IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Volume 24
Volume 24, Number 1, February 2008
Alessandro De Luca: Editorial. 1-2
Gustavo Arechavaleta, Jean-Paul Laumond, Halim Hicheur, Alain Berthoz: An Optimality Principle Governing Human Walking. 5-14
Luis Montesano, Manuel Lopes, Alexandre Bernardino, José Santos-Victor: Learning Object Affordances: From Sensory-Motor Coordination to Imitation. 15-26
Sungon Lee, Yoshihiko Nakamura, Katsu Yamane, T. Toujo, S. Takahashi, Y. Tanikawa, H. Takahashi: Image Stabilization for In Vivo Microscopy by High-Speed Visual Feedback Control. 45-54
Oliver Tonet, Francesco Focacci, Marco Piccigallo, Lorenza Mattei, Claudio Quaglia, Giuseppe Megali, Barbara Mazzolai, Paolo Dario: Bioinspired Robotic Dual-Camera System for High-Resolution Vision. 55-64
Sangbae Kim, Matthew Spenko, Salomon Trujillo, Barrett Heyneman, Daniel Santos, Mark R. Cutkosky: Smooth Vertical Surface Climbing With Directional Adhesion. 65-74
Alessandro Crespi, Auke Jan Ijspeert: Online Optimization of Swimming and Crawling in an Amphibious Snake Robot. 75-87
Aksel Andreas Transeth, Remco I. Leine, Christoph Glocker, Kristin Ytterstad Pettersen, Pål Liljebäck: Snake Robot Obstacle-Aided Locomotion: Modeling, Simulations, and Experiments. 88-104
Parasar Kodati, Jonathan Hinkle, A. Winn, Xinyan Deng: Microautonomous Robotic Ostraciiform (MARCO): Hydrodynamics, Design, and Fabrication. 105-117
Zu Guang Zhang, Norio Yamashita, Masahiko Gondo, Akio Yamamoto, Toshiro Higuchi: Electrostatically Actuated Robotic Fish: Design and Control for High-Mobility Open-Loop Swimming. 118-129
Jusuk Lee, S. N. Sponberg, Owen Y. Loh, Andrew G. Lamperski, Robert J. Full, Noah J. Cowan: Templates and Anchors for Antenna-Based Wall Following in Cockroaches and Robots. 130-143
Aaron M. Dollar, Hugh M. Herr: Lower Extremity Exoskeletons and Active Orthoses: Challenges and State-of-the-Art. 144-158
Kevin Fite, Thomas J. Withrow, Xiangrong Shen, Keith W. Wait, Jason E. Mitchell, Michael Goldfarb: A Gas-Actuated Anthropomorphic Prosthesis for Transhumeral Amputees. 159-169
Christian Cipriani, Franco Zaccone, Silvestro Micera, Maria Chiara Carrozza: On the Shared Control of an EMG-Controlled Prosthetic Hand: Analysis of User-Prosthesis Interaction. 170-184
Jun Morimoto, Gen Endo, Jun Nakanishi, Gordon Cheng: A Biologically Inspired Biped Locomotion Strategy for Humanoid Robots: Modulation of Sinusoidal Patterns by a Coupled Oscillator Model. 185-191
Rodolphe Héliot, Bernard Espiau: Multisensor Input for CPG-Based Sensory---Motor Coordination. 191-195
David J. Harvey, Tien-Fu Lu, Michael A. Keller: Effectiveness of Insect-Inspired Chemical Plume-Tracking Algorithms in a Shifting Wind Field. 196-201
Junzhi Yu, Lizhong Liu, Long Wang, Min Tan, De Xu: Turning Control of a Multilink Biomimetic Robotic Fish. 201-206
Kundong Wang, Guozheng Yan, Pingping Jiang, Dongdong Ye: A Wireless Robotic Endoscope for Gastrointestine. 206-210
Nilanjan Chakraborty, Jufeng Peng, Srinivas Akella, Jason E. Mitchell: Proximity Queries Between Convex Objects: An Interior Point Approach for Implicit Surfaces. 211-220
Savvas G. Loizou, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos: Navigation of Multiple Kinematically Constrained Robots. 221-231
Michael M. Zavlanos, George J. Pappas: Dynamic Assignment in Distributed Motion Planning With Local Coordination. 232-242
Volume 24, Number 2, April 2008

Jose-Luis Blanco, Juan-Antonio Fernandez-Madrigal, Javier Gonzalez: Toward a Unified Bayesian Approach to Hybrid Metric--Topological SLAM. 259-270
Gal A. Kaminka, Ruti Schechter-Glick, Vladimir Sadov: Using Sensor Morphology for Multirobot Formations. 271-282
Mike Peasgood, Christopher M. Clark, John McPhee: A Complete and Scalable Strategy for Coordinating Multiple Robots Within Roadmaps. 283-292
David J. Harvey, Tien-Fu Lu, Michael A. Keller: Comparing Insect-Inspired Chemical Plume Tracking Algorithms Using a Mobile Robot. 307-317
Christophe Collewet, François Chaumette: Visual Servoing Based on Structure From Controlled Motion or on Robust Statistics. 318-330
Nicolas Guenard, Tarek Hamel, Robert E. Mahony: A Practical Visual Servo Control for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. 331-340
Robert J. Wood: The First Takeoff of a Biologically Inspired At-Scale Robotic Insect. 341-347
Vipul Mehta, Sean Brennan, Farhan Gandhi: Experimentally Verified Optimal Serpentine Gait and Hyperredundancy of a Rigid-Link Snake Robot. 348-360
Aksel Andreas Transeth, Remco I. Leine, Christoph Glocker, Kristin Ytterstad Pettersen: 3-D Snake Robot Motion: Nonsmooth Modeling, Simulations, and Experiments. 361-376
Daan G. E. Hobbelen, Martijn Wisse: Swing-Leg Retraction for Limit Cycle Walkers Improves Disturbance Rejection. 377-389
Christine Chevallereau, Dalila Djoudi, J. W. Grizzle: Stable Bipedal Walking With Foot Rotation Through Direct Regulation of the Zero Moment Point. 390-401
Hitoshi Arisumi, Kazuhito Yokoi, Kiyoshi Komoriya: Casting Manipulation - Midair Control of a Gripper by Impulsive Force. 402-415
Andreas Kugi, Christian Ott, Alin Albu-Schäffer, Gerd Hirzinger: On the Passivity-Based Impedance Controlof Flexible Joint Robots. 416-429
J. G. Garcia, Anders Robertsson, Juan Gómez Ortega, Rolf Johansson: Sensor Fusion for Compliant Robot Motion Control. 430-441
Tatsuya Nomura, Takayuki Kanda, Tomohiro Suzuki, Kiyotaka Kato: Prediction of Human Behavior in Human--Robot Interaction Using Psychological Scales for Anxiety and Negative Attitudes Toward Robots. 442-451
Chris Lightcap, Samuel Hamner, Tony Schmitz, Scott A. Banks: Improved Positioning Accuracy of the PA10-6CE Robot with Geometric and Flexibility Calibration. 452-456
Sean B. Andersson: Discretization of a Continuous Curve. 456-461
Shuguang Huang, Joseph M. Schimmels: Admittance Selection Conditions for Frictionless Force-Guided Assembly of Polyhedral Parts in Two Single-Point Principal Contacts. 461-468
Maria Ralph, Medhat A. Moussa: Toward a Natural Language Interface for Transferring Grasping Skills to Robots. 468-475
Juan Cortés, Leonard Jaillet, Thierry Siméon: Disassembly Path Planning for Complex Articulated Objects. 475-481
Hongjun Zhou, Shigeyuki Sakane: Sensor Planning for Mobile Robot Localization - A Hierarchical Approach Using a Bayesian Network and a Particle Filter. 481-487
Peng Cheng, Emilio Frazzoli, Steven M. LaValle: Improving the Performance of Sampling-Based Motion Planning With Symmetry-Based Gap Reduction. 488-494
José Jesús Guerrero, A. C. Murillo, Carlos Sagüés: Localization and Matching Using the Planar Trifocal Tensor With Bearing-Only Data. 494-501
Zoran Zivkovic, Olaf Booij, Ben J. A. Kröse, Elin Anna Topp, Henrik I. Christensen: From Sensors to Human Spatial Concepts: An Annotated Data Set. 501-505
Toshiharu Mukai, Masaki Onishi, Tadashi Odashima, Shinya Hirano, Zhi Wei Luo: Development of the Tactile Sensor System of a Human-Interactive Robot "RI-MAN". 505-512
Volume 24, Number 3, June 2008
Vincent Duindam, Stefano Stramigioli: Singularity-Free Dynamic Equations of Open-Chain Mechanisms With General Holonomic and Nonholonomic Joints. 517-526
Paul G. Griffiths, R. Brent Gillespie, James S. Freudenberg: A Fundamental Tradeoff Between Performance and Sensitivity Within Haptic Rendering. 537-548
Igmo Koo, Kwangmok Jung, Jachoon Koo, Jea-do Nam, Youngkwan Lee, Hyouk Ryeol Choi: Development of Soft-Actuator-Based Wearable Tactile Display. 549-558
Alessandro Formaglio, Domenico Prattichizzo, Federico Barbagli, Antonio Giannitrapani: Dynamic Performance of Mobile Haptic Interfaces. 559-575
Kai Xu, Nabil Simaan: An Investigation of the Intrinsic Force Sensing Capabilities of Continuum Robots. 576-587
P. Vartholomeos, Evangelos Papadopoulos: Analysis and Experiments on the Force Capabilities of Centripetal-Force-Actuated Microrobotic Platforms. 588-599
Adolfo Rodriguez, Luis Basañez, Enric Celaya: A Relational Positioning Methodology for Robot Task Specification and Execution. 600-611
Mikhail M. Svinin, Shigeyuki Hosoe: Motion Planning Algorithms for a Rolling Sphere With Limited Contact Area. 612-625
Elon Rimon, Richard Mason, Joel W. Burdick, Yizhar Or: A General Stance Stability Test Based on Stratified Morse Theory With Application to Quasi-Static Locomotion Planning. 626-641
Hicham Hadj-Abdelkader, Youcef Mezouar, Philippe Martinet, François Chaumette: Catadioptric Visual Servoing From 3-D Straight Lines. 652-665
Danwei Wang, Chang Boon Low: Modeling and Analysis of Skidding and Slipping in Wheeled Mobile Robots: Control Design Perspective. 676-687
K. McDowell, P. Nunez, S. Hutchins, J. S. Metcalfe: Secure Mobility and the Autonomous Driver. 688-697
Steven Floyd, Metin Sitti: Design and Development of the Lifting and Propulsion Mechanism for a Biologically Inspired Water Runner Robot. 698-709
Kevin M. Lynch, Ira B. Schwartz, Peng Yang, Randy A. Freeman: Decentralized Environmental Modeling by Mobile Sensor Networks. 710-724
Takayuki Kanda, Takahiro Miyashita, Taku Osada, Yuji Haikawa, Hiroshi Ishiguro: Analysis of Humanoid Appearances in Human-Robot Interaction. 725-735
Mahir Hassan, Amir Khajepour: Optimization of Actuator Forces in Cable-Based Parallel Manipulators Using Convex Analysis. 736-740
Keith J. O'Hara, Daniel B. Walker, Tucker R. Balch: Physical Path Planning Using a Pervasive Embedded Network. 741-746
Martin David Adams, Tang Fan, Wijerupage Sardha Wijesoma, Chhay Sok: Convergent Smoothing and Segmentation of Noisy Range Data in Multiscale Space. 746-753
Emmanuel Nuno, Romeo Ortega, Nikita Barabanov, Luis Basañez: A Globally Stable PD Controller for Bilateral Teleoperators. 753-758
Carlos Toshinori Ishi, Shigeki Matsuda, Takayuki Kanda, Takatoshi Jitsuhiro, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Satoshi Nakamura, Norihiro Hagita: A Robust Speech Recognition System for Communication Robots in Noisy Environments. 759-763
Volume 24, Number 4, August 2008

Deepak Trivedi, Amir Lotfi, Christopher D. Rahn: Geometrically Exact Models for Soft Robotic Manipulators. 773-780
Ryo Kikuuwe, Naoyuki Takesue, Hideo Fujimoto: A Control Framework to Generate Nonenergy-Storing Virtual Fixtures: Use of Simulated Plasticity. 781-793
Chanki Kim, R. Sakthivel, Wan Kyun Chung: Unscented FastSLAM: A Robust and Efficient Solution to the SLAM Problem. 808-820
Chris C. Ward, Karl Iagnemma: A Dynamic-Model-Based Wheel Slip Detector for Mobile Robots on Outdoor Terrain. 821-831
Chris McCarthy, Nick Barnes, Robert E. Mahony: A Robust Docking Strategy for a Mobile Robot Using Flow Field Divergence. 832-842
Hesheng Wang, Yun-Hui Liu, Dongxiang Zhou: Adaptive Visual Servoing Using Point and Line Features With an Uncalibrated Eye-in-Hand Camera. 843-857
Jagadeesan Jayender, Mahdi Azizian, Rajnikant V. Patel: Autonomous Image-Guided Robot-Assisted Active Catheter Insertion. 858-871
Christian Fleischer, Günter Hommel: A Human--Exoskeleton Interface Utilizing Electromyography. 872-882
Changchun Liu, Karla Conn, Nilanjan Sarkar, Wendy Stone: Online Affect Detection and Robot Behavior Adaptation for Intervention of Children With Autism. 883-896
Beatriz Lopez Walle, Michaël Gauthier, Nicolas Chaillet: Principle of a Submerged Freeze Gripper for Microassembly. 897-902
Cristian Secchi, Stefano Stramigioli, Cesare Fantuzzi: Transparency in Port-Hamiltonian-Based Telemanipulation. 903-910
Noriaki Mitsunaga, Christian Smith, Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Norihiro Hagita: Adapting Robot Behavior for Human--Robot Interaction. 911-916
Bum-Joo Lee, Daniel Stonier, Yong-Duk Kim, Jeong-Ki Yoo, Jong-Hwan Kim: Modifiable Walking Pattern of a Humanoid Robot by Using Allowable ZMP Variation. 917-925
Volume 24, Number 5, October 2008
Javier Civera, Andrew J. Davison, J. M. M. Montiel: Inverse Depth Parametrization for Monocular SLAM. 932-945
Lina María Paz, Pedro Pinies, Juan D. Tardós, José Neira: Large-Scale 6-DOF SLAM With Stereo-in-Hand. 946-957
Joan Solà, André Monin, Michel Devy, Teresa A. Vidal-Calleja: Fusing Monocular Information in Multicamera SLAM. 958-968
Geraldo F. Silveira, Ezio Malis, Patrick Rives: An Efficient Direct Approach to Visual SLAM. 969-979
Andrew P. Gee, Denis Chekhlov, Andrew Calway, Walterio W. Mayol-Cuevas: Discovering Higher Level Structure in Visual SLAM. 980-990
Henrik Andreasson, Tom Duckett, Achim J. Lilienthal: A Minimalistic Approach to Appearance-Based Visual SLAM. 991-1001
Ian Mahon, Stefan B. Williams, Oscar Pizarro, Matthew Johnson-Roberson: Efficient View-Based SLAM Using Visual Loop Closures. 1002-1014
Davide Scaramuzza, Roland Siegwart: Appearance-Guided Monocular Omnidirectional Visual Odometry for Outdoor Ground Vehicles. 1015-1026
Adrien Angeli, David Filliat, Stéphane Doncieux, Jean-Arcady Meyer: Fast and Incremental Method for Loop-Closure Detection Using Bags of Visual Words. 1027-1037
Michael Milford, Gordon Wyeth: Mapping a Suburb With a Single Camera Using a Biologically Inspired SLAM System. 1038-1053
Simone Frintrop, Patric Jensfelt: Attentional Landmarks and Active Gaze Control for Visual SLAM. 1054-1065
Kurt Konolige, Motilal Agrawal: FrameSLAM: From Bundle Adjustment to Real-Time Visual Mapping. 1066-1077
Weizhen Zhou, Jaime Valls Miró, Gamini Dissanayake: Information-Efficient 3-D Visual SLAM for Unstructured Domains. 1078-1087
Bastian Steder, Giorgio Grisetti, Cyrill Stachniss, Wolfram Burgard: Visual SLAM for Flying Vehicles. 1088-1093
Pedro Pinies, Juan D. Tardós: Large-Scale SLAM Building Conditionally Independent Local Maps: Application to Monocular Vision. 1094-1106
Shoudong Huang, Zhan Wang, Gamini Dissanayake: Sparse Local Submap Joining Filter for Building Large-Scale Maps. 1121-1130
Masayuki Shimizu, H. Kakuya, Woo-Keun Yoon, Kosei Kitagaki, Kazuhiro Kosuge: Analytical Inverse Kinematic Computation for 7-DOF Redundant Manipulators With Joint Limits and Its Application to Redundancy Resolution. 1131-1142
Faraz M. Mirzaei, Stergios I. Roumeliotis: A Kalman Filter-Based Algorithm for IMU-Camera Calibration: Observability Analysis and Performance Evaluation. 1143-1156
J. H. Solomon, M. Hartmann: Artificial Whiskers Suitable for Array Implementation: Accounting for Lateral Slip and Surface Friction. 1157-1167
Ke X. Zhou, Stergios I. Roumeliotis: Optimal Motion Strategies for Range-Only Constrained Multisensor Target Tracking. 1168-1185
Eiichi Yoshida, Claudia Esteves, Igor R. Belousov, Jean-Paul Laumond, Takeshi Sakaguchi, Kazuhito Yokoi: Planning 3-D Collision-Free Dynamic Robotic Motion Through Iterative Reshaping. 1186-1198
John Vannoy, Jing Xiao: Real-Time Adaptive Motion Planning (RAMP) of Mobile Manipulators in Dynamic Environments With Unforeseen Changes. 1199-1212
Dimos V. Dimarogonas, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos: Connectedness Preserving Distributed Swarm Aggregation for Multiple Kinematic Robots. 1213-1223
Rodney G. Roberts, Hyun Geun Yu, Anthony A. Maciejewski: Fundamental Limitations on Designing Optimally Fault-Tolerant Redundant Manipulators. 1224-1237
Youngrock Yoon, Akio Kosaka, Avinash C. Kak: A New Kalman-Filter-Based Framework for Fast and Accurate Visual Tracking of Rigid Objects. 1238-1251
Göran A. V. Christiansson, Richard Quint van der Linde, Frans C. T. van der Helm: The Influence of Teleoperator Stiffness and Damping on Object Discrimination. 1252-1256
Volume 24, Number 6, December 2008
Seth Hutchinson: Editorial. 1261
David B. Camarillo, C. F. Milne, Christopher R. Carlson, Michael Zinn, J. Kenneth Salisbury: Mechanics Modeling of Tendon-Driven Continuum Manipulators. 1262-1273
Frédéric Boyer, Mathieu Porez, Alban Leroyer, M. Visonneau: Fast Dynamics of an Eel-Like Robot - Comparisons With Navier-Stokes Simulations. 1274-1288
Fumihiko Asano, Zhi Wei Luo: Energy-Efficient and High-Speed Dynamic Biped Locomotion Based on Principle of Parametric Excitation. 1289-1301
Cristian C. Phipps, Benjamin E. Shores, Mark A. Minor: Design and Quasi-Static Locomotion Analysis of the Rolling Disk Biped Hybrid Robot. 1302-1314
Jarzebowska Jarzebowska: Advanced Programmed Motion Tracking Control of Nonholonomic Mechanical Systems. 1315-1328
Fabio T. Ramos, Suresh Kumar, Ben Upcroft, Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte: A Natural Feature Representation for Unstructured Environments. 1329-1340
Alex Brooks, Alexei Makarenko, Ben Upcroft: Gaussian Process Models for Indoor and Outdoor Sensor-Centric Robot Localization. 1341-1351
Christopher Mei, Selim Benhimane, Ezio Malis, Patrick Rives: Efficient Homography-Based Tracking and 3-D Reconstruction for Single-Viewpoint Sensors. 1352-1364
Michael Kaess, Ananth Ranganathan, Frank Dellaert: iSAM: Incremental Smoothing and Mapping. 1365-1378
Xun S. Zhou, Stergios I. Roumeliotis: Robot-to-Robot Relative Pose Estimation From Range Measurements. 1379-1393
Derek B. Kingston, Randal W. Beard, Ryan S. Holt: Decentralized Perimeter Surveillance Using a Team of UAVs. 1394-1404
Brian Shucker, Todd D. Murphey, John K. Bennett: Convergence-Preserving Switching for Topology-Dependent Decentralized Systems. 1405-1415
Michael M. Zavlanos, George J. Pappas: Distributed Connectivity Control of Mobile Networks. 1416-1428
Shaunak Dattaprasad Bopardikar, Francesco Bullo, João Pedro Hespanha: On Discrete-Time Pursuit-Evasion Games With Sensing Limitations. 1429-1439
Krzysztof Tchon: Optimal Extended Jacobian Inverse Kinematics Algorithms for Robotic Manipulators. 1440-1445
Sunil Kumar Agrawal, Vivek Sangwan: Differentially Flat Designs of Underactuated Open-Chain Planar Robots. 1445-1451
Yoav Gabriely, Elon Rimon: CBUG: A Quadratically Competitive Mobile Robot Navigation Algorithm. 1451-1457
Tove Gustavi, Xiaoming Hu: Observer-Based Leader-Following Formation Control Using Onboard Sensor Information. 1457-1462
Micha Hersch, Florent Guenter, Sylvain Calinon, Aude Billard: Dynamical System Modulation for Robot Learning via Kinesthetic Demonstrations. 1463-1467
A. A. De Luca: List of Reviewers. 1468-1472



