About the Book
The volume consists of selected quality papers from six international conferences that are held under the umbrella of the 12th FIRA RoboWorld congress, in Incheon, Korea, August 16-18, 2009.
31 papers from 115 contributed papers at the FIRA RoboWorld Congress, held in Incheon, Korea, August 16-18, were included in the volume. It is organized in 7 sections: emotions and behaviour, human robot interaction, biped humanoid robotics, localization, path planning, obstacle avoidance, control, communication, terrain mapping and classification. The volume is intended to provide readers with the recent technical progresses in robotics, human robot interactions, cooperative robotics and the related fields.