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ICRA 2005: Barcelona, Spain
- Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2005, April 18-22, 2005, Barcelona, Spain. IEEE 2005

Humanoids I
- Bram Vanderborght

, Björn Verrelst, Ronald Van Ham, Jimmy Vermeulen, Dirk Lefeber:
Dynamic Control of a Bipedal Walking Robot actuated with Pneumatic Artificial Muscles. 1-6 - Andrej Olensek, Zlatko Matjacic:

Further Steps Toward More Human-like Passive Bipedal Walking Robots. 7-11 - Loredana Zollo

, Eugenio Guglielmelli
, Giancarlo Teti, Cecilia Laschi
, Selim Eskiizmirliler, Franck Carenzi, Patrice Bendahan, Philippe Gorce
, Marc A. Maier, Yves Burnod, Paolo Dario:
A Bio-inspired Neuro-Controller for an Anthropomorphic Head-Arm Robotic System. 12-17 - Masafumi Okada, Kenta Osato, Yoshihiko Nakamura:

Motion Emergency of Humanoid Robots by an Attractor Design of a Nonlinear Dynamics. 18-23
Vision/Slam I
- Niklas Karlsson

, Enrico Di Bernardo, James P. Ostrowski, Luis Goncalves, Paolo Pirjanian, Mario E. Munich:
The vSLAM Algorithm for Robust Localization and Mapping. 24-29 - John Folkesson

, Patric Jensfelt, Henrik I. Christensen
:
Vision SLAM in the Measurement Subspace. 30-35 - Juan Manuel Sáez, Francisco Escolano Ruiz:

Entropy Minimization SLAM Using Stereo Vision. 36-43 - Luis Goncalves, Enrico Di Bernardo, Dave Benson, Marcus Svedman, James P. Ostrowski, Niklas Karlsson

, Paolo Pirjanian:
A Visual Front-end for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping. 44-49
Telepresence
- Koichiro Hayashi, Yasuyoshi Yokokohji

, Tsuneo Yoshikawa:
Tele-existence Vision System with Image Stabilization for Rescue Robots. 50-55 - Iwaki Toshima, Shigeaki Aoki:

Effect of driving delay with an acoustical tele-presence robot, TeleHead. 56-61 - Norman P. Jouppi, Stan Thomas:

Telepresence Systems With Automatic Preservation of User Head Height, Local Rotation, and Remote Translation. 62-68 - Jianbo Su, Zhiwei Luo:

Incremental Motion Compression for Telepresent Walking Subject to Spatial Constraints. 69-74
Multi Robot Communication
- Jingtai Liu, Lei Sun, Tao Chen, Xingbo Huang, Chunying Zhao:

Competitive Multi-robot Teleoperation. 75-80 - Antonio D'Angelo, Enrico Pagello

:
Making Collective Behaviours to work through Implicit Communication. 81-86 - Saumitra M. Das, Y. Charlie Hu, C. S. George Lee, Yung-Hsiang Lu:

An Efficient Group Communication Protocol for Mobile Robots. 87-92 - Saumitra M. Das, Y. Charlie Hu, C. S. George Lee, Yung-Hsiang Lu:

Efficient Unicast Messaging for Mobile Robots. 93-98
Multi Robot Planning
- Leng-Feng Lee, Rajankumar Bhatt, Venkat Krovi

:
Comparison of Alternate Methods for Distributed Motion Planning of Robot Collectives within a Potential Field Framework. 99-104 - Myoungkuk Park, Woojin Chung, Munsang Kim:

Experimental Research of a Passive Multiple Trailer System for Backward Motion Control. 105-110 - Grigoris Lionis, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos

:
Motion Planning Algorithms for a Group of Micro-Robots Carrying an Object. 111-116 - Robert Fitch

, Zack J. Butler, Daniela Rus:
Reconfiguration Planning Among Obstacles for Heterogeneous Self-Reconfiguring Robots. 117-124
Object Recognition
- Sara Mitri

, Simone Frintrop, Kai Pervölz, Hartmut Surmann, Andreas Nüchter
:
Robust Object Detection at Regions of Interest with an Application in Ball Recognition. 125-130 - Gerald Fritz, Christin Seifert

, Lucas Paletta
:
Urban Object Recognition from Informative Local Features. 131-137 - Maryam Mahdaviani, Nando de Freitas, Bob Fraser, Firas Hamze:

Fast Computational Methods for Visually Guided Robots. 138-143 - Philip Blackwell, David J. Austin:

Fast Appearance Based Object Recognition: A Hybrid Approach. 144-149
Nanorobots I
- Micky Rakotondrabe, Yassine Haddab, Philippe Lutz:

Step Modelling of a High Precision 2DoF (Linear-Angular) Microsystem. 150-156 - Khalid El Rifai, Osamah M. El-Rifai, Kamal Youcef-Toumi

:
Modeling and Control of AFM-based Nano-manipulation Systems. 157-162 - Jiangbo Zhang, Guangyong Li

, Ning Xi:
Modeling and Control of Active End Effector for the AFM Based Nano Robotic Manipulators. 163-168 - Heping Chen, Ning Xi, Guangyong Li

, Jiangbo Zhang, Mathew Prokos:
Planning and Control for Automated Nanorobotic Assembly. 169-174
Underwater Robots I
- Jinhyun Kim

, Jonghui Han, Wan Kyun Chung, Junku Yuh, Pan-Mook Lee:
Accurate and Practical Thruster Modeling for Underwater Vehicles. 175-180 - AnnMarie Polsenberg Thomas, Michele Milano, Maxwell Grazier G'Sell, Kathleen Fischer, Joel W. Burdick:

Synthetic Jet Propulsion for Small Underwater Vehicles. 181-187 - Jin-Kyu Choi, Hiroshi Sakai, Toshinari Tanaka:

Autonomous Towed Vehicle for Underwater Inspection in a Port Area. 188-193 - Bartolomé Garau, Alberto Alvarez

, Gabriel Oliver
:
Path Planning of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles in Current Fields with Complex Spatial Variability: an A* Approach. 194-198
Surgical Robots I
- Shuxin Wang, Jienan Ding, Jintian Yun, Qunzhi Li, Baoping Han:

A Robotic System with Force Feedback for Micro-Surgery. 199-204 - Florian Gosselin, Catherine Bidard

, Julien Brisset:
Design of a High Fidelity Haptic Device for Telesurgery. 205-210 - Pierre Maillet, Bertin Nahum, Lucien Blondel, Philippe Poignet

, Etienne Dombre:
BRIGIT, a Robotized Tool Guide for Orthopedic Surgery. 211-216 - Ming Li, Russell H. Taylor:

Performance of Surgical Robots with Automatically Generated Spatial Virtual Fixtures. 217-222
Actuators I
- Kenji Tahara

, Zhi Wei Luo, Suguru Arimoto, Hitoshi Kino
:
Task-space Feedback Control for A Two-link Arm Driven by Six Muscles with Variable Damping and Elastic Properties. 223-228 - Mehrdad R. Kermani, Rajnikant V. Patel

, Mehrdad Moallem:
A High Authority Piezoelectric Stack Actuator for Structurally Flexible Mechanisms. 229-234 - Jose Riofrio, Eric J. Barth

:
Design of a Free Piston Pneumatic Compressor as a Mobile Robot Power Supply. 235-240 - Bobby Shields, Michael Goldfarb:

Design and Energetic Characterization of a Solenoid Injected Liquid Monopropellant Powered Actuator for Self-Powered Robots. 241-246
Control I
- Yizhar Or

, Elon Rimon
:
Computation and Graphical Characterization of Robust Multiple-Contact Postures in 2D Gravitational Environments. 247-252 - Motoji Yamamoto, Eiji Honda, Akira Mohri:

Safe Automatic Emergency Stop Control of Gantry Crane Including Moving Obstacles in Its Workspace. 253-258 - Peter Soetens, Herman Bruyninckx:

Realtime Hybrid Task-Based Control for Robots and Machine Tools. 259-264 - Manel Velasco

, Pau Martí, Manel Frigola
:
Bandwidth Management for Distributed Control of Highly Articulated Robots. 265-270
Petri Nets I and Scheduling
- Fernando Tricas, Fernando García-Vallés, José Manuel Colom

, Joaquin Ezpeleta
:
A Petri Net Structure- Based Deadlock Prevention Solution for Sequential Resource Allocation Systems. 271-277 - Jingshan Li, Dennis Blumenfeld:

Analysis of Andon Type Transfer Production Lines: A Quantitative Approach. 278-283 - Luz E. Pinzon, Mohsen A. Jafari, Ardavan Amini, Hans-Michael Hanisch:

Modeling Admissible Behavior Using Event Signals. 284-291 - Jingang Yi, Shengwei Ding, Dezhen Song

:
Steady-State Throughput and Scheduling Analysis of Multi-Cluster Tools for Semiconductor Manufacturing: A Decomposition Approach. 292-298
Humanoids II
- Sylvain Calinon, Florent Guenter, Aude Billard

:
Goal-Directed Imitation in a Humanoid Robot. 299-304 - Tomomichi Sugihara, Yoshihiko Nakamura:

A Fast Online Gait Planning with Boundary Condition Relaxation for Humanoid Robots. 305-310 - Jörg Moldenhauer, Ingo Boesnach, Thomas Beth, Veit Wank, Klaus Bös:

Analysis of Human Motion for Humanoid Robots. 311-316 - Xiaoping Yun, Conrado Aparicio, Eric R. Bachmann, Robert B. McGhee:

Implementation and Experimental Results of a Quaternion-Based Kalman Filter for Human Body Motion Tracking. 317-322
Slam / Estimation
- Juan Andrade-Cetto

, Teresa A. Vidal-Calleja
, Alberto Sanfeliu
:
Unscented Transformation of Vehicle States in SLAM. 323-328 - Udo Frese

:
A Proof for the Approximate Sparsity of SLAM Information Matrices. 329-335 - José E. Guivant

, Favio R. Masson
:
Using Absolute Non-Gaussian Non-White Observations in Gaussian SLAM. 336-341 - Emma Brunskill, Nicholas Roy:

SLAM using Incremental Probabilistic PCA and Dimensionality Reduction. 342-347
Teleoperation I
- Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

, Günter Niemeyer:
Modeling Induced Master Motion in Force-Reflecting Teleoperation. 348-353 - Neal A. Tanner, Günter Niemeyer:

Improving Perception in Time Delayed Teleoperation. 354-359 - Dongjun Lee, Mark W. Spong:

Bilateral Teleoperation of Multiple Cooperative Robots over Delayed Communication Networks: Theory. 360-365 - Dongjun Lee, Oscar Martinez-Palafox, Mark W. Spong:

Bilateral Teleoperation of Multiple Cooperative Robots over Delayed Communication Networks: Application. 366-371
Multi Robot Coordination
- Gustavo Montemayor, John T. Wen:

Decentralized Collaborative Load Transport by Multiple Robots. 372-377 - Yi Li, Kamal Gupta, Shahram Payandeh:

Motion Planning of Multiple Agents in Virtual Environments using Coordination Graphs. 378-383 - Rui P. Rocha

, Jorge Dias
, Adriano Carvalho
:
Cooperative Multi-Robot Systems A study of Vision-based 3-D Mapping using Information Theory. 384-389 - Yunyuan Gao, Wei Wei:

A New Multi-Robot Self-Determination Cooperation Method Based on Immune Agent Network. 390-395
Planning I
- Mikhail M. Svinin, Igor Goncharenko, Zhi Wei Luo, Shigeyuki Hosoe:

Reaching Movements in Dynamic Environments: How Do We Move Flexible Objects? 396-403 - Roland Geraerts

, Mark H. Overmars:
Reachability Analysis of Sampling Based Planners. 404-410 - Houssem Abdellatif, Bodo Heimann:

Adapted Time-Optimal Trajectory Planning for Parallel Manipulators with Full Dynamic Modelling. 411-416 - Xanthi S. Papageorgiou

, Savvas G. Loizou
, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
:
Motion Planning and Trajectory Tracking on 2-D Manifolds embedded in 3-D Workspaces. 417-422
Pose Estimation
- Alexis H. Rivera-Ríos, Fai-Lung Shih, Michael M. Marefat:

Stereo Camera Pose Determination with Error Reduction and Tolerance Satisfaction for Dimensional Measurements. 423-428 - Ola Dahl, Fredrik Nyberg, Jan Holst, Anders Heyden

:
Linear Design of a Nonlinear Observer for Perspective Systems. 429-435 - Omar Tahri, François Chaumette

:
Complex Objects Pose Estimation based on Image Moment Invariants. 436-441 - Zhiguang Zhong, Jianqiang Yi, Dongbin Zhao

:
Pose Estimation and Structure Recovery from Point Pairs. 442-447
Micro Robots I
- Guangyong Li

, Ning Xi, Donna H. Wang:
Functionalized Nano-Robot End Effector for in situ Sensing and Manipulation of Biological Specimen. 448-453 - Andrew P. Shacklock, Sun Wenting:

Integrating Microscope and Perspective Views. 454-459 - Benjamin Potsaid, Yves Bellouard

, John T. Wen:
Design of an Adaptive Scanning Optical Microscope for Simultaneous Large Field of View and High Resolution. 460-465 - Guangzhong Wu, Jianfeng Li, Renyuan Fei, Xinhua Wang, Dezhong Liu:

Analysis and Design of A Novel Micro-Dissection Manipulator Based on Ultrasonic Vibration. 466-471
Tube/Tunnel Inspection
- Agostino De Santis, Bruno Siciliano

, Luigi Villani
:
Fuzzy Trajectory Planning and Redundancy Resolution for a Fire Fighting Robot Operating in Tunnels. 472-477 - Hongjun Chen, Weihua Sheng, Ning Xi, Jindong Tan:

Motion Control of a Micro Biped Robot for Nondestructive Structure Inspection. 478-483 - Geoffrey A. Hollinger, Jeri Briscoe:

Genetic Optimization and Simulation of a Piezoelectric Pipe-Crawling Inspection Robot. 484-489 - Alberto Brunete

, Miguel Hernando
, Ernesto Gambao:
Modular Multiconfigurable Architecture for Low Diameter Pipe Inspection Microrobots. 490-495
Surgical Robots II
- Ulrich Seibold, Bernhard Kübler, Gerd Hirzinger:

Prototype of Instrument for Minimally Invasive Surgery with 6-Axis Force Sensing Capability. 496-501 - Kanako Harada, Kota Tsubouchi

, Toshio Chiba, Masakatsu G. Fujie:
Micro Manipulators for Intrauterine Fetal Surgery in an Open MRI. 502-507 - Marie-Aude Vitrani

, Guillaume Morel, Tobias Ortmaier:
Automatic Guidance of a Surgical Instrument with Ultrasound Based Visual Servoing. 508-513 - Florent Nageotte, Philippe Zanne, Michel de Mathelin, Christophe Doignon:

A Circular Needle Path Planning Method for Suturing in Laparoscopic Surgery. 514-519
Soft Actuators
- Daisuke Sasaki, Toshiro Noritsugu, Masahiro Takaiwa:

Development of Active Support Splint driven by Pneumatic Soft Actuator (ASSIST). 520-525 - Giovanni Tonietti, Riccardo Schiavi, Antonio Bicchi:

Design and Control of a Variable Stiffness Actuator for Safe and Fast Physical Human/Robot Interaction. 526-531 - Kenjiro Takemura

, Shinichi Yokota, Kazuya Edamura:
A Micro Artificial Muscle Actuator using Electro-conjugate Fluid. 532-537 - Yasuhiro Hayakawa, Shunmugham R. Pandian:

Development of a Hybrid Element by using Sponge Core Soft Rubber Actuator. 538-543
Nonlinear Control
- Ming-Li Chiang, Yuan-Ming Chan, Li-Chen Fu

:
Integration of Supervisory and Nonlinear Control for a Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning System. 544-549 - Pooya Sekhavat, Nariman Sepehri, Christine Qiong Wu:

Overall Stability Analysis of Hydraulic Actuator's Switching Contact Control Using the Concept of Lyapunov Exponents. 550-556 - Maolin Jin

, Sang-Hoon Kang
, Pyung Hun Chang, Eunjeong Lee:
Nonlinear Bang-Bang Impact Control: A Seamless Control in All Contact Modes. 557-564 - Kiam Tian Seow, Ming Gai, Tong Lee Lim:

A Temporal Logic Specification Interface for Automata-Theoretic Finitary Control Synthesis. 565-571
Manufacturing Tools
- Prasad N. Atkar, Aaron Greenfield, David C. Conner, Howie Choset, Alfred A. Rizzi:

Hierarchical Segmentation of Surfaces Embedded in R3 for Auto-Body Painting. 572-577 - Quan Shi, Ning Xi, Heping Chen, Yifan Chen:

Integrated Process for Measurement of Free-Form Automotive Part Surface Using a Digital Area Sensor. 578-583 - Ren C. Luo, Cheng Lung Chang, Jyh Hwa Tzou, Zhong Hong Huang:

Automated Desktop Manufacturing: Direct Metallic Rapid Tooling System. 584-589 - Binayak Roy, H. Harry Asada:

Design of a Reconfigurable Robot Arm for Assembly Operations inside an Aircraft Wing-Box. 590-595
Humanoids Walking
- Gen Endo, Jun Nakanishi, Jun Morimoto, Gordon Cheng

:
Experimental Studies of a Neural Oscillator for Biped Locomotion with QRIO. 596-602 - Yu Ogura, Taruo Kataoka, Hiroyuki Aikawa, Kazushi Shimomura, Hun-ok Lim, Atsuo Takanishi:

Evaluation of Various Walking Patterns of Biped Humanoid Robot. 603-608 - Fumihiko Asano, Sang-Ho Hyon, Zhi Wei Luo:

Parametric Excitation Mechanisms for Dynamic Bipedal Walking. 609-615 - Shuuji Kajita, Takashi Nagasaki, Kenji Kaneko, Kazuhito Yokoi, Kazuo Tanie:

A Running Controller of Humanoid Biped HRP-2LR. 616-622 - Kei Okada, Takashi Ogura, Atsushi Haneda, Masayuki Inaba:

Autonomous 3D Walking System for a Humanoid Robot based on Visual Step Recognition and 3D Foot Step Planner. 623-628 - Joel E. Chestnutt, Manfred Lau, German K. M. Cheung, James Kuffner, Jessica K. Hodgins, Takeo Kanade:

Footstep Planning for the Honda ASIMO Humanoid. 629-634
Slam / Consistency
- Paul M. Newman, Kin Leong Ho:

SLAM-Loop Closing with Visually Salient Features. 635-642 - Michael Kaess

, Frank Dellaert:
A Markov Chain Monte Carlo Approach to Closing the Loop in SLAM. 643-648 - Viet Nguyen, Agostino Martinelli, Roland Siegwart

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Handling the Inconsistency of Relative Map Filter. 649-654 - Cyrill Stachniss

, Giorgio Grisetti
, Wolfram Burgard:
Recovering Particle Diversity in a Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filter for SLAM After Actively Closing Loops. 655-660 - Robert Sim, Nicholas Roy:

Global A-Optimal Robot Exploration in SLAM. 661-666 - Kurt Konolige:

SLAM via Variable Reduction from Constraint Maps. 667-672
Teleoperation II
- Igor R. Belousov, Sviatoslav Chebukov, Victor V. Sazonov:

Web-based Teleoperation of the Robot Interacting with Fast Moving Objects. 673-678 - Zhiwei Cen, Amit Goradia, Matt W. Mutka

, Ning Xi, Wai-Keung Fung
, Yun-Hui Liu:
Improving the Operation Efficiency of Supermedia Enhanced Internet Based Teleoperation via an Overlay Network. 679-684 - Alessandro Casavola, Michela Sorbara:

Towards Constrained Teleoperation for Safe Long-Distance Robotic Surgical Operations. 685-690 - Bong Keun Kim, Manabu Miyazaki, Kohtaro Ohba, Shigeoki Hirai, Kazuo Tanie:

Web Services Based Robot Control Platform for Ubiquitous Functions. 691-696 - Hyung-Soon Park, Pyung Hun Chang, Jonghyun Kim:

Significance of Causality Analysis for Transparent Teleoperation. 697-702 - Ali Shahdi, Shahin Sirouspour:

Multiple Model Control for Teleoperation in Unknown Environments. 703-708
Multi Robot Exploration and Coverage
- Keith J. O'Hara, Victor Bigio, Eric R. Dodson, Arya Irani, Daniel Walker, Tucker R. Balch:

Physical Path Planning Using the GNATs. 709-714 - Shuzhi Sam Ge

, Cheng-Heng Fua:
Complete Multi-Robot Coverage of Unknown Environments with Minimum Repeated Coverage. 715-720 - Gale L. Paulsen, Shane Farritor, Terry Huntsberger, Hrand Aghazarian:

All Terrain Exploration with the Cliff-bot System. 721-726 - Kjerstin Easton, Joel W. Burdick:

A Coverage Algorithm for Multi-robot Boundary Inspection. 727-734 - Noam Hazon

, Gal A. Kaminka:
Redundancy, Efficiency and Robustness in Multi-Robot Coverage. 735-741 - John R. Spletzer, Rafael Fierro:

Optimal Positioning Strategies for Shape Changes in Robot Teams. 742-747
Grasping I
- Staffan Ekvall, Danica Kragic:

Grasp Recognition for Programming by Demonstration. 748-753 - Efraín Lopez-Damian

, Daniel Sidobre, Rachid Alami
:
A Grasp Planner Based On Inertial Properties. 754-759 - Takayoshi Yamada, Toshinori Ooba, Tomoya Yamamoto, Nobuharu Mimura, Yasuyuki Funahashi:

Grasp Stability Analysis of Two Objects in Two Dimensions. 760-765 - Jordi Cornellà, Raúl Suárez:

Fast and Flexible Determination of Force-Closure Independent Regions to Grasp Polygonal Objects. 766-771 - Jae-Sook Cheong, A. Frank van der Stappen

:
Output-Sensitive Computation of All Form-Closure Grasps of a Semi-Algebraic Set. 772-778 - Thanathorn Phoka, Peam Pipattanasomporn, Nattee Niparnan, Attawith Sudsang:

Regrasp Planning of Four-Fingered Hand for Parallel Grasp of a Polygonal Object. 779-784
Stereo Vision + Heads
- Teppei Tsujita, Atsushi Konno, Masaru Uchiyama:

Design and Development of a High Speed Binocular Camera Head. 785-792 - Sota Shimizu, Shinsuke Shimojo, Hao Jiang, Joel W. Burdick:

Machine Vision System to Induct Binocular Wide-Angle Foveated Information into Both the Human and Computers - Feature Generation Algorithm based on DFT for Binocular Fixation -. 793-799 - El Mustapha Mouaddib, Ryusuke Sagawa, Tomio Echigo, Yasushi Yagi:

Stereovision with a Single Camera and Multiple Mirrors. 800-805 - Shun Nishide, Tomohito Takubo, Kenji Inoue, Tatsuo Arai:

Wide-Area Recognition Using Hybrid Motion Stereo. 806-811 - Darius Burschka, Gregory D. Hager:

Vision-Based 3D Scene Analysis for Driver Assistance. 812-818 - Abhijit S. Ogale, Yiannis Aloimonos:

Robust Contrast Invariant Stereo Correspondence. 819-824
Micro Robots II
- Atsushi Mitani, Naoto Sugano, Shinichi Hirai

:
Micro-Parts Feeding by a Saw-tooth Surface. 825-831 - Lining Sun, Hui Xie

, Weibin Rong, Liguo Chen:
Task-Reconfigurable System for MEMS Assembly. 832-837 - Hisataka Maruyama, Fumihito Arai, Toshio Fukuda:

Laser Manipulation and Fabrication of Functional Microtool Using Photo-crosslinkable Resin. 838-843 - Jordi Brufau, Manel Puig-Vidal

, Jaime López-Sánchez
, Josep Samitier, Walter Driesen, Jean-Marc Breguet, Niklas Snis, Urban Simu, Stefan Johansson, Thomas Velten:
MICRON: Small Autonomous Robot for Cell Manipulation Applications. 844-849 - Yves Bellouard

, Ali A. Said, Mark Dugan, Philippe Bado:
High Accuracy Micro-Displacement Sensor With Integrated Optics-based Detection Means. 850-854 - Lixin Dong

, Bradley J. Nelson, Toshio Fukuda, Fumihito Arai, Masahiro Nakajima:
Towards Linear Nano Servomotors with Integrated Position Sensing. 855-860
All-Terrain Robots I
- Moshe P. Mann, Zvi Shiller:

Dynamic Stability of a Rocker Bogie Vehicle: Longitudinal Motion. 861-866 - Pierre Lamon, Roland Siegwart

:
Wheel Torque Control in Rough Terrain - Modeling and Simulation. 867-872 - David Wettergreen

, Nathalie Cabrol, James P. Teza, Paul Tompkins, Chris Urmson, Vandi Verma, Michael Wagner, William Whittaker:
First Experiments in the Robotic Investigation of Life in the Atacama Desert of Chile. 873-878 - Aria Alasty

, Hodjat Pendar:
Equations of Motion of a Single-Wheel Robot in a Rough Terrain. 879-884 - Roland Lenain, Benoît Thuilot, Christophe Cariou

, Philippe Martinet
:
Model Predictive Control for Vehicle Guidance in Presence of Sliding: Application to Farm Vehicles Path Tracking. 885-890 - Mattia Castelnovi, Ronald C. Arkin, Thomas R. Collins:

Reactive Speed Control System Based on Terrain Roughness Detection. 891-896
Surgical Robots III
- Daniel Aarno, Staffan Ekvall, Danica Kragic:

Adaptive Virtual Fixtures for Machine-Assisted Teleoperation Tasks. 897-903 - Aiko Yoshizawa, Jun Okamoto, Hiroshi Yamakawa, Masakatsu G. Fujie:

Robot Surgery based on the Physical Properties of the Brain - Physical Brain Model for Planning and Navigation of a Surgical Robot-. 904-911 - Ana Luisa Trejos

, Rajnikant V. Patel
:
Port Placement for Endoscopic Cardiac Surgery Based on Robot Dexterity Optimization. 912-917 - Mehdi Ammi, Antoine Ferreira:

Realistic Visual and Haptic Rendering for Biological-Cell Injection. 918-923 - Yan Bailly, Yacine Amirat:

Modeling and Control of a Hybrid Continuum Active Catheter for Aortic Aneurysm Treatment. 924-929 - Christopher Plaskos

, Philippe Cinquin, Antony J. Hodgson, Stéphane Lavallée:
Safety and Accuracy Considerations in Developing a Small Sterilizable Robot for Orthopaedic Surgery. 930-935
Parallel Manipulators I
- John E. McInroy, Farhad Jafari

, John F. O'Brien:
Tri-Symmetric Orthogonal Gough-Stewart Platforms. 936-941 - Jean-Pierre Merlet, David Daney:

Dimensional Synthesis of Parallel Robots with a Guaranteed Given Accuracy over a Specific Workspace. 942-947 - Andreas Müller:

Internal Preload Control of redundantly actuated Parallel Manipulators - Backlash avoiding Control. 948-953 - John F. O'Brien, Farhad Jafari

, John T. Wen:
Self-Motion in Spatial Parallel Mechanisms with More Than Three Legs. 954-959 - Josep M. Porta

, Lluís Ros, Federico Thomas:
On the Trilaterable Six-Degree-of-Freedom Parallel and Serial Manipulators. 960-967 - Lu Ren, James K. Mills, Dong Sun

:
Controller Design Applied to Planar Parallel Manipulators For Trajectory Tracking Control. 968-973
Special Control Techniques I
- Chien-Chern Cheah

, De Qun Wang:
Region Reaching Control of Robots: Theory and Experiments. 974-979 - John F. O'Brien, Farhad Jafari, John T. Wen:

Self-Motion in Spatial Parallel Mechanisms with More Than Three Legs. 980-986 - Yong Zhu, Eric J. Barth

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Impedance Control of a Pneumatic Actuator for Contact Tasks. 987-992 - Eftychios G. Christoforou

, Christopher J. Damaren:
A Passivity- Based Control Case Study of Flexible- Link Manipulators. 993-998 - Alessandro De Luca

, Raffaella Mattone:
Sensorless Robot Collision Detection and Hybrid Force/Motion Control. 999-1004 - Jorge Angeles:

The Degree of Freedom of Parallel Robots: A Group-Theoretic Approach. 1005-1012
Manipulation
- Tetsuyou Watanabe

, Kensuke Harada
, Zhongwei Jiang, Tsuneo Yoshikawa:
Object Manipulation under Hybrid Active/Passive Closure. 1013-1020 - Konstantinos Varsos, Hyungpil Moon, Jonathan E. Luntz:

Generation of Quadratic Force Fields from Potential Flow Fields for Distributed Manipulation. 1021-1027 - Hidefumi Wakamatsu, Kousaku Takahashi, Shinichi Hirai

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Dynamic Modeling of Linear Object Deformation based on Differential Geometry Coordinates. 1028-1033 - Yasuhiro Yamada, Yoshiaki Komura:

Reaction Force Inspection System Using Neural Network Classifier. 1034-1039 - Eiichi Yoshida, Pierre Blazevic, Vincent Hugel:

Pivoting Manipulation of a Large Object: A Study of Application using Humanoid Platform. 1040-1045 - Russell Gayle, Ming C. Lin, Dinesh Manocha

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Constraint-Based Motion Planning of Deformable Robots. 1046-1053
Humanoid Motion Planning
- Yisheng Guan, Kazuhito Yokoi, Kazuo Tanie:

Feasibility: Can Humanoid Robots Overcome Given Obstacles? 1054-1059 - Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba, Hirochika Inoue:

Real-time and Precise Self Collision Detection System for Humanoid Robots. 1060-1065 - Jens-Steffen Gutmann, Masaki Fukuchi, Masahiro Fujita:

A Floor and Obstacle Height Map for 3D Navigation of a Humanoid Robot. 1066-1071 - Fumio Kanehiro, Takashi Yoshimi, Shuuji Kajita, Mitsuharu Morisawa, Kiyoshi Fujiwara, Kensuke Harada

, Kenji Kaneko, Hirohisa Hirukawa, Fumiaki Tomita:
Whole Body Locomotion Planning of Humanoid Robots based on a 3D Grid Map. 1072-1078 - Nirut Naksuk, C. S. George Lee:

Utilization of Movement Prioritization for Whole-Body Humanoid Robot Trajectory Generation. 1079-1084
Slam and Navigation
- W. Sardha Wijesoma, Kwang Wee Lee, Javier Ibañez-Guzmán:

Motion Constrained Simultaneous Localization and Mapping in Neighbourhood Environments. 1085-1090 - Shoudong Huang

, Ngai Ming Kwok, Gamini Dissanayake
, Quang Phuc Ha, Gu Fang
:
Multi-Step Look-Ahead Trajectory Planning in SLAM: Possibility and Necessity. 1091-1096 - Michael Milford

, Gordon F. Wyeth
, David Prasser:
Efficient Goal Directed Navigation using RatSLAM. 1097-1102 - Albert Diosi, Geoffrey R. Taylor, Lindsay Kleeman

:
Interactive SLAM using Laser and Advanced Sonar. 1103-1108 - Ngai Ming Kwok, Gamini Dissanayake

, Quang Phuc Ha:
Bearing-only SLAM Using a SPRT Based Gaussian Sum Filter. 1109-1114
Teleoperation III
- Rangsarit Vanijjirattikhan

, Mo-Yuen Chow, Peter Tamas Szemes
, Hideki Hashimoto:
Mobile Agent Gain Scheduler Control in Inter-Continental Intelligent Space. 1115-1120 - Wentao Yu, Redwan Alqasemi, Rajiv V. Dubey, Norali Pernalete:

Telemanipulation Assistance Based on Motion Intention Recognition. 1121-1126 - Xiaoguang Wang, Peter Xiaoping Liu, Brahim Chebbi, David Wang, Max Q.-H. Meng:

Design of Bilateral Teleoperators for Soft Environments with Adaptive Environmental Impedance Estimation. 1127-1132 - Shahin Sirouspour:

Robust Control Design for Cooperative Teleoperation. 1133-1138 - Daniel Aarno, Staffan Ekvall, Danica Kragic:

Adaptive Virtual Fixtures for Machine-Assisted Teleoperation Tasks. 1139-1144
Multi Agent Task Allocation I
- Liu Lin, Zhiqiang Zheng:

Combinatorial Bids based Multi-robot Task Allocation Method. 1145-1150 - Jeff G. Schneider, David Apfelbaum, Drew Bagnell, Reid G. Simmons

:
Learning Opportunity Costs in Multi-Robot Market Based Planners. 1151-1156 - Fei Zhang, Weidong Chen, Yugeng Xi:

Improving Collaboration through Fusion of Bid Information for Market-based Multi-robot Exploration. 1157-1162 - Rosemary Emery-Montemerlo, Geoffrey J. Gordon, Jeff G. Schneider, Sebastian Thrun:

Game Theoretic Control for Robot Teams. 1163-1169 - Nidhi Kalra, Dave Ferguson, Anthony Stentz:

Hoplites: A Market-Based Framework for Planned Tight Coordination in Multirobot Teams. 1170-1177
Grasping II
- Jan Rosell

, Xavier Sierra, Leopold Palomo, Raúl Suárez:
Finding Grasping Configurations of a Dexterous Hand and an Industrial Robot. 1178-1183 - César Fernández Peris, Óscar Reinoso

, Maria Asunción Vicente
, Rafael Aracil:
Kinematic Redundancy in Robot Grasp Synthesis. An Efficient Tree-based Representation. 1184-1189 - Qunzhi Li, Shuxin Wang, Jintian Yun, Dan Liu, Baoping Han:

Haptic Device with Gripping Force Feedback. 1190-1195 - Suguru Arimoto, Ryuta Ozawa, Morio Yoshida:

Two-Dimensional Stable Blind Grasping under the Gravity Effect. 1196-1202
Panoramic Stereovision
- José-Joel González-Barbosa, Simon Lacroix:

Fast Dense Panoramic Stereovision. 1210-1215 - René Vidal:

Multi-Subspace Methods for Motion Segmentation from Affine, Perspective and Central Panoramic Cameras. 1216-1221 - Radu Orghidan, El Mustapha Mouaddib, Joaquim Salvi

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Omnidirectional Depth Computation from a Single Image. 1222-1227 - Kazuaki Kondo, Yasushi Yagi, Masahiko Yachida:

Non-isotropic Omnidirectional Imaging System for an Autonomous Mobile Robot. 1228-1233 - Nicholas D. Jankovic, Michael D. Naish

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Developing a Modular Active Spherical Vision System. 1234-1239
Micro Robots III
- Bram Lambrecht, Andrew D. Horchler

, Roger D. Quinn:
A Small, Insect-Inspired Robot that Runs and Jumps. 1240-1245 - Naoko Ogawa, Hiromasa Oku, Koichi Hashimoto

, Masatoshi Ishikawa:
Dynamics Model of Paramecium Galvanotaxis for Microrobotic Application. 1246-1251 - Erik Steltz, Robert J. Wood, Srinath Avadhanula, Ronald S. Fearing

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Characterization of the Micromechanical Flying Insect by Optical Position Sensing. 1252-1257 - Ranjana Sahai, Erik Steltz, Ronald S. Fearing

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Carbon Fiber Components with Integrated Wiring for Millirobot Prototyping. 1258-1263 - Michael A. Greminger, Bradley J. Nelson:

A Deformable Object Tracking Algorithm Robust to Occlusions and Spurious Edges. 1264-1269
All-Terrain Robots II
- Wisama Khalil, Guillaume Gallot, Ouarda Ibrahim, Frédéric Boyer:

Dynamic Modeling of a 3-D Serial Eel-Like Robot. 1270-1275 - Hideyuki Tsukagoshi, Masashi Sasaki, Ato Kitagawa, Takahiro Tanaka:

Design of a Higher Jumping Rescue Robot with the Optimized Pneumatic Drive. 1276-1283 - Shigeo Hirose, Shingo Yokota, Akinori Torii, Masaru Ogata, Shin'ichi Suganuma, Kensuke Takita, Keisuke Kato:

Quadruped Walking Robot Centered Demining System - Development of TITAN-IX and its Operation-. 1284-1290 - Takashi Kubota, Hiroo Takahashi, Kojiro Iizuka:

Analysis on Weight Arrangement Scheme to Reduce the Weight of Multi-Legged Robot. 1291-1296 - Takashi Kubota, Ichiro Nakatani, Keisuke Watanabe, Shingo Shimoda:

Study on Mole-Typed Deep Driller Robot for Subsurface Exploration. 1297-1302
Micro-Medical Robots
- Jiwoon Kwon, Sukho Park, Byungkyu Kim, Jong-Oh Park:

Bio-Material Property Measurement System for Locomotive Mechanism in Gastro-Intestinal Tract. 1303-1308 - Arianna Menciassi, Samuele Gorini, Andrea Moglia

, G. Pernorio, Cesare Stefanini
, Paolo Dario:
Clamping Tools of a Capsule for Monitoring the Gastrointestinal Tract Problem Analysis and Preliminary Technological Activity. 1309-1314 - Louis Phee

, Di Xiao, John Yuen, Chee Fatt Chan, Henry Sun Sien Ho, Choon Hua Thng, Christopher Wai Sam Cheng, Wan Sing Ng:
Ultrasound Guided Robotic System for Transperineal Biopsy of the Prostate. 1315-1320 - Youngin Kim, Geunho Lee

, Sukho Park, Byungkyu Kim, Jong-Oh Park, Jin-Ho Cho:
Pressure Monitoring System in Gastro-Intestinal Tract. 1321-1326 - Gábor Kósa, Moshe Shoham, Menashe Zaaroor:

Propulsion of a Swimming Micro Medical Robot. 1327-1331
SMA Actuators
- Masashi Nakatani

, Hiroyuki Kajimoto, Kevin Vlack, Dairoku Sekiguchi, Naoki Kawakami, Susumu Tachi:
Control Method for a 3D Form Display with Coil-type Shape Memory Alloy. 1332-1337 - Leslie J. Flemming, Stephen A. Mascaro:

Control of Scalable Wet SMA Actuator Arrays. 1338-1343 - Ramiro Velazquez

, Edwige E. Pissaloux, Moustapha Hafez, Jérôme Szewczyk:
Miniature Shape Memory Alloy Actuator for Tactile Binary Information Display. 1344-1349 - Brian Selden, Kyu-Jin Cho

, H. Harry Asada:
Multi-Segment State Coordination for Reducing Latency Time of Shape Memory Alloy Actuator Systems. 1350-1355 - Kyu-Jin Cho

, H. Harry Asada:
Multi-Axis SMA Actuator Array for Driving Anthropomorphic Robot Hand. 1356-1361
Control II
- Shubhi Purwar, Indra Narayan Kar

, Amar Nath Jha:
Adaptive Control Of Robot Manipulators Using CNN Under Actuator Constraints. 1362-1367 - Hui Xie

, Liguo Chen, Lining Sun, Weibin Rong:
Hybrid Vision-Force Control for Automatic Assembly of Miniaturized Gear System. 1368-1373 - Yuxin Su, Dong Sun

, Lu Ren, Xiaoyun Wang, James K. Mills:
Nonlinear PD Synchronized Control for Parallel Manipulators. 1374-1379 - Katsuya Kanaoka, Mitsunori Uemura:

Virtual Power Limiter System which Guarantees Stability of Control Systems. 1380-1386 - Alin Albu-Schäffer

, Christian Ott
, Gerd Hirzinger:
Constructive Energy Shaping Based Impedance Control for a Class of Underactuated Euler-Lagrange Systems. 1387-1393
Transport
- Gregory P. Starr, John E. Wood, Ronald Lumia:

Rapid Transport of Suspended Payloads. 1394-1399 - Satoshi Hoshino, Jun Ota

, Akiko Shinozaki, Hideki Hashimoto:
Optimal Design, Evaluation, and Analysis of AGV Transportation Systems Based on Various Transportation Demands. 1400-1406 - Dietrich Brunn, Uwe D. Hanebeck:

A Model-Based Framework for Optimal Measurements in Machine Tool Calibration. 1407-1412 - Chandan Pitta, Michael M. Marefat:

Intelligent Retrieval and Reuse of CAD Solid Models. 1413-1418 - Bo Xiong, Peter B. Luh, Shi-Chung Chang:

Group Elevator Scheduling with Advanced Traffic Information for Normal Operations and Coordinated Emergency Evacuation. 1419-1424
Humanoids III
- Myron A. Diftler, Robert O. Ambrose, S. M. Goza, Kim S. Tyree, Eric Huber:

Robonaut Mobile Autonomy: Initial Experiments. 1425-1430 - Jung-Yup Kim, Ill-Woo Park, Jungho Lee, Min-Su Kim, Baek-Kyu Cho, Jun-Ho Oh:

System Design and Dynamic Walking of Humanoid Robot KHR-2. 1431-1436 - Kotaro Fukui, Kazufumi Nishikawa, Toshiharu Kuwae, Hideaki Takanobu

, Takemi Mochida, Masaaki Honda, Atsuo Takanishi:
Development of a New Human-like Talking Robot for Human Vocal Mimicry. 1437-1442 - Sang-Ho Hyon, Takashi Emura:

Symmetric Walking Control: Invariance and Global Stability. 1443-1450
Localization
- Gianluca Ippoliti

, Leopoldo Jetto, Alessia La Manna, Sauro Longhi
:
Improving the Robustness Properties of Robot Localization Procedures with Respect to Environment Features Uncertainties. 1451-1458 - Charles Q. Little, Ralph Peters:

Simulated Mobile Self-Location Using 3D Range Sensing and an A-Priori Map. 1459-1464 - Gianluca Antonelli

, Stefano Chiaverini
:
Experimental Odometry Calibration of the Mobile Robot Khepera II Based on the Least-Squares Technique. 1465-1470 - Bernd Gaßmann, Franziska Zacharias, Johann Marius Zöllner, Rüdiger Dillmann:

Localization of Walking Robots. 1471-1476
Human Robot Interaction I
- Shun'ichi Yamamoto, Jean-Marc Valin, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Jean Rouat, François Michaud, Tetsuya Ogata

, Hiroshi G. Okuno
:
Enhanced Robot Speech Recognition Based on Microphone Array Source Separation and Missing Feature Theory. 1477-1482 - Kazuhiro Nakadai, Hiroshi Tsujino:

Towards New Human-Humanoid Communication: Listening During Speaking by Using Ultrasonic Directional Speaker. 1483-1488 - Jonathan Fiene, Günter Niemeyer:

Toward High-Speed Switching Motor Control for Human-Interactive Robotics. 1489-1494 - Hossein Mobahi, Majid Nili Ahmadabadi, Babak Nadjar Araabi

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Concept Oriented Imitation Towards Verbal Human-Robot Interaction. 1495-1500
Multi Agent Task Allocation II
- Fang Tang, Lynne E. Parker

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ASyMTRe: Automated Synthesis of Multi-Robot Task Solutions through Software Reconfiguration. 1501-1508 - Patricio Nebot, Enric Cervera

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Agent-based Application Framework for Multiple Mobile Robots Cooperation. 1509-1514 - Robert Zlot, Anthony Stentz:

Complex Task Allocation For Multiple Robots. 1515-1522 - Alessandro Farinelli

, Luca Iocchi
, Daniele Nardi
, Vittorio A. Ziparo:
Task Assignment with Dynamic Perception and Constrained Tasks in a Multi-Robot System. 1523-1528
Manipulation Planning I
- Luis Miguel Muñoz

, Alicia Casals
, Josep Amat, Manel Puig-Vidal
, Josep Samitier:
Improved AFM Scanning Methodology with Adaptation to the Target Shape. 1529-1534 - Raoul Zöllner, Michael Pardowitz, Steffen Knoop, Rüdiger Dillmann:

Towards Cognitive Robots: Building Hierarchical Task Representations of Manipulations from Human Demonstration. 1535-1540 - Jürgen Acker, Dominik Henrich:

Manipulation of Deformable Linear Objects: From Geometric Model Towards Program Generation. 1541-1547 - Krzysztof Tchon, Janusz Jakubiak

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An Extended Jacobian Inverse Kinematics Algorithm for Doubly Nonholonomic Mobile Manipulators. 1548-1553
3D Tracking I
- Ville Kyrki

, Danica Kragic:
Integration of Model-based and Model-free Cues for Visual Object Tracking in 3D. 1554-1560 - Davide Scaramuzza

, Stefano Pagnottelli, Paolo Valigi
:
Ball Detection and Predictive Ball Following Based on a Stereoscopic Vision System. 1561-1566 - Yoshihiro Nakabo, Toshiharu Mukai, Yusuke Hattori, Yoshinori Takeuchi, Noboru Ohnishi:

Variable Baseline Stereo Tracking Vision System Using High-Speed Linear Slider. 1567-1572
Robot Design I
- Srinath Avadhanula, Ronald S. Fearing

:
Flexure Design Rules for Carbon Fiber Microrobotic Mechanisms. 1579-1584 - Huat Kin Low, W. K. Loh, Jorge Angeles, Heng Wang:

Motion Study of an Omni-Directional Rover for Step Climbing. 1585-1590 - Woosub Lee, Sungchul Kang, Munsang Kim, Kyungchal Shin:

Rough Terrain Negotiable Mobile Platform with Passively Adaptive Double-Tracks and Its Application to Rescue Missions. 1591-1596 - Sachin Chitta, Peng Cheng, Emilio Frazzoli, Vijay Kumar:

RoboTrikke: A Novel Undulatory Locomotion System. 1597-1602
Underwater Robots II
- Iuliu Vasilescu, Paulina Varshavskaya, Keith Kotay, Daniela Rus:

Autonomous Modular Optical Underwater Robot (AMOUR) Design, Prototype and Feasibility Study. 1603-1609 - Filoktimon Repoulias, Evangelos Papadopoulos:

Trajectory Planning and Tracking Control of Underactuated AUVs. 1610-1615 - Stephen C. Martin, Louis L. Whitcomb

, Roland Arsenault, Matthew Plumlee
, Colin Ware:
A System for Real-Time Spatio-Temporal 3-D Data Visualization in Underwater Robotic Exploration. 1616-1623 - Joseph T. Napoli, Tzyh Jong Tarn, James R. Morrow, Edgar An:

Optimal Communication Control for Cooperative Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Networks. 1624-1631
Robot-Assisted Needle Insertion
- Yo Kobayashi

, Jun Okamoto, Masakatsu G. Fujie:
Physical Properties of the Liver and the Development of an Intelligent Manipulator for Needle Insertion. 1632-1639 - Ron Alterovitz, Kenneth Y. Goldberg

, Allison M. Okamura
:
Planning for Steerable Bevel-tip Needle Insertion Through 2D Soft Tissue with Obstacles. 1640-1645 - Matt Heverly, Pierre E. Dupont

, John K. Triedman:
Trajectory Optimization for Dynamic Needle Insertion. 1646-1651 - Nobuhiko Hata, Ryuji Hashimoto, Junichi Tokuda

, Shigeo Morikawa:
Needle Guiding Robot for MR-guided Microwave Thermotherapy of Liver Tumor using Motorized Remote-Center-of-Motion Constraint. 1652-1656
Sensors
- Yong Yu, Tetsu Arima, Showzow Tsujio:

Estimation of Object Inertia Parameters on Robot Pushing Operation. 1657-1662 - Surya P. N. Singh, Kenneth J. Waldron:

Attitude Estimation for Dynamic Legged Locomotion Using Range and Inertial Sensors. 1663-1668 - Shaun Edwards, Adam J. Rutkowski, Roger D. Quinn, Mark A. Willis:

Moth-Inspired Plume Tracking Strategies In Three-Dimensions. 1669-1674 - Andrea Bonarini

, Matteo Matteucci, Marcello Restelli
:
Automatic Error Detection and Reduction for an Odometric Sensor based on Two Optical Mice. 1675-1680
Industrial Robot Control + Dynamics
- Basilio Bona

, Aldo Curatella:
Identification of Industrial Robot Parameters for Advanced Model-Based Controllers Design. 1681-1686 - John Michael Daly, Howard M. Schwartz:

Non-Linear Adaptive Output Feedback Control of Robot Manipulators. 1687-1693 - Farhad Aghili

, Mehrzad Namvar
:
Adaptive Control of Manipulators Using Uncalibrated Joint-Torque Sensing. 1694-1699 - Friedrich Lange, Gerd Hirzinger:

Stability Preserving Sensor-Based Control for Robots with Positional Interface. 1700-1705
Humanoids IV
- Tomohito Takubo, Kenji Inoue, Tatsuo Arai:

Pushing an Object Considering the Hand Reflect Forces by Humanoid Robot in Dynamic Walking. 1706-1711 - Kensuke Harada

, Shuuji Kajita, Hajime Saito, Mitsuharu Morisawa, Fumio Kanehiro, Kiyoshi Fujiwara, Kenji Kaneko, Hirohisa Hirukawa:
A Humanoid Robot Carrying a Heavy Object. 1712-1717 - Luis Sentis

, Oussama Khatib:
Control of Free-Floating Humanoid Robots Through Task Prioritization. 1718-1723 - Jonghoon Park, Youngil Youm, Wan Kyun Chung:

Control of Ground Interaction at the Zero-Moment Point for Dynamic Control of Humanoid Robots. 1724-1729
Mapping and Learning
- Óscar Martínez Mozos

, Cyrill Stachniss
, Wolfram Burgard:
Supervised Learning of Places from Range Data using AdaBoost. 1730-1735 - Chaomin Luo

, Simon X. Yang
, Max Q.-H. Meng:
Real-time Map Building and Area Coverage in Unknown Environments. 1736-1741 - X. Zhuang:

The Strategy Entropy of Reinforcement Learning for Mobile Robot Navigation in Complex Environments. 1742-1747 - Sven Fleck, Florian Busch, Peter Biber, Henrik Andreasson, Wolfgang Straßer:

Omnidirectional 3D Modeling on a Mobile Robot using Graph Cuts. 1748-1754
Haptic Interfaces
- Ken'ichi Koyanagi

, Tomoko Morita, Junji Furusho:
Basic Algorithm of Controlling Passive Force Display System with Redundant Brakes. 1755-1760 - Ki-Uk Kyung, Seung-Woo Son, Gi-Hun Yang

, Dong-Soo Kwon:
How to Effectively Display Surface Properties Using an Integrated Tactile Display System. 1761-1766 - Yucong Lu, Lingqi Zeng, Gary M. Bone

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Multisensor System for Safer Human-Robot Interaction. 1767-1772 - Simone Marcheschi, Antonio Frisoli, Carlo Alberto Avizzano

, Massimo Bergamasco
:
A Method for Modeling and Control Complex Tendon Transmissions in Haptic Interfaces. 1773-1778
Multi Robot Formations
- Amit Agarwal, Meng-Hiot Lim, Meng Joo Er:

Proportional Partition of Holed Rectilinear Region amongst Multiple URAVs. 1779-1784 - Magnus Lindhé, Petter Ögren, Karl Henrik Johansson

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Flocking with Obstacle Avoidance: A New Distributed Coordination Algorithm Based on Voronoi Partitions. 1785-1790 - Tove Gustavi, Xiaoming Hu

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Formation Control for Mobile Robots with Limited Sensor Information. 1791-1796 - Stephen Kloder, Seth Hutchinson

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Path Planning for Permutation-Invariant Multi-Robot Formations. 1797-1802
Path Planning I
- Jan Rosell

, Pedro Iñiguez
:
Path planning using Harmonic Functions and Probabilistic Cell Decomposition. 1803-1808 - Shigeru Sarata, Weerakamhaeng Yossawee, Takashi Tsubouchi:

Approach Path Generation to Scooping Position for Wheel Loader. 1809-1814 - Jen-Hui Chuang, Chien-Chou Lin, Jau Hong Kao, Cheng-Tieng Hsieh:

A Potential-Based Path Planning of Articulated Robots with 2-DOF Joints. 1815-1820 - Marin Kobilarov, Gaurav S. Sukhatme:

Near Time-optimal Constrained Trajectory Planning on Outdoor Terrain. 1821-1828
Tracking I
- Zhen Jia, Arjuna P. Balasuriya, Subhash Challa:

Sensor Fusion based 3D Target Visual Tracking for Autonomous Vehicles with IMM. 1829-1834 - Andrew P. Shacklock, Sun Wenting:

Ephemera: Tracking of Motion in Microscope Views. 1835-1840 - Charles Bibby, Ian D. Reid

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Visual Tracking at Sea. 1841-1846 - Dana Cobzas, Martin Jägersand:

Tracking and Predictive Display for a Remote Operated Robot using Uncalibrated Video. 1847-1852
3D Tracking II
- Peter Gemeiner, Markus Vincze:

Motion and Structure Estimation from Vision and Inertial Sensor Data with High Speed CMOS Camera. 1853-1858 - Sukhan Lee, Jongmoo Choi, Seungmin Baek, Byungchan Jung, Changsik Choi, Hunmo Kim, Jeongtaek Oh, Seungsub Oh, DaeSik Kim, Jaekeun Na:

A 3D IR Camera with Variable Structured Light for Home Service Robots. 1859-1864 - Janelcy Alferes

, Eduardo Zalama Casanova
, Jaime Gómez García-Bermejo
:
Reconstruction of Three Dimensional Models of Environments with a Mobile Robot. 1865-1870 - Youngrock Yoon, Akio Kosaka, Jae Byung Park, Avinash C. Kak:

A New Approach to the Use of Edge Extremities for Model-based Object Tracking. 1871-1877
Flying: Applications
- Khaled Kaaniche

, Benjamin Champion, Claude Pégard, Pascal Vasseur:
A Vision Algorithm for Dynamic Detection of Moving Vehicles with a UAV. 1878-1883 - Luis Merino

, Fernando Caballero
, J. Ramiro Martinez de Dios
, Aníbal Ollero:
Cooperative Fire Detection using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. 1884-1889 - Kaustubh Pathak, Sunil Kumar Agrawal:

An Integrated Spatial Path-planning and Controller Design Approach for a Hover-mode Helicopter Model. 1890-1895 - Makoto Kumon, Ikuro Mizumoto, Zenta Iwai, Masanobu Nagata:

Wind Estimation by Unmanned Air Vehicle with Delta Wing. 1896-1901
Medical Robotics
- Yongmin Zhong

, Bijan Shirinzadeh, Gürsel Alici
, Julian Smith
:
A New Methodology for Deformable Object Simulation. 1902-1907 - Richard A. Andersen, Sam Musallam, Joel W. Burdick, Jorge G. Cham:

Cognitive Based Neural Prosthetics. 1908-1913 - Juan Camilo Moreno Sastoque, Fernando J. Brunetti

, José Luis Pons Rovira, José M. Baydal, Ricard Barberà:
Rationale for Multiple Compensation of Muscle Weakness Walking with a Wearable Robotic Orthosis. 1914-1919 - Edward A. Branchaud, Jorge G. Cham, Zoran Nenadic

, Richard A. Andersen, Joel W. Burdick:
A Miniature Robot for Autonomous Single Neuron Recordings. 1920-1926
Contact Force Dynamics and Control
- Hiroshi Noborio, Tetsuya Kodama, Kyoichiro Yoshida, Syuhei Kitayama:

Experimental Impulse-Momentum-Based Dynamic Simulation for Rigid Bodies with Simultaneous Contacts. 1927-1934 - Takahiro Inoue, Shinichi Hirai

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Quasi-Static Manipulation with Hemispherical Soft Fingertip via Two Rotational Fingers. 1935-1940 - Yusuke Maeda

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On the Possibility of Excessive Internal Forces on Manipulated Objects in Robotic Contact Tasks. 1941-1946 - Aaron Greenfield, Alfred A. Rizzi, Howie Choset:

Dynamic Ambiguities in Frictional Rigid-body Systems with Application to Climbing via Bracing. 1947-1952
Control Architecture
- Matthias Salmen, Paul-Gerhard Plöger:

Echo State Networks used for Motor Control. 1953-1958 - Sang Chul Ahn, Jin Hak Kim, Kiwoong Lim, Heedong Ko, Yong-Moo Kwon, Hyoung-Gon Kim:

UPnP Approach for Robot Middleware. 1959-1963 - Yuan-hsin Kuo, Bruce A. MacDonald:

A Distributed Real-time Software Framework for Robotic Applications. 1964-1969 - Stefano Caselli

, Francesco Monica, Monica Reggiani
:
YARA: A Software Framework Enhancing Service Robot Dependability. 1970-1976
Biped Locomotion I
- Yutaka Mikuriya, Hiroyuki Sunazuka, Kenji Hashimoto, Yusuke Sugahara

, Masamiki Kawase, Hun-ok Lim, Takuya Hosobata, Atsuo Takanishi:
Walking Control Method of Biped Locomotors on Inclined Plane. 1977-1982 - Steven H. Collins, Andy Ruina

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A Bipedal Walking Robot with Efficient and Human-Like Gait. 1983-1988 - Taku Komura, Howard Leung

, Shunsuke Kudoh, James Kuffner:
A Feedback Controller for Biped Humanoids that Can Counteract Large Perturbations During Gait. 1989-1995 - Muhammad E. Abdallah, Ambarish Goswami:

A Biomechanically Motivated Two-Phase Strategy for Biped Upright Balance Control. 1996-2001 - Dalila Djoudi

, Christine Chevallereau
, Yannick Aoustin:
Optimal Reference Motions for Walking of a Biped Robot. 2002-2007 - Kojiro Matsushita, Max Lungarella, Chandana Paul, Hiroshi Yokoi:

Locomoting with Less Computation but More Morphology. 2008-2013
Navigation and Planning
- Yoav Gabriely, Elon Rimon

:
CBUG: A Quadratically Competitive Mobile Robot Navigation Algorithm. 2014-2019 - Georgios E. Fainekos

, Hadas Kress-Gazit, George J. Pappas
:
Temporal Logic Motion Planning for Mobile Robots. 2020-2025 - Denis F. Wolf, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Dieter Fox, Wolfram Burgard:

Autonomous Terrain Mapping and Classification Using Hidden Markov Models. 2026-2031 - Jennifer Carlson, Robin R. Murphy, Svetlana Chistopher, Jennifer Casper:

Conflict Metric as a Measure of Sensing Quality. 2032-2039 - Enrique González, Oscar Álvarez, Yul Díaz, Carlos Parra, César Bustacara

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BSA: A Complete Coverage Algorithm. 2040-2044 - Dave Ferguson, Anthony Stentz:

The Delayed D* Algorithm for Efficient Path Replanning. 2045-2050
Tracking People
- Pramila Rani, Nilanjan Sarkar:

Operator Engagement Detection and Robot Behavior Adaptation in Human-Robot Interaction. 2051-2056 - Kynan Eng

, Matti Mintz, Paul F. M. J. Verschure
:
Collective Human Behavior in Interactive Spaces. 2057-2062 - Taigun Lee, Sung-Kee Park, Mignon Park:

A New Facial Features and Face Detection Method for Human-Robot Interaction. 2063-2068 - Yukie Nagai:

The Role of Motion Information in Learning Human-Robot Joint Attention. 2069-2074 - Ludovic Brethes, Frédéric Lerasle, Patrick Danès:

Data Fusion for Visual Tracking dedicated to Human-Robot Interaction. 2075-2080 - Wojciech Zajdel, Zoran Zivkovic, Ben J. A. Kröse:

Keeping Track of Humans: Have I Seen This Person Before? 2081-2086
Mobile Robot Applications I
- Gregory J. Barlow, Leonardo S. Mattos

, Edward Grant, Choong K. Oh:
Transference of Evolved Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Controllers to a Wheeled Mobile Robot. 2087-2092 - Liping Zhang, Shugen Ma, Bin Li, Guowei Zhang, Xinyuan He, Minghui Wang, Zheng Zhang, Binggang Cao:

Locomotion Analysis and Experiment for Climbing Motion of RPRS. 2093-2098 - Ali Baghani, Majid Nili Ahmadabadi, Ahad Harati

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Kinematics Modeling of a Wheel-Based Pole Climbing Robot (UT-PCR). 2099-2104 - Matthew Dunbabin

, Jonathan M. Roberts, Kane Usher, Graeme J. Winstanley, Peter I. Corke
:
A Hybrid AUV Design for Shallow Water Reef Navigation. 2105-2110 - Laura E. Ray

, Alexander D. Price, Alexander D. Streeter, Daniel Denton, James H. Lever:
The Design of a Mobile Robot for Instrument Network Deployment in Antarctica. 2111-2116 - Aaron Morris, David Silver, David I. Ferguson, Scott Thayer:

Towards Topological Exploration of Abandoned Mines. 2117-2123
Path Planning II
- Brendan Burns, Oliver Brock:

Single-Query Entropy-Guided Path Planning. 2124-2129 - Mark Moll

, Lydia E. Kavraki
:
Path Planning for Variable Resolution Minimal-Energy Curves of Constant Length. 2130-2135 - Moslem Kazemi, Mehran Mehrandezh, Kamal Gupta:

An Incremental Harmonic Function-based Probabilistic Roadmap Approach to Robot Path Planning. 2136-2141 - Jan Rosell

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Sampling SE(3) with a Deterministic Sequence for 3D Rigid-Body Path Planning. 2142-2147 - Stavros G. Vougioukas

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Optimization of Robot Paths Computed by Randomized Planners. 2148-2153 - Giuseppe Oriolo

, Christian Mongillo:
Motion Planning for Mobile Manipulators along Given End-effector Paths. 2154-2160
Vision Based Control I
- Selim Benhimane, Ezio Malis, Patrick Rives, José R. Azinheira

:
Vision-based Control for Car Platooning using Homography Decomposition. 2161-2166 - Tobias Ortmaier, Marie-Aude Vitrani

, Guillaume Morel, Samuel Pinault:
Robust Real-Time Instrument Tracking in Ultrasound Images for Visual Servoing. 2167-2172 - Benedetto Allotta

, Duccio Fioravanti:
3D Motion Planning for Image-Based Visual Servoing Tasks. 2173-2178 - Shih-Shinh Huang, Li-Chen Fu

, Pei-Yung Hsiao:
A Region-Level Motion-Based Background Modeling and Subtraction Using MRFs. 2179-2184 - Rahul Rao, Vijay Kumar, Camillo J. Taylor:

Planning and Control of Mobile Robots in Image Space from Overhead Cameras. 2185-2190 - Adriano Fagiolini

, Hitoshi Arisumi, Antonio Bicchi:
Visual-based Feedback Control of Casting Manipulation. 2191-2196
Outdoor Sensing I
- Songhwai Oh, Luca Schenato

, Shankar Sastry:
A Hierarchical Multiple-Target Tracking Algorithm for Sensor Networks. 2197-2202 - John Tuley, Nicolas Vandapel, Martial Hebert:

Analysis and Removal of Artifacts in 3-D LADAR Data. 2203-2210 - Ben Grocholsky, Rahul Swaminathan, James Keller, Vijay Kumar, George J. Pappas

:
Information Driven Coordinated Air-Ground Proactive Sensing. 2211-2216 - Maan E. El Najjar, Philippe Bonnifait

:
Towards an Estimate of Confidence in a Road-Matched Location. 2217-2222 - Pietro Cerri

, Paolo Grisleri:
Free Space Detection on Highways using Time Correlation between Stabilized Sub-pixel precision IPM Images. 2223-2228 - Guillermo Heredia

, Aníbal Ollero, Rajesh Mahtani, Manuel Béjar
, Volker Remuß, Marek Musial:
Detection of Sensor Faults in Autonomous Helicopters. 2229-2234
Flying: Design
- Dong Sun

, Huai-yu Wu, Rong Zhu, Ling Che Hung:
Development of Micro Air Vehicle Based on Aerodynamic Modeling Analysis in Tunnel Tests. 2235-2240 - Kane Usher, Graeme J. Winstanley, Peter I. Corke

, Dirk Stauffacher, Ryan Carnie:
Air Vehicle Simulator: an Application for a Cable Array Robot. 2241-2246 - Samir Bouabdallah, Roland Siegwart

:
Backstepping and Sliding-mode Techniques Applied to an Indoor Micro Quadrotor. 2247-2252 - Masaki Hamamoto, Yoshiji Ohta, Keita Hara, Toshiaki Hisada:

Design of Flexible Wing for Flapping Flight by Fluid-Structure Interaction Analysis. 2253-2258 - Yasmina Bestaoui

:
Characterization of non Trim Trajectories of an Autonomous Underactuated Airship in a Low Velocity Flight. 2259-2264 - Alexandra Moutinho

, José R. Azinheira
:
Stability and Robustness Analysis of the AURORA Airship Control System using Dynamic Inversion. 2265-2270
Rehabilitation Robots
- Eduardo Rocon de Lima

, Andrés Felipe Ruiz Olaya, José Luis Pons Rovira, José M. Belda-Lois, Javier Sánchez-Lacuesta:
Rehabilitation Robotics: a Wearable Exo-Skeleton for Tremor Assessment and Suppression. 2271-2276 - Roman Kamnik, Tadej Bajd, John Williamson, Roderick Murray-Smith

:
Rehabilitation Robot Cell for Multimodal Standing-Up Motion Augmentation. 2277-2282 - Jason Nikitczuk, Brian Weinberg, Constantinos Mavroidis:

RehAbilitative Knee Orthosis Driven by Electro-Rheological Fluid Based Actuators. 2283-2289 - Jungwon Yoon

, Jeha Ryu:
A Novel Reconfigurable Ankle/Foot Rehabilitation Robot. 2290-2295 - Kazuo Kiguchi, Mohammad Rahman, Takefumi Yamaguchi:

Adaptation Strategy for the 3DOF Exoskeleton for Upper-Limb Motion Assist. 2296-2301 - Masahiro Takaiwa, Toshiro Noritsugu:

Development of Wrist Rehabilitation Equipment Using Pneumatic Parallel Manipulator. 2302-2307
Fingers
- Takahiro Inoue, Shinichi Hirai

:
Local Minimum of Elastic Potential Energy on Hemispherical Soft Fingertip. 2308-2313 - Sébastien Krut:

A Force-Isotropic Underactuated Finger. 2314-2319 - Lionel Birglen, Clément Gosselin

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Fuzzy Enhanced Control of an Underactuated Finger Using Tactile and Position Sensors. 2320-2325 - Takayuki Matsuno, Kensaku Kanada, Fumihito Arai, Hideo Matsuura, Toshio Fukuda:

Strategy of Picking Up Thin Plate by Robot Hand Using Deformation of Soft Fingertip. 2326-2331 - Jun Ueda, Yutaka Ishida, Masahiro Kondo, Tsukasa Ogasawara

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Development of the NAIST-Hand with Vision-based Tactile Fingertip Sensor. 2332-2337 - Attawith Sudsang, Thanathorn Phoka:

Geometric Reformulation of 3-Fingered Force-Closure Condition. 2338-2343
Special Control Techniques II
- Francesco Nori

, Ruggero Frezza:
Control of a Manipulator with a Minimum Number of Motion Primitives. 2344-2349 - Behzad Dariush:

Analysis and Simulation of an Exoskeleton Controller that Accommodates Static and Reactive Loads. 2350-2355 - Ming Meng, ZhongCheng Wu, Yong Yu, Yu Ge, YunJian Ge:

Design and Characterization of a Six-axis Accelerometer. 2356-2361 - Gioel Asuni, Giancarlo Teti, Cecilia Laschi

, Eugenio Guglielmelli
, Paolo Dario:
A Robotic Head Neuro-controller Based on Biologically-Inspired Neural Models. 2362-2367 - Daniel F. Schmidt, Andrew P. Paplinski

, Gordon S. Lowe:
Adaptive Control of Hydraulic Systems with MML Inferred RBF Networks. 2368-2374 - Chong Hui Kim, Byung Kook Kim:

Energy-Saving 3-Step Velocity Control Algorithm for Battery-Powered Wheeled Mobile Robots. 2375-2380
Biped Locomotion II
- Jun Morimoto, Jun Nakanishi, Gen Endo

, Gordon Cheng
, Christopher G. Atkeson, Garth Zeglin:
Poincaré-Map-Based Reinforcement Learning For Biped Walking. 2381-2386 - Dana Sharon, Michiel van de Panne:

Synthesis of Controllers for Stylized Planar Bipedal Walking. 2387-2392 - Christophe Sabourin

, Olivier Bruneau, Gabriel Buche
:
Experimental Validation of a Robust Control Strategy for the Robot RABBIT. 2393-2398 - Mike Stilman, Christopher G. Atkeson, James Kuffner, Garth Zeglin:

Dynamic Programming in Reduced Dimensional Spaces: Dynamic Planning For Robust Biped Locomotion. 2399-2404 - Mitsuharu Morisawa, Shuuji Kajita, Kenji Kaneko, Kensuke Harada

, Fumio Kanehiro, Kiyoshi Fujiwara, Hirohisa Hirukawa:
Pattern Generation of Biped Walking Constrained on Parametric Surface. 2405-2410
Map Estimation
- Robert Sim:

Stable Exploration for Bearings-only SLAM. 2411-2416 - Ryan M. Eustice

, Hanumant Singh, John J. Leonard:
Exactly Sparse Delayed-State Filters. 2417-2424 - Josep M. Porta

:
CuikSLAM: A Kinematics-based Approach to SLAM. 2425-2431 - Giorgio Grisetti

, Cyrill Stachniss
, Wolfram Burgard:
Improving Grid-based SLAM with Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filters by Adaptive Proposals and Selective Resampling. 2432-2437 - Malvika Rao, Gregory Dudek, Sue Whitesides:

Minimum Distance Localization for a Robot with Limited Visibility. 2438-2445
Haptics
- Lo Ming Fok, Yun-Hui Liu, Wen Jung Li

:
Modeling of Haptic Sensing of Nanolithography with an Atomic Force Microscope. 2446-2451 - Nicola Diolaiti, Günter Niemeyer, Federico Barbagli, John Kenneth Salisbury Jr.:

A Criterion for the PassivitY of Haptic Devices. 2452-2457 - Eric L. Faulring, Kevin M. Lynch, J. Edward Colgate, Michael A. Peshkin:

Haptic Interaction With Constrained Dynamic Systems. 2458-2464 - Changhyun Cho, Munsang Kim, Chang-Soon Hwang, Jae-Hyeong Lee, Jae-Bok Song:

Stable Haptic Display of Slowly Updated Virtual Environment with Multirate Wave Transform. 2465-2470 - Jae-Hyeong Lee, Changhyun Cho, Jae-Bok Song, Chang-Soon Hwang, Munsang Kim:

Haptic Interface using Delayed Reflection Wave: Application to a Passive Haptic Device. 2471-2476
Swarm Robotics
- Nikolaus Correll, Alcherio Martinoli

:
Modeling and Analysis of Beaconless and Beacon-Based Policies for a Swarm-Intelligent Inspection System. 2477-2482 - Janne Haverinen, Mikko Parpala, Juha Röning:

A Miniature Mobile Robot With a Color Stereo Camera System for Swarm Robotics Research. 2483-2486 - Luiz Chaimowicz

, Nathan Michael, Vijay Kumar:
Controlling Swarms of Robots Using Interpolated Implicit Functions. 2487-2492 - Luca Schenato

, Songhwai Oh, Shankar Sastry, Prasanta K. Bose:
Swarm Coordination for Pursuit Evasion Games using Sensor Networks. 2493-2498 - Yong Chye Tan, Bradley E. Bishop:

Combining Classical and Behavior-Based Control for Swarms of Cooperating Vehicles. 2499-2504
Manipulation Planning II
- Hidefumi Wakamatsu, Akira Tsumaya, Eiji Arai, Shinichi Hirai

:
Manipulation Planning for Knotting/Unknotting and Tightly Tying of Deformable Linear Objects. 2505-2510 - Masayuki Hara, Yoshinori Tanaka, Tetsuro Yabuta

:
Dynamic Manipulation of a Sphere on a Disk by Inclination Control of the Disk. 2511-2516 - Yuichi Kurita, Kazuyuki Nagata, Jun Ueda, Yoshio Matsumoto, Tsukasa Ogasawara

:
CPG-Based Manipulation: Adaptive Switchings of Grasping Fingers by Joint Angle Feedback. 2517-2522 - Siddhartha S. Srinivasa, Michael A. Erdmann, Matthew T. Mason

:
Control Synthesis for Dynamic Contact Manipulation. 2523-2528 - Tilo Gockel, Johannes Ahlmann, Rüdiger Dillmann, Pedram Azad:

3D Vision Sensing for Grasp Planning: A New, Robust and Affordable Structured Light Approach. 2529-2534
Vision Based Control II
- Nicolas Andreff, Arnaud Marchadier

, Philippe Martinet
:
Vision-Based Control of a Gough-Stewart Parallel Mechanism using Legs Observation. 2535-2540 - Jorge Pomares

, Fernando Torres Medina
:
Time Independent Tracking Using 2-D Movement Flow-Based Visual Servoing. 2541-2546 - Emilio J. González-Galván

, Ambrocio Loredo-Flores, J. Jesus Cervantes-Sanchez, Felipe Pazos-Flores:
An Optimal Path-Tracking Algorithm for Unstructured Environments based on Uncalibrated Vision. 2547-2552 - Hesheng Wang

, Yun-Hui Liu:
Adaptive Image-Based Trajectory Tracking of Robots. 2553-2558 - Graziano Chesi, Domenico Prattichizzo

, Antonio Vicino
:
Visual Servoing: Reaching the Desired Location Following a Straight Line via Polynomial Parameterizations. 2559-2564
Force/Tactile Sensing
- Yuka Mukaibo, Hirokazu Shirado, Masashi Konyo

, Takashi Maeno:
Development of a Texture Sensor Emulating the Tissue Structure and Perceptual Mechanism of Human Fingers. 2565-2570 - Kouji Murakami, Tsutomu Hasegawa:

Tactile Sensing of Edge Direction of an Object with a Soft Fingertip Contact. 2571-2577 - Jong-Ho Kim, Jeong-Il Lee, Hyo Jik Lee, Yon-Kyu Park, Min-Seok Kim, Dae-Im Kang:

Design of Flexible Tactile Sensor Based on Three-Component Force and Its Fabrication. 2578-2581 - Kouhei Motoo, Fumihito Arai, Yuji Yamada, Toshio Fukuda, Takayuki Matsuno, Hideo Matsuura:

Novel Force Sensor Using Vibrating Piezoelectric Element. 2582-2587 - Aimee Schultz, Joseph Solomon, Michael A. Peshkin, Mitra J. Z. Hartmann:

Multifunctional Whisker Arrays for Distance Detection, Terrain Mapping, and Object Feature Extraction. 2588-2593 - Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano:

Toward 30-gram Autonomous Indoor Aircraft: Vision-based Obstacle Avoidance and Altitude Control. 2594-2599
Flying: Mini Robots
- Morgan Quigley, Michael A. Goodrich

, Stephen Griffiths, Andrew Eldredge, Randal W. Beard:
Target Acquisition, Localization, and Surveillance Using a Fixed-Wing Mini-UAV and Gimbaled Camera. 2600-2605 - Philippe Rongier, Erwann Lavarec

, François Pierrot
:
Kinematic and Dynamic Modeling and Control of a 3-Rotor Aircraft. 2606-2611 - Sergio Salazar-Cruz, Rogelio Lozano:

Stabilization and Nonlinear Control for a Novel Trirotor Mini-aircraft. 2612-2617 - Lotfi Beji, Azgal Abichou:

Trajectory Generation and Tracking of a Mini-Rotorcraft. 2618-2623
Biosystem Modeling Estimation
- Katsu Yamane, Yusuke Fujita, Yoshihiko Nakamura:

Estimation of Physically and Physiologically Valid Somatosensory Information. 2624-2630 - Farid Mobasser, Keyvan Hashtrudi-Zaad:

Hand Force Estimation using Electromyography Signals. 2631-2636 - Min Li, Yun-Hui Liu:

Modeling Interactions of Pulpal Tissue with Deformable Tools in Endodontic Simulation. 2637-2642 - Roland Thieffry, Éric Monacelli, Stephane Delaplace:

Adaptive Command and Generalization to Locomotion Aid Systems. 2643-2648 - Inhyuk Moon, Myungjoon Lee, Junuk Chu, Museong Mun:

Wearable EMG-based HCI for Electric-Powered Wheelchair Users with Motor Disabilities. 2649-2654
Hands
- Akio Namiki

, Masatoshi Ishikawa:
The Analysis of High-speed Catching with a Multifingered Robot Hand. 2655-2660 - Maria Chiara Carrozza

, Giovanni Cappiello, Giovanni Stellin, Franco Zaccone, Fabrizio Vecchi, Silvestro Micera
, Paolo Dario:
A Cosmetic Prosthetic Hand with Tendon Driven Under-Actuated Mechanism and Compliant Joints: Ongoing Research and Preliminary Results. 2661-2666 - Shuhei Nakagawara, Hiroyuki Kajimoto, Naoki Kawakami, Susumu Tachi, Ichiro Kawabuchi:

An Encounter-Type Multi-Fingered Master Hand Using Circuitous Joints. 2667-2672 - Ikuo Yamano, Takashi Maeno:

Five-fingered Robot Hand using Ultrasonic Motors and Elastic Elements. 2673-2678 - Mitsuru Higashimori

, Hieyong Jeong
, Idaku Ishii
, Akio Namiki
, Masatoshi Ishikawa, Makoto Kaneko:
A New Four-Fingered Robot Hand with Dual Turning Mechanism. 2679-2684
Adaptive Control + Force Control
- Zoe Doulgeri

, Yiannis Karayiannidis
:
An Adaptive Force Regulator for a Robot in Compliant Contact with an Unknown Surface. 2685-2690 - Hirohiko Arai

:
Robotic Metal Spinning - Forming Non-axisymmetric Products Using Force Control -. 2691-2696 - Xiangrong Shen, Michael Goldfarb:

Independent Stiffness and Force Control of Pneumatic Actuators for Contact Stability during Robot Manipulation. 2697-2702 - Javier Gámez García

, Anders Robertsson, Juan Gómez Ortega
, Rolf Johansson
:
Automatic Calibration Procedure for a Robotic Manipulator Force Observer. 2703-2708 - Javier Gámez García

, Anders Robertsson, Juan Gómez Ortega
, Rolf Johansson
:
Force and Acceleration Sensor Fusion for Compliant Robot Motion Control. 2709-2714
Climbing Robots
- Carlo Menon

, Metin Sitti
:
Biologically Inspired Adhesion based Surface Climbing Robots. 2715-2720 - Benjamin E. Shores, Mark A. Minor

:
Design, Kinematic Analysis, and Quasi-Steady Control of a Morphic Rolling Disk Biped Climbing Robot. 2721-2726 - Jens Wettach, Carsten Hillenbrand, Karsten Berns:

Thermodynamical Modelling and Control of an Adhesion System for a Climbing Robot. 2727-2732 - Hyungseok Kim, Taehun Kang, Vo Gia Loc, Hyoukryeol Choi:

Gait Planning of Quadruped Walking and Climbing Robot for Locomotion in 3D Environment. 2733-2738
Features Detection
- Andrea Censi

, Luca Iocchi
, Giorgio Grisetti
:
Scan Matching in the Hough Domain. 2739-2744 - Julian Ryde, Huosheng Hu

:
Fast Circular Landmark Detection for Cooperative Localisation and Mapping. 2745-2750 - Jufeng Peng, Srinivas Akella

:
Coordinating Multiple Double Integrator Robots on a Roadmap: Convexity and Global Optimality. 2751-2758 - Marsette Vona, Daniela Rus:

Voronoi Toolpaths for PCB Mechanical Etch: Simple and Intuitive Algorithms with the 3D GPU. 2759-2766
Human-Robot Relations
- Sau-Lai Lee, Sara B. Kiesler, Ivy Yee-man Lau

, Chi-Yue Chiu
:
Human Mental Models of Humanoid Robots. 2767-2772 - Rosanne Siino, Pamela J. Hinds:

Robots, Gender & Sensemaking: Sex Segregation's Impact On Workers Making Sense Of a Mobile Autonomous Robot. 2773-2778 - Matthew R. Stein, Christopher P. Madden:

The Pumapaint Project: Long Term Usage Trends And The Move To Three Dimensions. 2779-2784 - Kazuyoshi Wada, Takanori Shibata, Tomoko Saito, Kayoko Sakamoto, Kazuo Tanie:

Psychological and Social Effects of One Year Robot Assisted Activity on Elderly People at a Health Service Facility for the Aged. 2785-2790
Multi-Robot Systems I
- Maja Karasalo, Linda-Maria Johansson, Xiaoming Hu

, Karl Henrik Johansson
:
Multi-Robot Terrain Servoing with Proximity Sensors. 2791-2796 - Agostino Martinelli, Frédéric Pont, Roland Siegwart

:
Multi-Robot Localization Using Relative Observations. 2797-2802 - Vassilios N. Christopoulos, Stergios I. Roumeliotis:

Multi Robot Trajectory Generation for Single Source Explosion Parameter Estimation. 2803-2809 - Elzbieta Roszkowska:

Provably Correct Closed-Loop Control for Multiple Mobile Robot Systems. 2810-2815
Mobile Robot Planning I
- Yongguo Mei, Yung-Hsiang Lu, Y. Charlie Hu, C. S. George Lee:

Deployment Strategy for Mobile Robots with Energy and Timing Constraints. 2816-2821 - Nakju Lett Doh, Namyoung Cho, Kyongmin Lee, Jungseok Lee, Wan Kyun Chung, Sang-Rok Oh

:
A Systematic Representation of Edges in Topological Maps for Mobile Robots using Wavelet Transformation. 2822-2827 - Shingo Shimoda, Yoji Kuroda, Karl Iagnemma:

Potential Field Navigation of High Speed Unmanned Ground Vehicles on Uneven Terrain. 2828-2833 - Je Youn Choi, Byung Rok So, Byung-Ju Yi, Whee Kuk Kim, Il Hong Suh:

Impact Based Trajectory Planning of a Soccer Ball in a Kicking Robot. 2834-2840
Tracking II
- Andrew I. Comport, Danica Kragic, Éric Marchand

, François Chaumette:
Robust Real-Time Visual Tracking: Comparison, Theoretical Analysis and Performance Evaluation. 2841-2846 - Peihua Li, François Chaumette

, Omar Tahri:
A Shape Tracking Algorithm for Visual Servoing. 2847-2852 - Daniel Gamarra, Teodiano Freire Bastos-Filho

, Mário Sarcinelli Filho
, Carlos Miguel Soria, Ricardo O. Carelli
:
Optical Flow Calculation Using Data Fusion with Decentralized Information Filter. 2853-2858 - Vlatko Becanovic, Tobias Günther, Ansgar Bredenfeld:

Modeling of Neuromorphic Vision Sensors in ODE. 2859-2864
Sensing
- Aaron P. Shon, David B. Grimes, Chris L. Baker, Matthew W. Hoffman, Shengli Zhou, Rajesh P. N. Rao

:
Probabilistic Gaze Imitation and Saliency Learning in a Robotic Head. 2865-2870 - Makoto Kaneko, Kenichi Tokuda, Tomohiro Kawahara:

Dynamic Sensing of Human Eye. 2871-2876 - Hyukseong Kwon, Youngrock Yoon, Jae Byung Park, Avinash C. Kak:

Person Tracking with a Mobile Robot using Two Uncalibrated Independently Moving Cameras. 2877-2883 - Hiroaki Tanie, Katsu Yamane, Yoshihiko Nakamura:

High Marker Density Motion Capture by Retroreflective Mesh Suit. 2884-2889
Service Robots
- Haruna Okayasu, Jun Okamoto, Hiroshi Iseki, Masakatsu G. Fujie:

Development of a Hydraulically-driven Flexible Manipulator Including Passive Safety Method. 2890-2896 - Tsukasa Fukuda, Yasushi Nakauchi, Katsunori Noguchi, Takashi Matsubara:

Time Series Action Support by Mobile Robot in Intelligent Environment. 2897-2902 - Kyo Chul Kang, Moonzoo Kim, Jaejoon Lee, Byungkil Kim, Youngjin Hong, Hyoungki Lee, Seokwon Bang:

3D Virtual Prototyping of Home Service Robots Using ASADAL/OBJ. 2903-2908 - Ahmad A. Masoud

:
Solving the Narrow Corridor Problem in Potential Field-Guided Autonomous Robots. 2909-2914
Medical Robotic Devices
- Dino Accoto

, Domenico Campolo
, Piero Castrataro, Vito Surico, Eugenio Guglielmelli
, Paolo Dario:
A Soft Electrochemical Actuator for Biomedical Robotics. 2915-2920 - Yasuhisa Hirata

, Asami Hara, Kazuhiro Kosuge:
Motion Control of Passive-type Walking Support System based on Environment Information. 2921-2926 - Christopher W. Kennedy, Jaydev P. Desai:

Enabling Technologies for Robotically-Assisted Sutureless Coronary Anastomosis. 2927-2932 - Dejan Ilic, Thomas Moix, Blaise Fracheboud, Hannes Bleuler, Ivan Vecerina:

A Haptic Interface for Interventional Radiology. 2933-2937
Parallel Manipulators II
- Jian Meng, Guanfeng Liu

, Zexiang Li
:
A Geometric Theory for Synthesis and Analysis of Sub-6 DoF Parallel Manipulators. 2938-2943 - Yangmin Li

, Qingsong Xu
:
Kinematics and Dexterity Analysis for a Novel 3-DOF Translational Parallel Manipulator. 2944-2949 - Vincent De Sapio, Oussama Khatib:

Operational Space Control of Multibody Systems with Explicit Holonomic Constraints. 2950-2956 - Ilian A. Bonev, Clément Gosselin

:
Singularity Loci of Spherical Parallel Mechanisms. 2957-2962
Locomotion I
- Keith Kotay, Daniela Rus:

Efficient Locomotion for a Self-Reconfiguring Robot. 2963-2969 - Kenji Hashimoto, Takuya Hosobata, Yusuke Sugahara

, Yutaka Mikuriya, Hiroyuki Sunazuka, Masamiki Kawase, Hun-ok Lim, Atsuo Takanishi:
Realization by Biped Leg-wheeled Robot of Biped Walking and Wheel-driven Locomotion. 2970-2975 - Lei Zhang, Shugen Ma, Kousuke Inoue, Yoshinori Honda:

Omni-directional Walking of a Quadruped Robot with Optimal Body Postures on a Slope. 2976-2981 - Masahiro Shimizu, Toshihiro Kawakatsu

, Akio Ishiguro:
Slimebot: A Modular Robot That Exploits Emergent Phenomena. 2982-2987
Innovative Manufacturing
- Hideaki Takanobu

, Yasumasa Watanabe, Hiroshi Ishihara, Tomonari Aizawa, Masanobu Ohura:
Silkworm Handling Robot System. 2988-2993 - Nukala Viswanadham, Vijay Desai, Roshan S. Gaonkar:

Bullwhip effect in Integrated Manufacturing and Service Networks. 2994-2999 - Chuan-Yu Chang, Jia-Wei Chang, MuDer Jeng:

An Unsupervised Self-Organizing Neural Network for Automatic Semiconductor Wafer Defect Inspection. 3000-3005 - László Horváth, Imre J. Rudas:

Associativity, Adaptivity and Behavior Aspects in Modeling for Manufacturing Related Robot Systems. 3006-3011
Snake Robots
- Nabil Simaan:

Snake-Like Units Using Flexible Backbones and Actuation Redundancy for Enhanced Miniaturization. 3012-3017 - Dimitris P. Tsakiris, Michael Sfakiotakis

, Arianna Menciassi, Gianni La Spina, Paolo Dario:
Polychaete-like Undulatory Robotic Locomotion. 3018-3023 - Alessandro Crespi

, André Badertscher, André Guignard, Auke Jan Ijspeert
:
Swimming and Crawling with an Amphibious Snake Robot. 3024-3028 - Fumitoshi Matsuno, Hiroki Sato:

Trajectory Tracking Control of Snake Robots Based on Dynamic Model. 3029-3034
Service Robot Navigation
- Robert Vogl, Markus Vincze, Georg Biegelbauer:

Finding Tables for Home Service Tasks and Safe Mobile Robot Navigation. 3035-3040 - Plamen J. Prodanov, Andrzej Drygajlo:

Decision Networks for Repair Strategies in Speech-Based Interaction with Mobile Tour-Guide Robots. 3041-3046 - Sean B. Andersson

, Dimitrios Hristu-Varsakelis
:
Language-based Feedback Control Using Monte Carlo Sensing. 3047-3052 - Sergi Bermúdez i Badia

, Pawel Pyk, Paul F. M. J. Verschure
:
A Biologically Based Flight Control System for a Blimp-based UAV. 3053-3059
Learning I
- Alexander Stoytchev:

Behavior-Grounded Representation of Tool Affordances. 3060-3065 - Pierre Dangauthier, Pierre Bessière, Anne Spalanzani:

Auto-supervised learning in the Bayesian Programming Framework. 3066-3071 - Masamichi Shimosaka, Taketoshi Mori

, Tatsuya Harada, Tomomasa Sato:
Marginalized Bags of Vectors Kernels on Switching Linear Dynamics for Online Action Recognition. 3072-3077 - Hiroyuki Ishii, Masaki Nakasuji, Motonori Ogura, Hiroyasu Miwa

, Atsuo Takanishi:
Experimental Study on Automatic Learning Speed Acceleration for a Rat using a Robot. 3078-3083
Mobile Robot Applications II
- Eric Park, Linda Kobayashi, Susan Y. Lee:

Extensible Hardware Architecture for Mobile Robots. 3084-3089 - Haomiao Huang, Lyle Chamberlain, Richard M. Murray

:
An Experimental Platform for Motion Estimation and Maneuver Characterization in High Speed Off-Road Driving. 3090-3095 - Jun-ichi Meguro, Takumi Hashizume, Jun-ichi Takiguchi, Ryujirou Kurosaki:

Development of an Autonomous Mobile Surveillance System Using a Network-based RTK-GPS. 3096-3101 - Hao Fang, Roland Lenain, Benoît Thuilot, Philippe Martinet

:
Robust Adaptive Control of Automatic Guidance of Farm Vehicles in the Presence of Sliding. 3102-3107
Motion Planning
- Yili Fu, Jin Bao, Shuguo Wang, Zhengcai Cao:

Real-Time Sensor-Based Motion Planning for Robot Manipulators. 3108-3113 - Marco Morales

, Lydia Tapia, Roger A. Pearce, Samuel Rodríguez, Nancy M. Amato:
C-space Subdivision and Integration in Feature-Sensitive Motion Planning. 3114-3119 - Brendan Burns, Oliver Brock:

Sampling-Based Motion Planning Using Predictive Models. 3120-3125 - Atef A. Ata

, Habib Johar:
Cubic-Spline Trajectory Planning of a Constrained Flexible Manipulator. 3126-3130
Vision Based Control III
- Yun-Hui Liu, Hesheng Wang, Kinkwan Lam:

Dynamic Visual Servoing of Robots in Uncalibrated Environments. 3131-3136 - Rafael Kelly, Victor Sanchez, Eusebio Bugarin, Humberto Rodríguez

:
A Fixed- Camera Controller for Visual Guidance of Mobile Robots via Velocity Fields. 3137-3142 - Nicolas Mansard, François Chaumette

:
Visual Servoing Sequencing Able to Avoid Obstacles. 3143-3148 - Matthew D. Berkemeier, Lili Ma:

Discrete Control for Visual Servoing the ODIS Robot to Parking Lot Lines. 3149-3154
Outdoor Sensing II
- Ofir Cohen, Yael Edan

:
A Sensor Fusion Framework for On-Line Sensor and Algorithm Selection. 3155-3161 - Kayur Patel, Walter Macklem, Sebastian Thrun, Michael Montemerlo:

Active Sensing for High-Speed Offroad Driving. 3162-3168 - El-Mane Wong, Frédéric Bourgault, Tomonari Furukawa:

Multi-vehicle Bayesian Search for Multiple Lost Targets. 3169-3174 - Svetlana Larionova, Lino Marques

, Aníbal T. de Almeida
:
Features Selection for Sensor Fusion in a Demining Robot. 3175-3180
Applications I
- Weihua Sheng

, Hongjun Chen, Heping Chen, Ning Xi:
Optimal Planning of a Mobile Sensor for Aircraft Rivet Inspection. 3181-3186 - Tommaso Gramegna, Lea Venturino, Massimo Ianigro, Giovanni Attolico

, Arcangelo Distante:
Pre-Historical Cave Fruition through Robotic Inspection. 3187-3192 - Matthew T. Long

, Aaron Gage, Robin R. Murphy, Kimon P. Valavanis:
Application of the Distributed Field Robot Architecture to a Simulated Demining Task. 3193-3200 - Jayantha Katupitiya, Ray Eaton, Guy Rodnay, Anthony Cole, Craig Meyer:

Automation of an Agricultural Tractor for Fruit Picking. 3201-3206
Robot Design II
- Pablo González de Santos

, Joaquín Estremera, Elena Garcia
:
Optimizing Leg Distribution Around the Body in Walking Robots. 3207-3212 - Shaoping Bai, Jorge Angeles:

The Design of A Gearless Pitch-Roll Wrist. 3213-3218 - Yunjiang Lou, Dongjun Zhang, Zexiang Li

:
Optimal Design of a Parallel Machine Based on Multiple Criteria. 3219-3224 - Illah R. Nourbakhsh, Emily Hamner, Eric Porter, Brian Dunlavey, Ellen Ayoob, Thomas Hsiu, Mark Lotter, Skip Shelly:

The Design of a Highly Reliable Robot for Unmediated Museum Interaction. 3225-3231
Parallel Manipulators III
- Olivier Company, François Pierrot, Jean-Christophe Fauroux:

A Method for Modeling Analytical Stiffness of a Lower Mobility Parallel Manipulator. 3232-3237 - Jürgen Hesselbach, Carlos Cezar Bier, Alexandre Campos, Harald Löwe:

Direct Kinematic Singularity Detection of a Hexa Parallel Robot. 3238-3243 - Víctor Petuya

, Antonio Alonso, Oscar Altuzarra
, Alfonso Hernández
:
Resolution of the Direct Position Problem of Parallel Kinematic Platforms Using the Geometrical-Iterative Method. 3244-3249 - Olivier Company

, François Pierrot
, Vincent Nabat, María de la O Rodríguez
:
Schoen flies Motion Generator: A New Non Redundant Parallel Manipulator with Unlimited Rotation Capability. 3250-3255
Control Theory
- James C. Kinsey, Louis L. Whitcomb

:
Adaptive Identification on the Group of Rigid Body Rotations. 3256-3261 - Chao Liu, Chien-Chern Cheah

:
Adaptive Regulation of Rigid-Link Electrically Driven Robots with Uncertain Kinematics. 3262-3267 - Bryan A. Jones, Ian D. Walker:

A New Approach to Jacobian Formulation for a Class of Multi-Section Continuum Robots. 3268-3273 - Mircea Ivanescu, Nirvana Popescu, Decebal Popescu:

A Variable Length Tentacle Manipulator Control System. 3274-3279
Automation + Manufacturing
- Jay Bernheisel, Kevin M. Lynch:

Stable Pushing of Assemblies. 3280-3287 - Jon M. Selig

, Jian S. Dai
:
Dynamics of Vibratory Bowl Feeders. 3288-3293 - Steven D. Somes, Mark E. Dohring, Wyatt S. Newman

:
Preliminary Design and Testing of a Novel Robot Design for Metal Finishing Applications. 3294-3299 - Oliver König, Musa K. Jouaneh

:
Minimization of Airtime in Cutting and Welding Applications. 3300-3305
Robotic Fish
- Junzhi Yu, Long Wang

:
Parameter Optimization of Simplified Propulsive Model for Biomimetic Robot Fish. 3306-3311 - Xinyan Deng, Srinath Avadhanula:

Biomimetic Micro Underwater Vehicle with Oscillating Fin Propulsion: System Design and Force Measurement. 3312-3317 - Jindong Liu, Huosheng Hu

:
Mimicry of Sharp Turning Behaviours in a Robotic Fish. 3318-3323 - Pablo Valdivia y Alvarado

, Kamal Youcef-Toumi
:
Performance of Machines with Flexible Bodies Designed for Biomimetic Locomotion in Liquid Environments. 3324-3329 - Eunjung Kim, Youngil Youm:

Simulation Study of Fish Swimming Modes for Aquatic Robot System. 3330-3335 - Damien Chablat

, Philippe Wenger:
Design of a Spherical Wrist with Parallel Architecture: Application to Vertebrae of an Eel Robot. 3336-3341
Vision/SLAM II
- Masahiro Tomono:

3-D Localization and Mapping Using a Single Camera Based on Structure-from-Motion with Automatic Baseline Selection. 3342-3347 - Henrik Andreasson, André Treptow, Tom Duckett

:
Localization for Mobile Robots using Panoramic Vision, Local Features and Particle Filter. 3348-3353 - Guillaume Le Blanc, Youcef Mezouar

, Philippe Martinet
:
Indoor Navigation of a Wheeled Mobile Robot along Visual Routes. 3354-3359 - Jae-Hean Kim, Myung Jin Chung:

Absolute Stereo SFM without Stereo Correspondence for Vision Based SLAM. 3360-3365 - Mohan Sridharan, Gregory Kuhlmann, Peter Stone:

Practical Vision-Based Monte Carlo Localization on a Legged Robot. 3366-3371 - Ricardo Vázquez Martín

, José Carlos del Toro Lasanta, Antonio Bandera
, Francisco Sandoval Hernández
:
Data-and Model-driven Attention Mechanism for Autonomous Visual Landmark Acquisition. 3372-3377
Human Robot Applications
- Jun Miura

, Koji Iwase, Yoshiaki Shirai:
Interactive Teaching of a Mobile Robot. 3378-3383 - Jean-Yves Didier

, David Roussel, Malik Mallem
:
A Time Delay Compensation Method Improving Registration for Augmented Reality. 3384-3389 - Diego Rodríguez-Losada, Fernando Matía

, Agustín Jiménez, Ramón Galán, Gerard Lacey
:
Implementing Map Based Navigation in Guido, the Robotic SmartWalker. 3390-3395 - Jason Campbell, Padmanabhan Pillai:

Leveraging Limited Autonomous Mobility to Frame Attractive Group Photos. 3396-3401 - Jyh-Ming Lien, Samuel Rodríguez, Jean-Phillipe Malric, Nancy M. Amato:

Shepherding Behaviors with Multiple Shepherds. 3402-3407 - Jannik Fritsch, Marcus Kleinehagenbrock, Axel Haasch, Sebastian Wrede, Gerhard Sagerer:

A Flexible Infrastructure for the Development of a Robot Companion with Extensible HRI-Capabilities. 3408-3414
Mobile Robots I
- Christopher A. Brooks, Karl Iagnemma, Steven Dubowsky:

Vibration-based Terrain Analysis for Mobile Robots. 3415-3420 - Jason Campbell, Rahul Sukthankar, Illah R. Nourbakhsh, Aroon Pahwa:

A Robust Visual Odometry and Precipice Detection System Using Consumer-grade Monocular Vision. 3421-3427 - Zhuohua Duan, Zixing Cai, Jinxia Yu:

Fault Diagnosis and Fault Tolerant Control for Wheeled Mobile Robots under Unknown Environments: A Survey. 3428-3433 - Francisco J. Blanco

, Vidal Moreno
, Belén Curto
, Roberto Therón
:
C-Space Evaluation for Mobile Robots at Large Workspaces. 3434-3439 - Yili Fu, Xu He, Shuoguo Wang, Li Han, Yulin Ma:

Topological Analysis and Control on Mobile Robot with Partially-Failed Propulsive Wheel. 3440-3445 - Sungbok Kim, Hyunggi Kim, Byoungkwon Moon:

Local and Global Isotropy of Caster Wheeled Omnidirectional Mobile Robot. 3446-3451
Planning II
- Luciano C. A. Pimenta

, Alexandre R. Fonseca, Guilherme A. S. Pereira
, Renato Cardoso Mesquita
, Elson J. Silva
, Walmir M. Caminhas
, Mario Fernando Montenegro Campos:
On Computing Complex Navigation Functions. 3452-3457 - Matthijs T. J. Spaan, Nikos Vlassis:

Planning with Continuous Actions in Partially Observable Environments. 3458-3463 - Ryuichi Ueda, Tamio Arai, Kohei Sakamoto, Yoshiaki Jitsukawa, Kazunori Umeda

, Hisashi Osumi, Toshifumi Kikuchi, Masaki Komura:
Real-Time Decision Making with State-Value Function under Uncertainty of State Estimation - Evaluation with Local Maxima and Discontinuity. 3464-3469 - Ji Yeong Lee, Howie Choset:

Sensor-based Planning for Planar Multi-Convex Rigid Bodies. 3470-3477 - Maxim A. Batalin, Gaurav S. Sukhatme:

The Analysis of an Efficient Algorithm for Robot Coverage and Exploration based on Sensor Network Deployment. 3478-3485 - Alejandro Sarmiento, Rafael Murrieta-Cid

, Seth Hutchinson
:
A Sample-based Convex Cover for Rapidly Finding an Object in a 3-D Environment. 3486-3491
Vision Based Control IV
- Nicolás García-Aracil

, Rafael Aracil, Ezio Malis, Óscar Reinoso
:
Parameters Selection and Stability Analysis of Invariant Visual Servoing with Weighted Features. 3492-3497 - Chien-Chern Cheah

, Chao Liu, Jean-Jacques E. Slotine:
Adaptive Jacobian Tracking Control of Robots based on Visual Task-space Information. 3498-3503 - Kanako Miura, Koichi Hashimoto

, Jacques Gangloff, Michel de Mathelin:
Visual Servoing without Jacobian Using Modified Simplex Optimization. 3504-3509 - Duane J. Jacques, Ranga Rodrigo, Kenneth A. McIsaac, Jagath Samarabandu:

An Object Tracking and Visual Servoing System for the Visually Impaired. 3510-3515 - Gian Luca Mariottini, Eleonora Alunno, Jacopo Piazzi, Domenico Prattichizzo

:
Epipole-Based Visual Servoing with Central Catadioptric Camera. 3516-3521 - Hicham Hadj-Abdelkader, Youcef Mezouar, Nicolas Andreff, Philippe Martinet

:
Image-based Control of Mobile Robot with Central Catadioptric Cameras. 3522-3527
Positive Sensing
- Guillem Alenyà

, Josep Escoda, Antonio B. Martínez, Carme Torras
:
Using Laser and Vision to Locate a Robot in an Industrial Environment: A Practical Experience. 3528-3533 - Ameesh Makadia, Kostas Daniilidis:

Correspondenceless Ego-Motion Estimation Using an IMU. 3534-3539 - Lukas Reichel, David Liechti, Karl Presser, Shih-Chii Liu:

Robot Guidance with Neuromorphic Motion Sensors. 3540-3544 - Hee Jin Sohn, Byung Kook Kim:

A Robust Localization Algorithm for Mobile Robots with Laser Range Finders. 3545-3550 - Sylvain Argentieri

, Patrick Danès, Philippe Souères:
Prototyping Filter-Sum Beamformers for Sound Source Localization in Mobile Robotics. 3551-3556 - Javier Minguez

, Florent Lamiraux, Luis Montesano
:
Metric-Based Scan Matching Algorithms for Mobile Robot Displacement Estimation. 3557-3563
Applications II
- Achim J. Lilienthal

, Felix Streichert, Andreas Zell:
Model-based Shape Analysis of Gas Concentration Gridmaps for Improved Gas Source Localisation. 3564-3569 - Kejun Zhang, Jianbo Su

:
On Sensor Management of Calligraphic Robot. 3570-3575 - Choopar Tan, Yahya H. Zweiri

, Kaspar Althoefer, Lakmal D. Seneviratne
:
Online Soil-bucket Interaction Identification for Autonomous Excavation. 3576-3581 - Massimo Caccia

, Riccardo Bono, Gabriele Bruzzone
, Giorgio Bruzzone, Edoardo Spirandelli, Gianmarco Veruggio, Angela Maria Stortini:
Design and Exploitation of an Autonomous Surface Vessel for the Study of Sea-Air Interactions. 3582-3587 - Robert J. Webster III, Jasenka Memisevic, Allison M. Okamura

:
Design Considerations for Robotic Needle Steering. 3588-3594 - Yuuta Sugiyama, Ayumi Shiotsu, Masashi Yamanaka, Shinichi Hirai

:
Circular/Spherical Robots for Crawling and Jumping. 3595-3600
Special Session-Contract and Compliance
- Peng Tang, Jing Xiao:

Automatic Generation of High-level Contact State Space between Planar Curved Objects. 3601-3606 - Joris De Schutter

, Johan Rutgeerts, Erwin Aertbeliën
, Friedl De Groote
, Tinne De Laet
, Tine Lefebvre, Walter Verdonck, Herman Bruyninckx:
Unified Constraint-Based Task Specification for Complex Sensor-Based Robot Systems. 3607-3612 - Jaeheung Park, Oussama Khatib:

Multi-Link Multi-Contact Force Control for Manipulators. 3613-3618 - Ernesto Staffetti

, Wim Meeussen, Jing Xiao:
A New Formalism to Characterize Contact States Involving Articulated Polyhedral Objects. 3619-3626
Actuators II
- Panagiotis Vartholomeos, Evangelos Papadopoulos:

Analysis and Design of a Novel Mini-platform Employing Vibration Micro-motors. 3627-3632 - Robert J. Wood, Erik Steltz, Ronald S. Fearing

:
Nonlinear Performance Limits for High Energy Density Piezoelectric Bending Actuators. 3633-3640 - Shuanghe Yu, Bijan Shirinzadeh, Gürsel Alici

, Julian Smith
:
Sliding Mode Control of a Piezoelectric Actuator with Neural Network Compensating Rate-Dependent Hysteresis. 3641-3645 - Liang Yan, I-Ming Chen

, Chee Kian Lim, Guilin Yang, Wei Lin, Kok-Meng Lee:
Torque Modeling of a Spherical Actuator Based on Lorentz Force Law. 3646-3651 - Kok-Meng Lee, Hungsun Son, Jeffry Joni:

Concept Development and Design of a Spherical Wheel Motor (SWM). 3652-3657 - Akio Yamamoto, Keigo Ichiyanagi, Toshiro Higuchi, Hiroshi Imamizu

, Roger Gassert
, Martin Ingold, Laurent Sache, Hannes Bleuler:
Evaluation of MR-compatibility of Electrostatic Linear Motor. 3658-3663
Locomotion II
- Elie A. Shammas, Klaus Schmidt, Howie Choset:

Natural Gait Generation Techniques for Multi-bodied Isolated Mechanical Systems. 3664-3669 - Hideki Kajima, Masahiro Doi, Yasuhisa Hasegawa

, Toshio Fukuda:
Energy Based Swing Control of a Brachiating Robot. 3670-3675 - Youngshik Kim

, Mark A. Minor
:
Bounded Smooth Time Invariant Motion Control of Unicycle Kinematic Models. 3676-3681 - M. Anthony Lewis, Francesco Tenore, Ralph Etienne-Cummings

:
CPG Design using Inhibitory Networks. 3682-3687 - Majura F. Selekwa

, Damion D. Dunlap, Emmanuel G. Collins Jr.:
Implementation of Multi-valued Fuzzy Behavior Control for Robot Navigation in Cluttered Environments. 3688-3695 - Jason Grzywna, Ashish Jain, Jason Plew, Michael C. Nechyba:

Rapid Development of Vision-Based Control for MAVs through a Virtual Flight Testbed. 3696-3702
Petri Nets II
- Tsung-Che Chiang, Li-Chen Fu

:
A Virtual Preemption Paradigm for Using Priority Rules to Solve Job Shop Scheduling Problems. 3703-3708 - Alan A. Desrochers, Maria Pia Fanti

:
A Supply Chain Model Using Complex-Valued Token Petri Nets. 3709-3714 - Oscar Quiroga

, Luis Zeballos, Gabriela P. Henning
:
A Constraint Programming Approach to Tool Allocation and Resource Scheduling in FMS. 3715-3720 - Iyad Mourani, Sophie Hennequin, Xiaolan Xie:

Continuous Petri Nets with Delays for Performance Evaluation of Transfer lines. 3721-3726 - Masayuki Shimizu, Kazuhiro Kosuge:

Admittance Design for Assembly of Polyhedral Parts with Modeling Errors. 3727-3732
Legged Locomotion I
- Mitsuru Higashimori

, Manabu Harada, Masahiro Yuya, Idaku Ishii
, Makoto Kaneko:
Dimensional Analysis Based Design on Tracing Type Legged Robots. 3733-3738 - Zu Guang Zhang, Yasuhiro Fukuoka, Hiroshi Kimura:

Adaptive Running of a Quadruped Robot Using Delayed Feedback Control. 3739-3744 - Pedro Bergés, Alan Bowling:

Impact Forces in Legged Robot Locomotion. 3745-3751 - Sophie Sakka, Kazuhito Yokoi:

Humanoid Vertical Jumping based on Force Feedback and Inertial Forces Optimization. 3752-3757 - Zhaoqin Peng, Qiang Huang, Lige Zhang, Ali Raza Jafri, Weiming Zhang, Kejie Li:

Humanoid On-line Pattern Generation Based on Parameters of Off-line Typical Walk Patterns. 3758-3763
Localization and Navigation
- Jason M. O'Kane

, Steven M. LaValle:
Almost-Sensorless Localization. 3764-3769 - Goldie Nejat, Beno Benhabib, Arnaud Membre:

Active Task-Space Sensing and Localization of Autonomous Vehicles. 3770-3775 - Faraz Kunwar

, Felix Wong, Ridha Ben Mrad, Beno Benhabib:
Rendezvous Guidance for the Autonomous Interception of Moving Objects in Cluttered Environments. 3776-3781 - Roland Philippsen, Roland Siegwart

:
An Interpolated Dynamic Navigation Function. 3782-3789 - Gunhee Kim, Woojin Chung, Munsang Kim:

A Selection Framework of Multiple Navigation Primitives Using Generalized Stochastic Petri Nets. 3790-3795
Human Robot Interaction II
- Shujun Lu, Jae Heon Chung, Steven A. Velinsky:

Human-Robot Collision Detection and Identification Based on Wrist and Base Force/Torque Sensors. 3796-3801 - Tomofumi Kasuga, Minoru Hashimoto:

Human-Robot Handshaking using Neural Oscillators. 3802-3807 - Jin-Hyuk Hong

, Youn-Suk Song, Sung-Bae Cho:
A Hierarchical Bayesian Network for Mixed-Initiative Human-Robot Interaction. 3808-3813 - Kazumi Aoyama, Hideki Shimomura:

Real World Speech Interaction with a Humanoid Robot on a Layered Robot Behavior Control Architecture. 3814-3819 - Daniela Constantinescu

, Septimiu E. Salcudean
, Elizabeth A. Croft
:
Haptic Rendering of Topological Constraints to Users Manipulating Serial Virtual Linkages. 3820-3825
Mobile Robot Navigation
- Teja Muppirala, Rafael Murrieta-Cid

, Seth Hutchinson
:
Optimal Motion Strategies Based on Critical Events to Maintain Visibility of a Moving Target. 3826-3831 - Shigang Yue

, F. Claire Rind
:
A Collision Detection System for a Mobile Robot Inspired by the Locust Visual System. 3832-3837 - Andrew G. Lamperski

, Owen Y. Loh, Brett L. Kutscher, Noah J. Cowan
:
Dynamical Wall Following for a Wheeled Robot Using a Passive Tactile Sensor. 3838-3843 - Daniel Gamarra, Teodiano Freire Bastos-Filho

, Mário Sarcinelli Filho
:
Controlling the Navigation of a Mobile Robot in a Corridor with Redundant Controllers. 3844-3849 - Francesco Amigoni

, Alessandro Gallo:
A Multi-Objective Exploration Strategy for Mobile Robots. 3850-3855
Planning Algorithms
- Anna Yershova, Leonard Jaillet, Thierry Siméon, Steven M. LaValle:

Dynamic-Domain RRTs: Efficient Exploration by Controlling the Sampling Domain. 3856-3861 - Stephen R. Lindemann, Peng Cheng:

Iteratively Locating Voronoi Vertices for Dispersion Estimation. 3862-3867 - Erion Plaku

, Lydia E. Kavraki
:
Distributed Sampling-Based Roadmap of Trees for Large-Scale Motion Planning. 3868-3873 - David Hsu, Gildardo Sánchez-Ante

, Zheng Sun:
Hybrid PRM Sampling with a Cost-Sensitive Adaptive Strategy. 3874-3880 - Luigi Freda

, Giuseppe Oriolo
:
Frontier-Based Probabilistic Strategies for Sensor-Based Exploration. 3881-3887
Calibration
- Mehdi Ammi, Vincent Frémont, Antoine Ferreira:

Flexible Microscope Calibration using Virtual Pattern for 3-D Telemicromanipulation. 3888-3893 - Benoît Telle, Olivier Stasse

, Kazuhito Yokoi, Toshio Ueshiba, Fumiaki Tomita:
Three Characterizations of 3D Reconstruction Uncertainty with Bounded Error. 3894-3899 - Friedrich Lange, Gerd Hirzinger:

Calibration and Synchronization of a Robot-Mounted Camera for Fast Sensor-Based Robot Motion. 3900-3905 - B. Zhang, Youfu Li

:
Dynamic Recalibration of an Active Vision System via Generic Homography. 3906-3911 - Atsushi Yamashita, Shinsuke Ikeda, Toru Kaneko:

3-D Measurement of Objects in Unknown Aquatic Environments with a Laser Range Finder. 3912-3917
Identification
- Scott Lenser, Manuela M. Veloso:

Non-Parametric Time Series Classification. 3918-3923 - Sarjoun Skaff, Alfred A. Rizzi, Howie Choset, Pei-Chun Lin

:
A Context-Based State Estimation Technique for Hybrid Systems. 3924-3929 - João Xavier, Marco Pacheco, Daniel Castro

, António E. B. Ruano
, Urbano Nunes
:
Fast Line, Arc/Circle and Leg Detection from Laser Scan Data in a Player Driver. 3930-3935 - Majd Alwan, Matthew Wagner, Glenn S. Wasson, Pradip Sheth:

Characterization of Infrared Range-Finder PBS-03JN for 2-D Mapping. 3936-3941 - Christopher R. Wagner, Douglas P. Perrin

, Ross L. Feller, Robert D. Howe, Olivier Clatz, Hervé Delingette
, Nicholas Ayache:
Integrating Tactile and Force Feedback with Finite Element Models. 3942-3947
Flying: Helicopters
- Andrew Lookingbill, David Lieb, David Stavens, Sebastian Thrun:

Learning Activity-Based Ground Models from a Moving Helicopter Platform. 3948-3953 - Daniel J. Pack, George York:

Developing a Control Architecture for Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to Search and Localize RF Time-Varying Mobile Targets: Part I. 3954-3959 - So-Ryeok Oh, Kaustubh Pathak, Sunil Kumar Agrawal, Hemanshu Roy Pota

, Matt Garratt:
Autonomous Helicopter Landing on a Moving Platform Using a Tether. 3960-3965 - Andrew E. Johnson, James F. Montgomery, Larry H. Matthies:

Vision Guided Landing of an Autonomous Helicopter in Hazardous Terrain. 3966-3971 - Srikanth Saripalli, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Luis Mejías

, Pascual Campoy Cervera:
Detection and Tracking of External Features in an Urban Environment Using an Autonomous Helicopter. 3972-3977
Special Session: Object-Oriented Modelling and Formal Validation Methodologies in Manufacturing and Automation
- Marcello Bonfè

, Cesare Fantuzzi
, Cristian Secchi
:
Verification of Behavioral Substitutability in Object-Oriented Models for Industrial Controllers. 3978-3983 - Tanvir Hussain, Georg Frey

:
Migration of a PLC Controller to an IEC 61499 Compliant Distributed Control System: Hands-on Experiences. 3984-3989 - Cristian Secchi

, Cesare Fantuzzi
, Marcello Bonfè
:
On the Use of UML for Modeling Physical Systems. 3990-3995 - Victor Dubinin

, Valeriy Vyatkin, Thomas Pfeiffer:
Engineering of Validatable Automation Systems Based on an Extension of UML Combined With Function Blocks of IEC 61499. 3996-4001 - Wei Zhang, Christian Diedrich

, Wolfgang A. Halang:
Specification of Function Block Applications with UML. 4002-4007
Parallel Manipulators IV
- Erika Ottaviano

, Marco Ceccarelli
, Alessio Paone, Giuseppe Carbone
:
A Low-Cost Easy Operation 4-Cable Driven Parallel Manipulator. 4008-4013 - Grigore Gogu:

Fully-Isotropic Over-Constrained Parallel Wrists with Two Degrees of Freedom. 4014-4019 - Massimo Callegari

, Matteo Palpacelli
, Marco Scarponi:
Kinematics of the 3-CPU Parallel Manipulator Assembled for Motions of Pure Translation. 4020-4025 - Hai-Jun Su

, J. Michael McCarthy
:
Dimensioning a Constrained Parallel Robot to Reach a Set of Task Positions. 4026-4030 - Wei Dong, Zhijiang Du, Lining Sun:

Conceptional Design and Kinematics Modeling of a Wide-Range Flexure Hinge-Based Parallel Manipulator. 4031-4036
Control III
- Zhijun Li, Aiguo Ming, Ning Xi, Zhaoxian Xie, Jiangong Gu, Makoto Shimojo:

Collision-Tolerant Control for Hybrid Joint based Arm of Nonholonomic Mobile Manipulator in Human-Robot Symbiotic Environments. 4037-4043 - Loïc Cuvillon, Edouard Laroche

, Jacques Gangloff, Michel de Mathelin:
GPC versus H-infinity Control for Fast Visual Servoing of a Medical Manipulator including Flexibilities. 4044-4049 - Giuseppe Casalino, Alessio Turetta:

A Computationally Distributed Self-Organizing Algorithm for the Control of Manipulators in the Operational Space. 4050-4055 - Ti-Chung Lee, Jing-Sin Liu

:
rho-Exponential Stabilization for Caplygin Systems: Simplified Controllability Condition and Examples. 4056-4061 - Fan-Tien Cheng

, Shang-Lun Wu, Ping-Yen Tsai, Yun-Ta Chung, Haw Ching Yang:
Application Cluster Service Scheme for Near-Zero-Downtime Services. 4062-4067
Robot Assistants
- Michael J. Seelinger, John-David Yoder:

Automatic Pallet Engagment by a Vision Guided Forklift. 4068-4073 - Rolf Dieter Schraft, Christian Meyer, Christopher Parlitz, Evert Helms:

PowerMate - A Safe and Intuitive Robot Assistant for Handling and Assembly Tasks. 4074-4079 - Masao Sugi, Makoto Nikaido, Yusuke Tamura

, Jun Ota
, Tamio Arai, Kiyoshi Kotani, Kiyoshi Takamasu
, Seiichi Shin, Hiromasa Suzuki, Yoichi Sato:
Motion Control of Self-Moving Trays for Human Supporting Production Cell "Attentive Workbench". 4080-4085 - Carlo Alberto Avizzano

, Mirko Raspolli, Simone Marcheschi, Massimo Bergamasco
:
Haptic Desktop for Office Automation and Assisted Design. 4086-4091 - Yaron Ostrovsky-Berman, Leo Joskowicz

:
Geometric computation for assembly planning with planar toleranced parts. 4092-4099
Legged Locomotion II
- Alan Bowling:

Mobility and Dynamic Performance of Legged Robots. 4100-4107 - Matthew D. Berkemeier, Pranav Sukthankar:

Self-Organizing Running in a Quadruped Robot Model. 4108-4113 - Vincent Scesa, Bachar Mohamed, Patrick Henaff

, Fathi Ben Ouezdou:
Dynamic Recurrent Neural Network for Biped Robot Equilibrium Control: Preliminary Results. 4114-4119 - Masahiro Doi, Yasuhisa Hasegawa

, Toshio Fukuda:
Realization of 3-dimensional Dynamic Walking Based on the Assumption of Point-contact. 4120-4125
Cooperative Localization
- Yukikazu S. Hidaka, Anastasios I. Mourikis, Stergios I. Roumeliotis:

Optimal Formations for Cooperative Localization of Mobile Robots. 4126-4131 - Herbert G. Tanner, Amit Kumar:

Towards Decentralization of Multi-robot Navigation Functions. 4132-4137 - Jonathan Bom, Benoît Thuilot, François Marmoiton, Philippe Martinet

:
Nonlinear Control for Urban Vehicles Platooning, Relying upon a Unique Kinematic GPS. 4138-4143 - Amadou Gning, Philippe Bonnifait

:
Dynamic Vehicle Localization using Constraints Propagation Techniques on Intervals A comparison with Kalman Filtering. 4144-4149
Learning II
- Fernando De la Torre, Carlos Vallespí, Paul E. Rybski, Manuela M. Veloso, Takeo Kanade:

Learning to Track Multiple People in Omnidirectional Video. 4150-4155 - Terry Huntsberger, Hrand Aghazarian, Edward W. Tunstel:

Onboard Adaptive Learning for Planetary Surface Rover Control in Rough Terrain. 4156-4163 - Takamitsu Matsubara, Jun Morimoto, Jun Nakanishi, Masa-aki Sato, Kenji Doya:

Learning Sensory Feedback to CPG with Policy Gradient for Biped Locomotion. 4164-4169 - Tomás Martínez-Marín, Tom Duckett:

Fast Reinforcement Learning for Vision-guided Mobile Robots. 4170-4175
Mobile Robots II
- William A. Lewinger, Cynthia Harley

, Roy E. Ritzmann, Michael S. Branicky
, Roger D. Quinn:
Insect-like Antennal Sensing for Climbing and Tunneling Behavior in a Biologically-inspired Mobile Robot. 4176-4181 - Magnus Egerstedt, Tucker R. Balch, Frank Dellaert, Florent Delmotte, Zia Khan:

What Are the Ants Doing? Vision-Based Tracking and Reconstruction of Control Programs. 4182-4187 - Richard L. B. French, Lola Cañamero

:
Introducing Neuromodulation to a Braitenberg Vehicle. 4188-4193 - Michael Grosseschallau, Ulf Witkowski, Ulrich Rückert:

Low-cost Bluetooth Communication for the Autonomous Mobile Minirobot Khepera. 4194-4199
Contact-Haptic Planning
- Stephane Redon

, Ming C. Lin:
Practical Local Planning in the Contact Space. 4200-4205 - Fan Yang, Michael M. Marefat:

Achieving Desired Contact State Transitions of Polyhedral Parts with Compliant Motions. 4206-4211 - Jan Rosell, Israel Vázquez:

Haptic Rendering of Compliant Motions using Contact Tracking in C-space. 4212-4217 - Heng Wang, Kian Hsiang Low, Michael Yu Wang, Feng Gong:

A Mapping Method for Telemanipulation of the Non-Anthropomorphic Robotic Hands with Initial Experimental Validation. 4218-4223
Vision Based Control V
- Simon Léonard, Martin Jägersand:

Incremental Learning for Mapping Image Variations to Actions. 4224-4229 - Junqiu Wang, Roberto Cipolla

, Hongbin Zha:
Vision-based Global Localization Using a Visual Vocabulary. 4230-4235 - Jordi Palacín

, Tomàs Pallejà, Ignasi Valgañón, Ramón Pernia, Joan Roca
:
Measuring Coverage Performances of a Floor Cleaning Mobile Robot Using a Vision System. 4236-4241 - Cheolha Pedro Lee, Wesley E. Snyder, Cliff Wang:

Supervised Multispectral Image Segmentation using Active Contours. 4242-4247
Education
- M. Bernardine Dias, G. Ayorkor Mills-Tettey, D. P. Thrishantha Nanayakkara

:
Robotics, Education, and Sustainable Development. 4248-4253 - Niko Sünderhauf

, Thomas Krause, Peter Protzel:
RoboKing - Bringing Robotics closer to Pupils. 4254-4259 - Josep Fernández, Pedro López, Joan Oliva:

A Distributed Multirobot System Based On Edutainment Robots. 4260-4265 - Thilo Weigel:

KiRo - A Table Soccer Robot Ready for the Market. 4266-4271
Space Robot I
- Evangelos Papadopoulos, Ioannis Tortopidis, Kostas Nanos

:
Smooth Planning for Free-floating Space Robots Using Polynomials. 4272-4277 - Illah R. Nourbakhsh, Emily Hamner, Brian Dunlavey, Debra Bernstein, Kevin Crowley:

Educational Results of the Personal Exploration Rover Museum Exhibit. 4278-4283 - X. Rosalind Wang, Fabio T. Ramos:

Applying Structural EM in Autonomous Planetary Exploration Missions using Hyperspectral Image Spectroscopy. 4284-4289 - Mark W. Powell, Jeffrey S. Norris, Marsette Vona, Paul G. Backes, Justin V. Wick:

Scientific Visualization for the Mars Exploration Rovers. 4290-4296
Elastic Manipulators
- Alessandro De Luca

, Riccardo Farina, Pasquale Lucibello:
On the Control of Robots with Visco-Elastic Joints. 4297-4302 - Vicente B. Feliu

, Iván Muñoz, Pedro Roncero
, Juan J. López:
Repetitive Control for Single Link Flexible Manipulators. 4303-4308 - Chao-Chieh Lan

, Kok-Meng Lee:
Generalized Shooting Method for Analyzing Compliant Mechanisms. 4309-4314 - Yoshihiro Nakabo, Toshiharu Mukai, Kinji Asaka:

Kinematic Modeling and Visual Sensing of Multi-DOF Robot Manipulator with Patterned Artificial Muscle. 4315-4320
Control IV
- Jee-Hwan Ryu, Jong-Hwan Kim, Dong-Soo Kwon, Blake Hannaford:

A Simulation/Experimental Study of the Noisy Behavior of the Time Domain Passivity Controller for Haptic Interfaces. 4321-4326 - Xiaoyun Wang, James K. Mills:

Active Control of Configuration-Dependent Linkage Vibration with Application to a Planar Parallel Platform. 4327-4332 - Angel Domingo Sappa:

Efficient Closed Contour Extraction from Range Image's Edge Points. 4333-4338 - Jean-François Brethé, Eric Vasselin, Dimitri Lefebvre, Brayima Dakyo

:
Determination of the Repeatability of a Kuka Robot Using the Stochastic Ellipsoid Approach. 4339-4344
Exoskeletons
- Andrew Chu, Hami Kazerooni, Adam Zoss:

On the Biomimetic Design of the Berkeley Lower Extremity Exoskeleton (BLEEX). 4345-4352 - Hami Kazerooni, Jean-Louis Racine, Lihua Huang, Ryan Steger:

On the Control of the Berkeley Lower Extremity Exoskeleton (BLEEX). 4353-4360
Localization and Topology
- Nakju Lett Doh, Kyongmin Lee, Jinwook Huh, Namyoung Cho, Jungseok Lee, Wan Kyun Chung, Young-Jo Cho:

A Robust Localization Algorithm in Topological Maps with Dynamics. 4361-4366 - Kristopher R. Beevers, Wesley H. Huang:

Loop Closing in Topological Maps. 4367-4372 - Patrick Beeson, Nicholas K. Jong, Benjamin Kuipers:

Towards Autonomous Topological Place Detection Using the Extended Voronoi Graph. 4373-4379
Imitation Learning
- Naoyuki Kubota, Kenichiro Nishida:

Fuzzy Computing for Communication of A Partner Robot Based on Imitation. 4380-4385 - Reid Broadbent, Todd Peterson:

Robot Learning in Partially Observable, Noisy, Continuous Worlds. 4386-4393
Wearable Interfaces
- Takahiko Nakamura, Kazunari Saito, Kazuhiro Kosuge:

Control of Wearable Walking Support System Based on Human-Model and GRF. 4394-4399 - Xi Shi, Yangsheng Xu:

A Wearable Translation Robot. 4400-4405 - Yejun Wei, James L. Patton, Preeti Bajaj, Robert A. Scheidt

:
A Real-Time Haptic/Graphic Demonstration of how Error Augmentation can Enhance Learning. 4406-4411
Mobile Robot Planning II
- Jian Yang, Abdelhay Daoui, Zhihua Qu, Jing Wang, Richard A. Hull:

An Optimal and Real-Time Solution to Parameterized Mobile Robot Trajectories in the Presence of Moving Obstacles. 4412-4417 - Seul Jung

, Eun Soo Jang, Tien C. Hsia:
Collision Avoidance of a Mobile Robot Using Intelligent Hybrid Force Control Technique. 4418-4423
Structural Light
- Wolfgang Stöcher, Georg Biegelbauer:

Automated Simultaneous Calibration of a Multi-View Laser Stripe Profiler. 4424-4429 - Sukhan Lee, Jongmoo Choi, DaeSik Kim, Jaekeun Na, Seungsub Oh:

Signal Separation Coding for Robust Depth Imaging Based on Structured Light. 4430-4436 - Rudolph Triebel

, Wolfram Burgard, Frank Dellaert:
Using Hierarchical EM to Extract Planes from 3D Range Scans. 4437-4442
Odour-Chemical Sensing
- Amy Loutfi

, Silvia Coradeschi:
Improving Odour Analysis Through Human-Robot Cooperation. 4443-4449 - Vassilios N. Christopoulos, Stergios I. Roumeliotis:

Adaptive Sensing for Instantaneous Gas Release Parameter Estimation. 4450-4456 - Panos Tzanos, Milos Zefran

, Arye Nehorai:
Information Based Distributed Control for Biochemical Source Detection and Localization. 4457-4462
Space Robot II
- Andrew E. Johnson, Reg G. Willson, Jay Goguen, James Alexander, David Meller:

Field Testing of the Mars Exploration Rovers Descent Image Motion Estimation System. 4463-4469 - Yang Cheng, Adnan Ansar:

Landmark Based Position Estimation for Pinpoint Landing on Mars. 4470-4475 - Matthew D. Lichter, Steven Dubowsky:

Shape, Motion, and Parameter Estimation of Large Flexible Space Structures using Range Images. 4476-4481
Manipulators
- Jingdong Zhao, Zongwu Xie, Li Jiang, Hegao Cai, Hong Liu, Gerd Hirzinger:

Levenberg-Marquardt Based Neural Network Control for a Five-fingered Prosthetic Hand. 4482-4487 - Fabrizio Lotti, Paolo Tiezzi, Gabriele Vassura, Luigi Biagiotti

, Gianluca Palli
, Claudio Melchiorri:
Development of UB Hand 3: Early Results. 4488-4493 - Michaël Van Damme, Frank Daerden, Dirk Lefeber:

A Pneumatic Manipulator used in Direct Contact with an Operator. 4494-4499
Biologically Inspired Control
- Suguru Arimoto, Masahiro Sekimoto, Hiroe Hashiguchi, Ryuta Ozawa:

Physiologically Inspired Robot Control: A Challenge to Bernstein's Degrees-of-Freedom Problem. 4500-4507 - Shane A. Migliore, Edgar A. Brown, Stephen P. DeWeerth:

Biologically Inspired Joint Stiffness Control. 4508-4513 - Ettore Cavallaro, Jacob Rosen, Joel C. Perry, Stephen Burns, Blake Hannaford:

Hill-Based Model as a Myoprocessor for a Neural Controlled Powered Exoskeleton Arm - Parameters Optimization. 4514-4519
Modeling and Simulation
- Min Hong, Min-Hyung Choi, Sunhwa Jung, Samuel W. J. Welch, John Trapp:

Effective Constrained Dynamic Simulation Using Implicit Constraint Enforcement. 4520-4525 - Zoltán Papp, M. Dorrepaal, Andrew Thean, Michel G. van Elk:

High Fidelity Real-Time Simulator With Mixed Real and Virtual Sensors. 4526-4531 - Benjamin Moores, Bruce A. MacDonald:

A Dynamics Simulation Architecture for Robotic Systems. 4532-4537 - John E. Lloyd:

Fast Implementation of Lemke's Algorithm for Rigid Body Contact Simulation. 4538-4543
Navigation and Modeling
- Sulema Aranda, Sonia Martínez, Francesco Bullo:

On Optimal Sensor Placement and Motion Coordination for Target Tracking. 4544-4549 - Mélanie Delafosse, Arnaud Clerentin, Laurent Delahoche, Eric Brassart:

Uncertainty and Imprecision Modeling for the Mobile Robot Localization Problem. 4550-4555 - Luis Montesano, Javier Minguez

, Luis Montano:
Modeling the Static and the Dynamic Parts of the Environment to Improve Sensor-based Navigation. 4556-4562 - Daniel Stronger, Peter Stone:

Simultaneous Calibration of Action and Sensor Models on a Mobile Robot. 4563-4568
Learning III
- Cédric Adda, Guillaume J. Laurent, Nadine Le Fort-Piat:

Learning to control a real micropositioning system in the STM-Q framework. 4569-4574 - Kris K. Hauser, Timothy Bretl, Jean-Claude Latombe:

Learning-Assisted Multi-Step Planning. 4575-4580 - Dimitri Marinakis, Gregory Dudek, David J. Fleet

:
Learning Sensor Network Topology through Monte Carlo Expectation Maximization. 4581-4587 - Kenneth Robert Alton, Michiel van de Panne:

Learning to Steer on Winding Tracks Using Semi-Parametric Control Policies. 4588-4593
Non Holonomic Mobile Robots
- Kaustubh Pathak, Sunil Kumar Agrawal:

An Integrated Path Planning and Control Framework for Nonholonomic Unicycles. 4594-4599 - Wooram Park, Jin Seob Kim, Yu Zhou, Noah J. Cowan

, Allison M. Okamura
, Gregory S. Chirikjian:
Diffusion-Based Motion Planning for a Nonholonomic Flexible Needle Model. 4600-4605 - Bradley E. Bishop:

Control of Platoons of Nonholonomic Vehicles Using Redundant Manipulator Analogs. 4606-4611 - Olivier Lefebvre, Florent Lamiraux, David Bonnafous:

Fast Computation of Robot-Obstacle Interactions in Nonholonomic Trajectory Deformation. 4612-4617
Planning Applications
- Jeffrey S. Norris, Mark W. Powell, Marsette Vona, Paul G. Backes, Justin V. Wick:

Mars Exploration Rover Operations with the Science Activity Planner. 4618-4623 - Nicolas Vandapel, James Kuffner, Omead Amidi:

Planning 3-D Path Networks in Unstructured Environments. 4624-4629 - Bokman Lim, Syungkwon Ra, Frank C. Park:

Movement Primitives, Principal Component Analysis, and the Efficient Generation of Natural Motions. 4630-4635 - Himanshu Chaudhary, Subir Kumar Saha

:
Matrix Formulation of Constraint Wrenches for Serial Manipulators. 4636-4641
Landmarks
- Martin Rous, Henning Luepschen, Karl-Friedrich Kraiss:

Vision-Based Indoor Scene Analysis for Natural Landmark Detection. 4642-4647 - Xiaoye Lu, Roberto Manduchi:

Detection and Localization of Curbs and Stairways Using Stereo Vision. 4648-4654 - Luke Fletcher, Lars Petersson

, Nick Barnes, David J. Austin, Alexander Zelinsky:
A Sign Reading Driver Assistance System Using Eye Gaze. 4655-4660 - Nick Barnes:

Improved Signal To Noise Ratio And Computational Speed For Gradient-Based Detection Algorithms. 4661-4666
Vision + Sensing
- Massimo Caccia

:
Experiments in Low Cost High Precision Motion Control for ROVs. 4667-4672 - Fernando Caballero

, Luis Merino
, Joaquin Ferruz
, Aníbal Ollero:
A visual odometer without 3D reconstruction for aerial vehicles. Applications to building inspection. 4673-4678 - Timothy G. McGee, Raja Sengupta, J. Karl Hedrick:

Obstacle Detection for Small Autonomous Aircraft Using Sky Segmentation. 4679-4684
Outdoor Navigation
- Stephen Paul Linder, Edward Wei, Alexander Clay:

Robotic Rock Climbing using Computer Vision and Force Feedback. 4685-4690 - Diana Mateus

, Juan Gabriel Aviña-Cervantes
, Michel Devy:
Robot Visual Navigation in Semi-structured Outdoor Environments. 4691-4696 - Martin Proetzsch, Tobias Luksch, Karsten Berns:

Fault-Tolerant Behavior-Based Motion Control for Offroad Navigation. 4697-4702 - Bingbing Liu, Martin David Adams, Javier Ibañez-Guzmán:

Multi-aided Inertial Navigation for Ground Vehicles in Outdoor Uneven Environments. 4703-4708
Serial Manipulators
- Alba Perez

, J. Michael McCarthy
:
Sizing a Serial Chain to Fit a Task Trajectory Using Clifford Algebra Exponentials. 4709-4715 - Jian Meng, Guanfeng Liu

, Zexiang Li
:
A Geometric Theory for Synthesis and Analysis of Sub-6 DoF Serial Manipulator Subchains. 4716-4721 - Kiju Lee

, Gregory S. Chirikjian:
A New Perspective on O(n) Mass-Matrix Inversion for Serial Revolute Manipulators. 4722-4726 - Dietmar Hildenbrand, Eduardo Bayro-Corrochano, Julio Zamora-Esquivel:

Advanced Geometric Approach for Graphics and Visual Guided Robot Object Manipulation. 4727-4732
Control V
- Pei-Chun Lin

, Haldun Komsuoglu, Daniel E. Koditschek:
Sensor Data Fusion for Body State Estimation in a Hexapod Robot with Dynamical Gaits. 4733-4738 - Moonzoo Kim, Kyo Chul Kang, Hyoungki Lee:

Formal Verification of Robot Movements - a Case Study on Home Service Robot SHR100. 4739-4744 - Sarangi P. Parikh, Valdir Grassi Jr.

, Vijay Kumar, Jun Okamoto Jr.:
Usability Study of a Control Framework for an Intelligent Wheelchair. 4745-4750 - Hocine Imine

, Yves Delanne:
Triangular Observers for Road Profiles Inputs Estimation and Vehicle Dynamics Analysis. 4751-4756 - Keyi Xing, Xiajie Jin, Yu Feng:

Deadlock Avoidance Petri Net Controller for Manufacturing Systems with Multiple Resource Service. 4757-4761 - Josep Fernández, Pedro López, Joan Oliva:

A Distributed Multirobot System Based on Edutainment Robots. 4271-4276

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