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ICRA 2006: Orlando, Florida, USA
- Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2006, May 15-19, 2006, Orlando, Florida, USA. IEEE 2006

Nonlinear Control of Robotic Systems
- Omar A. A. Orqueda, Rafael Fierro:

A Vision-based Nonlinear Decentralized Controller for Unmanned Vehicles. 1-6 - Khoi B. Ngo, Robert E. Mahony

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Bounded Torque Control for Robot Manipulators Subject to Joint Velocity Constraints. 7-12 - Javier Moreno-Valenzuela

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A New Velocity Field Controller for Robot Arms. 13-18 - Javier Moreno-Valenzuela

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Tracking Control of On-line Time-scaled Trajectories for Robot Manipulators under Constrained Torques. 19-24 - Ryo Kikuuwe

, Hideo Fujimoto:
Proxy-based Sliding Mode Control for Accurate and Safe Position Control. 25-30 - Justin R. Garretson, William T. Becker, Steven Dubowsky:

The Design of a Friction Compensation Control Architecture for a Heavy Lift Precision Manipulator in Contact with the Environment. 31-36
Localization
- Jason M. O'Kane

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Global Localization using Odometry. 37-42 - Agostino Martinelli, Davide Scaramuzza

, Roland Siegwart
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Automatic Self-calibration of a Vision System during Robot Motion. 43-48 - Patrick Beeson, Aniket Murarka, Benjamin Kuipers:

Adapting Proposal Distributions for Accurate, Efficient Mobile Robot Localization. 49-55 - Alex Brooks, Alexei Makarenko, Ben Upcroft:

Gaussian Process Models for Sensor-centric Robot Localisation. 56-61 - Jan Hoffmann, Michael Spranger, Daniel Göhring

, Matthias Jüngel, Hans-Dieter Burkhard:
Further Studies on the Use of Negative Information in Mobile Robot Localization. 62-67 - Kanji Tanaka, Eiji Kondo:

Incremental RANSAC for Online Relocation in Large Dynamic Environments. 68-75
Humanoid Design
- Yu Ogura, Hiroyuki Aikawa, Kazushi Shimomura, Hideki Kondo, Akitoshi Morishima, Hun-ok Lim, Atsuo Takanishi:

Development of a New Humanoid Robot WABIAN-2. 76-81 - Ikuo Mizuuchi

, Tomoaki Yoshikai, Yoshinao Sodeyama, Yuto Nakanishi, Akihiko Miyadera, Taichi Yamamoto, Tuomas Niemelä, Marika Hayashi, Junichi Urata, Yuta Namiki, Tamaki Nishino, Masayuki Inaba:
Development of Musculoskeletal Humanoid Kotaro. 82-87 - Sebastian Lohmeier, Thomas Buschmann, Heinz Ulbrich, Friedrich Pfeiffer:

Modular Joint Design for Performance Enhanced Humanoid Robot LOLA. 88-93 - Ricardo Beira, Manuel Lopes

, Miguel Praça, José Santos-Victor
, Alexandre Bernardino
, Giorgio Metta, Francesco Becchi, Roque J. Saltarén
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Design of the Robot-cub (iCub) Head. 94-100 - Kotaro Fukui, Kazufumi Nishikawa, Shunsuke Ikeo, Masaaki Honda, Atsuo Takanishi:

Development of a Human-like Sensory Feedback Mechanism for an Anthropomorphic Talking Robot. 101-106 - Maria-Cruz Villa-Uriol, Alba Perez Gracia

, Falko Kuester:
Humanoid Synthesis using Clifford Algebra. 107-112
Motion Planning
- Yueshi Shen, Knut Hüper, Fatima Silva Leite

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Smooth Interpolation of Orientation by Rolling and Wrapping for Robot Motion Planning. 113-118 - David L. Page

, Andreas F. Koschan, Mongi A. Abidi, James L. Overholt:
Ridge-valley Path Planning for 3D Terrains. 119-124 - Nuzhet Atay, O. Burçhan Bayazit:

A Motion Planning Processor on Reconfigurable Hardware. 125-132 - Guanfeng Liu, Jeffrey C. Trinkle, Nir Shvalb:

Motion Planning for a Class of Planar Closed-chain Manipulators. 133-138 - Stephen R. Lindemann, Steven M. LaValle:

Multiresolution Approach for Motion Planning under Differential Constraints. 139-144 - Jade Yang, Elisha Sacks:

RRT Path Planner with 3DOF Local Planner. 145-149
Computer Vision Systems
- Kolja Kühnlenz, Mathias Bachmayer, Martin Buss:

A Multi-focal High-performance Vision System. 150-155 - Christopher Rasmussen:

A Hybrid Vision + Ladar Rural Road Follower. 156-161 - Stephen Nuske, Jonathan M. Roberts, Gordon F. Wyeth

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Extending the Dynamic Range of Robotic Vision. 162-167 - Yumi Iwashita, Ryo Kurazume

, Tsutomu Hasegawa, Kenji Hara:
Robust Motion Capture System against Target Occlusion using Fast Level Set Method. 168-174 - Marc Freese, Surya P. N. Singh, Edwardo F. Fukushima

, Shigeo Hirose:
Bias-tolerant Terrain following Method for a Field Deployed Manipulator. 175-180 - Noriatsu Furukawa, Akio Namiki

, Taku Senoo, Masatoshi Ishikawa:
Dynamic Regrasping using a High-speed Multifingered Hand and a High-speed vision System. 181-187
MultiRobot Systems
- Jim Pugh, Alcherio Martinoli

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Relative Localization and Communication Module for Small-scale Multi-robot Systems. 188-193 - Teppei Nakano, Shinya Fujie, Tetsunori Kobayashi:

MONEA: Message-oriented Networked-robot Architecture. 194-199 - Gal A. Kaminka, Yehuda Elmaliach:

Experiments with an Ecological Interface for Monitoring Tightly-coordinated Robot Teams. 200-205 - Berkant Akin, Aydan M. Erkmen

, Ismet Erkmen:
A Behavior based Layered, Hybrid, Control Architecture for Robot/Sensor Networks. 206-211 - Mathias Broxvall, Marco Gritti, Alessandro Saffiotti

, BeomSu Seo, Young-Jo Cho:
PEIS Ecology: Integrating Robots into Smart Environments. 212-218 - Jake Toh, Salah Sukkarieh

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A Bayesian Formulation for the Prioritized Search of Moving Objects. 219-224
Surgical Robots I
- Henry C. Lin, Keith Mills, Peter Kazanzides

, Gregory D. Hager, Panadda Marayong, Allison M. Okamura
, Ray Karam:
Portability and Applicability of Virtual Fixtures across Medical and Manufacturing Tasks. 225-230 - Ankur Kapoor, Ming Li, Russell H. Taylor

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Constrained Control for Surgical Assistant Robots. 231-236 - Ozkan Bebek

, Murat Cenk Cavusoglu
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Predictive Control Algorithms using Biological Signals for Active Relative Motion Canceling in Robotic Assisted Heart Surgery. 237-244 - Victor F. Muñoz-Martínez, Isabel García-Morales

, Carlos Jesús Pérez-del-Pulgar
, Jesús M. Gómez de Gabriel
, Juan Jesús Fernández Lozano
, Alfonso García-Cerezo
, Carlos Vara-Thorbeck, Robert Lopez Toscano:
Control Movement Scheme based on Manipulability Concept for a Surgical Robotic Assistant. 245-250 - Benjamin Maurin, Bernard Bayle

, Jacques Gangloff, Philippe Zanne, Michel de Mathelin, Olivier Piccin
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A Robotized Positioning Platform guided by Computed Tomography: Practical Issues and Evaluation. 251-256 - Jumpei Arata, Hiroki Takahashi, Phongsaen Pitakwatchara

, Shin'ichi Warisawa, Kozo Konishi, Kazuo Tanoue, Satoshi Ieiri
, Shuji Shimizu, Naoki Nakashima, Koji Okamura, Young Soo Kim, Sungmin Kim, Joon-Soo Hahm, Makoto Hashizume, Mamoru Mitsuishi:
A Remote Surgery Experiment between Japan-Korea using the Minimally Invasive Surgical System. 257-262
MicroRobotics I
- Afshin Tafazzoli, Chytra Pawashe, Metin Sitti

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Force-controlled Microcontact Printing using Microassembled Particle Templates. 263-268 - Yu Sun

, Keekyoung Kim
, Richard M. Voyles
, Bradley J. Nelson:
Calibration of Multi-axis MEMS Force Sensors using the Shape from Motion Method. 269-274 - Yasser H. Anis

, James K. Mills, William L. Cleghorn:
Visual Measurement of MEMS Microassembly Forces using Template Matching. 275-280 - Nikolai Dechev

, Lu Ren, William Liu, William L. Cleghorn, James K. Mills:
Development of a 6 Degree of Freedom Robotic Micromanipulator for Use in 3D MEMS Microassembly. 281-288 - Aaron M. Hoover, Srinath Avadhanula, Richard E. Groff, Ronald S. Fearing

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A Rapidly Prototyped 2-axis Positioning Stage for Microassembly using Large Displacement Compliant Mechanisms. 289-295 - Ranjana Sahai, Srinath Avadhanula, Richard E. Groff, Erik Steltz, Robert J. Wood, Ronald S. Fearing

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Towards a 3g Crawling Robot through the Integration of Microrobot Technologies. 296-302
Agile Automation I
- Martin Fürst, Christian Wögerer, Gernot Kronreif

, Igor Holländer, Harald Penz:
Intelligent High-speed, High-variant Automation of Universal Coin Sorting for Charity Organizations. 303-308 - Suei Jen Chen, Heinz Wörn, Uwe E. Zimmermann, Rainer Bischoff:

Gentle Robotic Handling - Adaptation of Gripperorientation to Minimize Undesired Shear Forces. 309-314 - Quan Shi, Ning Xi, Weihua Sheng

, Yifan Chen:
Development of Dynamic Inspection Methods for Dimensional Measurement of Automotive Body Parts. 315-320 - Seno Darmawan Panjaitan

, Georg Frey
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Designing Generic/reusable Functionality based Controllers for Distributed Control using UML. 321-326 - Alois Zoitl

, Rene Smodic, Christoph Sünder, Gunnar Grabmair:
Enhanced Real-time Execution of Modular Control Software based on IEC 61499. 327-332 - Christof Eberst, Helmut Nöhmayer, Gerald Umgeher, Motoki Takagi:

Towards Programming Robots by Gestures, Test-case: Programming Bore Inspection for Small Lotsizes. 333-338
Education I
- Niko Sünderhauf

, Thomas Krause, Peter Protzel:
Bringing Robotics closer to Students - a Threefold Approach. 339-344 - Jean-François Lalonde

, Christopher P. Bartley, Illah R. Nourbakhsh:
Mobile Robot Programming in Education. 345-350 - Jean-Michel Aubin, Marius Bulota, Mathieu Gauthier, Jérôme Marchand, Patrick-André Savard, Vincent Simard-Bilodeau, Jean-Luc Ratté-Boulianne, François Michaud:

ARMUS, an ARM Robotic Processing System for Educational Purposes. 351-356 - Matthew Isaacs, Monica Anderson

, Samuel Ashworth, James Blackburn-Lynch, Bridgette Bynum, Janice L. Pearce
, Christopher Pemberton:
Breaking up is hard to do - Dispersion: from Design to Implementation. 357-362 - Kelly R. Cannon, Monica Anderson, Nate Bird, Katherine A. Panciera, Harini Veeraraghavan

, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, Maria L. Gini
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No Fear: University of Minnesota Robotics Day Camp Introduces Local Youth to Hands-on Technologies. 363-368 - Steven V. Shamlian, Katherine Killfoile, Ryan A. Kellogg

, Felix Duvallet:
Fun with Robots: a Student-taught Undergraduate Robotics Course. 369-374
Control of Mechatronic Systems
- Renbin Zhou, William R. Hamel:

Control of a Prototype Transmission-based Robot Servoactuator using Real Time Application Interface. 375-380 - Kazuyuki Ito, Yoshitaka Fukumori:

Autonomous Control of a Snake-like Robot utilizing Passive Mechanism. 381-386 - Joono Cheong

, Seungjin Lee, Jung Kim:
Motion Duplication Control for Distributed Dynamic Systems by Natural Damping. 387-392 - Jason Nikitczuk, Abhimanyu Das, Harsh Vyas, Brian Weinberg, Constantinos Mavroidis:

Adaptive Torque Control of Electro-rheological Fluid Brakes used in Active Knee Rehabilitation Devices. 393-399 - Motoyasu Tanaka, Fumitoshi Matsuno:

Cooperative control of two Snake Robots. 400-405 - Chih-Fu Chang, Li-Chen Fu

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A Hybrid System Design of a Mobile Manipulator. 406-411
SLAM: Robustness and Consistency
- Shoudong Huang

, Gamini Dissanayake
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Convergence Analysis for Extended Kalman Filter based SLAM. 412-417 - Diego Rodríguez-Losada, Fernando Matía

, Agustín Jiménez, Ramón Galán:
Consistency Improvement for SLAM - EKF for Indoor Environments. 418-423 - Tim Bailey, Juan I. Nieto, Eduardo Mario Nebot

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Consistency of the FastSLAM Algorithm. 424-429 - Ruben Martinez-Cantin

, José A. Castellanos:
Bounding Uncertainty in EKF-SLAM: the Robocentric Local Approach. 430-435 - Michael E. West, Vassilis L. Syrmos:

Robust Stochastic Mapping towards the SLAM Problem. 436-441 - Giorgio Grisetti

, Gian Diego Tipaldi, Cyrill Stachniss
, Wolfram Burgard, Daniele Nardi
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Speeding-up Rao-blackwellized SLAM. 442-447
Humanoid Architecture and Framework
- Evan M. Drumwright, Victor Ng-Thow-Hing:

The Task Matrix: an Extensible Framework for Creating Versatile Humanoid Robots. 448-455 - Dong To Nguyen, Doik Kim, Bum-Jae You, Sang-Rok Oh

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NBHA - a Distributed Network-based Humanoid Software Architecture. 456-461 - Fabien Gravot, Atsushi Haneda, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba:

Cooking for Humanoid Robot, a Task that needs Symbolic and Geometric Reasonings. 462-467 - Yusuke Ota, Toru Kuga, Kan Yoneda:

Deformation Compensation for Continuous Force Control of a Wall Climbing Quadruped with Reduced-DOF. 468-474 - Yoon-Kwon Hwang, Kook Jin Choi, Dae Sun Hong:

Self-learning Control of Cooperative Motion for a Humanoid Robot. 475-480 - Kouki Hayashi, Yoshitaka Onishi, Kazuko Itoh, Hiroyasu Miwa

, Atsuo Takanishi:
Development and Evaluation of Face Robot to Express Various Face Shape. 481-486
Mobile Robot Motion Planning
- F. Boyer, Florent Lamiraux:

Trajectory Deformation applied to Kinodynamic Motion Planning for a Realistic Car Model. 487-492 - B. Long, Brice Rebsamen, Etienne Burdet

, Chee Leong Teo:
Development of an Elastic Path Controller. 493-498 - Zack J. Butler:

Corridor Planning for Natural Agents. 499-504 - Yongguo Mei, Yung-Hsiang Lu, C. S. George Lee, Y. Charlie Hu:

Energy-efficient Mobile Robot Exploration. 505-511 - Tomás Martínez-Marín:

On-line Optimal Motion Planning for Nonholonomic Mobile Robots. 512-517 - Dongshin Kim, Jie Sun, Sang Min Oh, James M. Rehg

, Aaron F. Bobick:
Traversability Classification using Unsupervised on-line Visual Learning for Outdoor Robot Navigation. 518-525
Omnidirectional Vision
- Selim Benhimane, Ezio Malis:

A New Approach to Vision-based Robot Control with Omni-directional Cameras. 526-531 - Christopher Mei, Patrick Rives:

Calibration between a Central Catadioptric Camera and a Laser Range Finder for Robotic Applications. 532-537 - Gian Luca Mariottini, Domenico Prattichizzo

, Giuseppe Oriolo
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Image-based Visual Servoing for Nonholonomic Mobile Robots with Central Catadioptric Camera. 538-544 - Carlos López-Franco

, Eduardo Bayro-Corrochano:
Omnidirectional Vision for Visual Landmark Identification using p2-Invariants. 545-550 - Carlos Sagüés, A. C. Murillo

, José Jesús Guerrero
, Toon Goedemé
, Tinne Tuytelaars
, Luc Van Gool:
Localization with Omnidirectional Images using the Radial Trifocal Tensor. 551-556 - Marin Kobilarov, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Jeff Hyams, Parag H. Batavia:

People Tracking and Following with Mobile Robot using an Omnidirectional Camera and a Laser. 557-562
Robotic Formations
- Ilya Levner, Alex Kovarsky, Hong Zhang:

Heuristic Search for Coordinating Robot Agents in Adversarial Domains. 563-569 - Edward Gil Jones, Brett Browning, M. Bernardine Dias, Brenna D. Argall, Manuela M. Veloso, Anthony Stentz:

Dynamically formed Heterogeneous Robot Teams Performing Tightly-coordinated Tasks. 570-575 - Cheng-Heng Fua, Shuzhi Sam Ge

, Khiang Wee Lim:
Task Allocation for Multi-robot Teams with Self-organizing Agents. 576-581 - Gal A. Kaminka, Ruti Glick:

Towards Robust Multi-robot Formations. 582-588 - Yinan Zhang, Richard T. Vaughan:

Ganging up: Team-based Aggression Expands the Population/Performance Envelope in a Multi-robot System. 589-594 - Maurizio Porfiri, D. Gray Roberson, Daniel J. Stilwell:

Environmental Tracking and Formation Control of a Platoon of Autonomous Vehicles Subject to Limited Communication. 595-600
Surgical Robots II
- Ulisse Bertocchi, Luca Ascari

, Cesare Stefanini
, Cecilia Laschi
, Paolo Dario:
Sensory Feedback Exploitation for Robot-assisted Exploration of the Spinal Cord. 601-606 - Jagadeesan Jayender, Rajnikant V. Patel

, Suwas Nikumb:
Robot-assisted Catheter Insertion using Hybrid Impedance Control. 607-612 - Jeffrey A. Stoll, Paul M. Novotny, Robert D. Howe, Pierre E. Dupont

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Real-time 3D Ultrasound-based Servoing of a Surgical Instrument. 613-618 - James T. Hing, Ari D. Brooks, Jaydev P. Desai:

Reality-based Needle Insertion Simulation for Haptic Feedback in Prostate Brachytherapy. 619-624 - Shinsuke Ikeda, Fumihito Arai, Toshio Fukuda, Makoto Negoro, Keiko Irie, Ikuo Takahashi:

Patient-specific Neurovascular Simulator for Evaluating the Performance of Medical Robots and Instruments. 625-630 - Jeffrey Hsu, Shahram Payandeh:

Toward Tool Gesture and Motion Recognition on a Novel Minimally Invasive Surgery Robotic System. 631-636
MicroRobotics II
- David J. Cappelleri, Jonathan Fink, Barry Munkundakrisnam, Vijay Kumar, Jeffrey C. Trinkle:

Designing Open-loop Plans for Planar Micro-manipulation. 637-642 - Vasso Reppa

, Anthony Tzes
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Application of Set Membership Identification for Fault Detection of MEMS. 643-648 - Panagiotis Vartholomeos, Evangelos Papadopoulos:

Analysis, Design and Control of a Planar Micro-robot Driven by two Centripetal-force Actuators. 649-654 - Zhijiang Guo, John E. McInroy, Farhad Jafari

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Realization of Micromanipulating Gough-Stewart Platforms with Desired Dynamics. 655-660 - Tetsuyou Watanabe

, Zhongwei Jiang:
Mechanism of Micro Manipulation using Oscillation. 661-668 - Micky Rakotondrabe, Yassine Haddab

, Philippe Lutz:
Design, Development and Experiments of a High Stroke-precision 2DoF (Linear-angular) Microsystem. 669-674
Agile Automation II
- Mikko Sallinen, Tapio Heikkilä

, Matti Sirviö:
Planning of Sensory Feedback in Industrial Robot Workcells. 675-680 - Ivan M. Delamer, Jose L. Martinez Lastra

, Oscar Perez:
An Evolutionary Algorithm for Optimization of XML Publish/Subscribe Middleware in Electronics Production. 681-688 - Michael J. Wynblatt, Peter Krueger, Zack K. Edmondson, Holger Grzonka:

TOMTAC: Translating Object Motion to Actuator Control. 689-694 - Raymond K. Cheung, Allen W. Lee, Daniel Y. Mo

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Flow Diversion Approaches for Shipment Routing in Automatic Shipment Handling Systems. 695-700 - Binayak Roy, H. Harry Asada:

Dynamics and Control of a Gravity-assisted Underactuated Robot Arm for Assembly Operations inside an Aircraft Wing-box. 701-706 - Anna Petrovskaya, Oussama Khatib, Sebastian Thrun, Andrew Y. Ng:

Bayesian Estimation for Autonomous Object Manipulation based on Tactile Sensors. 707-714
Education II
- Seung Han Kim, Jae Wook Jeon:

Educating C Language using LEGO Mindstorms Robotic Invention System 2.0. 715-720 - Stefano Galvan, Debora Botturi, Andrea Castellani, Paolo Fiorini:

Innovative Robotics Teaching using LEGO Sets. 721-726 - Aimée Vargas Estrada, Jyh-Ming Lien, Nancy M. Amato:

VIZMO++: a Visualization, Authoring, and Educational Tool for Motion Planning. 727-732 - Jingying Chen, Marc Holbein, John S. Zelek:

Intro to Haptic Communications for High School Students. 733-738 - Richard Moreau, Osama Olaby

, Olivier Dupuis, Minh Tu Pham
, Tanneguy Redarce:
Paths Analysis for a Safe Forceps Blades Placement on the BirthSIM Simulator. 739-744 - Xu-Zhi Lai, Jin-Hua She, Simon X. Yang

, Min Wu:
Stability Analysis and Control Law Design for Acrobots. 745-750
Parallel Manipulator Kinematics
- Amir Degani

, Alon Wolf
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Graphical Singularity Analysis of Planar Parallel Manipulators. 751-756 - Jean-Pierre Merlet, David Daney:

Legs Interference Checking of Parallel Robots over a given Workspace or Trajectory. 757-762 - Wataru Tanaka, Tatsuo Arai, Kenji Inoue, Tomohito Takubo, Choong Sik Park:

Calibration Method for Parallel Mechanism using Micro Grid Pattern. 763-768 - Ludovic Savoure, Patrick Maurine, David Corbel, Sébastien Krut:

An Improved Method for the Geometrical Calibration of Parallelogram-based Parallel Robots. 769-776 - Mazen Zein, Philippe Wenger, Damien Chablat

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Singular Curves and Cusp Points in the Joint Space of 3-RPR Parallel Manipulators. 777-782 - Maria Alberich-Carramiñana

, Federico Thomas, Carme Torras
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On Redundant Flagged Manipulators. 783-789
Mobile Robot Mapping
- Longin Jan Latecki

, Rolf Lakämper:
Polygonal Approximation of Laser Range Data based on Perceptual Grouping and EM. 790-796 - Tae-Bum Kwon, Jae-Bok Song:

Thinning-based Topological Exploration using Position Probability of Topological Nodes. 797-802 - Zoran Zivkovic, Bram Bakker, Ben J. A. Kröse:

Hierarchical Map Building and Planning based on Graph Partitioning. 803-809 - Ananth Ranganathan, Frank Dellaert:

A Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filter for Topological Mapping. 810-817 - José-Luis Blanco

, Javier Gonzalez, Juan-Antonio Fernández-Madrigal:
Consistent Observation Grouping for Generating Metric-topological Maps that improves Robot Localization. 818-823 - Haris Baltzakis, Panos E. Trahanias:

Using Multi-hypothesis Mapping to close Loops in Complex Cyclic Environments. 824-829
Biped Control I
- Lingyun Hu, Changjiu Zhou, Zengqi Sun:

Biped Gait Optimization using Spline Function based Probability Model. 830-835 - Yoshito Ikemata, Akihito Sano, Hideo Fujimoto:

A Physical Principle of Gait Generation and its Stabilization derived from Mechanism of Fixed Point. 836-841 - Bram Vanderborght

, Björn Verrelst, Ronald Van Ham, Michaël Van Damme, Pieter Beyl, Dirk Lefeber:
Torque and Compliance Control of the Pneumatic Artificial Muscles in the Biped "Lucy". 842-847 - Neil Neville, Martin Buehler, Inna Sharf

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A Bipedal Running Robot with one Actuator per Leg. 848-853 - Guobiao Song, Milos Zefran

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Underactuated Dynamic Three-dimensional Bipedal Walking. 854-859 - Joel E. Chestnutt, Philipp Michel, Koichi Nishiwaki, James J. Kuffner Jr., Satoshi Kagami:

An Intelligent Joystick for Biped Control. 860-865
Path Planning
- Kenneth Robert Alton, Ian M. Mitchell:

Optimal Path Planning under Defferent Norms in Continuous State Spaces. 866-872 - Hamid Zarrabi-Zadeh

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Path Planning above a Polyhedral Terrain. 873-876 - Qiang Zeng, Chee Leong Teo, Brice Rebsamen, Etienne Burdet

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Design of a Collaborative Wheelchair with Path Guidance Assistance. 877-882 - Ren C. Luo, Yen Lin Pan, Chen Jun Wang, Zhong Hong Huang:

Path Planning and Control of Functionally graded Materials for Rapid Tooling. 883-888 - Roman Katz, Seth Hutchinson

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Efficiently biasing PRMs with Passage Potentials. 889-894 - Samuel Rodríguez, Xinyu Tang, Jyh-Ming Lien, Nancy M. Amato:

An Obstacle-based Rapidly-exploring Random Tree. 895-900
Computer Vision: Stereo
- Akihito Seki, Masatoshi Okutomi:

Ego-motion Estimation by Matching dewarped Road Regions using Stereo Images. 901-907 - Marco Jähnisch, Marc Shiffner:

Stereoscopic Depth-detection for Handling and Manipulation Tasks in a Scanning Electron Microscope. 908-913 - Andrew N. Stein, Andres Huertas, Larry H. Matthies:

Attenuating Stereo Pixel-locking via Affine Window Adaptation. 914-921 - Jacopo Piazzi, Domenico Prattichizzo

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Plane Detection with Stereo Images. 922-927 - Atsushi Yamashita, Susumu Kato, Toru Kaneko:

Robust Sensing against Bubble Noises in Aquatic Environments with a Stereo Vision System. 928-933 - Forough Farshidi, Shahin Sirouspour, Thia Kirubarajan:

Optimal Positioning of Multiple Cameras for Object Recognition using Cramer-Rao Lower Bound. 934-939
Robotic Flocks and Swarms
- Dimos V. Dimarogonas, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos

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A Connection between Formation Control and Flocking Behavior in Nonholonomic Multiagent Systems. 940-945 - Joel M. Esposito, Thomas W. Dunbar:

Maintaining Wireless Connectivity Constraints for Swarms in the Presence of Obstacles. 946-951 - Marius Kloetzer

, Calin Belta
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Hierarchical Abstractions for Robotic Swarms. 952-957 - Krishnanand N. Kaipa, Amruth Puttappa, Guruprasad M. Hegde, Sharschchandra V. Bidargaddi, Debasish Ghose:

Glowworm-inspired Robot Swarm for Simultaneous Taxis towards Multiple Radiation Sources. 958-963 - Nathan Michael, Calin Belta

, Vijay Kumar:
Controlling three Dimensional Swarms of Robots. 964-969 - Zhihua Qu, Jing Wang, Richard A. Hull, Jeffrey Martin:

Cooperative Control Design and Stability Analysis for Multi-agent Systems with Communication Delays. 970-975
Hand Design and Control
- Takeshi Takaki, Toru Omata:

100g-100N Finger Joint with Load-sensitive Continuously Variable Transmission. 976-981 - Ramiro Cabás, Luis María Cabás, Carlos Balaguer

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Optimized Design of the Underactuated Robotic Hand. 982-987 - Gianluca Palli

, Claudio Melchiorri:
Model and Control of Tendon-sheath Transmission Systems. 988-993 - Kenji Tahara, Zhi Wei Luo, Ryuta Ozawa, Ji-Hun Bae

, Suguru Arimoto:
Bio-mimetic Study on Pinching Motions of a Dual-finger Model with Synergistic Actuation of Antagonist Muscles. 994-999 - Lillian Y. Chang, Yoky Matsuoka:

A Kinematic Thumb Model for the ACT Hand. 1000-1005 - Ryuta Ozawa, Ji-Hun Bae

, Suguru Arimoto:
Multi-fingered Dynamic Blind Grasping with Tactile Feedback in a Horizontal Plane. 1006-1011
MicroRobotics III
- Kenji Kure, Takefumi Kanda, Koichi Suzumori

, Shuichi Wakimoto:
Intelligent FMA using Flexible Displacement Sensor with Paste Injection. 1012-1017 - Kenjiro Takemura

, Shinichi Yokota, Kazuya Edamura:
Driving Performance and Control of a Micro Artificial Muscle Cell using Electro-conjugate Fluid. 1018-1023 - Benjamin Potsaid, John T. Wen

, Yves Bellouard
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Adaptive Scanning Optical Microscope (ASOM) for Large Workspace Micro-robotic Applications. 1024-1029 - Anna Eisinberg, Keith Houston, Paolo Dario, Fabio Caparrelli, Bala P. Amavasai, M. Boissenin:

Marking Techniques for Vision Recognition of Microgrippers for Micromanipulation. 1030-1035 - Satoshi Konishi, Makoto Nokata, Ok Chan Jeong

, Shinya Kusuda, Tsuyoshi Sakakibara, Miyuki Kuwayama, Hidetoshi Tsutsumi:
Pneumatic Micro Hand and Miniaturized Parallel Link Robot for Micro Manipulation Robot System. 1036-1041 - Cédric Clévy

, Arnaud Hubert
, Nicolas Chaillet:
Modeling, Identification and Control of a Thermal Glue-based Temporary Fixing System: Application to the Micro-robotic Field. 1042-1047
Manufacturing and Automation
- Yeh-Tung Chen, Haw Ching Yang, Fan-Tien Cheng

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Multivariate Simulation Assessment for Virtual Metrology. 1048-1053 - Tung-Ho Lin, Min-Hsiung Hung, Rung-Chuan Lin, Fan-Tien Cheng

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A Virtual Metrology Scheme for Predicting CVD Thickness in Semiconductor Manufacturing. 1054-1059 - Jingshan Li, Dennis Blumenfeld, Samuel P. Marin:

Quality Robustness Design of Manufacturing Systems with Repair and Rework. 1060-1065 - Qing-Shan Jia

, Qianchuan Zhao
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A SVM-based Method for Engine Maintenance Strategy Optimization. 1066-1071 - WeiMin Tao, Mingjun Zhang, Ou Ma:

Modeling and Vibration Suppression for Industrial Track Robots. 1072-1077 - Jin Sun, Qianchuan Zhao

, Peter B. Luh, Mikhail J. Atalla:
Estimation of Optimal Elevator Scheduling Performance. 1078-1083
Legged Robots
- Darren P. Krasny, David E. Orin:

Evolution of Dynamic Maneuvers in a 3D Galloping Quadruped Robot. 1084-1089 - Masashi Takahashi, Kan Yoneda, Shigeo Hirose:

Rough Terrain Locomotion of a Leg-wheel Hybrid Quadruped Robot. 1090-1095 - Mitsuru Higashimori

, Manabu Harada, Idaku Ishii
, Makoto Kaneko:
Torque Pattern Generation towards the Maximum Jump Height. 1096-1101 - Hisashi Osumi, Shogo Kamiya, Hirokazu Kato, Kazunori Umeda

, Ryuichi Ueda, Tamio Arai:
Time Optimal Control for Quadruped Walking Robots. 1102-1108 - Timothy Bretl, Sanjay Lall:

A Fast and Adaptive Test of Static Equilibrium for Legged Robots. 1109-1116 - G. Clark Haynes, Alfred A. Rizzi:

Gaits and Gait Transitions for Legged Robots. 1117-1122
Parallel Manipulator Design/Control
- Li-Jie Zhang, Yue-Wei Niu, Yong-Quan Li, Zhen Huang:

Analysis of the Workspace of 2-DOF Spherical 5R Parallel Manipulator. 1123-1128 - Lu Ren, James K. Mills, Dong Sun

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Convex Synchronized Control for a 3-DOF Planar Parallel Manipulator. 1129-1134 - Yangmin Li

, Qingsong Xu
, Yugang Liu:
Novel Design and Modeling of a Mobile Parallel Manipulator. 1135-1140 - Grigore Gogu:

Fully-isotropic Parallel Manipulators with Five Degrees of Freedom. 1141-1146 - Grigore Gogu:

Fully-isotropic Parallel Manipulators with Schonflies Motions and Complex Legs with Rhombus Loops. 1147-1152 - Andreas Müller:

Stiffness Control of Redundantly Actuated Parallel Manipulators. 1153-1158
Representation and SLAM
- Samuel T. Pfister, Joel W. Burdick:

Multi-scale point and line range data algorithms for mapping and localization. 1159-1166 - Pedro Núñez

, Ricardo Vázquez Martín
, José Carlos del Toro Lasanta, Antonio Bandera
, Francisco Sandoval Hernández
:
Feature Extraction from Laser Scan Data based on Curvature Estimation for Mobile Robotics. 1167-1172 - Rolf Lakämper, Longin Jan Latecki

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Extended EM for Planar Approximation of 3D Data. 1173-1179 - Paul M. Newman, David M. Cole, Kin Leong Ho:

Outdoor SLAM using Visual Appearance and Laser Ranging. 1180-1187 - Adriana Tapus, Roland Siegwart

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A Cognitive Modeling of Space using Fingerprints of Places for Mobile Robot Navigation. 1188-1193 - Cheng Chen, Han Wang

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Large-scale Loop-closing with Pictorial Matching. 1194-1199
Biped Control II
- Makoto Shimojo, Takuma Araki, Aiguo Ming, Masatoshi Ishikawa:

A ZMP Sensor for a Biped Robot. 1200-1205 - Dalila Djoudi

, Christine Chevallereau
:
Feet can improve the Stability Property of a Control Law for a Walking Robot. 1206-1212 - Kenji Hashimoto, Yusuke Sugahara

, Hiroyuki Sunazuka, Chiaki Tanaka, Akihiro Ohta, Masamiki Kawase, Hun-ok Lim, Atsuo Takanishi:
Biped Landing Pattern Modification Method with Nonlinear Compliance Control. 1213-1218 - Kenji Hashimoto, Yusuke Sugahara

, Chiaki Tanaka, Masamiki Kawase, Hiroyuki Sunazuka, Akihiro Ohta, Hun-ok Lim, Atsuo Takanishi:
A Fall Avoidance Foot Mechanism for a Biped Locomotor. 1219-1224 - Yong-Duk Kim

, Bum-Joo Lee, Jeong-Ki Yoo, Jong-Hwan Kim, Jee-Hwan Ryu:
Compensation for the Landing Impact Force of a Humanoid Robot by Time Domain Passivity Approach. 1225-1230 - Ill-Woo Park, Jung-Yup Kim, Jungho Lee, Jun-Ho Oh:

Online Free Walking Trajectory Generation for Biped Humanoid Robot KHR-3(HUBO). 1231-1236
Randomized Motion Planning
- Maciej Kalisiak, Michiel van de Panne:

RRT-blossom: RRT with a Local Flood-fill Behavior. 1237-1242 - Dave Ferguson, Nidhi Kalra, Anthony Stentz:

Replanning with RRTs. 1243-1248 - Pekka Isto, Mitul Saha:

A Slicing Connection Strategy for Constructing PRMs in High-dimensional Cspaces. 1249-1254 - David Hsu, Gildardo Sánchez-Ante

, Ho-Lun Cheng, Jean-Claude Latombe:
Multi-level Free-space Dilation for Sampling narrow Passages in PRM Planning. 1255-1260 - Patrycja E. Missiuro, Nicholas Roy:

Adapting Probabilistic Roadmaps to Handle Uncertain Maps. 1261-1267 - Marco Morales

, Roger A. Pearce, Nancy M. Amato:
Metrics for Analyzing the Evolution of C-space Models. 1268-1273
Computer Vision: Human-Centric Systems
- Keiichi Kemmotsu, Tetsuya Tomonaka, Shigetoshi Shiotani, Yoshihiro Koketsu, Masato Iehara:

Recognizing Human Behaviors with Vision Sensors in a Network Robot System. 1274-1279 - Ryosuke Mori, Fumiaki Takagi, Fumio Miyazaki:

Development of Intelligent Robot System realizing Human Skill - Realization of Ball Lifting Task using a Mobile Robot with Monocular Vision System. 1280-1285 - Thorsten Spexard, Axel Haasch, Jannik Fritsch, Gerhard Sagerer:

Human-like Person Tracking with an Anthropomorphic Robot. 1286-1292 - Fabrizio Santini, Michele Rucci

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Depth Perception in an Anthropomorphic Robot that replicates Human Eye Movements. 1293-1298 - Eduardo Bayro-Corrochano, David Israel Gonzalez-Aguirre:

Human Like Vision using Conformal Geometric Algebra. 1299-1304 - Hyun-Don Kim, JongSuk Choi, Munsang Kim:

Speaker Localization among Multi-faces in noisy Environment by Audio-visual Integration. 1305-1310
MultiRobot Cooperation and Coordination
- Andreas Kolling, Stefano Carpin:

Multirobot Cooperation for Surveillance of Multiple moving Targets - a New Behavioral Approach. 1311-1316 - Roderich Groß

, Francesco Mondada
, Marco Dorigo
:
Transport of an Object by six pre-attached Robots interacting via Physical Links. 1317-1323 - Brian Shucker, Todd D. Murphey, John K. Bennett:

A Method of Cooperative Control using Occasional non-local Interactions. 1324-1329 - Freek Stulp, Michael Isik, Michael Beetz

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Implicit Coordination in Robotic Teams using Learned Prediction Models. 1330-1335 - Chern Ferng Chung, Tomonari Furukawa, Ali Göktogan:

Coordinated Control for Capturing a Highly Maneuverable Evader using Forward Reachable Sets. 1336-1341 - Roozbeh Mottaghi, Richard T. Vaughan:

An Integrated Particle Filter and Potential Field Method for Cooperative Robot Target Tracking. 1342-1347
Tactile Measurement and Detection
- Yoshiyuki Ohmura, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Akihiko Nagakubo:

Conformable and Scalable Tactile Sensor Skin for Curved Surfaces. 1348-1353 - Benoni B. Edin, Lucia Beccai

, Luca Ascari
, Stefano Roccella
, John-John Cabibihan
, Maria Chiara Carrozza
:
Bio-inspired Approach for the Design and Characterization of a Tactile Sensory System for a Cybernetic Prosthetic Hand. 1354-1358 - Seth Koterba, Yoky Matsuoka:

A Triaxial Force Discernment Algorithm for Flexible, High Density, Artificial Skin. 1359-1364 - Paolo Tiezzi, Imin Kao:

Characteristics of Contact and Limit Surface for Viscoelastic Fingers. 1365-1370 - Yan-Bin Jia

, Liangchuan Mi, Jiang Tian:
Surface Patch Reconstruction via Curve Sampling. 1371-1377 - Antoine Schlechter, Dominik Henrich:

Discontinuuty Detection for Force-based Manipulation. 1378-1383
Micro-Nano Robotics
- Uchechukwu C. Wejinya, Yantao Shen, Ning Xi, Jiangbo Zhang:

Microfluidic end Effector for Manufacturing of Nano Devices. 1384-1389 - Fumihito Arai, Toshiaki Endo, Ryuji Yamauchi, Toshio Fukuda:

3D 6DOF Manipulation of Micro-object using Laser Trapped Microtool. 1390-1395 - Lixin Dong

, Li Zhang, Dominik J. Bell, Bradley J. Nelson, Detlev Grützmacher
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Hybrid Nanorobotic Approaches for Fabricating NEMS from 3D Helical Nanostructures. 1396-1401 - Sergej Fatikow, Thomas Wich, Helge Hülsen, Torsten Sievers, Marco Jähnisch:

Microrobot System for Automatic Nanohandling inside a Scanning Electron Microscope. 1402-1407 - Kiyonori Takahashi, Naoko Ogawa, Hiromasa Oku, Koichi Hashimoto

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Organized Motion Control of a lot of Microorganisms using Visual Feedback. 1408-1413 - Hwee Choo Liaw, Denny Oetomo

, Bijan Shirinzadeh, Gürsel Alici
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Robust Motion Tracking Control of Piezoelectric Actuation Systems. 1414-1419
Manufacturing: Scheduling and Layout
- Nikos Tsourveloudis, Lefteris Doitsidis

, Stratos Ioannidis
:
Work-in-process Scheduling by Evolutionary tuned Distributed Fuzzy Controllers. 1420-1425 - Tsung-Che Chiang

, Li-Chen Fu
:
Using Dispatching Rules for Job Shop Scheduling with due Date-based Objectives. 1426-1431 - Tao Sun, Peter B. Luh, Min Liu:

Lagrangian Relaxation for Complex Job Shop Scheduling. 1432-1437 - Jose Ildefonso U. Rubrico, Jun Ota

, Toshimitsu Higashi, Hirofumi Tamura:
Scheduling Multiple Agents for Picking Products in a Warehouse. 1438-1443 - Yasuhiro Yamada:

Dynamic Reconfiguration of Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems using Particle Swarm Optimization. 1444-1449 - Marco Ghirardi

, Giuseppe Menga, Nicola Sacco
:
Decentralized Optimization of Distributed Supply-chain. 1450-1455
New Trends in Modular Robotics
- Jun Ueda, Lael Odhner, H. Harry Asada:

A Broadcast-probability Approach to the Control of vast DOF Cellular Actuators. 1456-1461 - Michael DeRosa, Seth Copen Goldstein, Peter Lee, Jason Campbell, Padmanabhan Pillai:

Scalable Shape Sculpting via Hole Motion: Motion Planning in Lattice-constrained Modular Robots. 1462-1468 - Nils Napp, Samuel Burden, Eric Klavins:

The Statistical Dynamics of Programmed Self-assembly. 1469-1476 - Feili Hou, Wei-Min Shen:

Mathematical Foundation for Hormone-inspired Control for Self-reconfigurable Robotic Systems. 1477-1482 - Carrick Detweiler, Marsette Vona, Keith Kotay, Daniela Rus:

Hierarchical Control for Self-assembling Mobile Trusses with Passive and Active Links. 1483-1490 - Takeshi Matsuda, Satoshi Murata:

Stiffness Distribution Control - Locomotion of closed Link Robot with Mechanical Softness. 1491-1498
Robot Kinematics
- Zibin Song, Yahya H. Zweiri

, Lakmal D. Seneviratne
, Kaspar Althoefer:
Non-linear Observer for Slip Estimation of Skid-steering Vehicles. 1499-1504 - Frederic Le Menn, Philippe Bidaud, Faïz Ben Amar:

Generic Differential Kinematic Modeling of Articulated Multi-monocycle Mobile Robots. 1505-1510 - Tom Creemers, Josep M. Porta

, Lluís Ros
, Federico Thomas:
Fast Multiresolutive Approximations of Planar Linkage Configuration Spaces. 1511-1517 - Yisheng Guan, Kazuhito Yokoi:

Reachable Boundary of a Humanoid Robot with Two Feet fixed on the Ground. 1518-1523 - Marco Fontana

, Antonio Frisoli, Fabio Salsedo, Massimo Bergamasco:
Kinematics of a new 2-DoF Wrist with High Angulation Capability. 1524-1529 - John Ketchell, Pierre M. Larochelle

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Collision Detection of Cylindrical Rigid Bodies for Motion Planning. 1530-1535
3D Localization and Mapping
- Jong-Hyuk Kim, Salah Sukkarieh

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Robust Multi-loop Airborne SLAM in Unknown Wind Environments. 1536-1541 - Samer M. Abdallah, Daniel C. Asmar

, John S. Zelek:
Towards Benchmarks for Vision SLAM Algorithms. 1542-1547 - Juan Manuel Sáez, Francisco Escolano Ruiz:

6DOF Entropy Minimization SLAM. 1548-1555 - David M. Cole, Paul M. Newman:

Using Laser Range Data for 3D SLAM in Outdoor Environments. 1556-1563 - Pantelis Elinas

, Robert Sim, James J. Little:
σSLAM: Stereo Vision SLAM using the Rao-Blackwellised Particle Filter and a Novel Mixture Proposal Distribution. 1564-1570 - Paul Vernaza, Daniel D. Lee:

Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filtering for 6-DOF Estimation of Attitude and Position via GPS and Inertial Sensors. 1571-1578
Biped Motion Control
- Jun Morimoto, Gen Endo

, Jun Nakanishi, Sang-Ho Hyon, Gordon Cheng
, Darrin C. Bentivegna, Christopher G. Atkeson:
Modulation of Simple Sinusoidal Patterns by a Coupled Oscillator Model for Biped Walking. 1579-1584 - Ludovic Righetti

, Auke Jan Ijspeert
:
Programmable Central Pattern Generators: an Application to Biped Locomotion Control. 1585-1590 - Masahiro Doi, Takayuki Matsuno, Yasuhisa Hasegawa

, Toshio Fukuda:
Proposal of Smooth Biped Walking Control by Means of Heel-off Motion. 1591-1596 - Sven Behnke

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Online Trajectory Generation for Omnidirectional Biped Walking. 1597-1603 - Mami Nishida, Kazuo Tanaka, Hua O. Wang:

Development and Control of a Micro Biped Walking Robot using Shape Memory Alloys. 1604-1609 - Jung Han Yoon, Ohung Kwon, Je Sung Yeon, Jong Hyeon Park:

Optimal Trajectory Generation of Serially-linked Parallel Biped Robots. 1610-1615
Motion Planning with Kinematic and Dynamic Constraints
- Hamid Reza Chitsaz, Steven M. LaValle, Devin J. Balkcom, Matthew T. Mason

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Minimum Wheel-rotation Paths for Differential-drive Mobile Robots. 1616-1623 - Sourabh Bhattacharya, Seth Hutchinson

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Controllability and Properties of Optimal Paths for a Differential Drive Robot with Field-of-view Constraints. 1624-1629 - Elie A. Shammas, Howie Choset, Alfred A. Rizzi:

Towards Automated Gait Generation for Dynamic Systems with Non-holonomic Constraints. 1630-1636 - Peng Cheng, Emilio Frazzoli, Vijay Kumar:

Motion Planning for the Roller Racer with a Sticking/Slipping Switching Model. 1637-1642 - Todd D. Murphey:

Motion Planning for Kinematically Overconstrained Vehicles using Feedback Primitives. 1643-1648 - Adriano Fagiolini

, Luca Greco
, Antonio Bicchi, Benedetto Piccoli
, Alessia Marigo:
Symbolic Control for Underactuated Differentially Flat Systems. 1649-1654
Sensing: Motion Analysis and Control
- Tao Liu, Yoshio Inoue, Kyoko Shibata, Haruhiko Morioka:

Development of Wearable Sensor Combinations for Human Lower Extremity Motion Analysis. 1655-1660 - Lars B. Cremean, Richard M. Murray

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Model-based Estimation of Off-highway Road Geometry using Single-axis LADAR and Inertial Sensing. 1661-1666 - Kourosh Parsa, Farhad Aghili

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Adaptive Observer for the Calibration of the Force-moment Sensor of a Space Robot. 1667-1673 - Toshio Hori, Yoshifumi Nishida, Shin-ichi Murakami:

Optical Torque Sensors for Implementation of Local Impedance Control of the Arm of Humanoid Robot. 1674-1679 - Dzmitry Tsetserukou, Riichiro Tadakuma, Hiroyuki Kajimoto, Susumu Tachi:

Pervasive Sensor System for Evidence-based Nursing Care Support. 1680-1685 - Steffen Knoop, Stefan Vacek, Rüdiger Dillmann:

Sensor Fusion for 3D Human body Tracking with an Articulated 3D Body Model. 1686-1691
Multirobot Coverage and Sweeping
- Cyrill Stachniss

, Óscar Martínez Mozos
, Wolfram Burgard:
Speeding-up Multi-robot Exploration by Considering Semantic Place Information. 1692-1697 - Noa Agmon, Noam Hazon

, Gal A. Kaminka:
Constructing Spanning Trees for Efficient Multi-robot Coverage. 1698-1703 - Yi Guo

, Mohanakrishnan Balakrishnan:
Complete Coverage Control for Nonholonomic Mobile Robots in Dynamic Environments. 1704-1709 - Noam Hazon

, Fabrizio Mieli, Gal A. Kaminka:
Towards Robust on-line Multi-robot Coverage. 1710-1715 - Kjerstin Williams, Joel W. Burdick:

Multi-robot Boundary Coverage with Plan Revision. 1716-1723 - Mazda Ahmadi, Peter Stone:

A Multi-robot System for Continuous Area Sweeping Tasks. 1724-1729
Graspless Manipulation
- Onno C. Goemans, Kenneth Y. Goldberg

, A. Frank van der Stappen
:
Blades: a New Class of Geometric Primitives for Feeding 3D Parts on Vibratory Tracks. 1730-1736 - Hyungpil Moon, Jonathan E. Luntz:

Manipulating a Flat Object against Stationary Barrier using Airflows. 1737-1742 - Yusuke Maeda

, Satoshi Makita
:
A Quantitative Test for the Robustness of Graspless Manipulation. 1743-1748 - Qingguo Li, Shahram Payandeh:

An Approach for Object Manipulation using Cooperative Agents. 1749-1754 - Mikhail M. Svinin, Shigeyuki Hosoe:

Simple Motion Planning Algorithms for Ball-plate Systems with Limited Contact Area. 1755-1761 - Taku Senoo, Akio Namiki

, Masatoshi Ishikawa:
Ball Control in High-speed Batting Motion using Hybrid Trajectory Generator. 1762-1767
Micro-Nanoscale Systems
- Huaming Li, Jindong Tan

, Mingjun Zhang:
Dynamics Modeling and Analysis of a Swimming Microrobot for Controlled Drug Delivery. 1768-1773 - Mingjun Zhang, WeiMin Tao, Piero A. Pianetta:

Dynamics Modeling and Analysis of Gene Guns for Gene Therapy. 1774-1779 - Leonardo S. Mattos

, Edward Grant, Randy Thresher:
Semi-automated Blastocyst Microinjection. 1780-1785 - William Fisher, Mingjun Zhang:

An Automated Biological Fluid Dispensing System for Microarray Fabrication using Inkjet Technology. 1786-1793 - Mustapha Hamdi, Gaurav Sharma, Antoine Ferreira, Constantinos Mavroidis:

Characterization of Protein based Spring-like Elastic Joints for Biorobotic Applications. 1794-1799 - Kanako Saitoh, Kuniaki Kawabata

, Hajime Asama
, Taketoshi Mishima, Mitsuaki Sugahara:
Design of Classifier to Automate the Evaluation of Protein Crystallization States. 1800-1805
Actuators I
- Zhihong Rao, Gary M. Bone

:
Modeling and Control of a Miniature Servo Pneumatic Actuator. 1806-1811 - Norihiro Kamamichi

, Masaki Yamakita, Kinji Asaka
, Zhi Wei Luo:
A Snake-like Swimming Robot using IPMC Actuator/Sensor. 1812-1817 - Johan Gunnar, Erik Wernholt, Geir Hovland, Torgny Brogardh:

Nonlinear Grey-box Identification of Linear Actuators Containing Hysteresis. 1818-1823 - Koichi Suzumori

, Takayuki Hama, Takefumi Kanda:
New Pneumatic Rubber Actuators to Assist Colonoscope Insertion. 1824-1829 - Daniel Paluska, Hugh M. Herr:

Series Elasticity and Actuator Power Output. 1830-1833 - Masaki Yamakita, Akio Sera, Norihiro Kamamichi

, Kinji Asaka
, Zhi Wei Luo:
Integrated Design of IPMC Actuator/Sensor. 1834-1839
Redundant Robots
- Bryan A. Jones, William McMahan, Ian D. Walker:

Practical Kinematics for Real-time Implementation of Continuum Robots. 1840-1847 - Yunfeng Wang, Gregory S. Chirikjian:

Propagation of Errors in Hybrid Manipulators. 1848-1853 - Jingzhou Yang, Jason Potratz, Karim Abdel-Malek:

A Hyper-redundant Continuous Robot. 1854-1859 - Suguru Arimoto, Masahiro Sekimoto:

Human-like Movements of Robotic Arms with Redundant DOFs: Virtual Spring-damper Hypothesis to Tackle the Bernstein Problem. 1860-1866 - Alessandro De Luca

, Giuseppe Oriolo
, Paolo Robuffo Giordano:
Kinematic Modeling and Redundancy Resolution for Nonholonomic Mobile Manipulators. 1867-1873 - Dominik Bertram, James Kuffner, Rüdiger Dillmann, Tamim Asfour

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An Integrated Approach to Inverse Kinematics and Path Planning for Redundant Manipulators. 1874-1879
Robot Dynamics
- Tomomichi Sugihara, Yoshihiko Nakamura

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Balanced Micro/Macro Contact Model for Forward Dynamics of Rigid Multibody. 1880-1885 - Alessandro Macchelli

, Stefano Stramigioli
, Claudio Melchiorri:
Port-based Modelling of Manipulators with Flexible Links. 1886-1891 - Roy Featherstone:

Plucker Basis Vectors. 1892-1897 - Seonghee Jeong, Takayuki Takahashi:

Optimal Braking for Impact Force Reduction using the Dynamics of Redundant Manipulators. 1898-1903 - Katsu Yamane, Yoshihiko Nakamura

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Stable Penalty-based Model of Frictional Contacts. 1904-1909 - Nilanjan Chakraborty, Jufeng Peng, Srinivas Akella

, Jason E. Mitchell:
Proximity Queries between Convex Objects: an Interior Point Approach for Implicit Surfaces. 1910-1916
Bearing-only SLAM
- J. M. M. Montiel

, Andrew J. Davison:
A Visual Compass based on SLAM. 1917-1922 - Nikolas Trawny, Stergios I. Roumeliotis:

A Unified Framework for Nearby and Distant Landmarks in Bearing-only SLAM. 1923-1929 - Teresa A. Vidal-Calleja

, Andrew J. Davison, Juan Andrade-Cetto
, David William Murray:
Active Control for Single Camera SLAM. 1930-1936 - Kostas E. Bekris, Max Glick, Lydia E. Kavraki

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Evaluation of Algorithms for bearing-only SLAM. 1937-1943 - Patric Jensfelt, Danica Kragic, John Folkesson

, Mårten Björkman:
A Framework for Vision Based bearing only 3D SLAM. 1944-1950 - Xiang Wang, Hong Zhang:

Bearing-only Landmark Initialization by using SUF with Undistorted SIFT Features. 1951-1956
Biped Contact and Stability
- Douglas Turk, Gordon F. Wyeth

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Semi-analytic Method of Contact Modelling. 1957-1962 - Jaeheung Park, Oussama Khatib:

Contact Consistent Control Framework for Humanoid Robots. 1963-1969 - Nirut Naksuk, C. S. George Lee:

Zero Moment Point Manipulability Ellipsoid. 1970-1975 - Hirohisa Hirukawa, Shizuko Hattori, Kensuke Harada

, Shuuji Kajita, Kenji Kaneko
, Fumio Kanehiro
, Kiyoshi Fujiwara, Mitsuharu Morisawa
:
A Universal Stability Criterion of the Foot Contact of Legged Robots - Adios ZMP. 1976-1983 - Yizhar Or

, Elon Rimon
:
Computing 3-legged Equilibrium Stances in Three-dimensional Gravitational Environments. 1984-1989 - Shinya Aoi, Kazuo Tsuchiya:

Feedback Control of a Simple Walking Model Driven by an Oscillator. 1990-1996
Motion Planning for Manipulation
- Daniel Zameroski, Gregory P. Starr, John E. Wood, Ronald Lumia:

Swing-free Trajectory Generation for Dual Cooperative Manipulators using Dynamic Programming. 1997-2003 - Zhenwang Yao, Kamal Gupta:

Self-motion Graph in Path Planning for Redundant Robots along Specified End-effector Paths. 2004-2009 - Dennis Nieuwenhuisen, A. Frank van der Stappen

, Mark H. Overmars:
Pushing using Compliance. 2010-2016 - Luis Guilamo, James J. Kuffner Jr., Koichi Nishiwaki, Satoshi Kagami:

Manipulability Optimization for Trajectory Generation. 2017-2022 - Jun Ota

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Search Methodology with Goal State Optimization Considering Computational Resource Constraints - Application of the Method to the Task of Rearranging Several Movable Objects. 2023-2028 - Halûk Bayram, Aysin Ertüzün

, H. Isil Bozma:
Reactive Rearrangement of Parts under Sensor Inaccuracy: Particle Filter Approach. 2029-2034
Sensing: Olfactory and Visual
- Sukhan Lee, Jongmoo Choi, Seungsub Oh, Jaehyuk Ryu, Jungrae Park:

A Real-time 3D IR Camera based on Hierarchical Orthogonal Coding. 2035-2040 - Gideon Kowadlo, David Rawlinson

, R. Andrew Russell, Ray A. Jarvis:
Bi-modal Search using Complementary Sensing (Olfaction/Vision) for Odour Source Localisation. 2041-2046 - Adam J. Rutkowski, Mark A. Willis, Roger D. Quinn:

Simulated Odor Tracking in a Plane Normal to the Wind Direction. 2047-2052 - Justin Domke, Yiannis Aloimonos:

Integration of Visual and Inertial Information for Egomotion: a Stochastic Approach. 2053-2059 - Kazuhiro Shimizu, Shinichi Hirai

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CMOS+FPGA Vision System for Visual Feedback of Mechanical Systems. 2060-2065 - Mathias Broxvall, Silvia Coradeschi, Amy Loutfi

, Alessandro Saffiotti
:
An Ecological Approach to Odour Recognition in Intelligent Environments. 2066-2071
Robot Sensor Networks
- Keith J. O'Hara, Victor Bigio, Shaun Whitt, Daniel Walker, Tucker R. Balch:

Evaluation of a Large Scale Pervasive Embedded Network for Robot Path Planning. 2072-2077 - Joseph Djugash, Sanjiv Singh

, George Kantor, Wei Zhang:
Range-only SLAM for Robots Operating Cooperatively with Sensor Networks. 2078-2084 - Mong-ying Ani Hsieh, Anthony Cowley, Vijay Kumar, Camillo J. Taylor:

Towards the Deployment of a Mobile Robot Network with End-to-end Performance Guarantees. 2085-2090 - Matthew Dunbabin

, Peter I. Corke
, Iuliu Vasilescu, Daniela Rus:
Data Muling over Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks using an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle. 2091-2098 - Michael Huntwork, Amit Goradia, Ning Xi, Clayton Haffner, Chad Klochko, Matt W. Mutka

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Pervasive Surveillance using a Cooperative Mobile Sensor Network. 2099-2104 - Brendan Burns, Oliver Brock, Brian Neil Levine:

Autonomous Enhancement of Disruption Tolerant Networks. 2105-2110
Grasping: Planning and Control
- Christian Cipriani, Franco Zaccone, Giovanni Stellin, Lucia Beccai

, Giovanni Cappiello, Maria Chiara Carrozza
, Paolo Dario:
Closed-loop Controller for a Bio-inspired Multi-fingered Underactuated Prosthesis. 2111-2116 - Arjang Hourtash:

The CX-space: a Unified Paradigm for Grasping using Multifingered Hands. 2117-2123 - Suguru Arimoto, Morio Yoshida, Ji-Hun Bae

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Stable "Blind Grasping" of a 3-D Object under Non-holonomic Constraints. 2124-2130 - Ji-Hun Bae

, Suguru Arimoto, Ryuta Ozawa, Masahiro Sekimoto, Morio Yoshida:
A Unified Control Scheme for a whole Robotic Arm-Fingers System in Grasping and Manipulation. 2131-2136 - Peam Pipattanasomporn, Attawith Sudsang:

Two-finger Caging of Concave Polygon. 2137-2142 - Kimitoshi Yamazaki, Masahiro Tomono, Takashi Tsubouchi, Shin'ichi Yuta:

A Grasp Planning for Picking up an Unknown Object for a Mobile Manipulator. 2143-2149
Aerial Robotics: Avionics
- Mehran Motamed, Joseph Yan:

A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Lift Generation in Flapping MAVs: Simulation Results. 2150-2155 - Richard D. Garcia, Kimon P. Valavanis, Michael Kontitsis:

A Multiplatform On-board Processing System for Miniature Unmanned Vehicles. 2156-2163 - William E. Green, Paul Y. Oh:

Autonomous Hovering of a Fixed-wing Micro Air Vehicle. 2164-2169 - Tarek Hamel

, Robert E. Mahony
:
Attitude Estimation on SO[3] based on Direct Inertial Measurements. 2170-2175 - Masaki Hamamoto, Yoshiji Ohta, Keita Hara, Toshiaki Hisada:

Feasibility Study of an Actuator for Flapping Flight using Fluid-structure Interaction Analysis. 2176-2181 - Nagarajan Kandasamy, Fadi A. Aloul, Tak-John Koo:

Sensor Selection and Placement for Failure Diagnosis in Networked Aerial Robots. 2182-2187
Actuators II
- Farhad Aghili

:
A Mechatronics Testbed for Manipulator Joints. 2188-2194 - Ronald Van Ham, Bram Vanderborght

, Michaël Van Damme, Björn Verrelst, Dirk Lefeber:
MACCEPA: the Mechanically Adjustable Compliance and Controllable Equilibrium Position Actuator for 'Controlled Passive Walking'. 2195-2200 - Koichi Koganezawa, Toshiki Nakazawa, Tomoya Inaba:

Antagonistic Control of Multi-DOF Joint by using the Actuator with Non-linear Elasticity. 2201-2207 - Akio Yamamoto, Hisatomo Yoshioka, Toshiro Higuchi:

A 2-DOF Electrostatic Sheet Conveyer using Wire Mesh for Desktop Automation. 2208-2213 - Kyu-Jin Cho

, Josiah Rosmarin, H. Harry Asada:
Design of Vast DOF Artificial Muscle Actuators with a Cellular Array Structure and its Application to a Five-fingered Robotic Hand. 2214-2219 - Igmo Koo, Kwangmok Jung, Jachoon Koo, Jea-do Nam, Youngkwan Lee, Hyoukryeol Choi:

Wearable Tactile Display based on Soft Actuator. 2220-2225
Motion and Force Control
- Chien-Chern Cheah

, Yu Zhao, Jean-Jacques E. Slotine:
Adaptive Jacobian Motion and Force Tracking Control for Constrained Robots with Uncertainties. 2226-2231 - Rafael Osypiuk

, Torsten Kröger, Bernd Finkemeyer, Friedrich M. Wahl:
A Two-loop Implicit Force/Position Control Structure, based on a Simple Linear Model: Theory and Experiment. 2232-2237 - Nabil Zemiti, Guillaume Morel, Barthelemy Cagneau, Delphine Bellot, Alain Micaelli:

A Passive Formulation of Force Control for Kinematically Constrained Manipulators. 2238-2243 - Antonio C. Leite, Fernando C. Lizarralde

, Liu Hsu
:
Hybrid Vision-force Robot Control for Tasks on Unknown Smooth Surfaces. 2244-2249 - Kotaro Tadano

, Kenji Kawashima
:
Development of 4-DOFs Forceps with Force Sensing using Pneumatic Servo System. 2250-2255 - Debao Zhou, Mark R. Claffee, Kok-Meng Lee, Gary V. McMurray:

Cutting, 'by Pressing and Slicing', applied to the Robotic Cut of Bio-materials. II. Force during Slicing and Pressing Cuts. 2256-2261
Relative Localization and Mapping
- Edwin Olson, John J. Leonard, Seth J. Teller:

Fast Iterative Alignment of Pose Graphs with Poor Initial Estimates. 2262-2269 - Peter Biber, Wolfgang Straßer:

nScan-matching: Simultaneous Matching of Multiple Scans and Application to SLAM. 2270-2276 - Anastasios I. Mourikis, Stergios I. Roumeliotis:

On the Treatment of Relative-pose Measurements for Mobile Robot Localization. 2277-2284 - Kristopher R. Beevers, Wesley H. Huang:

SLAM with Sparse Sensing. 2285-2290 - Andrea Censi

:
Scan Matching in a Probabilistic Framework. 2291-2296 - Shoudong Huang

, Zhan Wang, Gamini Dissanayake
:
Mapping Large Scale Environments using Relative Position Information among Landmarks. 2297-2302
Biomimetic Mechanisms
- Yun Seong Song

, Steve H. Suhr, Metin Sitti
:
Modeling of the Supporting Legs for Designing Biomimetic Water Strider Robots. 2303-2310 - Junzhi Yu, Yonghui Hu, Ruifeng Fan, Long Wang

, Jiyan Huo:
Construction and Control of Biomimetic Robotic Dolphin. 2311-2316 - Ilian A. Bonev, Damien Chablat

, Philippe Wenger:
Working and Assembly Modes of the Agile Eye. 2317-2322 - Zaeem A. Khan, Sunil Kumar Agrawal:

Design of Flapping Mechanisms based on Transverse Bending Phenomena in Insects. 2323-2328 - Ozgur Unver, Ali Uneri

, Alper Aydemir, Metin Sitti
:
Geckobot: a Gecko Inspired Climbing Robot using Elastomer Adhesives. 2329-2335 - William McMahan, Vilas K. Chitrakaran, Matthew A. Csencsits, Darren M. Dawson, Ian D. Walker, Bryan A. Jones, Michael B. Pritts, D. Dienno, Michael D. Grissom, Christopher D. Rahn:

Field Trials and Testing of the OctArm Continuum Manipulator. 2336-2341
Motion Planning in Changing Environments
- Tirthankar Bandyopadhyay, Yuanping Li, Marcelo H. Ang Jr.

, David Hsu:
A Greedy Strategy for Tracking a Locally Predictable Target among Obstacles. 2342-2347 - Craig Schlenoff, Raj Madhavan, Zeid Kootbally:

PRIDE: a Hierarchical, Integrated Prediction Framework for Autonomous on-road Driving. 2348-2353 - David Wooden, Magnus Egerstedt:

Oriented Visibility Graphs: Low-complexity Planning in Real-time Environments. 2354-2359 - Enrique J. Bernabeu:

Fast Generator of Multiple Collision-free Trajectories in Dynamic Environments. 2360-2365 - Jur P. van den Berg, Dave Ferguson, James Kuffner:

Anytime Path Planning and Replanning in Dynamic Environments. 2366-2371 - Khaled Belghith, Froduald Kabanza, Leo Hartman, Roger Nkambou:

Anytime Dynamic Path-planning with Flexible Probabilistic Roadmaps. 2372-2377
Visual Servoing
- Gonzalo López-Nicolás, Carlos Sagüés, José Jesús Guerrero

, Danica Kragic, Patric Jensfelt:
Nonholonomic Epipolar Visual Servoing. 2378-2384 - Hicham Hadj-Abdelkader, Youcef Mezouar

, Nicolas Andreff, Philippe Martinet
:
Omnidirectional Visual servoing From Polar Lines. 2385-2390 - Guoqiang Hu

, Warren E. Dixon
, Sumit Gupta, Norman G. Fitz-Coy:
A Quaternion Formulation for Homography-based Visual Servo Control. 2391-2396 - Selim Benhimane, Ezio Malis:

Homography-based 2D Visual Servoing. 2397-2402 - Peter Preisig, Danica Kragic:

Robust Statistics for 3D Object Tracking. 2403-2408 - Anup S. Sabbi, Manfred Huber:

Particle Filter Based Object Tracking in a Stereo Vision System. 2409-2415
Distributed and Decentralized Multirobot Systems
- Timothy H. Chung, Joel W. Burdick, Richard M. Murray

:
A Decentralized Motion Coordination Strategy for Dynamic Target Tracking. 2416-2422 - Chan Sze Kong, Ai Peng New, Ioannis M. Rekleitis

:
Distributed Coverage with Multi-robot System. 2423-2429 - Dimos V. Dimarogonas, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos

, Dimitris Theodorakatos:
Totally Distributed Motion Control of Sphere World Multi-agent Systems using Decentralized Navigation Functions. 2430-2435 - Andrew Drenner, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos:

Docking Station Relocation for Maximizing Longevity of Distributed Robotic Teams. 2436-2441 - Mong-ying Ani Hsieh, Vijay Kumar:

Pattern Generation with Multiple Robots. 2442-2447 - Lucia Pallottino

, Vincenzo Giovanni Scordio, Emilio Frazzoli, Antonio Bicchi:
Probabilistic Verification of a Decentralized Policy for Conflict Resolution in Multi-agent Systems. 2448-2453
Soft Finger and Object Grasping
- Takahiro Inoue, Shinichi Hirai

:
Study on Hemispherical Soft-fingered Handling for fine Manipulation by Minimum D.O.F. Robotic Hand. 2454-2459 - Mizuho Shibata, Shinichi Hirai

:
Soft Object Manipulation by Simultaneous Control of Motion and Deformation. 2460-2465 - Samuel Rodríguez, Jyh-Ming Lien, Nancy M. Amato:

Planning Motion in Completely Deformable Environments. 2466-2471 - Tripuresh Mishra, Prithwijit Guha, Ashish Dutta

, K. S. Venkatesh:
Efficient Continuous Re-grasp Planning for Moving and Deforming Planar Objects. 2472-2477 - Mitul Saha, Pekka Isto:

Motion Planning for Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Linear Objects. 2478-2484 - Hidefumi Wakamatsu, Akira Tsumaya, Eiji Arai, Shinichi Hirai

:
Manipulation Planning for Unraveling Linear Objects. 2485-2490
Aerial Robotics: Guidance and Control
- Jean Michel Pflimlin, Tarek Hamel

, Philippe Souères, Robert E. Mahony
:
A Hierarchical Control Strategy for the Autonomous Navigation of a Ducted Fan Flying Robot. 2491-2496 - Rodrigo San Martin, Antonio Barrientos

, Pedro Gutiérrez, Jaime del Cerro
:
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Modelling based on Supervised Neural Networks. 2497-2502 - Luis Mejías

, Pascual Campoy Cervera
, Srikanth Saripalli, Gaurav S. Sukhatme:
A Visual Servoing Approach for Tracking Features in Urban Areas using an Autonomous Helicopter. 2503-2508 - Vefa Narli, Paul Y. Oh:

Hardware-in-the-loop Test Rig for Designing Near-earth Aerial Robotics. 2509-2514 - Abdelhamid Chriette:

An Analysis of the Zero-dynamics for Visual Servo Control of a Ducted Fan UAV. 2515-2520 - Tomonari Furukawa, Frédéric Bourgault, Benjamin Lavis, Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte:

Recursive Bayesian Search-and-tracking using Coordinated UAVs for Lost Targets. 2521-2526
Modular Robotics
- Kasper Støy:

The Deformatron Robot: a Biologically Inspired Homogeneous Modular Robot. 2527-2531 - David Johan Christensen, Kasper Støy:

Selecting a Meta-module to Shape-change the ATRON Self-reconfigurable Robot. 2532-2538 - David Johan Christensen:

Evolution of Shape-changing and Self-repairing Control for the ATRON Self-reconfigurable Robot. 2539-2545 - Sean B. Andersson

:
Discrete Approximations to Continuous Curves. 2546-2551 - Wei-Min Shen, Maks Krivokon, Harris Chi Ho Chiu, Jacob Everist, Michael Rubenstein, Jagadesh Venkatesh:

Multimode Locomotion via SuperBot Robots. 2552-2557 - Roderich Groß

, Elio Tuci, Marco Dorigo
, Michael Bonani, Francesco Mondada
:
Object Transport by Modular Robots that Self-assemble. 2558-2564
Regulation and Stabilization of Robots
- Chao Liu, Chien-Chern Cheah

, Jean-Jacques E. Slotine:
Adaptive Task-space Regulation of Rigid-link Flexible-joint Robots with Uncertain Kinematics. 2565-2570 - Chien-Chern Cheah

:
On Duality of Inverse Jacobian and Transpose Jacobian in Task-space Regulation of Robots. 2571-2576 - Chien-Chern Cheah

, Y. C. Sun:
Region Reaching Control for Robots with Uncertain Kinematics and Dynamics. 2577-2582 - Jingang Yi, Dezhen Song

, Anthony Levandowski, Suhada Jayasuriya:
Trajectory Tracking and Balance Stabilization Control of Autonomous Motorcycles. 2583-2589 - Hiroaki Hirai, Fumio Miyazaki:

Passive Stabilization of Juggling-like Ball-passing Task. 2590-2596 - Mehrdad R. Kermani, Rajnikant V. Patel

, Mehrdad Moallem:
Multi-directional Stabilization of a Large-scale Robotic Manipulator. 2597-2602
3D Mapping and Modeling
- Rudolph Triebel

, Kristian Kersting, Wolfram Burgard:
Robust 3D Scan Point Classification using Associative Markov Networks. 2603-2608 - Masahiro Tomono:

Dense Object Modeling for 3-D Map Building using Segment-based Surface Interpolation. 2609-2614 - Se-Jin Lee, Dong-Woo Cho, Wan Kyun Chung, Yu-Cheol Lee

, Jong Hwan Lim
, Chul-Ung Kang, Won Soo Yun:
Evaluation of Features through Grid Association for Building a Sonar Map. 2615-2620 - Paul Blaer, Peter K. Allen:

View Planning for Automated Site Modeling. 2621-2626 - Luis Falcón-Morales, Eduardo Bayro-Corrochano:

3D-curves and Ruled Surfaces for Graphics and Robotics using Conformal Geometric Computing. 2627-2632 - Peng Tang, Jing Xiao:

Automatic Generation of Contact State Graphs based on Curvature Monotonic Segmentation. 2633-2640
Humanoid Robot Control
- Luis Sentis

, Oussama Khatib:
A Whole-body Control Framework for Humanoids Operating in Human Environments. 2641-2648 - Miti Ruchanurucks, Shinichiro Nakaoka, Shunsuke Kudoh, Katsushi Ikeuchi:

Humanoid Robot Motion Generation with Sequential Physical Constraints. 2649-2654 - Youngjin Choi, Doik Kim, Bum-Jae You:

On the Walking Control for Humanoid Robot based on the Kinematic Resolution of CoM Jacobian with Embedded Motion. 2655-2660 - Shunsuke Kudoh, Taku Komura, Katsushi Ikeuchi:

Stepping Motion for a Human-like Character to Maintain Balance against Large Perturbations. 2661-2666 - Koichi Nishiwaki, Satoshi Kagami:

High Frequency Walking Pattern Generation based on Preview Control of ZMP. 2667-2672 - Thomas Buschmann, Sebastian Lohmeier, Heinz Ulbrich, Friedrich Pfeiffer:

Dynamics Simulation for a Biped Robot: Modeling and Experimental Verification. 2673-2678
Navigation
- Amy J. Briggs, Yunpeng Li, Daniel Scharstein, Matt Wilder:

Robot Navigation using 1D Panoramic Images. 2679-2685 - Zhichao Chen, Stanley T. Birchfield:

Qualitative Vision-based Mobile Robot Navigation. 2686-2692 - Naoyuki Sawasaki, Manabu Nakao, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Keiju Okabayashi:

Embedded Vision System for Mobile Robot Navigation. 2693-2698 - Shahar Sarid, Amir Shapiro

, Yoav Gabriely:
MRSAM: a Quadratically Competitive Multi-robot Online Navigation Algorithm. 2699-2704 - Woong Kwon, Kyoung-Sig Roh, Hak-Kyung Sung:

Particle filter-based Heading Estimation using Magnetic Compasses for Mobile Robot Navigation. 2705-2712 - Zheng Wang, Abhay Paranjape, Thomas Sugar

, Michael McBeath:
Perceptual Navigation Strategy for Mobile Robots Intercepting Ground Balls. 2713-2718
Visual Tracking
- Anthony Remazeilles

, François Chaumette
, Patrick Gros:
3D Navigation based on a Visual Memory. 2719-2725 - Muriel Pressigout, Éric Marchand

:
Real-time 3D Model-based Tracking: Combining Edge and Texture Information. 2726-2731 - Vincenzo Lippiello

, Bruno Siciliano
, Luigi Villani
:
3D Pose Estimation for Robotic Applications based on a Multi-camera Hybrid Visual System. 2732-2737 - Hesheng Wang

, Yunhui Liu:
Uncalibrated Visual Tracking Control without Visual Velocity. 2738-2743 - Ville Kyrki

, Danica Kragic:
Tracking Unobservable Rotations by Cue Integration. 2744-2750 - Yang Gu, Manuela M. Veloso:

Multi-model Tracking using Team Actuation Models. 2751-2756
Distributed Robot Systems
- Keith J. O'Hara, Ripal Nathuji, Himanshu Raj, Karsten Schwan, Tucker R. Balch:

AutoPower: Toward Energy-aware Software Systems for Distributed Mobile Robots. 2757-2762 - Bradley E. Bishop:

Dynamics-based Control of Robotic Swarms. 2763-2768 - Nima Moshtagh, Ali Jadbabaie

, Kostas Daniilidis:
Vision-based Control Laws for Distributed Flocking of Nonholonomic Agents. 2769-2774 - Anthony Cowley, Hwa-Chow Oliver Hsu, Camillo J. Taylor:

Opening the Dialog: Robotics and the Internet. 2775-2780 - Maitreyi Nanjanath, Maria L. Gini

:
Dynamic Task Allocation for Robots via Auctions. 2781-2786 - Justin Werfel, Yaneer Bar-Yam, Daniela Rus, Radhika Nagpal

:
Distributed Construction by Mobile Robots with Enhanced Building Blocks. 2787-2794
Human Grasp Measurement
- Markus Hüser, Tim Baier-Löwenstein, Jianwei Zhang:

Learning of Demonstrated grasping Skills by Stereoscopic Tracking of Human Head Configuration. 2795-2800 - Jacopo Aleotti, Stefano Caselli

:
Grasp Recognition in Virtual Reality for Robot Pregrasp Planning by Demonstration. 2801-2806 - Janez Podobnik

, Marko Munih
:
Evaluation of Coordination between Grasp and Load Forces in Power Grasp in Humans with a Haptic Interface. 2807-2812 - Yu Sun, John M. Hollerbach, Stephen A. Mascaro:

Dynamic Features and Prediction Model for Imaging the Fingernail to Measure Fingertip Forces. 2813-2818 - Sebastian Bitzer, Patrick van der Smagt

:
Learning EMG Control of a Robotic Hand: Towards Active Prostheses. 2819-2823 - Bambi R. Brewer, Roberta L. Klatzky, Yoky Matsuoka:

Enhanced Visual Error in a Coordinated Pinch Task. 2824-2829
Aerial Robotics: Vision-Based Navigation
- Jeffrey Byrne, Martin Cosgrove, Raman K. Mehra:

Stereo based Obstacle Detection for an Unmanned Air Vehicle. 2830-2835 - Antoine Beyeler, Claudio Mattiussi, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano:

Vision-based Altitude and Pitch Estimation for Ultra-light Indoor Microflyers. 2836-2841 - Cédric Demonceaux, Pascal Vasseur, Claude Pégard:

Omnidirectional Vision on UAV for Attitude Computation. 2842-2847 - Ryan Carnie, Rodney A. Walker, Peter I. Corke

:
Image Processing Algorithms for UAV "Sense and Avoid". 2848-2853 - Andrew Price, Jacob Pyke, David Ashiri, Terry Cornall:

Real Time Object Detection for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle using an FPGA based Vision System. 2854-2859 - Fernando Caballero

, Luis Merino
, Joaquin Ferruz
, Aníbal Ollero:
Improving Vision-based Planar Motion Estimation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles through Online Mosaicing. 2860-2865
Mechanisms
- Eftychios G. Christoforou

, Nikolaos V. Tsekos
:
Robotic Manipulators with Remotely-actuated Joints: Implementation using Drive-shafts and U-Joints. 2866-2871 - Abbas Fattah, Sunil Kumar Agrawal:

Gravity-balancing of Classes of Industrial Robots. 2872-2877 - Ian T. Burt, Andrew Drenner, Casey Carlson, Apostolos D. Kottas, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos:

Impact Orientation Invariant Robot Design: an Approach to Projectile Deployed Robotic Platforms. 2878-2883 - Tom Lauwers, George Kantor, Ralph L. Hollis:

A Dynamically Stable Single-wheeled Mobile Robot with Inverse Mouse-ball Drive. 2884-2889 - Hiroya Yamada, Shigeo Hirose:

Study on the 3D Shape of Active Cord Mechanism. 2890-2895 - Debao Zhou, Mark R. Claffee, Kok-Meng Lee, Gary V. McMurray:

Cutting, "by Pressing and Slicing", Applied to Robotic Cutting Bio-materials. I. Modeling of Stress Distribution. 2896-2901
Teleoperation With Time Delay
- Dongjun Lee, Mark W. Spong:

Passive Bilateral Teleoperation with Constant Time Delays. 2902-2907 - Marc Alise, Rodney G. Roberts, Daniel W. Repperger:

The Wave Variable Method for Multiple Degree of Freedom Teleoperation Systems with Time Delay. 2908-2913 - Ilia G. Polushin, Peter Xiaoping Liu, Chung-Horng Lung:

Force Reflection Algorithm for Improved Transparency in Bilateral Teleoperation with Communication Delay. 2914-2920 - Peyman Setoodeh

, Shahin Sirouspour, Ali Shahdi:
Discrete-time Multi-model Control for Cooperative Teleoperation under Time Delay. 2921-2926 - Yuichi Tsumaki, Mami Yokohama:

Predictive Motion Display for Acceleration based Teleoperation. 2927-2932 - Martin Kuschel, Philipp Kremer, Sandra Hirche, Martin Buss:

Lossy Data Reduction Methods for Haptic Telepresence Systems. 2933-2938
Human Joint Biomechanics
- Samuel K. Au, Peter Dilworth, Hugh M. Herr:

An Ankle-foot Emulation System for the Study of Human Walking Biomechanics. 2939-2945 - Alon Wolf

, Amir Degani
:
Classifying Knee Pathologies using Instantaneous Screws of the Six Degrees-of-freedom Knee Motion. 2946-2951 - Vincent De Sapio, Katherine Holzbaur

, Oussama Khatib:
The Control of Kinematically Constrained Shoulder Complexes: Physiological and Humanoid Examples. 2952-2959 - Gentiane Venture

, Katsu Yamane, Yoshihiko Nakamura
:
In-vivo Estimation of the Human Elbow Joint Dynamics During Passive Movements based on the Musculo-skeletal Kinematics Computation. 2960-2965 - Mitja Veber, Tadej Bajd:

Assessment of Human Hand Kinematics. 2966-2971 - Yuichi Kurita, Yoshichika Iida, Roland Kempf, Makoto Kaneko, Eiichiro Sugimoto, Hidetoshi Tsukamoto, Hiromu K. Mishima:

Contact Probe based Stiffness Sensing of Human Eye. 2972-2977
Learning Concepts
- Sylvain Calinon, Florent Guenter, Aude Billard

:
On Learning the Statistical Representation of a Task and Generalizing it to Various Contexts. 2978-2983 - Qinggang Meng, Mark H. Lee:

Error-driven Active Learning in Growing Radial Basis Function Networks for Early Robot Learning. 2984-2990 - Joseph Modayil, Benjamin Kuipers:

Autonomous Shape Model Learning for Object Localization and Recognition. 2991-2996 - Bram Bakker, Viktor Zhumatiy, Gabriel Gruener

, Jürgen Schmidhuber:
Quasi-online Reinforcement Learning for Robots. 2997-3002 - Honglak Lee, Yirong Shen, Chih-Han Yu, Gurjeet Singh, Andrew Y. Ng:

Quadruped Robot Obstacle Negotiation via Reinforcement Learning. 3003-3010 - Michael Pardowitz, Raoul Zöllner, Rüdiger Dillmann:

Incremental Acquisition of Task Knowledge Applying Heuristic Relevance Estimation. 3011-3016
Collision Detection and Path Planning
- Dan Albocher, Uzi Sarel, Yi-King Choi

, Gershon Elber, Wenping Wang:
Efficient Continuous Collision Detection for Bounding Boxes under Rational Motion. 3017-3022 - Stefano Carpin, Claudio Mirolo, Enrico Pagello

:
A Performance Comparison of Three Algorithms for Proximity Queries Relative to Convex Polyhedra. 3023-3028 - Yu-Te Lin, Tsai-Yen Li:

A Time-budgeted Collision Detection Method. 3029-3034 - Liangjun Zhang, Young J. Kim

, Gokul Varadhan, Dinesh Manocha
:
Fast C-obstacle Query Computation for Motion Planning. 3035-3040 - Gokul Varadhan, Young J. Kim

, Shankar Krishnan, Dinesh Manocha
:
Topology Preserving Approximation of Free Configuration Space. 3041-3048 - Santiago Garrido

, Luis Moreno
, Dolores Blanco:
Voronoi Diagram and Fast Marching applied to Path Planning. 3049-3054
Computer Vision: 3D Reconstruction
- E. Mouragnon, Maxime Lhuillier, Michel Dhome, Fabien Dekeyser, Patrick Sayd:

3D Reconstruction of Complex Structures with Bundle Adjustment: an Incremental Approach. 3055-3061 - Maxime Lhuillier, Mathieu Perriollat:

Uncertainty Ellipsoids Calculations for Complex 3D Reconstructions. 3062-3069 - Ken'ichi Morooka, Hiroshi Nagahashi:

A Method for Integrating Range Images with Different Resolutions for 3-D Model Construction. 3070-3075 - Stephen Se, Piotr Jasiobedzki:

Photo-realistic 3D Model Reconstruction. 3076-3082 - Adrien Bartoli

:
Towards 3D Motion Estimation from Deformable Surfaces. 3083-3088 - Philipp Michel, Joel E. Chestnutt, Satoshi Kagami, Koichi Nishiwaki, James Kuffner, Takeo Kanade:

Online Environment Reconstruction for Biped Navigation. 3089-3094
Sensor Networks
- Volkan Isler:

Placement and Distributed Deployment of Sensor Teams for Triangulation based Localization. 3095-3100 - Sumit Chachra, Michael M. Marefat:

Distributed Algorithms for Sleep Scheduling in Wireless Sensor Networks. 3101-3107 - Dimitri Marinakis, Gregory Dudek:

A Practical Algorithm for Network Topology Inference. 3108-3115 - Panos Tzanos, Milos Zefran

:
Stability Analysis of Information based Control for Biochemical Source Localization. 3116-3121 - Peng Yang, Randy A. Freeman, Kevin M. Lynch:

Optimal Information Propagation in Sensor Networks. 3122-3127 - Songhwai Oh, Phoebus Chen, Michael Manzo, Shankar Sastry:

Instrumenting Wireless Sensor Networks for Real-time Surveillance. 3128-3133
Rehabilitation and Exoskeleton: Upper Extremities
- Mark J. Lelieveld, Takashi Maeno:

Design and Development of a 4 DOF Portable Haptic Interface with Multi-point Passive Force Feedback for the Index Finger. 3134-3139 - Eduardo Rocon de Lima

, Andrés Felipe Ruiz Olaya, Fernando J. Brunetti
, José Luis Pons Rovira, José M. Belda-Lois, Javier Sánchez-Lacuesta:
On the Use of an Active Wearable Exoskeleton for Tremor Suppression via Biomechanical Loading. 3140-3145 - Kazuo Kiguchi, Mohammad Rahman, Makoto Sasaki:

Neuro-fuzzy based Motion Control of a Robotic Exoskeleton: Considering End-effector Force Vectors. 3146-3151 - Tobias Nef

, Matjaz Mihelj
, Gery Colombo, Robert Riener
:
ARMin - Robot for Rehabilitation of the Upper Extremities. 3152-3157 - Michael J. Fu

, Janis J. Daly, Murat Cenk Cavusoglu
:
Assessment of EEG Event-related Desynchronization in Stroke Survivors Performing Shoulder-elbow Movements. 3158-3164 - Kevin Edwards, Redwan Alqasemi, Rajiv V. Dubey:

Design, Construction and Testing of a Wheelchair-mounted Robotic Arm. 3165-3170
Motion and Mobile Applications
- Satoshi Kagami, Simon Thompson, Yoshifumi Nishida, Tadashi Enomoto, Toshihiro Matsui:

Home Robot Service by Ceiling Ultrasonic Locator and Microphone Array. 3171-3176 - Takahiro Sasaki, Takayuki Nagai, Kenji Kawashima

:
Remote Control of Backhoe for Rescue Activities using Pneumatic Robot System. 3177-3182 - Roland Lenain, Benoît Thuilot, Christophe Cariou, Philippe Martinet

:
Sideslip Angles Observer for Vehicle Guidance in Sliding Conditions: Application to Agricultural Path Tracking Tasks. 3183-3188 - Lamri Nehaoua, Hichem Arioui

, Stéphane Espié, Hakim Mohellebi:
Motion Cueing Algorithms for Small Driving Simulator. 3189-3194 - Hiroyuki Fujioka, Hiroyuki Kano:

Design of Cursive Characters using Robotic Arm Dynamics as Generation Mechanism. 3195-3200 - Masayoshi Wada:

Virtual Link Model for Redundantly Actuated Holonomic Omnidirectional Mobile Robots. 3201-3207
Marine Robotics I: Control and Multiple Robots
- Jinyan Shao, Long Wang

, Junzhi Yu:
Underwater Transportation of Multiple Fish-like Robots using Situation Based Action Selection. 3208-3213 - Gianluca Antonelli

:
Adaptive/Integral Actions for 6-DOF Control of AUVs. 3214-3219 - Paulo Sousa Dias

, Rui M. F. Gomes
, José Pinto, Gil Manuel Gonçalves
, João Borges de Sousa
, Fernando M. Lobo Pereira
:
Mission Planning and Specification in the Neptus Framework. 3220-3225 - Michael R. Benjamin, Matthew Grund, Paul M. Newman:

Multi-objective Optimization of Sensor Quality with Efficient Marine Vehicle Task Execution. 3226-3232 - Jinhyun Kim

, Woong Hee Shon, Hogil Lee, Wan Kyun Chung:
Preliminary Thruster Control Experiments for Underwater Vehicle Positioning. 3233-3237 - Carlos Henrique dos Santos

, Raul Guenther, Edson R. de Pieri
:
A Reactive Neural Network Architecture to Redundancy Resolution for Underwater Vehicle-manipulator Systems. 3238-3243
Teleoperation and Telerobotics
- Panagiotis K. Artemiadis

, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
:
EMG-based Teleoperation of a Robot Arm in Planar Catching Movements using ARMAX Model and Trajectory Monitoring Techniques. 3244-3249 - Woo-Keun Yoon, Takashi Suehiro, Hiromu Onda, Kosei Kitagaki

:
Task Skill Transfer Method using a Bilateral Teleoperation. 3250-3256 - Keehoon Kim, Wan Kyun Chung, Il Hong Suh:

Accurate Force Reflection for Kinematically Dissimilar Bilateral Teleoperation Systems using Instantaneous Restriction Space. 3257-3262 - Göran A. V. Christiansson, Ying Tang, Richard Quint van der Linde:

Size Discrimination in Haptic Teleoperation - Influence of Teleoperator Stiffness. 3263-3267 - Mohsen Mahvash, Allison M. Okamura

:
Friction Compensation for a Force-feedback Telerobotic System. 3268-3273 - Nicola Diolaiti, Günter Niemeyer:

Wave Haptics: using Motor Dynamics for Stiff Coupling to Virtual Environments. 3274-3279
Haptic Interfacing and Control
- Mahdi Tavakoli

, Rajnikant V. Patel
, Mehrdad Moallem:
Bilateral Control of a Teleoperator for Soft Tissue Palpation: Design and Experiments. 3280-3285 - Tatsushi Tokuyasu, Motoji Yamamoto, Kazutoshi Okamura, Kazunori Yoshiura:

Development of a Training System for Intraoral Radiography. 3286-3291 - Min Li, Yunhui Liu:

Haptic Modeling and Experimental Validation for Interactive Endodontic Simulation. 3292-3297 - Dongjun Lee, Oscar Martinez-Palafox, Mark W. Spong:

Bilateral Teleoperation of a Wheeled Mobile Robot over Delayed Communication Network. 3298-3303 - Lawrence J. Tognetti, Wayne J. Book:

Effects of Increased Device Dissipation on Haptic two-port Network Performance. 3304-3311 - Kyungno Lee, Doo Yong Lee:

Multirate Output Estimation for Real-time Haptic Rendering. 3312-3317
Learning Control
- Antonio Visioli

, Giacomo Ziliani, Giovanni Legnani:
An Iterative Learning Control Algorithm for Contour Tracking of unknown Objects. 3318-3323 - Anelia Angelova, Larry H. Matthies, Daniel M. Helmick, Gabe Sibley, Pietro Perona:

Learning to Predict Slip for Ground Robots. 3324-3331 - Sameer Singh, Julie A. Adams:

Transfer of Learning for Complex Task Domains: a Demonstration using Multiple Robots. 3332-3337 - Thomas Kollar, Nicholas Roy:

Using Reinforcement Learning to Improve Exploration Trajectories for Error Minimization. 3338-3343 - Martin Stolle, Christopher G. Atkeson:

Policies based on Trajectory Libraries. 3344-3349 - Sathit Wanitchaikit, Poj Tangamchit

, Thavida Maneewarn:
Self-organizing Approach for Robot's Behavior Imitation. 3350-3355
Mobile Robot Architecture and Control
- Suksun Hutangkabodee, Yahya H. Zweiri

, Lakmal D. Seneviratne
, Kaspar Althoefer:
Performance Prediction of a Wheeled Vehicle on Unknown Terrain using Identified Soil Parameters. 3356-3361 - Yuan Ping Li, Teresa Zielinska

, Marcelo H. Ang Jr.
, Wei Lin:
Wheel-ground Interaction Modelling and Torque Distribution for a Redundant Mobile Robot. 3362-3367 - Yan Meng:

An Agent-based Mobile Robot System using Configurable SOC Technique. 3368-3373 - Gilles Mourioux, Cyril Novales, Gérard Poisson

, Pierre Vieyres:
Omni-directional Robot with Spherical Orthogonal Wheels: Concepts and Analyses. 3374-3379 - Eijiro Takeuchi, Takashi Tsubouchi:

Portable Effector Docking Mechanism for a Service Mobile Robot and its Positioning. 3380-3386 - Krzysztof Kozlowski, Dariusz Pazderski

:
Stabilization of Two-wheeled Mobile Robot using Smooth Control Laws - Experimental Study. 3387-3392
Computer Vision: Features and Images
- Harini Veeraraghavan

, Paul R. Schrater, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos:
Adaptive Geometric Templates for Feature Matching. 3393-3398 - Shuzhi Sam Ge

, Feng Guan, Ai Poh Loh
, Cheng-Heng Fua:
Feature Representation based on Intrinsic Structure Discovery in High Dimensional Space. 3399-3404 - Fayin Li, Jana Kosecka:

Probabilistic Location Recognition using Reduced Feature Set. 3405-3410 - Xiaohu Lu, Hong Zhang:

Color Classification using Adaptive Dichromatic Model. 3411-3416 - Bryce B. Ready, Clark N. Taylor

, Randal W. Beard:
A Kalman-filter based Method for Creation of Super-resolved Mosaicks. 3417-3422 - Humberto Sermeno-Villalta, John R. Spletzer:

Vision-based Control of a Smart Wheelchair for the Automated Transport and Retrieval System (ATRS). 3423-3428
Sensing Hardware and Software
- Ni Qin, Dezhen Song

, Kenneth Y. Goldberg
:
Aligning Windows of Live Video From an Imprecise Pan-tilt-zoom Robotic Camera into a Remote Panoramic Display. 3429-3436 - Sota Shimizu, Hao Jiang, Joel W. Burdick:

Image Extraction by Wide Angle Foveated Lens for Overt-attention. 3437-3442 - Dong Hyun Yoo, Myung Jin Chung, Dan Byung Ju, In-Ho Choi:

Non-intrusive Eye Gaze Estimation using a Projective Invariant under Head Movement. 3443-3448 - Dezhen Song

, Ni Qin, Kenneth Y. Goldberg
:
A Minimum Variance Calibration Algorithm for Pan-tilt Robotic Cameras in Natural Environments. 3449-3456 - Ales Ude

, Chris Gaskett, Gordon Cheng
:
Foveated Vision Systems with two Cameras per Eye. 3457-3462 - Takayuki Hoshi, Hiroyuki Shinoda

:
Robot Skin based on Touch-area-sensitive Tactile Element. 3463-3468
Rehabilitation and Exoskeleton: Lower Extremities
- Ryan Steger, Sung Hoon Kim, Hami Kazerooni:

Control Scheme and Networked Control Architecture for the Berkeley Lower Extremity Exoskeleton (BLEEX). 3469-3476 - Justin Ghan, Hami Kazerooni:

System Identification for the Berkeley Lower Extremity Exoskeleton (BLEEX). 3477-3484 - Conor James Walsh, Daniel Paluska, Kenneth Pasch, William Grand, Andrew Valiente, Hugh M. Herr:

Development of a Lightweight, Underactuated Exoskeleton for Load-carrying Augmentation. 3485-3491 - Kartik Bharadwaj, Thomas Sugar

:
Kinematics of a Robotic Gait Trainer for Stroke Rehabilitation. 3492-3497 - Yasuhisa Hirata

, Asami Muraki, Kazuhiro Kosuge:
Motion Control of Intelligent Passive-type Walker for Fall-prevention Function based on Estimation of User State. 3498-3503 - Lance Cai, Andy J. Fong, Yongqiang Liang, Joel W. Burdick, V. Reggie Edgerton:

Assist-as-needed Training Paradigms for Robotic Rehabilitation of Spinal Cord Injuries. 3504-3511
Robot Motion Control
- Zhijun Li, Aiguo Ming, Ning Xi, Makoto Shimojo:

Motion Control of Nonholonomic Mobile Underactuated Manipulator. 3512-3519 - Xiaoyin Shao, Dong Sun

, James K. Mills:
A New Motion Control Hardware Architecture with FPGA-based IC Design for Robotic Manipulators. 3520-3525 - Xiaorui Zhu, Roy Merrell, Mark A. Minor

:
Motion Control and Sensing Strategy for a two-axle Compliant Framed Wheeled Modular Mobile robot. 3526-3531 - Alessandro De Luca

, Raffaella Mattone, Paolo Robuffo Giordano:
The Motion Control Problem for the CyberCarpet. 3532-3537 - Yiannis Karayiannidis

, Zoe Doulgeri
:
An Adaptive Law for Slope Identification and Force Position Regulation using Motion Variables. 3538-3543 - Xiaoyun Wang, James K. Mills:

Dual-modal Control of Configuration-dependent Linkage Vibration in a Smart Parallel Manipulator. 3544-3549
Marine Robotics II: Mapping and Navigation
- Junaed Sattar, Gregory Dudek:

On the Performance of Color Tracking Algorithms for Underwater Robots under Varying Lighting and Visibility. 3550-3555 - Bartolomé Garau, Alberto Alvarez

, Gabriel Oliver
:
AUV Navigation through Turbulent Ocean Environments Supported by Onboard H-ADCP. 3556-3561 - Juan Manuel Sáez, Andrew Hogue, Francisco Escolano Ruiz, Michael R. M. Jenkin

:
Underwater 3D SLAM through Entropy Minimization. 3562-3567 - Christopher N. Roman, Hanumant Singh:

Consistency based Error Evaluation for Deep Sea Bathymetric Mapping with Robotic Vehicles. 3568-3574 - Nathaniel Fairfield, George Kantor, David Wettergreen

:
Towards Particle Filter SLAM with Three Dimensional Evidence Grids in a Flooded Subterranean Environment. 3575-3580 - Michael R. Benjamin, Joseph A. Curcio, John J. Leonard, Paul M. Newman:

Navigation of Unmanned Marine Vehicles in Accordance with the Rules of the Road. 3581-3587
Man-Machine Systems I
- Ayanna M. Howard:

Role Allocation in Human-robot Interaction Schemes for Mission Scenario Execution. 3588-3594 - Marjorie Skubic, Derek Anderson, Samuel Blisard, Dennis Perzanowski, Alan C. Schultz:

Using a Qualitative Sketch to Control a Team of Robots. 3595-3601 - Wataru Takano, Katsu Yamane, Tomomichi Sugihara, Kou Yamamoto

, Yoshihiko Nakamura
:
Primitive Communication based on Motion Recognition and Generation with Hierarchical Mimesis Model. 3602-3609 - Ravi Vaidyanathan

, Lalit Gupta, Hyunseok Kook, James West:
A Decision Fusion Classification Architecture for Mapping of Tongue Movements based on Aural Flow Monitoring. 3610-3617 - Naoyuki Yamada, Shinkichi Inagaki

, Tatsuya Suzuki, Hiroyuki Okuda, Soichiro Hayakawa, Nuio Tsuchida:
Behavior Modeling in Man-machine Cooperative System based on Stochastic Switched Dynamics. 3618-3623 - Kai-Tai Song, Jwu-Sheng Hu, Chi-Yi Tsai

, Chung-Min Chou, Chieh-Cheng Cheng, Wei-Han Liu, Chia-Hsing Yang:
Speaker Attention System for Mobile Robots using Microphone Array and Face Tracking. 3624-3629
Human and Biologically Oriented Applications
- Mingjun Zhang, Maggie Xiaoyan Cheng, Tzyh Jong Tarn:

Genetic Code based Coding and Mathematical Formualation for DNA Computation. 3630-3635 - Hiromasa Oku, Koichi Hashimoto

, Masatoshi Ishikawa:
High-speed Focusing of Cells using Depth-from-diffraction Method. 3636-3641 - Min Li, Yunhui Liu:

Learning Interaction Force Model for Endodontic Shaping with Support Vector Regression. 3642-3647 - Behdad Masih-Tehrani, Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi

:
Kinematic Approach for the Evaluation of Human Visual Perceptibility in the Workspace. 3648-3653 - Takaaki Shiratori, Atsushi Nakazawa

, Katsushi Ikeuchi:
Synthesizing Dance Performance using Musical and Motion Features. 3654-3659 - Hiroshi Shibata, Masayoshi Kanoh

, Shohei Kato, Hidenori Itoh:
A System for Converting Robot 'emotion' into Facial Expressions. 3660-3665
Control Concepts
- Youcef Touati, Yacine Amirat:

Optimization and Design Methodology of Fuzzy Controller for Industrial Robotic Tasks. 3666-3672 - Jason Fleischer, Botond Szatmáry, Donald Hutson, Douglas Moore, James A. Snook, Gerald M. Edelman, Jeffrey L. Krichmar

:
A Neurally Controlled Robot Competes and Cooperates with Humans in Segway Soccer. 3673-3678 - Samy F. M. Assal

:
Neural Network Learning from Hint for the Cyclic Motion of the Constrained Redundant Arm. 3679-3684 - Rush D. Robinett III, David G. Wilson:

Exergy and Irreversible Entropy Production Thermodynamic Concepts for Control System Design: Robotic Servo Applications. 3685-3692 - Rawichote Chalodhorn, David B. Grimes, Gabriel Y. Maganis, Rajesh P. N. Rao

, Minoru Asada:
Learning Humanoid Motion Dynamics through Sensory-motor Mapping in Reduced Dimensional Spaces. 3693-3698 - Guoli Wang, You Fu Li

, D. X. Bi:
Support Vector Network Enhanced Adaptive Friction Compensation. 3699-3704
Mobile Robot Stability and Control
- Moshe P. Mann, Zvi Shiller:

Dynamic Stability of Off-road Vehicles: a Geometric Approach. 3705-3710 - Steven C. Peters, Karl Iagnemma:

An Analysis of Rollover Stability Measurement for High-speed Mobile Robots. 3711-3716 - Danielle Sami Nasrallah, Jorge Angeles, Hannah Michalska:

Velocity and Orientation Control of an Anti-tilting Mobile Robot Moving on an Inclined Plane. 3717-3723 - Juan Marcos Toibero, Ricardo O. Carelli

, Benjamín R. Kuchen:
Stable Switching Contour-following Controller for Wheeled Mobile Robots. 3724-3729 - Siddharth Sanan, Darshan Santani, K. Madhava Krishna, Henry Hexmoor:

Extension of Reeds and Shepp Paths to a Robot with Front and Rear Wheel Steer. 3730-3735 - Olivier Lefebvre, Florent Lamiraux:

Docking Task for Nonholonomic Mobile Robots. 3736-3741
Computer Vision: Pose Estimation and Object Recognition
- Omar Ait-Aider, Nicolas Andreff, Philippe Martinet

, Jean-Marc Lavest:
Simultaneous Pose and Velocity Measurement by Vision for High-speed Robots. 3742-3747 - Shih-Shinh Huang, Li-Chen Fu

, Pei-Yung Hsiao:
A Framework for Human Pose Estimation by Integrating Data-driven Markov Chain Monte Carlo with Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithm. 3748-3753 - Omar Tahri, Christophe Leroux, Jean-Marc Alexandre:

Pose Estimation from Less than six Non Coplanar Points. 3754-3759 - Fredrik Vikstén, Robert Söderberg, Klas Nordberg, Christian Perwass:

Increasing Pose Estimation Performance using Multi-cue Integration. 3760-3767 - Sukhan Lee, Eunyoung Kim, Yeonchool Park:

3D Object Recognition using Multiple Features for Robotic Manipulation. 3768-3774 - Nathaniel D. Bird, Stefan Atev, Nicolas Caramelli, Robert F. K. Martin, Osama Masoud, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos:

Real time, Online Detection of Abandoned Objects in Public Areas. 3775-3780
Software and Fault Detection Tolerance Methodologies
- Paul Sundvall, Patric Jensfelt:

Fault Detection for Mobile Robots using Redundant Positioning Systems. 3781-3786 - Matthew J. Daigle

, Xenofon D. Koutsoukos, Gautam Biswas:
Distributed Diagnosis of Coupled Mobile Robots. 3787-3794 - Bibhrajit Halder, Nilanjan Sarkar:

Robust Fault Detection of Robotic Systems: New Results and Experiments. 3795-3800 - Chinmay S. Ukidve, John E. McInroy, Farhad Jafari

:
Orthogonal Gough-stewart Platforms with Optimal Fault Tolerant Manipulability. 3801-3806 - Tao Wei, Yufei Huang, C. L. Philip Chen:

Particle Filtering for Adaptive Sensor Fault Detection and Identification. 3807-3812 - Ankur Kapoor, Anton Deguet

, Peter Kazanzides
:
Software Components and Frameworks for Medical Robot Control. 3813-3818
MR-Compatible Robotics
- Kiyoyuki Chinzei, Kiyoshi Yoshinaka

, Toshikatsu Washio
:
Numerical Simulations and Lab Tests for Design of MR-compatible Robots. 3819-3824 - Roger Gassert

, Ludovic Dovat, Olivier Lambercy, Y. Ruffieux, Dominique Chapuis, Ganesh Gowrishankar, Etienne Burdet
, Hannes Bleuler:
A 2-DOF fMRI Compatible Haptic Interface to Investigate the Neural Control of Arm Movements. 3825-3831 - Roger Gassert

, Nicola Vanello, Dominique Chapuis, Valentina Hartwig
, Enzo Pasquale Scilingo
, Antonio Bicchi, Luigi Landini
, Etienne Burdet
, Hannes Bleuler:
Active Mechatronic Interface for Haptic Perception Studies with Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Compatibility and Design Criteria. 3832-3837 - Eftychios G. Christoforou

, Alpay Özcan
, Nikolaos V. Tsekos
:
Manipulator for Magnetic Resonance Imaging Guided Interventions: Design, Prototype and Feasibility. 3838-3843 - Axel Krieger, Gregory J. Metzger

, Gabor Fichtinger, Ergin Atalar
, Louis L. Whitcomb
:
A Hybrid Method for 6-DOF Tracking of MRI-compatible Robotic Interventional Devices. 3844-3849 - Jun Izawa, Takahiro Shimizu, Toshiyuki Aodai, Toshiyuki Kondo, Hiroaki Gomi, Shigeki Toyama, Koji Ito:

MR Compatible Manipulandum with Ultrasonic Motor for fMRI Studies. 3850-3854
Space Robotics: Manipulation
- Guy Rouleau, Ioannis M. Rekleitis

, Régent L'Archevêque, Eric Martin, Kourosh Parsa, Erick Dupuis:
Autonomous Capture of a Tumbling Satellite. 3855-3860 - Ioannis Tortopidis, Evangelos Papadopoulos:

Point-to-point Planning: Methodologies for Underactuated Space Robots. 3861-3866 - Sunil Kumar Agrawal, Kaustubh Pathak, Jaume Franch, Roberto Lampariello

, Gerd Hirzinger:
Design of a Differentially Flat Open-chain Space Robot with Arbitrarily Oriented Joints and two Momentum Wheels at the Base. 3867-3872 - Peggy Boning, Steven Dubowsky:

Identification of Actuation Efforts using Limited Sensory Information for Space Robots. 3873-3878 - Alin Albu-Schäffer

, Wieland Bertleff, Bernhard Rebele, Bernd-Helge Schäfer, Klaus Landzettel, Gerd Hirzinger:
ROKVISS - Robotics Component Verification on ISS Current Experimental Results on Parameter Identification. 3879-3885 - Farhad Aghili

, Mehrzad Namvar
, George Vukovich:
Satellite Simulator with a Hydraulic Manipulator. 3886-3892
Tactile Display
- Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

, Günter Niemeyer:
Improving Telerobotic Touch via High-frequency Acceleration Matching. 3893-3898 - Nakamoto Masataka, Masashi Konyo

, Takashi Maeno, Satoshi Tadokoro:
Reflective Grasp Force Control of Humans Induced by Distributed Vibration Stimuli on Finger Skin with ICPF Actuators. 3899-3904 - Ramiro Velazquez

, Edwige E. Pissaloux, Michael Wiertlewski
:
A Compact Tactile Display for the Blind with Shape Memory Alloys. 3905-3910 - Nandagopal S. Methil, Yantao Shen, Danyu Zhu, Craig A. Pomeroy, Ranjan Mukherjee, Ning Xi, Matt W. Mutka

:
Development of Supermedia Interface for Telediagnostics of Breast Pathology. 3911-3916 - Gi-Hun Yang

, Ki-Uk Kyung, Mandayam A. Srinivasan, Dong-Soo Kwon:
Quantitative Tactile Display Device with Pin-array Type Tactile Feedback and Thermal Feedback. 3917-3922 - Johann Citérin, Aurélien Pocheville, Abderrahmane Kheddar

:
A Touch Rendering Device in a Virtual Environment with Kinesthetic and Thermal Feedback. 3923-3928
Man-Machine Systems II
- Dominik Henrich, Stefan Kuhn:

Modeling Intuitive Behavior for Safe Human/Robot Coexistence Cooperation. 3929-3934 - Mitsunori Uemura, Katsuya Kanaoka, Sadao Kawamura:

Power Assist System for Sinusoidal Motion by Passive Element and Impedance Control. 3935-3940 - Hiroshi Ogawa, Kazuyoshi Kosaka, Koichi Suzumori

, Takefumi Kanda:
Force-presentation Method for Active Polyhedron for Realizing Physical Human-machine Interaction. 3941-3947 - Kane Usher:

Human-in-the-loop Pose Control of a Non-holonomic Vehicle. 3948-3953 - T. H. J. Collett, Bruce A. MacDonald:

Augmented Reality Visualisation for Player. 3954-3959 - Daisuke Sato, Ryosuke Kobayashi, Akira Kobayashi, Masaru Uchiyama:

Task Teaching System for a Force-controlled Parallel Robot using Multiple Teaching Modes with Human Demonstration Data. 3960-3965
Human-Centric Robots
- Kazuyoshi Wada, Takanori Shibata:

Robot Therapy in a Care House - its Sociopsychological and Physiological Effects on the Residents. 3966-3971 - Cory D. Kidd

, Will Taggart, Sherry Turkle:
A Sociable Robot to Encourage Social Interaction among the Elderly. 3972-3976 - Mary Koes, Illah R. Nourbakhsh, Katia P. Sycara:

Constraint Optimization Coordination Architecture for Search and Rescue Robotics. 3977-3982 - Takanori Kiyota, Noboru Sugimoto, Mie Someya:

3D-free Rescue Robot System. 3983-3988 - Pedro Pinies, Juan D. Tardós:

Fast Localization of Avalanche Victims using Sum of Gaussians. 3989-3994 - Rafael Morales

, Vicente B. Feliu
, Antonio González
, Publio Pintado:
Coordinated Motion of a New Staircase Climbing Wheelchair with Increased Passenger Comfort. 3995-4001
Contact Control of Robotic Systems
- Daniel Hanafi, Jayantha Katupitiya:

Very Low Compliance Force Control on a CNC Lathe Machine. 4002-4006 - Bryan J. Thibodeau, Patrick Deegan, Roderic A. Grupen:

Static Analysis of Contact Forces with a Mobile Manipulator. 4007-4012 - Zoe Doulgeri

, George Iliadis:
Contact Task Stability and Maintenance with a Compliant Surface using a Switched one DOF Robot Model. 4013-4018 - Javier Gámez García

, Anders Robertsson, Juan Gómez Ortega
, Rolf Johansson
:
Generalized Contact Force Estimator for a Robot Manipulator. 4019-4024 - Masayuki Shimizu, Kazuhiro Kosuge:

An Admittance Design Approach to Dynamic Assembly of Polyhedral Parts with Uncertainty. 4025-4030 - Hirohiko Arai

:
Force-controlled Metal Spinning Machine using Linear Motors. 4031-4036
Mobility
- Umberto Scarfogliero, Cesare Stefanini

, Paolo Dario:
A Bioinspired Concept for High Efficiency Locomotion in Micro Robots: the Jumping Robot Grillo. 4037-4042 - James Andrew Smith, Inna Sharf

, Michael Trentini:
PAW: a Hybrid Wheeled-leg Robot. 4043-4048 - Pedro Bergés, Alan Bowling:

Compliance Requirements for Non-rebounding Impact in Legged Locomotion. 4049-4056 - Alexandre Lampe, Raja Chatila:

Performance Measure for the Evaluation of Mobile Robot Autonomy. 4057-4062 - Tamotsu Machino, Satoshi Iwaki, Hiroaki Kawata, Yoshimasa Yanagihara, Yoshito Nanjo, Ken-ichiro Shimokura:

Remote-collaboration System using Mobile Robot with Camera and Projector. 4063-4068 - H. Jacky Chang, C. S. George Lee, Yung-Hsiang Lu, Y. Charlie Hu:

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping with Environmental Structure Prediction. 4069-4074
Computer Vision: Real-Time
- Polley R. Liu, Max Q.-H. Meng, Peter Xiaoping Liu

, Fanny F. L. Tong, Xiaona Wang:
Optical Flow and Active Contour for Moving Object Segmentation and Detection in Monocular Robot. 4075-4080 - Francesc Moreno-Noguer

, Alberto Sanfeliu
, Dimitris Samaras:
Integration of Dependent Bayesian Filters for Robust Tracking. 4081-4087 - Juan Fasola, Manuela M. Veloso:

Real-time Object Detection using Segmented and Grayscale Images. 4088-4093 - Cheng-Ming Huang, Chuan-Wen Lai, Li-Chen Fu

:
Visual Tracking with Probabilistic Data Association Filter based on the Circular Hough Transform. 4094-4099 - Jin Zhou, Baoxin Li:

Homography-based Ground Detection for a Mobile Robot Platform using a Single Camera. 4100-4105 - Simon Léonard, Martin Jägersand:

Adaptive Control for Estimating Translations from Image-based Variations. 4106-4111
Vision Feedback
- Wael Bachta, Alexandre Krupa:

Towards Ultrasound Image-based Visual Servoing. 4112-4117 - Jordi Pagès, Christophe Collewet

, François Chaumette
, Joaquim Salvi
:
An Approach to Visual Servoing based on Coded Light. 4118-4123 - Yunhui Liu, Hesheng Wang

, Dongxiang Zhou:
Dynamic Tracking of Manipulators using Visual Feedback from an Uncalibrated Fixed Camera. 4124-4129 - Julio Zamora-Esquivel, Eduardo Bayro-Corrochano:

Kinematics and Differential Kinematics of Binocular Robot Heads. 4130-4135 - Alexandre Krupa:

Automatic Calibration of a Robotized 3D Ultrasound Imaging System by Visual Servoing. 4136-4141 - Geraldo F. Silveira, Ezio Malis, Patrick Rives:

Visual Servoing over Unknown, Unstructured, Large-scale Scenes. 4142-4147
Surgical Robots: Mechanisms
- Kai Xu, Nabil Simaan:

Actuation Compensation for Flexible Surgical Snake-like Robots with Redundant Remote Actuation. 4148-4154 - Mark Rentschler, Jason Dumpert, Stephen R. Platt, Dmitry Oleynikov

, Shane Farritor, Karl Iagnemma:
Mobile in vivo Biopsy Robot. 4155-4160 - Koji Ikuta, Hironobu Ichikawa, Katsuya Suzuki, Daisuke Yajima:

Multi-degree of Freedom Hydraulic Pressure Driven Safety Active Catheter. 4161-4166 - Amir Degani

, Howie Choset, Alon Wolf
, Marco A. Zenati
:
Highly Articulated Robotic Probe for Minimally Invasive Surgery. 4167-4172 - Shin'ichi Warisawa, Takeshi Nishida, Yuuki Kurahashi, Mamoru Mitsuishi, Hiroyuki Hashizume, Masanobu Watanabe:

Development of a K-wire Guiding Robotic System for Scaphoid Fracture Reduction. 4173-4178 - Tobias Ortmaier, Holger Weiss, Ulrich Hagn, Markus Grebenstein, Matthias Nickel, Alin Albu-Schäffer

, Christian Ott
, Stefan Jörg, Rainer Konietschke, Luc Le Tien, Gerd Hirzinger:
A Hands-on-robot for Accurate Placement of Pedicle Screws. 4179-4186 - Ana Luisa Trejos

, Rajnikant V. Patel
, Richard Malthaner:
A Device for Robot-assisted Minimally-invasive Lung Brachytherapy. 4187-4192
Kinematics of Robot Manipulators
- Marc Arsenault, Clément Gosselin

:
Kinematic and Static Analysis of a Planar Modular 2-DoF Tensegrity Mechanism. 4193-4198 - Iain Williams, Geir Hovland, Torgny Brogardh:

Kinematic Error Calibration of the Gantry-Tau Parallel Manipulator. 4199-4204 - Paul Bosscher, Imme Ebert-Uphoff

:
Disturbance Robustness Measures for Underconstrained Cable-driven Robots. 4205-4212 - Dominique Deblaise, Xavier Hernot, Patrick Maurine:

A Systematic Analytical Method for PKM Stiffness Matrix Calculation. 4213-4219 - René V. Mayorga, Johnatan Carrera:

A Manipulator Performance Index based on the Jacobian Rate of Change: a Motion Planning Analysis. 4220-4226 - Seok-Hee Lee, Whee Kuk Kim, Byung-Ju Yi, Il Hong Suh:

Analysis of two 3-DOF Parallel Mechanisms with Constrained Stewart Platform Structure. 4227-4233
Innovative Applications
- Wen-Hong Zhu, Tom Lamarche:

Velocity Estimation by using Imperfect Accelerometer and Encoder for Rigid Contact Modeling and Control. 4234-4239 - Gregory Broten, Jack A. Collier:

Continuous Motion, Outdoor, 2 1/2D grid Map Generation using an Inexpensive Nodding 2-D Laser Rangefinder. 4240-4245 - Valdinei Freire da Silva, Anna Helena Reali Costa

, Pedro U. Lima
:
Inverse Reinforcement Learning with Evaluation. 4246-4251 - James H. Lever, Alexander D. Streeter, Laura E. Ray

:
Performance of a Solar-powered Robot for Polar Instrument Networks. 4252-4257 - Mihoko Niitsuma

, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Hideki Hashimoto:
Spatial Memory: an Aid System for Human Activity in Intelligent Space. 4258-4263 - Ross L. Feller, Douglas P. Perrin

, Robert D. Howe:
Validation and Explanation of Waterhammer-based Locomotion. 4264-4269 - Dongwei Cao, Osama Masoud, Daniel Boley:

Human Motion Recognition with a Convolution Kernel. 4270-4275

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