Volume 66, Numbers 1-2, April 2012

Special Issues on Advances in Robotics in Latin America and Domestic Service Robots

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  Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Alfredo Weitzenfeld: Advances in Robotics in Latin America. 1-2
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  Alexandre da Silva Simões, Esther Luna Colombini, Jackson Paul Matsuura, Marcelo Nicoletti Franchin: TORP: The Open Robot Project - A Framework for Module-Based Robots. 3-22
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  Jun Okamoto Jr., Valdir Grassi Jr., Paulo Faria Santos Amaral, Benedito Geraldo Miglio Pinto, Daniel Pipa, Gustavo Pinto Pires, Marcus Vinicius Maciel Martins: Development of an Autonomous Robot for Gas Storage Spheres Inspection. 23-35
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  Juan Pablo Julca Avila, Julio Cezar Adamowski, Newton Maruyama, Fabio Kawaoka Takase, Milton Saito: Modeling and Identification of an Open-frame Underwater Vehicle: The Yaw Motion Dynamics. 37-56
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  Jean-Bernard Hayet: Shortest Length Paths for a Differential Drive Robot Keeping a set of Landmarks in Sight. 57-74
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  Adalberto Llarena, Jesus Savage, Ángel Fernando Kuri Morales, Boris Escalante-Ramírez: Odometry-Based Viterbi Localization with Artificial Neural Networks and Laser Range Finders for Mobile Robots. 75-109
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  Ruben Garrido, Alberto Soria: Visual Control of Planar Parallel Robots Without Using Velocity Measurements. 111-124
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  Patricio Loncomilla, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar: Visual SLAM Based on Rigid-Body 3D Landmarks. 125-149
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  Luis Caro, Javier Correa, Pablo Espinace, Daniel Langdon, Daniel Maturana, Rubén Mitnik, Sebastian Montabone, Stefan Pszczólkowski, Anita Araneda, Domingo Mery, Miguel Torres, Alvaro Soto: Indoor Mobile Robotics at Grima, PUC. 151-165
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  Renato Ramos da Silva, Roseli Aparecida Francelin Romero: Modelling Shared Attention Through Relational Reinforcement Learning. 167-182
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  Luca Iocchi, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Tijn van der Zant: Domestic Service Robots in the Real World. 183-186
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  Tomoaki Nakamura, Komei Sugiura, Takayuki Nagai, Naoto Iwahashi, Tomoki Toda, Hiroyuki Okada, Takashi Omori: Learning Novel Objects for Extended Mobile Manipulation. 187-204
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  Stephanie Rosenthal, Manuela M. Veloso, Anind K. Dey: Is Someone in this Office Available to Help Me? - Proactively Seeking Help from Spatially-Situated Humans. 205-221
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  Mauricio Correa, Gabriel Hermosilla, Rodrigo Verschae, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar: Human Detection and Identification by Robots Using Thermal and Visual Information in Domestic Environments. 223-243
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  Thomas Breuer, Geovanny R. Giorgana Macedo, Ronny Hartanto, Nico Hochgeschwender, Dirk Holz, Frederik Hegger, Zha Jin, Christian Müller, Jan Paulus, Michael Reckhaus, José Antonio Álvarez Ruiz, Paul-Gerhard Plöger, Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar: Johnny: An Autonomous Service Robot for Domestic Environments. 245-272
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  Stefan Schiffer, Alexander Ferrein, Gerhard Lakemeyer: Reasoning with Qualitative Positional Information for Domestic Domains in the Situation Calculus. 273-300

Volume 66, Number 3, May 2012

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  Kimon P. Valavanis: From the Editor-in-Chief. 301
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  Jinseok Lee, Yunyoung Nam, Sangjin Hong, Weduke Cho: New Potential Functions with Random Force Algorithms Using Potential Field Method. 303-319
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  Keith Yu Kit Leung, Timothy D. Barfoot, Hugh H. T. Liu: Decentralized Cooperative SLAM for Sparsely-Communicating Robot Networks: A Centralized-Equivalent Approach. 321-342
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  Gregor Klancar, Saso Blazic, Drago Matko, Gasper Music: Image-Based Attitude Control of a Remote Sensing Satellite. 343-357
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  Erik Cuevas, Noé Ortega-Sánchez, Daniel Zaldivar, Marco A. Pérez Cisneros: Circle Detection by Harmony Search Optimization. 359-376
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  Cindy Cappelle, Maan E. El Najjar, François Charpillet, Denis Pomorski: Virtual 3D City Model for Navigation in Urban Areas. 377-399
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  Tarek M. Sobh, Khaled M. Elleithy, Jeongkyu Lee, Ali El-Rashedy, Jovin Joy, Leon Manole: Design and Implementation of Wireless Camera, Communication, and Control Modules for a Transformable Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. 401-414

Volume 66, Number 4, June 2012

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  Kimon P. Valavanis: From the Editor-in-Chief. 415
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  Margareta Stefanovic, Huijuan Zhang: Results on the Robust Observer-based Position Controller for Parallel Kinematic Machines. 417-428
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  Hong Xie, Kaimin Zhang, Qiang Li: The Positive Solution of a 5-Strut Parallel Machine Tool with Joint Rings. 429-441
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  Hanlei Wang, Yongchun Xie: On the Recursive Adaptive Control for Free-floating Space Manipulators. 443-461
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  Qian Liu, Daqi Zhu, Simon X. Yang: Unmanned Underwater Vehicles Fault Identification and Fault-Tolerant Control Method Based on FCA-CMAC Neural Networks, Applied on an Actuated Vehicle. 463-475
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  Andrew J. Berry, Jeremy Howitt, Da-Wei Gu, Ian Postlethwaite: A Continuous Local Motion Planning Framework for Unmanned Vehicles in Complex Environments. 477-494
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  Matthew A. Garratt, Sreenatha G. Anavatti: Non-linear Control of Heave for an Unmanned Helicopter Using a Neural Network. 495-504
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  Panagiotis Tsiotras, Dongwon Jung, Efstathios Bakolas: Multiresolution Hierarchical Path-Planning for Small UAVs Using Wavelet Decompositions. 505-522