Robotics Research. The Eleventh International Symposium: With 303 Figures

Front Matter....Pages -
Session Summary....Pages 3-5
Toward Autonomous Free-Climbing Robots....Pages 6-15
Whole Quadruped/Hexapod Manipulation....Pages 16-25
Dexterous Motion Design for a DD Parallel Robot....Pages 26-35
Current Issues in Sampling-Based Motion Planning....Pages 36-54
Session Summary....Pages 57-59
A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach to the Revisiting Problem in Mobile Robot Map Building....Pages 60-69
Efficient Construction of Globally Consistent Ladar Maps Using Pose Network Topology and Nonlinear Programming....Pages 70-79
Probabilistic Roadmaps of Trees for Parallel Computation of Multiple Query Roadmaps....Pages 80-89
Topology in Motion Planning....Pages 90-99
aSyMov: A Planner That Deals with Intricate Symbolic and Geometric Problems....Pages 100-110
Session Summary....Pages 113-114
Microrobotics for Molecular Biology: Manipulating Deformable Objects at the Microscale....Pages 115-124
Modeling of Brain Mechanical Properties for Computer-Integrated Medicine....Pages 125-134
Assisted Teleoperation Through the Merging of Real and Virtual Images....Pages 135-144
Surgical Robots at TIMC: Where We Are and Where We Go....Pages 145-156
Session Summary....Pages 159-161
Retracted: Human-Machine Collaborative Systems for Microsurgical Applications....Pages 162-171
Intuitive Human-Robot Interaction Through Active 3D Gaze Tracking....Pages 172-181
Designing an Encountered-Type Haptic Display for Multiple Fingertip Contacts Based on the Observation of Human Grasping Behavior....Pages 182-191
Face Recognition Using Multi-viewpoint Patterns for Robot Vision....Pages 192-201
Robot-Robot and Human-Robot Cooperation in Commercial Robotics Applications....Pages 202-216
Session Summary....Pages 219-223
Abstraction and Control for Swarms of Robots....Pages 224-233
Networked Robots: Flying Robot Navigation Using a Sensor Net....Pages 234-243
A Multi Agent Distributed Sensing Architecture with Application to Planetary Cliff Exploration....Pages 244-253
Multi-robot SLAM with Sparse Extended Information Filers....Pages 254-266
Session Summary....Pages 269-270
Safe Robot Driving in Cluttered Environments....Pages 271-280
Feedback Control of Underactuated Systems via Sequential Composition: Visually Guided Control of a Unicycle....Pages 281-290
Obstacle Detection in Foliage with Ladar and Radar....Pages 291-300
Session Summary....Pages 303-304
Visual Tracking of Multiple Objects Using Binary Space Partitioning Trees....Pages 305-314
Simultaneous Localization and Mapping with Stereovision....Pages 315-324
Applying Active Vision and SLAM to Wearables....Pages 325-334
Seeing Through Bad Weather....Pages 335-350
Session Summary....Pages 353-354
SDR-4X II: A Small Humanoid as an Entertainer in Home Environment....Pages 355-364
Motion Planning for Humanoid Robots....Pages 365-374
The Human-Size Humanoid Robot That Can Walk, Lie Down and Get Up....Pages 375-384
Exploiting the Global Dynamics Structure of Whole-Body Humanoid Motion - Getting the “Knack” of Roll-and-Rise Motion....Pages 385-394
Session Summary....Pages 397-398
Recasting SLAM - Towards Improving Efficiency and Platform Independency....Pages 399-408
Towards Constant-Time SLAM on an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Using Synthetic Aperture Sonar....Pages 409-420
Towards Lazy Data Association in SLAM....Pages 421-431
Building Blocks for SLAM in Autonomous Compliant Motion....Pages 432-441
Multi-resolution SLAM for Real World Navigation....Pages 442-452
Session Summary....Pages 455-455
Perception of Curvature and Object Motion via Contact Location Feedback....Pages 456-465
Multi-contact Haptic Interaction with Deformable Objects: A Multi-rate Approach....Pages 466-478
A Model for Machine Perception in Natural Environments....Pages 479-488
Multisensory Interaction: Real and Virtual....Pages 489-498
Session Summary....Pages 501-501
Untethered Micro-Actuators for Autonomous Micro-robot Locomotion: Design, Fabrication, Control, and Performance....Pages 502-516
The 100G Capturing Robot – Too Fast to See....Pages 517-526
Variable Stiffness Actuators for Fast and Safe Motion Control....Pages 527-536
Session Summary....Pages 539-540
A Biologically Inspired Passive Antenna for Steering Control of a Running Robot....Pages 541-550
Learning from Observation and from Practice Using Behavioral Primitives....Pages 551-560
Learning Movement Primitives....Pages 561-572
A Statistic Model of Embodied Symbol Emergence....Pages 573-584
Lessons from the Past 50 Years of Robotics....Pages 587-592
Open Forum....Pages 595-595
Erratum: Human-Machine Collaborative Systems for Microsurgical Applications....Pages E1-E1