Experimental Robotics: The 13th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics

Front Matter....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
On the Development of a Programmable Inertia Generator....Pages 3-14
Design of Distributed End-Effectors for Caging-Specialized Manipulator....Pages 15-26
Experiments in Underactuated In-Hand Manipulation....Pages 27-40
Towards a Self-contained Soft Robotic Fish: On-Board Pressure Generation and Embedded Electro-permanent Magnet Valves....Pages 41-54
An Empirical Study of Static Loading on Piezoelectric Stick-Slip Actuators of Micromanipulators....Pages 55-69
Front Matter....Pages 71-71
Rapid Prototyping of Planning, Learning and Control in Physical Human-Robot Interaction....Pages 73-88
Identification of Human Limb Stiffness in 5 DoF and Estimation via EMG....Pages 89-99
Motor vs. Brake: Comparative Studies on Performance and Safety in Hybrid Actuations....Pages 101-111
Examining the Effect of Rear Leg Specialization on Dynamic Climbing with SCARAB: A Dynamic Quadrupedal Robot for Locomotion on Vertical and Horizontal Surfaces....Pages 113-126
Front Matter....Pages 127-128
Real-Time Clustering for Long-Term Autonomy....Pages 129-141
3-Dimensional Tiling for Distributed Assembly by Robot Teams....Pages 143-154
JediBot – Experiments in Human-Robot Sword-Fighting....Pages 155-166
Development of Aerobots for Satellite Emulation, Architecture and Art....Pages 167-181
Experimental Multi-Vehicle Path Coordination under Communication Connectivity Constraints....Pages 183-197
Proactively Approaching Pedestrians with an Autonomous Mobile Robot in Urban Environments....Pages 199-214
Multitask Humanoid Control with a Brain-Computer Interface: User Experiment with HRP-2....Pages 215-229
Coordination Strategies for Multi-robot Exploration and Mapping....Pages 231-243
Experiments Comparing Precision of Stereo-Vision Approaches for Control of an Industrial Manipulator....Pages 245-256
Front Matter....Pages 257-257
Environmental Sensing Using Land-Based Spectrally-Selective Cameras and a Quadcopter....Pages 259-272
State Estimation for Indoor and Outdoor Operation with a Micro-Aerial Vehicle....Pages 273-288
Front Matter....Pages 257-257
Influence of Aerodynamics and Proximity Effects in Quadrotor Flight....Pages 289-302
On the Consistency of Vision-Aided Inertial Navigation....Pages 303-317
Front Matter....Pages 319-319
Accurate Localization with Ultra-Wideband: Tessellated Spatial Models and Collaboration....Pages 321-335
Cooperative Multi-robot Estimation and Control for Radio Source Localization....Pages 337-351
Real-Time Optimized Rendezvous on Nonholonomic Resource-Constrained Robots....Pages 353-368
Front Matter....Pages 369-369
Learning Autonomous Driving Styles and Maneuvers from Expert Demonstration....Pages 371-386
Unsupervised Feature Learning for RGB-D Based Object Recognition....Pages 387-402
Learning to Parse Natural Language Commands to a Robot Control System....Pages 403-415
A Data-Driven Statistical Framework for Post-Grasp Manipulation....Pages 417-431
Front Matter....Pages 433-434
Grasping with Your Face....Pages 435-448
Human Aware Navigation for Assistive Robotics....Pages 449-462
Socially Assistive Robot Exercise Coach: Motivating Older Adults to Engage in Physical Exercise....Pages 463-479
Interpreting and Executing Recipes with a Cooking Robot....Pages 481-495
Front Matter....Pages 497-497
Load Equalization on a Two-Armed Robot via Proprioceptive Sensing....Pages 499-513
Mapping Grasps from the Human Hand to the DEXMART Hand by Means of Postural Synergies and Vision....Pages 515-529
Manipulation with Multiple Action Types....Pages 531-545
A Constraint-Aware Motion Planning Algorithm for Robotic Folding of Clothes....Pages 547-562
Front Matter....Pages 563-563
Towards the Development of a Master-Slave Surgical System for Breast Biopsy under Continuous MRI....Pages 565-577
Motion Compensated Catheter Ablation of the Beating Heart Using Image Guidance and Force Control....Pages 579-590
Robotic Micropipette Aspiration of Biological Cells....Pages 591-602
Front Matter....Pages 563-563
Quantitative Analysis of Locomotive Behavior of Human Sperm Head and Tail....Pages 603-616
Characterization and Control of Biological Microrobots....Pages 617-631
Front Matter....Pages 633-633
Computed-Torque Control of a Four-Degree-of-Freedom Admittance Controlled Intelligent Assist Device....Pages 635-649
Sampling-Based Direct Trajectory Generation Using the Minimum Time Cost Function....Pages 651-666
Antagonistic Control of Multi-DOF Joint....Pages 667-681
Lyapunov Based Sampling for Adaptive Tracking Control in Robot Manipulators: An Experimental Comparison....Pages 683-698
Linguistic Composition of Semantic Maps and Hybrid Controllers....Pages 699-714
Front Matter....Pages 715-715
Energy-Efficient Path Planning for Solar-Powered Mobile Robots....Pages 717-731
Change Detection Using Airborne LiDAR: Applications to Earthquakes....Pages 733-743
Automated Crop Yield Estimation for Apple Orchards....Pages 745-758
Spatial Interpolation for Robotic Sampling: Uncertainty with Two Models of Variance....Pages 759-774
Acoustic Masking of a Stealthy Outdoor Robot Tracking a Dynamic Target....Pages 775-786
Front Matter....Pages 787-788
Autonomous Adaptive Underwater Exploration using Online Topic Modeling....Pages 789-802
Active and Adaptive Dive Planning for Dense Bathymetric Mapping....Pages 803-817
Exploring Space-Time Tradeoffs in Autonomous Sampling for Marine Robotics....Pages 819-839
Autonomous, Localization-Free Underwater Data Muling Using Acoustic and Optical Communication....Pages 841-857
Local-Search Strategy for Active Localization of Multiple Invasive Fish....Pages 859-873
Front Matter....Pages 875-875
Experimental Comparison of Odometry Approaches....Pages 877-890
Building Large Scale Traversability Maps Using Vehicle Experience....Pages 891-905
Automatic and Full Calibration of Mobile Laser Scanning Systems....Pages 907-917
Front Matter....Pages 919-919
Hallucinating Humans for Learning Robotic Placement of Objects....Pages 921-937
Hand Shape Classification with a Wrist Contour Sensor....Pages 939-949
Experimental Validation of Operator Aids for High Speed Vehicle Teleoperation....Pages 951-962
Intention-Aware Pedestrian Avoidance....Pages 963-977
The UBC Visual Robot Survey: A Benchmark for Robot Category Recognition....Pages 979-991
Back Matter....Pages 993-995