Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment (AMiRE 2005)

Swarm-bot: A Novel Type of Self-Assembling Robot....Pages 3-4
Self-reconfigurable Robots with ATRON Modules....Pages 5-18
Universal FPGA-Microcontroller Module for Autonomous Minirobots....Pages 21-26
Seeing Empty Space in an Unknown Environment without Silhouettes....Pages 27-32
SubSim: An autonomous underwater vehicle simulation package....Pages 33-38
Toward Micro Wall-Climbing Robots Using Biomimetic Fibrillar Adhesives....Pages 39-46
Teleworkbench: A Teleoperated Platform for Multi-Robot Experiments....Pages 49-54
Teleoperation of a Mobile Autonomous Robot using Web Services....Pages 55-60
Bluetooth for Autonomous Mini-Robots and Scatternet Formation....Pages 61-66
Teleoperation of A Mobile Robot under Office Automation Floors with Visual Assistance....Pages 67-72
Developing a Goal Keeper for Simulated RoboCup Soccer and its Performance Evaluation....Pages 75-80
An Action Rule Discovery Technique from Simulated RoboCup Soccer Logs....Pages 81-86
Adapting Recognition of Shootable Situations by Learning from Experience and Observation in a RoboCup Simulated Soccer Game....Pages 87-92
Getting closer: How Simulation and Humanoid League can benefit from each other....Pages 93-98
Evaluation for Selecting Method Using Reinforcement Learning with Hand-Coded Rules in RoboCup Soccer Agents....Pages 99-104
Yumekobo: An Effective Educational System for RoboCup....Pages 107-112
A Method of Sensing own States for Tele-operating Aibos at Ruined Homes....Pages 113-118
Trajectory Generation for a Mobile Robot by Reinforcement Learning....Pages 119-124
Multi-Layered Fuzzy Behavior Control Method for Autonomous Soccer Robot with MOVIS....Pages 125-132
FPGA-based Object Detection in Robot Soccer Application....Pages 135-140
Robot Soccer KheperaSot League: Challenges and Future Directions....Pages 141-146
What Robot Soccer can Contribute to Education and Research — Some Lessons Learned....Pages 147-153
Coevolutionary Algorithm for Behavior Acquisition of Soccer Robots....Pages 154-159
Relation between Contour Integration and Figure-Ground Separation....Pages 161-166
How the early visual system extract angles and junctions embedded within contour stimuli?....Pages 167-174
Neural Correlate of Depth Cue Integration Studied with MEG....Pages 175-180
Coding of 3D curvature in the parietal cortex (area CIP) of macaque monkey....Pages 181-186
A Study of Orientation Selectivity of TAM Network Incorporated Receptive Field Structure....Pages 187-192
Evolutionary Recognition of Corridor and Branch using Adaptive Model with Layered Structure....Pages 195-200
A Direct Localization Method Using only the Bearings Extracted from Two Panoramic Views Along a Linear Trajectory....Pages 201-206
Early Results in Vision-based Map Building....Pages 207-216
Prediction of Fish Motion by Neural Network....Pages 217-222
Visual Homing with Learned Goal Distance Information....Pages 223-229
A Low Cost Controller Board for Teaching Robotics....Pages 231-236
Robotics and Robotics Education with Smalltalk....Pages 237-242
Education for Creativity by Making Small Line Trace Robot in Department of HAIS, University of Fukui....Pages 243-247
Education Using Small Humanoid Robot....Pages 248-253
Self-Organization of Spiking Neural Network Generating Autonomous Behavior in a Miniature Mobile Robot....Pages 255-260
Behavioral Selection Using the Utility Function Method: A Case Study Involving a Simple Guard Robot....Pages 261-266
Spiking Neural Network for Behavior Learning of A Mobile Robot....Pages 267-272
Safety of Autonomous Evolutionary Robots : Elimination of Certain Behavioral patterns by Complex Systems Analysis....Pages 273-278
Two Steps towards a Mechanically Autonomous Self-replicating System....Pages 281-286
Using mini robots for prototyping intersection management of vehicles....Pages 287-292
Embodied Cognition in Directed Multi-Agent Systems - Empirical Study on Subjective Distance -....Pages 293-298
Crack Detection by Mobile Robot with ECT Sensor....Pages 299-304
Self-organized Path Formation by Ant Robots - An Approach to Understanding Ant’s Acts by Autonomous Distributed Systems -....Pages 307-313
Autonomous Self-assembly in a Swarm-bot....Pages 314-322
Long-term Interaction between Seal Robots and Elderly People — Robot Assisted Activity at a Health Service Facility for the Aged —....Pages 325-330
State Space Self Organization based on Human-Robot Interaction....Pages 331-336
Strategies using Facial Expressions and Gaze Behaviors for Animated Agents....Pages 337-343
Emotion Behavior Learning System Based on Meta-Parameter Control of Q-Learning with plural Q-values....Pages 344-349
Development of a Companion Robot “SELF”....Pages 351-359
An Evaluation of the Methods to Convert Non-segmented “kana” Strings to “kanji-kana” Strings Using Markov Chain Models....Pages 360-367
An Evaluation of the Method to Detect Erroneous Sentences of “kana-to-kanji” conversion....Pages 368-375
Cyclic Gestures Recognition for Interactive Learning of A Partner Robot....Pages 376-381
Traffic-like Movement on a Trail of Interacting Robots with Virtual Pheromone....Pages 383-388
Extending the Temporal Horizon of Autonomous Robots....Pages 389-395