Innovations in Intelligent Machines - 1 [electronic resource] / edited by Javaan Singh Chahl, Lakhmi C. Jain, Akiko Mizutani, Mika Sato-Ilic.

Intelligent Machines: An Introduction -- Predicting Operator Capacity for Supervisory Control of Multiple UAVs -- Team, Game, and Negotiation based Intelligent Autonomous UAV Task Allocation for Wide Area Applications -- UAV Path Planning Using Evolutionary Algorithms -- Evolution-based Dynamic Path Planning for Autonomous Vehicles -- Algorithms for Routing Problems Involving UAVs -- State Estimation for Micro Air Vehicles -- Evolutionary Design of a Control Architecture for Soccer-Playing Robots -- Toward Robot Perception through Omnidirectional Vision.

This book includes a collection of chapters on the state of art in the area of intelligent machines. This research would provide a sound basis to make autonomous systems human-like. The contributions include: An introduction to intelligent machines Supervisory control of multiple UAVs Intelligent autonomous UAV task allocation UAV path planning Dynamic path planning Routing in UAVS State estimation of micro air vehicles Architecture for soccer playing robots Robot perception Application engineers, scientists and researchers will find this book useful.