Experimental Robotics IV: The 4th International Symposium, Stanford, California, June 30 – July 2, 1995

Collective and cooperative group behaviours: Biologically inspired experiments in robotics....Pages 1-10
Distributed robotic manipulation: Experiments in minimalism....Pages 11-25
A general framework for multi-robot cooperation and its implementation on a set of three hilare robots....Pages 26-39
Cooperative autonomous low-cost robots for exploring unknown environments....Pages 40-49
An object-oriented framework for event-driven dextrous manipulation....Pages 51-61
Toward obstacle avoidance in intermittent dynamical environments....Pages 62-70
Integrating grasp planning and visual servoing for automatic grasping....Pages 71-82
contact and grasp robustness measures: Analysis and experiments....Pages 83-90
Performance limits and stiffness control of multifingered hands....Pages 91-102
Real-time vision plus remote-brained design opens a new world for experimental robotics....Pages 103-113
Experimental validation of an active visual control scheme based on a reduced set of image parameters....Pages 114-120
Task oriented model-driven visually servoed agents....Pages 121-129
Experiments in hand-eye coordination using active vision....Pages 130-139
Visual positioning and docking of non-holonomic vehicles....Pages 140-149
An intelligent observer....Pages 151-160
The development of a robotic endoscope....Pages 161-169
The extender technology: An example of human-machine interaction via the transfer of power and information signals....Pages 170-180
Coordinated and force-feedback control of hydraulic excavators....Pages 181-194
Experiments with a real-time structure-from-motion system....Pages 195-203
Robotic perception of material: Experiments with shape-invariant acoustic measures of material type....Pages 204-211
Multi-level 3D-tracking of objects integrating velocity estimation based on optical flow and kalman-filtering....Pages 212-221
Experimental approach on artificial active antenna....Pages 222-230
Low cost sensor based obstacle detection and description....Pages 231-237
Parameter sensitivity analysis for design and control of tendon transmissions....Pages 239-252
Stiffness isn't everything....Pages 253-262
In pursuit of dynamic range: Using parallel coupled actuators to overcome hardware limitations....Pages 263-273
Total least squares in robot calibration....Pages 274-282
Symbolic modelling and experimental determination of physical parameters for complex elastic manipulators....Pages 283-295
Learning compliant motions by task-demonstration in virtual environments....Pages 297-307
Motion control for a hitting task: A learning approach to inverse mapping....Pages 308-318
Experimental verification of progressive learning control for high-speed direct-drive robots with structure flexibility and non-collocated sensors....Pages 319-330
Accurate positioning of devices with nonlinear friction using fuzzy logic pulse controller....Pages 331-342
Platooning for small public urban vehicles....Pages 343-354
Robust vehicle navigation....Pages 355-362
Dynamic analysis of off-road vehicles....Pages 363-371
An autonomous guided vehicle for cargo handling applications....Pages 372-379
Robots that take advice....Pages 381-389
Towards principled experimental study of autonomous mobile robots....Pages 390-401
Mission programming: Application to underwater robots....Pages 402-411
Specification, formal verification and implementation of tasks and missions for an autonomous vehicle....Pages 412-421
Experimental study on modeling and control of flexible manipulators using virtual joint model....Pages 423-435
Experimental research on impact dynamics of spaceborne manipulator systems....Pages 436-447
An operational space formulation for a free-flying, multi-arm space robot....Pages 448-457
Experimental research of a nonholonomic manipulator....Pages 458-466
Mobile manipulation of a fragile object....Pages 467-474
Empirical verification of fine-motion planning theories....Pages 475-485
Estimating throughput for a flexible part feeder....Pages 486-497
Interest of the dual hybrid control scheme for teleoperation with time delays for proceeding of ISER'95....Pages 498-506
Robot force control experiments with an actively damped compliant end effector....Pages 507-515
Improved force control for conventional arms using wrist-based torque feedback....Pages 516-525
Indoor navigation of an inverse pendulum type autonomous mobile robot with adaptive stabilization control system....Pages 527-537
Motion and perception strategies for outdoor mobile robot navigation in unknown environments....Pages 538-547
Programming symmetric platonic beast robots....Pages 548-557
An experimental study on motion control of a biped locomotion machine using reaction wheels....Pages 558-565
Real-time programming of mobile robot actions using advanced control techniques....Pages 566-574