Robotics Research: The Seventh International Symposium

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Session Summary....Pages 1-1
Hands for Dexterous Manipulation and Powerful Grasping: A Difficult Road Towards Simplicity....Pages 2-15
An Exploration of Nonprehensile Two-Palm Manipulation: Planning and Execution....Pages 16-27
Control of Physical Contact and Dynamic Interaction....Pages 28-38
Reorienting Objects with a Robot Hand Using Grasp Gaits....Pages 39-51
Session Summary....Pages 53-54
Another Language for Describing Robot Motions: A Nonlinear Position-dependent Circuit Theory....Pages 55-66
Nonlinear Behavior and Control of Underactuated Robotic Mechanisms....Pages 67-77
Parallel Force/Position Control of Robot Manipulators....Pages 78-89
Modeling, Controllability and Vibration Suppression of 3D Flexible Robots....Pages 90-99
Moving Base Robotics and Reaction Management Control....Pages 100-109
Session Summary....Pages 111-111
Robotic Aids for Laparoscopic Surgery Problems....Pages 112-121
Design of Customized Rehabilitation Aids....Pages 122-133
Session Summary....Pages 135-136
Perception Action Network for Sensor Fusion and Planning....Pages 137-148
Toward A Systems Theory for the Composition of Dynamically Dexterous Robot Behaviors....Pages 149-161
Research Program on Mechanisms for Emergent Machine Intelligence....Pages 162-170
Session Summary....Pages 171-172
Force Replication to the Human Operator: The Development of Arm and Hand Exoskeletons as Haptic Interfaces....Pages 173-182
Intelligent Tele-Robotics....Pages 183-194
Performance Measures for Haptic Interfaces....Pages 195-206
Operator Control of Robotic Systems....Pages 207-213
Haptic Virtual Reality: Display of Operating Feel of Dynamic Virtual Objects....Pages 214-221
Session Summary....Pages 223-224
Formal Verification in Robotics: Why and How?....Pages 225-236
Robot Motion Planning in Dynamic Environments....Pages 237-248
A Random Sampling Scheme for Path Planning....Pages 249-264
Planar Manipulation on a Conveyor with a One Joint Robot....Pages 265-277
Session Summary....Pages 277-278
Behavior Acquisition via Vision-Based Robot Learning....Pages 279-286
Perception and Manipulation in Robotics: Neural Network Approaches....Pages 287-295
Integration of Symbolic and Subsymbolic Learning to Support Robot Programming by Human Demonstration....Pages 296-307
Designing Skills with Visual Feedback for APO....Pages 308-320
Session Summary....Pages 321-322
A Multi-Robot Cooperation Scheme Based on Incremental Plan-Merging....Pages 323-332
Force Strategies for Cooperative Tasks in Multiple Mobile Manipulation Systems....Pages 333-342
Behavior Matching by Observation for Multi-Robot Cooperation....Pages 343-352
3D Vision — Shape and Colour....Pages 354-367
A Multi-body Factorization Method for Motion Analysis....Pages 368-377
Focus Range Sensors....Pages 378-390
Is Structure-From-Motion Worth Pursuing?....Pages 391-400
Session Summary....Pages 401-402
Visual Guidance of an AGV....Pages 403-415
Active Vision and Seeing Robots....Pages 416-427
Automatic Task Planning for Robot Vision....Pages 428-439
Object Tracking by Using Optical Flows and Edges....Pages 440-447
Session Summary....Pages 449-449
Adaptive Navigation for Autonomous Mobile Robots....Pages 450-458
Parallel Use of Differential and Integral Representations for Realising Efficient Mobile Robots....Pages 459-469
Robust Autonomous Low-Cost Mobility....Pages 470-474
Obstacle Detection for Unmanned Ground Vehicles: A Progress Report....Pages 475-486
Session Summary....Pages 487-487
Dynamic Issues in Robot Visual-Servo Systems....Pages 488-498
Extended Vision with the Robot Sensor Suit: A Primary Sensor Image Approach to Interfacing Body to Brain....Pages 499-508
Session Summary....Pages 509-509
Symbolic Geometry and Effective Algebra for Solving Problems in Computer Vision: Where do we Stand, Where may we Go....Pages 510-527
Sine-Cosine Polynomial Systems....Pages 529-534
Session Summary....Pages 535-535
Geometric Perspectives on the Mechanics and Control of Robotic Locomotion....Pages 536-547
Design of Hyper-Redundant Arm....Pages 548-557
The Calibration Index and the Role of Input Noise in Robot Calibration....Pages 558-567
Session Summary....Pages 569-569
A Planar Milli-Robot System on an Air Bearing....Pages 570-581
Sub-Micron Large Motion Multi-Robot Planar Motion System or ROBOTWORLD — The Next Generation....Pages 582-595
Intelligent Manipulation Robot in Micro and Nano meter World....Pages 596-604
Hybrid Robots Consisting of Mechanical Parts and Living Organisms for Microrobot Application....Pages 605-609
Session Summary....Pages 611-612
Localization of Autonomous Guided Vehicles....Pages 613-625
Hardware Design Methods and Proposals for Open System Architecture of Intelligent Robots....Pages 626-633
Robots, Transportation, and Society....Pages 634-639
Back Matter....Pages 641-645