Schedule for ICRA 2006

2006-05-16

AM1

• Steven Dubowsky
• Hideo Fujimoto

• A Vision-based Nonlinear Decentralized Controller for Unmanned Vehicles
  Omar A. A. Orqueda, Rafael Fierro
• Bounded Torque Control for Robot Manipulators Subject to Joint Velocity Constraints
  Khoi B. Ngo, Robert Mahony
• A New Velocity Field Controller for Robot Arms
  Javier Moreno-Valenzuela
• Tracking Control of On-line Time-Scaled Trajectories for Robot Manipulators Under Constrained Torques
  Javier Moreno-Valenzuela
• Proxy-Based Sliding Mode Control For Accurate and Safe Position Control
  Ryo Kikuuwe, Hideo Fujimoto
• The Design of a Friction Compensation Control Architecture for a Heavy Lift Precision Manipulator in Contact with the Environment
  Justin R. Garretson, William T. Becker, Steven Dubowsky

• Agostino Martinelli
• Benjamin Kuipers

• Global Localization Using Odometry
  Jason M. O'Kane
• Automatic Self-Calibration of a Vision System during Robot Motion
  Agostino Martinelli, Davide Scaramuzza, Roland Siegwart
• Adapting Proposal Distributions for Accurate, Efficient Mobile Robot Localization
  Patrick Beeson, Aniket Murarka, Benjamin Kuipers
• Guassian Process Models for Sensor-Centric Robot Localisation
  Alex Brooks, Alexei Makarenko, Ben Upcroft
• Further Studies On The Use Of Negative Information In Mobile Robot Localization
  Jan Hoffmann, Michael Spranger, Daniel Göhring, Matthias Jüngel, Hans-Dieter Burkhard
• Incremental RANSAC for Online Relocation in Large Dynamic Environments
  Kanji Tanaka, Eiji Kondo

• José Santos-Victor
• Jun-Ho Oh

• Development of a New Humanoid Robot WABIAN-2
  Yu Ogura, Hiroyuki Aikawa, Kazushi Shimomura, Hideki Kondo, Akitoshi Morishima, Hun-ok Lim, Atsuo Takanishi
• Development of Musculoskeletal Humanoid Kotaro
  Ikuo Mizuuchi, Tomoaki Yoshikai, Yoshinao Sodeyama, Yuto Nakanishi, Akihiko Miyadera, Taichi Yamamoto, Tuomas Niemelä, Marika Hayashi, Junichi Urata, Yuta Namiki, Tamaki Nishino, Masayuki Inaba
• Modular Joint Design for Performance Enhanced Humanoid Robot LOLA
  Sebastian Lohmeier, Thomas Buschmann, Heinz Ulbrich, Friedrich Pfeiffer
• Design of the Robot-Cub (iCub) Head
  Ricardo Beira, Manuel Lopes, Miguel Praça, José Santos-Victor, Alexandre Bernardino, Giorgio Metta, Francesco Becchi, Roque Saltarén
• Development of a Human-like Sensory Feedback Mechanism for an Anthropomorphic Talking Robot
  Kotaro Fukui, Kazufumi Nishikawa, Shunsuke Ikeo, Masaaki Honda, Atsuo Takanishi
• Humanoid Synthesis using Clifford Algebra
  Maria Cruz Villa Uriol, Alba Perez Gracia, Falko Kuester

• Steve M. LaValle
• J. C. Trinkle

• Smooth Interpolation of Orientation by Rolling and Wrapping for Robot Motion Planning
  Yueshi Shen, Knut Hüeper, Fátima Silva Leite
• Ridge-Valley Path Planning for 3D Terrains
  D. L. Page, A. F. Koschan, M. A. Abidi, J. L. Overholt
• A Motion Planning Processor on Reconfigurable Hardware
  Nuzhet Atay, Burchan Bayazit
• Motion Planning for a Class of Planar Closed-Chain Manipulators
  Guanfeng Liu, J. C. Trinkle, N. Shvalb
• A Multiresolution Approach for Motion Planning Under Differential Constraints
  Stephen R. Lindemann, Steven M. LaValle
• RRT path planner with 3DOF local planner
  Jade Yang, Elisha Sacks

• Martin Buss
• Katsushi Ikeuchi

• A Multi-Focal High-Performance Vision System
  Kolja Kühnlenz, Mathias Bachmayer, Martin Buss
• A Hybrid Vision + Ladar Rural Road Follower
  Christopher Rasmussen
• Extending the Dynamic Range of Robotic Vision
  Stephen Nuske, Jonathan Roberts, Gordon Wyeth
• Robust Motion Capture System against Target Occlusion using Fast Level Set Method
  Yumi Iwashita, Ryo Kurazume, Tsutomu Hasegawa, Kenji Hara
• Bias-Tolerant Terrain Following Method for a Field Deployed Manipulator
  Marc Freese, Surya P.N. Singh, Edwardo F. Fukushima, Shigeo Hirose
• Dynamic Regrasping Using a High-speed Multifingered Hand and a High-speed Vision System
  Noriatsu Furukawa, Akio Namiki, Senoo Taku, Masatoshi Ishikawa

• Aydan M. Erkmen
• Alcherio Martinoli

• Relative Localization and Communication Module for Small-Scale Multi-Robot Systems
  Jim Pugh, Alcherio Martinoli
• MONEA: Message-Oriented Networked-Robot Architecture
  Teppei Nakano, Shinya Fujie, Tetsunori Kobayashi
• Experiments with an Ecological Interface for Monitoring Tightly-Coordinated Robot Teams
  Gal A. Kaminka, Yehuda Elmaliach
• A Behavior Based Layered, Hybrid, Control Architecture for Robot/Sensor Networks
  Berkant Akin, Aydan M. Erkmen, Ismet Erkmen
• PEIS Ecology: Integrating Robots into Smart Environments
  Mathias Broxvall, Marco Gritti, Alessandro Saffiotti, Beom-Su Seo, Young-Jo Cho
• A Bayesian Formulation for The Prioritized Search of Moving Objects
  Jake Toh, Salah Sukkarieh

• Gregory D. Hager
• Russell H. Taylor

• Portability and Applicability of Virtual Fixtures Across Medical and Manufacturing Tasks
  Henry C. Lin, Keith Mills, Peter Kazanzides, Gregory D. Hager, Panadda Marayong, Allison M. Okamura, Ray Karam
• Constrained Control for Surgical Assistant Robots
  Ankur Kapoor, Ming Li, Russell H. Taylor
• Predictive Control Algorithms Using Biological Signals for Active Relative Motion Canceling in Robotic Assisted Heart Surgery
  Ozkan Bebek, M. Cenk Cavusoglu
• Control movement scheme based on manipulability concept for a surgical robotic assistant
  V. F. Muñoz, I. García-Morales, C. Perez del Pulgar, J. M. Gomez-DeGabriel, J. Fernández-Lozano, A. Garcia-Cerezo, C. Vara-Thorbeck, R. Toscano
• A Robotized Positioning Platform Guided by Computed Tomography : Practical Issues and Evaluation
  B. Maurin, B. Bayle, J. Gangloff, P. Zanne, M. de Mathelin, Olivier Piccin
• A remote surgery experiment between Japan-Korea using the minimally invasive surgical system
  Jumpei Arata, Hiroki Takahashi, Phongsaen Pitakwatchara, Shin'ichi Warisawa, Kozo Konishi, Kazuo Tanoue, Satoshi Ieiri, Shuji Shimizu, Naoki Nakashima, Koji Okamura, Young Soo Kim, Sung Min Kim, Joon-Soo Hahm, Makoto Hasizume, Mamoru Mitsuishi

• Metin Sitti
• Yu Sun

• Force-Controlled Microcontact Printing using Microassembled Particle Templates
  Afshin Tafazzoli, Chytra Pawashe, Metin Sitti
• Calibration of Multi-Axis MEMS Force Sensors Using the Shape from Motion Method
  Yu Sun, Keekyoung Kim, Richard M. Voyles, Bradley J. Nelson
• Visual Measurement of MEMS Microassembly Forces Using Template Matching
  Yasser H. Anis, James K. Mills, William L. Cleghorn
• Development of a 6 Degree of Freedom Robotic Micromanipulator for Use in 3D MEMS Microassembly
  Nikolai Dechev, Lu Ren, William Liu, William L. Cleghorn, James K. Mills
• A Rapidly Prototyped 2-Axis Positioning Stage for Microassembly Using Large Displacement Compliant Mechanisms
  A. M. Hoover, S. Avadhanula, R. E. Groff, Ronald S. Fearing
• Towards a 3g Crawling Robot through the Integration of Microrobot Technologies
  Ranjana Sahai, Srinath Avadhanula, Richard Groff, Erik Steltz, Robert Wood, Ronald S. Fearing

• Christof Eberst
• Ning Xi

• Intelligent high-speed, high-variant automation of universal coin sorting for charity organizations
  Martin Fuerst, Christian Woegerer, Gernot Kronreif, Igor Hollaender, Harald Penz
• Gentle Robotic Handling - Adaptation of Gripper-Orientation To Minimize Undesired Shear Forces
  Suei Jen Chen, Heinz Wörn, Uwe E. Zimmermann, Reiner Bischoff
• Development of Dynamic Inspection Methods for Dimensional Measurement of Automotive Body Parts
  Quan Shi, Ning Xi, Weihua Sheng, Yifan Chen
• Designing Generic/Reusable Functionality Based Controllers for Distributed Control using UML
  Seno Panjaitan, Georg Frey
• Enhanced Real-Time Execution of Modular Control Software based on IEC 61499
  Alois Zoitl, Rene Smodic, Christoph Sünder, Gunnar Grabmair
• Towards Programming Robots by Gestures, Test-Case: Programming Bore Inspection for Small Lotsizes
  Christof Eberst, Helmut Nöhmayer, Gerald Umgeher, Motoki Takagi

• Janice Pearce
• Paolo Fiorini

• Bringing Robotics Closer to Students - A Threefold Approach
  Niko Sünderhauf, Thomas Krause, Peter Protzel
• Mobile Robot Programming in Education
  Jean-François Lalonde, Christopher P. Bartley, Illah Nourbakhsh
• ARMUS, an ARM Robotic Processing System for Educational Purposes
  Jean-Michel Aubin, Marius Bulota, Mathieu Gauthier, Jérome Marchand, Patrick-André Savard, Vincent Simard-Bilodeau, Jean-Luc Ratté-Boulianne, François Michaud
• Breaking Up Is Hard To Do—Dispersion: From Design to Implementation
  Matthew Isaacs, Monica Anderson, Samuel Ashworth, James Blackburn-Lynch, Bridgette Bynum, Janice Pearce, Christopher Pemberton
• No Fear: University of Minnesota Robotics Day Camp Introduces Local Youth to Hands-on Technologies
  Kelly Cannon, Monica Anderson LaPoint, Nate Bird, Katie Panciera, Harini Veeraraghavan, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, Maria Gini
• Fun With Robots: A Student-Taught Undergraduate Robotics Course
  Steven V. Shamlian, Katherine Killfoile, Ryan Kellogg, Felix Duvallet

AM2

• Li-Chen Fu
• Fumitoshi Matsuno

• Control of a Prototype Transmission-based Robot Servoactuator Using Real Time Application Interface
  Renbin Zhou, William R. Hamel
• Autonomous control of a snake-like robot utilizing passive mechanism
  Kazuyuki Ito, Yoshitaka Fukumori
• Motion Duplication Control for Distributed Dynamic Systems by Natural Damping
  Joono Cheong, Seungjin Lee, Jung Kim
• Adaptive Torque Control of Electro-Rheological Fluid Brakes Used in Active Knee Rehabilitation Devices
  Jason Nikitczuk, Abhimanyu Das, Harsh Vyas, Brian Weinberg, Constantinos Mavroidis
• Cooperative Control of Two Snake Robots
  Motoyasu Tanaka, Fumitoshi Matsuno
• A Hybrid System Design of A Mobile Manipulator
  Chih-Fu Chang, Li-Chen Fu

• Gamini Dissanayake
• Gregory Dudek

• Convergence Analysis for Extended Kalman Filter based SLAM
  Shoudong Huang, Gamini Dissanayake
• Consistency improvement for SLAM - EKF for indoor environments
  Diego Rodriguez-Losada, Fernando Matia, Agustin Jimenez, Ramon Galan
• Consistency of the FastSLAM Algorithm
  Tim Bailey, Juan Nieto, Eduardo Nebot
• Bounding Uncertainty in EKF-SLAM: The Robocentric Local Approach
  Ruben Martinez-Cantin, José A. Castellanos
• Robust Stochastic Mapping towards the SLAM Problem
  Michael E. West, Vassilis L. Syrmos
• Speeding-Up Rao-Blackwellized SLAM
  Giorgio Grisetti, Gian Diego Tipaldi, Cyrill Stachniss, Wolfram Burgard, Daniele Nardi

• Evan Drumwright
• Jun-Ho Oh

• The Task Matrix: An Extensible Framework for Creating Versatile Humanoid Robots
  Evan Drumwright, Victor Ng-Thow-Hing
• NBHA - a distributed network-based humanoid software architecture
  Dong To Nguyen, Do-Ik Kim, Bum-Jae You, Sang-Rok Oh
• Cooking for humanoid robot, a task that needs symbolic and geometric reasonings
  Fabien Gravot, Atsushi Haneda, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba
• Deformation Compensation for Continues Force control of Wall Climbing Quadruped with Reduced-DOF
  Yusuke OTA, Toru KUGA, Kan Yoneda
• Self-Learning Control of Cooperative Motion for a Humanoid Robot
  Yoon Kwon Hwang, Kook Jin Choi, Dae Sun Hong
• Development and Evaluation of Face Robot to Express Various Face Shape
  Kouki Hayashi, Yoshitaka Onishi, Kazuko Itoh, Hiroyasu Miwa, Atsuo Takanishi

• Zack Butler
• Florent Lamiraux

• Trajectory deformation applied to kinodynamic motion planning for a realistic car model
  Fabrice Boyer, Florent Lamiraux
• Development of An Elastic Path Controller
  B. Long, B. Rebsamen, E. Burdet, C. L. Teo
• Corridor planning for natural agents
  Zack Butler
• Energy-Efficient Mobile Robot Exploration
  Yongguo Mei, Yung-Hsiang Lu, C. S. George Lee, Y. Charlie Hu
• On-line Optimal Motion Planning for Nonholonomic Mobile Robots
  Tomás Martínez-Marín
• Traversability Classification using Unsupervised On-line Visual Learning for Outdoor Robot Navigation
  Dongshin Kim, Jie Sun, Sang Min Oh, James M. Rehg, Aaron F. Bobick

• Domenico Prattichizzo
• Patrick Rives

• A new approach to vision-based robot control with omni-directional cameras
  Selim Benhimane, Ezio Malis
• Calibration between a Central Catadioptric Camera and a Laser Range Finder for Robotic Applications
  Christopher Mei, Patrick Rives
• Image-based Visual Servoing for Nonholonomic Mobile Robots with Central Catadioptric Camera
  Gian Luca Mariottini, Domenico Prattichizzo, Giuseppe Oriolo
• Omnidirectional Vision for Visual Landmark Identification using p2-invariants
  Carlos López-Franco, Eduardo Bayro-Corrochano
• Localization with Omnidirectional Images using the Radial Trifocal Tensor
  C. Sagüés, A. C. Murillo, J. J. Guerrero, T. Goedemé, T. Tuytelaars, L. Van Gool
• People tracking and following with mobile robot using an omnidirectional camera and a laser
  Marin Kobilarov, Gaurav Sukhatme, Jeff Hyams, Parag Batavia

• Daniel J. Stilwell
• Ioannis Rekleitis

• Heuristic Search for Coordinating Robot Agents in Adversarial Domains
  Ilya Levner, Alex Kovarsky, Hong Zhang
• Dynamically Formed Heterogeneous Robot Teams Performing Tightly-Coordinated Tasks
  E. Gil Jones, Brett Browning, M. Bernardine Dias, Brenna Argall, Manuela Veloso, Anthony Stentz
• Task Allocation for Multi-Robot Teams with Self-Organizing Agents
  Cheng-Heng Fua, Shuzhi Sam Ge, Khiang Wee Lim
• Towards Robust Multi-Robot Formations
  Gal A. Kaminka, Ruti Glick
• Ganging up: Team-Based Aggression Expands the Population/Performance Envelope in a Multi-Robot System
  Yinan Zhang, Richard Vaughan
• Environmental Tracking and Formation Control of a Platoon of Autonomous Vehicles Subject to Limited Communication
  Maurizio Porfiri, D. Gray Roberson, Daniel J. Stilwell

• Pierre Dupont
• Toshio Fukuda

• Sensory Feedback Exploitation for Robot-Assisted Exploration of the Spinal Cord
  Ulisse Bertocchi, Luca Ascari, Cesare Stefanini, Cecilia Laschi, Paolo Dario
• Robot-Assisted Catheter Insertion using Hybrid Impedance Control
  J. Jayender, R. V. Patel, S. Nikumb
• Real-time 3D Ultrasound-based Servoing of a Surgical Instrument
  Jeffrey Stoll, Paul Novotny, Robert Howe, Pierre Dupont
• Reality Based Needle Insertion Simulation for Haptic Feedback in Prostate Brachytherapy
  James T. Hing, Ari D. Brooks, Jaydev P. Desai
• Patient-Specific Neurovascular Simulator for Evaluating the Performance of Medical Robots and Instruments
  S. Ikeda, F. Arai, T. Fukuda, M. Negoro, K. Irie, I. Takahashi
• Toward Tool Gesture and Motion Recognition on a Novel Minimally Invasive Surgery Robotic System
  Jeff Hsu, Shahram Payandeh

• Vijay Kumar
• Evangelos Papadopoulos

• Designing Open-Loop Plans for Planar Micro-Manipulation
  David J. Cappelleri, Jonathan Fink, Barry Munkundakrisnam, Vijay Kumar, J. C. Trinkle
• Application of Set Membership Identification for Fault Detection of MEMS
  Vasso Reppa, Anthony Tzes
• Analysis, Design and Control of a Planar Micro-robot Driven by Two Centripetal-Force Actuators
  Panagiotis Vartholomeos, Evangelos Papadopoulos
• Realization of Micromanipulating Gough-Stewart Platforms with Desired Dynamics
  Zhijiang Guo, John E. McInroy, Fahard Jafari
• Mechanism of Micro Manipulation Using Oscillation
  Tetsuyou Watanabe, Zhongwei Jiang
• Design, Development and Experiments of a High Stroke-Precision 2DoF (Linear-Angular) Microsystem
  Micky Rakotondrabe, Yassine Haddab, Philippe Lutz

• Christof Eberst
• Mikko Sallinen

• Planning of sensory feedback in industrial robot workcells
  Mikko Sallinen, Tapio Heikkilä, Matti Sirviö
• An Evolutionary Algorithm for Optimization of XML Publish/Subscribe Middleware in Electronics Production
  Ivan M. Delamer, Jose L. Martinez Lastra, Oscar Perez
• TOMTAC: Translating Object Motion to Actuator Control
  Michael Wynblatt, Peter Krüeger, Z. K. Edmondson, Holger Grzonka
• Flow Diversion Approaches for Shipment Routing in Automatic Cargo Handling Systems
  Raymond K. Cheung, Allen Lee, Daniel Mo
• Dynamics and Control of a Gravity-assisted Underactuated Robot Arm for Assembly Operations inside an Aircraft Wing-Box
  Binayak Roy, H. Harry Asada
• Bayesian Estimation for Autonomous Object Manipulation Based on Tactile Sensors
  Anna Petrovskaya, Oussama Khatib, Sebastian Thrun, Andrew Y. Ng

• Paolo Fiorini
• Janice Pearce

• Educating C Language Using LEGO Mindstorms Robotic Invention System 2.0
  Seung Han Kim, Jae Wook Jeon
• Innovative Robotics Teaching Using Lego Sets
  Stefano Galvan, Debora Botturi, Andrea Castellani, Paolo Fiorini
• VIZMO++: a Visualization, Authoring, and Educational Tool for Motion Planning
  Aimée Vargas Estrada, Jyh-Ming Lien, Nancy M. Amato
• Intro to Haptic Communications for High School Students
  Linda/JingYing Chen, Marc Holbein, John S. Zelek
• Paths analysis for a safe forceps blades placement on the BirthSIM simulator
  Richard Moreau, Osama Olaby, Olivier Dupuis, Minh Tu Pham, Tanneguy Redarce
• Stability Analysis and Control Law Design for Acrobots
  Xu-Zhi Lai, Jin-Hua She, Simon X. Yang, Min Wu

PM1

• J-P. Merlet
• Philippe Wenger

• Graphical Singularity Analysis of Planar Parallel Manipulators
  Amir Degani, Alon Wolf
• Legs Interference Checking of Parallel Robots over a Given Workspace or Trajectory
  J-P. Merlet, D. Daney
• Calibration Method for Parallel Mechanism using Micro Grid Pattern
  Wataru Tanaka, Tatsuo Arai, Kenji Inoue, Tomohito Takubo, Choong Sik Park
• An Improved Method for the Geometrical Calibration of Parallelogram-based Parallel Robots
  Ludovic Savoure, Patrick Maurine, David Corbel, Sébastien Krut
• Singular curves and cusp points in the joint space of 3-RPR parallel manipulators
  Mazen Zein, Philippe Wenger, Damien Chablat
• On Redundant Flagged Manipulators
  Maria Alberich-Carramiñana, Federico Thomas, Carme Torras

• Longin Jan Latecki
• Ben Krose

• Polygonal Approximation of Laser Range Data Based on Perceptual Grouping and EM
  Longin Jan Latecki, Rolf Lakaemper
• Thinning-based Topological Exploration Using Position Probability of Topological Nodes
  Tae-Bum Kwon, Jae-Bok Song
• Hierarchical Map Building and Planning based on Graph Partitioning
  Zoran Zivkovic, Bram Bakker, Ben Kröse
• A Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filter for Topological Mapping
  Ananth Ranganathan, Frank Dellaert
• Consistent Observation Grouping for Generating Metric-Topological Maps that Improves Robot Localization
  Jose Luis Blanco, Javier Gonzalez, Juan Antonio Fernández-Madrigal
• Using Multi-hypothesis Mapping to Close Loops in Complex Cyclic Environments
  Haris Baltzakis, Panos Trahanias

• Satoshi Kagami
• Luis Sentis

• Biped Gait Optimization Using Spline Function Based Probability Model
  Lingyun Hu, Changjiu Zhou, Zengqi Sun
• A Physical Principle of Gait Generation and its Stabilization from Mechanism of Fixed Point
  Yoshito Ikemata, Akihito Sano, Hideo Fujimoto
• Torque and Compliance Control of the Pneumatic Artificial Muscles in the Biped "Lucy"
  Bram Vanderborght, Björn Verrelst, Ronald Van Ham, Michaël Van Damme, Pieter Beyl, Dirk Lefeber
• A Bipedal Running Robot with One Actuator per Leg
  Neil Neville, Martin Buehler, Inna Sharf
• Underactuated Dynamic Three-Dimensional Bipedal Walking
  Guobiao Song, Miloš Žefran
• An Intelligent Joystick for Biped Control
  Joel Chestnutt, Philipp Michel, Koichi Nishiwaki, James Kuffner, Satoshi Kagami

• Kevin M. Lynch
• Volkan Isler

• Optimal Path Planning under Different Norms in Continuous State Spaces
  Ken Alton, Ian M. Mitchell
• Path Planning above a Polyhedral Terrain
  Hamid Zarrabi-Zadeh
• Design of a Collaborative Wheelchair with Path Guidance Assistance
  Qiang Zeng, Chee Leong Teo, Brice Rebsamen, Etienne Burdet
• Path planning and control of functionally graded materials for rapid tooling
  Ren C. Luo, Yen Lin Pan, Chen Jun Wang, Zhong Hong Huang
• Efficiently Biasing PRMs with Passage Potentials
  Roman Katz, Seth Hutchinson
• An Obstacle-Based Rapidly-Exploring Random Tree
  Samuel Rodríguez, Xinyu Tang, Jyh-Ming Lien, Nancy M. Amato

• Gregory D. Hager
• Shahin Sirouspour

• Ego-Motion Estimation by Matching Dewarped Road Regions Using Stereo Images
  Akihito Seki, Masatoshi Okutomi
• Stereoscopic Depth-detection for Handling and Manipulation Tasks in a Scanning Electron Microscope
  Marco Jähnisch, Marc Shiffner
• Attenuating Stereo Pixel-Locking via Affine Window Adaptation
  Andrew N. Stein, Andrés Huertas, Larry Matthies
• Plane Detection with Stereo Images
  Jacopo Piazzi, Domenico Prattichizzo
• Robust Sensing against Bubble Noises in Aquatic Environments with a Stereo Vision System
  Atsushi Yamashita, Susumu Kato, Toru Kaneko
• Optimal Positioning of Multiple Cameras for Object Recognition Using Cramér-Rao Lower Bound
  F. Farshidi, S. Sirouspour, T. Kirubarajan

• Calin Belta
• Joel M. Esposito

• A connection between formation control and flocking behavior in nonholonomic multiagent systems
  Dimos V. Dimarogonas, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
• Maintaining Wireless Connectivity Constraints for Swarms in the Presence of Obstacles
  Joel M. Esposito, Thomas W. Dunbar
• Hierarchical Abstractions for Robotic Swarms
  Marius Kloetzer, Calin Belta
• Glowworm-inspired Robot Swarm for Simultaneous Taxis towards Multiple Radiation Sources
  K. N. Krishnanand, P. Amruth, M. H. Guruprasad, Sharschchandra V. Bidargaddi, D. Ghose
• Controlling Three Dimensional Swarms of Robots
  Nathan Michael, Calin Belta, Vijay Kumar
• Cooperative Control Design and Stability Analysis for Multi-agent Systems with Communication Delays
  Zhihua Qu, Jing Wang, Richard Hull, Jeffrey Martin

• Yoky Matsuoka
• Claudio Melchiorri

• 100g-100N Finger Joint with Load-Sensitive Continuously Variable Transmission
  Takeshi Takaki, Toru Omata
• Optimized design of the underactuated robotic hand
  Ramiro Cabás, Luis María Cabás, Carlos Balaguer
• Model and Control of Tendon-Sheath Transmission Systems
  G. Palli, C. Melchiorri
• Bio-Mimetic Study on Pinching Motions of A Dual-Finger Model with Synergistic Actuation of Antagonist Muscles
  Kenji Tahara, Zhi-Wei Luo, Ryuta Ozawa, Ji-Hun Bae, Suguru Arimoto
• A Kinematic Thumb Model for the ACT Hand
  Lillian Y. Chang, Yoky Matsuoka
• Multi-fingered Dynamic Blind Grasping with Tactile Feedback in a Horizontal Plane
  Ryuta Ozawa, Ji-Hun Bae, Suguru Arimoto

• Nicolas Chaillet
• John T. Wen

• Intelligent FMA using Flexible Displacement Sensor with Paste Injection
  Kenji Kure, Takefumi Kanda, Koichi Suzumori, Shuichi Wakimoto
• Driving Performance and Control of a Micro Artificial Muscle Cell using Electro-conjugate Fluid
  Kenjiro Takemura, Shinichi Yokota, Kazuya Edamura
• Adaptive Scanning Optical Microscope (ASOM) for Large Workspace Micro-robotic Applications
  Benjamin Potsaid, John T. Wen, Yves Bellouard
• Marking techniques for vision recognition of microgrippers for micromanipulation
  Anna Eisinberg, Keith Houston, Paolo Dario, Fabio Caparrelli, Bala Amavasi, Manuel Boissenin
• Pneumatic Micro Hand and Miniaturized Parallel Link Robot for Micro Manipulation Robot System
  Satoshi Konishi, Makoto Nokata, Ok Chan Jeong, Shinya Kusuda, Tsuyoshi Sakakibara, Miyuki Kuwayama, Hidetoshi Tsutsumi
• Modeling, Identification and Control of a Thermal Glue-Based Temporary Fixing System: Application to the Micro-Robotic Field
  Cédric Clévy, Arnaud Hubert, Nicolas Chillet

• Spyros Reveliotis
• Peter B. Luh

• Multivariate Simulation Assessment for Virtual Metrology
  Yeh-Tung Chen, Haw-Ching Yang, Fan-Tien Cheng
• A Virtual Metrology Scheme for predicting CVD Thickness in Semiconductor Manufacturing
  Tung-Ho Lin, Min-Hsiung Hung, Rung-Chuan Lin, Fan-Tien Cheng
• Quality Robustness Design of Manufacturing Systems with Repair and Rework
  Jingshan Li, Dennis E. Blumenfeld, Samuel P. Marin
• A SVM-Based Method for Engine Maintenance Strategy Optimization
  Qing-Shan Jia, Qian-Chuan Zhao
• Modelling and Vibration Suppression for Industrial Track Robots
  WeiMin Tao, Mingjun Zhang, Ou Ma
• Estimation of Optimal Elevator Scheduling Performance
  Jin Sun, Qianchuan Zhao, Peter B. Luh, Mauro J. Atalla

• Makoto Kaneko
• David E. Orin

• Evolution of Dynamic Maneuvers in a 3D Galloping Quadruped Robot
  Darren P. Krasny, David E. Orin
• Rough Terrain Locomotion of a Leg-Wheel Hybrid Quadruped Robot
  Masashi Takahashi, Kan Yoneda, Shigeo Hirose
• Torque Pattern Generation Towards the Maximum Jump Height
  Mitsuru Higashimori, Manabu Harada, Idaku Ishii, Makoto Kaneko
• Time Optimal Control for Quadruped Walking Robots
  Hisashi Osumi, Shogo Kamiya, Hirokazu Kato, Kazunori Umeda, Ryuichi Ueda, Tamio Arai
• A Fast and Adaptive Test of Static Equilibrium for Legged Robots
  Timothy Bretl, Sanjay Lall
• Gaits and Gait Transitions for Legged Robots
  G. Clark Haynes, Alfred A. Rizzi

PM2

• Jorge Angeles
• J-P. Merlet

• Analysis of the Workspace of 2-DOF Spherical 5R Parallel Manipulator
  Li-Jie Zhang, Yue-Wei Niu, Yong-Quan Li, Zhen Huang
• Convex Synchronized Control for a 3-DOF Planar Parallel Manipulator
  Lu Ren, James K. Mills, Dong Sun
• Novel Design and Modeling of a Mobile Parallel Manipulator
  Yangmin Li, Qingsong Xu, Yugang Liu
• Fully-Isotropic Parallel Manipulators with Five Degrees of Freedom
  Grigore Gogu
• Fully-Isotropic Parallel Manipulators with Schönflies Motions and Complex Legs with Rhombus Loops
  Grigore Gogu
• Stiffness Control of redundantly actuated Parallel Manipulators
  A. Müller

• Joel Burdick
• Samuel T. Pfister

• Multi-scale Point and Line Range Data Algorithms for Mapping and Localization
  Samuel T. Pfister, Joel W. Burdick
• Feature Extraction from Laser Scan Data based on Curvature Estimation for Mobile Robotics
  Pedro Núñez, Ricardo Vázquez-Martín, José C. del Toro, Antonio Bandera, Francisco Sandoval
• Extended EM for Planar Approximation of 3D Data
  Rolf Lakaemper, Longin Jan Latecki
• Outdoor SLAM using Visual Appearance and Laser Ranging
  P. Newman, D. Cole, K. Ho
• A Cognitive Modeling of Space using Fingerprints of Places for Mobile Robot Navigation
  Adriana Tapus, Roland Siegwart
• Large-scale loop-closing with pictorial matching
  Cheng Chen, Han Wang

• David E. Orin
• Atsuo Takanishi

• A ZMP Sensor for a Biped Robot
  Makoto Shimojo, Takuma Araki, Aigou Ming, Masatoshi Ishikawa
• Feet can improve the Stability Property of a Control Law for a Walking Robot
  D. Djoudi, C. Chevallereau
• Biped Landing Pattern Modification Method with Nonlinear Compliance Control
  Kenji Hashimoto, Yusuke Sugahara, Hiroyuki Sunazuka, Chiaki Tanaka, Akihiro Ohta, Masamiki Kawase, Hun-ok Lim, Atsuo Takanishi
• A Fall Avoidance Foot Mechanism for A Biped Locomotor
  Kenji Hashimoto, Yusuke Sugahara, Chiaki Tanaka, Masamiki Kawase, Hiroyuki Sunazuka, Akihiro Ohta, Hun-ok Lim, Atsuo Takanishi
• Compensation for the Landing Impact Force of a Humanoid Robot by Time Domain Passivity Approach
  Yong-Duk Kim, Bum-Joo Lee, Jung-Ki Yoo, Jong-Hwan Kim, Jee-Hwan Ryu
• Online Free Walking Trajectory Generation for Biped Humanoid Robot KHR-3(HUBO)
  Ill-Woo Park, Jung-Yup Kim, Jungho Lee, Jun-Ho Oh

• Calin Belta
• Wesley H. Huang

• RRT-blossom: RRT with a local flood-fill behavior
  Maciej Kalisiak, Michiel van de Panne
• Replanning with RRTs
  Dave Ferguson, Nidhi Kalra, Anthony Stentz
• A Slicing Connection Strategy for Constructing PRMs in High-Dimensional Cspaces
  Pekka Isto, Mitul Saha
• Multi-Level Free-Space Dilation for Sampling Narrow Passages in PRM Planning
  David Hsu, Gildaro Sánchez-Ante, Ho-lun Cheng, Jean-Claude Latombe
• Adapting Probabilistic Roadmaps to Handle Uncertain Maps
  Patrycja E. Missiuro, Nicholas Roy
• Metrics for Analyzing the Evolution of C-Space Models
  Marco A. Morales A., Roger Pearce, Nancy M. Amato

• Keiichi Kemmotsu
• Nathaniel Bird

• Recognizing Human Behaviors with Vision Sensors in a Network Robot System
  Keiichi Kemmotsu, Tetsuya Tomonaka, Shigetoshi Shiotani, Yoshihiro Koketsu, Masato Iehara
• Development of Intelligent Robot System Realizing Human Skill - Realization of Ball Lifting Task Using a Mobile Robot with Monocular Vision System -
  Ryosuke Mori, Fumiaki Takagi, Fumio Miyazaki
• Human-like Person Tracking with an Anthropomorphic Robot
  Thorsten Spexard, Axel Haasch, Jannik Fritsch, Gerhard Sagerer
• Depth Perception in an Anthropomorphic Robot that Replicates Human Eye Movements
  Fabrizio Santini, Michele Rucci
• Human Like Vision Using Conformal Geometric Algebra
  Eduardo Bayro-Corrochano, David Gonzalez-Aguirre
• Speaker Localization among multifaces in noisy environment by audiovisual Integration
  Hyun-Don Kim, Jong-Suk Choi, Munsang Kim

• Stefano Carpin
• Richard Vaughan

• Multirobot Cooperation for Surveillance of Multiple Moving Targets - A New Behavioral Approach
  Andreas Kolling, Stefano Carpin
• Transport of an Object by Six Pre-attached Robots Interacting via Physical Links
  Roderich Groß, Francesco Mondada, Marco Dorigo
• A Method Of Cooperative Control Using Occasional Non-Local Interactions
  Brian Shucker, Todd Murphey, John K. Bennett
• Implicit Coordination in Robotic Teams using Learned Prediction Models
  Freek Stulp, Michael Isik, Michael Beetz
• Coordinated Control for capturing a Highly Maneuverable Evader using Forward Reachable Sets
  Chern F. Chung, Tomonari Furukawa, Ali H. Göktogan
• An Integrated Particle Filter & Potential Field Method for Cooperative Robot Target Tracking
  Roozbeh Mottaghi, Richard Vaughan

• Yan-Bin Jia
• M. C. Carrozza

• Conformable and Scalable Tactile Sensor Skin for Curved Surface
  Yoshiyuki Ohmura, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Akihiko Nagakubo
• A bio-inspired approach for the design and characterization of a tactile sensory system for a cybernetic prosthetic hand
  B. B. Edin, L. Beccai, L. Ascari, S. Rocella, J. J. Cabibihan, M. C. Carrozza
• A Triaxial Force Discernment Algorithm for Flexible, High Density, Artificial Skin
  Seth Koterba, Yoky Matsuoka
• Characteristics of Contact and Limit Surface for Viscoelastic Fingers
  Paolo Tiezzi, Imin Kao
• Surface Patch Reconstruction via Curve Sampling
  Yan-Bin Jia, Liangchuan Mi, Jiang Tian
• Discontinuity Detection for Force-based Manipulation
  Antoine Schlechter, Dominik Henrich

• Fumihito Arai
• Lixin Dong

• Microfluidic End Effector for Manufacturing of Nano Devices
  Uchechukwu C. Wejinya, Yantao Shen, Ning Xi, Jiangbo Zhang
• 3D 6DOF Manipulation of Micro-object Using Laser Trapped Microtool
  Fumihito Arai, Toshiaki Endo, Ryuji Yamauchi, Toshio Fukuda
• Hybrid Nanorobotic Approaches for Fabricating NEMS from 3D Helical Nanostructures
  Lixin Dong, Li Zhang, Dominik J. Bell, Bradley J. Nelson, Detlev Grützmacher
• Microrobot System for Automatic Nanohandling inside a Scanning Electron Microscope
  Sargej Fatikow, Thomas Wich, Helge Hülsen, Torsten Sievers, Marco Jähnisch
• Organized Motion Control of a lot of Microorganisms Using Visual Feedback
  Kiyonori Takahashi, Naoko Ogawa, Hiromasa Oku, Koichi Hashimoto
• Robust Motion Tracking Control of Piezoelectric Actuation Systems
  Hwee Choo Liaw, Denny Oetomo, Bijan Shirinzadeh, Gursel Alici

• Li-Chen Fu
• Nikos C. Tsourveloudis

• Work In Process Scheduling by Evolutionary Tuned Distributed Fuzzy Controllers
  Nikos C. Tsourveloudis, Lefteris Doitsidis, Stratos Ioannidis
• Using Dispatching Rules for Job Shop Scheduling with Due Date-based Objectives
  Tsung-Che Chiang, Li-Chen Fu
• Lagrangian Relaxation for Complex Job Shop Scheduling
  Tao Sun, Peter B. Luh, Min Liu
• Scheduling Multiple Agents for Picking Products in a Warehouse
  Jose Ildefonso U. Rubrico, Jun Ota, Toshimitsu Higashi, Hirofumi Tamura
• Dynamic Reconfiguration of Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems Using Particle Swarm Optimization
  Yasuhiro Yamada
• Decentralized Optimization of Distributed Supply-Chain
  Marco Ghirardi, Giusepppe Menga, Nicola Sacco

• Satoshi Murata
• Haruhisa Kurokawa

• A Broadcast-Probability Approach to the Control of Vast DOF Cellular Actuators
  Jun Ueda, Lael Odhnar, Harry Asada
• Scalable Shape Sculpting via Hole Motion: Motion Planning in Lattice-Constrained Modular Robots
  Michael De Rosa, Seth Goldstein, Peter Lee, Jason Campbell, Padmanabhan Pillai
• The Statistical Dynamics of Programmed Self-Assembly
  Nils Napp, Samuel Burden, Eric Klavins
• Mathematical Foundation for Hormone-Inspired Control for Self-Reconfigurable Robotic Systems
  Feili Hou, Wei-Min Shen
• Hierarchical Control for Self-assembling Mobile Trusses with Passive and Active Links
  Carrick Detweiler, Marsette Vona, Keith Kotay, Daniela Rus
• Stiffness Distribution Control - Locomotion of Closed Link Robot with Mechanical Softness
  Takeshi Matsuda, Satoshi Murata

2006-05-17

AM1

• Federico Thomas
• Philippe Bidaud

• Non-linear Observer for Slip Estimation of Skid-steering Vehicles
  Zibin Song, Yahya H. Zweiri, Lakmal D. Seneviratne, Kaspar Althoefer
• Generic differential kinematic modeling of articulated multi-monocycle mobile robots
  Frederic Le Menn, Philippe Bidaud, Faiz Ben Amar
• Fast Multiresolutive Approximations of Planar Linkage Configuration Spaces
  Tom Creemers, Josep M. Porta, Lluís Ros, Federico Thomas
• Reachable Boundary of A Humanoid Robot with Two Feet Fixed on The Ground
  Yisheng Guan, Kazuhito Yokoi
• Kinematics of a New 2-DoF Wrist with High Angulation Capability
  Fontana Marco, Frisoli Antonio, Salsedo Fabio, Bergamasco Massimo
• Collision Detection of Cylindrical Rigid Bodies for Motion Planning
  John Ketchel, Pierre Larochelle

• Paul Newman
• Pantelis Elinas

• Robust Multi-loop Airborne SLAM in Unknown Wind Environments
  Jonghyuk Kim, Salah Sukkarieh
• Towards Benchmarks for Vision SLAM Algorithms
  Samer M. Abdallah, Daniel C. Asmar, John S. Zelek
• 6DOF Entropy Minimization SLAM
  Juan Manuel Sáez, Francisco Escolano
• Using Laser Range Data for 3D SLAM in Outdoor Environments
  David M. Cole, Paul M. Newman
• sigmaSLAM: Stereo Vision SLAM using the Rao-Blackwellised Particle Filter and a Novel Mixture Proposal Distribution
  Pantelis Elinas, Robert Sim, James J. Little
• Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filtering for 6-DOF Estimation of Attitude and Position via GPS and Inertial Sensors
  Paul Vernaza, Daniel D. Lee

• Luis Sentis
• Miloš Žefran

• Modulation of simple sinusoidal patterns by a coupled oscillator model for biped walking
  Jun Morimoto, Gen Endo, Jun Nakanishi, Sang-Ho Hyon, Gordon Cheng, Darrin Bentivegna, Christopher G. Atkeson
• Programmable Central Pattern Generators: an application to biped locomotion control
  Ludovic Righetti, Auke Jan Ijspeert
• Proposal of Smooth Biped Walking Control by means of Heel-off Motion
  Masahiro Doi, Takayuki Matsuno, Yasuhisa Hasegawa, Toshio Fukuda
• Online Trajectory Generation for Omnidirectional Biped Walking
  Sven Behnke
• Development and Control of a Micro Biped Walking Robot using Shape Memory Alloys
  Mami Nishida, Kazuo Tanaka, Hua O. Wang
• Optimal Trajectory Generation of Serially-Linked Parallel Biped Robots
  Jung Han Yoon, Ohung Kwon, Je Sung Yeon, Jong Hyeon Park

• Seth Hutchinson
• Todd Murphey

• Minimum Wheel-Rotation Paths for Differential-Drive Mobile Robots
  Hamidreza Chitsaz, Steven M. LaValle, Devin J. Balkcom, Matthew T. Mason
• Controllability and Properties of Optimal paths for a Differential Drive robot with a field-of-view constraints
  Sourabh Bhattacharya, Seth Hutchinson
• Towards Automated Gait Generation for Dynamic Systems with Non-holonomic Constraints
  Elie Shammas, Howie Choset, Alfred Rizzi
• Motion Planning for the Roller Racer with a Sticking/Slipping Switching Model
  Peng Cheng, Emilio Frazzoli, Vijay Kumar
• Motion Planning for Kinematically Overconstrained Vehicles Using Feedback Primitives
  Todd D. Murphey
• Symbolic Control for Underactuated Differentially Flat Systems
  Adriano Fagiolini, Luca Greco, Antonio Bicchi, Benedetto Piccoli, Alessia Marigo

• Bradley J. Nelson
• Venkat Krovi

• Development of Wearable Sensor Combinations for Human Lower Extremity Motion Analysis
  Tao Liu, Yoshio Inoue, Kyoko Shibata, Haruhiko Morioka
• Model-Based Estimation of Off-Highway Road Geometry using Single-Axis LADAR and Inertial Sensing
  Lars B. Cremean, Richard M. Murray
• Adaptive Observer for the Calibration of the Force-Moment Sensor of a Space Robot
  Kourosh Parsa, Farhad Aghili
• Pervasive Sensor System for Evidence-based Nursing Care Support
  Toshio Hori, Yoshifumi Nishida, Shin'ichi Murakami
• Optical Torque Sensors for Implementation of Local Impedance Control of the Arm of Humanoid Robot
  Dzmitry Tsetserukou, Riichiro Tadakuma, Hiroyuki Kajimoto, Susumu Tachi
• Sensor Fusion for 3D Human Body Tracking with an Articulated 3D Body Model
  Steffen Knoop, Stefan Vacek, Rüdiger Dillmann

• Ioannis Rekleitis
• Yi Guo

• Speeding-Up Multi-Robot Exploration by Considering Semantic Place Information
  Cyrill Stachniss, Óscar Martínez Mozos, Wolfram Burgard
• Constructing Spanning Trees for Efficient Multi-Robot Coverage
  Noa Agmon, Noam Hazon, Gal A. Kaminka
• Complete Coverage Control for Nonholonomic Mobile Robots in Dynamic Environments
  Yi Guo, Mohanakrishnan Balakrishnan
• Towards Robust On-line Multi-Robot Coverage
  Noam Hazon, Fabrizio Mieli, Gal A. Kaminka
• Multi-robot Boundary Coverage with Plan Revision
  Kjerstin Williams, Joel Burdick
• A Multi-Robot System for Continuous Area Sweeping Tasks
  Mazda Ahmadi, Peter Stone

• Jonathan E. Luntz
• Shahram Payandeh

• Blades: A New Class of Geometric Primitives for Feeding 3D Parts on Vibratory Tracks
  Onno C. Goemans, Ken Goldberg, A. Frank van der Stappen
• Manipulating a Flat Object Against Stationary Barrier Using Airflows
  Hyungpil Moon, Jonathan E. Luntz
• A Quantitative Test for the Robustness of Graspless Manipulation
  Yusuke Maeda, Satoshi Makita
• An Approach for Object Manipulation Using Cooperative Agents
  Qingguo Li, Shahram Payendeh
• Simple Motion Planning Algorithms For Ball-Plate Systems With Limited Contact Area
  Mikhail Svinin, Shigeyuki Hosoe
• Ball Control in High-speed Batting Motion using Hybrid Trajectory Generator
  Taku Senoo, Akio Namiki, Masatoshi Ishikawa

• Mingjun Zhang
• Constantinos Mavroidis

• Dynamics Modeling and Analysis of a Swimming Microrobot for Controlled Drug Delivery
  Huaming Li, Jindong Tan, Mingjun Zhang
• Dynamics Modeling and Analysis of Gene Guns for Gene Therapy
  Mingjun Zhang, WeiMin Tao, Piero A. Pianetta
• Semi-Automated Blastocyst Microinjection
  Leonardo Mattos, Edward Grant, Randy Thresher
• An Automated Biological Fluid Dispensing System For Microarray Fabrication Using Inkjet Technology
  William Fisher, Mingjun Zhang
• Characterization of Protein based Spring-like Elastic Joints for Biorobotic Applications
  Mustapha Hamdi, Gaurav Sharma, Antoine Ferreira, Constantinos Mavroidis
• Design of Classifier to Automate the Evaluation of Protein Crystallization States
  Kanako Saitoh, Kuniaki Kawabata, Hajime Asama, Taketoshi Mishima, Mitsuaki Sugahara

• Gary M. Bone
• Hugh Herr

• Modeling and Control of a Miniature Servo Pneumatic Actuator
  Zhihong Rao, Gary M. Bone
• A Snake-like Swimming Robot Using IPMC Actuator/Sensor
  Norihiro Kamamichi, Masaki Yamakita, Kinji Asaka, Zhi-Wei Luo
• Nonlinear Grey-Box Identification of Linear Actuators Containing Hysteresis
  Johan Gunnar, Erik Wernholt, Geir Hovland, Torgny Brogårdh
• New Pneumatic Rubber Actuators to Assist Colonoscope Insertion
  Koichi Suzumori, Takayuki Hama, Takefumi Kanda
• Series Elasticity and Actuator Power Output
  Daniel Paluska, Hugh Herr
• Integrated Design of IPMC Actuator/Sensor
  Masaki Yamakita, Akio Sera, Norihiro Kamamichi, Kinji Asaka, Zhi-Wei Luo

• Tony Maciejewski
• Gregory S. Chirikjian

• Practical Kinematics for Real-Time Implementation of Continuum Robots
  Bryan A. Jones, William McMahan, Ian D. Walker
• Propagation of Errors in Hybrid Manipulators
  Yunfeng Wang, Gregory S. Chirikjian
• A Hyper-Redundant Continuous Robot
  Jingzhou Yang, Potratz Jason, Karim Abdel-Malek
• Human-like Movements of Robotic Arms with Redundant DOFs: Virtual Spring-Damper Hypothesis to Tackle the Bernstein Problem
  Suguru Arimoto, Masahiro Sekimoto
• Kinematic Modeling and Redundancy Resolution of Nonholonomic Mobile Manipulators
  Alessandro De Luca, Giuseppe Oriolo, Paolo Robuffo Giordano
• An Integrated Approach to Inverse Kinematics and Path Planning for Redundant Manipulators
  Dominik Bertram, James Kuffner, Ruediger Dillmann, Tamim Asfour

AM2

• Roy Featherstone
• Srinivas Akella

• Balanced Micro/Macro Contact Model for Forward Dynamics of Rigid Multibody
  Tomomichi Sugihara, Yoshihiko Nakamura
• Port-based Modelling of Manipulators with Flexible Links
  Alessandro Macchelli, Stefano Stramigioli, Claudio Melchiorri
• Plücker Basis Vectors
  Roy Featherstone
• Optimal Braking for Impact Force Reduction Using the Dynamics of Redundant Manipulators
  Seong-Hee Jeong, Takayuki Takahashi
• Stable Penalty-Based Model of Frictional Contacts
  Katsu Yamane, Yoshihiko Nakamura
• Proximity Queries between Convex Objects: An Interior Point Approach for Implicit Surfaces
  Nilanjan Chakraborty, Jufeng Peng, Srinivas Akella, John Mitchell

• Lydia E. Kavraki
• Hong Zhang

• A Visual Compass based on SLAM
  J.M.M. Montiel, Andrew J. Davison
• A Unified Framework for Nearby and Distant Landmarks in Bearing-Only SLAM
  Nikolas Trawny, Stergios I. Roumeliotis
• Active Control for Single Camera SLAM
  Teresa Vidal-Calleja, Andrew J. Davison, Juan Andrade-Cetto, David W. Murray
• Evaluation of Algorithms for Bearing-Only SLAM
  Kostas E. Bekris, Max Glick, Lydia E. Kavraki
• A Framework for Vision Based Bearing Only 3D SLAM
  P. Jensfelt, D. Kragic, J. Folkesson, M. Björkman
• Bearing-Only Landmark Initialization by Using SUF with Undistorted SIFT Features
  Xiang Wang, Hong Zhang

• Kazuo Tsuchiya
• Gordon Wyeth

• Semi-Analytic Method of Contact Modelling
  Douglas Turk, Gordon Wyeth
• Contact Consistent Control Framework for Humanoid Robots
  Jaeheung Park, Oussama Khatib
• Zero Moment Point Manipulability Ellipsoid
  Nirut Naksuk, C. S. George Lee
• A Universal Stability Criterion of the Foot Contact of Legged Robots - Adios ZMP
  Hirohisa Hirukawa, Shizuko Hattori, Kensuke Harada, Shuuji Kajita, Kenji Kaneko, Fumio Kanehiro, Kiyoshi Fujiwara, Mitsuharu Morisawa
• Computing 3-Legged Equilibrium Stances in Three-Dimensional Gravitational Environments
  Yizhar Or, Elon Rimon
• Feedback Control of a Simple Walking Model driven by an Oscillator
  Shinya Aoi, Kazuo Tsuchiya

• Jun Ota
• Ron Lumia

• Swing-Free Trajectory Generation for Dual Cooperative Manipulators using Dynamic Programming
  Daniel Zameroski, Gregory Starr, John Wood, Ron Lumia
• Self-Motion Graph in Path Planning for Redundant Robots along Specified End-Effector Paths
  Zhenwang Yao, Kamal Gupta
• Pushing using Compliance
  Dennis Nieuwenhuisen, A. Frank van der Stappen, Mark H. Overmars
• Manipulability Optimization for Trajectory Generation
  Luis Guilamo, James Kuffner, Koichi Nishiwaki, Satoshi Kagami
• Searching methodology with goal state optimization considering computational resource constraints - Application of the method to the task of rearranging several movable objects -
  Jun Ota
• Reactive Rearrangement of Parts under Sensor Inaccuracy: Particle Filter Approach
  Halûk Bayram, Aysin Ertüzün, H. Isil Bozma

• Yiannis Aloimonos
• Roger D. Quinn

• A Real-Time 3D IR Camera Based on Hierarchical Orthogonal Coding
  Sukhan Lee, Jongmoo Choi, Seungsub Oh, Jaehyuk Ryu, Jungrae Park
• Bi-modal search using complementary sensing (olfaction/vision) for odour source localisation.
  Gideon Kowadlo, David Rawlinson, R. Andy Russell, Ray Jarvis
• Simulated Odor Tracking in a Plane Normal to the Wind Direction
  Adam J. Rutkowski, Mark A. Willis, Roger D. Quinn
• Integration of Visual and Inertial Information for Egomotion: a Stochastic Approach
  Justin Domke, Yiannis Aloimonos
• CMOS+FPGA Vision System for Visual Feedback of Mechanical Systems
  Kazuhiro Shimizu, Shinichi Hirai
• An Ecological Approach to Odour Recognition in Intelligent Environments
  Mathias Broxvall, Silvia Coradeschi, Amy Loutfi, Alessandro Saffiotti

• Sanjiv Singh
• Volkan Isler

• Evaluation of a Large Scale Pervasive Embedded Network for Robot Path Planning
  Keith J. O’Hara, Victor Bigio, Shaun Whitt, Daniel Walker, Tucker Balch
• Range-Only SLAM for Robots Operating Cooperatively with Sensor Networks
  Joseph Djugash, Sanjiv Singh, George Kantor, Wei Zhang
• Towards the deployment of a mobile robot network with end-to-end performance guarantees
  Mong-ying A. Hsieh, Anthony Cowley, Vijay Kumar, Camillo J. Taylor
• Data Muling over Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks using an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
  Matthew Dunbabin, Peter Corke, Iuliu Vasilescu, Daniela Rus
• Pervasive Surveillance using a Cooperative Mobile Sensor Network
  Michael Huntwork, Amit Goradia, Ning Xi, Clayton Haffner, Chad Klochko, Matt Mutka
• Autonomous Enhancement of Disruption Tolerant Networks
  Brendan Burns, Oliver Brock, Brian Neil Levine

• Suguru Arimoto
• Shin'ichi Yuta

• Closed-loop Controller for a Bio-inspired Multi-fingered Underactuated Prosthesis
  C. Cipriani, F. Zaccone, G. Stellin, L. Beccai, G. Cappiello, M. C. Carrozza, P. Dario
• The CX-Space A Unified Paradigm for Grasping Using Multifingered Hands
  Arjang Hourtash
• Stable "Blind Grasping" of a 3-D Object under Non-Holonomic Constraints
  Suguru Arimoto, Morio Yoshida, Ji-Hun Bae
• A Unified Control Scheme for a Whole Robotic Arm-Fingers System in Grasping and Manipulation
  Ji-Hun Bae, Suguru Arimoto, Ryuta Ozawa, Masahiro Sekimoto, Morio Yoshida
• Two-Finger Caging of Concave Polygon
  Peam Pipattanasomporn, Attawith Sudsang
• A Grasp Planning for Picking up an Unknown Object for a Mobile Manipulator
  Kimitoshi Yamazaki, Masahiro Tomono, Takashi Tsubouchi, Shin'ichi Yuta

• K. P. Valavanis
• Joseph Yan

• A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Lift Generation in Flapping MAVs: Simulation Results
  Mehran Motamed, Joseph Yan
• A Multiplatform On-board Processing System for Miniature Unmanned Vehicles
  R. D. Garcia, K. P. Valavanis, M. Kontitsis
• Autonomous Hovering of a Fixed-Wing Micro Air Vehicle
  William E. Green, Paul Y. Oh
• Attitude estimation on SO(3) based on direct inertial measurements
  Tarek Hamel, Robert Mahony
• Feasibility Study of an Actuator for Flapping Flight Using Fluid-Structure Interaction Analysis
  Masaki Hamamoto, Yoshiji Ohta, Keita Hara, Toshiaki Hisada
• Sensor Selection and Placement for Failure Diagnosis in Networked Aerial Robots
  Nagarajan Kandasamy, Fadi A. Aloul, T. John Koo

• Harry Asada
• Farhad Aghili

• A Mechatronics Testbed for Manipulator Joints
  Farhad Aghili
• MACCEPA: The Mechanically Adjustable Compliance and Controllable Equilibrium Position Actuator for 'Controlled Passive Walking'
  Ronald Van Ham, Bram Vanderborght, Michaël Van Damme, Björn Verrelst, Dirk Lefeber
• Antagonistic Control of Multi-DOF Joint by Using the Actuator with Non-Linear Elasticity
  Koichi Koganezawa, Toshiki Nakazawa, Tomoya Inaba
• A 2-DOF Electrostatic Sheet Conveyer Using Wire Mesh for Desktop Automation
  Akio Yamamoto, Hisatomo Yoshioka, Toshiro Higuchi
• Design of Vast DOF Artificial Muscle Actuators with a Cellular Array Structure and Its Application to a Five-Fingered Robotic Hand
  Kyu-Jin Cho, Josiah Rosmarin, Harry Asada
• Wearable Tactile Display Based on Soft Actuator
  Igmo Koo, Kwangmok Jung, Jachoon Koo, Jea-do Nam, Youngkwan Lee, Hyouk Ryeol Choi

• Allison M. Okamura
• Rajiv Dubey

• Miniature Air Vehicle Obstacle Avoidance
  Randal W. Beard, Andrew M. Eldredge, Stephen R. Griffiths, Joseph A. Jackson, Timothy W. McLain, Jeffrey B. Saunders
• Miniature Air Vehicle Cooperative Timing Missions
  Randal W. Beard, Andrew M. Eldredge, Stephen R. Griffiths, Joseph A. Jackson, Timothy W. McLain, Derek R. Nelson
• A Hybrid MAV to Acquire Situational Awareness in Caves
  Tunnels and Urban Areas, William E. Green, Paul Y. Oh
• Some Flight Test Highlights 2002-2005: Georgia Tech School of Aerospace Engineering UAV Lab
  Eric N. Johnson
• Mechanical Hummingbird Project
  Sean McIntosh, Sunil Agrawal, Zaeem Khan
• Fixed- and Rotary-Wing UAVs at Hurricane Katrina
  Robin R. Murphy
• NAMOS: Networked Aquatic Microbial Observing System
  Amit Dhariwal, Bin Zhang, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Beth Stauffer, David Caron, Carl Oberg, Aristides Requicha
• A Vision for Saving the Reef - The Starbug AUV
  Matthew Dunbabin, Jonathan Roberts, Kane Usher, Peter Corke
• Climbing Walls with Microspines
  Alan T. Asbeck, Sangbae Kim, Arthur J. McClung, Mark R. Cutkosky
• Wall-Climbing Mini-Whegs(TM)
  Kathryn A. Daltorio, Stanislav Gorb, Andrei Peressadko, Andrew D. Horchler, Jason M. Funt, Roy E. Ritzmann, Roger D. Quinn
• Realisation of an Energy Efficient Walking Robot
  Edwin Dertien, Gijs van Oort, Stefano Stramigioli
• The CITY Climber: A New Generation of Climbing Robots
  Matthew Elliott, William Morris, Jizhong Xiao
• Dynamic Maneuvers in a 3D Galloping Quadruped Robot
  Darren Krasny

PM1

• Steve Hsia
• Kenji Kawashima

• Adaptive Jacobian Motion and Force Tracking Control for Constrained Robot with Uncertainties
  C. C. Cheah, Y. Zhao, J. J. E. Slotine
• A Two-Loop Implicit Force/Position Control Structure, Based on a Simple Linear Model: Theory and Experiment
  Rafael Osypiuk, Torsten Kröger, Bernd Finkemeyer, Friedrich M. Wahl
• A Passive Formulation of Force Control for Kinematically Constrained Manipulators
  Nabil Zemiti, Guillaume Morel, Barthélemy Cagneau, Delphine Bellot, Alain Micaelli
• Hybrid Vision-Force Robot Control for Tasks on Unknown Smooth Surfaces
  Antonio C. Leite, Fernando Lizarralde, Liu Hsu
• Development of 4-DOFs Forceps with Force Sensing using Pneumatic Servo System
  Kotaro Tadano, Kenji Kawashima
• Cutting, 'by Pressing and Slicing', Applied to the Robotic Cut of Bio-materials, Part II: Force during Slicing and Pressing Cuts
  Debao Zhou, Mark R. Claffee, Kok-Meng Lee, Gary V. McMurray

• Stergios I. Roumeliotis
• Monica Anderson

• Fast Iterative Alignment of Pose Graphs with Poor Initial Estimates
  Edwin Olson, John Leonard, Seth Teller
• nScan-Matching: Simultaneous Matching of Multiple Scans and Application to SLAM
  Peter Biber, Wolfgang Straßer
• On the Treatment of Relative-Pose Measurements for Mobile Robot Localization
  Anastasios I. Mourikis, Stergios I. Roumeliotis
• SLAM With Sparse Sensing
  Kristopher R. Beevers, Wesley H. Huang
• Scan matching in a probabilistic framework
  Andrea Censi
• Mapping large scale environments using relative position information among landmarks
  Shoudong Huang, Zhan Wang, Gamini Dissanayake

• Sunil K. Agrawal
• Bryan A. Jones

• Modeling of the Supporting Legs for Designing Biomimetic Water Strider Robots
  Yun Seong Song, Steve H. Suhr, Metin Sitti
• Construction and Control of Biomimetic Robotic Dolphin
  Junzhi Yu, Yonghui Hu, Ruifeng Fan, Long Wang, Jiyan Huo
• Working and Assembly Modes of the Agile Eye
  Ilian A. Bonev, Damien Chablat, Philippe Wenger
• Design of Flapping Mechanism Based on Transverse Bending Phenomena in Insects
  Zaeem A. Khan, Sunil K. Agrawal
• Geckobot: A Gecko Inspired Climbing Robot Using Elastomer Adhesives
  Ozgur Unver, Ali Uneri, Alper Aydemir, Metin Sitti
• Field Trials and Testing of the OctArm Continuum
  W. McMahan, V. Chitrakaran, M. Csencsits, D. Dawson , I. D. Walker, B. A. Jones, M. Pritts, D. Dienno, M. Grissom, C. D. Rahn

• Calin Belta
• James Kuffner

• A Greedy Strategy for Tracking a Locally Predictable Target among Obstacles
  Tirthankar Bandyopadhyay, Yuanping Li, Marcelo H. Ang Jr., David Hsu
• PRIDE: A Hierarchical, Integrated Prediction Framework for Autonomous On-Road Driving
  Craig Schlenoff, Raj Madhavan, Zeid Kootbally
• Oriented Visibility Graphs: Low-Complexity Planning in Real-Time Environments
  David Wooden, Magnus Edgerstedt
• Fast Generator of Multiple Collision-Free Trajectories in Dynamic Environments
  Enrique J. Bernabeu
• Anytime Path Planning and Replanning in Dynamic Environments
  Jur van den Berg, Dave Ferguson, James Kuffner
• Anytime Dynamic Path-Planning with Flexible Probabilistic Roadmaps
  Khaled Belghith, Froduald Kabanza, Leo Hartman, Roger Nkambou

• Nicholas Andreff
• Eduardo Bayro-Corrochano

• Nonholonomic Epipolar Visual Servoing
  G. López-Nicolás, C. Sagüés, J.J. Guerrero, D. Kragic, P. Jensfelt
• Omnidirectional Visual Servoing From Polar Lines
  H. Hadj-Abdelkader, Y. Mezouar, N. Andreff, P. Martinet
• A Quaternion Formulation for Homography-based Visual Servo Control
  G. Hu, W. E. Dixon, S. Gupta, N. Fitz-Coy
• Homography-based 2D Visual Servoing
  Selim Benhimane, Ezio Malis
• Robust Statistics for 3D Object Tracking
  Peter Preisig, Danica Kragic
• Particle Filter Based Object Tracking in a Stereo Vision System
  Anup S. Sabbi, Manfred Huber

• Vijay Kumar
• Lucia Pallottino

• A Decentralized Motion Coordination Strategy for Dynamic Target Tracking
  Timothy H. Chung, Joel W. Burdick, Richard M. Murray
• Distributed Coverage with Multi-Robot System
  Chan Sze Kong, New Ai Peng, Ioannis Rekleitis
• Totally distributed motion control of sphere world multi-agent systems using Decentralized Navigation Functions
  Dimos V. Dimarogonas, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos, Dimitris Theodorakatos
• Docking Station Relocation for Maximizing Longevity of Distributed Robotic Teams
  Andrew Drenner, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos
• Pattern Generation with Multiple Robots
  Mong-ying A. Hsieh, Vijay Kumar
• Probabilistic verification of a decentralized policy for conflict resolution in multi-agent systems
  Lucia Pallottino, Vincenzo Giovanni Scordio, Emilio Frazzoli, Antonio Bicchi

• Pekka Isto
• Kevin Lynch

• Study on Hemispherical Soft-Fingered Handling for Fine Manipulation by Minimum D.O.F. Robotic Hand
  Takahiro Inoue, Shinichi Hirai
• Soft Object Manipulation by Simultaneous Control of Motion and Deformation
  Mizuho Shibata, Shinichi Hirai
• Planning Motion in Completely Deformable Environments
  Samuel Rodríguez, Jyh-Ming Lien, Nancy M. Amato
• Efficient Continuous Re-grasp Planning for Moving and Deforming Planar Objects
  Tripuresh Mishra, Prithwijit Guha, Ashish Dutta, K. S. Venkatesh
• Motion Planning for Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Linear Objects
  Mitul Saha, Pekka Isto
• Manipulation Planning for Unraveling Linear Objects
  Hidefumi Wakamatsu, Akira Tsumaya, Eiji Arai, Shinichi Hirai

• Gaurav Sukhatme
• Paul Y. Oh

• A Hierarchical Control Strategy for the Autonomous Navigation of a Ducted Fan Flying Robot
  Jean Michel Pflimlin, Tarek Hamel, Philippe Soueres, Robert Mahony
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Modelling Based on Supervised Neural Networks
  R. San Martin, A. Barrientos, P.Gutierrez, J. del Cerro
• A Visual Servoing Approach for Tracking Features in Urban Areas Using an Autonomous Helicopter
  Luis Mejías, Srikanth Saripalli, Gaurav S. Sukhatme
• A Hardware-in-the-Loop Test Rig for Designing Near-Earth Aerial Robotics
  Vefa Narli, Paul Y. Oh
• An analysis of the zero-dynamics for visual servo control of a ducted fan UAV
  Abdelhamid Chriette
• Recursive Bayesian Search-and-Tracking Using Coordinated UAVs for Lost Targets
  Tomonari Furukawa, Frederic Bourgault, Benjamin Lavis, Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte

• Satoshi Murata
• Haruhisa Kurokawa

• The Deformatron Robot: a Biologically Inspired Homogeneous Modular Robot
  Kasper Støy
• Selecting a Meta-Module to Shape-Change the ATRON Self-Reconfigurable Robot
  David Johan Christensen, Kasper Støy
• Evolution of Shape-Changing and Self-Repairing Control for the ATRON Self-Reconfigurable Robot
  David Johan Christensen
• Discrete approximations to continuous curves
  Sean B. Andersson
• Multimode Locomotion via SuperBot Robots
  Wei-Min Shen, Maks Krivokon, Harris Chiu, Jacob Everist, Michael Rubenstein, Jagadesh Venkatesh
• Object Transport by Modular Robots that Self-assemble
  Roderich Groß, Elio Tuci, Marco Dorigo, Michael Bonani, Francesco Mondada

• Rajiv Dubey
• Michael Janssen

• Rugged Robotic Reconnaissance System
  Casey Carlson, Andrew Drenner, Ian Burt, Apostolos D. Kottas, Charles Hays, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos
• Using Real-Time Motion Capture for Humanoid Planning and Algorithm Visualization
  Joel Chestnutt, Philipp Michel, Koichi Nishiwaki, Mike Stilman, Satoshi Kagami, James Kuffer
• Ghostrider: Autonomous Motorcycle
  Anthony Levandowski, Andrew Schultz, Charles Smart, Alex Krasnov, Howard Chau, Bryon Majusiak, Frank Wang, Dezhen Song, Jingang Yi, Hyunnam Lee, Allen Parish
• Tumbleweed Rover Science Mission to Mars Dao Vallis
  Lee Reis, Alexander Boxerbaum, Thomas Hoeg, Lori Suthard, Jennifer Heldmann, Jeffrey Antol, Roger Quinn
• Robotic Astrobiology in the Atacama Desert
  David Wettergreen, James Teza, Brian Staszel
• Experiments in Instrumenting Wireless Sensor Networks for Real-Time Surveillance
  Phoebus Chen, Songhwai Oh, Michael Manzo, Bruno Sinopoli, Cory Sharp, Kamin Whitehouse, Gilman Tolle, Jaein Jeong, Prabal Dutta, Jonathan Hui, Shawn Schaffert, Sukun Kim, Jay Taneja, Bonnie Zhu, Tanya Roosta, Michael Howard, David Culler, Sahnkar Sastr
• Situational Awareness
  Anthony Cowley, Ani Hsieh, Jim Keller, Vijay Kumar, Camillo J. Taylor
• Cooperative Target Search, Identification, and Localization
  Ben Grocholsky, Vijay Kumar
• Advances in Unmanned Systems for the Office of Naval Research
  Matthew Johnson
• Adaptive Network of Heterogeneous Ground and Aerial Vehicles For Situational Awareness
  Vijay Kumar, Anthony Cowley, Luiz Chaimowicz, Ben Grocholsky, Ani Hsieh, Jim Keller, Camillo J. Taylor, Ron Arkin, Yoichiro Endo, Guarav Sukhatme, Boyoon Jung, Doug Mackenzie, Jason Redi
• Explorer Robots: Papa-man and Starfish Robot
  Li-Wei Wu, Yao-Hsien Chiu, Lai-Hui Sun, Yung-Jung Chang, Jung-Hung Cheng, Kai-shiang Huang, Cheng-Kang Wang, Chi-Yang Huang, George Wang, Dexter Lin
• Passive-type Intelligent Walker -RT Walker-
  Yasuhisa Hirata, Asami Hara, Asami Muraki, Kazuhiro Kosuge
• Autonomous Motion Generation for a Robotic Wheelchair
  Javier Minguez, Luis Montesano, Luis Montano
• Performance of a 7 DOF General Purpose Haptic Device
  Gregory Tholey, Jaydev P. Desai

PM2

• Suhada Jayasuriya
• Antti Koivo

• Adaptive Task-Space Regulation of Rigid-Link Flexible-Joint Robots with Uncertain Kinematics
  Chao Liu, Chien Chern Cheah, Jean-Jacques Slotine
• On Duality of Inverse Jacobian and Transpose Jacobian in Task-space Regulation of Robots
  C. C. Cheah
• Region Reaching Control for Robots with Uncertain Kinematics and Dynamics
  C. C. Cheah, Y. C. Sun
• Trajectory Tracking and Balance Stabilization Control of Autonomous Motorcycles
  Jingang Yi, Dezhen Song, Anthony Levandowski, Suhada Jayasuriya
• Passive Stabilization of Juggling-like Ball-Passing Task
  Hiroaki Hirai, Fumio Miyazaki
• Multi-Directional Stabilization of A Large-Scale Robotic Manipulator
  Mehrdad R. Kermani, Rajni V. Patel, Mehrdad Moallem

• Jing Xiao
• Juan D. Tardós

• Robust 3D Scan Point Classification using Associative Markov Networks
  Rudolph Triebel, Kristian Kersting, Wolfram Burgard
• Dense Object Modeling for 3-D Map Building Using Segment-based Surface Interpolation
  Masahiro Tomono
• Evaluation of Features through Grid Association for Building a Sonar Map
  Se-Jin Lee, Dong-Woo Cho, Wan-Kyun Chung, Yucheol Lee, Jong-Hwan Lim, Chul-Ung Kang, Won-Soo Yun
• View Planning for Automated Site Modeling
  Paul S. Blaer, Peter K. Allen
• 3D-Curves and Ruled Surfaces for Graphics and Robotics using Conformal Geometric Computing
  Luis Falcón-Morales, Eduardo Bayro-Corrochano
• Automatic Generation of Contact State Graphs Based on Curvature Monotonic Segmentation
  Peng Tang, Jing Xiao

• Katsushi Ikeuchi
• Oussama Khatib

• A Whole-Body Control Framework for Humanoids Operating in Human Environments
  Luis Sentis, Oussama Khatib
• Humanoid Robot Motion Generation with Sequential Physical Constraints
  Miti Ruchanurucks, Shinichiro Nakaoka, Shunsuke Kudoh, Katsushi Ikeuchi
• On the Walking Control for Humanoid Robot based on the Kinematic Resolution of CoM Jacobian with Embedded Motion
  Youngjin Choi, Doik Kim, Bum-Jae You
• Stepping Motion for a Human-like Character to Maintain Balance against Large Perturbations
  Shunsuke Kudoh, Taku Komura, Katsushi Ikeuchi
• High Frequency Walking Pattern Generation based on Preview Control of ZMP
  Koichi Nishiwaki, Satoshi Kagami
• Dynamics Simulation for a Biped Robot: Modeling and Experimental Verification
  Thomas Buschmann, Sebastian Lohmeier, Heinz Ulbrich, Friedrich Pfeiffer

• Amy Briggs
• Amir Shapiro

• Robot Navigation Using 1D Panoramic Images
  Amy Briggs, Yunpeng Li, Daniel Scharstein, Matt Wilder
• Qualitative Vision-Based Mobile Robot Navigation
  Zhichao Chen, Stanley T. Birchfield
• Embedded Vision System for Mobile Robot Navigation
  Naoyuki Sawasaki, Manabu Nakao, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Keiju Okabayashi
• MRSAM: A Quadratically Competitive Multi-Robot Online Navigation Algorithm
  Shahar Sarid, Amir Shapiro, Yoav Gabriely
• Particle Filter-based Heading Estimation using Magnetic Compasses for Mobile Robot Navigation
  Woong Kwon, Kyung-Shik Roh, Hak-Kyung Sung
• Perceptual Navigation Strategy for Mobile Robots Intercepting Ground Balls
  Zheng Wang, Abhay Paranjape, Thomas Sugar, Michael McBeath

• Muriel Pressigout
• François Chaumette

• 3D navigation based on a visual memory
  Anthony Remazeilles, François Chaumette, Patrick Gros
• Real-time 3D Model-Based Tracking: Combining Edge and Texture Information
  Muriel Pressigout, Éric Marchand
• 3D Pose Estimation for Robotic Applications Based on a Multi-Camera Hybrid Visual System
  Vincenzo Lippiello, Bruno Siciliano, Luigi Villani
• Uncalibrated Visual Tracking Control without Visual Velocity
  Hesheng Wang, Yun-Hui Liu
• Tracking Unobservable Rotations by Cue Integration
  Ville Kyrki, Danica Kragic
• Multi-Model Tracking Using Team Actuation Models
  Yang Gu, Manuela Veloso

• Radhika Nagpal
• Venkat Krovi

• AutoPower: Toward Energy-Aware Software Systems for Distributed Mobile Robots
  Keith J. O’Hara, Ripal Natuji, Himanshu Raj, Karsten Schwan, Tucker Balch
• Dynamics-Based Control of Robotic Swarms
  Bradley E. Bishop
• Vision-based Control Laws for Distributed Flocking of Nonholonomic Agents
  Nima Moshtagh, Ali Jadbabaie, Kostas Daniilidis
• Opening the Dialog: Robotics and the Internet
  Anthony Cowley, Hwa-chow Oliver Hsu, C. J. Taylor
• Dynamic Task Allocation for Robots via Auctions
  Maitreyi Nanjanath, Maria Gini
• Distributed Construction by Mobile Robots with Enhanced Building Blocks
  Justin Werfel, Yaneer Bar-Yam, Daniela Rus, Radhika Nagpal

• Yoky Matsuoka
• John M. Hollerbach

• Learning of demonstrated Grasping Skills by stereoscopic tracking of human hand configuration
  Markus Hueser, Tim Baier, Jianwei Zhang
• Grasp Recognition in Virtual Reality for Robot Pregrasp Planning by Demonstration
  Jacopo Aleotti, Stefano Caselli
• Evaluation of coordination between grasp and load forces in humans with a haptic interface
  Janez Podobnik, Marko Munih
• Dynamic Features and Prediction Model for Imaging Fingernail to Measure Fingertip Forces
  Yu Sun, John M. Hollerbach, Stephen A. Mascaro
• Learning EMG control of a robotic hand: Towards Active Prostheses
  Sebastian Bitzer, Patrick van der Smagt
• Enhanced Visual Error in a Coordinated Pinch Task
  Bambi R. Brewer, Roberta L. Klatzky, Yoky Matsuoka

• Paul Y. Oh
• K. P. Valavanis

• Stereo Based Obstacle Detection for an Unmanned Air Vehicle
  Jeffrey Byrne, Martin Cosgrove, Raman Mehra
• Vision-based Altitude and Pitch Estimation for Ultra-light Indoor Microflyers
  Antoine Beyeler, Claudio Mattiussi, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano
• Omnidirectional vision on UAV for attitude computation
  Cédric Demonceaux, Pascal Vasseur, Claude Pégard
• Image Processing Algorithms for UAV "Sense and Avoid"
  Ryan Carnie, Rodney Walker, Peter Corke
• Real Time Object Detection for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle using an FPGA based Vision System.
  Andrew Price, Jacob Pyke, David Ashiri, Terry Cornall
• Improving Vision-based Planar Motion Estimation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles through Online Mosaicing
  Fernando Caballero, Luis Merino, Joaquín Ferruz, Aníbal Ollero

• Harry Asada
• R. L. Hollis

• Robotic manipulators with remotely-actuated joints; Implementation using drive-shafts and u-joints
  Eftychios G. Christoforou, Nikolaos V. Tsekos
• Gravity-Balancing of Classes of Industrial Robots
  Abbas Fattah, Sunil K. Agrawal
• Impact Orientation Invariant Robot Design: An Approach to Projectile Deployed Robotic Platforms
  Ian Burt, Andrew Drenner, Casey Carlson, Apostolos D. Kottas, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos
• A Dynamically Stable Single-Wheeled Mobile Robot with Inverse Mouse-Ball Drive
  T. B. Lauwers, G. A. Kantor, R. L. Hollis
• Study on the 3D Shape of Active Cord Mechanism
  Hiroya Yamada, Shigeo Hirose
• Cutting, 'by Pressing and Slicing', Applied to Robotic Cutting Bio-materials, Part I: Modeling of Stress Distribution
  Debao Zhou, Mark R. Claffee, Kok-Meng Lee, Gary V. McMurray

• Andrew Drenner
• Dennis Hong

• Automated Grasping System for Unknown 3D Objects
  Gary M. Bone, Mark Edwards
• Localization for Robotic Assemblies with Position Uncertainty
  Siddharth R. Chhatpar, Michael S. Branicky
• Grasping, Manipulation, and Teleoperation Tasks using the OctArm Continuum Manipulator
  Bryan Jones
• Demonstration of Multi-Sensor Integration in Industrial Manipulation
  Torsten Kröger, Bernd Finkemeyer, Simon Winkelbach, Sven Molkenstruck, Lars-Oliver Eble, Friedrich M. Wahl
• Man-Machine Synergy Effector: Human Environment Interface as a Dynamics Converter
  Katsuya Kanaoka, Go Shirogauchi, Hiromichi Fujimoto, Haruji Nakamura, Takasuke Sonoyama
• A development of human-robot interaction components for URC intelligent service robots
  Keun-Chang Kwak, Do-Hyung Kim, Ho-Sub Yoon, Hye-Jin Kim, Kyung-Suk Bae, Jaeyeon Lee, Soo-Young Chi, Young-Jo Cho
• The Interaction of the Waseda Flutist Robot with Humans and Its Applications
  Jorge Solis, Kei Suefuji, Koichi Taniguchi, Atsuo Takanishi
• Digital Clay: Next Generation Human-computer Interface
  Haihong Zhu, Wayne J. Book
• Drive Modules for Low Diameter Pipe Inspection Multi-configurable Micro-robots
  A. Brunete, J.E.Torres, M.Hernando, E.Gambao
• M-TRAN: Self-reconfigurable Modular Robot
  Haruhisa Kurokawa, Kohji Tomita, Akiya Kamimura, Eiichi Yoshida, Satoshi Murata, Sigeru Kokaji
• Feasibility Experiments for the Biologically Inspired Whole Skin Locomotion
  Mark Showalter, Mark Ingram, Dennis Hong
• Pleated Pneumatic Artificial Muscles for Robotic Applications
  Bram Vanderborght
• Open Loop Climbing with Modular Robots
  Mark Yim, Rebecca Hinden, Caroline Conley, Chun Kai Wang, Kimon Roufas, Craig Eldershaw

2006-05-18

AM1

• Dong-Soo Kwon
• Martin Buss

• Passive Bilateral Teleoperation with Constant Time Delays
  Dongjun Lee, Mark W. Spong
• The Wave Variable Method for Multiple Degree of Freedom Teleoperation Systems with Time Delay
  Marc Alise, Rodney G. Roberts, Daniel Repperger
• A Force Reflection Algorithm for Improved Transparency in Bilateral Teleoperation with Communication Delay
  Ilia Polushin, Peter X. Liu, Chung-Horng Lung
• Discrete-time Multi-model Control for Cooperative Teleoperation under Time Delay
  Peyman Setoodeh, Shahin Sirouspour, Ali Shahdi
• Predictive Motion Display for Acceleration Based Teleoperation
  Yuichi Tsumaki, Mami Yokohama
• Lossy Data Reduction Methods for Haptic Telepresence Systems
  Martin Kuschel, Philipp Kremer, Sandra Hirche, Martin Buss

• Makoto Kaneko
• John M. Hollerbach

• An Ankle-Foot Emulation System for the Study of Human Walking Biomechanics
  Samuel K. Au, Peter Dilworth, Hugh Herr
• Classifying Knee Pathologies using Instantaneous Screws of the Six Degrees-of-Freedom Knee Motion
  Alon Wolf, Amir Degani
• The Control of Kinematically Constrained Shoulder Complexes: Physiological and Humanoid Examples
  Vincent De Sapio, Katherine Holzbaur, Oussama Khatib
• In-vivo Estimation of the Human Elbow Joint Dynamics during Passive Movements Based on the Musculo-skeltal Kinematics Computation
  Gentiane Venture, Katsu Yamane, Yoshihiko Nakamura
• Assessment of Human Hand Kinematics
  Mitja Veber, Tadej Bajd
• Contact Probe Based Stiffness Sensing of Human Eye
  Yuichi Kurita, Yoshichika Iida, Roland Kempf, Makoto Kaneko, Eiichiro Sugimoto, Hidetoshi Tsukamoto, Hiromu K. Mishima

• Rüdiger Dillmann
• Benjamin Kuipers

• On Learning the Statistical Representation of a Task and Generalizing it to Various Contexts
  Sylvain Calinon, Florent Guenter, Aude Billard
• Error-driven active learning in growing radial basis function networks for early robot learning
  Qinggang Meng, Mark Lee
• Autonomous Shape Model Learning for Object Localization and Recognition
  Joseph Modayil, Benjamin Kuipers
• Quasi-Online Reinforcement Learning for Robots
  Bram Bakker, Viktor Zhumatiy, Gabriel Gruener, Jüergen Schmidhuber
• Quadruped Robot Obstacle Negotiation via Reinforcement Learning
  Honglak Lee, Yirong Shen, Chih-Han Yu, Gurjeet Singh, Andrew Y. Ng
• Incremental Acquisition of Task Knowledge applying Heuristic Relevance Estimation
  M. Pardowitz, R. Zöllner, R. Dillmann

• Stefano Carpin
• Dinesh Manocha

• Efficient Continuous Collision Detection for Bounding Boxes under Rational Motion
  Dan Albocher, Uzi Sarel, Yi-King Choi, Gershon Elber, Wenping Wang
• A Performance Comparison of Three Algorithms for Proximity Queries relative to Convex Polyhedra
  Stefano Carpin, Claudio Mirolo, Enrico Pagello
• A Time-Budgeted Collision Detection Method
  Yu-Te Lin, Tsai-Yen Li
• Fast C-obstacle Query Computation for Motion Planning
  Liangjun Zhang, Young J. Kim, Gokul Varadhan, Dinesh Manocha
• Topology Preserving Approximation of Free Configuration Space
  Gokul Varadhan, Young J. Kim, Shankar Krishnan, Dinesh Manocha
• Voronoi Diagram and Fast Marching applied to Path Planning
  Santiago Garrido, Luis Moreno, Dolores Blanco

• Danica Kragic
• Eduardo Bayro-Corrochano

• 3D reconstruction of complex structures with bundle adjustment: an incremental approach
  Etienne Mouragnon, Maxime Lhuillier, Michel Dhome, Fabien Dekeyser, Patrick Sayd
• Uncertainty ellipsoids calculations for complex 3D reconstructions
  Maxime Lhuillier, Mathieu Perriollat
• A Method for Integrating Range Images with Different Resolutions for 3-D Model Construction
  Ken'ichi Morooka, Hiroshi Nagahashi
• Photo-realistic 3D Model Reconstruction
  Stephen Se, Piotr Jasiobedzki
• Towards 3D Motion Estimation From Deformable Surfaces
  Adrien Bartoli
• Online Environment Reconstruction for Biped Navigation
  Philipp Michel, Joel Chestnutt, Satoshi Kagami, Koichi Nishiwaki, James Kuffner, Takeo Kanade

• Gregory Dudek
• Miloš Žefran

• Placement and Distributed Deployment of Sensor Teams for Triangulation Based Localization
  Volkan Isler
• Distributed Algorithms for Sleep Scheduling in Wireless Sensor Networks
  Sumit Chachra, Michael Marefat
• A Practical Algorithm for Network Topology Inference
  Dimitri Marinakis, Gregory Dudek
• Stability Analysis of Information Based Control for Biochemical Source Localization
  Panos Tzanos, Miloš Žefran
• Optimal Information Propagation in Sensor Networks
  Peng Yang, Randy A. Freeman, Kevin M. Lynch
• Instrumenting Wireless Sensor Networks for Real-Time Surveillance
  Songhwai Oh, Phoebus Chen, Michael Manzo, Shankar Sastry

• Kazuo Kiguchi
• Yoky Matsuoka

• Design and Development of a 4 DOF Portable Haptic Interface with Multi-Point Passive Force Feedback for the Index Finger
  M. J. Lelieveld, T. Maeno
• On the use of an active wearable exoskeleton for tremor suppression via biomechanical loading
  E. Rocon, A. F. Ruiz, F. Brunetti, J. L. Pons, J. M. Belda-Lois, J. J. Sánchez-Lacuesta
• Neuro-Fuzzy based Motion Control of a Robotic Exoskeleton: Considering End-effector Force Vectors
  Kazuo Kiguchi, Mohammad Habibur Rahman, Makoto Sasaki
• ARMin – Robot for Rehabilitation of the Upper Extremities
  Tobias Nef, Matjaz Mihelj, Gery Colombo, Robert Riener
• Assessment of EEG Event-Related Desynchronization in Stroke Survivors Performing Shoulder-Elbow Movements
  Michael J. Fu, Janis J. Daly, M. Cenk Cavusoglu
• Design, Construction and Testing of a Wheelchair-Mounted Robotic Arm
  Kevin Edwards, Redwan Alqasemi, Rajiv Dubey

• Satoshi Kagami
• John Spletzer

• Home Robot Service by Ceiling Ultrasonic Locator and Microphone Array
  S. Kagami, S. Thompson, Y. Nishida, T. Enomoto, T. Matsui
• Remote Control of Backhoe for Rescue Activities Using Pneumatic Robot System
  Takahiro Sasaki, Takayuki Nagai, Kenji Kawashima
• Sideslip angles observer for vehicle guidance in sliding conditions: Application to agricultural path tracking tasks
  Roland Lenain, Benoit Thuilot, Christophe Cariou, Philippe Martinet
• Motion Cueing Algorithms For Small Driving Simulator
  L. Nehaoua, H. Arioui, S. Espie, H. Mohellebi
• Design of Cursive Characters Using Robotic Arm Dynamics as Generation Mechanism
  Hiroyuki Fujioka, Hiroyuki Kano
• Virtual Link Model for Redundantly Actuated Holonomic Omnidirectional Mobile Robots
  Masayoshi Wada

• Gianluca Antonelli
• Daniel J. Stilwell

• Underwater Transportation of Multiple Fish-like Robots Using Situation Based Action Selection
  Jinyan Shao, Long Wang, Junzhi Yu
• Adaptive/Integral Actions for 6-DOF Control of AUVs
  Gianluca Antonelli
• Mission Planning and Specification in the Neptus Framework
  Paulo Sousa Dias, Rui M. F. Gomes, José Pinto, Gil M. Gonçalves, Jaão Borges Sousa, Fernando Lobo Pereira
• Multi-objective Optimization of Sensor Quality With Efficient Marine Vehicle Task Execution
  Michael Benjamin, Matthew Grund, Paul Newman
• Preliminary Thruster Control Experiments for Underwater Vehicle Positioning
  Jinhyun Kim, Woong Hee Shon, Ho-Gil Lee, Wan Kyun Chung
• A Reactive Neural Network Architecture to Redundancy Resolution for Underwater Vehicle-Manipulator Systems
  Carlos Henrique dos Santos, Raul Guenther, Edson De Pieri

AM2

• Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
• Allison M. Okamura

• EMG-based Teleoperation of a Robot Arm in Planar Catching Movements using ARMAX Model and Trajectory Monitoring Techniques
  Panagiotis K. Artemiadis, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
• Task Skill Transfer Method Using a Bilateral Teleoperation
  Woo-Keun Yoon, Takashi Suehiro, Hiromu Onda, Kosei Kitagaki
• Accurate Force Reflection for Kinematically Dissimilar Bilateral Teleoperation Systems Using Instantaneous Restriction Space
  Keehoon Kim, Wan Kyun Chung, Il Hong Suh
• Size Discrimination in Haptic Teleoperation - influence of teleoperator stiffness
  Göran Christiansson, Ying Tang, Richard van der Linde
• Friction Compensation for a Force-Feedback Telerobotic System
  Mohsen Mahvash, Allison M. Okamura
• Wave Haptics: Using Motor Dynamics for Stiff Coupling to Virtual Environments
  Nicola Diolaiti, Günter Niemeyer

• Dongjun Lee
• John M. Hollerbach

• Bilateral Control of a Teleoperator for Soft Tissue Palpation: Design and Experiments
  Mahdi Tavakoli, Rajni Patel, Mehrdad Moallem
• Development of a Training System for Intraoral Radiography
  Tatsushi Tokuyasu, Motoji Yamamoto, Kazutoshi Okamura, Kazunori Yoshiura
• Haptic Modeling and Experimental Validation for Interactive Endodontic Simulation
  Min Li, Yun-Hui Liu
• Bilateral Teleoperation of a Wheeled Mobile Robot over Delayed Communication Network
  Dongjun Lee, Oscar Martinez-Palafox, Mark W. Spong
• Effects of Increased Device Dissipation on Haptic Two–Port Network Performance
  Lawrence J. Tognetti, Wayne J. Book
• Multirate Output Estimation for Real-Time Haptic Rendering
  Kyungno Lee, Doo Yong Lee

• Nicholas Roy
• Edward Grant

• An Iterative Learning Control Algorithm for Contour Tracking of Unknown Objects
  Antonio Visioli, Giacomo Ziliani, Giovanni Legnani
• Learning to Predict Slip for Ground Robots
  Anelia Angelova, Larry Matthies, Daniel Helmick, Gabe Sibley, Pietro Perona
• Transfer of Learning for Complex Task Domains: A Demonstration Using Multiple Robots
  Sameer Singh, Julie A. Adams
• Using Reinforcement Learning to Improve Exploration Trajectories for Error Minimization
  Thomas Kollar, Nicholas Roy
• Policies Based on Trajectory Libraries
  Martin Stolle, Christopher G. Atkeson
• Self-Organizing Approach for Robot's Behavior Imitation
  Sathit Wanitchaikit, Poj Tangamchit, Thavida Maneewarn

• Marcelo H. Ang
• K. Kozlowski

• Performance Prediction of a Wheeled Vehicle on Unknown Terrain Using Identified Soil Parameter
  Suksun Hutangkabodee, Yahya H. Zweiri, Lakmal D. Seneviratne, Kaspar Althoefer
• Wheel-Ground Interaction Modelling and Torque Distribution for a Redundant Mobile Robot
  Yuan Ping Li, Teresa Zielinska, Marcelo H. Ang Jr., Wei Lin
• An Agent-based Mobile Robot System Using Configurable SOC Technique
  Yan Meng
• Omni-directional robot with spherical orthogonal wheels: concepts and analyses
  Gilles Mourioux, Cyril Novales, Gérard Poisson, Pierre Vieyres
• Portable Effector Docking Mechanism for a Service Mobile Robot and Its Positioning
  Eijiro Takeuchi, Takashi Tsubouchi
• Stabilization of Two-Wheeled Mobile Robot Using Smooth Control Laws - Experimental Study
  K. Kozlowski, D. Pazderski

• Hong Zhang
• Randal W. Beard

• Adaptive Geometric Templates for Feature Matching
  Harini Veeraraghavan, Paul Schrater, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos
• Feature Representation Based on Intrinsic Structure Discovery in High Dimensional Space
  S. S. Ge, F. Guan, A. P. Loh, C. H. Fua
• Probabilistic Location Recognition using Reduced Feature Set
  Fayin Li, Jana Košecká
• Color Classification Using Adaptive Dichromatic Model
  Xiaohu Lu, Hong Zhang
• A Kalman-filter Based Method for Creation of Super-resolved Mosaicks
  Bryce B. Ready, Clark N. Taylor, Randal W. Beard
• Vision-based Control of a Smart Wheelchair for the Automated Transport and Retrieval System (ATRS)
  Humberto Sermeno-Villalta, John Spletzer

• Ken Goldberg
• Joel Burdick

• Aligning Windows of Live Video from an Imprecise Pan-Tilt-Zoom Robotic Camera into a Remote Panoramic Display
  Ni Qin, Dezhen Song, Ken Goldberg
• Image Extraction by Wide Angle Foveated Lens for Overt-Attention
  Sota Shimizu, Hao Jiang, Joel W. Burdick
• Non-intrusive Eye Gaze Estimation using a Projective Invariant under Head Movement
  Dong Hyun Yoo, Myung Jin Chung, Dan Byung Ju, In Ho Choi
• A Minimum Variance Calibration Algorithm for Pan-Tilt Robotic Cameras in Natural Environments
  Dezhen Song, Ni Qin, Ken Goldberg
• Foveated vision systems with two cameras per eye
  Aleš Ude, Chris Gaskett, Gordon Cheng
• Robot Skin Based on Touch-Area-Sensitive Tactile Element
  Takayuki Hoshi, Hiroyuki Shinoda

• H. Kazerooni
• Hugh Herr

• Control Scheme and Networked Control Architecture for the Berkeley Lower Extremity Exoskeleton (BLEEX)
  Ryan Steger, Sung Hoon Kim, H. Kazerooni
• System Identification for the Berkeley Lower Extremity Exoskeleton (BLEEX)
  Justin Ghan, H. Kazerooni
• Development of a lightweight, underactuated exoskeleton for load-carrying augmentation
  Conor James Walsh, Daniel Paluska, Kenneth Pasch, William Grand, Andrew Valiente, Hugh Herr
• Kinematics of a Robotic Gait Trainer for Stroke Rehabilitation
  Kartik Bharadwaj, Thomas G. Sugar
• Motion Control of Intelligent Passive-type Walker for Fall-prevention Function based on Estimation of User State
  Yasuhisa Hirata, Asami Muraki, Kazuhiro Kosuge
• Assist-as-needed Training Paradigms for Robotic Rehabilitation of Spinal Cord Injuries
  Lance L. Cai, Andy J. Fong, Yongqiang Liang, Joel Burdick, V. Reggie Edgerton

• Dong Sun
• Alessandro De Luca

• Motion Control of Nonholonomic Mobile Underactuated Manipulator
  Zhijun Li, Aiguo Ming, Ning Xi, Makoto Shimojo
• A New Motion Control Hardware Architecture with FPGA-Based IC Design for Robotic Manipulators
  Xiaoyin Shao, Dong Sun, James K. Mills
• Motion Control and Sensing Strategy for a Two-axle Compliant Framed Wheeled Modular Mobile Robot
  Xiaorui Zhu, Roy Merrell, Mark A. Minor
• The Motion Control Problem for the CyberCarpet
  Alessandro De Luca, Raffaella Mattone, Paolo Robuffo Giordano
• An Adaptive Law for Slope Identification and Force Position Regulation Using Motion Variables
  Yiannis Karayiannidis, Zoe Doulgeri
• Dual-Modal Control of Configuration-Dependent Linkage Vibration in a Smart Parallel Manipulator
  Xiaoyun Wang, James K. Mills

• George Kantor
• Paul M. Newman

• On the Performance of Color Tracking Algorithms for Underwater Robots under Varying Lighting and Visibility
  Junaed Sattar, Gregory Dudek
• AUV navigation through turbulent ocean environments supported by onboard H-ADCP
  Bartolome Garau, Alberto Alvarez, Gabriel Oliver
• Underwater 3D Mapping through Entropy Minimization
  Juan Manuel Sáez, Andrew Hogue, Francisco Escolano, Michael Jenkin
• Consistency Based Error Evaluation for Deep Sea Bathymetric Mapping with Robotic Vehicles
  Chris Roman, Hanumant Singh
• Towards Particle Filter SLAM with Three Dimensional Evidence Grids in a Flooded Subterranean Environment
  Nathaniel Fairfield, George Kantor, David Wettergreen
• Navigation of Unmanned Marine Vehicles in Accordance with the Rules of the Road
  Michael R. Benjamin, Joseph A. Curcio, John J. Leonard, Paul M. Newman

PM1

• Marjorie Skubic
• Ayanna M. Howard

• Role Allocation in Human-Robot Interaction Schemes for Mission Scenario Execution
  Ayanna M. Howard
• Using a Qualitative Sketch to Control a Team of Robots
  Marjorie Skubic, Derek Anderson, Samuel Blisard, Dennis Perzanowski, Alan Schultz
• Primitive Communication based on Motion Recognition and Generation with Hierarchical Mimesis Model
  Wataru Takano, Katsu Yamane, Tomomichi Sugihara, Kou Yamamoto, Yoshihiko Nakamura
• A Decision Fusion Classification Architecture for Mapping of Tongue Movements Based on Aural Flow Monitoring
  Ravi Vaidyanathan, Lalit Gupta, Hyunseok Kook, James West
• Behavior Modeling in Man-Machine Cooperative System based on Stochastic Switched Dynamics
  Naoyuki Yamada, Shinkichi Inagaki, Tatsuya Suzuki, Hiroyuki Okuda, Soichiro Hayakawa, Nuio Tsuchida
• Speaker Attention System for Mobile Robots Using Microphone Array and Face Tracking
  Kai-Tai Song, Jwu-Sheng Hu, Chi-Yi Tsai, Chung-Min Chou, Chieh-Cheng Cheng, Wei-Han Liu, Chia-Hsing Yang

• Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi
• Wei-Min Shen

• Genetic Code Based Coding and Mathematical Formulation for DNA Computation
  Mingjun Zhang, Maggie X. Cheng, T. J. Tarn
• High-Speed Focusing of Cells Using Depth-From-Diffraction Method
  Hiromasa Oku, Theodorus, Koichi Hashimoto, Masatoshi Ishikawa
• Learning Interaction Force Model for Endodontic Shaping with Support Vector Regression
  Min Li, Yun-Hui Liu
• Kinematic Approach for the Evaluation of Human Visual Perceptibility in the Workspace
  Behdad Masih-Tehrani, Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi
• Synthesizing Dance Performance Using Musical and Motion Features
  Takaaki Shiratori, Atsushi Nakazawa, Katsushi Ikeuchi
• A system for converting robot 'emotion' into facial expressions
  Hiroshi Shibata, Masayoshi Kanoh, Shohei Kato, Hidenori Itoh

• Minoru Asada
• Yacine AMIRAT

• Optimization and design methodology of fuzzy controller for industrial robotic tasks
  Youcef Touati, Yacine Amirat
• A neurally controlled robot competes and cooperates with humans in Segway Soccer
  Jason Fleischer, Botond Szatmáry, Donald Hutson, Douglas Moore, James Snook, Gerald M. Edelman, Jeffrey Krichmar
• Neural Network Learning from Hint for the Cyclic Motion of the Constrained Redundant Arm
  Samy F. M. Assal
• Exergy and Irreversible Entropy Production Thermodynamic Concepts for Control System Design: Robotic Servo Applications
  Rush D. Robinett, III, David G. Wilson
• Learning Humanoid Motion Dynamics through Sensory-Motor Mapping in Reduced Dimensional Spaces
  Rawichote Chalodhorn, David B. Grimes, Gabriel Y. Maganis, Rajesh P. N. Rao, Minoru Asada
• Support Vector Network Enhanced Adaptive Friction Compensation
  G. L. Wang, Y. F. Li, D. X. Bi

• Takashi Tsubouchi
• Stergios I. Roumeliotis

• Dynamic Stability of Off-Road Vehicles: A Geometric Approach
  Moshe P. Mann, Zvi Shiller
• An Analysis of Rollover Stability Measurement for High-Speed Mobile Robots
  Steven C. Peters, Karl Iagnemma
• Velocity and Orientation Control of an Anti-Tilting Mobile Robot Moving on an Inclined Plane
  Danielle S. Nasrallah, Jorge Angeles, Hannah Michalska
• Stable Switching Contour-Following Controller for Wheeled Mobile Robots
  Juan Marcos Toibero, Ricardo Carelli, Benjamin Kuchen
• Extension of Reeds & Shepp Paths to a Robot with Front and Rear Wheel Steer
  Siddharth Sanan, Darshan Santani, K. Madhava Krishna, Henry Hexmoor
• Docking Task for Nonholonomic Mobile Robots
  Olivier Lefebvre, Florent Lamiraux

• Nicholas Andreff
• Sukhan Lee

• Simultaneous Pose and Velocity Measurement by Vision for High-Speed Robots
  Omar Ait-Aider, Nicolas Andreff, Philippe Martinet, Jean-Marc Lavest
• A Framework for Human Pose Estimation by Integrating Data-Driven Markov Chain Monte Carlo with Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm
  Shih-Shinh Huang, Li-Chen Fun, Pei-Yung Hsiao
• Pose Estimation From less than Six Non Coplanar Points
  Omar Tahri, Christophe Leroux, Jean Marc Alexandre
• Increasing Pose Estimation Performance using Multi-cue Integration
  Fredrik Vikstén, Robert Söderberg, Klas Nordberg, Christian Perwass
• 3D Object Recognition using Multiple Features for Robotic Manipulation
  Sukhan Lee, Eunyoung Kim, Yeonchool Park
• Real Time, Online Detection of Abandoned Objects in Public Areas
  Nathaniel Bird, Stefan Atev, Nicolas Caramelli, Robert Martin, Osama Masoud, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos

• Nilanjan Sarkar
• John E. McInroy

• Fault detection for mobile robots using redundant positioning systems
  Paul Sundvall, Patric Jensfelt
• Distributed Diagnosis of Coupled Mobile Robots
  Matthew Daigle, Xenofon Koutsoukos, Gautam Biswas
• Robust Fault Detection of Robotic Systems: New Results and Experiments
  Bibhrajit Halder, Nilanjan Sarkar
• Orthogonal Gough-Stewart Platforms with Optimal Fault Tolerant Manipulability
  Chinmay S. Ukidve, John E. McInroy, Farhad Jafari
• Particle Filtering for Adaptive Sensor Fault Detection and Identification
  Tao Wei, Yufei Huang, Philip Chen
• Software Components and Frameworks for Medical Robot Control
  Ankur Kapoor, Anton Deguet, Peter Kazanzides

• Kiyoyuki Chinzei
• R. Gassert

• Numerical Simulations and Lab Tests for Design of MR-Compatible Robots
  Kiyoyuki Chinzei, Kiyoshi Yoshinaka, Toshikatsu Washio
• A 2-DOF fMRI Compatible Haptic Interface to Investigate the Neural Control of Arm Movements
  R. Gassert, L. Dovat, O. Lambercy, Y. Ruffieux, D. Chapuis, G. Ganesh, E. Burdet, H. Blueler
• Active Mechatronic Interface for Haptic Perception Studies with Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Compatibility and Design Criteria
  R. Gassert, N. Vanello, D. Chapuis, V. Hartwig, E. Scilingo, A. Bicchi, L. Landini, E. Burdet, H. Bleuler
• Manipulator for Magnetic Resonance Imaging Guided Interventions: Design, Prototype and Feasibility
  Eftychios G. Christoforou, Alpay Özcan, Nikolaos V. Tsekos
• A Hybrid Method for 6-DOF Tracking of MRI-Compatible Robotic Interventional Devices
  A. Krieger, G. Metzger, G. Fichtinger, E. Atalar, L. L. Whitcomb
• MR Compatible Manipulandum with Ultrasonic Motor for fMRI studies.
  Jun Izawa, Takahiro Shimizu, Toshiyuki Aodai, Toshiyuki Kondo, Hiroaki Gomi, Shigeki Toyama, Koji Ito

• Sunil K. Agrawal
• Steven Dubowsky

• Autonomous Capture of a Tumbling Satellite
  Guy Rouleau, Ioannis Rekleitis, Régent L'Archevêque, Eric Martin, Kourosh Parsa, Erick Dupuis
• Point-to-Point Planning: Methodologies for Underactuated Space Robots
  Ioannis Tortopidis, Evangelos Papadopoulos
• Design of a Differentially Flat Open-Chain Space Robot with Arbitrarily Oriented Joints and Two Momentum Wheels at the Base
  Sunil K. Agrawal, Kaustubh Pathak, Jaume Franch, Roberto Lampariello, Gerd Hirzinger
• Identification of Actuation Efforts using Limited Sensory Information for Space Robots
  P. Boning, S. Dubowsky
• ROKVISS - Robotics Component Verification on ISS Current Experimental Results on Parameter Identification
  A. Albu-Schäffer, W. Bertleff, B. Rebele, B. Schäfer, K. Landzettel, G. Hirzinger
• Satellite Simulator with a Hydraulic Manipulator
  Farhad Aghili, Mehrzad Namvar, George Vukovich

• Gunter Niemeyer
• Satoshi Tadokoro

• Improving Telerobotic Touch Via High-Frequency Acceleration Matching
  Katherine J. Kuchenbecker, Günter Niemeyer
• Reflective Grasp Force Control of Humans Induced by Distributed Vibration Stimuli on Finger Skin with ICPF Actuators
  Nakamoto Masataka, Masashi Konyo, Takashi Maeno, Satoshi Tadokoro
• A Compact Tactile Display for the Blind with Shape Memory Alloys
  Ramiro Velázquez, Edwige E. Pissaloux, Michael Wiertlewski
• Development of Supermedia Interface for Telediagnostics of Breast Pathology
  Nandagopal S. Methil, Yantao Shen, Danyu Zhu, Craig A. Pomeroy, Ranjan Mukherjee, Ning Xi, Matt Mutka
• Quantitative Tactile Display Device with Pin-Array Type Tactile Feedback and Thermal Feedback
  Gi-Hun Yang, Ki-Uk Kyung, Mandayam A. Srinivasan, Dong-Soo Kwon
• A touch rendering device in a virtual environment with kinesthetic and thermal feedback
  Johann Citérin, Aurélien Pocheville, A. Kheddar

PM2

• Masaru Uchiyama
• William R. Hamel

• Modeling Intuitive Behavior for Safe Human/Robot Coexistence and Cooperation
  Dominik Henrich, Stefan Kuhn
• Power Assist System for Sinusoidal Motion by Passive Element and Impedance Control
  Mitsunori Uemura, Katsuya Kanaoka, Sadao Kawamura
• Force-Presentation Method for Active Polyhedron for Realizing Physical Human-Machine Interaction
  Hiroshi Ogawa, Kazuyoshi Kosaka, Koichi Suzumori, Takefumi Kanda
• Human-in-the-loop Pose Control of a Non-holonomic Vehicle
  Kane Usher
• Augmented Reality Visualisation for Player
  T. H. J. Collett, B. A. MacDonald
• Task Teaching System for a Force-Controlled Parallel Robot Using Multiple Teaching Modes with Human Demonstration Data
  Daisuke Sato, Ryosuke Kobayashi, Akira Kobayashi, Masaru Uchiyama

• Takanori Shibata
• Hideki Hashimoto

• Robot Therapy in a Care House - Its Sociopsychological and Physiological Effects on the Residents
  Kazuyoshi Wada, Takanori Shibata
• A Sociable Robot to Encourage Social Interaction among the Elderly
  Cory D. Kidd, Will Taggart, Sherry Turkle
• Constraint Optimization Coordination Architecture for Search and Rescue Robotics
  Mary Koes, Illah Nourbakhsh, Katia Sycara
• 3D-Free Rescue Robot System
  Takanori Kiyota, Noboru Sugimoto, Mie Someya
• Fast localization of avalanche victims using Sum of Gaussians
  Pedro Piniés, Juan D. Tardós
• Coordinated Motion of a New Staircase Climbing Wheelchair with Increased Passenger Comfort
  R. Morales, V. Feliu, A. González, P. Pintado

• Hirohiko Arai
• Kazuhiro Kosuge

• Very Low Compliance Force Control On a CNC Lathe Machine
  Daniel Hanafi, Jayantha Katupitiya
• Static Analysis of Contact Forces With a Mobile Manipulator
  Bryan J. Thibodeau, Patrick Deegan, Roderic Grupen
• Contact task stability and maintenance with a compliant surface using a switched one dof robot model
  Zoe Doulgeri, Georgre Iliadis
• Generalized Contact Force Estimator for a Robot Manipulator
  J. Gámez García, A. Robertsson, J. Gómez Ortega, R. Johansson
• An Admittance Design Approach to Dynamic Assembly of Polyhedral Parts with Uncertainty
  Masayuki Shimizu, Kazuhiro Kosuge
• Force-controlled Metal Spinning Machine Using Linear Motors
  Hirohiko Arai

• Raja Chatila
• Gianluca Antonelli

• A Bioinspired Concept for High Efficiency Locomotion in Micro Robots: the Jumping Robot Grillo
  Umberto Scarfogliero, Cesare Stefanini, Paolo Dario
• PAW: a Hybrid Wheeled-Leg Robot
  James Andrew Smith, Inna Sharf, Michael Trentini
• Compliance Requirements for Non-Rebounding Impact in Legged Locomotion
  Pedro Bergés, Alan Bowling
• Performance Measure For The Evaluation of Mobile Robot Autonomy
  Alexandre Lampe, Raja Chatila
• Remote-Collaboration System Using Mobile Robot with Camera and Projector
  Tamotsu Machino, Satoshi Iwaki, Hiroaki Kawata, Yoshimasa Yanagihara, Yoshito Nanjo, Ken-ichiro Shimokura
• Simultaneous Localization and Mapping with Environmental Structure Prediction
  H. Jacky Chang, C. S. George Lee, Yung-Hsiang Lu, Y. Charlie Hu

• Li-Chen Fu
• Simon Léonard

• Optical Flow and Active Contour for Moving Object Segmentation and Detection in Monocular Robot
  Polley R. Liu, Max Q.-H. Meng, Peter X. Liu, Fanny F.L. Tong, Xiaona Wang
• Integration of Dependent Bayesian Filters for Robust Tracking
  Francesc Moreno-Noguer, Alberto Sanfeliu, Dimitris Samaras
• Real-Time Object Detection using Segmented and Grayscale Images
  Juan Fasola, Manuela Veloso
• Visual Tracking with Probabilistic Data Association Filter Based on the Circular Hough Transform
  Cheng-Ming Huang, Chuan-Wen Lai, Li-Chen Fu
• Homography-based Ground Detection for A Mobile Robot Platform Using a Single Camera
  Jin Zhou, Baoxin Li
• Adaptive Control for Estimating Translation from Image-Based Variations
  Simon Léonard, Martin Jägersand

• Alexandre Krupa
• Shinichi Hirai

• Towards Ultrasound Image-Based Visual Servoing
  Wael Bachta, Alexandre Krupa
• An approach to visual servoing based on coded light
  Jordi Pagès, Christophe Collewet, François Chaumette, Joaquim Salvi
• Dynamic Tracking of Manipulators Using Visual Feedback from an Uncalibrated Fixed Camera
  Yun-Hui Liu, Hesheng Wang, Dongxiang Zhou
• Kinematics and Diferential Kinematics of Binocular Robot Heads
  Julio Zamora-Esquivel, Eduardo Bayro-Corrochano
• Automatic Calibration of a Robotized 3D Ultrasound Imaging System by Visual Servoing
  Alexandre Krupa
• Visual Servoing over Unknown, Unstructured, Large-scale Scenes
  Geraldo Silveira, Ezio Malis, Patrick Rives

• Koji Ikuta
• Howie Choset

• Actuation Compensation for Flexible Surgical Snake-like Robots with Redundant Remote Actuation
  Kai Xu, Nabil Simaan
• Mobile In Vivo Biopsy Robot
  Mark E. Rentschler, Jason Dumpert, Stephen R. Platt, Dmitry Oleynikov, Shane M. Farritor, Karl Iagnemma
• Multi-degree of Freedom Hydraulic Pressure Driven Safety Active Catheter
  Koji Ikuta, Hironobu Ichikawa, Katsuya Suzuki, Daisuke Yajima
• Highly Articulated Robotic Probe for Minimally Invasive Surgery
  Amir Degani, Howie Choset, Alon Wolf, Marco A. Zenati
• Development of a K-Wire guiding robotic system for scaphoid fracture reduction
  Shin'ichi Warisawa, Takeshi Nishida, Yuuki Kurahashi, Mamoru Mitsuishi, Hiroyuki Hashizume, Masanobu Watanabe
• A Hands-On-Robot for Accurate Placement of Pedicle Screws
  T. Ortmaier, H. Weiss, U. Hagn, M. Grebenstein, M. Nickl, A. Albu-Schäffer, C. Ott, S. Jörg, R. Konietschke, Luc le-Tien, G. Hirzinger
• A Device for Robot-Assisted Minimally-Invasive Lung Brachytherapy
  Ana Luisa Trejos, Rajni Patel, Richard Malthaner

• Geir Hovland
• Paul Bosscher

• Kinematic and Static Analysis of a Planar Modular 2-DoF Tensegrity Mechanism
  Marc Arsenault, Clément M. Gosselin
• Kinematic Error Calibration of the Gantry-Tau Parallel Manipulator
  Iain Williams, Geir Hovland, Torgny Brogårdh
• Disturbance Robustness Measures for Underconstrained Cable-Driven Robots
  Paul Bosscher, Imme Ebert-Uphoff
• A Systematic Analytical Method for PKM Stiffness Matrix Calculation
  Dominique Deblaise, Xavier Hernot, Patrick Maurine
• A MANIPULATOR PERFORMANCE INDEX BASED ON THE JACOBIAN RATE OF CHANGE: A MOTION PLANNING ANALYSIS
  René V. Mayorga, Johnatan Carrera
• Analysis of Two 3-DOF Parallel Mechanisms with Constrained Stewart Platform Structure
  Seok-Hee Lee, Whee-Kuk Kim, Byung-Ju Yi, Il-Hong Suh

• Pedro Lima
• Douglas P. Perrin

• Velocity Estimation by using Imperfect Accelerometer and Encoder for Rigid Contact Modeling and Control
  Wen-Hong Zhu, Tom Lamarche
• Continuous Motion, Outdoor, 2½D Grid Map Generation Using an Inexpensive Nodding 2-D Laser Rangefinder
  Gregory Broten, Jack Collier
• Inverse Reinforcement Learning with Evaluation
  Valdinei Freire da Silva, Anna Helena Reali Costa, Pedro Lima
• Performance of a Solar-Powered Robot for Polar Instrument Networks
  J. H. Lever, A. Streeter, L. R. Ray
• Spatial Memory: An Aid System for Human Activity in Intelligent Space
  Mihoko Niitsuma, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Hideki Hashimoto
• Validation and Explanation of Waterhammer-Based Locomotion
  Ross L. Feller, Douglas P. Perrin, Robert D. Howe
• Human Motion Recognition with a Convolution Kernel
  Dongwei Cao, Osama T. Masoud, Daniel Boley