IROS 2008: Nice, France

Micro/Nanorobots I

• Shun Nishide, Tetsuya Ogata, Ryunosuke Yokoya, Jun Tani, Kazunori Komatani, Hiroshi G. Okuno:
  Active sensing based dynamical object feature extraction. 1-7
  
• Didi Xu, Arunkumar Subramanian, Lixin Dong, Bradley J. Nelson:
  Shaping electrodes for ultrahigh precision dielectrophoretic manipulation of carbon nanotubes. 8-13
  
• Chauncey F. Graetzel, Vasco Medici, Nicola Rohrseitz, Bradley J. Nelson, Steven N. Fry:
  The Cyborg Fly: A biorobotic platform to investigate dynamic coupling effects between a fruit fly and a robot. 14-19
  
• Kaiyu Shou, Lixin Dong, Bradley J. Nelson:
  NEMS-on-a-tip: Force sensors based on electromechanical coupling of individual multi-walled carbon nanotubes. 20-25
  
• Aaron M. Hoover, Erik Steltz, Ronald S. Fearing:
  RoACH: An autonomous 2.4g crawling hexapod robot. 26-33
  
• Rakesh Murthy, Aditya N. Das, Dan O. Popa:
  ARRIpede: A stick-slip micro crawler/conveyor robot constructed via 2 1/2D MEMS assembly. 34-40
  

Force and Tactile Sensing I

• Dinusha Zbyszewski, Arkapravo Bhaumik, Kaspar Althoefer, Lakmal D. Seneviratne:
  Tactile sensing using a novel air cushion sensor: A feasibility study. 41-46
  
• Seiichi Teshigawara, Masatoshi Ishikawa, Makoto Shimojo:
  Development of high speed and high sensitivity slip sensor. 47-52
  
• Hiroyuki Nakamoto, Futoshi Kobayashi, Nobuaki Imamura, Hidenori Shirasawa, Fumio Kojima:
  Shape classification in rotation manipulation by universal robot hand. 53-58
  
• Sean Walker, J. Kenneth Salisbury:
  Difference-based estimation of support friction. 59-64
  
• Ciro Natale, Salvatore Pirozzi:
  Minimally invasive torque sensor for tendon-driven robotic hands. 65-70
  
• Yoshihiro Tanaka, Ryohei Sugimura, Akihito Sano, Hideo Fujimoto:
  An active tactile sensor using fluid for body tissue. 71-76
  

Kinematics

• Jingdong Zhao, Yiwei Liu, Hegao Cai, Hong Liu:
  An improved algorithm of measuring extravehicular mobility unit (EMU) spacesuit joint damping parameters for the old passive robot system. 77-82
  
• Ohmi Fuchiwaki, Takashi Kawai, Akihiro Ohta, Daigo Misaki, Hisayuki Aoyama:
  Development of a positioning & compensation device for a versatile micro robot. 83-88
  
• Behdad Masih-Tehrani, Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi:
  Kinematic and Dynamic Dexterity measures for posture prediction. 89-94
  
• S. Ali A. Moosavian, Arash Kalantari:
  Experimental slip estimation for exact kinematics modeling and control of a Tracked Mobile Robot. 95-100
  
• Xiaojing Song, Zibin Song, Lakmal D. Seneviratne, Kaspar Althoefer:
  Optical flow-based slip and velocity estimation technique for unmanned skid-steered vehicles. 101-106
  
• Said Al-Milli, Kaspar Althoefer, Lakmal D. Seneviratne:
  Maneuverability performance of tracked vehicles on soft terrains. 107-112
  

Smart Actuators I

• Tomoaki Mashimo, Shigeki Toyama, Hiroshi Matsuda:
  Development of rotary-linear piezoelectric actuator for MRI compatible manipulator. 113-118
  
• Takaaki Osada, Kentaro Takagi, Yoshikazu Hayakawa, Zhi Wei Luo, Kinji Asaka:
  State space modeling of ionic polymer-metal composite actuators based on electrostress diffusion coupling theory. 119-124
  
• Masato Ishikawa, Yusuke Kinouchi:
  Modeling and control of spherical ultrasonic motor based on nonholonomic mechanics. 125-130
  
• Quang-Tri Truong, Quoc-Viet Nguyen, Hoon Cheol Park, Nam Seo Goo:
  The dynamic characteristics of LIPCA and its application for mimicking insect flapping motion. 131-136
  
• Federico Carpi, Azadeh Khanicheh, Constantinos Mavroidis, Danilo De Rossi:
  Silicone made contractile dielectric elastomer actuators inside 3-Tesla MRI environment. 137-142
  

Intelligent Vehicles I

• Satoshi Hoshino, Jun Ota:
  Reactive robot control with hybrid operational models in a seaport container terminal considering system reliability. 143-148
  
• Matthias Hentschel, Oliver Wulf, Bernardo Wagner:
  A GPS and laser-based localization for urban and non-urban outdoor environments. 149-154
  
• Roman Katz, Bertrand Douillard, Juan Nieto, Eduardo Mario Nebot:
  A self-supervised architecture for moving obstacles classification. 155-160
  
• Roman Katz, Juan Nieto, Eduardo Mario Nebot:
  Probabilistic scheme for laser based motion detection. 161-166
  
• Wataru Takano, Akihiro Matsushita, Keijiro Iwao, Yoshihiko Nakamura:
  Recognition of human driving behaviors based on stochastic symbolization of time series signal. 167-172
  
• Samuel Gidel, Paul Checchin, Christophe Blanc, Thierry Chateau, Laurent Trassoudaine:
  Pedestrian detection method using a multilayer laserscanner: Application in urban environment. 173-178
  

Humanoids, Motion Control

• Kalin B. Trifonov, Shuji Hashimoto:
  Active knee-release mechanism for passive-dynamic walking machines and walking cycle research. 179-184
  
• Jinsu Liu, Manuela M. Veloso:
  Online ZMP sampling search for biped walking planning. 185-190
  
• Behzad Dariush, Michael Gienger, Arjun Arumbakkam, Christian Goerick, Youding Zhu, Kikuo Fujimura:
  Online and markerless motion retargeting with kinematic constraints. 191-198
  
• SeongHee Jeong, Takayuki Takahashi:
  Stable and quick standing-sitting motion of I-PENTAR by whole-body motion with force control. 199-204
  
• Yuto Nakanishi, Yuta Namiki, Kazuo Hongo, Junichi Urata, Ikuo Mizuuchi, Masayuki Inaba:
  Realization of large joint movement while standing by a musculoskeletal humanoid using its spine and legs coordinately. 205-210
  
• Taizo Yoshikawa, Oussama Khatib:
  Compliant motion control for a humanoid robot in contact with the environment and humans. 211-218
  

Navigation I

• Yoichi Morales Saiki, Eijiro Takeuchi, Alexander Carballo, Wataru Tokunaga, Hiroyasu Kuniyoshi, Atsushi Aburadani, Atsushi Hirosawa, Yoshisada Nagasaka, Yusuke Suzuki, Takashi Tsubouchi:
  1Km autonomous robot navigation on outdoor pedestrian paths "running the Tsukuba challenge 2007". 219-225
  
• Vivien Delsart, Thierry Fraichard:
  Navigating dynamic environments using trajectory deformation. 226-233
  
• Luis Martinez-Gomez, Thierry Fraichard:
  An efficient and generic 2D Inevitable Collision State-checker. 234-241
  
• Steven C. Peters, Karl Iagnemma:
  Mobile robot path tracking of aggressive maneuvers on sloped terrain. 242-247
  
• David Filliat:
  Interactive learning of visual topological navigation. 248-254
  
• Yuan Yuan, Zhiqiang Cao, Zeng-Guang Hou, Min Tan:
  Forward Passageway based collision-free target tracking for mobile robot with local sensing. 255-259
  

Rehabilitation Robotics I

• Daisuke Chugo, Tai Asawa, Takuya Kitamura, Songmin Jia, Kunikatsu Takase:
  A rehabilitation walker with standing and walking assistance. 260-265
  
• Masayoshi Wada:
  Step climbing capability of a 4WD omnidirectional wheelchair. 266-272
  
• Jian Huang, Pei Di, Toshio Fukuda, Takayuki Matsuno:
  Motion control of omni-directional type cane robot based on human intention. 273-278
  
• Panagiotis K. Artemiadis, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos:
  Estimating arm motion and force using EMG signals: On the control of exoskeletons. 279-284
  
• Alexander Hüntemann, Eric Demeester, Marnix Nuttin, Hendrik Van Brussel:
  Online user modeling with Gaussian Processes for Bayesian plan recognition during power-wheelchair steering. 285-292
  
• Misato Nihei, Takeshi Ando, Yuzo Kaneshige, Takenobu Inoue, Masakatsu G. Fujie:
  A new mobility-aid vehicle with a unique turning system. 293-300
  

Cognitive Human-Robot Interaction

• Momotaz Begum, George K. I. Mann, Ray G. Gosine, Fakhri Karray:
  Object- and space-based visual attention: An integrated framework for autonomous robots. 301-306
  
• Kwang Ho An, Myung Jin Chung:
  3D head tracking and pose-robust 2D texture map-based face recognition using a simple ellipsoid model. 307-312
  
• Klaus Petersen, Jorge Solis, Atsuo Takanishi:
  Development of a real-time instrument tracking system for enabling the musical interaction with the Waseda Flutist Robot. 313-318
  
• Hyunglae Lee, Hyoungnyoun Kim, Kyung-Hwa Park, Ji-Hyung Park:
  Robot learning by observation based on Bayesian networks and game pattern graphs for human-robot game interactions. 319-325
  
• Takenobu Chikaraishi, Takashi Minato, Hiroshi Ishiguro:
  Development of an android system integrated with sensor networks. 326-333
  
• Tetsunari Inamura, Tomohiro Shibata:
  Geometric proto-symbol manipulation towards language-based motion pattern synthesis and recognition. 334-339
  

Aerial Robotics, Control

• Mark Euston, Paul Coote, Robert E. Mahony, Jonghyuk Kim, Tarek Hamel:
  A complementary filter for attitude estimation of a fixed-wing UAV. 340-345
  
• Jean Charles Bazin, Inso Kweon, Cédric Demonceaux, Pascal Vasseur:
  A robust top-down approach for rotation estimation and vanishing points extraction by catadioptric vision in urban environment. 346-353
  
• Adnan Martini, François Léonard, Gabriel Abba:
  Robust nonlinear control and stability analysis of a 7DOF model-scale helicopter under vertical wind gust. 354-359
  
• Guillaume Ducard, Hans Peter Geering:
  Stability analysis of a dynamic inversion based pitch rate controller for an unmanned aircraft. 360-366
  

Learning and Control I

• Sylvain Calinon, Aude Billard:
  A probabilistic Programming by Demonstration framework handling constraints in joint space and task space. 367-372
  
• Yuichi Kobayashi, Masashi Shibata, Shigeyuki Hosoe, Yoji Uno:
  Learning of object manipulation with stick/slip mode switching. 373-379
  
• Duy Nguyen-Tuong, Jan Peters:
  Local Gaussian process regression for real-time model-based robot control. 380-385
  
• Yasutake Takahashi, Yoshihiro Tamura, Minoru Asada:
  Mutual development of behavior acquisition and recognition based on value system. 386-392
  
• Naoki Tomi, Manabu Gouko, Koji Ito:
  Inaccuracy of internal models in force fields and complementary use of impedance control. 393-398
  
• Brenna Argall, Brett Browning, Manuela M. Veloso:
  Learning robot motion control with demonstration and advice-operators. 399-404
  

Telerobotics

• Angelika Peer, Sandra Hirche, Carolina Weber, Inga Krause, Martin Buss, Sylvain Miossec, Paul Evrard, Olivier Stasse, Ee Sian Neo, Abderrahmane Kheddar, Kazuhito Yokoi:
  Intercontinental multimodal tele-cooperation using a humanoid robot. 405-411
  
• Moussa Boukhnifer, Antoine Ferreira:
  Fault tolerant control of a bilateral teleoperated micromanipulation system. 412-417
  
• Laurent Barbé, Bernard Bayle, Edouard Laroche, Michel de Mathelin:
  User adapted control of force feedback teleoperators: Evaluation and robustness analysis. 418-423
  
• Kenji Kawashima, Kotaro Tadano, Ganesh Sankaranarayanan, Blake Hannaford:
  Bilateral teleoperation with time delay using modified wave variables. 424-429
  
• Gregory Dubus, Olivier David, Yvan Measson, Jean-Pierre Friconneau, Jim Palmer:
  Making hydraulic manipulators cleaner and safer: From oil to demineralized water hydraulics. 430-437
  
• Amir Haddadi, Keyvan Hashtrudi-Zaad:
  Delay-robust transparent bilateral teleoperation control design. 438-444
  

Micro/Nanorobots II

• Koichi Suzumori, Fumitaka Saito:
  Micro rubber structure realizing multi-legged passive walking. 445-450
  
• Thomas Dargent, Sebastien Grondel, Jean-Bernard Paquet, Eric Cattan, Caroline Soyer:
  Vibrating wing analysis with passive torsion for micro flying robot. 451-457
  
• Tetsuyou Watanabe, Yutaka Serita:
  Adhesion state detection by vision and its application to automatic micro manipulation. 458-463
  
• Sergej Fatikow, Thomas Wich, Florian Krohs, Christian Dahmen:
  Towards automated handling on the nano-scale. 464-469
  
• Yangmin Li, Qingsong Xu:
  Design of a new decoupled XY flexure parallel kinematic manipulator with actuator isolation. 470-475
  
• Gaurav Sharma, Kaushal Rege, David Budil, Martin L. Yarmush, Constantinos Mavroidis:
  Design and modeling of a protein based nanoGripper. 476-481
  

Force and Tactile Sensing II

• Magnus Johnsson, Christian Balkenius:
  Recognizing texture and hardness by touch. 482-487
  
• Katsunari Sato, Kazuto Kamiyama, Hideaki Nii, Naoki Kawakami, Susumu Tachi:
  Measurement of force vector field of robotic finger using vision-based haptic sensor. 488-493
  
• Ryan Wistort, Joshua R. Smith:
  Electric Field Servoing for robotic manipulation. 494-499
  
• Ilkka Leppänen, Petri J. Virekoski, Aarne Halme:
  Sensing terrain parameters and the characteristics of vehicle-terrain interaction using the multimode locomotion system of a robot. 500-505
  
• Ayumi Asakura, Toshio Fukuda, Fumihito Arai:
  Design, fabrication and characterization of compact force sensor using AT-cut quartz crystal resonators. 506-511
  
• Taichi Tajika, Takahiro Miyashita, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Norihiro Hagita:
  Reducing influence of robot's motion on tactile sensor based on partially linear model. 512-517
  

Dynamics

• Mikhail M. Svinin, Igor Goncharenko, Shigeyuki Hosoe:
  On the boundary conditions in modeling of human-like reaching movements. 518-525
  
• Sebastien Andary, Ahmed Chemori, Sébastien Krut:
  Stable limit cycle generation for underactuated mechanical systems, application: Inertia wheel inverted pendulum. 526-531
  
• Oscar Gerelli, Corrado Guarino Lo Bianco:
  Real-time path-tracking control of robotic manipulators with bounded torques and torque-derivatives. 532-537
  
• Satoru Sakai, Stefano Stramigioli:
  Passivity based control of hydraulic robot arms using natural Casimir functions: Theory and experiments. 538-544
  
• Adel Akbarimajd, Majid Nili Ahmadabadi:
  Is there any analogy between foot stability and dynamic grasp? 545-550
  
• Mitsunori Uemura, Sadao Kawamura:
  An energy saving control method of robot motions based on adaptive stiffness optimization - cases of multi-frequency components -. 551-557
  

Smart Actuators II

• Micky Rakotondrabe, Cedric Clevy, Philippe Lutz:
  Hysteresis and vibration compensation in a nonlinear unimorph piezocantilever. 558-563
  
• Paul Cazottes, Fernandes Amancio, Joël Pouget, Moustapha Hafez:
  Actuation of bistable buckled beams with Macro-Fiber Composites. 564-569
  
• Yoko Yamanishi, Shinya Sakuma, Kazuhisa Onda, Fumihito Arai:
  Magnetically modified polymeric microsorter for on-chip particle manipulations. 570-575
  
• Marco Controzzi, Christian Cipriani, Maria Chiara Carrozza:
  Mechatronic design of a transradial cybernetic hand. 576-581
  
• Norihiro Kamamichi, Toshiharu Maeba, Masaki Yamakita, Toshiharu Mukai:
  Fabrication of bucky gel actuator/sensor devices based on printing method. 582-587
  
• Takashi Ichihara, Takefumi Kanda, Koichi Suzumori:
  Design and evaluation of low-profile micro ultrasonic motors using sector shaped piezoelectric vibrators. 588-593
  

Intelligent Vehicles II

• Haoting Liu, Hanqing Lu:
  IQ evaluation based adaptive wavelet denoising and enhancement for a VTRAN system. 594-599
  
• Clement Boussard, Nicolas Hautière, Brigitte d'Andréa-Novel:
  Vehicle dynamics estimation for camera-based visibility distance estimation. 600-605
  
• Shigang Li, Yuta Shimomura:
  Lane marking detection by side Fisheye Camera. 606-611
  
• Kevin Peterson, Jason Ziglar, Paul E. Rybski:
  Fast feature detection and stochastic parameter estimationof road shape using multiple LIDAR. 612-619
  
• Michael J. Procopio, Jane Mulligan, Gregory Z. Grudic:
  Learning in dynamic environments with Ensemble Selection for autonomous outdoor robot navigation. 620-627
  
• Raia Hadsell, Ayse Erkan, Pierre Sermanet, Marco Scoffier, Urs Muller, Yann LeCun:
  Deep belief net learning in a long-range vision system for autonomous off-road driving. 628-633
  

Humanoids, Kinematics, Dynamics

• Michel Franken, Gijs van Oort, Stefano Stramigioli:
  Analysis and simulation of fully ankle actuated planar bipedal robots. 634-639
  
• Bachar Almasri, Fathi Ben Ouezdou:
  Human-like motion based on a geometrical inverse kinematics and energetic optimization. 640-646
  
• Atsushi Konno, Tomoya Myojin, Teppei Tsujita, Masaru Uchiyama:
  Optimization of impact motions for humanoid robots. 647-652
  
• David E. Orin, Ambarish Goswami:
  Centroidal Momentum Matrix of a humanoid robot: Structure and properties. 653-659
  
• Fumio Kanehiro, Wael Suleiman, Florent Lamiraux, Eiichi Yoshida, Jean-Paul Laumond:
  Integrating dynamics into motion planning for humanoid robots. 660-667
  
• Hitoshi Arisumi, Sylvain Miossec, Jean-Rémy Chardonnet, Kazuhito Yokoi:
  Dynamic lifting by whole body motion of humanoid robots. 668-675
  

Navigation II

• Christophe Giovannangeli, Philippe Gaussier:
  Autonomous vision-based navigation: Goal-oriented action planning by transient states prediction, cognitive map building, and sensory-motor learning. 676-683
  
• Jinhan Lee, Charles Pippin, Tucker R. Balch:
  Cost based planning with RRT in outdoor environments. 684-689
  
• Joseph W. Durham, Francesco Bullo:
  Smooth Nearness-Diagram Navigation. 690-695
  
• Jungho Kim, Yunsu Bok, In-So Kweon:
  Robust vision-based autonomous navigation against environment changes. 696-701
  
• Aniket Murarka, Mohan Sridharan, Benjamin Kuipers:
  Detecting obstacles and drop-offs using stereo and motion cues for safe local motion. 702-708
  
• Ling Xu, Anthony Stentz:
  Blended local planning for generating safe and feasible paths. 709-716
  

Rehabilitation Robotics II

• Yasuhisa Kamikawa, Takashi Maeno:
  Underactuated five-finger prosthetic hand inspired by grasping force distribution of humans. 717-722
  
• Takeshi Ando, Jun Okamoto, Masakatsu G. Fujie:
  Intelligent corset to support rollover of cancer bone metastasis patients - Mechanism to restrict the trunk ROM. 723-728
  
• Nikolaos G. Tsagarakis, Martin Gube, Darwin G. Caldwell:
  2D motion coordination enhancement for 'Ataxia' impaired users using a haptic device. 729-734
  
• Cinzia Amici, Alberto Borboni, Rodolfo Faglia, Davide Fausti, Pier Luigi Magnani:
  A parallel compliant meso-manipulator for finger rehabilitation treatments: Kinematic and dynamic analysis. 735-740
  
• Yasuhisa Hasegawa, Yasuyuki Mikami, Kosuke Watanabe, Zeinab Firouzimehr, Yoshiyuki Sankai:
  Wearable handling support system for paralyzed patient. 741-746
  
• Aaron M. Dollar, Hugh M. Herr:
  Design of a quasi-passive knee exoskeleton to assist running. 747-754
  

Social Human-Robot Interaction, Gesture, Posture

• Kazuhiko Takahashi, Yusuke Nagasawa, Masafumi Hashimoto:
  Remarks on markerless human motion capture from voxel reconstruction with simple human model. 755-760
  
• Jörg Rett, Luis Santos, Jorge Dias:
  Laban Movement Analysis for multi-ocular systems. 761-766
  
• Michihiro Shimada, Kazunori Yamauchi, Takashi Minato, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Shoji Itakura:
  Studying the influence of the chameleon effect on humans using an android. 767-772
  
• Jochen Hirth, Karsten Berns:
  Motives as intrinsic activation for human-robot interaction. 773-778
  
• Victor Ng-Thow-Hing, Jongwoo Lim, Joel Wormer, Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla, Carlos Rocha, Kikuo Fujimura, Yoshiaki Sakagami:
  The memory game: Creating a human-robot interactive scenario for ASIMO. 779-786
  
• Hai Nguyen, Advait Jain, Cressel D. Anderson, Charles C. Kemp:
  A clickable world: Behavior selection through pointing and context for mobile manipulation. 787-793
  

Aerial Robotics I

• Kwangjin Yang, Salah Sukkarieh:
  3D smooth path planning for a UAV in cluttered natural environments. 794-800
  
• Bruno Herisse, Francois-Xavier Russotto, Tarek Hamel, Robert E. Mahony:
  Hovering flight and vertical landing control of a VTOL Unmanned Aerial Vehicle using optical flow. 801-806
  
• Stefan Hrabar:
  3D path planning and stereo-based obstacle avoidance for rotorcraft UAVs. 807-814
  
• Emre Koyuncu, Gokhan Inalhan:
  A probabilistic B-spline motion planning algorithm for unmanned helicopters flying in dense 3D environments. 815-821
  
• Kei Watanabe, Yasushi Iwatani, Kenichiro Nonaka, Koichi Hashimoto:
  A visual-servo-based assistant system for unmanned helicopter control. 822-827
  

Learning and Control II

• Hsien-I Lin, C. S. George Lee:
  Self-organizing skill synthesis. 828-833
  
• Jens Kober, Betty J. Mohler, Jan Peters:
  Learning perceptual coupling for motor primitives. 834-839
  
• Hongliang Guo, Yan Meng:
  Dynamic correlation matrix based multi-Q learning for a multi-robot system. 840-845
  
• Tomoya Suzuki, Sho Yano, Kenji Suzuki:
  Motivation oriented action selection for understanding dynamics of objects. 846-851
  
• Komei Sugiura, Naoto Iwahashi:
  Motion recognition and generation by combining reference-point-dependent probabilistic models. 852-857
  
• Georg Martius, Katja Fiedler, J. Michael Herrmann:
  Structure from behavior in autonomous agents. 858-862
  

Cellular and Modular Robots I

• Masoud Asadpour, Alexander Spröwitz, Aude Billard, Pierre Dillenbourg, Auke Jan Ijspeert:
  Graph signature for self-reconfiguration planning. 863-869
  
• David Johan Christensen, David Brandt, Kasper Støy, Ulrik Pagh Schultz:
  A unified simulator for Self-Reconfigurable Robots. 870-876
  
• Yosuke Suzuki, Norio Inou, Michihiko Koseki, Hitoshi Kimura:
  Reconfigurable group robots adaptively transforming a mechanical structure - Extended criteria for load-adaptive transformations -. 877-882
  
• Andreas Lyder, Ricardo Franco Mendoza Garcia, Kasper Støy:
  Mechanical design of odin, an extendable heterogeneous deformable modular robot. 883-888
  
• Ariadna Yerpes, José Baca, Juan A. Escalera, Manuel Ferre, Rafael Aracil:
  Modular robot based on 3 rotational DoF modules. 889-894
  
• Dimitris M. Chatzigeorgiou, Savvas G. Loizou, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos:
  R-cell: A module for a self-reconfigurable robotic system. 895-900
  

Micro-Manipulation

• Gilgueng Hwang, P. Podrzaj, Hideki Hashimoto:
  In-situ robust nanorobotic resistance spot welding of InGaAs/GaAs helical nanobelts without pretreatment. 901-906
  
• Yu Xie, Dong Sun, Chong Liu, Shuk Han Cheng:
  An adaptive impedance force control approach for robotic cell microinjection. 907-912
  
• Emir Vela, Cecile Pacoret, Sylvain Bouchigny, Stephane Régnier, Klaus Rink, Arvid Bergander:
  Non-contact mesoscale manipulation using laser induced convection flows. 913-918
  
• Veikko Sariola, Quan Zhou, Ralf Laass, Heikki N. Koivo:
  Experimental study on droplet based hybrid microhandling using high speed camera. 919-924
  
• Uchechukwu C. Wejinya, Ning Xi, King Wai Chiu Lai, Jiangbo Zhang, Yantao Shen:
  Design and generation of DEP force for assembly of CNT-based nano devices. 925-930
  
• Mickael Paris, Yassine Haddab, Philippe Lutz, Patrick Rougeot:
  Practical characterisation of the friction force for the positioning and orientation of micro-components. 931-936
  

Force Control

• Maciej Staniak, Tomasz Winiarski, Cezary Zielinski:
  Parallel visual-force control. 937-942
  
• Mamoru Minami, Weiwei Xu:
  Shape-grinding by direct position / force control with on-line constraint estimation. 943-948
  
• Hisashi Osumi, Takahiro Tomiyama:
  Development of force control device with high power and high resolution. 949-954
  
• Nicola Pedrocchi, Antonio Visioli, Giacomo Ziliani, Giovanni Legnani:
  On the elasticity in the dynamic decoupling of hybrid force/velocity control in the contour tracking task. 955-960
  
• Samuel Okodi, Xin Jiang, Atsushi Konno, Masaru Uchiyama:
  Human demonstration data for fast task teaching. 961-966
  
• Jae Yeon Choi, Youngjin Choi, Byung-Ju Yi:
  Force sensor-less interaction force control in the de-burring task using dual-arm manipulation. 967-973
  

Calibration and Identification

• Amir Haddadi, Keyvan Hashtrudi-Zaad:
  Online contact impedance identification for robotic systems. 974-980
  
• Amir Haddadi, Keyvan Hashtrudi-Zaad:
  A new method for online parameter estimation of Hunt-Crossley environment dynamic models. 981-986
  
• Jwu-Sheng Hu, Yung-Jung Chang, Yu-Lun Hsu:
  Calibration and on-line data selection of multiple optical flow sensors for mobile robot localization. 987-992
  
• Nicolas Andreff, Isolde Dressler:
  Closed-form calibration of the Gantry-Tau parallel robot. 993-998
  
• Arthur J. McClung, John B. Morrell:
  Estimation of contact forces in an inverted pendulum robot. 999-1004
  
• Sandip D. Kulkarni, Mark A. Minor, Eric R. Pardyjak, John M. Hollerbach:
  Combined wind speed and angle control in a virtual environment using a static observer. 1005-1010
  

Slam I

• Joaquim Salvi, Yvan R. Petillot, Elisabet Batlle:
  Visual SLAM for 3D large-scale seabed acquisition employing underwater vehicles. 1011-1016
  
• Jose-Luis Blanco, Juan-Antonio Fernandez-Madrigal, Javier Gonzalez:
  Efficient probabilistic Range-Only SLAM. 1017-1022
  
• Rene Iser, Friedrich M. Wahl:
  Building local metrical and global topological maps using efficient scan matching approaches. 1023-1030
  
• Adrien Angeli, Stéphane Doncieux, Jean-Arcady Meyer, David Filliat:
  Incremental vision-based topological SLAM. 1031-1036
  
• Ali A. Aghamohammadi, Amir H. Tamjidi, Hamid D. Taghirad:
  A solution for SLAM through augmenting vision and range information. 1037-1042
  
• John Mullane, Ba-Ngu Vo, Martin David Adams, Wijerupage Sardha Wijesoma:
  A random set formulation for Bayesian SLAM. 1043-1049
  

Intelligent Vehicles III (Motion Planning & Navigation)

• Dalhyung Kim, Woojin Chung:
  Motion planningfor car-parking using the slice projection technique. 1050-1055
  
• Chiara Fulgenzi, Christopher Tay, Anne Spalanzani, Christian Laugier:
  Probabilistic navigation in dynamic environment using Rapidly-exploring Random Trees and Gaussian processes. 1056-1062
  
• Dave Ferguson, Thomas M. Howard, Maxim Likhachev:
  Motion planning in urban environments: Part I. 1063-1069
  
• Dave Ferguson, Thomas M. Howard, Maxim Likhachev:
  Motion planning in urban environments: Part II. 1070-1076
  
• Yifeng Huang, Kamal Gupta:
  RRT-SLAM for motion planning with motion and map uncertainty for robot exploration. 1077-1082
  
• Pieter Abbeel, Dmitri Dolgov, Andrew Y. Ng, Sebastian Thrun:
  Apprenticeship learning for motion planning with application to parking lot navigation. 1083-1090
  

Humanoids and Legged Robots

• David Tlalolini, Christine Chevallereau, Yannick Aoustin:
  Optimal reference walking with rotation of the stance feet in single support for a 3D biped. 1091-1096
  
• Takashi Takuma, Shinji Hayashi, Koh Hosoda:
  3D bipedal robot with tunable leg compliance mechanism for multi-modal locomotion. 1097-1102
  
• Pierre-Brice Wieber:
  Viability and predictive control for safe locomotion. 1103-1108
  
• Katsu Yamane, Yoshihiko Nakamura, Kou Yamamoto:
  Dynamics simulation of humanoid robots with position-controlled joints and closed kinematic chains. 1109-1114
  
• Shinya Aoi, Yoshimasa Egi, Akira Ichikawa, Kazuo Tsuchiya:
  Experimental verification of gait transition from quadrupedal to bipedal locomotion of an oscillator-driven biped robot. 1115-1120
  
• Holger Diedam, Dimitar Dimitrov, Pierre-Brice Wieber, Katja D. Mombaur, Moritz Diehl:
  Online walking gait generation with adaptive foot positioning through Linear Model Predictive control. 1121-1126
  

Localization and Navigation I

• Srujan Linga, Binayak Roy, H. Harry Asada, Daniela Rus:
  An optical external localization system and applications to indoor tracking. 1127-1132
  
• Jung-Suk Lee, Wan Kyun Chung:
  Robust particle filter localization by sampling from non-corrupted window with incomplete map. 1133-1139
  
• Hyoung-Ki Lee, Kiwan Choi, Jiyoung Park, Yeon-Ho Kim, Seokwon Bang:
  Improvement of dead reckoning accuracy of a mobile robot by slip detection and compensation using multiple model approach. 1140-1147
  
• Ryunosuke Takano, Toshimitsu Higashi, Hirofumi Tamura, Mingang Cheng, Jun Ota:
  Mixed-load transportation scheduling in a floor warehouse environment. 1148-1153
  
• Drazen Brscic, Hideki Hashimoto:
  Model based robot localization using onboard and distributed laser range finders. 1154-1159
  
• Kai M. Wurm, Cyrill Stachniss, Wolfram Burgard:
  Coordinated multi-robot exploration using a segmentation of the environment. 1160-1165
  

Medical Robots and Systems, Control

• Panadda Marayong, Gregory D. Hager, Allison M. Okamura:
  Control methods for guidance virtual fixtures in compliant human-machine interfaces. 1166-1172
  
• Michel Dominici, Philippe Poignet, Etienne Dombre:
  Compensation of physiological motion using linear predictive force control. 1173-1178
  
• Marie-Aude Vitrani, Guillaume Morel:
  Hand-eye self-calibration of an ultrasound image-based robotic system. 1179-1185
  
• David P. Noonan, George P. Mylonas, Ara Darzi, Guang-Zhong Yang:
  Gaze contingent articulated robot control for robot assisted minimally invasive surgery. 1186-1191
  
• Sungon Lee, Takeshi Ozaki, Yoshihiko Nakamura:
  In vivo microscope image stabilization through 3-D motion compensation using a contact-type sensor. 1192-1197
  
• Xiaona Wang, Max Q.-H. Meng:
  Computational aspects in actuation and guidance mechanism for wireless active capsule endoscope. 1198-1203
  

Social, Physical Human-Robot Interaction

• Tomoko Yonezawa, Hirotake Yamazoe, Akira Utsumi, Shinji Abe:
  GazeRoboard: Gaze-communicative guide system in daily life on stuffed-toy robot with interactive display board. 1204-1209
  
• Choubeila Maaoui, Alain Pruski, Faiza Abdat:
  Emotion recognition for human-machine communication. 1210-1215
  
• Sonia Chernova, Manuela M. Veloso:
  Learning equivalent action choices from demonstration. 1216-1221
  
• Yasuhisa Hirata, Shinji Komatsuda, Kazuhiro Kosuge:
  Fall prevention control of passive intelligent walker based on human model. 1222-1228
  
• Matt Berlin, Cynthia Breazeal, Crystal Chao:
  Spatial scaffolding cues for interactive robot learning. 1229-1235
  

Aerial Robotics II

• Christian Bermes, Stefan Leutenegger, Samir Bouabdallah, Dario Schafroth, Roland Siegwart:
  New design of the steering mechanism for a mini coaxial helicopter. 1236-1241
  
• James F. Roberts, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano:
  Energy management for indoor hovering robots. 1242-1247
  
• Clark N. Taylor, Evan D. Andersen:
  An automatic system for creating geo-referenced mosaics from MAV video. 1248-1253
  
• Panagiotis Theodorakopoulos, Simon Lacroix:
  A strategy for tracking a ground target with a UAV. 1254-1259
  
• Veaceslav Arabagi, Metin Sitti:
  Simulation and analysis of a passive pitch reversal flapping wing mechanism for an aerial robotic platform. 1260-1265
  
• Franck Ruffier, Nicolas H. Franceschini:
  Aerial robot piloted in steep relief by optic flow sensors. 1266-1273
  

Autonomous Agents

• Petter Ögren:
  Improved predictability of reactive robot control using Control Lyapunov Functions. 1274-1279
  
• Ettore Ferranti, Niki Trigoni, Mark Levene:
  HybridExploration: A distributed approach to terrain exploration using mobile and fixed sensor nodes. 1280-1286
  
• Willi Richert, Oliver Niehorster, Markus Koch:
  Layered understanding for sporadic imitation in a multi-robot scenario. 1287-1292
  
• Joanne Walker, Myra Wilson:
  A performance sensitive hormone-inspired system for task distribution amongst evolving robots. 1293-1298
  
• Georgios Lidoris, Dirk Wollherr, Martin Buss:
  Bayesian state estimation and behavior selection for autonomous robotic exploration in dynamic environments. 1299-1306
  
• David Churchill, Andrew Vardy:
  Homing in scale space. 1307-1312
  

Cellular and Modular Robots II

• Ho Seok Ahn, Young Min Beak, In-Kyu Sa, Woo-Sung Kang, Jin Hee Na, Jin Young Choi:
  Design of reconfigurable heterogeneous modular architecture for service robots. 1313-1318
  
• Kazuya Suzuki, Tsunamichi Tsukidate, Takeshi Nakada, Masahiro Shimizu, Akio Ishiguro:
  Self-assembly through the local interaction between "embodied" nonlinear oscillators with simple motile function. 1319-1324
  
• Shuhei Miyashita, Flurin Casanova, Max Lungarella, Rolf Pfeifer:
  Peltier-based freeze-thaw connector for waterborne self-assembly systems. 1325-1330
  
• Feili Hou, Nadeesha Ranasinghe, Behnam Salemi, Wei-Min Shen:
  Wheeled locomotion for payload carrying with modular robot. 1331-1337
  
• Daniel J. Dewey, Michael P. Ashley-Rollman, Michael DeRosa, Seth Copen Goldstein, Todd C. Mowry, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa, Padmanabhan Pillai, Jason Campbell:
  Generalizing metamodules to simplify planning in modular robotic systems. 1338-1345
  
• Seung-kook Yun, Daniela Rus:
  Optimal distributed planning for self assembly of modular manipulators. 1346-1352
  

Localization with RFID, Sonars

• Philipp Vorst, Sebastian Schneegans, Bin Yang, Andreas Zell:
  Self-Localization with RFID snapshots in densely tagged environments. 1353-1358
  
• Hong-shik Kim, Jong-suk Choi, Minyoung Park:
  Indoor localization system using multi-modulation of ultrasonic sensors and digital compass. 1359-1364
  
• Phillip McKerrow:
  Acoustic flow. 1365-1370
  
• Yukihiko Ono, Ryosuke Takahashi, Takayuki Takahashi, Jeong Song-Hoe, Kazunori Ohno, Satoshi Tadokoro:
  Self-localization with ultrasonic sensor array. 1371-1378
  
• Travis Deyle, Charles C. Kemp, Matthew S. Reynolds:
  Probabilistic UHF RFID tag pose estimation with multiple antennas and a multipath RF propagation model. 1379-1384
  
• Kenri Kodaka, Haruhiko Niwa, Yoshihiro Sakamoto, Masaumi Otake, Yuki Kanemori, Shigeki Sugano:
  Pose estimation of a mobile robot on a lattice of RFID tags. 1385-1390
  

Distributed Robot Systems

• Ryusuke Fujisawa, Hikaru Imamura, Takashi Hashimoto, Fumitoshi Matsuno:
  Communication using pheromone field for multiple robots. 1391-1396
  
• Michael Rubenstein, Wei-Min Shen:
  A scalable and distributed approach for self-assembly and self-healing of a differentiated shape. 1397-1402
  
• Geunho Lee, Nak Young Chong:
  Self-configurable mobile robot swarms with hole repair capability. 1403-1408
  
• Gianluca Antonelli, Filippo Arrichiello, Stefano Chiaverini:
  Flocking for multi-robot systems via the Null-Space-based Behavioral control. 1409-1414
  
• Heiko Hamann, Heinz Wörn, Karl Crailsheim, Thomas Schmickl:
  Spatial macroscopic models of a bio-inspired robotic swarm algorithm. 1415-1420
  
• Chris A. C. Parker, Hong Zhang:
  Consensus-based task sequencing in decentralized multiple-robot systems using local communication. 1421-1426
  

Medical Robots and Systems I

• Kenji Kawashima, Kotaro Tadano, Ganesh Sankaranarayanan, Blake Hannaford:
  Model-based passivity control for bilateral teleoperation of a surgical robot with time delay. 1427-1432
  
• Yo Kobayashi, Akinori Onishi, Takeharu Hoshi, Kazuya Kawamura, Masakatsu G. Fujie:
  Modeling of conditions where a puncture occurs during needle insertion considering probability distribution. 1433-1440
  
• More Avraam, Mihaita Horodinca, Pierre Letier, André Preumont:
  Portable smart wrist rehabilitation device driven by rotational MR-fluid brake actuator for telemedecine applications. 1441-1446
  
• Laurence Nouaille, Natalie Smith-Guerin, Gérard Poisson:
  Modeling and geometrical validation of a tele-echography robot. 1447-1452
  
• Ahmed Ayadi, Bernard Bayle, Pierre Graebling, Jacques Gangloff:
  An image-guided robot for needle insertion in small animal. Accurate needle positioning using visual servoing. 1453-1458
  
• H. Hawkeye King, Thomas Low, Kevin Hufford, Timothy Broderick:
  Acceleration compensation for vehicle based telesurgery on earth or in space. 1459-1464
  

Mechanism Design

• Yoshinao Sodeyama, Tamaki Nishino, Yuta Namiki, Yuto Nakanishi, Ikuo Mizuuchi, Masayuki Inaba:
  The designs and motions of a shoulder structure with a spherical thorax, scapulas and collarbones for humanoid "Kojiro". 1465-1470
  
• Brett Hemes, Duc Fehr, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos:
  Motion primitives for a tumbling robot. 1471-1476
  
• Atsushi Yamada, Masamitsu Watari, Hiromi Mochiyama, Hideo Fujimoto:
  A robotic catapult based on the closed elastica with a high stiffness endpoint and its application to swimming tasks. 1477-1482
  
• P. Garrec, J. P. Friconneau, Y. Measson, Yann Perrot:
  ABLE, an innovative transparent exoskeleton for the upper-limb. 1483-1488
  
• Masataka Suzuki, Shinya Kitai, Shigeo Hirose:
  Advanced child unit of "Anchor Climber" using modified internally-balanced magnet. 1489-1494
  
• Delphine Keller, Yann Perrot, L. Gargiulo, J. P. Friconneau, V. Bruno, R. Le, B. Soler, M. Itchah, D. Ponsort, P. Chambaud, J. Bonnemason, S. Lamy, Y. Measson:
  Demonstration of an ITER relevant remote handling equipment for Tokamak close inspection. 1495-1500
  

Legged Robots I

• Michele Faragalli, Inna Sharf, Michael Trentini:
  Velocity control of a hybrid quadruped bounding robot. 1501-1506
  
• Heeseon Hwang, Youngil Youm:
  Dynamic crawl gait algorithm for quadruped robots. 1507-1512
  
• Gregory D. Wile, Kathryn A. Daltorio, Eric D. Diller, Luther R. Palmer, Stanislav N. Gorb, Roy E. Ritzmann, Roger D. Quinn:
  Screenbot: Walking inverted using distributed inward gripping. 1513-1518
  
• Rolf A. Luders, Dimi Apostolopoulos, David Wettergreen:
  Control strategies for a multi-legged hopping robot. 1519-1524
  
• Martin Görner, Thomas Wimböck, A. Baumann, Matthias Fuchs, Thomas Bahls, Markus Grebenstein, Christoph Borst, Jörg Butterfaß, Gerd Hirzinger:
  The DLR-Crawler: A testbed for actively compliant hexapod walking based on the fingers of DLR-Hand II. 1525-1531
  
• Gen Endo, Shigeo Hirose:
  Study on Roller-Walker - Adaptation of characteristics of the propulsion by a leg trajectory -. 1532-1537
  

Humanoids I

• Takeshi Mizumoto, Ryu Takeda, Kazuyoshi Yoshii, Kazunori Komatani, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno:
  A robot listens to music and counts its beats aloud by separating music from counting voice. 1538-1543
  
• Kensuke Harada, Mitsuharu Morisawa, Kanako Miura, Shinichiro Nakaoka, Kiyoshi Fujiwara, Kenji Kaneko, Shuuji Kajita:
  Kinodynamic gait planning for full-body humanoid robots. 1544-1550
  
• Kei Okada, Mitsuharu Kojima, Satoru Tokutsu, Yuto Mori, Toshiaki Maki, Masayuki Inaba:
  Task guided attention control and visual verification in tea serving by the daily assistive humanoid HRP2JSK. 1551-1557
  
• Shunichi Nozawa, Toshiaki Maki, Mitsuharu Kojima, Shigeru Kanzaki, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba:
  Wheelchair support by a humanoid through integrating environment recognition, whole-body control and human-interface behind the user. 1558-1563
  
• Mitsuharu Kojima, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba:
  Manipulation and recognition of objects incorporating joints by a humanoid robot for daily assistive tasks. 1564-1569
  
• Teppei Tsujita, Atsushi Konno, Shunsuke Komizunai, Yuki Nomura, Takuya Owa, Tomoya Myojin, Yasar Ayaz, Masaru Uchiyama:
  Analysis of nailing task motion for a humanoid robot. 1570-1575
  

Slam II

• Alexander Koenig, Jens Kessler, Horst-Michael Gross:
  A graph matching technique for an appearance-based, visual SLAM-approach using Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filters. 1576-1581
  
• Khoshnam Shojaie, Alireza Mohammad Shahri:
  Iterated Unscented SLAM algorithm for navigation of an autonomous mobile robot. 1582-1587
  
• Fu-Sheng Huang, Kai-Tai Song:
  Vision SLAM using omni-directional visual scan matching. 1588-1593
  
• Shu Yun Chung, Han Pang Huang:
  Simultaneous topological map prediction and moving object trajectory prediction in unknown environments. 1594-1599
  
• Luis Pedraza, Diego Rodríguez-Losada, Pablo San Segundo, Fernando Matía:
  Building maps of large environments using splines and geometric analysis. 1600-1605
  
• Cyrille Berger, Simon Lacroix:
  Using planar facets for stereovision SLAM. 1606-1611
  

Search and Rescue Robots I

• Michele Guarnieri, Inoh Takao, Paulo Debenest, Kensuke Takita, Edwardo F. Fukushima, Shigeo Hirose:
  HELIOS IX tracked vehicle for urban search and rescue operations: Mechanical design and first tests. 1612-1617
  
• Kouki Watanabe, Masami Iwase, Shoshiro Hatakeyama, Takehiko Maruyama:
  Control strategy for a snake-like robot based on constraint force and verification by experiment. 1618-1623
  
• Hiroaki F. Fukushima, Motoyasu Tanaka, Tetsushi Kamegawa, Fumitoshi Matsuno:
  Path-tracking control of a snake-like robot using screw drive mechanism. 1624-1629
  
• Hayato Omori, Takeshi Hayakawa, Taro Nakamura:
  Locomotion and turning patterns of a peristaltic crawling earthworm robot composed of flexible units. 1630-1635
  
• Alexander S. Boxerbaum, Julio Oro, Gilbert Peterson, Roger D. Quinn:
  The latest generation Whegs^TM robot features a passive-compliant body joint. 1636-1641
  
• Tetsuya Kinugasa, Yuta Otani, Takafumi Haji, Koji Yoshida, Koichi Osuka, Hisanori Amano:
  A proposal of flexible mono-tread mobile track - a new mobile mechanism using one track and spine-like structure - . 1642-1647
  

Nonholonomic Motion Planning

• Andrea Cherubini, François Chaumette, Giuseppe Oriolo:
  A position-based visual servoing scheme for following paths with nonholonomic mobile robots. 1648-1654
  
• Romain Pepy, Michel Kieffer, Eric Walter:
  Reliable robust path planner. 1655-1660
  
• Ioan A. Sucan, Jonathan F. Kruse, Mark Yim, Lydia E. Kavraki:
  Kinodynamic motion planning with hardware demonstrations. 1661-1666
  
• Konstantinos I. Tsianos, Lydia E. Kavraki:
  Replanning: A powerful planning strategy for hard kinodynamic problems. 1667-1672
  
• Paolo Salaris, Felipe A. W. Belo, Daniele Fontanelli, Luca Greco, Antonio Bicchi:
  Optimal paths in a constrained image plane for purely image-based parking. 1673-1680
  
• Yoshiaki Kuwata, Gaston A. Fiore, Justin Teo, Emilio Frazzoli, Jonathan P. How:
  Motion planning for urban driving using RRT. 1681-1686
  

Audition I

• Yu Takahashi, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano:
  Real-time implementation of blind spatial subtraction array for hands-free robot spoken dialogue system. 1687-1692
  
• Jounghoon Beh, Taekjin Lee, Inho Lee, Hyunsoo Kim, Sungjoo Ahn, Hanseok Ko:
  Combining acoustic echo cancellation and adaptive beamforming for achieving robust speech interface in mobile robot. 1693-1698
  
• Martin Heckmann, Claudius Gläser, Miguel Vaz, Tobias Rodemann, Frank Joublin, Christian Goerick:
  Listen to the parrot: Demonstrating the quality of online pitch and formant extraction via feature-based resynthesis. 1699-1704
  
• Hyun-Don Kim, Jinsung Kim, Kazunori Komatani, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno:
  Target speech detection and separation for humanoid robots in sparse dialogue with noisy home environments. 1705-1711
  
• Hisashi Kanda, Tetsuya Ogata, Kazunori Komatani, Hiroshi G. Okuno:
  Segmenting acoustic signal with articulatory movement using Recurrent Neural Network for phoneme acquisition. 1712-1717
  
• Ryu Takeda, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Kazunori Komatani, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno:
  Barge-in-able robot audition based on ICA and missing feature theory under semi-blind situation. 1718-1723
  

Field Robots I

• Se-gon Roh, Do Wan Kim, Jung-Sub Lee, Hyungpil Moon, Hyouk Ryeol Choi:
  Modularized in-pipe robot capable of selective navigation Inside of pipelines. 1724-1729
  
• Kiyoshi Tsukahara, Yorihiko Tanaka, Yingxin He, Ryosuke Hori, Kunihiro Mano, Akihiro Hibino, Yoshikazu Taru, Kyouichi Tatsuno:
  An experimental robot system for power distribution line maintenance robots - System architecture and bolt insertion experiment -. 1730-1736
  
• Paulo Debenest, Michele Guarnieri, Kensuke Takita, Edwardo F. Fukushima, Shigeo Hirose, Kiyoshi Tamura, Akihiro Kimura, Hiroshi Kubokawa, Narumi Iwama, Fuminori Shiga:
  Sensor-Arm - robotic manipulator for preventive maintenance and inspection of high-voltage transmission lines. 1737-1744
  
• Per Henrik Borgstrom, Amarjeet Singh, Brett L. Jordan, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Maxim A. Batalin, William J. Kaiser:
  Energy based path planning for a novel cabled robotic system. 1745-1751
  
• Christopher R. Baker, John M. Dolan:
  Traffic interaction in the urban challenge: Putting boss on its best behavior. 1752-1758
  
• Christophe Cariou, Roland Lenain, Benoit Thuilot, Philippe Martinet:
  Adaptive control of four-wheel-steering off-road mobile robots: Application to path tracking and heading control in presence of sliding. 1759-1764
  

Grasping I

• Kai Huebner, Danica Kragic:
  Selection of robot pre-grasps using box-based shape approximation. 1765-1770
  
• Ricardo Prado, Raúl Suárez:
  Synthesis of grasps with four contact points including at least three force-closure grasps of three contact points. 1771-1776
  
• Mostafa Vahedi, A. Frank van der Stappen:
  Caging convex polygons with three fingers. 1777-1783
  
• Amani Ben Sghaier, Lotfi Ben Romdhane, Fathi Ben Ouezdou:
  A biomechanical analysis of the healthy and the pathological index finger during pinch function. 1784-1789
  
• Chia-Hung Dylan Tsai, Imin Kao, Naoki Sakamoto, Mitsuru Higashimori, Makoto Kaneko:
  Applying viscoelastic contact modeling to grasping task: An experimental case study. 1790-1795
  
• Yan-Bin Jia, Jiang Tian:
  Deformations of general parametric shells: Computation and robot experiment. 1796-1803
  

Intelligent Vehicles & Intelligent Transportation Systems

• Jun-ichi Meguro, Taishi Murata, Jun-ichi Takiguchi, Yoshiharu Amano, Takumi Hashizume:
  GPS accuracy improvement by satellite selection using omnidirectional infrared camera. 1804-1810
  
• Teck Chew Ng, Martin David Adams, Javier Ibanez Guzman:
  A relative information metric for vehicle following systems. 1811-1816
  
• Jonathan Courbon, Youcef Mezouar, Laurent Lequievre, Laurent Eck:
  Navigation of urban vehicle: An efficient visual memory management for large scale environments. 1817-1822
  
• Luciano Spinello, Rudolph Triebel, Roland Siegwart:
  Multimodal detection and tracking of pedestrians in urban environments with explicit ground plane extraction. 1823-1829
  
• Young-Woo Seo, Chris Urmson:
  A perception mechanism for supporting autonomous intersection handling in urban driving. 1830-1835
  
• Pedro Santana, Paulo Santos, Luís Correia, José Barata:
  Cross-country obstacle detection: Space-variant resolution and outliers removal. 1836-1841
  

Control Architectures, Programming

• David Erickson, Blake Beckman, Tie Peng:
  Promoting interoperability: The libdrdc data standards library. 1842-1847
  
• Eric Beaudry, Dominic Létourneau, Froduald Kabanza, François Michaud:
  Reactive planning as a motivational source in a behavior-based architecture. 1848-1853
  
• Geoffrey Biggs, Bruce A. MacDonald:
  Evaluating a reactive semantics for robotics. 1854-1859
  
• Loic Matthey, Ludovic Righetti, Auke Jan Ijspeert:
  Experimental study of limit cycle and chaotic controllers for the locomotion of centipede robots. 1860-1865
  
• Stathis Kasderidis:
  An executive system for cognitive agents. 1866-1871
  
• Daniele Calisi, Andrea Censi, Luca Iocchi, Daniele Nardi:
  OpenRDK: A modular framework for robotic software development. 1872-1877
  

Distributed Robot and Multiple Robot Systems

• Stefano Carpin:
  Merging maps via Hough transform. 1878-1883
  
• Rui Rocha, João Filipe Ferreira, Jorge Dias:
  Multi-robot complete exploration using hill climbing and topological recovery. 1884-1889
  
• Gorkem Erinc, Gianluigi Pillonetto, Stefano Carpin:
  Online estimation of variance parameters: Experimental results with applications to localization. 1890-1895
  
• Daniele Caltabiano, Davide Brugali, Roberto Sannino, Davide Ghezzi, Luca Spelgatti:
  A real-time communication protocol for interconnecting robotic smart devices. 1896-1901
  
• Yi Li, Kamal Gupta:
  Real-time motion planning of multiple formations in virtual environments: Flexible virtual structures and continuum model. 1902-1907
  
• Md. Jayedur Rashid, Mathias Broxvall, Alessandro Saffiotti:
  Digital representation of everyday objects in a robot ecology via proxies. 1908-1914
  

Medical Robots and Systems II

• Zoltan Nagy, Raymond Oung, Jake J. Abbott, Bradley J. Nelson:
  Experimental investigation of magnetic self-assembly for swallowable modular robots. 1915-1920
  
• Gorkem Dogangil, Olgaç Ergeneman, Jake J. Abbott, Salvador Pane, Heike Hall, Simon Muntwyler, Bradley J. Nelson:
  Toward targeted retinal drug delivery with wireless magnetic microrobots. 1921-1926
  
• Namkon Lee, Norihiro Kamamichi, Hongyi Li, Katsuhisa Furuta:
  Control system design and experimental verification of Capsubot. 1927-1932
  
• Nathanaël Jarrassé, J. Robertson, P. Garrec, Jamie Paik, Viviane Pasqui, Yann Perrot, A. Roby-Brami, D. Wang, Guillaume Morel:
  Design and acceptability assessment of a new reversible orthosis. 1933-1939
  
• Erik D. Engeberg, Sanford G. Meek:
  Adaptive object slip prevention for prosthetic hands through proportional-derivative shear force feedback. 1940-1945
  
• Yili Fu, Peng Wang, Shuguo Wang:
  Development of a multi-DOF exoskeleton based machine for injured fingers. 1946-1951
  

Parallel Robots I

• Sébastien Briot, Ilian A. Bonev:
  Singularity analysis of zero-torsion parallel mechanisms. 1952-1957
  
• Mohammad M. Aref, Hamid D. Taghirad:
  Geometrical workspace analysis of a cable-driven redundant parallel manipulator: KNTU CDRPM. 1958-1963
  
• Yuanqing Wu, Zexiang Li, Han Ding, Yunjiang Lou:
  Quotient kinematics machines: Concept, analysis and synthesis. 1964-1969
  
• David Corbel, Olivier Company, François Pierrot:
  Optimal design of a 6-dof parallel measurement mechanism integrated in a 3-dof parallel machine-tool. 1970-1976
  
• Yawei Yang, John F. O'Brien:
  A sequential method for the singularity free workspace design of a planar 3-arm parallel robot. 1977-1982
  

Wheeled Robots

• Corrado Guarino Lo Bianco, Oscar Gerelli:
  An alternative model for the evaluation of tyre shear forces under steady-state conditions. 1983-1989
  
• Young Kouk Song, Chang Min Lee, Igmo Koo, Duc Trong Tran, Hyungpil Moon, Hyouk Ryeol Choi:
  Development of wall climbing robotic system for inspection purpose. 1990-1995
  
• Shunsuke Amagai, Taichi Tsuji, Jabes Samuel, Hisashi Osumi:
  Control of omni-directional mobile platform with four driving wheels using torque redundancy. 1996-2002
  
• Jared D. Terry, Mark A. Minor:
  Traction estimation and control for Mobile Robots using the wheel slip velocity. 2003-2009
  
• Kojiro Iizuka, Yasuharu Kunii, Takashi Kubota:
  Study on wheeled forms of lunar robots for traversing soft terrain. 2010-2015
  

Humanoids II

• Erdem Erdemir, Carl B. Frankel, Kazuhiko Kawamura, Stephen M. Gordon, Sean Thornton, Baris Ulutas:
  Towards a cognitive robot that uses internal rehearsal to learn affordance relations. 2016-2021
  
• David B. Grimes, Rajesh P. N. Rao:
  Learning nonparametric policies by imitation. 2022-2028
  
• Yuka Ariki, Jun Morimoto, Sang-Ho Hyon:
  Behavior recognition with ground reaction force estimation and its application to imitation learning. 2029-2034
  
• Gi Hyun Lim, Il Hong Suh:
  Weighted Action-coupled Semantic Network (wASN) for robot intelligence. 2035-2040
  
• Mai Hikita, Sawa Fuke, Masaki Ogino, Minoru Asada:
  Cross-modal body representation based on visual attention by saliency. 2041-2046
  
• Junichi Urata, Toshinori Hirose, Yuta Namiki, Yuto Nakanishi, Ikuo Mizuuchi, Masayuki Inaba:
  Thermal control of electrical motors for high-power humanoid robots. 2047-2052
  

Slam III

• Brian Williams, Mark Cummins, José Neira, Paul M. Newman, Ian D. Reid, Juan D. Tardós:
  An image-to-map loop closing method for monocular SLAM. 2053-2059
  
• Martin P. Parsley, Simon J. Julier:
  The Common State Filter for SLAM. 2060-2065
  
• Martin P. Parsley, Simon J. Julier:
  Avoiding negative depth in inverse depth bearing-only SLAM. 2066-2071
  
• Weizhen Zhou, Jaime Valls Miró, Gamini Dissanayake:
  Information-driven 6D SLAM based on ranging vision. 2072-2077
  
• Christof Schröter, Horst-Michael Gross:
  A sensor-independent approach to RBPF SLAM - Map Match SLAM applied to visual mapping. 2078-2083
  
• Chanki Kim, Wan Kyun Chung:
  Delayed resampling in a Rao-Blackwellized particle filtering SLAM for consistent loop closures. 2084-2090
  

Search and Rescue Robots II

• Kensuke Kurose, Satoshi Saga, Shogo Okamoto, Kazunori Ohno, Satoshi Tadokoro:
  Designing of online simulation environment for development control algorithms for robots operating in rough terrains. 2091-2096
  
• Naoki Midorikawa, Kazunori Ohno, Satoshi Saga, Satoshi Tadokoro:
  Development of on-line simulation system for multi camera based wide field of view display. 2097-2102
  
• Yashodhan Nevatia, Todor Stoyanov, Ravi Rathnam, Max Pfingsthorn, Stefan Markov, Rares Ambrus, Andreas Birk:
  Augmented autonomy: Improving human-robot team performance in Urban search and rescue. 2103-2108
  
• Thumatty R. Vishnu Arun Kumar, Robert C. Richardson:
  Tether monitoring techniques for environment monitoring, tether following and localization of autonomous mobile robots. 2109-2114
  
• Zhe Zhang, Goldie Nejat:
  Robot-assisted intelligent 3D mapping of unknown cluttered search and rescue environments. 2115-2120
  
• Prasanna Velagapudi, Paul Scerri, Katia P. Sycara, Huadong Wang, Michael Lewis, Jijun Wang:
  Scaling effects in multi-robot control. 2121-2126
  

Path Planning for Manipulators

• Niko Vahrenkamp, Christian Scheurer, Tamim Asfour, James J. Kuffner, Rüdiger Dillmann:
  Adaptive motion planning for humanoid robots. 2127-2132
  
• Hong Liu, Ding Ding, Weiwei Wan, Hongbin Zha:
  Predictive model for path planning by using k-near dynamic bridge builder and Inner Parzen Window. 2133-2138
  
• Xanthi Papageorgiou, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos:
  Motion tasks for robot manipulators subject to joint velocity constraints. 2139-2144
  
• Leonard Jaillet, Juan Cortés, Thierry Siméon:
  Transition-based RRT for path planning in continuous cost spaces. 2145-2150
  
• Matthew A. Baumann, Donna C. Dupuis, Simon Léonard, Elizabeth A. Croft, James J. Little:
  Occlusion-free path planning with a probabilistic roadmap. 2151-2156
  
• Luigi Freda, Giuseppe Oriolo, Francesco Vecchioli:
  Sensor-based Exploration for general robotic systems. 2157-2164
  

Audition II

• Hirofumi Nakajima, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Yuji Hasegawa, Hiroshi Tsujino:
  High performance sound source separation adaptable to environmental changes for robot audition. 2165-2171
  
• Jani Even, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano:
  An improved permutation solver for blind signal separation based front-ends in robot audition. 2172-2177
  
• Yoko Sasaki, Satoshi Kagami, Hiroshi Mizoguchi, Tadashi Enomoto:
  A predefined command recognition system using a ceiling microphone array in noisy housing environments. 2178-2184
  
• Tobias Rodemann, Gokhan Ince, Frank Joublin, Christian Goerick:
  Using binaural and spectral cues for azimuth and elevation localization. 2185-2190
  
• Jindong Liu, Harry R. Erwin, Stefan Wermter:
  Mobile robot broadband sound localisation using a biologically inspired spiking neural network. 2191-2196
  
• Hyun-Don Kim, Kazunori Komatani, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno:
  Design and evaluation of two-channel-based sound source localization over entire azimuth range for moving talkers. 2197-2203
  

Field Robots II

• Christian Weiss, Hashem Tamimi, Andreas Zell:
  A combination of vision- and vibration-based terrain classification. 2204-2209
  
• Marco Trincavelli, Matteo Reggente, Silvia Coradeschi, Amy Loutfi, Hiroshi Ishida, Achim J. Lilienthal:
  Towards environmental monitoring with mobile robots. 2210-2215
  
• Felix Duvallet, Ashley D. Tews:
  WiFi position estimation in industrial environments using Gaussian processes. 2216-2221
  
• Johan Larsson, Mathias Broxvall, Alessandro Saffiotti:
  Laser based intersection detection for reactive navigation in an underground mine. 2222-2227
  
• Genya Ishigami, Keiji Nagatani, Kazuya Yoshida:
  Trafficability analysis for lunar/planetary exploration rover using Thrust-Cornering Characteristic Diagram. 2228-2233
  
• Gaurav Kewlani, Karl Iagnemma:
  A stochastic response surface approach to statistical prediction of mobile robot mobility. 2234-2239
  

Grasping II

• Johannes Speth, Antonio Morales, Pedro J. Sanz:
  Vision-based grasp planning of 3D objects by extending 2D contour based algorithms. 2240-2245
  
• Salvador Cobos, Manuel Ferre, Miguel Angel Sánchez Urán, Javier Ortego, César Peña:
  Efficient human hand kinematics for manipulation tasks. 2246-2251
  
• Noel Curtis, Jing Xiao:
  Efficient and effective grasping of novel objects through learning and adapting a knowledge base. 2252-2257
  
• Maximo A. Roa, Raúl Suárez, Jan Rosell:
  Grasp space generation using sampling and computation of independent regions. 2258-2263
  
• Tetsuyou Watanabe:
  Joint torque-velocity pair based manipulability for grasping system. 2264-2270
  
• Matei T. Ciocarlie, Samuel T. Clanton, M. Chance Spalding, Peter K. Allen:
  Biomimetic grasp planning for cortical control of a robotic hand. 2271-2276
  

Animation and Simulation

• Ryo Kikuuwe, Motoji Yamamoto:
  A modular software architecture for simulating mechanical systems involving Coulomb friction integrable by the Runge-Kutta method. 2277-2282
  
• Jacopo Aleotti, Stefano Caselli, Pier Giovanni Bracchi, Stefano Gosi:
  Physically-based simulation of the spine in dog walking. 2283-2288
  
• Jeff Craighead, Rodrigo Gutierrez, Jennifer L. Burke, Robin R. Murphy:
  Validating the Search and Rescue Game Environment as a robot simulator by performing a simulated anomaly detection task. 2289-2295
  
• Hamid Ladjal, Jean-Luc Hanus, Antoine Ferreira:
  Interactive cell injection simulation based on 3D biomechanical tensegrity model. 2296-2302
  
• Ken'ichiro Nagasaka, Atsushi Miyamoto, Masakuni Nagano, Hirokazu Shirado, Tetsuharu Fukushima, Masahiro Fujita:
  Motion control of a virtual humanoid that can perform real physical interactions with a human. 2303-2310
  
• A. D. Perkins, M. E. Abdallah, P. Mitiguy, Kenneth J. Waldron:
  A unified method for multi-body systems subject to stick-slip friction and intermittent contact. 2311-2316
  

Networked, Distributed and Teleoperated Robots

• Kentaro Takemura, Yoshio Matsumoto, Tsukasa Ogasawara:
  Estimation of group attention for automated camerawork. 2317-2322
  
• Andreas Kolling, Stefano Carpin:
  Extracting surveillance graphs from robot maps. 2323-2328