Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems: 18th Annual Conference, TAROS 2017, Guildford, UK, July 19–21, 2017, Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
Development of an Immersive Interface for Robot Teleoperation....Pages 1-15
Generalizing Movement Primitives to New Situations....Pages 16-31
Recovery of a Humanoid Robot from a Destabilising Impact....Pages 32-40
Using Robot Operating System (ROS) and Single Board Computer to Control Bioloid Robot Motion....Pages 41-50
Verification of Visibility-Based Properties on Multiple Moving Robots....Pages 51-65
Self-adaptive Context Aware Audio Localization for Robots Using Parallel Cerebellar Models....Pages 66-78
A Comparison of Analytical and Empirical Controllers for the SLIP Hopper....Pages 79-85
Design and Testing of a Parallel Manipulator for Space Micro-vibration Simulation....Pages 86-100
The Automated Box and Blocks Test an Autonomous Assessment Method of Gross Manual Dexterity in Stroke Rehabilitation....Pages 101-114
Combining Depth and Intensity Images to Produce Enhanced Object Detection for Use in a Robotic Colony....Pages 115-125
Investigation of Hardware-in-the-Loop Walking/Running Test with Spring Mass System....Pages 126-133
Surface Inspection via Hitting Sets and Multi-goal Motion Planning....Pages 134-149
Integrated and Adaptive Locomotion and Manipulation for Self-reconfigurable Robots....Pages 150-165
Risk-Based Triggering of Bio-inspired Self-preservation to Protect Robots from Threats....Pages 166-181
Shark-Inspired Target Approach Strategy for Foraging with Visual Clues....Pages 182-198
An Open-Source Tele-Operated Mobile Manipulator: CHAP V1....Pages 199-210
Local Real-Time Motion Planning Using Evolutionary Optimization....Pages 211-221
Towards Automated Strawberry Harvesting: Identifying the Picking Point....Pages 222-236
Evaluating the Capabilities of a Flight-Style Swarm AUV to Perform Emergent and Adaptive Behaviours....Pages 237-246
Reactive Virtual Forces for Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Swarm Exploration and Mapping....Pages 247-261
The Case for an Ethical Black Box....Pages 262-273
Robot Transparency: Improving Understanding of Intelligent Behaviour for Designers and Users....Pages 274-289
Children’s Age Influences Their Use of Biological and Mechanical Questions Towards a Humanoid....Pages 290-299
aMussels: Diving and Anchoring in a New Bio-inspired Under-Actuated Robot Class for Long-Term Environmental Exploration and Monitoring....Pages 300-314
Autonomous Vehicle Decision-Making: Should We Be Bio-inspired?....Pages 315-324
Homeostatic Robot Control Using Simple Neuromodulatory Techniques....Pages 325-339
Probabilistic Combination of Noisy Points and Planes for RGB-D Odometry....Pages 340-350
Low-Power and Low-Cost Stiffness-Variable Oesophageal Tissue Phantom....Pages 351-362
Soft Robotic Snake with Variable Stiffness Actuation....Pages 363-377
Model Identification of a 3 Finger Adaptive Robot Gripper by Using MATLAB SIT....Pages 378-392
Towards Fault Diagnosis in Robot Swarms: An Online Behaviour Characterisation Approach....Pages 393-407
Measuring the Effects of Communication Quality on Multi-robot Team Performance....Pages 408-420
Mechanism Selection for Multi-Robot Task Allocation....Pages 421-435
The Power of GMMs: Unsupervised Dirt Spot Detection for Industrial Floor Cleaning Robots....Pages 436-449
Autonomous Object Handover Using Wrist Tactile Information....Pages 450-463
A Flexible Component-Based Robot Control Architecture for Hormonal Modulation of Behaviour and Affect....Pages 464-474
Drivers’ Manoeuvre Classification for Safe HRI....Pages 475-483
From Vision to Grasping: Adapting Visual Networks....Pages 484-494
Design and Implementation of a Low Cost Prosthetic Hand....Pages 495-506
The Virtual Bee Hive....Pages 507-515
Strategies for Selecting Best Approach Direction for a Sweet-Pepper Harvesting Robot....Pages 516-525
Algorithmic Approach to Planar Void Detection and Validation in Point Clouds....Pages 526-539
Elastomeric Spring Actuator Using Nylon Wires....Pages 540-547
Characterization of Kinetic and Kinematic Parameters for Wearable Robotics....Pages 548-556
A Material-Based Model for the Simulation and Control of Soft Robot Actuator....Pages 557-569
A Robot Gripper with Sensor Skin....Pages 570-575
Robotics Education for Children at Secondary School Level and Above....Pages 576-585
Formal Method for Mission Controller Generation of a Mobile Robot....Pages 586-600
Towards Camera Based Navigation in 3D Maps by Synthesizing Depth Images....Pages 601-616
Real-World, Real-Time Robotic Grasping with Convolutional Neural Networks....Pages 617-626
3D Printed Sensorized Soft Robotic Manipulator Design....Pages 627-636
Reinforcement Learning for Bio-Inspired Target Seeking....Pages 637-650
Mobile Manipulators for Cooperative Transportation of Objects in Common....Pages 651-660
Navigation and Dynamic Control of Omnidirectional Platforms....Pages 661-672
Unified Dynamic Control of Omnidirectional Robots....Pages 673-685
Mechanics of Continuum Manipulators, a Comparative Study of Five Methods with Experiments....Pages 686-702
Back Matter....Pages 703-705