Field and Service Robotics: Results of the 8th International Conference

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Utilization of Robot Systems in Disaster Sites of the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake....Pages 1-17
Improvements to the Rescue Robot Quince Toward Future Indoor Surveillance Missions in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant....Pages 19-32
Collaborative Mapping of an Earthquake Damaged Building via Ground and Aerial Robots....Pages 33-47
Three-Dimensional Thermography Mapping for Mobile Rescue Robots....Pages 49-63
Creating Multi-Viewpoint Panoramas of Streets with Sparsely Located Buildings....Pages 65-79
Disaster Back-up Support using GIS Contents Composed of Images from Satellite and UAV....Pages 81-96
Mine Detecting Robot System....Pages 97-109
Experience in System Design for Human-Robot Teaming in Urban Search and Rescue....Pages 111-125
Advancing the State of Urban Search and Rescue Robotics Through the RoboCupRescue Robot League Competition....Pages 127-142
Estimating the 3D Position of Humans Wearing a Reflective Vest Using a Single Camera System....Pages 143-157
Impression of Android for Communication Support in Hospitals and Elderly Facilities....Pages 159-173
Multi-Robot Formation Control via a Real-Time Drawing Interface....Pages 175-189
Evaluation and Training System of Muscle Strength for Leg Rehabilitation Utilizing an MR Fluid Active Loading Machine....Pages 191-203
Automated and Frequent Calibration of a Robot Manipulator-mounted IR Range Camera for Steel Bridge Maintenance....Pages 205-218
Vertical Infrastructure Inspection Using a Quadcopter and Shared Autonomy Control....Pages 219-232
Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems for Remote Gas Leak Detection and Localization in Industrial Environments....Pages 233-247
To the Bookstore! Autonomous Wheelchair Navigation in an Urban Environment....Pages 249-263
A Trail-Following Robot Which Uses Appearance and Structural Cues....Pages 265-279
Construction of Semantic Maps for Personal Mobility Robots in Dynamic Outdoor Environments....Pages 281-296
Terrain Mapping and Control Optimization for a 6-Wheel Rover with Passive Suspension....Pages 297-310
Robust Monocular Visual Odometry for a Ground Vehicle in Undulating Terrain....Pages 311-326
Lighting-Invariant Visual Odometry using Lidar Intensity Imagery and Pose Interpolation....Pages 327-342
Modeling and Calibrating Visual Yield Estimates in Vineyards....Pages 343-356
Forest 3D Mapping and Tree Sizes Measurement for Forest Management Based on Sensing Technology for Mobile Robots....Pages 357-368
Iterative Autonomous Excavation....Pages 369-382
Rock Recognition Using Stereo Vision for Large Rock Breaking Operation....Pages 383-397
Plowing for Rover Control on Extreme Slopes....Pages 399-413
Complementary Flyover and Rover Sensing for Superior Modeling of Planetary Features....Pages 415-429
Path Planning and Navigation Framework for a Planetary Exploration Rover Using a Laser Range Finder....Pages 431-447
Motion Analysis System for Robot Traction Device Evaluation and Design....Pages 449-463
Image-Directed Sampling for Geometric Modeling of Lunar Terrain....Pages 465-478
Efficient Large-Scale 3D Mobile Mapping and Surface Reconstruction of an Underground Mine....Pages 479-493
Large Scale Monocular Vision-Only Mapping from a Fixed-Wing sUAS....Pages 495-509
Super-Voxel Based Segmentation and Classification of 3D Urban Landscapes with Evaluation and Comparison....Pages 511-526
Classification of 3-D Point Cloud Data that Includes Line and Frame Objects on the Basis of Geometrical Features and the Pass Rate of Laser Rays....Pages 527-540
Solid Model Reconstruction of Large-Scale Outdoor Scenes from 3D Lidar Data....Pages 541-554
Lightweight Laser Scan Registration in Underground Mines with Band-based Downsampling Method....Pages 555-567
Featureless Visual Processing for SLAM in Changing Outdoor Environments....Pages 569-583
Gold-Fish SLAM: An Application of SLAM to Localize AGVs....Pages 585-598
Design, Development, and Mobility Test of an Omnidirectional Mobile Robot for Rough Terrain....Pages 599-611
A Vector Algebra Formulation of Mobile Robot Velocity Kinematics....Pages 613-627
A Self-Learning Ground Classifier Using Radar Features....Pages 629-642
Development of a Low Cost Multi-Robot Autonomous Marine Surface Platform....Pages 643-658