Recent Progress in Robotics: Viable Robotic Service to Human : An Edition of the Selected Papers from the 13th International Conference on Advanced Robotics

This volume is an edition of the papers selected from the 13th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, ICAR 2007, held in Jeju, Korea, August 22-25, 2007, with the theme: "Viable Robotics Service to Human." It is intended to deliver readers the most recent technical progress in robotics, in particular, toward the advancement of robotic service to human.