1. ROBOCOMM 2007: Athens, Greece
Alan F. T. Winfield, Jason Redi (Eds.): Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Robot Communication and Coordination, ROBOCOMM 2007, Athens, Greece, October 15-17, 2007. IEEE 2008 ACM International Conference Proceeding Series 318 ISBN 978-963-9799-08-0
Mobility for communication
Cory Dixon, Eric W. Frew: Maintaining optimal communication chains in robotic sensor networks using mobility control. 1
Christian Reinl, Oskar von Stryk: Optimal control of multi-vehicle-systems under communication constraints using mixed-integer linear programming. 3
Sameera Poduri, Gaurav S. Sukhatme: Achieving connectivity through coalescence in mobile robot networks. 4
Localizing and tracking
Sarah Bergbreiter, Ankur Mehta, Kristofer S. J. Pister: PhotoBeacon: design of an optical system for localization and communication in multi-robot systems. 5
Byungkon Sohn, Jaeyeong Lee, Heesung Chae, Wonpil Yu: Localization system for mobile robot using wireless communication with IR landmark. 6
Antonio Franchi, Luigi Freda, Giuseppe Oriolo, Marilena Vendittelli: A decentralized strategy for cooperative robot exploration. 7
Decentralized coordination
Dimos V. Dimarogonas, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos: Decentralized swarm aggregation with static communication links. 8
Kostas E. Bekris, Konstantinos I. Tsianos, Lydia E. Kavraki: A distributed protocol for safe real-time planning of communicating vehicles with second-order dynamics. 9

Christopher M. Cianci, Thomas Lochmatter, Jim Pugh, Alcherio Martinoli: Toward multi-level modeling of robotic sensor networks: a case study in acoustic event monitoring. 12
Control architectures
Luís Mota, Luís Paulo Reis: Setplays: achieving coordination by the appropriate use of arbitrary pre-defined flexible plans and inter-robot communication. 13
Brian Stephen Smith, Magnus Egerstedt, Ayanna M. Howard: Automatic generation of persistent formations for multi-agent networks under range constraints. 14
Ulrik Pagh Schultz: Distributed control diffusion: towards a flexible programming paradigm for modular robots. 15
Networked sensing
Hiroyuki Sakai, Tobias Cincarek, Hiromichi Kawanami, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano, Akinobu Lee: Voice activity detection applied to hands-free spoken dialogue robot based on decoding using acoustic and language model. 16
M. W. de Graaf, Ronald G. K. M. Aarts, J. Meijer, Ben J. B. Jonker: Ethernet-based communication framework for sensor integration on industrial robots. 17
Eric W. Frew: Information-theoretic integration of sensing and communication for active robot networks. 18
Oscar Alonso, Ángel Dieguez, Raimon Casanova, Andreu Sanuy, Oliver Scholz, Paolo Corradi, Josep Samitier: An optical interface for inter-robot communication in a swarm of microrobots. 19
Ganesh Sankaranarayanan, Lauren Potter, Blake Hannaford: Measurement and emulation of time varying packet delay with applications to networked haptic virtual environments. 20
Reconfigurable networks
Haruhisa Kurokawa, Kohji Tomita, Akiya Kamimura, Shigeru Kokaji, Takashi Hasuo, Satoshi Murata: Self-reconfigurable modular robot M-TRAN: distributed control and communication. 21
Florian Zeiger, Christian Selbach, Benjamin Ruderisch, Klaus Schilling: An application protocol to integrate a small size helicopter into an IP based ad-hoc network. 22
Ricardo Franco Mendoza Garcia, Kasper Støy, David Johan Christensen, Andreas Lyder: A self-reconfigurable communication network for modular robots. 23
Decentralized decision making
Marco Pavone, Nabhendra Bisnik, Emilio Frazzoli, Volkan Isler: Decentralized vehicle routing in a stochastic and dynamic environment with customer impatience. 24
Alfredo Garcia, Chenyang Li, Fernan Pedraza: Rational swarms for distributed on-line Bayesian search. 25
David Johan Christensen, David Brandt, Ulrik Pagh Schultz, Kasper Støy: Neighbor detection and crosstalk elimination in self-reconfigurable robots. 26
Xiaofeng Han, Louis F. Rossi, Chien-Chung Shen: Autonomous navigation of wireless robot swarms with covert leaders. 27
Application and devices
Ganesh Sankaranarayanan, Hawkeye H. I. King, Seong-Young Ko, Mitchell J. H. Lum, Diana C. W. Friedman, Jacob Rosen, Blake Hannaford: Portable surgery master station for mobile robotic telesurgery. 28
Peter Hinterseer, Julius Kammerl, Eckehard G. Steinbach, Subhasis Chaudhuri: The Weber quantizer: perceptual coding for networked telepresence and teleaction. 29
Mathias Broxvall: A middleware for ecologies of robotic devices. 30
Ganesh Sankaranarayanan, Blake Hannaford: Comparison of performance of virtual coupling schemes for haptic collaboration using real and emulated internet connections. 31
Tools and simulators
Tzi-cker Chiueh, Rupa Krishnan, Pradipta De, Jui-Hao Chiang: A networked robot system for wireless network emulation. 32
Phoebus Chen, Shankar Sastry: Latency and connectivity analysis tools for wireless mesh networks. 33
Alexander Tiderko, Thomas Bachran: A service oriented framework for wireless communication in mobile multi robot systems. 34
George Roussos, Dikaios Papadogkonas, Jenson Taylor, Demetrios Airantzis, Mark Levene, Michael Zoumboulakis: Shared memories: a trail-based coordination server for robot teams. 35
Shinsuke Hara, Tatsuya Ishimoto: A common coordinates/heading direction generation method for wirelessly networked robots with only ranging capability. 36
Poster session 1
Ming Li, Anthony Alvarez, Francesco De Pellegrini, B. Prabhakaran, Imrich Chlamtac: ROBOTRAK: a centralized real-time monitoring, control, and coordination system for robot swarms. 37
Robert H. Bledsoe, Ravi Vaidyanathan, Jayson Durham, Xiaoping Yun: Semi-autonomous micro robot control and video relay through internet and iridium networks. 39
Muneyuki Shimokura, Shuichi Nakanishi, Tadashi Ohta: Networks for a symbiotic human life with robots. 41
Yongsoon Yoon, H. Jin Kim, J. H. Shin, Tokson Choe, Yongwoon Park: Communication in distributed model predictive collision avoidance. 43
Hisayuki Narahara, Takashi Maeno: Factors of gestures of robots for smooth communication with humans. 44
Poster session 2
Mirko Bordignon, Enrico Pagello, Alessandro Saffiotti: An inexpensive, off-the-shelf platform for networked embedded robotics. 45
Christos Christodoulopoulos, Christos Kyriakopoulos, Athanasios G. Kanatas: A realistic approach to source localization using a wireless robotic network. 46
Jongho Shin, H. Jin Kim, Seungkeun Kim, Yongsoon Yoon: Formation flight control under communication failure. 47
Masafumi Yamashita, Samia Souissi, Xavier Défago: Gathering two stateless mobile robots using very inaccurate compasses in finite time. 48
Yoshiyuki Miyamoto, Takashi Maeno: How humans evaluate the impression when interacting haptically with a robot. 49
John P. Murphy, Luke M. Wachter, Laura E. Ray: Issues in computational resource allocation in cooperative control. 50
Hisayoshi Sugiyama, Tetsuo Tsujioka, Masashi Murata: Reconnaissance into distant spaces by multi-robot rescue system with ad hoc networking. 51
Soko Aoki, Yukihiko Kirihara, Jin Nakazawa, Hideyuki Tokuda: Spinning sensors: middleware for robotic sensor network. 52
Cheonshu Park, Joung Woo Ryu, Sangseung Kang, Jaehong Kim, Joo-Chan Sohn, Hyunkyu Cho: The emotion expression robot through the affective interaction: KOBIE. 53



