ICRA 2009: Kobe, Japan

Slam - I

• Andrea Censi:
  On achievable accuracy for pose tracking. 1-7
  
• Emanuele Menegatti, Andrea Zanella, Stefano Zilli, Francesco Zorzi, Enrico Pagello:
  Range-only SLAM with a mobile robot and a Wireless Sensor Networks. 8-14
  
• Karl Granström, Jonas Callmer, Fabio T. Ramos, Juan I. Nieto:
  Learning to detect loop closure from range data. 15-22
  
• Martin Magnusson, Henrik Andreasson, Andreas Nüchter, Achim J. Lilienthal:
  Appearance-based loop detection from 3D laser data using the normal distributions transform. 23-28
  
• Jwu-Sheng Hu, Chen-Yu Chan, Cheng-Kang Wang, Chieh-Chih Wang:
  Simultaneous localization of mobile robot and multiple sound sources using microphone array. 29-34
  

Computer Vision for Robotics and Automation - I

• Graziano Chesi:
  Estimation of the camera pose from image point correspondences through the essential matrix and convex optimization. 35-40
  
• Tingting Xu, Thomas Pototschnig, Kolja Kühnlenz, Martin Buss:
  A high-speed multi-GPU implementation of bottom-up attention using CUDA. 41-47
  
• Alvaro Collet, Dmitry Berenson, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa, Dave Ferguson:
  Object recognition and full pose registration from a single image for robotic manipulation. 48-55
  
• Andreas Ess, Bastian Leibe, Konrad Schindler, Luc J. Van Gool:
  Moving obstacle detection in highly dynamic scenes. 56-63
  

Intelligent Transportation Systems

• Hocine Imine, Abdelaziz Benallegue, Tarek Madani, Salim Srairi:
  Rollover risk prediction of an instrumented heavy vehicle using high order sliding mode observer. 64-69
  
• Alexis Scheuer, Olivier Simonin, François Charpillet:
  Safe longitudinal platoons of vehicles without communication. 70-75
  
• Gwennael Gate, Amaury Breheret, Fawzi Nashashibi:
  Centralized fusion for fast people detection in dense environment. 76-81
  
• Vishnu Desaraju, Hyun Chul Ro, Zhiwei Mark Yang, Xu Qiang Edwin Tay, Stephanie Roth, Domitilla Del Vecchio:
  Partial order techniques for vehicle collision avoidance: Application to an autonomous roundabout test-bed. 82-87
  

Collision Avoidance - I

• Oren Gal, Zvi Shiller, Elon Rimon:
  Efficient and safe on-line motion planning in dynamic environments. 88-93
  
• Jorge L. Piovesan, Herbert G. Tanner:
  Randomized model predictive control for robot navigation. 94-99
  
• Luis Martinez-Gomez, Thierry Fraichard:
  Collision avoidance in dynamic environments: An ICS-based solution and its comparative evaluation. 100-105
  
• Russell Gayle, William Moss, Ming C. Lin, Dinesh Manocha:
  Multi-robot coordination using generalized social potential fields. 106-113
  
• Tasuku Yamawaki, Yusuke Tsuzuki, Masahito Yashima:
  Robust hitting with dynamics shaping. 114-119
  
• Mitsuru Higashimori, Yasutaka Omoto, Makoto Kaneko:
  Non-grasp manipulation of deformable object by using pizza handling mechanism. 120-125
  

Dexterous Manipulation - I

• Kenta Tanaka, Yasuyuki Kihara, Yasuyoshi Yokokohji:
  Synthesizing a desired trajectory and sensory feedback control laws for an origami-folding robot based on the statistical characteristics of direct teaching by a human. 126-133
  
• Mizuho Shibata, Tsuyoshi Ota, Shinichi Hirai:
  Wiping motion for deformable object handling. 134-139
  
• Abdullah Özer, Hirohiko Arai:
  Robotic metal spinning-experimental implementation using an industrial robot arm. 140-145
  

Manufacturing

• Eric Barnett, Jorge Angeles, Damiano Pasini, Pieter Sijpkes:
  Robot-assisted Rapid Prototyping for ice structures. 146-151
  
• Jeffrey Too Chuan Tan, Feng Duan, Ye Zhang, Ryu Kato, Tamio Arai:
  Task modeling approach to enhance man-machine collaboration in cell production. 152-157
  
• Lara S. Crawford, Haitham A. Hindi, Rong Zhou, Dan Larner:
  Synchronized control in a large-scale networked distributed printing system. 158-163
  

Smart Actuators - I

• Liang Yan, I-Ming Chen, Chee Kian Lim, Guilin Yang, Wei Lin, Kok-Meng Lee:
  Torque modeling and analysis of spherical cctuators with iron stator. 164-169
  
• Devin Neal, H. Harry Asada:
  Nonlinear, large-strain PZT actuators using controlled structural buckling. 170-175
  
• Thomas W. Secord, H. Harry Asada:
  A variable stiffness PZT cellular actuator with tunable resonance for cyclic motion tasks. 176-181
  
• Bong-Soo Kang, Curt S. Kothera, Benjamin K. S. Woods, Norman M. Wereley:
  Dynamic modeling of Mckibben pneumatic artificial muscles for antagonistic actuation. 182-187
  

Marine Robotics

• Xinping Bao, Kenzo Nonami, Zhenyu Yu:
  Combined yaw and roll control of an autonomous boat. 188-193
  
• Aaron M. Hanai, Song K. Choi, Giacomo Marani, Kaikala H. Rosa:
  Experimental validation of model-based thruster fault detection for underwater vehicles. 194-199
  
• Andrés Faiña, Daniel Souto, Álvaro Deibe, Fernando López-Peña, Richard J. Duro, Xulio Fernández:
  Development of a climbing robot for grit blasting operations in shipyards. 200-205
  
• Jnaneshwar Das, Gaurav S. Sukhatme:
  A robotic sentinel for benthic sampling along a transect. 206-213
  
• Stefan B. Williams, Oscar Pizarro, Martin How, Duncan Mercer, George Powell, Justin Marshall, Roger Hanlon:
  Surveying noctural cuttlefish camouflage behaviour using an AUV. 214-219
  

AI Reasoning Methods - I

• Paulo Santos, Hannah M. Dee, Valquiria Fenelon:
  Qualitative robot localisation using information from cast shadows. 220-225
  
• Brenna Argall, Brett Browning, Manuela M. Veloso:
  Automatic weight learning for multiple data sources when learning from demonstration. 226-231
  
• Ian Yen-Hung Chen, Bruce A. MacDonald, Burkhard Wünsche:
  Mixed reality simulation for mobile robots. 232-237
  
• Jaesik Choi, Eyal Amir:
  Combining planning and motion planning. 238-244
  
• Robert Johansson, Alessandro Saffiotti:
  Navigating by stigmergy: A realization on an RFID floor for minimalistic robots. 245-252
  

Physical Human-Robot Interaction - I

• Nicolas Lauzier, Martin Grenier, Clément Gosselin:
  2 DOF cartesian force limiting device for safe physical human-robot interaction. 253-258
  
• Riccardo Schiavi, Antonio Bicchi, Fabrizio Flacco:
  Integration of active and passive compliance control for safe human-robot coexistence. 259-264
  
• Xavier Lamy, Frédéric Colledani, Franck Geffard, Yvan Measson, Guillaume Morel:
  Achieving efficient and stable comanipulation through adaptation to changes in human arm impedance. 265-271
  
• Sami Haddadin, Alin Albu-Schäffer, Mirko Frommberger, Jürgen Rossmann, Gerd Hirzinger:
  The "DLR Crash Report": Towards a standard crash-testing protocol for robot safety - Part I: Results. 272-279
  
• Sami Haddadin, Alin Albu-Schäffer, Mirko Frommberger, Jürgen Rossmann, Gerd Hirzinger:
  The "DLR crash report": Towards a standard crash-testing protocol for robot safety - Part II: Discussions. 280-287
  
• Jacopo Aleotti, Stefano Caselli:
  On the potential of physics-based animation for task programming in virtual reality. 288-293
  
• Jumpei Arata, Hiroyuki Kondo, Masamichi Sakaguchi, Hideo Fujimoto:
  Development of a haptic device "DELTA-4" using parallel link mechanism. 294-300
  

Haptics and Haptic Interfaces - I

• Heike Vallery, Alexander Duschau-Wicke, Robert Riener:
  Optimized passive dynamics improve transparency of haptic devices. 301-306
  
• Greg Billette, Clément Gosselin:
  Producing rigid contacts in cable-driven haptic interfaces using impact generating reels. 307-312
  
• Joachim von Zitzewitz, Georg Rauter, Reto Steiner, Andreas Brunschweiler, Robert Riener:
  A versatile wire robot concept as a haptic interface for sport simulation. 313-318
  
• Rafik Mebarki, Alexandre Krupa, François Chaumette:
  Modeling and 3D local estimation for in-plane and out-of-plane motion guidance by 2D ultrasound-based visual servoing. 319-325
  

Visual Servoing - I

• Moslem Kazemi, Kamal K. Gupta, Mehran Mehrandezh:
  Global path planning for robust Visual Servoing in complex environments. 326-332
  
• Juan-Bernardo Gómez, Alexánder Ceballos, Flavio Prieto, Tanneguy Redarce:
  Mouth gesture and voice command based robot command interface. 333-338
  
• Brian C. Becker, Sandrine Voros, Robert A. MacLachlan, Gregory D. Hager, Cameron N. Riviere:
  Active guidance of a handheld micromanipulator using visual servoing. 339-344
  
• Haiyan Wu, Tianguang Zhang, Alexander Borst, Kolja Kühnlenz, Martin Buss:
  An explorative study of visual servo control with insect-inspired Reichardt-model. 345-350
  
• Hyeun Jeong Min, Andrew Drenner, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos:
  Vision-based leader-follower formations with limited information. 351-356
  

Networked Robots - I

• Airlie Chapman, Salah Sukkarieh:
  A protocol for decentralized multi-vehicle mapping with limited communication connectivity. 357-362
  
• Fabio Morbidi, Giulio Ripaccioli, Domenico Prattichizzo:
  On connectivity maintenance in linear cyclic pursuit. 363-368
  
• Jack Elston, Maciej Stachura, Eric W. Frew, Ute C. Herzfeld:
  Toward model free atmospheric sensing by aerial robot networks in strong wind fields. 369-374
  

Slam - II

• Somkiat Wangsiripitak, David W. Murray:
  Avoiding moving outliers in visual SLAM by tracking moving objects. 375-380
  
• Evren Imre, Marie-Odile Berger, Nicolas Noury:
  Improved inverse-depth parameterization for monocular simultaneous localization and mapping. 381-386
  
• Margarita Chli, Andrew J. Davison:
  Automatically and efficiently inferring the hierarchical structure of visual maps. 387-394
  
• Carlos Estrada, José Neira, Juan D. Tardós:
  Finding good cycle constraints for large scale multi-robot SLAM. 395-402
  

Computer Vision for Robotics and Automation - II

• Javier Civera, Diana R. Bueno, Andrew J. Davison, J. M. M. Montiel:
  Camera self-calibration for sequential Bayesian structure from motion. 403-408
  
• Jean Charles Bazin, Inso Kweon, Cédric Demonceaux, Pascal Vasseur:
  Dynamic programming and skyline extraction in catadioptric infrared images. 409-416
  
• Kai Welke, Tamim Asfour, Rüdiger Dillmann:
  Active multi-view object search on a humanoid head. 417-423
  
• Christof Schröter, Matthias Hoechemer, Steffen Müller, Horst-Michael Gross:
  Autonomous robot cameraman - Observation pose optimization for a mobile service robot in indoor living space. 424-429
  
• Stefan Hrabar, Peter I. Corke, Michael Bosse:
  High dynamic range stereo vision for outdoor mobile robotics. 430-435
  

Surveillance and Security

• Yumi Iwashita, Ryo Kurazume:
  Person identification from human walking sequences using affine moment invariants. 436-441
  
• Jung-Hee Park, Jeong-Sik Choi, Jimin Kim, Beom Hee Lee:
  Roadmap-based stealth navigation for intercepting an invader. 442-447
  
• Feng Ding, Peter Xiaoping Liu, Guangjun Liu:
  Auxiliary models based multi-innovation gradient identification with colored measurement noises. 448-452
  
• Yi-Tzu Lin, Cheng-Ming Huang, Yi-Ru Chen, Li-Chen Fu:
  Real-time face tracking and pose estimation with partitioned sampling and relevance vector machine. 453-458
  
• Daniel Meyer-Delius, Christian Plagemann, Wolfram Burgard:
  Probabilistic situation recognition for vehicular traffic scenarios. 459-464
  

Collision Avoidance - II

• Margot Rabl, Laureano González-Vega, Bert Jüttler, Hans-Peter Schröcker:
  Oriented bounding surfaces with at most six common normals. 465-470
  
• Matthew Greytak, Franz S. Hover:
  Analytic error variance predictions for planar vehicles. 471-476
  
• Liangjun Zhang, Steven M. LaValle, Dinesh Manocha:
  Global vector field computation for feedback motion planning. 477-482
  
• Mehdi Benallegue, Adrien Escande, Sylvain Miossec, Abderrahmane Kheddar:
  Fast C¹ proximity queries using support mapping of sphere-torus-patches bounding volumes. 483-488
  
• Nathan D. Ratliff, Matthew Zucker, J. Andrew Bagnell, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa:
  CHOMP: Gradient optimization techniques for efficient motion planning. 489-494
  
• Koichi Koganezawa, Tomoya Inaba:
  Posture control of redundant manipulators on the norm of task space stiffness optimization. 495-501
  

Dexterous Manipulation - II

• Hanafiah B. Yussof, Jiro Wada, Masahiro Ohka:
  Object handling tasks based on active tactile and slippage sensations in a multi-fingered humanoid robot arm. 502-507
  
• Daniel Jasper:
  High-speed position tracking for nanohandling inside scanning electron microscopes. 508-513
  
• Georg Bätz, Kwang-Kyu Lee, Dirk Wollherr, Martin Buss:
  Robot basketball: A comparison of ball dribbling with visual and force/torque feedback. 514-519
  

Laboratory Automation

• Felix Beyeler, Simon Muntwyler, Bradley J. Nelson:
  Design and calibration of a microfabricated 6-axis force-torque sensor for microrobotic applications. 520-525
  
• Xinyu Liu, Yu Sun:
  Automated mouse embryo injection moves toward practical use. 526-531
  
• Dongdong Zhang, Xiaoping Qian:
  Scanning in atomic force microscopy. 532-537
  
• Yaxin Liu, Liguo Chen, Lining Sun, Weibin Rong:
  A self-adjusted precise liquid handling system. 538-543
  

Smart Actuators - II

• Bram Vanderborght, Nikolaos G. Tsagarakis, Claudio Semini, Ronald Van Ham, Darwin G. Caldwell:
  MACCEPA 2.0: Adjustable compliant actuator with stiffening characteristic for energy efficient hopping. 544-549
  
• Jhe-Hong Wang, Chen-Hsien Fan, Chao-Chieh Lan:
  A compact rotational manipulator using shape memory alloy wire actuated flexures. 550-555
  
• Shuichi Wakimoto, Keiko Ogura, Koichi Suzumori, Yasutaka Nishioka:
  Miniature soft hand with curling rubber pneumatic actuators. 556-561
  
• Samer Alfayad, Fathi Ben Ouezdou, Faycal Namoun, Gordon Cheng:
  Lightweight high performance integrated actuator for humanoid robotic applications: Modeling, design & realization. 562-567
  

Robot Design

• Robin Chhabra, Mohammad Reza Emami:
  Concurrent synthesis of robot manipulators using Hardware-in-the-loop Simulation. 568-573
  
• Dannis Michel Brouwer, Jan Bennik, Jam Leideman, Herman M. J. R. Soemers, Stefano Stramigioli:
  Mechatronic design of a fast and long range 4 degrees of freedom humanoid neck. 574-579
  
• Hiroyasu Iwata, Shigeki Sugano:
  Design of human symbiotic robot TWENDY-ONE. 580-586
  
• Nguyen Huu Chuc, Jong Kil Park, Nguyen Huu Lam Vuong, DukSang Kim, Jachoon Koo, Youngkwan Lee, Jea-do Nam, Hyouk Ryeol Choi:
  Multi-jointed robot finger driven by artificial muscle actuator. 587-592
  
• Toshio Takayama, Yoshinori Chiba, Toru Omata:
  Tokyo-TECH 100 N Hand : Three-fingered eight-DOF hand with a force-magnification mechanism. 593-598
  

Manipulation Planning

• Diederik Verscheure, Moritz Diehl, Joris De Schutter, Jan Swevers:
  On-line time-optimal path tracking for robots. 599-605
  
• Hidefumi Wakamatsu, Eiji Morinaga, Eiji Arai, Shinichi Hirai:
  Deformation modeling of belt object with angles. 606-611
  
• Lei Cui, Jian S. Dai:
  A coordinate-free approach to instantaneous kinematics of two rigid objects with rolling contact and its implications for trajectory planning. 612-617
  
• Dmitry Berenson, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa, Dave Ferguson, Alvaro Collet, James J. Kuffner:
  Manipulation planning with Workspace Goal Regions. 618-624
  
• Dmitry Berenson, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa, Dave Ferguson, James J. Kuffner:
  Manipulation planning on constraint manifolds. 625-632
  

Human-Robot Interaction - I

• Katsu Yamane, Akihiko Murai, Sadahiro Takaya, Yoshihiko Nakamura:
  Muscle tension database for contact-free estimation of human somatosensory information. 633-638
  
• Bram G. A. Lambrecht, Homayoon Kazerooni:
  Design of a semi-active knee prosthesis. 639-645
  
• Wataru Takano, Yoshihiko Nakamura:
  Statistically integrated semiotics that enables mutual inference between linguistic and behavioral symbols for humanoid robots. 646-652
  
• Eric Demeester, Alexander Hüntemann, José del R. Millán, Hendrik Van Brussel:
  Bayesian plan recognition for Brain-Computer Interfaces. 653-658
  
• Xia Zhang, Minoru Hashimoto:
  SBC for motion assist using neural oscillator. 659-664
  

Haptics and Haptic Interfaces - II

• Kenji Inoue, Yuki Okamoto:
  Vision-based detection of finger touch for haptic device using transparent flexible sheet. 665-670
  
• Tricia L. Gibo, Lawton N. Verner, David D. Yuh, Allison M. Okamura:
  Design considerations and human-machine performance of moving virtual fixtures. 671-676
  
• James C. Gwilliam, Mohsen Mahvash, Balázs Vágvölgyi, Alexander Vacharat, David D. Yuh, Allison M. Okamura:
  Effects of haptic and graphical force feedback on teleoperated palpation. 677-682
  
• Dongseok Ryu, Gi-Hun Yang, Sungchul Kang:
  T-hive : Vibrotactile interface presenting spatial information on handle surface. 683-688
  
• Maxim Kolesnikov, Milos Zefran, Arnold D. Steinberg, Philip G. Bashook:
  PerioSim: Haptic virtual reality simulator for sensorimotor skill acquisition in dentistry. 689-694
  

Visual Servoing - II

• Graziano Chesi, Ho Lam Yung:
  Performance limitation analysis in visual servo systems: Bounding the location error introduced by image points matching. 695-700
  
• Christophe Collewet, Éric Marchand:
  Photometry-based visual servoing using light reflexion models. 701-706
  
• Amaury Dame, Éric Marchand:
  Entropy-based visual servoing. 707-713
  
• Wei Song, Mamoru Minami:
  Hand & eye-vergence dual visual servoing to enhance observability and stability. 714-721
  
• Wei Song, Mamoru Minami:
  Stability / precision improvement of 6-DoF visual servoing by motion feedforward compensation and experimental evaluation. 722-729
  
• Brian Stephen Smith, Jiuguang Wang, Magnus Egerstedt, Ayanna M. Howard:
  Automatic formation deployment of decentralized heterogeneous multi-robot networks with limited sensing capabilities. 730-735
  

Networked Robots - II

• Pei-Chun Lin, Chi-Wei Ho:
  Design and implementation of a 9-axis inertial measurement unit. 736-741
  
• Bálint Takács, Yiannis Demiris:
  Multi-robot plan adaptation by constrained minimal distortion feature mapping. 742-749
  
• Jason M. O'Kane, Wenyuan Xu:
  Energy-efficient target tracking with a sensorless robot and a network of unreliable one-bit proximity sensors. 750-755
  
• David Meger, Dimitri Marinakis, Ioannis M. Rekleitis, Gregory Dudek:
  Inferring a probability distribution function for the pose of a sensor network using a mobile robot. 756-762
  
• Peter Pastor, Heiko Hoffmann, Tamim Asfour, Stefan Schaal:
  Learning and generalization of motor skills by learning from demonstration. 763-768
  
• David Gouaillier, Vincent Hugel, Pierre Blazevic, Chris Kilner, Jérôme Monceaux, Pascal Lafourcade, Brice Marnier, Julien Serre, Bruno Maisonnier:
  Mechatronic design of NAO humanoid. 769-774
  

Humanoid Robots - I

• Sebastian Lohmeier, Thomas Buschmann, Heinz Ulbrich:
  Humanoid robot LOLA. 775-780
  
• Seung-kook Yun, Ambarish Goswami, Yoshiaki Sakagami:
  Safe fall: Humanoid robot fall direction change through intelligent stepping and inertia shaping. 781-787
  
• Tomohito Takubo, Yoshinori Imada, Kenichi Ohara, Yasushi Mae, Tatsuo Arai:
  Rough terrain walking for bipedal robot by using ZMP criteria map. 788-793
  

Visual Learning

• Ashutosh Saxena, Justin Driemeyer, Andrew Y. Ng:
  Learning 3-D object orientation from images. 794-800
  
• Michael Ruhnke, Bastian Steder, Giorgio Grisetti, Wolfram Burgard:
  Unsupervised learning of 3D object models from partial views. 801-806
  
• Werner Maier, Elmar Mair, Darius Burschka, Eckehard G. Steinbach:
  Visual homing and surprise detection for cognitive mobile robots using image-based environment representations. 807-812
  
• Yu-chen Ho, Ching-Hu Lu, Yi-Han Chen, Shih-Shinh Huang, Ching-Yao Wang, Li-Chen Fu:
  Active-learning assisted self-reconfigurable activity recognition in a dynamic environment. 813-818
  

Surveillance Systems

• Francesco Amigoni, Nicola Basilico, Nicola Gatti:
  Finding the optimal strategies for robotic patrolling with adversaries in topologically-represented environments. 819-824
  
• Hélio Palaio, Cristina Maduro, Katherine Batista, Jorge Batista:
  Ground plane velocity estimation embedding rectification on a particle filter multi-target tracking. 825-830
  
• Alessandro Marino, Lynne E. Parker, Gianluca Antonelli, Fabrizio Caccavale:
  Behavioral control for multi-robot perimeter patrol: A Finite State Automata approach. 831-836
  
• Hazem El-Alfy, David Jacobs, Larry Davis:
  Assigning cameras to subjects in video surveillance systems. 837-843
  
• José-Joel Gonzalez-Barbosa, Teresa Garcia-Ramirez, Joaquín Salas, Juan-Bautista Hurtado-Ramos, Jose-de-Jesus Rico-Jimenez:
  Optimal camera placement for total coverage. 844-848
  

Collision Avoidance - III

• Min Tang, Young J. Kim, Dinesh Manocha:
  C²A: Controlled conservative advancement for continuous collision detection of polygonal models. 849-854
  
• Gabriel Agamennoni, Juan I. Nieto, Eduardo Mario Nebot:
  Mining GPS data for extracting significant places. 855-862
  
• Matthias Tuma, Ioannis Iossifidis, Gregor Schöner:
  Temporal stabilization of discrete movement in variable environments: An attractor dynamics approach. 863-868
  
• Apollo S. Oikonomopoulos, Savvas G. Loizou, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos:
  Coordination of multiple non-holonomic agents with input constraints. 869-874
  
• Jeffrey Byrne, Camillo J. Taylor:
  Expansion segmentation for visual collision detection and estimation. 875-882
  

Dexterous Manipulation - III

• Masahiro Ohka, Nobuyuki Morisawa, Hanafiah B. Yussof:
  Trajectory generation of robotic fingers based on tri-axial tactile data for cap screwing task. 883-888
  
• Van Anh Ho, Dzung Viet Dao, Susumu Sugiyama, Shinichi Hirai:
  Analysis of sliding of a soft fingertip embedded with a novel micro force/moment sensor: Simulation, experiment, and application. 889-894
  
• Dirk Goger, Nicolas Gorges, Heinz Wörn:
  Tactile sensing for an anthropomorphic robotic hand: Hardware and signal processing. 895-901
  
• Keekyoung Kim, Xinyu Liu, Yong Zhang, Ji Cheng, Xiao Yu Wu, Yu Sun:
  Manipulation at the NanoNewton level: Micrograpsing for mechanical characterization of biomaterials. 902-907
  

Factory Automation

• Kiam Tian Seow:
  A dynamic programming approach to multi-level supervision. 908-913
  
• Jesse C. Himmelstein, Etienne Ferre, Jean-Paul Laumond:
  'Teleportation'-Based Motion Planner for Design Error Analysis. 914-920
  
• Andreas Kroll, Werner Baetz, Daniel Peretzki:
  On autonomous detection of pressured air and gas leaks using passive IR-thermography for mobile robot application. 921-926
  
• Yi-Ting Huang, Fan-Tien Cheng, Min-Hsiung Hung:
  Developing a product quality fault detection scheme. 927-932
  
• Yewguan Soo, Masataka Nishino, Masao Sugi, Hiroshi Yokoi, Tamio Arai, Ryu Kato, Tatsuhiro Nakamura, Jun Ota:
  Evaluation of frequency band technique in estimating muscle fatigue during dynamic contraction task. 933-938
  

Planning, Scheduling and Coordination

• Timothy H. Chung, Moshe Kress, Johannes O. Royset:
  Probabilistic search optimization and mission assignment for heterogeneous autonomous agents. 939-945
  
• Claudio Rossi, Leyre Aldama, Antonio Barrientos:
  Simultaneous task subdivision and allocation for teams of heterogeneous robots. 946-951
  
• Geoffrey A. Hollinger, Dave Ferguson, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa, Sanjiv Singh:
  Combining search and action for mobile robots. 952-957
  
• Ali Ekici, Pinar Keskinocak, Sven Koenig:
  Multi-robot routing with linear decreasing rewards over time. 958-963
  
• Wilm Decré, Ruben Smits, Herman Bruyninckx, Joris De Schutter:
  Extending iTaSC to support inequality constraints and non-instantaneous task specification. 964-971
  

Underactuated Robots

• Minh-Duc Hua, Tarek Hamel, Pascal Morin, Claude Samson:
  Control of a class of thrust-propelled underactuated vehicles and application to a VTOL drone. 972-978
  
• Rongxin Cui, Shuzhi Sam Ge, Bernard Voon Ee How, Yoo Sang Choo:
  Leader-follower formation control of underactuated AUVs with leader position measurement. 979-984
  
• Manas Menon, Harry Asada:
  Actuation and position estimation of a passive mobile end effector from across a thin wall for heavy-duty aircraft manufacturing. 985-991
  
• Zheng Wang, Peter Goldsmith, Jason Gu:
  Regulation control of underactuated mechanical systems based on a new matching equation of port-controlled hamiltonian systems. 992-997
  
• Umashankar Nagarajan, Anish Mampetta, George Kantor, Ralph L. Hollis:
  State transition, balancing, station keeping, and yaw control for a dynamically stable single spherical wheel mobile robot. 998-1003
  

Novel Sensing, Actuation, and Control Techniques in Microrobotics

• A. Agung Julius, Mahmut Selman Sakar, Edward B. Steager, U. Kei Cheang, MinJun Kim, Vijay Kumar, George J. Pappas:
  Harnessing bacterial power in microscale actuation. 1004-1009
  
• Bradley Kratochvil, Dominic R. Frutiger, Karl Vollmers, Bradley J. Nelson:
  Visual servoing and characterization of resonant magnetic actuators for decoupled locomotion of multiple untethered mobile microrobots. 1010-1015
  
• David J. Cappelleri, Gianluca Piazza, Vijay Kumar:
  Two-dimensional, vision-based muN force sensor for microrobotics. 1016-1021
  
• Bahareh Behkam, Metin Sitti:
  Characterization of bacterial actuation of micro-objects. 1022-1027
  
• Rakesh Murthy, Dan O. Popa:
  A four degree of freedom microrobot with large work volume. 1028-1033
  

Field Robots - I

• Nicolas Pouliot, Serge Montambault:
  LineScout Technology: From inspection to robotic maintenance on live transmission power lines. 1034-1040
  
• Jacob Everist, Wei-Min Shen:
  Mapping opaque and confined environments using proprioception. 1041-1046
  
• Shrihari Vasudevan, Fabio T. Ramos, Eric Nettleton, Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte, Allan Blair:
  Gaussian Process modeling of large scale terrain. 1047-1053
  
• Simon Timothy O'Callaghan, Fabio T. Ramos, Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte:
  Contextual occupancy maps using Gaussian processes. 1054-1060
  
• Felipe Alberto Machorro-Fernández, Vicente Parra-Vega, Ernesto Olguín Díaz:
  Active mechanical compensation to obtain gravity-free robots: Modeling, control, design and preliminary experimental results. 1061-1066
  
• Martin J.-D. Otis, Thien-Ly Nguyen-Dang, Denis Laurendeau, Clément Gosselin:
  Interference estimated time of arrival on a 6-DOF cable-driven haptic foot platform. 1067-1072
  

Haptics and Haptic Interfaces - III

• Marco Vicentini, Debora Botturi:
  Perceptual factors for interaction modeling using haptic device. 1073-1078
  
• Robert E. Mahony, Felix Schill, Peter I. Corke, Yoong Siang Oh:
  A new framework for force feedback teleoperation of robotic vehicles based on optical flow. 1079-1085
  
• Mathieu Gautier, Claude Andriot:
  6DOF haptic cooperation over large latency network with wave variables for virtual prototyping. 1086-1091
  
• Robert Wilson, Günter Niemeyer:
  Motion control of impedance-type haptic devices. 1092-1097
  
• Gonzalo López-Nicolás, Carlos Sagüés, José Jesús Guerrero:
  Parking with the essential matrix without short baseline degeneracies. 1098-1103
  
• Hector M. Becerra, Carlos Sagüés:
  A novel 1D trifocal tensor-based control for differential-drive robots. 1104-1109
  

Visual Servoing - III

• Hicham Hadj-Abdelkader, Youcef Mezouar, Philippe Martinet:
  Decoupled visual servoing based on the spherical projection of a set of points. 1110-1115
  
• Omar Tahri, Youcef Mezouar, François Chaumette, Peter I. Corke:
  Generic decoupled image-based visual servoing for cameras obeying the unified projection model. 1116-1121
  
• Mohammed Marey, François Chaumette:
  A temptative to reach a visual singular configuration using Halley's method. 1122-1127
  

Networked Robots - III

• Hongliang Ren, Max Q.-H. Meng:
  Node localization during power adjustment in wireless sensor networks. 1128-1132
  
• Zhenwang Yao, Kamal K. Gupta:
  Backbone-based connectivity control for mobile networks. 1133-1139
  
• Apostolos D. Kottas, Andrew Drenner, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos:
  Intelligent power management: Promoting power-consciousness in teams of mobile robots. 1140-1145
  
• Changchun Hua, Peter X. Liu:
  Delay-dependent stability analysis of teleoperation systems with unsymmetric time-varying delays. 1146-1151
  
• Ricardo Franco Mendoza Garcia, Andreas Lyder, David Johan Christensen, Kasper Støy:
  Reusable electronics and adaptable communication as implemented in the odin modular robot. 1152-1158
  

Humanoid Robots -II

• Torea Foissotte, Olivier Stasse, Adrien Escande, Pierre-Brice Wieber, Abderrahmane Kheddar:
  A two-steps next-best-view algorithm for autonomous 3D object modeling by a humanoid robot. 1159-1164
  
• Karim Bouyarmane, Adrien Escande, Florent Lamiraux, Abderrahmane Kheddar:
  Potential field guide for humanoid multicontacts acyclic motion planning. 1165-1170
  
• Dimitar Dimitrov, Pierre-Brice Wieber, Olivier Stasse, Hans Joachim Ferreau, Holger Diedam:
  An optimized Linear Model Predictive Control solver for online walking motion generation. 1171-1176
  
• Manuel Mühlig, Michael Gienger, Sven Hellbach, Jochen J. Steil, Christian Goerick:
  Task-level imitation learning using variance-based movement optimization. 1177-1184
  
• Kazuhito Yokoi, Eiichi Yoshida, Hiroki Sanada:
  Unified motion planning of passing under obstacles with humanoid robots. 1185-1190
  
• Markus Ulrich, Christian Wiedemann, Carsten Steger:
  CAD-based recognition of 3D objects in monocular images. 1191-1198
  

Recognition

• Rene Iser, Daniel Kubus, Friedrich M. Wahl:
  An efficient parallel approach to Random Sample Matching (pRANSAM). 1199-1206
  
• Hanbyul Joo, Yekeun Jeong, Olivier Duchenne, Seong-Young Ko, In-So Kweon:
  Graph-based robust shape matching for robotic application. 1207-1213
  
• Katrin Amlacher, Gerald Fritz, Patrick Morris Luley, Alexander Almer, Lucas Paletta:
  Geo-contextual priors for attentive urban object recognition. 1214-1219
  
• Yasuyo Kita, Toshio Ueshiba, Ee Sian Neo, Nobuyuki Kita:
  Clothes state recognition using 3D observed data. 1220-1225
  

Calibration and Identification

• Gentiane Venture, Ko Ayusawa, Yoshihiko Nakamura:
  A numerical method for choosing motions with optimal excitation properties for identification of biped dynamics - An application to human. 1226-1231
  
• Win Tun Latt, U-Xuan Tan, Cheng Yap Shee, Wei Tech Ang:
  Identification of accelerometer orientation errors and compensation for acceleration estimation errors. 1232-1237
  
• Zhongkui Wang, Kazuki Namima, Shinichi Hirai:
  Physical parameter identification of rheological object based on measurement of deformation and force. 1238-1243
  
• Andreas Jordt, Nils T. Siebel, Gerald Sommer:
  Automatic high-precision self-calibration of camera-robot systems. 1244-1249
  
• Kiattisak Sangpradit, Hongbin Liu, Lakmal D. Seneviratne, Kaspar Althoefer:
  Tissue identification using inverse Finite Element analysis of rolling indentation. 1250-1255
  

Robot Manipulation

• Jens Kotlarski, Roderick de Nijs, Houssem Abdellatif, Bodo Heimann:
  New interval-based approach to determine the guaranteed singularity-free workspace of parallel robots. 1256-1261
  
• Marcello Bonfé, Matteo Vignali, Mario Fiorini:
  PLC-based control of a robot manipulator with closed kinematic chain. 1262-1267
  
• Ruben Garrido, Edgar Alberto Canul, Alberto Soria:
  Task space robot control using an inner PD loop. 1268-1272
  
• Hideyuki Miyashita, Tasuku Yamawaki, Masahito Yashima:
  Control for throwing manipulation by one joint robot. 1273-1278
  
• Lounell B. Gueta, Ryosuke Chiba, Tamio Arai, Tsuyoshi Ueyama, Jun Ota:
  Hybrid design for multiple-goal task realization of robot arm with rotating table. 1279-1284
  

Contact Modeling for Grasping

• Giovanni Berselli, Gabriele Vassura:
  Differentiated layer design to modify the compliance of soft pads for robotic limbs. 1285-1290
  
• Chia-Hung Dylan Tsai, Imin Kao:
  The latency model for viscoelastic contact interface in robotics: Theory and experiments. 1291-1296
  
• Jiang Tian, Yan-Bin Jia:
  Modeling deformable shell-like objects grasped by a robot hand. 1297-1302
  
• Alan Bowling, Daniel Montrallo Flickinger, Sean Harmeyer:
  Energetically consistent collisions in simulation of multibody systems. 1303-1308
  

Robotics in Construction and Agriculture

• Nicolas Bouton, Roland Lenain, Benoit Thuilot, Philippe Martinet:
  An active anti-rollover device based on Predictive Functional Control: application to an All-Terrain Vehicle. 1309-1314
  
• Pedro X. La Hera, Uwe Mettin, Simon Westerberg, Anton S. Shiriaev:
  Modeling and control of hydraulic rotary actuators used in forestry cranes. 1315-1320
  
• Jonathan Binney, Gaurav S. Sukhatme:
  3D tree reconstruction from laser range data. 1321-1326
  
• Seung-kook Yun, David Alan Hjelle, Eric Schweikardt, Hod Lipson, Daniela Rus:
  Planning the reconfiguration of grounded truss structures with truss climbing robots that carry truss elements. 1327-1333
  
• Mitsuhiro Kamezaki, Hiroyasu Iwata, Shigeki Sugano:
  Primitive static states for intelligent operated-work machines. 1334-1339
  
• Gustavo Freitas, Fernando C. Lizarralde, Liu Hsu, Ney Robinson Salvi dos Reis:
  Kinematic reconfigurability of mobile robots on irregular terrains. 1340-1345
  

Kinematics and Dynamics

• Li Han, Lee Rudolph, Sam Dorsey-Gordon, Dylan Glotzer, Dan Menard, Jon Moran, James R. Wilson:
  Bending and kissing: Computing self-contact configurations of planar loops with revolute joints. 1346-1351
  
• Pål Johan From, Jan Tommy Gravdahl:
  Representing sets of orientations as convex cones. 1352-1357
  
• S. Ali A. Moosavian, Alireza Pourreza, Khalil Alipour:
  Kinematics and dynamics of a hybrid serial-parallel mobile robot. 1358-1363
  
• Masafumi Okada, Masaaki Watanabe:
  Controller decomposition and combination design of body / motion elements based on orbit attractor. 1364-1369
  

Mobile Manipulation

• Lars-Peter Ellekilde, Henrik I. Christensen:
  Control of mobile manipulator using the dynamical systems approach. 1370-1376
  
• Jacqueline Kenney, Thomas Buckley, Oliver Brock:
  Interactive segmentation for manipulation in unstructured environments. 1377-1382
  
• Tin Lun Lam, Huihuan Qian, Yangsheng Xu, Guoqing Xu:
  Omni-directional steer-by-wire interface for four wheel independent steering vehicle. 1383-1388
  
• Young Sik Kwon, Byung-Ju Yi:
  The kinematic modeling and optimal paramerization of an omni-directional pipeline robot. 1389-1394
  

Autonomous Navigation - I

• Teddy N. Yap Jr., Christian R. Shelton:
  SLAM in large indoor environments with low-cost, noisy, and sparse sonars. 1395-1401
  
• Esha D. Nerurkar, Stergios I. Roumeliotis, Agostino Martinelli:
  Distributed maximum a posteriori estimation for multi-robot cooperative localization. 1402-1409
  
• Hauke Strasdat, Cyrill Stachniss, Wolfram Burgard:
  Which landmark is useful? Learning selection policies for navigation in unknown environments. 1410-1415
  
• Georgios Lidoris, Florian Rohrmüller, Dirk Wollherr, Martin Buss:
  The Autonomous City Explorer (ACE) project - mobile robot navigation in highly populated urban environments. 1416-1422
  
• Jonathan R. Schoenberg, Mark E. Campbell, Isaac Miller:
  Localization with multi-modal vision measurements in limited GPS environments using Gaussian Sum Filters. 1423-1428
  

Field Robots - II

• Akihisa Ohya, Shin'ichi Yuta, Tomoaki Yoshida, Eiji Koyanagi, Toyoaki Imai, Sadaaki Kitamura, Ai Takeuchi, Tatsuhiro Minamikawa:
  Development of inspection robot for under floor of house. 1429-1434
  
• Jueyao Wang, Xiaorui Zhu, Fude Tie, Tao Zhao, Xu Xu:
  Design of a modular robotic system for archaeological exploration. 1435-1440
  
• Antti Tikanmäki, Juha Röning:
  Development of Mörri, a high performance and modular outdoor robot. 1441-1446
  
• Laurent Kneip, Fabien Tâche, Gilles Caprari, Roland Siegwart:
  Characterization of the compact Hokuyo URG-04LX 2D laser range scanner. 1447-1454
  
• Jinhan Lee, Roozbeh Mottaghi, Charles Pippin, Tucker R. Balch:
  Graph-based planning using local information for unknown outdoor environments. 1455-1460
  
• Joseph M. Romano, Katherine J. Kuchenbecker:
  The AirWand: Design and characterization of a large-workspace haptic device. 1461-1466
  

Haptics and Haptic Interfaces - IV

• Shogo Okamoto, Masashi Konyo, Takashi Maeno, Satoshi Tadokoro:
  Transmission of tactile roughness through master-slave systems. 1467-1472
  
• Federico Tarri, Marco Fontana, Fabio Salsedo, Simone Marcheschi, Massimo Bergamasco:
  Modular weight-balanced mechanical tracker for portable haptics. 1473-1478
  
• Masayuki Hara, Gaetan Matthey, Akio Yamamoto, Dominique Chapuis, Roger Gassert, Hannes Bleuler, Toshiro Higuchi:
  Development of a 2-DOF electrostatic haptic joystick for MRI/fMRI applications. 1479-1484
  
• Benjamin Black, Wayne J. Book:
  Dynamic compensating controller for passive haptic manipulators in teleoperation. 1485-1491
  

Visual Servoing Via Advanced Numerical Methods

• Graziano Chesi:
  Designing image trajectories in the presence of uncertain data for robust visual servoing path-planning. 1492-1497
  
• Ezio Malis, Tarek Hamel, Robert E. Mahony, Pascal Morin:
  Dynamic estimation of homography transformations on the special linear group for visual servo control. 1498-1503
  
• Sylvain Durola, Patrick Danès, Daniel Ferreira Coutinho, Michel Courdesses:
  Rational systems and Matrix Inequalities to the multicriteria analysis of visual servos. 1504-1509
  
• Gian Luca Mariottini, Stefano Scheggi, Fabio Morbidi, Domenico Prattichizzo:
  Planar Catadioptric Stereo: Single and multi-view geometry for calibration and localization. 1510-1515
  
• Ville Kyrki:
  Control uncertainty in image-based visual servoing. 1516-1521
  

Compliance and Impedance Control

• Ryuta Ozawa, Kazunori Hashirii, Hiroaki Kobayashi:
  Design and control of underactuated tendon-driven mechanisms. 1522-1527
  
• Kiyoshi Nagai, Yasuto Shiigi, Yosuke Ikegami, Rui Loureiro, William S. Harwin:
  Impedance control of redundant drive joints with double actuation. 1528-1534
  
• Dongheui Lee, Christian Ott, Yoshihiko Nakamura:
  Mimetic communication with impedance control for physical human-robot interaction. 1535-1542
  
• Mitsunori Uemura, Sadao Kawamura:
  Resonance-based motion control method for multi-joint robot through combining stiffness adaptation and iterative learning control. 1543-1548
  
• Sang-Ho Hyon, Rieko Osu, Yohei Otaka:
  Integration of multi-level postural balancing on humanoid robots. 1549-1556
  
• J. Zico Kolter, Youngjun Kim, Andrew Y. Ng:
  Stereo vision and terrain modeling for quadruped robots. 1557-1564
  

Legged Robots and Humanoid Locomotion - I

• Tadayoshi Aoyama, Kosuke Sekiyama, Yasuhisa Hasegawa, Toshio Fukuda:
  PDAC-based underactuated 3D bipedal walking - Stabilization of PDAC constants and walking direction control -. 1565-1570
  
• Ryosuke Tajima, Daisaku Honda, Keisuke Suga:
  Fast running experiments involving a humanoid robot. 1571-1576
  
• Hiroshi Kaminaga, Junya Ono, Yusuke Nakashima, Yoshihiko Nakamura:
  Development of backdrivable hydraulic joint mechanism for knee joint of humanoid robots. 1577-1582
  
• Brett Hemes, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, Barry O'Brien:
  The adelopod tumbling robot. 1583-1584
  
• Sam D. Herbert, Nathaniel D. Bird, Andrew Drenner, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos:
  A search and rescue robot. 1585-1586
  
• Ludovic Dovat, Olivier Lambercy, Roger Gassert, Theodore E. Milner, Chee Leong Teo, Etienne Burdet:
  A system for robot-assisted neuro-rehabilitation of hand function. 1587-1588
  
• Rainer Konietschke, Ulrich Hagn, Mathias Nickl, Stefan Jörg, Andreas Tobergte, Georg Passig, Ulrich Seibold, Luc Le Tien, Bernhard Kübler, Martin Gröger, Florian Fröhlich, Christian Rink, Alin Albu-Schäffer, Markus Grebenstein, Tobias Ortmaier, Gerd Hirzinger:
  The DLR MiroSurge - A robotic system for surgery. 1589-1590
  
• Hideyuki Tsukagoshi, Hiroyuki Chiba, Ato Kitagawa:
  Gel-type sticky mobile inspector to traverse on the rugged wall and ceiling. 1591-1592
  
• Rob Reilink, Ludo C. Visser, Jan Bennik, Raffaella Carloni, Dannis Michel Brouwer, Stefano Stramigioli:
  The Twente humanoid head. 1593-1594
  
• Andrea Maria Bauer, Klaas Klasing, Tingting Xu, Stefan Sosnowski, Georgios Lidoris, Quirin Mühlbauer, Tianguang Zhang, Florian Rohrmüller, Dirk Wollherr, Kolja Kühnlenz, Martin Buss:
  The Autonomous City Explorer project. 1595-1596
  
• Christoph Borst, Thomas Wimböck, Florian Schmidt, Matthias Fuchs, Bernhard Brunner, Franziska Zacharias, Paolo Robuffo Giordano, Rainer Konietschke, Wolfgang Sepp, Stefan Fuchs, Christian Rink, Alin Albu-Schäffer, Gerd Hirzinger:
  Rollin' Justin - Mobile platform with variable base. 1597-1598
  
• Michael P. Murphy, Metin Sitti:
  Waalbot: Agile climbing with synthetic fibrillar dry adhesives. 1599-1600
  
• Philipp Kremer, Thomas Wimböck, Jordi Artigas, Simon Schatzle, Klaus Jöhl, Florian Schmidt, Carsten Preusche, Gerd Hirzinger:
  Multimodal telepresent control of DLR's Rollin' JUSTIN. 1601-1602
  
• Kenjiro Tadakuma, Riichiro Tadakuma, Keiji Nagatani, Kazuya Yoshida, Steven C. Peters, Martin Udengaard, Karl Iagnemma:
  Tracked vehicle with circular cross-section to realize sideways motion. 1603-1604
  
• J. Blake Jeans, Dennis Hong:
  IMPASS: Intelligent Mobility Platform with Active Spoke System. 1605-1606
  
• Katie Byl, Russ Tedrake:
  Dynamically diverse legged locomotion for rough terrain. 1607-1608
  
• Peter J. Berkelman, Michael Dzadovsky:
  Large motion range magnet levitation using a planar array of coils. 1609-1610
  
• Taku Senoo, Yuji Yamakawa, Satoru Mizusawa, Akio Namiki, Masatoshi Ishikawa, Makoto Shimojo:
  Skillful manipulation based on high-speed sensory-motor fusion. 1611-1612
  
• Benjamin J. Cohen, Jeffrey Byrne:
  Inertial aided SIFT for time to collision estimation. 1613-1614
  

Mapping - I

• Adrian N. Bishop, Patric Jensfelt:
  A stochastically stable solution to the problem of robocentric mapping. 1615-1622
  
• Kyoungmin Lee, Jung-Suk Lee, Chanki Kim, Wan Kyun Chung:
  Conflict-evaluated maximum approximated likelihood approach for building grid maps using sonar sensors. 1623-1630
  
• Kaustubh Pathak, Narunas Vaskevicius, Andreas Birk:
  Revisiting uncertainty analysis for optimum planes extracted from 3D range sensor point-clouds. 1631-1636
  
• Nathaniel Fairfield, David Wettergreen:
  Evidence grid-based methods for 3D map matching. 1637-1642
  
• César Rivadeneyra, Isaac Miller, Jonathan R. Schoenberg, Mark E. Campbell:
  Probabilistic estimation of Multi-Level terrain maps. 1643-1648
  
• Barbara Frank, Cyrill Stachniss, Ruediger Schmedding, Matthias Teschner, Wolfram Burgard:
  Real-world robot navigation amongst deformable obstacles. 1649-1654
  

Motion and Path Planning - I

• Wataru Mori, Jun Ueda, Tsukasa Ogasawara:
  1-DOF dynamic pitching robot that independently controls velocity, Angular velocity, and direction of a ball: Contact models and motion planning. 1655-1661
  
• Aleksandr Kushleyev, Maxim Likhachev:
  Time-bounded lattice for efficient planning in dynamic environments. 1662-1668
  
• Sebastien Lengagne, Nacim Ramdani, Philippe Fraisse:
  Safe motion planning computation for databasing balanced movement of humanoid robots. 1669-1674
  
• J. Zico Kolter, Andrew Y. Ng:
  Task-space trajectories via cubic spline optimization. 1675-1682
  

Grasping - I

• Suguru Arimoto, Morio Yoshida, Masahiro Sekimoto, Kenji Tahara:
  A riemannian-geometry approach for dynamics and control of object manipulation under constraints. 1683-1690
  
• Tong Liu, Michael Yu Wang:
  Passive force analysis with elastic contacts for fixturing and grasping. 1691-1696
  
• Takeshi Takaki, Toru Omata:
  High performance anthropomorphic robot hand with grasp force magnification mechanism. 1697-1703
  
• Marco Fontana, Andrea Dettori, Fabio Salsedo, Massimo Bergamasco:
  Mechanical design of a novel Hand Exoskeleton for accurate force displaying. 1704-1709
  
• Corey Goldfeder, Matei T. Ciocarlie, Hao Dang, Peter K. Allen:
  The Columbia grasp database. 1710-1716
  
• Matthew Howard, Stefan Klanke, Michael Gienger, Christian Goerick, Sethu Vijayakumar:
  A novel method for learning policies from constrained motion. 1717-1723
  

Learning and Adaptive Systems - I

• Gregory Von Pless, Zack Butler:
  Adaptive expert systems for indirect coverage control. 1724-1730
  
• Oliver Purwin, Raffaello D'Andrea:
  Performing aggressive maneuvers using iterative learning control. 1731-1736
  
• Ashutosh Saxena, Andrew Y. Ng:
  Learning sound location from a single microphone. 1737-1742
  
• Koichi Ogawara, Yasufumi Tanabe, Ryo Kurazume, Tsutomu Hasegawa:
  Detecting repeated motion patterns via Dynamic Programming using motion density. 1743-1749
  
• Daniel Mellinger, Vijay Kumar, Mark Yim:
  Control of locomotion with shape-changing wheels. 1750-1755
  

Dynamics

• Jae Yun Jun, Jonathan E. Clark:
  Dynamic stability of variable stiffness running. 1756-1761
  
• Alexandre Janot, Pierre-Olivier Vandanjon, Maxime Gautier:
  Identification of robots dynamics with the Instrumental Variable method. 1762-1767
  
• Yunjiang Lou, Wei Gong, Zexiang Li, Jianjun Zhang, Guilin Yang:
  Natural frequency based optimal design of a two-link flexible manipulator. 1768-1773
  
• Philipp Reist, Raffaello D'Andrea:
  Bouncing an Unconstrained Ball in Three Dimensions with a Blind Juggling Robot. 1774-1781
  

Parallel Robots - I

• Andrea Muller:
  Effects of geometric imperfections to the control of redundantly actuated parallel manipulators. 1782-1787
  
• Tao Yang, Jia Ma, Zeng-Guang Hou, Min Tan:
  Robust backstepping control of active vibration isolation using a stewart platform. 1788-1793
  
• François Pierrot, Cédric Baradat, Vincent Nabat, Olivier Company, Sébastien Krut, Marc Gouttefarde:
  Above 40g acceleration for pick-and-place with a new 2-dof PKM. 1794-1800
  
• Yawei Yang, John F. O'Brien:
  A geometric approach for the design of singularity-free parallel robots. 1801-1806
  
• Saleem Abdul Hamid, Nabil Simaan:
  Design and synthesis of wire-actuated universal-joint wrists for surgical applications. 1807-1813
  

Micro/Nano Robotics - I

• Cagdas D. Onal, Onur Ozcan, Metin Sitti:
  Automated 2-D nanoparticle manipulation with an atomic force microscope. 1814-1819
  
• Shinya Sakuma, Kazuhisa Onda, Yoko Yamanishi, Fumihito Arai:
  On-chip detection and separation of micro-particles using magnetized microtools driven by focused magnetic field. 1820-1825
  
• Volkmar Eichhorn, Sergej Fatikow, Tim Wortmann, Christian Stolle, Christoph Edeler, Daniel Jasper, Ozlem Sardan, Peter Bøggild, Guillaume Boetsch, Christophe Canales, Reymond Clavel:
  NanoLab: A nanorobotic system for automated pick-and-place handling and characterization of CNTs. 1826-1831
  
• Fumihito Arai, Kazuhisa Onda, Ryo Iitsuka, Hisataka Maruyama:
  Multi-beam laser micromanipulation of microtool by integrated optical tweezers. 1832-1837
  
• Masaru Takeuchi, Masahiro Nakajima, Toshio Fukuda:
  Semi-closed microchip for probe manipulation and the target cell harvesting. 1838-1843
  

Field Robots - III

• Daniel P. Cunningham, H. Harry Asada:
  The Winch-Bot: A cable-suspended, under-actuated robot utilizing parametric self-excitation. 1844-1850
  
• Michele Guarnieri, Paulo Debenest, Takao Inoh, Kensuke Takita, Hiroshi Masuda, Ryo Kurazume, Edwardo F. Fukushima, Shigeo Hirose:
  HELIOS carrier: Tail-like mechanism and control algorithm for stable motion in unknown environments. 1851-1856
  
• Jung-Sub Lee, Se-gon Roh, Do Wan Kim, Hyungpil Moon, Hyouk Ryeol Choi:
  In-pipe robot navigation based on the landmark recognition system using shadow images. 1857-1862
  
• Fei Zhang, Guangjun Liu, Lijin Fang:
  Battery state estimation using Unscented Kalman Filter. 1863-1868
  
• Simone Frintrop, Markus Kessel:
  Most salient region tracking. 1869-1874
  

Biologically-Inspired Robots - I

• Robert Oates, Michael Milford, Gordon Wyeth, Graham Kendall, Jonathan M. Garibaldi:
  The implementation of a novel, bio-inspired, robotic security system. 1875-1880
  
• Chih-Han Yu, Radhika Nagpal:
  Self-adapting modular robotics: A generalized distributed consensus framework. 1881-1888
  
• Bo Cheng, Steven N. Fry, Qingfeng Huang, William B. Dickson, Michael H. Dickinson, Xinyan Deng:
  Turning dynamics and passive damping in flapping flight. 1889-1896
  
• Zhenglong Sun, Marcin Balicki, Jin U. Kang, James Handa, Russell H. Taylor, Iulian Iordachita:
  Development and preliminary data of novel integrated optical micro-force sensing tools for retinal microsurgery. 1897-1902
  
• Takehito Kikuchi, Kunihiko Oda, Junji Furusho:
  Development of leg-robot for simulation of spastic movement with Compact MR Fluid Clutch. 1903-1908
  

Rehabilitation Robotics - I

• Ken Endo, Hugh M. Herr:
  A model of muscle-tendon function in human walking. 1909-1915
  
• Ryan J. Farris, Hugo A. Quintero, Thomas J. Withrow, Michael Goldfarb:
  Design and simulation of a joint-coupled orthosis for regulating FES-aided gait. 1916-1922
  
• Kyoungchul Kong, Hyosang Moon, Beomsoo Hwang, Doyoung Jeon, Masayoshi Tomizuka:
  Robotic rehabilitation treatments: Realization of aquatic therapy effects in exoskeleton systems. 1923-1928
  

Distributed Robot Systems - I

• Saing Paul Hou, Chien-Chern Cheah, Jean-Jacques E. Slotine:
  Dynamic region following formation control for a swarm of robots. 1929-1934
  
• James Guo Ming Fu, Tirthankar Bandyopadhyay, Marcelo H. Ang:
  Local Voronoi Decomposition for multi-agent task allocation. 1935-1940
  
• M. Ani Hsieh, Ádám M. Halász, Ekin Dogus Cubuk, Samuel Schoenholz, Alcherio Martinoli:
  Specialization as an optimal strategy under varying external conditions. 1941-1946
  
• Robert Fitch, Ritesh Lal:
  Experiments with a zigbee wireless communication system for self-reconfiguring modular robots. 1947-1952
  
• Loic Matthey, Spring Berman, Vijay Kumar:
  Stochastic strategies for a swarm robotic assembly system. 1953-1958
  

Legged Robots and Humanoid Locomotion - II

• Ji Zhang, Mingguo Zhao, Hao Dong:
  Effect of energy feedbacks on Virtual Slope Walking: I. Complementary Energy Feedback. 1959-1965
  
• Tomomichi Sugihara:
  Standing stabilizability and stepping maneuver in planar bipedalism based on the best COM-ZMP regulator. 1966-1971
  
• Fumihiko Asano, Zhi Wei Luo:
  On efficiency and optimality of asymmetric dynamic bipedal gait. 1972-1977
  
• Stefano Stramigioli, Vincent Duindam, Gijs van Oort, Ambarish Goswami:
  Compact analysis of 3D bipedal gait using geometric dynamics of simplified models. 1978-1984
  
• Fumiya Iida, Russ Tedrake:
  Minimalistic control of a compass gait robot in rough terrain. 1985-1990
  

Computer Vision for Robotics and Automation - III

• Lijin Aryananda:
  Learning to recognize familiar faces in the real world. 1991-1996
  
• Michael Villamizar, Jorge Scandaliaris, Alberto Sanfeliu, Juan Andrade-Cetto:
  Combining color-based invariant gradient detector with HoG descriptors for robust image detection in scenes under cast shadows. 1997-2002
  
• Anuraag Agrawal, Atsushi Nakazawa, Haruo Takemura:
  MMM-classification of 3D range data. 2003-2008
  
• Daniel Munoz, Nicolas Vandapel, Martial Hebert:
  Onboard contextual classification of 3-D point clouds with learned high-order Markov Random Fields. 2009-2016
  

Mapping - II

• Ananth Ranganathan, Frank Dellaert:
  Bayesian surprise and landmark detection. 2017-2023
  
• Bradley D. Null, Eric D. Sinzinger:
  Autonomous map construction using three-dimensional feature descriptors. 2024-2029
  
• Daniele Marzorati, Matteo Matteucci, Davide Migliore, Domenico G. Sorrenti:
  On the use of inverse scaling in monocular SLAM. 2030-2036
  
• Mitch Bryson, Matthew Johnson-Roberson, Salah Sukkarieh:
  Airborne smoothing and mapping using vision and inertial sensors. 2037-2042
  
• Garratt Gallagher, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa, J. Andrew Bagnell, Dave Ferguson:
  GATMO: A Generalized Approach to Tracking Movable Objects. 2043-2048
  

Motion and Path Planning - II

• Sebastian Scherer, Dave Ferguson, Sanjiv Singh:
  Efficient C-space and cost function updates in 3D for unmanned aerial vehicles. 2049-2054
  
• Morteza Lahijanian, Marius Kloetzer, Sara Itani, Calin Belta, Sean B. Andersson:
  Automatic deployment of autonomous cars in a Robotic Urban-Like Environment (RULE). 2055-2060
  
• Alexander C. Shkolnik, Russ Tedrake:
  Path planning in 1000+ dimensions using a task-space Voronoi bias. 2061-2067
  
• Lawrence H. Erickson, Steven M. LaValle:
  Survivability: Measuring and ensuring path diversity. 2068-2073
  
• Adolfo Rodriguez, Alexander Pérez, Jan Rosell, Luis Basañez:
  Sampling-based path planning for geometrically-constrained objects. 2074-2079
  

Grasping - II

• Yu Zheng, Chee-Meng Chew:
  A numerical solution to the ray-shooting problem and its applications in robotic grasping. 2080-2085
  
• Louis-Alexis Allen Demers, Clément Gosselin:
  Kinematic design of an ejection-free underactuated anthropomorphic finger. 2086-2091
  
• Takahiro Inoue, Shinichi Hirai:
  Parallel-distributed model in three-dimensional soft-fingered grasping and manipulation. 2092-2097
  
• Kaijen Hsiao, Paul Nangeroni, Manfred Huber, Ashutosh Saxena, Andrew Y. Ng:
  Reactive grasping using optical proximity sensors. 2098-2105
  

Learning and Adaptive Systems - II

• Axel Rottmann, Wolfram Burgard:
  Adaptive autonomous control using online value iteration with gaussian processes. 2106-2111
  
• Jens Kober, Jan Peters:
  Learning motor primitives for robotics. 2112-2118
  
• Benoit Libeau, Alain Micaelli, Olivier Sigaud:
  Transfer of knowledge for a climbing Virtual Human: A reinforcement learning approach. 2119-2124
  
• Deepak Ramachandran, Rakesh Gupta:
  Smoothed Sarsa: Reinforcement learning for robot delivery tasks. 2125-2132
  
• Anil Aswani, Peter Bickel, Claire Tomlin:
  Statistics for sparse, high-dimensional, and nonparametric system identification. 2133-2138
  

Robot Companions and Social Robots in Home Environments

• Alexander J. Trevor, Hae Won Park, Ayanna M. Howard, Charles C. Kemp:
  Playing with toys: Towards autonomous robot manipulation for therapeutic play. 2139-2145
  
• Julia Peltason, Frederic H. K. Siepmann, Thorsten Spexard, Britta Wrede, Marc Hanheide, Elin Anna Topp:
  Mixed-initiative in human augmented mapping. 2146-2153
  
• Chun Zhu, Weihua Sheng:
  Human daily activity recognition in robot-assisted living using multi-sensor fusion. 2154-2159
  
• Zhe Xu, Travis Deyle, Charles C. Kemp:
  1000 Trials: An empirically validated end effector that robustly grasps objects from the floor. 2160-2167
  
• Thomas Kollar, Nicholas Roy:
  Utilizing object-object and object-scene context when planning to find things. 2168-2173
  

Parallel Robots - II

• Andreea Ancuta, Olivier Company, François Pierrot:
  Modeling and optimization of Quadriglide, a Schönflies motion generator module for 5-axis milling machine-tools. 2174-2179
  
• Jody Alessandro Saglia, Nikolaos G. Tsagarakis, Jian S. Dai, Darwin G. Caldwell:
  A high performance 2-dof over-actuated parallel mechanism for ankle rehabilitation. 2180-2186
  
• Wenbin Lim, Guilin Yang, Song Huat Yeo, Mustafa Shabbir Kurbanhusen, I-Ming Chen:
  A generic tension-closure analysis method for fully-constrained cable-driven parallel manipulators. 2187-2192
  
• Nicolas Riehl, Marc Gouttefarde, Sébastien Krut, Cédric Baradat, François Pierrot:
  Effects of non-negligible cable mass on the static behavior of large workspace cable-driven parallel mechanisms. 2193-2198
  
• Sung Mok Kim, Whee Kuk Kim, Byung-Ju Yi:
  Kinematic analysis and optimal design of a 3T1R type parallel mechanism. 2199-2204
  

Micro/Nano Robotics - II

• Micky Rakotondrabe, Philippe Lutz:
  Force estimation in a piezoelectric cantilever using the inverse-dynamics-based UIO technique. 2205-2210
  
• Tetsuyou Watanabe, Makoto Iwasaki, Hidekazu Matsumura, Zhongwei Jiang:
  Study on adhesion force reduction and state estimation by piezo-transducer. 2211-2216
  
• Michael Karpelson, Gu-Yeon Wei, Robert J. Wood:
  Milligram-scale high-voltage power electronics for piezoelectric microrobots. 2217-2224
  
• Brett Watson, James Friend, Leslie Yeo, Metin Sitti:
  Piezoelectric ultrasonic resonant micromotor with a volume of less than 1 mm³ for use in medical microbots. 2225-2230
  
• Akihiko Ichikawa, Tamio Tanikawa, Kazutsugu Matsukawa, Seiya Takahashi, Kohtaro Ohba:
  Fluorescent monitoring using microfluidics chip and development of syringe pump for automation of enucleation to automate cloning. 2231-2236
  

Visual Navigation - I

• Grant Baldwin, Robert E. Mahony, Jochen Trumpf:
  A nonlinear observer for 6 DOF pose estimation from inertial and bearing measurements. 2237-2242
  
• Anoop Cherian, Vassilios Morellas, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos:
  Accurate 3D ground plane estimation from a single image. 2243-2249
  
• Alberto Pretto, Emanuele Menegatti, Maren Bennewitz, Wolfram Burgard, Enrico Pagello:
  A visual odometry framework robust to motion blur. 2250-2257
  
• Ali Borji, Majid Nili Ahmadabadi, Babak Nadjar Araabi:
  Learning sequential visual attention control through dynamic state space discretization. 2258-2263
  
• Steven A. Holmes, Gabe Sibley, Georg Klein, David W. Murray:
  A relative frame representation for fixed-time bundle adjustment in SFM. 2264-2269
  
• Motoyasu Tanaka, Fumitoshi Matsuno:
  A study on sinus-lifting motion of a snake robot with switching constraints. 2270-2275
  
• Ozgur Unver, Metin Sitti:
  A miniature ceiling walking robot with flat tacky elastomeric footpads. 2276-2281
  
• Ozgur Unver, Metin Sitti:
  Tankbot: A miniature, peeling based climber on rough and smooth surfaces. 2282-2287
  

Biologically-Inspired Robots - II

• Herianto, Daisuke Kurabayashi:
  Realization of an artificial pheromone system in random data carriers using RFID tags for autonomous navigation. 2288-2293
  
• Cristina P. Santos, Miguel Oliveira, Ana Maria A. C. Rocha, Lino Costa:
  Head motion stabilization during quadruped robot locomotion: Combining dynamical systems and a genetic algorithm. 2294-2299
  

Rehabilitation Robotics - II

• Elizabeth A. Brackbill, Ying Mao, Sunil Kumar Agrawal, Madhu Annapragada, Venkatesh N. Dubey:
  Dynamics and control of a 4-dof wearable cable-driven upper arm exoskeleton. 2300-2305
  
• Kyoungchul Kong, Chulhyun Baek, Masayoshi Tomizuka:
  Design of a rehabilitation device based on a mechanical link system. 2306-2311
  
• Motoki Takagi, Kie Iwata, Yoshiyuki Takahashi, Shin-ichiroh Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Koyama, Takashi Komeda:
  Development of a grip aid system using air cylinders. 2312-2317
  
• Iñaki Iturrate, Javier M. Antelis, Javier Minguez:
  Synchronous EEG brain-actuated wheelchair with automated navigation. 2318-2325
  
• Dae-Jin Kim, Ryan Lovelett, Aman Behal:
  Eye-in-hand stereo visual servoing of an assistive robot arm in unstructured environments. 2326-2331
  

Distributed Robot Systems - II

• Peter Brass, Andrea Gasparri, Flavio Cabrera-Mora, Jizhong Xiao:
  Multi-robot tree and graph exploration. 2332-2337
  
• Yasuhisa Hirata, Yosuke Ojima, Kazuhiro Kosuge:
  Coordinated motion control of multiple passive object handling robots based on environment information. 2338-2343
  
• Ajay Deshpande, Sameera Poduri, Daniela Rus, Gaurav S. Sukhatme:
  Distributed coverage control for mobile sensors with location-dependent sensing models. 2344-2349
  
• Mitsuru Endo, Kenji Hirose, Yasuhisa Hirata, Kazuhiro Kosuge, Yusuke Sugahara, Kouki Suzuki, Kazunori Murakami, Kenichi Nakamura, Masaki Nakanishi, Takashi Kanbayashi:
  A coordinated control algorithm based on the caster-like motion for a car transportation system -iCART-. 2350-2355
  
• Marco Pavone, Alessandro Arsie, Emilio Frazzoli, Francesco Bullo:
  Equitable partitioning policies for robotic networks. 2356-2361
  

Legged Robots and Humanoid Locomotion - III

• Salomon Trujillo, Mark R. Cutkosky:
  Thermally constrained motor operation for a climbing robot. 2362-2367
  
• Hanns Tappeiner, Sarjoun Skaff, Tomas Szabo, Ralph L. Hollis:
  Remote haptic feedback from a dynamic running machine. 2368-2373
  
• Bokman Lim, Beobkyoon Kim, Frank Chongwoo Park, D. W. Hong:
  Movement primitives for three-legged locomotion over uneven terrain. 2374-2379
  
• Paul Vernaza, Maxim Likhachev, Subhrajit Bhattacharya, Sachin Chitta, Aleksandr Kushleyev, Daniel D. Lee:
  Search-based planning for a legged robot over rough terrain. 2380-2387
  
• Omur Arslan, Uluc Saranli, Omer Morgul:
  An approximate stance map of the spring mass hopper with gravity correction for nonsymmetric locomotions. 2388-2393
  

Computer Vision for Robotics and Automation - IV

• Hakan Bilen, Muhammet A. Hocaoglu, Eray A. Baran, Mustafa Unel, Devrim Gozuacik:
  Novel parameter estimation schemes in microsystems. 2394-2399
  
• Vincenzo Lippiello, Fabio Ruggiero:
  Surface model reconstruction of 3D objects from multiple views. 2400-2405
  
• Ulrich Klank, Muhammad Zeeshan Zia, Michael Beetz:
  3D model selection from an internet database for robotic vision. 2406-2411
  
• Robert Eidenberger, Thilo Grundmann, Raoul Zoellner:
  Probabilistic action planning for active scene modeling in continuous high-dimensional domains. 2412-2417
  
• Tingting Xu, Hao Wu, Tianguang Zhang, Kolja Kühnlenz, Martin Buss:
  Environment adapted active multi-focal vision system for object detection. 2418-2423
  
• Huijing Zhao, Quanshi Zhang, Masaki Chiba, Ryosuke Shibasaki, Jinshi Cui, Hongbin Zha:
  Moving object classification using horizontal laser scan data. 2424-2430
  

Range Sensing - I

• Klaas Klasing, Dirk Wollherr, Martin Buss:
  Realtime segmentation of range data using continuous nearest neighbors. 2431-2436
  
• Cang Ye, Guruprasad M. Hegde:
  Robust edge extraction for SwissRanger SR-3000 range images. 2437-2442
  
• Jiwon Shin, Stefan Gächter, Ahad Harati, Cédric Pradalier, Roland Siegwart:
  Object classification based on a geometric grammar with a range camera. 2443-2448
  

Motion and Path Planning - III

• Ali Ahmadzadeh, Nader Motee, Ali Jadbabaie, George J. Pappas:
  Multi-vehicle path planning in dynamically changing environments. 2449-2454
  
• Trung Ngo Thanh, Hajime Nagahara, Ryusuke Sagawa, Yasuhiro Mukaigawa, Masahiko Yachida, Yasushi Yagi:
  An adaptive-scale robust estimator for motion estimation. 2455-2460
  
• Binay K. Bhattacharya, Tsunehiko Kameda, John Z. Zhang:
  Surveillance of a polygonal area by a mobile searcher from the boundary: Searchability testing. 2461-2466
  
• Eiichi Yoshida, Mathieu Poirier, Jean-Paul Laumond, Oussama Kanoun, Florent Lamiraux, Rachid Alami, Kazuhito Yokoi:
  Regrasp planning for pivoting manipulation by a humanoid robot. 2467-2472
  
• Michaël Soulignac, Patrick Taillibert, Michel Rueher:
  Time-minimal path planning in dynamic current fields. 2473-2479
  

Grasping - III