8. WAFR 2008: Guanajuato, México

Howie Choset, Marco Morales, Todd D. Murphey (Eds.): Algorithmic Foundation of Robotics VIII, Selected Contributions of the Eight International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics, WAFR 2008, Guanajuato, México, December 7-9, 2008. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics 57 Springer 2009, ISBN 978-3-642-00311-0

Networks

Eric Meisner, Wei Yang, Volkan Isler:
Probabilistic Network Formation through Coverage and Freeze-Tag. 3-17
Erik Halvorson, Ronald Parr:
Planning Aims for a Network of Horizontal and Overhead Sensors. 19-34
Nuzhet Atay, O. Burçhan Bayazit:
Mobile Wireless Sensor Network Connectivity Repair with K-Redundancy. 35-49

Distributed Systems

Ketan Savla, Emilio Frazzoli:
On Endogenous Reconfiguration in Mobile Robotic Networks. 53-67
Bruce Randall Donald, Christopher G. Levey, Igor Paprotny, Daniela Rus:
Simultaneous Control of Multiple MEMS Microrobots. 69-84
Luciano C. A. Pimenta, Mac Schwager, Quentin Lindsey, Vijay Kumar, Daniela Rus, Renato C. Mesquita, Guilherme A. S. Pereira:
Simultaneous Coverage and Tracking (SCAT) of Moving Targets with Robot Networks. 85-99
Peng Cheng, Jonathan Fink, Soonkyum Kim, Vijay Kumar:
Cooperative Towing with Multiple Robots. 101-116

Manipulation

Alberto Rodriguez, Matthew T. Mason:
Two Finger Caging: Squeezing and Stretching. 119-133
Yan-Bin Jia, Matthew T. Mason, Michael Erdmann:
A State Transition Diagram for Simultaneous Collisions with Application in Billiard Shooting. 135-150
Elliot R. Johnson, Karen Morris, Todd D. Murphey:
A Variational Approach to Strand-Based Modeling of the Human Hand. 151-166
Jason Nightingale, Richard Hind, Bill Goodwine:
A Stopping Algorithm for Mechanical Systems. 167-180

Robust Planning

Rayomand Vatcha, Jing Xiao:
Perceived CT-Space for Motion Planning in Unknown and Unpredictable Environments. 183-198
Leonidas J. Guibas, David Hsu, Hanna Kurniawati, Ehsan Rehman:
Bounded Uncertainty Roadmaps for Path Planning. 199-215
James C. Davidson, Seth Hutchinson:
A Sampling Hyperbelief Optimization Technique for Stochastic Systems. 217-231

Computational Minimalism

Jason M. O'Kane:
On the Value of Ignorance: Balancing Tracking and Privacy Using a Two-Bit Sensor. 235-249
Sourabh Bhattacharya, Seth Hutchinson:
On the Existence of Nash Equilibrium for a Two Player Pursuit-Evasion Game with Visibility Constraints. 251-265
Michael Erdmann:
On the Topology of Plans. 267-282

Geometric Sensing

Joel A. Hesch, Anastasios I. Mourikis, Stergios I. Roumeliotis:
Mirror-Based Extrinsic Camera Calibration. 285-299
Dezhen Song, Hyun Nam Lee, Jingang Yi:
On the Analysis of the Depth Error on the Road Plane for Monocular Vision-Based Robot Navigation. 301-315
Benjamín Tovar, Fred Cohen, Steven M. LaValle:
Sensor Beams, Obstacles, and Possible Paths. 317-332
Jean-Bernard Hayet, Claudia Esteves, Rafael Murrieta-Cid:
A Motion Planner for Maintaining Landmark Visibility with a Differential Drive Robot. 333-347

Geometric Computations

Pankaj K. Agarwal, Alon Efrat, R. Sharathkumar, Hai Yu:
On Approximate Geodesic-Distance Queries amid Deforming Point Clouds. 351-365
Liangjun Zhang, Dinesh Manocha:
Constrained Motion Interpolation with Distance Constraints. 367-384
Anna Yershova, Steven M. LaValle, Julie C. Mitchell:
Generating Uniform Incremental Grids on SO(3) Using the Hopf Fibration. 385-399
Jyh-Ming Lien:
A Simple Method for Computing Minkowski Sum Boundary in 3D Using Collision Detection. 401-415
Efi Fogel, Dan Halperin:
Polyhedral Assembly Partitioning with Infinite Translations or The Importance of Being Exact. 417-432
Greg Aloupis, Sébastien Collette, Mirela Damian, Erik D. Demaine, Dania El-Khechen, Robin Y. Flatland, Stefan Langerman, Joseph O'Rourke, Val Pinciu, Suneeta Ramaswami, Vera Sacristán Adinolfi, Stefanie Wuhrer:
Realistic Reconfiguration of Crystalline (and Telecube) Robots. 433-447
Ioan Alexandru Sucan, Lydia E. Kavraki:
Kinodynamic Motion Planning by Interior-Exterior Cell Exploration. 449-464

Stochastic Methods in Planning

Sébastien Dalibard, Jean-Paul Laumond:
Control of Probabilistic Diffusion in Motion Planning. 467-481
Sejoon Lim, Hari Balakrishnan, David Gifford, Samuel Madden, Daniela Rus:
Stochastic Motion Planning and Applications to Traffic. 483-500
Timothy H. Chung:
On Probabilistic Search Decisions under Searcher Motion Constraints. 501-516
Xinyu Tang, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato:
Planning with Reachable Distances. 517-531

Medical Applications

Vincent Duindam, Jijie Xu, Ron Alterovitz, Shankar Sastry, Kenneth Y. Goldberg:
3D Motion Planning Algorithms for Steerable Needles Using Inverse Kinematics. 535-549
Ankur Dhanik, Henry van den Bedem, Ashley Deacon, Jean-Claude Latombe:
Modeling Structural Heterogeneity in Proteins from X-Ray Data. 551-566
Lingzhi Luo, Srinivas Akella:
Minimum Resource Characterization of Biochemical Analyses for Digital Microfluidic Biochip Design. 567-581
Wooram Park, Yunfeng Wang, Gregory S. Chirikjian:
Path Planning for Flexible Needles Using Second Order Error Propagation. 583-595

Planning

Jur P. van den Berg, Mike Stilman, James Kuffner, Ming C. Lin, Dinesh Manocha:
Path Planning among Movable Obstacles: A Probabilistically Complete Approach. 599-614
Kris K. Hauser, Jean-Claude Latombe:
Multi-modal Motion Planning in Non-expansive Spaces. 615-630
Avik De, Jusuk Lee, Nicholas Keller, Noah J. Cowan:
Toward SLAM on Graphs. 631-645
Alex Brooks, Tim Bailey:
HybridSLAM: Combining FastSLAM and EKF-SLAM for Reliable Mapping. 647-661
Martin Burger, Yanina Landa, Nicolay M. Tanushev, Richard Tsai:
Discovering a Point Source in Unknown Environments. 663-678

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