Experimental Robotics : The Eleventh International Symposium - Khatib, Oussama; Kumar, Vijay; Pappas, George; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2009)
Session 1: Design -- Session 1: Design -- The SDM Hand: A Highly Adaptive Compliant Grasper for Unstructured Environments -- Reliable External Actuation for Extending Reachable Robotic Modular Self-Reconfiguration -- Design and Development of a Soft Actuator for a Robot Inspired by the Octopus Arm -- Portable Autonomous Vehicle Controller -- Design and Control of a Bio-inspired Human-Friendly Robot -- Session 2: Autonomous Driving -- Session 2: Autonomous Driving -- Path Planning for Autonomous Driving in Unknown Environments -- Experimental Results for Over-the-Horizon Planetary Exploration Using a LIDAR Sensor -- Efficient Techniques for Dynamic Vehicle Detection -- Comparison of Boosting Based Terrain Classification Using Proprioceptive and Exteroceptive Data -- Session 3: Cooperation -- Session 3: Cooperation -- Demonstrating the Benefits of Cooperation for a UAV Team Performing Vision Based Feature Localisation -- Maintaining Connectivity in Mobile Robot Networks -- From Theory to Practice: Distributed Coverage Control Experiments with Groups of Robots -- Co-ordinated Tracking and Planning Using Air and Ground Vehicles -- Distributed Robotic Radiation Mapping -- Session 4: Mini and Micro Robots -- Session 4: Mini and Micro Robots -- Visual Tracking for Teams of Miniature Robots -- Small, Fast, and under Control: Wireless Resonant Magnetic Micro-agents -- Visually Servoed Orientation Control of Biological Cells in Microrobotic Cell Manipulation -- Session 5: Human Robot Interaction -- Session 5: Human Robot Interaction -- A First Investigation into the Teleoperation of a Miniature Rotorcraft -- Toward Socially Assistive Robotics for Augmenting Interventions for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders -- Teaching Robots via Natural Nonverbal Cues -- The Psychological Effects of Attendance of an Android on Communication -- SHARY: A Supervision System Adapted to Human-Robot Interaction -- Session 6: Medical Robotics -- Session 6: Medical Robotics -- EMG-Based Position and Force Estimates in Coupled Human-Robot Systems: Towards EMG-Controlled Exoskeletons -- An Image-Based Localization Algorithm for Catheter Navigation in the Left Atrium -- Mechanical Response of Embryonic Stem Cells Using Haptics-Enabled Atomic Force Microscopy -- Task-Space Control of Continuum Manipulators with Coupled Tendon Drive -- Session 7: Locomotion -- Session 7: Locomotion -- Passing under Obstacles with Humanoid Robots -- Planning Support Contact-Points for Acyclic Motions and Experiments on HRP-2 -- A Physical Model for Dynamical Arthropod Running on Level Ground -- Reliable Dynamic Motions for a Stiff Quadruped -- Bioinspired Jumping Locomotion in Small Robots: Natural Observation, Design, Experiments -- Session 8: Localization and Mapping -- Session 8: Localization and Mapping -- A Robust Method of Localization and Mapping Using Only Range -- Visual Appearance Mapping for Optimal Vision Based Servoing -- Place Recognition Using Keypoint Similarities in 2D Lidar Maps -- A First-Estimates Jacobian EKF for Improving SLAM Consistency -- Session 9: UUVs and UAVs -- Session 9: UUVs and UAVs -- Autonomous Autorotation of an RC Helicopter -- Preliminary Results for Model-Based Adaptive Control of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle -- Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping and Dense Stereoscopic Seafloor Reconstruction Using an AUV -- A Boosting Approach to Visual Servo-Control of an Underwater Robot -- Saving Energy with Buoyancy and Balance Control for Underwater Robots with Dynamic Payloads -- Session 10: Sensing and Planning -- Session 10: Sensing and Planning -- Adaptive Full Scan Model for Range Finders in Dynamic Environments -- Empirical Sampling of Path Sets for Local Area Motion Planning -- Motion Strategies for People Tracking in Cluttered and Dynamic Environments -- Tracking Odor Plumes in a Laminar Wind Field with Bio-inspired Algorithms -- Session 11: Vision -- Session 11: Vision -- Closed-Form Differential Kinematics for Concentric-Tube Continuum Robots with Application to Visual Servoing -- Humanoid Vision Resembles Primate Archetype -- Learning to Associate Image Features with CRF-Matching -- Fast Relative Pose Calibration for Visual and Inertial Sensors -- Scale Invariant Detection and Tracking of Elongated Structures -- Session 12: Manipulation -- Session 12: Manipulation -- Shape Recognition and Optimal Grasping of Unknown Objects by Soft-Fingered Robotic Hands with Camera -- Coordinated Control and Range Imaging for Mobile Manipulation -- Experimental Evaluation of Several Strategies for Human Motion Based Transparency Control -- Development of a Manipulation Component for a Container Transferring Robot in Living Space.
Keywords: Robotics; Automation; Control engineering; Mechatronics; Artificial intelligence; Machinery; System theory; Robotics and Automation; Control, Robotics, Mechatronics; Artificial Intelligence; Machinery and Machine Elements; Systems Theory, Control