This book is the outcome of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Machine Intelligence and Knowledge Engineering for Robotic Applications held at Maratea, Italy in May 1986. It begins with a review of the basic concepts of computer vision, with emphasis on techniques specific for robot vision systems.

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.

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