Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems: 12th Annual Conference, TAROS 2011, Sheffield, UK, August 31 – September 2, 2011. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
A Cricket-Controlled Robot Orienting towards a Sound Source....Pages 1-12
A General Classifier of Whisker Data Using Stationary Naive Bayes: Application to BIOTACT Robots....Pages 13-23
A Navigation System for a High-Speed Professional Cleaning Robot....Pages 24-35
A Recursive Least Squares Solution for Recovering Robust Planar Homographies....Pages 36-45
Airborne Ultrasonic Position and Velocity Measurement Using Two Cycles of Linear-Period-Modulated Signal....Pages 46-53
An Eye Detection and Localization System for Natural Human and Robot Interaction without Face Detection....Pages 54-65
An Implementation of a Biologically Inspired Model of Head Direction Cells on a Robot....Pages 66-77
Contextual Recognition of Robot Emotions....Pages 78-89
Costs and Benefits of Behavioral Specialization....Pages 90-101
CrunchBot: A Mobile Whiskered Robot Platform....Pages 102-113
Deformation-Based Tactile Feedback Using a Biologically-Inspired Sensor and a Modified Display....Pages 114-124
Design and Control of an Upper Limb Exoskeleton Robot RehabRoby....Pages 125-136
Distributed Motion Planning for Ground Objects Using a Network of Robotic Ceiling Cameras....Pages 137-148
Evaluating the Effect of Robot Group Size on Relative Localisation Precision....Pages 149-160
Instance-Based Reinforcement Learning Technique with a Meta-learning Mechanism for Robust Multi-Robot Systems....Pages 161-172
Locomotion Selection and Mechanical Design for a Mobile Intra-abdominal Adhesion-Reliant Robot for Minimally Invasive Surgery....Pages 173-182
Mapping with Sparse Local Sensors and Strong Hierarchical Priors....Pages 183-194
Multi-rate Visual Servoing Based on Dual-Rate High Order Holds....Pages 195-206
Optimal Path Planning for Nonholonomic Robotic Systems via Parametric Optimisation....Pages 207-218
Probabilistic Logic Reasoning about Traffic Scenes....Pages 219-230
Real-World Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Humanoid Robot Charging in a Home Environment....Pages 231-240
Robot Routing Approaches for Convoy Merging Maneuvers....Pages 241-252
Sensing with Artificial Tactile Sensors: An Investigation of Spatio-temporal Inference....Pages 253-264
Short-Range Radar Perception in Outdoor Environments....Pages 265-276
Smooth Kinematic Controller vs. Pure-Pursuit for Non-holonomic Vehicles....Pages 277-288
Supervised Traversability Learning for Robot Navigation....Pages 289-298
Task Space Integral Sliding Mode Controller Implementation for 4DOF of a Humanoid BERT II Arm with Posture Control....Pages 299-310
Towards Autonomous Energy-Wise RObjects....Pages 311-322
Towards Safe Human-Robot Interaction....Pages 323-335
Towards Temporal Verification of Emergent Behaviours in Swarm Robotic Systems....Pages 336-347
Walking Rover Trafficability - Presenting a Comprehensive Analysis and Prediction Tool....Pages 348-359
What Can a Personal Robot Do for You?....Pages 360-371
A Systems Integration Approach to Creating Embodied Biomimetic Models of Active Vision....Pages 372-373
A Validation of Localisation Accuracy Improvements by the Combined Use of GPS and GLONASS....Pages 374-375
Adaptive Particle Filter for Fault Detection and Isolation of Mobile Robots....Pages 376-377
An Approach to Improving Attitude Estimation Based on Low-Cost MEMS-IMU for Mobile Robot Navigation....Pages 378-379
Cooperative Multi-robot Box Pushing Inspired by Human Behaviour....Pages 380-381
Cooperative Navigation and Integration of a Human into Multi-robot System....Pages 382-383
Coordination in Multi-tiered Robotic Search....Pages 384-385
Covert Robotics: Improving Covertness with Escapability and Non-Line-of-Sight Sensing....Pages 386-387
Designing Electric Propulsion Systems for UAVs....Pages 388-389
Enhancing Self-similar Patterns by Asymmetric Artificial Potential Functions in Partially Connected Swarms....Pages 390-391
Evolving Modularity in Robot Behaviour Using Gene Expression Programming....Pages 392-393
Forming Nested 3D Structures Based on the Brazil Nut Effect....Pages 394-395
Grasping of Deformable Objects Applied to Organic Produce....Pages 396-397
Learning to Grasp Information with Your Own Hands....Pages 398-399
Long-Term Experiment Using an Adaptive Appearance-Based Map for Visual Navigation by Mobile Robots....Pages 400-401
Occupancy Grid-Based SLAM Using a Mobile Robot with a Ring of Eight Sonar Transducers....Pages 402-403
On the Analysis of Parameter Convergence for Temporal Difference Learning of an Exemplar Balance Problem....Pages 404-405
Online Hazard Analysis for Autonomous Robots....Pages 406-407
Results of the European Land Robot Trial and Their Usability for Benchmarking Outdoor Robot Systems....Pages 408-409
Solutions for a Variable Compliance Gripper Design....Pages 410-411
Study of Routing Algorithms Considering Real Time Restrictions Using a Connectivity Function....Pages 412-413
Systematic Design of Flexible Magnetic Wall and Ceiling Climbing Robot for Cargo Screening....Pages 414-415
Tactile Afferent Simulation from Pressure Arrays....Pages 416-417
The Interaction between Vortices and a Biomimetic Flexible Fin....Pages 418-419
Toward an Ecological Approach to Interface Design for Teaching Robots....Pages 420-421
Towards Adaptive Robotic Green Plants....Pages 422-423
Using Image Depth Information for Fast Face Detection....Pages 424-425
Using Sequences of Knots as a Random Search....Pages 426-427
Vision-Based Segregation Behaviours in a Swarm of Autonomous Robots....Pages 428-429
Visual-Inertial Motion Priors for Robust Monocular SLAM....Pages 430-431
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