists, researchers and students in teleoperation, it describes everything from methods and experimental results to applications and developments. Its three sections cover human system interfaces, control, and applications.

Advances in Telerobotics

Markos Papageorgiou

Marion Leibold

Die vierte Auflage dieses gut eingführten Buches präsentiert eine breite Übersicht über statische, dynamische und stochastische Verfahren der Optimierungstheorie. Dazu gehören sowohl klassische (aber nach wie vor bedeutende) Optimierungsverfahren, die sich in der Anwendung bereits vielfach bewährt haben, als auch jüngere Entwicklungen, die für zukünftige Anwendungen besonders vielversprechend erscheinen. Bei einem Großteil der Verfahren werden mathematische Ableitungen und Hintergrundinformationen in verständlicher Form mitgeliefert; so ist im Zusammenhang mit der weiterführenden, spezialisierten Literatur ein vertieftes Studium der Sachverhalte erleichtert. Der Text beinhaltet viele Beispiele zur Veranschaulichung der Verfahrensweisen. Darüber hinaus enthalten einige Kapitel eine Anzahl anspruchsvoller Anwendungen mit praktischer Relevanz.

Statische, dynamische, stochastische Verfahren für die Anwendung

Optimierung

Nickie Stipe

Good Sex presents sexual ethics in the light of faith. Speaking on behalf of Christianity, Buss describes "love your neighbor as yourself" as the only Christian "rule"; it is a positive rule rather than one that focuses on prohibitions. Since this call is never fulfilled in practice, it is joined by forgiveness for oneself and others. More concrete guidelines need to be aided by "wisdom," which is not specifically Christian. Detailed biblical support is provided at the end. Stipe, a contemporary Pagan, advocates respect for all living things and doing no harm as a minimal ethical guide, leaving positive prescriptions to individual judgment. Buss and Stipe discuss details of sexual ethics in largely positive terms--what is good to do--but also with a concern for problems that should be avoided. They agree in many practical matters, just as Christians and Pagans did many years ago, before sexual equality became an ideal. They discuss various kinds of sex, including seeing and being seen, touching, masturbation, and penetration; different sexual identities; committed and uncommitted relationships, including the advisability of extended relations; having and raising children; abortion; and sensuous awareness in a spiritual setting.

A Christian and a Pagan Discuss Sexual Ethics

Good Sex

Rüdiger Dillmann

Gerhard Sagerer

Helge Ritter

Human Centered Robotic Systems must be able to interact with humans such that the burden of adaptation lies with the machine and not with the human. This book collates a set of prominent papers presented during a two-day conference on "Human Centered Robotic Systems" held on November 19-20, 2009, in Bielefeld University, Germany. The aim of the conference was to bring together researchers from the areas of robotics, computer science, psychology, linguistics, and biology who are all focusing on a shared goal of cognitive interaction. A survey of recent approaches, the current state-of-the-art, and possible future directions in this interdisciplinary field is presented. It provides practitioners and scientists with an up-to-date introduction to this dynamic field, with methods and solutions that are likely to significantly impact on our future lives.

Cognition, Interaction, Technology

Human Centered Robot Systems

Martin Buss

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