Brain, Body and Machine [electronic resource] : Proceedings of an International Symposium on the Occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the McGill University Centre for Intelligent Machines / edited by Jorge Angeles, Benoit Boulet, James J. Clark, Jzsef Kȵvecses, Kaleem Siddiqi.

Force and Visual Control for Safe Human-Robot Interaction -- 3D Automatic Segmentation of the Hippocampus Using Wavelets with Applications to Radiotherapy Planning -- Rigid Registration of 3D Ultrasound and MRI: Comparing Two Approaches on Nine Tumor Cases -- A New Approach to Virtual Mirroring for View Integration -- Designing a Metric for the Difference between Gaussian Densities -- Physical Asymmetries and Brightness Perception -- A Learning-Based Patient Repositioning Method from Limited-Angle Projections -- Image and Video Region Saliency Based on Space and Motion -- Generalized PCA via the Backward Stepwise Approach in Image Analysis -- Performance of MRF-Based Stereo Algorithms for Cluttered Scenes -- Medial Spheres for Shape Approximation -- A Heuristic Algorithm for Slicing in the Rapid Freeze Prototyping of Sculptured Bodies -- Robust Design of 2nd Order Terminal ILC Using ?-Analysis and a Genetic Algorithm Approach -- Development of an Anthropomorphic Saxophone-Playing Robot -- Human Safety Algorithms for a Parallel Cable-Driven Haptic Interface -- Hybrid Stabilizing Control for the Spatial Double Inverted Pendulum -- Closed-Loop Control of Plasma Osmolality -- Cooperative Exploration, Localization, and Visual Map Construction -- Sliding-Mode Velocity and Yaw Control of a 4WD Skid-Steering Mobile Robot -- On the Design and Validation of an Intelligent Powered Wheelchair: Lessons from the SmartWheeler Project -- Devon Island as a Proving Ground for Planetary Rovers -- Leader-Follower Cucker-Smale Type Flocking Synthesized via Mean Field Stochastic Control Theory -- Dynamic Locomotion with a Wheeled-Legged Quadruped Robot -- Underactuated Cable-Driven Robots: Machine, Control and Suspended Bodies -- Computing the Rigid-Body Acceleration Field from Nine Accelerometer Measurements -- Singularity Analysis of a Six-Dof Parallel Manipulator Using Grassmann-Cayley Algebra and Grȵbner Bases.

On the occasion of its 25th anniversary, McGill University's Centre for Intelligent Machines (CIM) invited outstanding researchers from academia and R\&D environments to discuss the state of the art in research areas of interest to CIM. The response is documented in the papers assembled here, under the umbrella of the {\em International Symposium on Brain, Body and Machine}, held in Montreal on November 10--13, 2010. Areas of interest include heuristic algorithms, computer vision, medical imaging, haptics, human-machine interaction, systems and control, robot design and control, and multibody system dynamics. Applications cover a roadspectrum, from shape identification and reconstruction to drug-dose regulation and body-motion detection and control. Contributors come from research laboratories based all over the world, not only from academia, but also from government agencies and industry.

ZDB-2-ENG