ICRA 2010:
Anchorage, Alaska, USA
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2010, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, 3-7 May 2010.
IEEE 2010
Aerial Robotics:
Communication, Perception and Control
- Ruijie He, Abraham Bachrach, Nicholas Roy:
Efficient planning under uncertainty for a target-tracking micro-aerial vehicle.
1-8

- Tiago F. Gonçalves, José R. Azinheira, Patrick Rives:
Homography-based visual servoing of an aircraft for automatic approach and landing.
9-14

- Sabine Hauert, Severin Leven, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano:
Communication-based leashing of real flying robots.
15-20

- Michael Blösch, Stephan Weiss, Davide Scaramuzza, Roland Siegwart:
Vision based MAV navigation in unknown and unstructured environments.
21-28

- Richard James Donald Moore, Saul Thurrowgood, Daniel Peter Bland, Dean Soccol, Mandyam V. Srinivasan:
UAV altitude and attitude stabilisation using a coaxial stereo vision system.
29-34

- Iván Fernando Mondragón, Pascual Campoy, Carol Martínez, Miguel A. Olivares-Méndez:
3D pose estimation based on planar object tracking for UAVs control.
35-41

Novel Designs and Architectures
- Jorge Solis, Klaus Petersen, Tetsuro Yamamoto, Masaki Takeuchi, Shimpei Ishikawa, Atsuo Takanishi, Kunimatsu Hashimoto:
Mechanism design and air pressure control system improvements of the Waseda Saxophonist Robot.
42-47

- Apoorva Kapadia, Ian D. Walker, Keith Evan Green, Joseph Charles Manganelli, Henrique Houayek, Adam M. James, Krishna Teja, Tarek H. Mokhtar, Ivan Siles, Paul Yanik:
"Architectural Robotics": An interdisciplinary course rethinking the machines we live in.
48-53

- Takaaki Matsumoto, Koichi Kita, Ren Suzuki, Atsushi Oosedo, Kenta Go, Yuta Hoshino, Atsushi Konno, Masaru Uchiyama:
A hovering control strategy for a tail-sitter VTOL UAV that increases stability against large disturbance.
54-59

- Graham G. Ryland, Harry H. Cheng:
Design of iMobot, an intelligent reconfigurable mobile robot with novel locomotion.
60-65

- Hongxing Wei, Yingpeng Cai, Haiyuan Li, Dezhong Li, Tianmiao Wang:
Sambot: A self-assembly modular robot for swarm robot.
66-71

- Alexis Lussier Desbiens, Alan T. Asbeck, Mark R. Cutkosky:
Hybrid aerial and scansorial robotics.
72-77

Biologically Inspired Swimming Robots
- Kin Huat Low, Chee Wee Chong, Chunlin Zhou, Gerald Lee Gim Seet:
An improved semi-empirical model for a body and/or caudal fin (BCF) fish robot.
78-83

- Otar Akanyeti, Andres Ernits, Maria-Camilla Fiazza, Gert Toming, Guntis Kulikovskis, Madis Listak, Rasmus Raag, Taavi Salumae, Paolo Fiorini, Maarja Kruusmaa:
Myometry-driven compliant-body design for underwater propulsion.
84-89

- Kin Huat Low, Chee Wee Chong, Chunlin Zhou:
Performance study of a fish robot propelled by a flexible caudal fin.
90-95

- Kathrin Eva Peyer, Li Zhang, Bradley Kratochvil, Bradley J. Nelson:
Non-ideal swimming of artificial bacterial flagella near a surface.
96-101

- Xiaobo Tan, Michael Carpenter, John Thon, Freddie Alequin-Ramos:
Analytical modeling and experimental studies of robotic fish turning.
102-108

- Je-Sung Koh, Kyu-Jin Cho:
Omegabot: Crawling robot inspired by Ascotis Selenaria.
109-114

Range Sensing
- Zuolei Sun, Joop van de Ven, Fabio T. Ramos, Xuchu Mao, Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte:
Inferring motion uncertainty from shape-Matching.
115-120

- Jing Xu, Ning Xi, Chi Zhang, Quan Shi:
Real-time 3D shape measurement system based on single structure light pattern.
121-126

- Huijing Zhao, Yiming Liu, Xiaolong Zhu, Yipu Zhao, Hongbin Zha:
Scene understanding in a large dynamic environment through a laser-based sensing.
127-133

- Agnes Swadzba, Niklas Beuter, Sven Wachsmuth, Franz Kummert:
Dynamic 3D scene analysis for acquiring articulated scene models.
134-141

- Frank Moosmann, Thierry Fraichard:
Motion estimation from range images in dynamic outdoor scenes.
142-147

- Kurt Konolige:
Projected texture stereo.
148-155

Human Robot Interaction
- Bogdan Raducanu, Fadi Dornaika:
Dynamic facial expression recognition using Laplacian Eigenmaps-based manifold learning.
156-161

- Rainer Jäkel, Sven R. Schmidt-Rohr, Martin Lösch, Rüdiger Dillmann:
Representation and constrained planning of manipulation strategies in the context of Programming by Demonstration.
162-169

- Hae Won Park, Ayanna M. Howard:
Understanding a child's play for robot interaction by sequencing play primitives using Hidden Markov Models.
170-177

- Eric Meisner, Sanmay Das, Volkan Isler, Jeff Trinkle, Selma Sabanovic, Linnda R. Caporael:
Predictive State Representations for grounding human-robot communication.
178-185

- Nisar R. Ahmed, Mark E. Campbell:
Variational Bayesian data fusion of multi-class discrete observations with applications to cooperative human-robot estimation.
186-191

- Susanne Petsch, Darius Burschka:
Estimation of spatio-temporal object properties for manipulation tasks from observation of humans.
192-198

Human Robot Interaction for Assistive Technology
- Cristina Urdiales, Manuel Fernández-Carmona, Jose Manuel Peula, Roberta Annicchiarico, Francisco Sandoval Hernández, Carlo Caltagirone:
Efficiency based modulation for wheelchair driving collaborative control.
199-204

- Wonil Park, Suncheol Kwon, Jung Kim:
Real-time estimation of thumb-tip forces using surface electromyogram for a novel human-machine interface.
205-210

- Jeffrey A. Ward, Thomas G. Sugar, John Standeven, Jack R. Engsberg:
Stroke survivor gait adaptation and performance after training on a Powered Ankle Foot Orthosis.
211-216

- Dae-Jin Kim, Rebekah Hazlett, Heather Godfrey, Greta Rucks, David Portee, John Bricout, Tara Cunningham, Aman Behal:
On the relationship between autonomy, performance, and satisfaction: Lessons from a three-week user study with post-SCI patients using a smart 6DOF assistive robotic manipulator.
217-222

- Rocco Vertechy, Antonio Frisoli, Massimiliano Solazzi, Andrea Dettori, Massimo Bergamasco:
Linear-quadratic-Gaussian torque control: Application to a flexible joint of a rehabilitation exoskeleton.
223-228

- Chung Hyuk Park, Jae Wook Yoo, Ayanna M. Howard:
Transfer of skills between human operators through haptic training with robot coordination.
229-235

Algorithms and Representations for SLAM
- Jens-Steffen Gutmann, Gabriel Brisson, Ethan Eade, Philip Fong, Mario E. Munich:
Vector field SLAM.
236-242

- Luca Carlone, Miguel Efrain Kaouk Ng, Jingjing Du, Basilio Bona, Marina Indri:
Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filters multi robot SLAM with unknown initial correspondences and limited communication.
243-249

- Jung-Suk Lee, Chanki Kim, Wan Kyun Chung:
Robust RBPF-SLAM using sonar sensors in non-static environments.
250-256

- Charles Bibby, Ian D. Reid:
A hybrid SLAM representation for dynamic marine environments.
257-264

- Rene Iser, Friedrich M. Wahl:
AntSLAM: Global map optimization using swarm intelligence.
265-272

- Giorgio Grisetti, Rainer Kümmerle, Cyrill Stachniss, Udo Frese, Christoph Hertzberg:
Hierarchical optimization on manifolds for online 2D and 3D mapping.
273-278

Autonomous Navigation
- Chao Gao, John R. Spletzer:
On-line calibration of multiple LIDARs on a mobile vehicle platform.
279-284

- Gabe Sibley, Christopher Mei, Ian D. Reid, Paul M. Newman:
Planes, trains and automobiles - autonomy for the modern robot.
285-292

- Stefan B. Williams, Oscar Pizarro, Michael V. Jakuba, Ian Mahon, S. D. Ling, Craig R. Johnson:
Repeated AUV surveying of urchin barrens in North Eastern Tasmania.
293-299

- Eitan Marder-Eppstein, Eric Berger, Tully Foote, Brian P. Gerkey, Kurt Konolige:
The Office Marathon: Robust navigation in an indoor office environment.
300-307

- Shilpa Gulati, Kristof Richmond, Christopher Flesher, Bart P. Hogan, Aniket Murarka, Gregory Kuhlmann, Mohan Sridharan, William C. Stone, Peter T. Doran:
Toward autonomous scientific exploration of ice-covered lakes - Field experiments with the ENDURANCE AUV in an Antarctic Dry Valley.
308-315

- Tomonari Furukawa, Benjamin Lavis, Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte:
Parallel grid-based recursive Bayesian estimation using GPU for real-time autonomous navigation.
316-321

Path Planning and Coordination for Multiple Robots
AI Reasoning Methods
- Jürgen Sturm, Kurt Konolige, Cyrill Stachniss, Wolfram Burgard:
Vision-based detection for learning articulation models of cabinet doors and drawers in household environments.
362-368

- Robert Kaplow, Amin Atrash, Joelle Pineau:
Variable resolution decomposition for robotic navigation under a POMDP framework.
369-376

- Arthur Guez, Joelle Pineau:
Multi-tasking SLAM.
377-384

- Marc Toussaint, Nils Plath, Tobias Lang, Nikolay Jetchev:
Integrated motor control, planning, grasping and high-level reasoning in a blocks world using probabilistic inference.
385-391

- Paul W. Schermerhorn, Matthias Scheutz:
Using logic to handle conflicts between system, component, and infrastructure goals in complex robotic architectures.
392-397

- Eren Erdal Aksoy, Alexey Abramov, Florentin Wörgötter, Babette Dellen:
Categorizing object-action relations from semantic scene graphs.
398-405

Detection and Surveillance
- Xuan Song, Huijing Zhao, Jinshi Cui, Xiaowei Shao, Ryosuke Shibasaki, Hongbin Zha:
Fusion of laser and vision for multiple targets tracking via on-line learning.
406-411

- Adam Coates, Andrew Y. Ng:
Multi-camera object detection for robotics.
412-419

- Andrew Drenner, Michael Janssen, Nikos Papanikolopoulos:
A strategy for improving observability with mobile robots.
420-425

- Francesco Amigoni, Nicola Basilico, Nicola Gatti, Alessandro Saporiti, Stefano Troiani:
Moving game theoretical patrolling strategies from theory to practice: An USARSim simulation.
426-431

- Silvia Ferrari, Greg Foderaro, Andrew Tremblay:
A probability density function approach to distributed sensors' path planning.
432-439

- Eric Sommerlade, Ian Reid:
Probabilistic surveillance with multiple active cameras.
440-445

Human Detection, Tracking and Listening
- Nicolas A. Tsokas, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos:
A multiple hypothesis people tracker for teams of mobile robots.
446-451

- SangHyun Chang, Michael T. Wolf, Joel W. Burdick:
Human detection and tracking via Ultra-Wideband (UWB) radar.
452-457

- Javier Romero, Hedvig Kjellström, Danica Kragic:
Hands in action: real-time 3D reconstruction of hands in interaction with objects.
458-463

- Matthias Luber, Johannes Andreas Stork, Gian Diego Tipaldi, Kai Oliver Arras:
People tracking with human motion predictions from social forces.
464-469

- Toru Takahashi, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Kazunori Komatani, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno:
Improvement in listening capability for humanoid robot HRP-2.
470-475

- Slawomir Grzonka, Frederic Dijoux, Andreas Karwath, Wolfram Burgard:
Mapping indoor environments based on human activity.
476-481

Micro and Nano Scale Automation
- Hisataka Maruyama, Ryo Iitsuka, Kazuhisa Onda, Fumihito Arai:
Massive parallel assembly of microbeads for fabrication of microtools having spherical structure and powerful laser manipulation.
482-487

- Rakesh Murthy, Dan O. Popa:
Millimeter-scale microrobots for wafer-level factories.
488-493

- Zhe Lu, Christopher Moraes, Yan Zhao, LiDan You, Craig A. Simmons, Yu Sun:
A micromanipulation system for single cell deposition.
494-499

- Sylvain Martel, Mahmood Mohammadi:
Using a swarm of self-propelled natural microrobots in the form of flagellated bacteria to perform complex micro-assembly tasks.
500-505

- Eli Paster, Bryan P. Ruddy, Priam V. Pillai, Ian W. Hunter:
Closed loop performance of polypyrrole linear contractile actuators.
506-511

- Mohammad Al Janaideh, Chun-Yi Su, Subhash Rakheja:
Compensation of rate-dependent hysteresis nonlinearities in a piezo micro-positioning stage.
512-517

50 Years of Robotics:
Field Robotics
- Michael J. Procopio, Jane Mulligan, Gregory Z. Grudic:
Coping with imbalanced training data for improved terrain prediction in autonomous outdoor robot navigation.
518-525

- Seth J. Teller, Matthew R. Walter, Matthew E. Antone, Andrew Correa, Randall Davis, Luke Fletcher, Emilio Frazzoli, Jim Glass, Jonathan P. How, Albert S. Huang, Jeong Hwan Jeon, Sertac Karaman, Brandon Luders, Nicholas Roy, Tara N. Sainath:
A voice-commandable robotic forklift working alongside humans in minimally-prepared outdoor environments.
526-533

- Paul Timothy Furgale, Timothy D. Barfoot:
Visual path following on a manifold in unstructured three-dimensional terrain.
534-539

50 Years of Robotics:
Industrial Robotics and Automation
2 Years of Robotics:
Medical and Life Sciences
50 Years of Robotics:
Energy, Environment and Society
- Guy Hoffman, Gil Weinberg:
Gesture-based human-robot Jazz improvisation.
582-587

- Genya Ishigami, Gaurav Kewlani, Karl Iagnemma:
Statistical mobility prediction for planetary surface exploration rovers in uncertain terrain.
588-593

- Louis L. Whitcomb, Michael V. Jakuba, James C. Kinsey, Stephen C. Martin, Sarah E. Webster, Jonathan C. Howland, Chris L. Taylor, Daniel Gomez-Ibanez, Dana R. Yoerger:
Navigation and control of the Nereus hybrid underwater vehicle for global ocean science to 10, 903 m depth: Preliminary results.
594-600

Aerial Robotics:
Design, Modeling and Control
- Raymond Oung, Frédéric Bourgault, Matthew Donovan, Raffaello D'Andrea:
The Distributed Flight Array.
601-607

- Tak-Kit Lau, Yunhui Liu, Kai-wun Lin:
New method of modeling the actuation dynamics of a miniature hingeless helicopter using gyroscopic moments.
608-613

- Eftychios G. Christoforou:
Angular elevation control of robotic kite systems.
614-619

- Jose Alfredo Guerrero Mata, Isabelle Fantoni, Sergio Salazar, Rogelio Lozano:
Flight formation of multiple mini rotorcraft via coordination control.
620-625

- Chengkun Zhang, Zaeem A. Khan, Sunil Kumar Agrawal:
Experimental investigation of effects of flapping wing aspect ratio and flexibility on aerodynamic performance.
626-631

- Alex Kossett, Ruben D'Sa, Jesse Purvey, Nikos Papanikolopoulos:
Design of an improved land/air miniature robot.
632-637

Control of Parallel Robots
- Erol Ozgur, Nicolas Andreff, Philippe Martinet:
Vector-based dynamic modeling and control of the Quattro parallel robot by means of leg orientations.
638-643

- Redwan Dahmouche, Nicolas Andreff, Youcef Mezouar, Philippe Martinet:
Efficient high-speed vision-based computed torque control of the orthoglide parallel robot.
644-649

- Alaleh Vafaei, Mohammad M. Aref, Hamid D. Taghirad:
Integrated controller for an over-constrained cable driven parallel manipulator: KNTU CDRPM.
650-655

- Jens Kotlarski, Trung Do Thanh, Bodo Heimann, Tobias Ortmaier:
Optimization strategies for additional actuators of kinematically redundant parallel kinematic machines.
656-661

- Jae Heon Chung, Hyo-Jeong Cha, Byung-Ju Yi, Whee Kuk Kim:
Implementation of a 4-DOF parallel mechanism as a needle insertion device.
662-668

- Kun Yu, Leng-Feng Lee, Chin Pei Tang, Venkat Krovi:
Enhanced trajectory tracking control with active lower bounded stiffness control for cable robot.
669-674

Snake Robot Locomotion
- Pål Liljebäck, Kristin Ytterstad Pettersen, Øyvind Stavdahl, Jan Tommy Gravdahl:
A hybrid model of obstacle-aided snake robot locomotion.
675-682

- Pål Liljebäck, Kristin Ytterstad Pettersen, Øyvind Stavdahl:
A snake robot with a contact force measurement system for obstacle-aided locomotion.
683-690

- Ross L. Hatton, Howie Choset:
Sidewinding on slopes.
691-696

- Keiichi Hoshino, Motoyasu Tanaka, Fumitoshi Matsuno:
Optimal shape of a snake robot for jumping.
697-702

- Hiroya Yamada, Shigeo Hirose:
Approximations to continuous curves of Active Cord Mechanism made of arc-shaped joints or double joints.
703-708

- Takahide Sato, Wataru Watanabe, Akio Ishiguro:
An adaptive decentralized control of a serpentine robot based on the discrepancy between body, brain and environment.
709-714

Personal and Service Robots
- Brian Mayton, Louis LeGrand, Joshua R. Smith:
Robot, feed thyself: Plugging in to unmodified electrical outlets by sensing emitted AC electric fields.
715-722

- Dominik Joho, Wolfram Burgard:
Searching for objects: Combining multiple cues to object locations using a maximum entropy model.
723-728

- Wim Meeussen, Melonee Wise, Stuart Glaser, Sachin Chitta, Conor McGann, Patrick Mihelich, Eitan Marder-Eppstein, Marius Constantin Muja, Victor Eruhimov, Tully Foote, John Hsu, Radu Bogdan Rusu, Bhaskara Marthi, Gary R. Bradski, Kurt Konolige, Brian P. Gerkey, Eric Berger:
Autonomous door opening and plugging in with a personal robot.
729-736

- Takeshi Sakaguchi, Shinichi Tsunoo, E. Kubo, Kazuhito Yokoi, Kazuyoshi Wada:
Intelligent ambience that can lead robot's actions-system design concept and experimental evaluation of intelligent ambience.
737-744

- Muhammad Attamimi, Attamini Mizutani, Tomoaki Nakamura, Komei Sugiura, Takayuki Nagai, Naoto Iwahashi, Hiroyuki Okada, Takashi Omori:
Learning novel objects using out-of-vocabulary word segmentation and object extraction for home assistant robots.
745-750

- Ellen Klingbeil, Blake Carpenter, Olga Russakovsky, Andrew Y. Ng:
Autonomous operation of novel elevators for robot navigation.
751-758

Grasping Mechanisms
- Giovanni Berselli, Marco Piccinini, Gabriele Vassura:
Tailoring the viscoelastic properties of soft pads for robotic limbs through purposely designed fluid filled structures.
759-764

- Chad C. Kessens, Jaydev P. Desai:
Design, fabrication, and implementation of self-sealing suction cup arrays for grasping.
765-770

- Martin Wassink, Raffaella Carloni, Stefano Stramigioli:
Port-Hamiltonian analysis of a novel robotic finger concept for minimal actuation variable impedance grasping.
771-776

- Hiroaki Hasegawa, Yoshitomo Mizoguchi, Kenjiro Tadakuma, Aiguo Ming, Masatoshi Ishikawa, Makoto Shimojo:
Development of intelligent robot hand using proximity, contact and slip sensing.
777-784

- Per Henrik Borgstrom, Maxim A. Batalin, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, William J. Kaiser:
Weighted barrier functions for computation of force distributions with friction cone constraints.
785-792

- Gianni Borghesan, Gianluca Palli, Claudio Melchiorri:
Design of tendon-driven robotic fingers: Modeling and control issues.
793-798

Compliant Control and Robot Safety
- Dongjun Shin, Fabian Seitz, Oussama Khatib, Mark R. Cutkosky:
Analysis of torque capacities in hybrid actuation for human-friendly robot design.
799-804

- Kiyoshi Nagai, Yuichiro Dake, Yasuto Shiigi, Rui Loureiro, William S. Harwin:
Design of Redundant Drive Joints with Double Actuation using springs in the second actuator to avoid excessive active torques.
805-812

- Jung-Jun Park, Jae-Bok Song:
Safe joint mechanism using inclined link with springs for collision safety and positioning accuracy of a robot arm.
813-818

- Ewald Lutscher, Martin Lawitzky, Gordon Cheng, Sandra Hirche:
A control strategy for operating unknown constrained mechanisms.
819-824

- Mitsunori Uemura, Sadao Kawamura:
Resonance-based task space controller for multi-joint robot with adjustable equilibrium angle of elastic element.
825-830

- Brian Mayton, Louis LeGrand, Joshua R. Smith:
An Electric Field Pretouch system for grasping and co-manipulation.
831-838

Behavior Learning
- J. Zico Kolter, Christian Plagemann, David T. Jackson, Andrew Y. Ng, Sebastian Thrun:
A probabilistic approach to mixed open-loop and closed-loop control, with application to extreme autonomous driving.
839-845

- Paul Vernaza, Daniel D. Lee, Seung-Joon Yi:
Learning and planning high-dimensional physical trajectories via structured Lagrangians.
846-852

- Jens Kober, Katharina Mülling, Oliver Kroemer, Christoph H. Lampert, Bernhard Schölkopf, Jan Peters:
Movement templates for learning of hitting and batting.
853-858

- Lorenzo Jamone, Matteo Fumagalli, Giorgio Metta, Lorenzo Natale, Francesco Nori, Giulio Sandini:
Machine-learning based control of a human-like tendon-driven neck.
859-865

- Erik Alexander Billing, Thomas Hellström, Lars-Erik Janlert:
Behavior recognition for Learning from Demonstration.
866-872

- Rainer Jäkel, Sven R. Schmidt-Rohr, Zhixing Xue, Martin Lösch, Rüdiger Dillmann:
Learning of probabilistic grasping strategies using Programming by Demonstration.
873-880

Sensing and Perception for Autonomous Navigation
- Patrick J. F. Carle, Timothy D. Barfoot:
Global rover localization by matching lidar and orbital 3D maps.
881-886

- Joop van de Ven, Fabio Ramos, Gian Diego Tipaldi:
An integrated probabilistic model for scan-matching, moving object detection and motion estimation.
887-894

- Soumya Ghosh, Jane Mulligan:
A segmentation guided label propagation scheme for autonomous navigation.
895-902

- Mayank Bansal, Sang-Hack Jung, Bogdan Matei, Jayan Eledath, Harpreet S. Sawhney:
A real-time pedestrian detection system based on structure and appearance classification.
903-909

- Daniel Conrad, Guilherme N. DeSouza:
Homography-based ground plane detection for mobile robot navigation using a Modified EM algorithm.
910-915

- Dino Accoto, Luca Lucibello, Domenico Campolo, Eugenio Guglielmelli:
A mobile robotic platform exploiting the navigational capabilities of the Carassius auratus using a natural interface.
916-921

Path Planning for Multi-Agent Systems
Motion Planning in Dynamic Environments
- Daniel Mellinger, Vijay Kumar:
Control and planning for vehicles with uncertainty in dynamics.
960-965

- Noel E. Du Toit, Joel W. Burdick:
Robotic motion planning in dynamic, cluttered, uncertain environments.
966-973

- Bin Xu, Daniel J. Stilwell, Andrew Kurdila:
A receding horizon controller for motion planning in the presence of moving obstacles.
974-980

- Peter Henry, Christian Vollmer, Brian Ferris, Dieter Fox:
Learning to navigate through crowded environments.
981-986

- Moritz Werling, Julius Ziegler, Sören Kammel, Sebastian Thrun:
Optimal trajectory generation for dynamic street scenarios in a Frenét Frame.
987-993

- Hong Liu, Weiwei Wan, Hongbin Zha:
A dynamic subgoal path planner for unpredictable environments.
994-1001

Image Matching and Registration
- Moritz Kaiser, Bogdan Kwolek, Christoph Staub, Gerhard Rigoll:
Registration of 3D facial surfaces using covariance matrix pyramids.
1002-1007

- Deon George Sabatta, Davide Scaramuzza, Roland Siegwart:
Improved appearance-based matching in similar and dynamic environments using a Vocabulary tree.
1008-1013

- Hyunwoo Kim, Sukhan Lee:
A novel line matching method based on intersection context.
1014-1021

- Thomas Gumpp, Dennis Nienhüser, Johann Marius Zöllner:
Physical road marker property estimation using monoscopic vision.
1022-1027

- Miguel Lourenço, João P. Barreto, Abed Malti:
Feature detection and matching in images with radial distortion.
1028-1034

- Zhibin Liu, Zongying Shi, Wenli Xu:
Minimum-error active matching for real-time vision.
1035-1040

Surgical Robot Design
- Jumpei Arata, Yoshitaka Saito, Hideo Fujimoto:
Outer shell type 2 DOF bending manipulator using spring-link mechanism for medical applications.
1041-1046

- D. Caleb Rucker, Bryan A. Jones, Robert J. Webster III:
A model for concentric tube continuum robots under applied wrenches.
1047-1052

- Jienan Ding, Kai Xu, Roger E. Goldman, Peter K. Allen, Dennis L. Fowler, Nabil Simaan:
Design, simulation and evaluation of kinematic alternatives for Insertable Robotic Effectors Platforms in Single Port Access Surgery.
1053-1058

- Samuel B. Kesner, Robert D. Howe:
Design and control of motion compensation cardiac catheters.
1059-1065

- Axel Krieger, Iulian Iordachita, Sang-Eun Song, Nathan Bongjoon Cho, Peter Guion, Gabor Fichtinger, Louis L. Whitcomb:
Development and preliminary evaluation of an actuated MRI-compatible robotic device for MRI-guided prostate intervention.
1066-1073

- Varun Agrawal, William J. Peine, Bin Yao, SeungWook Choi:
Control of cable actuated devices using smooth backlash inverse.
1074-1079

Video Session:
Novel Robotic Systems
- Bradley Kratochvil, Michael P. Kummer, Jake J. Abbott, Ruedi Borer, Olgaç Ergeneman, Bradley J. Nelson:
OctoMag: An electromagnetic system for 5-DOF wireless micromanipulation.
1080-1081

- Guoyong Zhao, Chee Leong Teo, Dietmar Werner Hutmacher, Etienne Burdet:
Automated microassembly of tissue engineering scaffold.
1082-1083

- Sang-Ho Hyon, Jun Morimoto, Mitsuo Kawato:
From compliant balancing to dynamic walking on humanoid robot: Integration of CNS and CPG.
1084-1085

- Holger Mönnich, Daniel Stein, Jörg Raczkowsky, Heinz Wörn:
An automatic and complete self-calibration method for robotic guided laser ablation.
1086-1087

- R. Andrew Cortez, Jose-Marcio Luna, Rafael Fierro, John E. Wood:
A multi-vehicle testbed for multi-modal, decentralized sensing of the environment.
1088-1089

- Markus Rilk, Daniel Kubus, Friedrich M. Wahl, Klaus W. G. Eichhorn, Ingo Wagner, Friedrich Bootz:
Demonstration of a prototype for robot assisted Endoscopic Sinus Surgery.
1090-1091

- Robert Bauernschmitt, Martin Buss, Barbara Deml, Klaus Diepold, Berthold Färber, Georg Färber, Ulrich Hagn, Gerd Hirzinger, Sandra Hirche, Alois Knoll, Hermann J. Müller, Tobias Ortmaier, Angelika Peer, Michael Popp, Carsten Preusche, Gunther Reinhart, Zhuanghua Shi, Eckehard G. Steinbach, Heinz Ulbrich, Ulrich Walter, Michael Friedrich Zäh:
High-fidelity telepresence and teleaction.
1092-1093

- Peter D. Neuhaus, Jerry E. Pratt, Matthew J. Johnson:
Demonstration of quadrupedal locomotion over rough terrain using the littledog robot.
1094-1095

- Abraham Bachrach, Anton de Winter, Ruijie He, Garrett Hemann, Sam Prentice, Nicholas Roy:
RANGE - robust autonomous navigation in GPS-denied environments.
1096-1097

- Yukiko Sawada, Takashi Tsubouchi:
Autonomous re-alignment of multiple table robots.
1098-1099

- Amir Degani, Siyuan Feng, Howie Choset, Matthew T. Mason:
Minimalistic, dynamic, tube climbing robot.
1100-1101

- Serge Montambault, Nicolas Pouliot, Janos Toth, Bernhard Spalteholz:
Reporting on a large ocean inlet crossing live transmission line inspection performed by linescout technology.
1102-1103

- Aníbal Ollero, Konstantin Kondak, E. Previnaire, Ivan Maza, Fernando Caballero, Markus Bernard, J. Ramiro Martinez de Dios, P. Marron, Klaus Herrmann, L. Van Hoesel, J. Lepley, E. de Andres:
Integration of aerial robots and wireless sensor and actuator networks. The AWARE project.
1104-1105

- Pierre Letier, Elvina Motard, Jean-Philippe Verschueren:
EXOSTATION : Haptic exoskeleton based control station.
1106-1107

- Graham G. Ryland, Harry H. Cheng:
Novel locomotion of iMobot, an intelligent reconfigurable mobile robot.
1108-1109

- David Wettergreen, David R. Thompson:
Science on the fly: Enabling science autonomy during robotic traverse.
1110-1111

- Dominic R. Frutiger, Bradley Kratochvil, Bradley J. Nelson:
MagMites - Microrobots for wireless microhandling in dry and wet environments.
1112-1113

- Alexis Lussier Desbiens, Alan T. Asbeck, Sanjay Dastoor, Mark R. Cutkosky:
Hybrid aerial and scansorial robotics.
1114-1115

Aerial Vehicles:
Planning and Control
- Tak-Kit Lau, Yunhui Liu, Kai-wun Lin:
A robust state estimation method against GNSS outage for unmanned miniature helicopters.
1116-1122

- Michael T. Wolf, Lars Blackmore, Yoshiaki Kuwata, Nanaz Fathpour, Alberto Elfes, Claire Newman:
Probabilistic motion planning of balloons in strong, uncertain wind fields.
1123-1129

- Daniel C. Carlson, Mark B. Colton:
Out-of-plane orbit estimation and tracking for aerial recovery of micro air vehicles.
1130-1135

- Vinicius Mariano Gonçalves, Luciano C. A. Pimenta, Carlos Andrey Maia, Guilherme A. S. Pereira, Bruno C. O. Dutra, Nathan Michael, Jonathan Fink, Vijay Kumar:
Circulation of curves using vector fields: Actual robot experiments in 2D and 3D workspaces.
1136-1141

- Jie Tang, Arjun Singh, Nimbus Goehausen, Pieter Abbeel:
Parameterized maneuver learning for autonomous helicopter flight.
1142-1148

- Makoto Kumon, Hugh Cover, Jayantha Katupitiya:
Hovering control of vectored thrust aerial vehicles.
1149-1154

Mechanism Design for Manipulators
- Sébastien Briot, Anatoly Pashkevich, Damien Chablat:
Optimal technology-oriented design of parallel robots for high-speed machining applications.
1155-1161

- Mayuko Mori, Koichi Suzumori, Shuichi Wakimoto, Takefumi Kanda, Masayuki Takahashi, Takashi Hosoya, Emi Takematu:
Development of power robot hand with shape adaptability using hydraulic McKibben muscles.
1162-1168

- Masatsugu Otsuki:
Flexible space robotic manipulator with passively switching free joint to drive joint.
1169-1174

- Maxime Chalon, Thomas Wimböck, Gerd Hirzinger:
Torque and workspace analysis for flexible tendon driven mechanisms.
1175-1181

- Marc Arsenault:
Optimization of the prestress stable wrench closure workspace of planar parallel three-degree-of-freedom cable-driven mechanisms with four cables.
1182-1187

- Nathanaël Jarrassé, Guillaume Morel:
A formal method for avoiding hyperstaticity when connecting an exoskeleton to a human member.
1188-1195

Biomimetic Robots
- Katie L. Hoffman, Robert J. Wood:
Towards a multi-segment ambulatory microrobot.
1196-1202

- Bingtuan Gao, Ning Xi, Yantao Shen, Jianguo Zhao, Ruiguo Yang:
Development of a low motion-noise humanoid neck: Statics analysis and experimental validation.
1203-1208

- Agathe Koller-Hodac, Daniel Peter Germann, Alexander Gilgen, Katja Dietrich, Maik Hadorn, Wolfgang Schatz, Peter Eggenberger Hotz:
Actuated bivalve robot study of the burrowing locomotion in sediment.
1209-1214

- Alejandra Barrera, Alfredo Weitzenfeld, Alejandra Cáceres, Victor Ramirez-Amaya:
Spatial memory and learning: Towards a set of metrics to evaluate task performance in rats and robots.
1215-1220

- Alexander S. Boxerbaum, Hillel J. Chiel, Roger D. Quinn:
A new theory and methods for creating peristaltic motion in a robotic platform.
1221-1227

- Sangok Seok, Cagdas Denizel Onal, Robert J. Wood, Daniela Rus, Sangbae Kim:
Peristaltic locomotion with antagonistic actuators in soft robotics.
1228-1233

Field Robotics
- Gabrijel Smoljkic, Hrvoje Franjic, Marko Sinkic:
Automated Robotic Grinding of the control rod drive mechanism J-Groove Weld at PWR nuclear power plants.
1234-1240

- Roland Lenain, Johan Preynat, Benoit Thuilot, Pierre Avanzini, Philippe Martinet:
Adaptive formation control of a fleet of mobile robots: Application to autonomous field operations.
1241-1246

- Boris Sofman, James A. Bagnell, Anthony Stentz:
Anytime online novelty detection for vehicle safeguarding.
1247-1254

- Daniel P. Cunningham, H. Harry Asada:
Continuous path tracing by a cable-suspended, under-actuated robot: The Winch-Bot.
1255-1260

- Shuai Yuan, Brad T. Skinner, Shoudong Huang, Dikai Liu, Gamini Dissanayake, Haye Lau, Daniel Pagac, Tim Pratley:
Mathematical modelling of container transfers for a fleet of autonomous straddle carriers.
1261-1266

- Mitsuhiro Kamezaki, Hiroyasu Iwata, Shigeki Sugano:
A framework of state identification for operational support based on task-phase and attentional-condition identification.
1267-1272

Grasping:
Algorithms
- Belkacem Bounab, Daniel Sidobre, Abdelouhab Zaatri:
Performances of the central-axis approach in grasp analysis.
1273-1278

- Benjamin Balaguer, Stefano Carpin:
Efficient grasping of novel objects through dimensionality reduction.
1279-1285

- Elon Rimon, A. Frank van der Stappen:
Immobilizing 2D serial chains in form closure grasps.
1286-1291

- Matei T. Ciocarlie, Peter K. Allen:
Data-driven optimization for underactuated robotic hands.
1292-1299

- Yu Zheng, Ming C. Lin, Dinesh Manocha:
A fast n-dimensional ray-shooting algorithm for grasping force optimization.
1300-1305

- Sergi Foix, Guillem Alenyà, Juan Andrade-Cetto, Carme Torras:
Object modeling using a ToF camera under an uncertainty reduction approach.
1306-1312

Haptic Controls
- Katharina Hertkorn, Thomas Hulin, Philipp Kremer, Carsten Preusche, Gerd Hirzinger:
Time Domain Passivity Control for multi-degree of freedom haptic devices with time delay.
1313-1319

- Michel Franken, Rob Reilink, Sarthak Misra, Stefano Stramigioli:
Multi-dimensional passive sampled Port-Hamiltonian systems.
1320-1326

- Yo-An Lim, Jeha Ryu:
A digital input shaper for stable and transparent haptic interaction.
1327-1332

- Dongjun Lee, Ke Huang:
Peer-to-peer control architecture for multiuser haptic collaboration over undirected delayed packet-switching network.
1333-1338

- Michael J. Fu, Murat Cenk Cavusoglu:
Three-dimensional human arm and hand dynamics and variability model for a stylus-based haptic interface.
1339-1346

- Kyle N. Winfree, Joseph M. Romano, Jamie Gewirtz, Katherine J. Kuchenbecker:
Control of a high fidelity ungrounded torque feedback device: The iTorqU 2.1.
1347-1352

Feature Matching for SLAM
Place Recognition and Localization
- Simone Frintrop, Armin B. Cremers:
Visual landmark generation and redetection with a single feature per frame.
1394-1399

- Bastian Steder, Giorgio Grisetti, Wolfram Burgard:
Robust place recognition for 3D range data based on point features.
1400-1405

- Pablo Espinace, Thomas Kollar, Alvaro Soto, Nicholas Roy:
Indoor scene recognition through object detection.
1406-1413

- Damian M. Lyons:
Detection and filtering of landmark occlusions using Terrain Spatiograms.
1414-1419

- Fredrik Lindsten, Jonas Callmer, Henrik Ohlsson, David Törnqvist, Thomas B. Schön, Fredrik Gustafsson:
Geo-referencing for UAV navigation using environmental classification.
1420-1425

- Pedro Santana, Nelson Alves, Luís Correia, José Barata:
A saliency-based approach to boost trail detection.
1426-1431

Task Allocation, Coordination and Control in Distributed Robot Systems
Motion Planning, Scheduling and Coordination
- Manh Tung Pham, Amrith Dhananjayan, Kiam Tian Seow:
On the transparency of automata as discrete-event control specifications.
1474-1479

- Saleh Ahmad, Guangjun Liu:
A door opening method by modular re-configurable robot with joints working on passive and active modes.
1480-1485

- Moritz Tenorth, Daniel Nyga, Michael Beetz:
Understanding and executing instructions for everyday manipulation tasks from the World Wide Web.
1486-1491

- Daniel Althoff, Matthias Althoff, Dirk Wollherr, Martin Buss:
Probabilistic collision state checker for crowded environments.
1492-1498

- Moritz Tenorth, Michael Beetz:
Priming transformational planning with observations of human activities.
1499-1504

- Martin Weser, Dominik Off, Jianwei Zhang:
HTN robot planning in partially observable dynamic environments.
1505-1510

Image Processing, Estimation and Calibration
- Damien Jade Duff, Jeremy L. Wyatt, Rustam Stolkin:
Motion estimation using physical simulation.
1511-1517

- Huimin Lu, Hui Zhang, Shaowu Yang, Zhiqiang Zheng:
Camera parameters auto-adjusting technique for robust robot vision.
1518-1523

- Olivier Kermorgant, David Folio, François Chaumette:
A new sensor self-calibration framework from velocity measurements.
1524-1529

- Amit Bhatia, Wesley E. Snyder, Griff L. Bilbro:
Stacked Integral Image.
1530-1535

- Idaku Ishii, Tetsuro Tatebe, Qingyi Gu, Yuta Moriue, Takeshi Takaki, Kenji Tajima:
2000 fps real-time vision system with high-frame-rate video recording.
1536-1541

- Toshiaki Tsuji:
Specular reflection removal on high-speed camera for robot vision.
1542-1547

Medical Robot Systems I
- Hamidreza Azimian, Jeremy Breetzke, Ana Luisa Trejos, Rajni V. Patel, Michael D. Naish, Terry M. Peters, John T. Moore, Chris Wedlake, Bob Kiaii:
Preoperative planning of robotics-assisted minimally invasive coronary artery bypass grafting.
1548-1553

- Sanghyun Joung, Hongen Liao, Etsuko Kobayashi, Mamoru Mitsuishi, Yoshikazu Nakajima, Nobuhiko Sugano, Masahiko Bessho, Satoru Ohashi, Takuya Matsumoto, Isao Ohnishi, Ichiro Sakuma:
Hazard analysis of fracture-reduction robot and its application to safety design of fracture-reduction assisting robotic system.
1554-1561

- Gavin J. Kane, Robert Boesecke, Jörg Raczkowsky, Heinz Wörn:
Kinematic path-following control of a mobile robot on arbitrary surface.
1562-1567

- Thomas Maier, Gero Strauß, Mathias Hofer, Tobias Kraus, Annette Runge, Roland Stenzel, Jan David Gumprecht, Thomas Berger, Andreas Dietz, Tim C. Lueth:
A new Micromanipulator System for middle ear surgery.
1568-1573

- David Zarrouk, Inna Sharf, Moshe Shoham:
Analysis of earthworm-like robotic locomotion on compliant surfaces.
1574-1579

Microscale Actuation and Manipulation
- Micky Rakotondrabe, Ioan Alexandru Ivan:
Principle, characterization and control of a new hybrid thermo-piezoelectric microactuator.
1580-1585

- Mustapha Hamdi, Arunkumar Subramanian, Lixin Dong, Antoine Ferreira, Bradley J. Nelson:
Rotary nanomotors based on head-to-head nanotube shuttles.
1586-1591

- Giuseppe Tortora, Sebastiano Caccavaro, Pietro Valdastri, Arianna Menciassi, Paolo Dario:
Design of an autonomous swimming miniature robot based on a novel concept of magnetic actuation.
1592-1597

- Zoltán Nagy, Dominic R. Frutiger, Remco I. Leine, Christoph Glocker, Bradley J. Nelson:
Modeling and analysis of wireless resonant magnetic microactuators.
1598-1603

- Virgilio Mattoli, Edoardo Sinibaldi, Virginia Pensabene, Silvia Taccola, Arianna Menciassi, Paolo Dario:
Magnetic nanosheets manipulation: Modeling, development and validation.
1604-1609

- Michael P. Kummer, Jake J. Abbott, Bradley Kratochvil, Ruedi Borer, Ali Sengul, Bradley J. Nelson:
OctoMag: An electromagnetic system for 5-DOF wireless micromanipulation.
1610-1616

Quadrotor Control
- Julián Colorado, Antonio Barrientos, Alexander Martinez, Benjamin Lafaverges, João Valente:
Mini-quadrotor attitude control based on Hybrid Backstepping & Frenet-Serret theory.
1617-1622

- Philippe Martin, Erwan Salaün:
The true role of accelerometer feedback in quadrotor control.
1623-1629

- David Cabecinhas, Roberto Naldi, Lorenzo Marconi, Carlos Silvestre, Rita Cunha:
Robust take-off and landing for a quadrotor vehicle.
1630-1635

- Kostas Alexis, George Nikolakopoulos, Anthony Tzes:
Design and experimental verification of a Constrained Finite Time Optimal control scheme for the attitude control of a Quadrotor Helicopter subject to wind gusts.
1636-1641

- Sergei Lupashin, Angela Schöllig, Michael Sherback, Raffaello D'Andrea:
A simple learning strategy for high-speed quadrocopter multi-flips.
1642-1648

- Jeremy H. Gillula, Haomiao Huang, Michael P. Vitus, Claire J. Tomlin:
Design of guaranteed safe maneuvers using reachable sets: Autonomous quadrotor aerobatics in theory and practice.
1649-1654

Compliance in Actuation and Design
- Byeong-Sang Kim, Jae-Bok Song:
Hybrid dual actuator unit: A design of a variable stiffness actuator based on an adjustable moment arm mechanism.
1655-1660

- Devin Neal, H. Harry Asada:
Phased-array piezoelectric actuators using a buckling mechanism having large displacement amplification and nonlinear stiffness.
1661-1667

- Matteo Laffranchi, Nikolaos G. Tsagarakis, Darwin G. Caldwell:
A variable physical damping actuator (VPDA) for compliant robotic joints.
1668-1674

- Lael Odhner, H. Harry Asada:
Scaling up shape memory alloy actuators using a recruitment control architecture.
1675-1680

- Maria J. Telleria, Malik Hansen, Donald Campbell, Amelia Servi, Martin L. Culpepper:
Modeling and implementation of solder-activated joints for single-actuator, centimeter-scale robotic mechanisms.
1681-1686

- Oliver Eiberger, Sami Haddadin, Michael Weis, Alin Albu-Schäffer, Gerd Hirzinger:
On joint design with intrinsic variable compliance: derivation of the DLR QA-Joint.
1687-1694

Bipedal Locomotion
- Robert D. Gregg, Timothy Bretl, Mark W. Spong:
Asymptotically stable gait primitives for planning dynamic bipedal locomotion in three dimensions.
1695-1702

- Fumihiko Asano:
Simulation and experimental studies on passive-dynamic walker that consists of two identical crossed frames.
1703-1708

- Feng Tan, Chenglong Fu, Ken Chen:
Biped blind walking on changing slope with reflex control system.
1709-1714

- Pedro X. La Hera, Anton S. Shiriaev, Leonid B. Freidovich, Uwe Mettin:
Gait synthesis for a three-link planar biped walker with one actuator.
1715-1720

- Jae-Sung Moon, Mark W. Spong:
Bifurcations and chaos in passive walking of a compass-gait biped with asymmetries.
1721-1726

- Yuto Nakanishi, Kazuo Hongo, Ikuo Mizuuchi, Masayuki Inaba:
Joint proprioception acquisition strategy based on joints-muscles topological maps for musculoskeletal humanoids.
1727-1732

Teleoperation and Networked Robots
- Hawkeye H. I. King, Blake Hannaford, Ka-Wai Kwok, Guang-Zhong Yang, Paul G. Griffiths, Allison M. Okamura, Ildar Farkhatdinov, Jee-Hwan Ryu, Ganesh Sankaranarayanan, Venkata Sreekanth Arikatla, Kotaro Tadano, Kenji Kawashima, Angelika Peer, Thomas Schauß, Martin Buss, Levi Makaio Miller, Daniel Glozman, Jacob Rosen, Thomas Low:
Plugfest 2009: Global interoperability in Telerobotics and telemedicine.
1733-1738

- Geraint Jones, Nadia Berthouze, Roman Bielski, Simon J. Julier:
Towards a situated, multimodal interface for multiple UAV control.
1739-1744

- Johan Larsson, Mathias Broxvall, Alessandro Saffiotti:
An evaluation of local autonomy applied to teleoperated vehicles in underground mines.
1745-1752

- Takahiro Yamauchi, Shogo Okamoto, Masashi Konyo, Yusuke Hidaka, Takashi Maeno, Satoshi Tadokoro:
Real-time remote transmission of multiple tactile properties through master-slave robot system.
1753-1760

- Norimitsu Sakagami, Mizuho Shibata, Sadao Kawamura, Toshifumi Inoue, Hiroyuki Onishi, Shigeo Murakami:
An attitude control system for underwater vehicle-manipulator systems.
1761-1767

- Nikhil Chopra:
Control of robotic manipulators under time-varying sensing-control delays.
1768-1773

Mobile Manipulation
- Arthur J. McClung, Ying Zheng, John B. Morrell:
Contact feature extraction on a balancing manipulation platform.
1774-1779

- Yugang Liu, Guangjun Liu:
Interaction analysis and posture optimization for a reconfigurable tracked mobile modular manipulator negotiating slopes.
1780-1785

- Fabian Farelo, Redwan Alqasemi, Rajiv V. Dubey:
Optimized dual-trajectory tracking control of a 9-DoF WMRA system for ADL tasks.
1786-1791

- Alessandro De Luca, Giuseppe Oriolo, Paolo Robuffo Giordano:
Kinematic control of nonholonomic mobile manipulators in the presence of steering wheels.
1792-1798

- Sachin Chitta, Benjamin J. Cohen, Maxim Likhachev:
Planning for autonomous door opening with a mobile manipulator.
1799-1806

- Advait Jain, Charles C. Kemp:
Pulling open doors and drawers: Coordinating an omni-directional base and a compliant arm with Equilibrium Point control.
1807-1814

Haptic Interfaces
- Joseph M. Romano, Takashi Yoshioka, Katherine J. Kuchenbecker:
Automatic filter design for synthesis of haptic textures from recorded acceleration data.
1815-1821

- Fuminobu Kimura, Akio Yamamoto, Toshiro Higuchi:
Development of a 2-DOF softness feeling display for tactile tele-presentation of deformable surfaces.
1822-1827

- Leonel Paredes-Madrid, Pedro Manuel Torruella Naranjo, Paul Solaeche Estrada, Ignacio Galiana, Pablo González de Santos:
Accurate modeling of low-cost piezoresistive force sensors for haptic interfaces.
1828-1833

- Raphaela Groten, Daniela Feth, Angelika Peer, Martin Buss:
Shared decision making in a collaborative task with reciprocal haptic feedback - an efficiency-analysis.
1834-1839

- Pierre Letier, Elvina Motard, Jean-Philippe Verschueren:
EXOSTATION : Haptic exoskeleton based control station.
1840-1845

- Ozer Unluhisarcikli, Brian Weinberg, Mark Sivak, Anat Mirelman, Paolo Bonato, Constantinos Mavroidis:
A robotic hand rehabilitation system with interactive gaming using novel Electro-Rheological Fluid based actuators.
1846-1851

Learning and Adaptation for Sensing
- Shane Griffith, Jivko Sinapov, Vladimir Sukhoy, Alexander Stoytchev:
How to separate containers from non-containers? a behavior-grounded approach to acoustic object categorization.
1852-1859

- Ruben Martinez-Cantin, Manuel Lopes, Luis Montesano:
Body schema acquisition through active learning.
1860-1866

- Philipp Vorst, Andreas Zell:
Fully autonomous trajectory estimation with long-range passive RFID.
1867-1872

- Ajay J. Joshi, Fatih Porikli, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos:
Multi-class batch-mode active learning for image classification.
1873-1878

- Andrei Barbu, Siddharth Narayanaswamy, Jeffrey Mark Siskind:
Learning physically-instantiated game play through visual observation.
1879-1886

- Jérôme Maye, Luciano Spinello, Rudolph Triebel, Roland Siegwart:
Inferring the semantics of direction signs in public places.
1887-1892

Visual Odometry
- Sengpyo Hong, Heedong Ko, Jinwook Kim:
VICP: Velocity updating iterative closest point algorithm.
1893-1898

- Friedrich Fraundorfer, Davide Scaramuzza, Marc Pollefeys:
A constricted bundle adjustment parameterization for relative scale estimation in visual odometry.
1899-1904

- Shao-Wen Yang, Chieh-Chih Wang, Chun-Hua Chang:
RANSAC matching: Simultaneous registration and segmentation.
1905-1912

- Piotr Rudol, Mariusz Wzorek, Patrick Doherty:
Vision-based pose estimation for autonomous indoor navigation of micro-scale Unmanned Aircraft Systems.
1913-1920

- Jungho Kim, In-So Kweon:
Vision-based navigation with pose recovery under visual occlusion and kidnapping.
1921-1927

- Sang Ly, Cédric Demonceaux, Pascal Vasseur:
Translation estimation for single viewpoint cameras using lines.
1928-1933

Communication and Motion Planning in Robot Networks
- Magnus Lindhé, Karl Henrik Johansson:
Adaptive exploitation of multipath fading for mobile sensors.
1934-1939

- Jonathan Fink, Vijay Kumar:
Online methods for radio signal mapping with mobile robots.
1940-1945

- Yasamin Mostofi, Mehrzad Malmirchegini, Alireza Ghaffarkhah:
Estimation of communication signal strength in robotic networks.
1946-1951

- Onur Tekdas, Patrick A. Plonski, Nikhil Karnad, Volkan Isler:
Maintaining connectivity in environments with obstacles.
1952-1957

- Airlie Chapman, Eric Schoof, Mehran Mesbahi:
Semi-autonomous networks: Theory and decentralized protocols.
1958-1963

- Stephanie Gil, Mac Schwager, Brian J. Julian, Daniela Rus:
Optimizing communication in air-ground robot networks using decentralized control.
1964-1971

Motion and Path Planning
Multi-View Recognition and Pose Estimation
- Kai Welke, Jan Issac, David Schiebener, Tamim Asfour, Rüdiger Dillmann:
Autonomous acquisition of visual multi-view object representations for object recognition on a humanoid robot.
2012-2019

- Alper Aydemir, Adrian N. Bishop, Patric Jensfelt:
Simultaneous object class and pose estimation for mobile robotic applications with minimalistic recognition.
2020-2027

- Ming-Yu Liu, Oncel Tuzel, Ashok Veeraraghavan, Rama Chellappa, Amit K. Agrawal, Haruhisa Okuda:
Pose estimation in heavy clutter using a multi-flash camera.
2028-2035

- Jeremy Ma, Joel W. Burdick:
A probabilistic framework for stereo-vision based 3D object search with 6D pose estimation.
2036-2042

- Manuel Martinez, Alvaro Collet, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa:
MOPED: A scalable and low latency object recognition and pose estimation system.
2043-2049

- Alvaro Collet, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa:
Efficient multi-view object recognition and full pose estimation.
2050-2055

Medical Robot Systems II
- Mohammad Matinfar, Iulian Iordachita, John Wong, Peter Kazanzides:
Robotic delivery of complex radiation volumes for small animal research.
2056-2061

- Laurence Vancamberg, Anis Sahbani, Serge Muller, Guillaume Morel:
Needle path planning for digital breast tomosynthesis biopsy.
2062-2067

- Ann Majewicz, Thomas R. Wedlick, Kyle Brandon Reed, Allison M. Okamura:
Evaluation of robotic needle steering in ex vivo tissue.
2068-2073

- Jur van den Berg, Stephen Miller, Daniel Duckworth, Humphrey Hu, Andrew Wan, Xiao-Yu Fu, Kenneth Y. Goldberg, Pieter Abbeel:
Superhuman performance of surgical tasks by robots using iterative learning from human-guided demonstrations.
2074-2081

- Lisa A. Lyons, Robert J. Webster, Ron Alterovitz:
Planning active cannula configurations through tubular anatomy.
2082-2087

- Sachin Patil, Ron Alterovitz:
Toward automated tissue retraction in robot-assisted surgery.
2088-2094

Flexible Automation and Manufacturing
- Fusaomi Nagata, Takanori Mizobuchi, Shintaro Tani, Tetsuo Hase, Zenku Haga, Keigo Watanabe, Maki K. Habib, Kazuo Kiguchi:
Desktop orthogonal-type robot with abilities of compliant motion and stick-slip motion for lapping of LED lens molds.
2095-2100

- Satoshi Hoshino, Hiroya Seki, Yuji Naka, Jun Ota:
Autonomous cruise control of circulating multi-robot for congestion.
2101-2106

- Wen-Huang Tsai, Fan-Tien Cheng, Wei-Ming Wu, Tung-Ho Lin:
Developing a dual-stage indirect virtual metrology architecture.
2107-2112

- Janne Laaksonen, Javier Felip, Antonio Morales, Ville Kyrki:
Embodiment independent manipulation through action abstraction.
2113-2118

- Junwen Wang, Jingshan Li, Jorge Arinez, Stephan Biller:
Quality bottleneck transitions in flexible manufacturing systems.
2119-2124

- Yang Liu, Jingshan Li, Shu-Yin Chiang:
Performance approximation and bottleneck identification in re-entrant lines.
2125-2130

Compliance and Force Control
- Chao-Chieh Lan, Jhe-Hong Wang, Yi-Ho Chen:
A compliant constant-force mechanism for adaptive robot end-effector operations.
2131-2136

- Kanty Rabenorosoa, Cédric Clévy, Philippe Lutz:
Active force control for robotic micro-assembly: Application to guiding tasks.
2137-2142

- Jeremy A. Marvel, Wyatt S. Newman:
Assessing internal models for faster learning of robotic assembly.
2143-2148

- Kevin Kemper, Devin Koepl, Jonathan Hurst:
Optimal passive dynamics for torque/force control.
2149-2154

- Alin Albu-Schäffer, Sebastian Wolf, Oliver Eiberger, Sami Haddadin, Florian Petit, Maxime Chalon:
Dynamic modelling and control of variable stiffness actuators.
2155-2162

- Friedrich Lange, Johannes Scharrer, Gerd Hirzinger:
Classification and prediction for accurate sensor-based assembly to moving objects.
2163-2168

Novel Actuators
- Thomas W. Secord, Anirban Mazumdar, H. Harry Asada:
A multi-cell piezoelectric device for tunable resonance actuation and energy harvesting.
2169-2176

- Makoto Nokata, H. Masuka, S. Kitamura:
New magnetic rotational drive by use of magnetic particles with specific gravity smaller than a liquid.
2177-2182

- Hoyul Lee, Chulwoo Lee, Seongjin Kim, Youngjin Choi:
New actuator system using movable pulley for bio-mimetic system and wearable robot applications.
2183-2188

- Ryan J. Farris, Michael Goldfarb:
Design of a multi-disc electromechanical modulated dissipator.
2189-2196

- Flavia Vitale, Dino Accoto, Luca Turchetti, Stefano Indini, Maria Cristina Annesini, Eugenio Guglielmelli:
Low-temperature H2O2-powered actuators for biorobotics: Thermodynamic and kinetic analysis.
2197-2202

- Prabhath Dushyantha Jayatilake, Kenji Suzuki:
A multiple SMA hybrid actuator to generate expressions on the face.
2203-2208

Lower Limb Rehabilitation
- Takehito Kikuchi, Sosuke Tanida, Kikuko Otsuki, Takashi Yasuda, Junji Furusho:
Development of third-generation intelligently Controllable ankle-foot orthosis with compact MR fluid brake.
2209-2214

- Sébastien Krut, Michel Benoit, Etienne Dombre, François Pierrot:
MoonWalker, a lower limb exoskeleton able to sustain bodyweight using a passive force balancer.
2215-2220

- Jody Alessandro Saglia, Nikolaos G. Tsagarakis, Jian S. Dai, Darwin G. Caldwell:
Control strategies for ankle rehabilitation using a high performance ankle exerciser.
2221-2227

- Massimo Sartori, David G. Lloyd, Monica Reggiani, Enrico Pagello:
Fast operation of anatomical and stiff tendon neuromuscular models in EMG-driven modeling.
2228-2234

- Takao Watanabe, Eiichi Ohki, Yo Kobayashi, Masakatsu G. Fujie:
Leg-dependent force control for body weight support by gait cycle estimation from pelvic movement.
2235-2240

- Ali Mokhtarian, Abbas Fattah, Sunil Kumar Agrawal:
A novel passive pelvic device for assistance during locomotion.
2241-2246

Space and Underwater Applications
- Georgios Rekleitis, Evangelos Papadopoulos:
Towards passive object on-orbit manipulation by cooperating free-flying robots.
2247-2252

- Florent Valette, Franck Ruffier, Stéphane Viollet, Tobias Seidl:
Biomimetic optic flow sensing applied to a lunar landing scenario.
2253-2260

- Liang Ju, Gabriele Ferri, Cecilia Laschi, Barbara Mazzolai, Paolo Dario:
Experimental results of a novel amphibian solution for aquatic robot.
2261-2266

- Andres El-Fakdi, Marc Carreras, Enric Galceran:
Two steps natural actor critic learning for underwater cable tracking.
2267-2272

- Chhay Sok, Martin David Adams:
Visually aided feature extraction from 3D range data.
2273-2279

- Yang Cheng:
Real-time surface slope estimation by homography alignment for spacecraft safe landing.
2280-2286

Models for Grasping
- Renaud Detry, Dirk Kraft, Anders Glent Buch, Norbert Krüger, Justus H. Piater:
Refining grasp affordance models by experience.
2287-2293

- Ravi Balasubramanian, Ling Xu, Peter D. Brook, Joshua R. Smith, Yoky Matsuoka:
Human-guided grasp measures improve grasp robustness on physical robot.
2294-2301

- José Juan Sorribes, Mario Prats, Antonio Morales:
Visual tracking of a jaw gripper based on articulated 3D models for grasping.
2302-2307

- Jeremy Maitin-Shepard, Marco Cusumano-Towner, Jinna Lei, Pieter Abbeel:
Cloth grasp point detection based on multiple-view geometric cues with application to robotic towel folding.
2308-2315

- Binh Nguyen, Jeff Trinkle:
Modeling non-convex configuration space using linear complementarity problems.
2316-2321

- Emanuel Todorov:
Implicit nonlinear complementarity: A new approach to contact dynamics.
2322-2329

Haptics and Human Augmentation
- Jens Windau, Wei-Min Shen:
An Inertia-Based Surface Identification System.
2330-2335

- Nawid Jamali, Claude Sammut:
Material classification by tactile sensing using surface textures.
2336-2341

- Sachin Chitta, Matthew Piccoli, Jürgen Sturm:
Tactile object class and internal state recognition for mobile manipulation.
2342-2348

- Nicolas Gorges, Stefan Escaida Navarro, Dirk Goger, Heinz Wörn:
Haptic object recognition using passive joints and haptic key features.
2349-2355

- S. M. Mizanoor Rahman, Ryojun Ikeura, Masaya Nobe, Hideki Sawai:
Controlling a power assist robot for lifting objects considering human's unimanual, bimanual and cooperative weight perception.
2356-2362

- Kotaro Tadano, Masao Akai, Kazuo Kadota, Kenji Kawashima:
Development of grip amplified glove using bi-articular mechanism with pneumatic artificial rubber muscle.
2363-2368

Learning and Adaptation in Humanoids
- Todd Hester, Michael Quinlan, Peter Stone:
Generalized model learning for Reinforcement Learning on a humanoid robot.
2369-2374

- Stefan Oßwald, Armin Hornung, Maren Bennewitz:
Learning reliable and efficient navigation with a humanoid.
2375-2380

- Seyed Mohammad Khansari-Zadeh, Aude Billard:
BM: An iterative algorithm to learn stable non-linear dynamical systems with Gaussian mixture models.
2381-2388

- Timo Machmer, Alexej Swerdlow, Benjamin Kühn, Kristian Kroschel:
Hierarchical, knowledge-oriented opto-acoustic scene analysis for humanoid robots and man-machine interaction.
2389-2396

- Evangelos Theodorou, Jonas Buchli, Stefan Schaal:
Reinforcement learning of motor skills in high dimensions: A path integral approach.
2397-2403

- Wataru Takano, Yoshihiko Nakamura:
Associative processes between behavioral symbols and a large scale language model.
2404-2409

Visual Tracking and Navigation
- Michael Manz, Felix von Hundelshausen, Hans-Joachim Wünsche:
A hybrid estimation approach for autonomous dirt road following using multiple clothoid segments.
2410-2415

- Rachana A. Gupta, Wesley E. Snyder, W. Shepherd Pitts:
Concurrent visual multiple lane detection for autonomous vehicles.
2416-2422

- Olivier Koch, Matthew R. Walter, Albert S. Huang, Seth J. Teller:
Ground robot navigation using uncalibrated cameras.
2423-2430

- Aveek Das, Oleg Naroditsky, Zhiwei Zhu, Supun Samarasekera, Rakesh Kumar:
Robust visual path following for heterogeneous mobile platforms.
2431-2437

- Sachit Butail, Derek A. Paley:
3D reconstruction of fish schooling kinematics from underwater video.
2438-2443

- Miguel Aranda, Gonzalo López-Nicolás, Carlos Sagüés:
Omnidirectional visual homing using the 1D trifocal tensor.
2444-2450

Stochastic Multi-Robot and Modular Robot Systems
- Seung-kook Yun, Daniela Rus:
Adaptation to robot failures and shape change in decentralized construction.
2451-2458

- Nils Napp, Eric Klavins:
Robust by composition: Programs for multi-robot systems.
2459-2466

- Kevin C. Galloway, Rekha Jois, Mark Yim:
Factory floor: A robotically reconfigurable construction platform.
2467-2472

- Michael Thomas Tolley, Hod Lipson:
Fluidic manipulation for scalable stochastic 3D assembly of modular robots.
2473-2478

- Jonas Neubert, Abraham P. Cantwell, Stephane Constantin, Michael Kalontarov, David Erickson, Hod Lipson:
A robotic module for stochastic fluidic assembly of 3D self-reconfiguring structures.
2479-2484

- Kyle Gilpin, Ara Knaian, Daniela Rus:
Robot pebbles: One centimeter modules for programmable matter through self-disassembly.
2485-2492

Motion and Path Planning for Articulated Systems
- Kris Hauser, Victor Ng-Thow-Hing:
Fast smoothing of manipulator trajectories using optimal bounded-acceleration shortcuts.
2493-2498

- Behzad Dariush, Youding Zhu, Arjun Arumbakkam, Kikuo Fujimura:
Constrained closed loop inverse kinematics.
2499-2506

- Marcelo Kallmann, Yazhou Huang, Robert Backman:
A skill-based motion planning framework for humanoids.
2507-2514

- Joseph T. Kider Jr., Mark Henderson, Maxim Likhachev, Alla Safonova:
High-dimensional planning on the GPU.
2515-2522

- Nikolay Jetchev, Marc Toussaint:
Trajectory prediction in cluttered voxel environments.
2523-2528

- Jia Pan, Liangjun Zhang, Dinesh Manocha:
Retraction-based RRT planner for articulated models.
2529-2536

Omnidirectional Vision
- Kenki Matsui, Atsushi Yamashita, Toru Kaneko:
3-D shape measurement of pipe by range finder constructed with omni-directional laser and omni-directional camera.
2537-2542

- Carlos López-Franco, Nancy Arana-Daniel, Eduardo Bayro-Corrochano:
Vision-based robot control with omnidirectional cameras and conformal geometric algebra.
2543-2548

- Luis Puig, Jesús Bermúdez, José Jesús Guerrero:
Self-orientation of a hand-held catadioptric system in man-made environments.
2549-2555

- Timo Schairer, Benjamin Huhle, Wolfgang Straßer:
Application of particle filters to vision-based orientation estimation using harmonic analysis.
2556-2561

- Pascal Vasseur, Cédric Demonceaux:
Central catadioptric line matching for robotic applications.
2562-2567

- Stefano Ghidoni, Alberto Pretto, Emanuele Menegatti:
Cooperative tracking of moving objects and face detection with a dual camera sensor.
2568-2573

MRI-Compatible Robots
- Ming Li, Ankur Kapoor, Dumitru Mazilu, Bradford J. Wood, Keith A. Horvath:
Cardiac interventions under MRI guidance using robotic assistance.
2574-2579

- Sang-Eun Song, Nathan Bongjoon Cho, Gregory S. Fischer, Nobuhiko Hata, Clare M. Tempany, Gabor Fichtinger, Iulian Iordachita:
Development of a pneumatic robot for MRI-guided transperineal prostate biopsy and brachytherapy: New approaches.
2580-2585

- U-Xuan Tan, Bo Yang, Rao P. Gullapalli, Jaydev P. Desai:
Design and development of a 3-axis MRI-compatible force sensor.
2586-2591

- Pinyo Puangmali, Prokar Dasgupta, Lakmal D. Seneviratne, Kaspar Althoefer:
Miniaturized triaxial optical fiber force sensor for MRI-Guided minimally invasive surgery.
2592-2597

- Panagiotis Polygerinos, Pinyo Puangmali, Tobias Schaeffter, Reza Razavi, Lakmal D. Seneviratne, Kaspar Althoefer:
Novel miniature MRI-compatible fiber-optic force sensor for cardiac catheterization procedures.
2598-2603

Filtering, Estimation and Localization
- Jörg Müller, Christoph Gonsior, Wolfram Burgard:
Improved Monte Carlo localization of autonomous robots through simultaneous estimation of motion model parameters.
2604-2609

- Yuichi Taguchi, Tim K. Marks, Haruhisa Okuda:
Rao-Blackwellized particle filtering for probing-based 6-DOF localization in robotic assembly.
2610-2617

- Won Suk You, Byungjune Choi, Bumsoo Kim, Hyungpil Moon, Jachoon Koo, Wankyun Chung, Hyouk Ryeol Choi:
Global localization for a small mobile robot using magnetic patterns.
2618-2623

- Pedro Tiago Martins Batista, Carlos Silvestre, Paulo Oliveira, Bruno Cardeira:
Low-cost Attitude and Heading Reference System: Filter design and experimental evaluation.
2624-2629

- Sebastian Trimpe, Raffaello D'Andrea:
Accelerometer-based tilt estimation of a rigid body with only rotational degrees of freedom.
2630-2636

- Tetsushi Ikeda, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Dylan F. Glas, Masahiro Shiomi, Takahiro Miyashita, Norihiro Hagita:
Person identification by integrating wearable sensors and tracking results from environmental sensors.
2637-2642

50 Years of Robotics:
Perception
50 Years of Robotics:
Learning
50 Years of Robotics:
Planning
50 Years of Robotics:
Control
Mechanics and Planning for Multibody Systems
Cellular and Modular Robots
- Michael Dennis Mays Kutzer, Matthew Moses, Christopher Y. Brown, David H. Scheidt, Gregory S. Chirikjian, Mehran Armand:
Design of a new independently-mobile reconfigurable modular robot.
2758-2764

- David Johan Christensen, Ulrik Pagh Schultz, Kasper Støy:
A distributed strategy for gait adaptation in modular robots.
2765-2770

- Kiju Lee, Gregory S. Chirikjian:
An autonomous robot that duplicates itself from low-complexity components.
2771-2776

- Chih-Han Yu, Justin Werfel, Radhika Nagpal:
Coordinating collective locomotion in an amorphous modular robot.
2777-2784

- Paul J. White, Michael L. Posner, Mark Yim:
Strength analysis of miniature folded right angle tetrahedron chain Programmable Matter.
2785-2790

- Feili Hou, Wei-Min Shen:
On the complexity of optimal reconfiguration planning for modular reconfigurable robots.
2791-2796

Climbing and Navigating Rough Terrain
- Casey Kute, Michael P. Murphy, Yigit Mengüç, Metin Sitti:
Adhesion recovery and passive peeling in a wall climbing robot using adhesives.
2797-2802

- Amir Degani, Howie Choset, Matthew T. Mason:
DSAC - Dynamic, Single Actuated Climber: Local stability and bifurcations.
2803-2809

- Luther R. Palmer, Eric D. Diller, Roger D. Quinn:
Toward a rapid and robust attachment strategy for vertical climbing.
2810-2815

- Wei Wang, Kun Wang, Houxiang Zhang, Jianwei Zhang:
Internal force compensating method for wall-climbing caterpillar robot.
2816-2820

- Pablo Abad-Manterola, Joel W. Burdick, Issa A. D. Nesnas, Sandeep Chinchali, Christine Fuller, Xuecheng Zhou:
Axel rover paddle wheel design, efficiency, and sinkage on deformable terrain.
2821-2827

- Mark A. Höpflinger, C. David Remy, Marco Hutter, Luciano Spinello, Roland Siegwart:
Haptic terrain classification for legged robots.
2828-2833

Search and Rescue Robots
- Jean-Pierre Merlet, David Daney:
A portable, modular parallel wire crane for rescue operations.
2834-2839

- Sonia Waharte, Andrew Colquhoun Symington, Niki Trigoni:
Probabilistic search with agile UAVs.
2840-2845

- Jeremi Gancet, Elvina Motard, Amir M. Naghsh, Chris Roast, M. M. Arancon, Lino Marques:
User interfaces for human robot interactions with a swarm of robots in support to firefighters.
2846-2851

- Marco Trincavelli, Amy Loutfi:
Feature selection for gas identification with a mobile robot.
2852-2857

- Barzin Doroodgar, Maurizio Ficocelli, Babak Mobedi, Goldie Nejat:
The search for survivors: Cooperative human-robot interaction in search and rescue environments using semi-autonomous robots.
2858-2863

- Kazunori Ohno, Satoshi Tadokoro, Keiji Nagatani, Eiji Koyanagi, Tomoaki Yoshida:
Trials of 3-D map construction using the tele-operated tracked vehicle kenaf at disaster city.
2864-2870

Motion Planning for Manipulation and Grasping
- Wei Wang, Yan Li, Xin Xu, Simon X. Yang:
An adaptive roadmap guided Multi-RRTs strategy for single query path planning.
2871-2876

- Jadav Das, Nilanjan Sarkar:
Planning and control of an internal point of a deformable object.
2877-2882

- Niko Vahrenkamp, Martin Do, Tamim Asfour, Rüdiger Dillmann:
Integrated Grasp and motion planning.
2883-2888

- Yan Wu, Yiannis Demiris:
Towards One Shot Learning by imitation for humanoid robots.
2889-2894

- Ioan Alexandru Sucan, Mrinal Kalakrishnan, Sachin Chitta:
Combining planning techniques for manipulation using realtime perception.
2895-2901

- Benjamin J. Cohen, Sachin Chitta, Maxim Likhachev:
Search-based planning for manipulation with motion primitives.
2902-2908

Orthoses, Protheses and Rehabilitation Systems
- Genta Kondo, Ryu Kato, Hiroshi Yokoi, Tamio Arai:
Classification of individual finger motions hybridizing electromyogram in transient and converged states.
2909-2915

- Takeshi Ando, Jun Okamoto, Mitsuru Takahashi, Masakatsu G. Fujie:
EMG based design and evaluation of Micro Macro Neural Network for rollover support trunk orthosis.
2916-2921

- Juan Alvaro Gallego, Eduardo Rocon de Lima, Jens Luis Pons:
Estimation of instantaneous tremor parameters for FES-based tremor suppression.
2922-2927

- Antônio Padilha Lanari Bo, Philippe Poignet:
Tremor attenuation using FES-based joint stiffness control.
2928-2933

- Rafael R. Torrealba, Claudia Pérez-D'Arpino, José Cappelletto, Leonardo Fermín-Leon, Gerardo Fernández-López, Juan C. Grieco:
Through the development of a biomechatronic knee prosthesis for transfemoral amputees: Mechanical design and manufacture, human gait characterization, intelligent control strategies and tests.
2934-2939

- Kyoungchul Kong, Joonbum Bae, Masayoshi Tomizuka:
A compact rotary series elastic actuator for knee joint assistive system.
2940-2945

Learning Models, Trajectories and Strategies
Navigation and Control
- Alexey S. Matveev, Hamid Teimoori Sangani, Andrey V. Savkin:
Sensor-based tracking of environmental level sets by a unicycle-like mobile robot.
2984-2988

- Chang-bae Moon, Woojin Chung:
Design of navigation behaviors and the selection framework with Generalized Stochastic Petri Nets toward dependable navigation of a mobile robot.
2989-2994

- Chi-Tsun Cheng, Kia Fallahi, Henry Leung, Chi Kong Tse:
An AUVs path planner using genetic algorithms with a deterministic crossover operator.
2995-3000

- Jawhar Ghommam, Maarouf Saad, Faiçal Mnif:
Robust adaptive formation control of fully actuated marine vessels using local potential functions.
3001-3007

- Markus Deittert, Arthur Richards, George Mathews:
Receding Horizon Control in unknown environments: Experimental results.
3008-3013

- Jingyu Xiang, Yuichi Tazaki, Shinkichi Inagaki, Tatsuya Suzuki:
Variable-resolution map building and real-time path planning of omni-directional mobile robots.
3014-3019

Distributed Systems for Estimation, Tracking and Pursuit
- Yumi Iwashita, Ryo Kurazume, Takamitsu Mori, Masaki Saito, Tsutomu Hasegawa:
Model-based motion tracking system using distributed network cameras.
3020-3025

- Andrea Simonetto, Tamás Keviczky, Robert Babuska:
Distributed nonlinear estimation for robot localization using weighted consensus.
3026-3031

- Rosario Aragues, Jorge Cortes, Carlos Sagüés:
Dynamic consensus for merging visual maps under limited communications.
3032-3037

- Raz Lin, Eliahu Khalastchi, Gal A. Kaminka:
Detecting anomalies in unmanned vehicles using the Mahalanobis distance.
3038-3044

- Andreas Kolling, Stefano Carpin:
Multi-robot pursuit-evasion without maps.
3045-3051

- R. Andres Cortez, Jose-Marcio Luna, Rafael Fierro, John E. Wood:
Multi-vehicle testbed for decentralized environmental sensing.
3052-3058

Motion and Trajectory Planning
- Elizabeth Murphy, Paul Newman:
Planning most-likely paths from overhead imagery.
3059-3064

- Luigi Biagiotti, Claudio Melchiorri:
B-spline based filters for multi-point trajectories planning.
3065-3070

- Martin Rufli, Roland Siegwart:
On the design of deformable input- / state-lattice graphs.
3071-3077

- Zhenwang Yao, Kamal Gupta:
Distributed roadmaps for robot navigation in sensor networks.
3078-3083

- Rajesh Arumugam, Vikas Reddy Enti, Bingbing Liu, Xiaojun Wu, Krishnamoorthy Baskaran, Foo Kong Foong, Appadorai Senthil Kumar, Dee Meng Kang, Wai Kit Goh:
DAvinCi: A cloud computing framework for service robots.
3084-3089

- Jonathan Claassens:
An RRT-based path planner for use in trajectory imitation.
3090-3095

Recognition and Detection
- Pedro Santana, Magno Guedes, Luís Correia, José Barata:
A saliency-based solution for robust off-road obstacle detection.
3096-3101

- Paul Vernaza, Daniel D. Lee:
Scalable real-time object recognition and segmentation via cascaded, discriminative Markov random fields.
3102-3107

- Christian Plagemann, Varun Ganapathi, Daphne Koller, Sebastian Thrun:
Real-time identification and localization of body parts from depth images.
3108-3113

- Mårten Björkman, Danica Kragic:
Active 3D scene segmentation and detection of unknown objects.
3114-3120

- Scott Helmer, David G. Lowe:
Using stereo for object recognition.
3121-3127

- Asako Kanezaki, Hideki Nakayama, Tatsuya Harada, Yasuo Kuniyoshi:
High-speed 3D object recognition using additive features in a linear subspace.
3128-3134

Microrobot Design
- Chris Thorne, Nikita Skorodinski, Hughes Tipton, Travis Van Schoyck, Mark Yim:
Brake design for dynamic modular robots.
3135-3140

- Mahmut Selman Sakar, Edward B. Steager, A. Agung Julius, MinJun Kim, Vijay Kumar, George J. Pappas:
Biosensing and actuation for microbiorobots.
3141-3146

- Mark G. Arnold, Jung H. Cho:
Dual-stylus-arm scratch drive micro-robots controlled by an onboard parallax algorithm.
3147-3152

- Aaron P. Gerratt, Ivan Penskiy, Sarah Bergbreiter:
Integrated silicon-PDMS process for microrobot mechanisms.
3153-3158

- Tat Joo Teo, I-Ming Chen, Choon Meng Kiew, Guilin Yang, Wei Lin:
Model-based control of a high-precision imprinting actuator for micro-channel fabrications.
3159-3164

- Simon Muntwyler, Felix Beyeler, Bradley J. Nelson:
Three-axis micro-force sensor with tunable force range and sub-micronewton measurement uncertainty.
3165-3170

Localization, Mapping and Control for Multiple Vehicles
- Linthotage Dushantha Lochana Perera, Eric Nettleton:
Nonlinear observability of the Centralized Multi-vehicle SLAM problem.
3171-3178

- Maria Teresa Lazaro, José A. Castellanos:
Localization of probabilistic robot formations in SLAM.
3179-3184

- Been Kim, Michael Kaess, Luke Fletcher, John J. Leonard, Abraham Bachrach, Nicholas Roy, Seth J. Teller:
Multiple relative pose graphs for robust cooperative mapping.
3185-3192

- Antonio Franchi, Giuseppe Oriolo, Paolo Stegagno:
On the solvability of the Mutual Localization problem with Anonymous Position Measures.
3193-3199

- Nikolas Trawny, Stergios I. Roumeliotis:
On the global optimum of planar, range-based robot-to-robot relative pose estimation.
3200-3206

- Riccardo Falconi, Sven Gowal, Alcherio Martinoli:
Graph based distributed control of non-holonomic vehicles endowed with local positioning information engaged in escorting missions.
3207-3214

Control and Planning
Flexible Actuators
- Arne Rost, Alexander Verl:
The QuadHelix-Drive - An improved rope actuator for robotic applications.
3254-3259

- Shuichi Wakimoto, Koichi Suzumori:
Fabrication and basic experiments of pneumatic multi-chamber rubber tube actuator for assisting colonoscope insertion.
3260-3265

- Yotaro Mori, Hideyuki Tsukagoshi, Ato Kitagawa:
Flexible sliding actuator using a flat tube and its application to the rescue operation.
3266-3272

- Ludo C. Visser, Raffaella Carloni, Ramazan Unal, Stefano Stramigioli:
Modeling and design of energy efficient variable stiffness actuators.
3273-3278

- Ludo C. Visser, Raffaella Carloni, Stefano Stramigioli:
Variable stiffness actuators: A port-based analysis and a comparison of energy efficiency.
3279-3284

- Manuel G. Catalano, Riccardo Schiavi, Antonio Bicchi:
Mechanism design for Variable Stiffness Actuation based on enumeration and analysis of performance.
3285-3291

Dynamically Stable Humanoids
- Kou Yamamoto, Yoshihiko Nakamura:
Switching control and quick stepping motion generation based on the maximal CPI sets for falling avoidance of humanoid robots.
3292-3297

- Hiroki Miyamoto, Akihito Sano, Yoshito Ikemata, Shintaro Maruyama, Hideo Fujimoto:
A study of bouncing rod dynamics aiming at passive running.
3298-3303

- Mike Stilman, Jon Olson, William Gloss:
Golem Krang: Dynamically stable humanoid robot for mobile manipulation.
3304-3309

- Keisuke Nakamura, Shigeki Nakaura, Mitsuji Sampei:
Control of bipedal running by the angular-momentum-based synchronization structure.
3310-3315

- Umashankar Nagarajan, Ambarish Goswami:
Generalized direction changing fall control of humanoid robots among multiple objects.
3316-3322

- Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Javier Moya, Isao Parra-Tsunekawa:
Fall detection and management in biped humanoid robots.
3323-3328

Multi-UAV Systems and Collision Avoidance
- Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Antoine Beyeler, Dario Floreano:
Autonomous flight at low altitude with vision-based collision avoidance and GPS-based path following.
3329-3334

- Kart A. Swieringa, Clarence B. Hanson, Johnhenri R. Richardson, Jonathan D. White, Zahid Hasan, Elizabeth Qian, Anouck R. Girard:
Autonomous battery swapping system for small-scale helicopters.
3335-3340

- Bruno Hérissé, Sophie Oustrieres, Tarek Hamel, Robert E. Mahony, François-Xavier Russotto:
A general optical flow based terrain-following strategy for a VTOL UAV using multiple views.
3341-3348

- Adam Klaptocz, Grégoire Boutinard-Rouelle, Adrien Briod, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano:
An indoor flying platform with collision robustness and self-recovery.
3349-3354

- Angela Schöllig, Federico Augugliaro, Sergei Lupashin, Raffaello D'Andrea:
Synchronizing the motion of a quadrocopter to music.
3355-3360

- Simon Zingg, Davide Scaramuzza, Stephan Weiss, Roland Siegwart:
MAV navigation through indoor corridors using optical flow.
3361-3368

Anthropomorphic Robot Systems
- Katja Mombaur, Manish N. Sreenivasa:
HRP-2 plays the yoyo: From human to humanoid yoyo playing using optimal control.
3369-3376

- Ken'ichiro Nagasaka, Yasunori Kawanami, Satoru Shimizu, Takashi Kito, Toshimitsu Tsuboi, Atsushi Miyamoto, Tetsuharu Fukushima, Hideki Shimomura:
Whole-body cooperative force control for a two-armed and two-wheeled mobile robot using Generalized Inverse Dynamics and Idealized Joint Units.
3377-3383

- Ingo Lütkebohle, Frank Hegel, Simon Schulz, Matthias Hackel, Britta Wrede, Sven Wachsmuth, Gerhard Sagerer:
The Bielefeld anthropomorphic robot head "Flobi".
3384-3391

- Louis L. Flynn, Rouhollah Jafari, Ranjan Mukherjee:
Design and control of an underactuated three-link rolling biped.
3392-3397

- Ghassan Bin Hammam, David E. Orin, Behzad Dariush:
Whole-body humanoid control from upper-body task specifications.
3398-3405

- Michael Mistry, Jonas Buchli, Stefan Schaal:
Inverse dynamics control of floating base systems using orthogonal decomposition.
3406-3412

Physical Human Robot Interaction
- Yasuhisa Hirata, Yosuke Ojima, Kazuhiro Kosuge:
Distributed motion control of multiple passive object handling robots considering feasible region of brake control.
3413-3419

- Nicolas Lauzier, Clément Gosselin:
3-DOF Cartesian Force Limiting Device Based on the Delta architecture for safe physical human-robot interaction.
3420-3425

- Sami Haddadin, Alin Albu-Schäffer, Gerd Hirzinger:
Soft-tissue injury in robotics.
3426-3433

- Nima Najmaei, Mehrdad R. Kermani:
Prediction-based reactive control strategy for human-robot interactions.
3434-3439

- Julien Frémy, François Michaud, Michel Lauria:
Pushing a robot along - A natural interface for human-robot interaction.
3440-3445

- Yoshikazu Kanamiya, Shun Ota, Daisuke Sato:
Ankle and hip balance control strategies with transitions.
3446-3451

Data Fusion and Mapping
- Shrihari Vasudevan, Fabio T. Ramos, Eric Nettleton, Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte:
Heteroscedastic Gaussian processes for data fusion in large scale terrain modeling.
3452-3459

- Kentaro Takemura, Ato Araki, Junichi Ido, Yoshio Matsumoto, Jun Takamatsu, Tsukasa Ogasawara:
Generating individual maps from Universal map for heterogeneous mobile robots.
3460-3465

- Narunas Vaskevicius, Kaustubh Pathak, Razvan Pascanu, Andreas Birk:
Extraction of quadrics from noisy point-clouds using a sensor noise model.
3466-3471

- Andreas Birk:
Using recursive spectral registrations to determine brokenness as measure of structural map errors.
3472-3477

- Simon Timothy O'Callaghan, Fabio T. Ramos, Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte:
Contextual occupancy maps incorporating sensor and location uncertainty.
3478-3485

- Benjamin Pitzer, Sören Kammel, Charles DuHadway, Jan Becker:
Automatic reconstruction of textured 3D models.
3486-3493

3D and Vision Based SLAM
- Brian Patrick Williams, Ian Reid:
On combining visual SLAM and visual odometry.
3494-3500

- Pablo Fernández Alcantarilla, Luis Miguel Bergasa, Frank Dellaert:
Visual odometry priors for robust EKF-SLAM.
3501-3506

- Arren J. Glover, William P. Maddern, Michael Milford, Gordon Fraser Wyeth:
FAB-MAP + RatSLAM: Appearance-based SLAM for multiple times of day.
3507-3512

- Joan Solà:
Consistency of the monocular EKF-SLAM algorithm for three different landmark parametrizations.
3513-3518

- Gabriela Gallegos, Patrick Rives:
Indoor SLAM based on composite sensor mixing laser scans and omnidirectional images.
3519-3524

- Jochen Welle, Dirk Schulz, Thomas Bachran, Armin B. Cremers:
Optimization techniques for laser-based 3D particle filter SLAM.
3525-3530

Distributed Systems:
Coordinated Control
- Narcís Palomeras, Pere Ridao, Carlos Silvestre, Andres El-Fakdi:
Multiple vehicles mission coordination using Petri nets.
3531-3536

- Nora Ayanian, Vijay Kumar:
Abstractions and controllers for groups of robots in environments with obstacles.
3537-3542

- Jingjin Yu, Steven M. LaValle:
Probabilistic shadow information spaces.
3543-3549

- K. R. Guruprasad, Debasish Ghose:
Multi-agent search strategy based on centroidal Voronoi configuration.
3550-3555

- Mauro Franceschelli, Andrea Gasparri, Alessandro Giua, Giovanni Ulivi:
Decentralized stabilization of heterogeneous linear multi-agent systems.
3556-3561

- Joseph W. Durham, Antonio Franchi, Francesco Bullo:
Distributed pursuit-evasion with limited-visibility sensors via frontier-based exploration.
3562-3568

Motion Planning and Learning
- Benjamín Tovar, Steven M. LaValle:
Searching and mapping among indistinguishable convex obstacles.
3569-3574

- Alison Jennifer Eele, Arthur Richards:
Rapid updating for path-planning using nonlinear branch-and-bound.
3575-3580

- Lars Blackmore, Yoshiaki Kuwata, Michael T. Wolf, Christopher Assad, Nanaz Fathpour, Claire Newman, Alberto Elfes:
Global reachability and path planning for planetary exploration with montgolfiere balloons.
3581-3588

- Matthew Zucker, James A. Bagnell, Christopher G. Atkeson, James Kuffner:
An optimization approach to rough terrain locomotion.
3589-3595

- Salvatore Candido, James C. Davidson, Seth Hutchinson:
Exploiting domain knowledge in planning for uncertain robot systems modeled as POMDPs.
3596-3603

- Ellips Masehian, Azadeh Hassan Nejad:
A hierarchical decoupled approach for multi robot motion planning on trees.
3604-3609

Sensing and Recognition
- Brian Yamauchi:
All-weather perception for man-portable robots using ultra-wideband radar.
3610-3615

- Gian Diego Tipaldi, Kai Oliver Arras:
FLIRT - Interest regions for 2D range data.
3616-3622

- Gökhan Ince, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Tobias Rodemann, Yuji Hasegawa, Hiroshi Tsujino, Jun-ichi Imura:
A hybrid framework for ego noise cancellation of a robot.
3623-3628

- Kang Li, I-Ming Chen, Song Huat Yeo:
Design and validation of a multi-finger sensing device based on Optical linear encoder.
3629-3634

- Paulo Drews Jr., Pedro Núñez Trujillo, Rui Rocha, Mario Fernando Montenegro Campos, Jorge Dias:
Novelty detection and 3D shape retrieval using superquadrics and multi-scale sampling for autonomous mobile robots.
3635-3640

- Jie Yang, Shuangquan Wang, Ningjiang Chen, Xin Chen, Pengfei Shi:
Wearable accelerometer based extendable activity recognition system.
3641-3647

Force and Contact Sensing in Medicine
- Takeshi Takaki, Youhei Omasa, Idaku Ishii, Tomohiro Kawahara, Masazumi Okajima:
Force visualization mechanism using a Moiré fringe applied to endoscopic surgical instruments.
3648-3653

- Hongbin Liu, Jichun Li, Qi-ian Poon, Lakmal D. Seneviratne, Kaspar Althoefer:
Miniaturized force-indentation depth sensor for tissue abnormality identification during laparoscopic surgery.
3654-3659

- Ana Luisa Trejos, Andrew C. Lyle, Abelardo Escoto, Michael D. Naish, Rajni V. Patel:
Force/position-based modular system for minimally invasive surgery.
3660-3665

- Andrea Bajo, Nabil Simaan:
Finding lost wrenches: Using continuum robots for contact detection and estimation of contact location.
3666-3673

- Daniel Schurzig, Robert F. Labadie, Andreas Hussong, Thomas S. Rau, Robert J. Webster III:
A force sensing Automated Insertion Tool for cochlear electrode implantation.
3674-3679

- Carlos Rafael Tercero Villagran, Seiichi Ikeda, Motoki Matsushima, Toshio Fukuda, Makoto Negoro, Ikuo Takahashi:
Photoelastic stress analysis error quantification in vasculature models for robot feedback control.
3680-3685

Calibration and System Identification
- Chi Zhang, Ning Xi, Jing Xu, Quan Shi:
Calibration of a structure light based windshield inspection system.
3686-3691

- Emanuele Lubrano, Reymond Clavel:
Thermal calibration of a 3 DOF ultra high-precision robot operating in industrial environment.
3692-3697

- Franz Dietrich, Annika Raatz, Jürgen Hesselbach:
A-priori Fisher information of nonlinear state space models for experiment design.
3698-3702

- Wooram Park, Kyle Brandon Reed, Allison M. Okamura, Gregory S. Chirikjian:
Estimation of model parameters for steerable needles.
3703-3708

- Isolde Dressler, Torgny Brogårdh, Anders Robertsson:
A kinematic error model for a parallel Gantry-Tau manipulator.
3709-3714

- Ko Ayusawa, Gentiane Venture, Yoshihiko Nakamura:
Identification of flying humanoids and humans.
3715-3720

Kinematically Redundant Systems
Mechanism Design of Mobile Robots
- Benjamin Matthias Peter, Roman Ratnaweera, Wolfgang Fischer, Cédric Pradalier, Roland Siegwart:
Design and evaluation of a fin-based underwater propulsion system.
3751-3756

- Keith W. Wait, Phil J. Jackson, Lanny S. Smoot:
Self locomotion of a spherical rolling robot using a novel deformable pneumatic method.
3757-3762

- Yuki Ueno, Takashi Ohno, Kazuhiko Terashima, Hideo Kitagawa, Kazuhiro Funato, Kiyoaki Kakihara:
Novel differential drive steering system with energy saving and normal tire using spur gear for an omni-directional mobile robot.
3763-3768

- Taro Nakamura, K. Sato:
Locomotion strategies for an omni-directional mobile robot using traveling waves propagation.
3769-3774

- David Ball, Christopher F. Lehnert, Gordon Fraser Wyeth:
A practical implementation of a continuous isotropic spherical omnidirectional drive.
3775-3780

Robot Designs Inspired by Bacteria, Mold and Insects
- John Oluwagbemiga Oyekan, Huosheng Hu:
Bacteria controller implementation on a physical platform for pollution monitoring.
3781-3786

- Takuya Umedachi, Koichi Takeda, Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Ryo Kobayashi, Akio Ishiguro:
Taming large degrees of freedom.
3787-3792

- Alican Demir, Edward W. Samson, Noah J. Cowan:
A tunable physical model of arthropod antennae.
3793-3798

- Onur Özcan, Han Wang, Jonathan D. Taylor, Metin Sitti:
Surface tension driven water strider robot using circular footpads.
3799-3804

- Zenon Mathews, Paul F. M. J. Verschure, Sergi Bermúdez i Badia:
An insect-based method for learning landmark reliability using expectation reinforcement in dynamic environments.
3805-3812

Robotics in Agriculture, Construction and Forestry
- Nicolas Bouton, Roland Lenain, Benoit Thuilot, Philippe Martinet:
A new device dedicated to autonomous mobile robot dynamic stability: Application to an off-road mobile robot.
3813-3818

- Christophe Cariou, Roland Lenain, Benoit Thuilot, Philippe Martinet:
Autonomous maneuver of a farm vehicle with a trailed implement: motion planner and lateral-longitudinal controllers.
3819-3824

- Frederik W. Heger, Sanjiv Singh:
Robust robotic assembly through contingencies, plan repair and re-planning.
3825-3830

- Matthew W. McDaniel, Takayuki Nishihata, Christopher A. Brooks, Karl Iagnemma:
Ground plane identification using LIDAR in forested environments.
3831-3836

- Deepak Bhadauria, Volkan Isler, Andrew Studenski, Pratap Tokekar:
A Robotic Sensor Network for monitoring carp in Minnesota lakes.
3837-3842

Industrial Robots
- Gen Endo, Hiroya Yamada, Akira Yajima, Masaru Ogata, Shigeo Hirose:
A passive weight compensation mechanism with a non-circular pulley and a spring.
3843-3848

- Jean-François Brethé:
Intrinsic repeatability: A new index for repeatability characterisation.
3849-3854

- Bernd Finkemeyer, Torsten Kröger, Friedrich M. Wahl:
The adaptive selection matrix - A key component for sensor-based control of robotic manipulators.
3855-3862

- Friedrich Lange, Jochen Werner, Johannes Scharrer, Gerd Hirzinger:
Assembling wheels to continuously conveyed car bodies using a standard industrial robot.
3863-3869

- Richard E. Hudson, Wyatt S. Newman:
Independent Component Analysis and Bayes' Theorem for robotics and automation.
3870-3875

Force Sensing, Teleoperation and Virtual Reality
- Paolo Robuffo Giordano, Carlo Masone, Joachim Tesch, Martin Breidt, Lorenzo Pollini, Heinrich H. Bülthoff:
A novel framework for closed-loop robotic motion simulation - part I: Inverse kinematics design.
3876-3883

- Somayeh Bahrami, Mehrzad Namvar:
Motion tracking in robotic manipulators in presence of delay in measurements.
3884-3889

- Gianluca Palli, Gianni Borghesan, Claudio Melchiorri:
Friction and visco-elasticity effects in tendon-based transmission systems.
3890-3895

- Paolo Robuffo Giordano, Carlo Masone, Joachim Tesch, Martin Breidt, Lorenzo Pollini, Heinrich H. Bülthoff:
A novel framework for closed-loop robotic motion simulation - part II: Motion cueing design and experimental validation.
3896-3903

- Tomohiro Kawakami, Ko Ayusawa, Hiroshi Kaminaga, Yoshihiko Nakamura:
High-fidelity joint drive system by torque feedback control using high precision linear encoder.
3904-3909

Sensor Fusion and Mapping
Intelligent Transportation Systems
Control of Grasping and Manipulation
- Mircea Ivanescu, Nicu George Bîzdoaca, Mihaela Cecilia Florescu, Nirvana Popescu, Decebal Popescu:
Frequency criteria for the grasping control of a hyper-redundant robot.
3981-3988

- Oscar Gerelli, Corrado Guarino Lo Bianco:
A discrete-time filter for the on-line generation of trajectories with bounded velocity, acceleration, and jerk.
3989-3994

- Thomas Haase, Heinz Wörn:
Real-time collision detection for intrinsic safety of Multi-fingered SDH-2.
3995-4000

- Frank Wobbe, Dang Hung Nguyen, Walter Schumacher:
Anti-windup design for trajectory tracking of a parallel robot - An holistic approach.
4001-4008

- Torsten Kröger, Friedrich M. Wahl:
Stabilizing hybrid switched motion control systems with an on-line trajectory generator.
4009-4015

Collision Avoidance
Visual Tracking I
- Changhyun Choi, Henrik I. Christensen:
Real-time 3D model-based tracking using edge and keypoint features for robotic manipulation.
4048-4055

- Kwang Ho An, Myung Jin Chung:
Robust unified stereo-based 3D head tracking and its application to face recognition.
4056-4061

- Ming Liu, Cédric Pradalier, Qijun Chen, Roland Siegwart:
A bearing-only 2D/3D-homing method under a visual servoing framework.
4062-4067

- Gregory Dubus, Olivier David, Yvan Measson:
A vision-based method for estimating vibrations of a flexible arm using on-line sinusoidal regression.
4068-4075

- Andrew Colquhoun Symington, Sonia Waharte, Simon Justin Julier, Niki Trigoni:
Probabilistic target detection by camera-equipped UAVs.
4076-4081

Micro-Nano Robotics
- Kousuke Nogawa, Masaru Kojima, Masahiro Nakajima, Michio Homma, Toshio Fukuda:
Manipulation of flagellar driving force by local environmental control system with multiple nanoprobes.
4082-4087

- Uwe Mick, Volkmar Eichhorn, Tim Wortmann, Claas Diederichs, Sergej Fatikow:
Combined nanorobotic AFM/SEM system as novel toolbox for automated hybrid analysis and manipulation of nanoscale objects.
4088-4093

- Yoko Yamanishi, Lin Feng, Fumihito Arai:
On-demand and Size-controlled Production of emulsion droplets by magnetically driven microtool.
4094-4099

- Volkmar Eichhorn, Sergej Fatikow, Ozlem Sardan Sukas, Torben Mikael Hansen, Peter Bøggild, Luigi Occhipinti:
Novel four-point-probe design and nanorobotic dual endeffector strategy for electrical characterization of as-grown SWCNT bundles.
4100-4105

- Aditya N. Das, Dan O. Popa, Harry E. Stephanou:
Automated microassembly using precision based hybrid control.
4106-4112

Micro and Nano Robotics for Biological Applications
- Yuki Hirose, Kenjiro Tadakuma, Mitsuru Higashimori, Tatsuo Arai, Makoto Kaneko, Ryo Iitsuka, Yoko Yamanishi, Fumihito Arai:
A new stiffness evaluation toward high speed cell sorter.
4113-4118

- Yanhua Wu, Youhua Tan, Dong Sun, Wenhao Huang:
Force analysis and path planning of the trapped cell in robotic manipulation with optical tweezers.
4119-4124

- Mohamed Kharboutly, Michaël Gauthier, Nicolas Chaillet:
Modeling the trajectory of a micro particle in a dielectrophoresis device for dynamic control.
4125-4130

- Mahdi Azizian, Rajni V. Patel, Cezar Gavrilovici, Michael Poulter:
Computer-assisted patch clamping.
4131-4136

Motion Control of Manipulators I
- Zoe Doulgeri, Yiannis Karayiannidis:
PID type robot joint position regulation with prescribed performance guaranties.
4137-4142

- Djordje Mitrovic, Sho Nagashima, Stefan Klanke, Takamitsu Matsubara, Sethu Vijayakumar:
Optimal Feedback Control for anthropomorphic manipulators.
4143-4150

- Damir Omrcen, Ales Ude:
Redundant control of a humanoid robot head with foveated vision for object tracking.
4151-4156

- Jeremiah J. Neubert, Nicola J. Ferrier:
Motion generation through biologically-inspired torque pulses.
4157-4162

- Dung Ngoc Vuong, Marcelo H. Ang, Tao Ming Lim, Ser Yong Lim:
An analysis of the operational space control of robots.
4163-4168

- Adriano Fagiolini, Felipe A. W. Belo, Manuel G. Catalano, Fabio Bonomo, Simone Alicino, Antonio Bicchi:
Design and control of a novel 3D casting manipulator.
4169-4174

Mechanism Design and Actuation
- Jonathon W. Sensinger:
Selecting motors for robots using biomimetic trajectories: Optimum benchmarks, windings, and other considerations.
4175-4181

- Michele Focchi, Emanuele Guglielmino, Claudio Semini, Thiago Boaventura Cunha, Yousheng Yang, Darwin G. Caldwell:
Control of a hydraulically-actuated quadruped robot leg.
4182-4188

- Florian Petit, Maxime Chalon, Werner Friedl, Markus Grebenstein, Alin Albu-Schäffer, Gerd Hirzinger:
Bidirectional antagonistic variable stiffness actuation: Analysis, design & Implementation.
4189-4196

- Massimo Bergamasco, Fabio Salsedo, Simone Marcheschi, Nicola Lucchesi, Marco Fontana:
A novel compact and lightweight actuator for wearable robots.
4197-4203

- Hiroshi Kaminaga, Tomoya Amari, Yukihiro Katayama, Junya Ono, Yuto Shimoyama, Yoshihiko Nakamura:
Backdrivability analysis of Electro-Hydrostatic Actuator and series dissipative actuation model.
4204-4211

- Kentaro Noda, Eiji Iwase, Kiyoshi Matsumoto, Isao Shimoyama:
Stretchable liquid tactile sensor for robot-joints.
4212-4217

Humanoid Locomotion
- Barkan Ugurlu, Atsuo Kawamura:
Eulerian ZMP resolution based bipedal walking: Discussions on the intrinsic angular momentum rate change about center of mass.
4218-4223

- Tomomichi Sugihara:
Consistent biped step control with COM-ZMP oscillation based on successive phase estimation in dynamics morphing.
4224-4229

- Koichi Nishiwaki, Satoshi Kagami:
Strategies for adjusting the ZMP reference trajectory for maintaining balance in humanoid walking.
4230-4236

- Evrim Taskiran, Metin Yilmaz, Ozer Koca, Utku Seven, Kemalettin Erbatur:
Trajectory generation with natural ZMP references for the biped walking robot SURALP.
4237-4242

- Nicolas Perrin, Olivier Stasse, Florent Lamiraux, Eiichi Yoshida:
Approximation of feasibility tests for reactive walk on HRP-2.
4243-4248

- Kanako Miura, Shinichiro Nakaoka, Mitsuharu Morisawa, Fumio Kanehiro, Kensuke Harada, Shuuji Kajita:
Analysis on a friction based "twirl" for biped robots.
4249-4255

Marine Robotics:
Localization, Control and Navigation
- Maurice F. Fallon, Georgios Papadopoulos, John J. Leonard:
A measurement distribution framework for cooperative navigation using multiple AUVs.
4256-4263

- Marco Morgado, Paulo Jorge Ramalho Oliveira, Carlos Silvestre:
Design and experimental evaluation of an integrated USBL/INS system for AUVs.
4264-4269

- Gianluca Antonelli, Andrea Caiti, Vincenzo Calabro, Stefano Chiaverini:
Designing behaviors to improve observability for relative localization of AUVs.
4270-4275

- Gianluca Antonelli, Filippo Arrichiello, Stefano Chiaverini, Gaurav S. Sukhatme:
Observability analysis of relative localization for AUVs based on ranging and depth measurements.
4276-4281

- Max Pfingsthorn, Andreas Birk, Sören Schwertfeger, Heiko Bülow, Kaustubh Pathak:
Maximum likelihood mapping with spectral image registration.
4282-4287

- Huizhen Yang, Fumin Zhang:
Geometric formation control for autonomous underwater vehicles.
4288-4293

Dynamic Manipulation
Rehabilitation Robotics and Human-Robot Interaction
- Ying Mao, Sunil Kumar Agrawal:
Wearable cable-driven upper arm exoskeleton - motion with transmitted joint force and moment minimization.
4334-4339

- Emanuele Ruffaldi, Elisabetta Sani, Massimo Bergamasco:
Visualizing perspectives and trends in robotics based on patent mining.
4340-4347

- Patrizia Marti, Leonardo Giusti:
A robot companion for inclusive games: A user-centred design perspective.
4348-4353

- Daniel J. Ricks, Mark B. Colton:
Trends and considerations in robot-assisted autism therapy.
4354-4359

- Marko Munih, Domen Novak, Jaka Ziherl, Andrej Olensek, Janez Podobnik, Tadej Bajd, Matjaz Mihelj:
Robotic rehabilitation tasks and measurements of psychophysiological responses.
4360-4365

- Ryu Takeda, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Toru Takahashi, Kazunori Komatani, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno:
Upper-limit evaluation of robot audition based on ICA-BSS in multi-source, barge-in and highly reverberant conditions.
4366-4371

Localization for Mobile Robots I
Navigation on Uneven Terrain
- Paul Timothy Furgale, Timothy D. Barfoot:
Stereo mapping and localization for long-range path following on rough terrain.
4410-4416

- Eric Joe Coyle, Emmanuel G. Collins Jr., Liang Lu:
Updating control modes based on terrain classification.
4417-4423

- Xiuyi Fan, Surya P. N. Singh, Florian Oppolzer, Eric Nettleton, Ross Hennessy, A. Lowe, Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte:
Integrated planning and control of large tracked vehicles in open terrain.
4424-4430

- Philip R. Roan, Aaron Burmeister, Amin Rahimi, Kevin Holz, David Hooper:
Real-world validation of three tipover algorithms for mobile robots.
4431-4436

- Gregory Broten, David Mackay:
Inferring geometry from imagery - Enabling high speed traversal.
4437-4443

- Hang Zhou, Sildomar T. Monteiro, Peter Hatherly, Fabio T. Ramos, Eric Nettleton, Florian Oppolzer:
Automated rock recognition with wavelet feature space projection and Gaussian Process classification.
4444-4450

Multi-Agent Coordination
- Marius Kloetzer, Sanjiv Itani, Sam Birch, Calin Belta:
On the need for communication in distributed implementations of LTL motion specifications.
4451-4456

- Geoffrey A. Hollinger, Sanjiv Singh:
Multi-robot coordination with periodic connectivity.
4457-4462

- Damjan Miklic, Stjepan Bogdan, Rafael Fierro:
Decentralized grid-based algorithms for formation reconfiguration and synchronization.
4463-4468

- Amirreza Rahmani, Xu Chu Ding, Magnus Egerstedt:
Optimal motion primitives for multi-UAV convoy protection.
4469-4474

- Baoyang Deng, Andres K. Valenzuela, Bill Goodwine:
Bifurcations of optimal solutions for coordinated robotic systems: Numerical and homotopy methods.
4475-4480

- Mauro Franceschelli, Andrea Gasparri:
On agreement problems with gossip algorithms in absence of common reference frames.
4481-4486

Motion Planning and Trajectory Control
- Mark de Berg, Dirk H. P. Gerrits:
Computing push plans for disk-shaped robots.
4487-4492

- Ross L. Hatton, Howie Choset:
Optimizing coordinate choice for locomoting systems.
4493-4498

- Dimitra Panagou, Herbert G. Tanner, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos:
Dipole-like fields for stabilization of systems with Pfaffian constraints.
4499-4504

- Xavier Broquère, Daniel Sidobre, Khoi Nguyen:
From motion planning to trajectory control with bounded jerk for service manipulator robots.
4505-4510

- Rui Fukui, Taketoshi Mori, Tomomasa Sato:
Application of caging manipulation and compliant mechanism for a container case hand-over task.
4511-4518

- Kasemsit Teeyapan, Jiuguang Wang, Tobias Kunz, Mike Stilman:
Robot limbo: Optimized planning and control for dynamically stable robots under vertical obstacles.
4519-4524

Visual Tracking II
Vision and Motion Compensation for Medical Robots
- Andreas Tobergte, Florian Fröhlich, Mihai Pomarlan, Gerd Hirzinger:
Towards accurate motion compensation in surgical robotics.
4566-4572

- Martin Busack, Guillaume Morel, Delphine Bellot:
Breathing motion compensation for robot assisted laser osteotomy.
4573-4578

- Rogério Richa, Antônio Padilha Lanari Bo, Philippe Poignet:
Beating heart motion prediction for robust visual tracking.
4579-4584

- Christoph Staub, Takayuki Osa, Alois Knoll, Robert Bauernschmitt:
Automation of tissue piercing using circular needles and vision guidance for computer aided laparoscopic surgery.
4585-4590

- Jordan M. Croom, D. Caleb Rucker, Joseph M. Romano, Robert J. Webster III:
Visual sensing of continuum robot shape using self-organizing maps.
4591-4596

- Reuben D. Brewer, J. Kenneth Salisbury:
Visual vein-finding for robotic IV insertion.
4597-4602

Software Tools for Robotics
- Francesco Chinello, Stefano Scheggi, Fabio Morbidi, Domenico Prattichizzo:
KCT: a MATLAB toolbox for motion control of KUKA robot manipulators.
4603-4608

- Junaed Sattar, Anqi Xu, Gregory Dudek, Gabriel Charette:
Graphical state-space programmability as a natural interface for robotic control.
4609-4614

- Geoffrey Biggs:
Flexible, adaptable utility components for component-based robot software.
4615-4620

- Geoffrey Biggs:
Applying regression testing to software for robot hardware interaction.
4621-4626

- Anthony Mallet, Cédric Pasteur, Matthieu Herrb, Séverin Lemaignan, François Felix Ingrand:
GenoM3: Building middleware-independent robotic components.
4627-4632

- David P. Miller, Matthew Oelke, Matthew J. Roman, Jorge Villatoro, Charles N. Winton:
The CBC: A LINUX-based low-cost mobile robot controller.
4633-4638

Motion Control of Manipulators II
- Yahya S. Khaligh, Mehrzad Namvar:
Adaptive control of robot manipulators including actuator dynamics and without joint torque measurement.
4639-4644

- Nima Lotfi, Mehrzad Namvar:
A globally convergent observer for velocity estimation in robotic manipulators with uncertain dynamics.
4645-4650

- Yuxin Su, Chunhong Zheng:
A simple nonlinear PID control for global finite-time regulation of robot manipulators without velocity measurements.
4651-4656

- Wen-Hong Zhu:
FPGA-based adaptive friction compensation for precision control of harmonic drivers.
4657-4662

- Chao Liu, Philippe Poignet:
SP-ID regulation of rigid-link electrically-driven robots with uncertain kinematics.
4663-4668

- Uwe Mettin, Anton S. Shiriaev, Georg Bätz, Dirk Wollherr:
Ball dribbling with an underactuated continuous-time control phase.
4669-4674

Kinematics of Parallel Robots