International Journal of Robotic Research, Volume 28, 2009

Volume 28, Number 1, January 2009

• Yang Gu, Manuela M. Veloso:
  Effective Multi-Model Motion Tracking using Action Models. 3-19
  
• Peter Biber, Tom Duckett:
  Experimental Analysis of Sample-Based Maps for Long-Term SLAM. 20-33
  
• Emmanuel Seignez, M. Kieffer, Alain Lambert, E. Walter, T. Maurin:
  Real-time Bounded-error State Estimation for Vehicle Tracking. 34-48
  
• A. González-Cantos, Aníbal Ollero:
  Backing-Up Maneuvers of Autonomous Tractor-Trailer Vehicles using the Qualitative Theory of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems. 49-65
  
• Hamid Reza Chitsaz, Steven M. LaValle, Devin J. Balkcom, Matthew T. Mason:
  Minimum Wheel-Rotation Paths for Differential-Drive Mobile Robots. 66-80
  
• Kan Yoneda, Yusuke Ota, Shigeo Hirose:
  High-grip Stair Climber with Powder-filled Belts. 81-89
  
• Bram Vanderborght, Ronald Van Ham, Dirk Lefeber, Thomas Sugar, Kevin W. Hollander:
  Comparison of Mechanical Design and Energy Consumption of Adaptable, Passive-compliant Actuators. 90-103
  
• Stéphane Cambon, Rachid Alami, Fabien Gravot:
  A Hybrid Approach to Intricate Motion, Manipulation and Task Planning. 104-126
  
• Patricia Ben-Horin, Moshe Shoham:
  Application of Grassmann - Cayley Algebra to Geometrical Interpretation of Parallel Robot Singularities. 127-141
  

Volume 28, Number 2, February 2009

• Christian Laugier, Agostino Martinelli, Cédric Pradalier, Roland Siegwart: Editorial: Sixth International Conference on Field and Service Robotics. 147-148
• Davide Scaramuzza, Roland Siegwart, Agostino Martinelli:
  A Robust Descriptor for Tracking Vertical Lines in Omnidirectional Images and Its Use in Mobile Robotics. 149-171
  
• John Mullane, Martin David Adams, Wijerupage Sardha Wijesoma:
  Robotic Mapping Using Measurement Likelihood Filtering. 172-190
  
• Slawomir Grzonka, Christian Plagemann, Giorgio Grisetti, Wolfram Burgard:
  Look-ahead Proposals for Robust Grid-based SLAM with Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filters. 191-200
  
• Geoffrey Hollinger, Sanjiv Singh, Joseph Djugash, Athanasios Kehagias:
  Efficient Multi-robot Search for a Moving Target. 201-219
  
• Sylvain Joyeux, Rachid Alami, Simon Lacroix, Roland Philippsen:
  A Plan Manager for Multi-robot Systems. 220-240
  
• Bram Vanderborght, Dirk Lefeber: Editorial: Special Issue on the Ninth International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots (CLAWAR 2006). 243-244
• O. Höhn, W. Gerth:
  Probabilistic Balance Monitoring for Bipedal Robots. 245-256
  
• André Seyfarth, Fumiya Iida, R. Tausch, M. Stelzer, Oskar von Stryk, A. Karguth:
  Towards Bipedal Jogging as a Natural Result of Optimizing Walking Speed for Passively Compliant Three-Segmented Legs. 257-265
  
• Michaël Van Damme, Bram Vanderborght, Björn Verrelst, Ronald Van Ham, Frank Daerden, Dirk Lefeber:
  Proxy-based Sliding Mode Control of a Planar Pneumatic Manipulator. 266-284
  
• Kathryn A. Daltorio, Terence E. Wei, Andrew D. Horchler, Lori Southard, Gregory D. Wile, Roger D. Quinn, Stanislav N. Gorb, Roy E. Ritzmann:
  Mini-Whegs TM Climbs Steep Surfaces Using Insect-inspired Attachment Mechanisms. 285-302
  
• T. Hemker, M. Stelzer, Oskar von Stryk, Hajime Sakamoto:
  Efficient Walking Speed Optimization of a Humanoid Robot. 303-314
  
• Junichi Ido, Yoshinao Shimizu, Yoshio Matsumoto, Tsukasa Ogasawara:
  Indoor Navigation for a Humanoid Robot Using a View Sequence. 315-325
  

Volume 28, Number 3, March 2009

• Alan M. Zhang, Lindsay Kleeman:
  Robust Appearance Based Visual Route Following for Navigation in Large-scale Outdoor Environments. 331-356
  
• Mac Schwager, Daniela Rus, Jean-Jacques E. Slotine:
  Decentralized, Adaptive Coverage Control for Networked Robots. 357-375
  
• Ali Shahdi, Shahin Sirouspour:
  Model-based Decentralized Control of Time-delay Teleoperation Systems. 376-394
  
• Flavien Paccot, Nicolas Andreff, Philippe Martinet:
  A Review on the Dynamic Control of Parallel Kinematic Machines: Theory and Experiments. 395-416
  

Volume 28, Number 4, April 2009

• Constantinos Mavroidis, Antoine Ferreira: Editorial: Special Issue on Current State of the Art and Future Challenges in Nanorobotics. 419-420
• Gaurav Sharma, Constantinos Mavroidis, Kaushal Rege, Martin L. Yarmush, David Budil:
  Computational Studies of a Protein-based Nanoactuator for Nanogripping Applications. 421-435
  
• Mustapha Hamdi, Antoine Ferreira:
  Multiscale Design and Modeling of Protein-based Nanomechanisms for Nanorobotics. 436-449
  
• Christopher Madden, Peter Bohnenkamp, Kazem Kazerounian, Horea T. Ilies:
  Residue Level Three-dimensional Workspace Maps for Conformational Trajectory Planning of Proteins. 450-463
  
• Reza Saeidpourazar, Nader Jalili:
  Towards Microcantilever-based Force Sensing and Manipulation: Modeling, Control Development and Implementation. 464-483
  
• Cagdas D. Onal, Metin Sitti:
  A Scaled Bilateral Control System for Experimental One-dimensional Teleoperated Nanomanipulation. 484-497
  
• Bradley Kratochvil, Lixin Dong, Bradley J. Nelson:
  Real-time Rigid-body Visual Tracking in a Scanning Electron Microscope. 498-511
  
• Aristides A. G. Requicha, Dan Arbuckle, Babak Mokaberi, Jaehong Yun:
  Algorithms and Software for Nanomanipulation with Atomic Force Microscopes. 512-522
  
• King Wai Chiu Lai, Ning Xi, Carmen Kar Man Fung, Jiangbo Zhang, Hongzhi Chen, Yilun Luo, Uchechukwu C. Wejinya:
  Automated Nanomanufacturing System to Assemble Carbon Nanotube Based Devices. 523-536
  
• Toshio Fukuda, Masahiro Nakajima, Pou Liu, Haitham ElShimy:
  Nanofabrication, Nanoinstrumentation and Nanoassembly by Nanorobotic Manipulation. 537-547
  
• Robert A. Freitas Jr.:
  Meeting the Challenge of Building Diamondoid Medical Nanorobots. 548-557
  
• Adriano Cavalcanti, Bijan Shirinzadeh, Toshio Fukuda, Seiichi Ikeda:
  Nanorobot for Brain Aneurysm. 558-570
  
• Sylvain Martel, Mahmood Mohammadi, Ouajdi Felfoul, Zhao Lu, Pierre Pouponneau:
  Flagellated Magnetotactic Bacteria as Controlled MRI-trackable Propulsion and Steering Systems for Medical Nanorobots Operating in the Human Microvasculature. 571-582
  

Volume 28, Number 5, May 2009

• Paul Newman, Peter Corke: Editorial: Data Papers - Peer Reviewed Publication of High Quality Data Sets. 587
• Andrzej Pronobis, Barbara Caputo:
  COLD: The CoSy Localization Database. 588-594
  
• Mike Smith, Ian Baldwin, Winston Churchill, Rohan Paul, Paul Newman:
  The New College Vision and Laser Data Set. 595-599
  
• Stephen R. Lindemann, Steven M. LaValle:
  Simple and Efficient Algorithms for Computing Smooth, Collision-free Feedback Laws Over Given Cell Decompositions. 600-621
  
• Katsu Yamane, Yoshihiko Nakamura:
  Comparative Study on Serial and Parallel Forward Dynamics Algorithms for Kinematic Chains. 622-629
  
• Philip Fong:
  Sensing, Acquisition, and Interactive Playback of Data-based Models for Elastic Deformable Objects. 630-655
  
• Cynthia Breazeal, Jesse Gray, Matt Berlin:
  An Embodied Cognition Approach to Mindreading Skills for Socially Intelligent Robots. 656-680
  

Volume 28, Number 6, June 2009

• Oussama Khatib, Vijay Kumar, Daniela Rus: Special Issue on the Tenth International Symposium on Experimental Robotics. 683-684
• Guilherme A. S. Pereira, Luciano C. A. Pimenta, Alexandre R. Fonseca, Leonardo de Q. Corrêa, Renato C. Mesquita, Luiz Chaimowicz, Daniel S. C. de Almeida, Mario Fernando Montenegro Campos:
  Robot Navigation in Multi-terrain Outdoor Environments. 685-700
  
• Junaed Sattar, Philippe Giguère, Gregory Dudek:
  Sensor-based Behavior Control for an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle. 701-713
  
• Alexander Bahr, John J. Leonard, Maurice F. Fallon:
  Cooperative Localization for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles. 714-728
  
• Koichi Nishiwaki, Satoshi Kagami:
  Online Walking Control System for Humanoids with Short Cycle Pattern Generation. 729-742
  
• Ethan Stump, Vijay Kumar, Ben Grocholsky, Pedro M. Shiroma:
  Control for Localization of Targets using Range-only Sensors. 743-757
  
• Jimmy Sastra, Sachin Chitta, Mark Yim:
  Dynamic Rolling for a Modular Loop Robot. 758-773
  
• Luke Fletcher, Alexander Zelinsky:
  Driver Inattention Detection based on Eye Gaze - Road Event Correlation. 774-801
  
• Daniele Fontanelli, Antonio Danesi, Felipe A. W. Belo, Paolo Salaris, Antonio Bicchi:
  Visual Servoing in the Large. 802-814
  
• Matthew Dunbabin, Peter Corke, Iuliu Vasilescu, Daniela Rus:
  Experiments with Cooperative Control of Underwater Robots. 815-833
  
• François Conti, Oussama Khatib:
  A New Actuation Approach for Haptic Interface Design. 834-848
  

Volume 28, Number 7, July 2009

• Matei T. Ciocarlie, Peter K. Allen:
  Hand Posture Subspaces for Dexterous Robotic Grasping. 851-867
  
• Mark Bedillion, William C. Messner:
  Control for Actuator Arrays. 868-882
  
• Farhad Aghili, Mehrzad Namvar:
  Scaling Inertia Properties of a Manipulator Payload for 0-g Emulation of Spacecraft. 883-894
  
• Emmanuel Nuno, Luis Basañez, Romeo Ortega, Mark W. Spong:
  Position Tracking for Non-linear Teleoperators with Variable Time Delay. 895-910
  
• Antonio C. Leite, Fernando C. Lizarralde, Liu Hsu:
  Hybrid Adaptive Vision - Force Control for Robot Manipulators Interacting with Unknown Surfaces. 911-926
  

Volume 28, Number 8, August 2009

• Jeff Trinkle, Shinichi Hirai: Editorial: Selected Papers from Robotics: Science and Systems 2008. 931-932
• Maxim Likhachev, Dave Ferguson:
  Planning Long Dynamically Feasible Maneuvers for Autonomous Vehicles. 933-945
  
• Stanislav Funiak, Padmanabhan Pillai, Michael P. Ashley-Rollman, Jason Campbell, Seth Copen Goldstein:
  Distributed Localization of Modular Robot Ensembles. 946-961
  
• Nathan Michael, Vijay Kumar:
  Planning and Control of Ensembles of Robots with Non-holonomic Constraints. 962-975
  
• Alexander Thomas, Vittorio Ferrari, Bastian Leibe, Tinne Tuytelaars, Luc J. Van Gool:
  Using Multi-view Recognition and Meta-data Annotation to Guide a Robot's Attention. 976-998
  
• Jared Glover, Daniela Rus, Nicholas Roy:
  Probabilistic Models of Object Geometry with Application to Grasping. 999-1019
  
• Thomas H. Vose, Paul Umbanhowar, Kevin M. Lynch:
  Friction-Induced Velocity Fields for Point Parts Sliding on a Rigid Oscillated Plate. 1020-1039
  
• Katie Byl, Russ Tedrake:
  Metastable Walking Machines. 1040-1064
  
• Xinyu Liu, Keekyoung Kim, Yong Zhang, Yu Sun:
  Nanonewton Force Sensing and Control in Microrobotic Cell Manipulation. 1065-1076
  
• Chytra Pawashe, Steven Floyd, Metin Sitti:
  Modeling and Experimental Characterization of an Untethered Magnetic Micro-Robot. 1077-1094
  

Volume 28, Number 9, September 2009

• Jaydev P. Desai, Nicholas Ayache: Editorial: Special Issue on Medical Robotics. 1099-1100
• Jagadeesan Jayender, Rajnikant V. Patel, S. Nikumb:
  Robot-assisted Active Catheter Insertion: Algorithms and Experiments. 1101-1117
  
• Ana Luisa Trejos, Jagadeesan Jayender, M. T. Perri, Michael D. Naish, Rajnikant V. Patel, Richard Malthaner:
  Robot-assisted Tactile Sensing for Minimally Invasive Tumor Localization. 1118-1133
  
• Nabil Simaan, Kai Xu, Wei Wei, Ankur Kapoor, Peter Kazanzides, Russell H. Taylor, Paul Flint:
  Design and Integration of a Telerobotic System for Minimally Invasive Surgery of the Throat. 1134-1153
  
• Olivier Piccin, Laurent Barbé, Bernard Bayle, Michel de Mathelin, Afshin Gangi:
  A Force Feedback Teleoperated Needle Insertion Device for Percutaneous Procedures. 1154-1168
  
• Sylvain Martel, Ouajdi Felfoul, Jean-Baptiste Mathieu, Arnaud Chanu, Samer Tamaz, Mahmood Mohammadi, Martin Mankiewicz, Nasr Tabatabaei:
  MRI-based Medical Nanorobotic Platform for the Control of Magnetic Nanoparticles and Flagellated Bacteria for Target Interventions in Human Capillaries. 1169-1182
  
• Mitchell J. H. Lum, Diana C. W. Friedman, Ganesh Sankaranarayanan, Hawkeye H. I. King, Kenneth Fodero, Rainer Leuschke, Blake Hannaford, Jacob Rosen, Mika N. Sinanan:
  The RAVEN: Design and Validation of a Telesurgery System. 1183-1197
  
• Peter J. Berkelman, Ji Ma:
  A Compact Modular Teleoperated Robotic System for Laparoscopic Surgery. 1198-1215
  
• J. A. Saglia, Nikolaos G. Tsagarakis, J. S. Dai, Darwin G. Caldwell:
  A High-performance Redundantly Actuated Parallel Mechanism for Ankle Rehabilitation. 1216-1227
  
• Hiroyuki Ishii, Hiroki Koga, Yuichi Obokawa, Jorge Solis, Atsuo Takanishi, Akitoshi Katsumata:
  Development and Experimental Evaluation of Oral Rehabilitation Robot that Provides Maxillofacial Massage to Patients with Oral Disorders. 1228-1239
  
• Michael T. Wolf, Jorge G. Cham, Edward A. Branchaud, Grant H. Mulliken, Joel W. Burdick, Richard A. Andersen:
  A Robotic Neural Interface for Autonomous Positioning of Extracellular Recording Electrodes. 1240-1256
  

Volume 28, Number 10, October 2009

• Ralf Westphal, Simon Winkelbach, Friedrich M. Wahl, Thomas Gösling, Markus Oszwald, Tobias Hüfner, Christian Krettek:
  Robot-assisted Long Bone Fracture Reduction. 1259-1278
  
• Pasquale Ciarletta, Paolo Dario, Frank Tendick, Silvestro Micera:
  Hyperelastic Model of Anisotropic Fiber Reinforcements within Intestinal Walls for Applications in Medical Robotics. 1279-1288
  
• Mahdi Tavakoli, Robert D. Howe:
  Haptic Effects of Surgical Teleoperator Flexibility. 1289-1302
  
• Florent Nageotte, Philippe Zanne, Christophe Doignon, Michel de Mathelin:
  Stitching Planning in Laparoscopic Surgery: Towards Robot-assisted Suturing. 1303-1321
  
• Gentiane Venture, Katsu Yamane, Yoshihiko Nakamura, Tomotaka Yamamoto:
  Identification of Human Limb Viscoelasticity using Robotics Methods to Support the Diagnosis of Neuromuscular Diseases. 1322-1333
  
• Alexandre Krupa, Gabor Fichtinger, Gregory D. Hager:
  Real-time Motion Stabilization with B-mode Ultrasound Using Image Speckle Information and Visual Servoing. 1334-1354
  
• Shelten G. Yuen, Daniel T. Kettler, Paul M. Novotny, Richard D. Plowes, Robert D. Howe:
  Robotic Motion Compensation for Beating Heart Intracardiac Surgery. 1355-1372
  
• Tie Hu, Peter K. Allen, Nancy J. Hogle, Dennis L. Fowler:
  Insertable Surgical Imaging Device with Pan, Tilt, Zoom, and Lighting. 1373-1386
  
• Andrew H. C. Gosline, Vincent Hayward:
  Dual-channel Haptic Synthesis of Viscoelastic Tissue Properties using Programmable Eddy Current Brakes. 1387-1399