ICRA 2008: Pasadena, California, USA
- 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2008, May 19-23, 2008, Pasadena, California, USA. IEEE 2008
Keynotes
- Naomi Ehrich Leonard:
Flocks and fleets: Collective motion and sensing networks in nature and robotics.
Mobile Robot Localization
- Jonathan Courbon, Youcef Mezouar, Laurent Eck, Philippe Martinet:
Efficient hierarchical localization method in an omnidirectional images memory. 13-18 - Matthew Dunbabin, Brenton Lang, Brett Wood:
Vision-based docking using an autonomous surface vehicle. 26-32 - Juergen Graefenstein, Mohamed Essayed Bouzouraa:
Robust method for outdoor localization of a mobile robot using received signal strength in low power wireless networks. 33-38
Vision-Based Tracking and Navigation
- Andrew Edie Johnson, Steve B. Goldberg, Yang Cheng, Larry H. Matthies:
Robust and Efficient Stereo Feature Tracking for Visual Odometry. 39-46 - Richard Roberts, Hai Nguyen, Niyant Krishnamurthi, Tucker R. Balch:
Memory-based learning for visual odometry. 47-52 - Mateus Mendes, Manuel Marques Crisóstomo, A. Paulo Coimbra:
Robot navigation using a sparse distributed memory. 53-58 - Zu Whan Kim, Raja Sengupta:
Target detection and position likelihood using an aerial image sensor. 59-64 - Dustin Deneault, Dale Schinstock, Christopher Lewis:
Tracking ground targets with measurements obtained from a single monocular camera mounted on an unmanned aerial vehicle. 65-72
Features for Visual Servoing
- Christophe Collewet, Éric Marchand, François Chaumette:
Visual servoing set free from image processing. 81-86 - Yun-Hui Liu, Hesheng Wang, Zhongli Wang:
Adaptive visual servoing using common image features with unknown geometry. 87-92 - Paolo Robuffo Giordano, Alessandro De Luca, Giuseppe Oriolo:
3D structure identification from image moments. 93-100 - Yasushi Iwatani, Kei Watanabe, Koichi Hashimoto:
Visual tracking with occlusion handling for visual servo control. 101-106 - Redwan Dahmouche, Omar Ait-Aider, Nicolas Andreff, Youcef Mezouar:
High-speed pose and velocity measurement from vision. 107-112 - Rafik Mebarki, Alexandre Krupa, François Chaumette:
Image moments-based ultrasound visual servoing. 113-119
Algorithmic Methods in Distributed Robotics
- Adriano Fagiolini, Marco Pellinacci, Gianni Valenti, Gianluca Dini, Antonio Bicchi:
Consensus-based distributed intrusion detection for multi-robot systems. 120-127 - Nathan Michael, Michael M. Zavlanos, Vijay Kumar, George J. Pappas:
Distributed multi-robot task assignment and formation control. 128-133 - Brian Stephen Smith, Magnus Egerstedt, Ayanna M. Howard:
Automatic deployment and formation control of decentralized multi-agent networks. 134-139 - Andrew Kwok, Sonia Martínez:
Deployment algorithms for a power-constrained mobile sensor network. 140-145 - Timothy H. Chung, Joel W. Burdick:
Multi-agent probabilistic search in a sequential decision-theoretic framework. 146-151
UAV Control
- Takashi Kubota, Masatsugu Otsuki, Tatsuaki Hashimoto:
Touchdown dynamics for sample collection in Hayabusa mission. 158-163 - Hala Rifai, Nicolas Marchand, Guylaine Poulin:
Bounded control of a flapping wing micro drone in three dimensions. 164-169 - Jack Elston, Eric W. Frew:
Hierarchical distributed control for search and tracking by heterogeneous aerial robot networks. 170-175 - Shangming Wei, Milos Zefran, Raymond A. DeCarlo:
Optimal control of robotic systems with logical constraints: Application to UAV path planning. 176-181 - Andrew Miller, Mubarak Shah, Don Harper:
Landing a UAV on a runway using image registration. 182-187 - Filoktimon Repoulias, Evangelos Papadopoulos:
Robotic airship trajectory tracking control using a backstepping methodology. 188-193
Transparency for Teleoperation
- Yongqiang Ye, Peter X. Liu:
Improving force feedback fidelity in wave-variable-based teleoperation. 194-199 - Ganesh Sankaranarayanan, Blake Hannaford:
Experimental comparison of internet haptic collaboration with time-delay compensation techniques. 206-211 - Costas S. Tzafestas, Spyros Velanas, George Fakiridis:
Adaptive impedance control in haptic teleoperation to improve transparency under time-delay. 212-219 - Shogo Okamoto, Masashi Konyo, Satoshi Saga, Satoshi Tadokoro:
Identification of cutaneous detection thresholds against time-delay stimuli for tactile displays. 220-225
Biological Principles in Robotics
- Atsushi Yamada, Masamitsu Watari, Hiromi Mochiyama, Hideo Fujimoto:
An asymmetric robotic catapult based on the closed elastica for jumping robot. 232-237 - Taro Nakamura, Tomohide Iwanaga:
Locomotion strategy for a peristaltic crawling robot in a 2-dimensional space. 238-243 - Steven Floyd, Serhat Adilak, Steven Ramirez, Raphael Rogman, Metin Sitti:
Performance of different foot designs for a water running robot. 244-250 - William A. Lewinger, Roger D. Quinn:
BILL-LEGS: Low computation emergent gait system for small mobile robots. 251-256 - Richard Primerano, David Wilkie, William C. Regli:
Toward a multi-disciplinary model for bio-robotic systems. 257-263
Grasping in Unstructured Environments
- Taro Takahashi, Toshimitsu Tsuboi, Takeo Kishida, Yasunori Kawanami, Satoru Shimizu, Masatsugu Iribe, Tetsuharu Fukushima, Masahiro Fujita:
Adaptive grasping by multi fingered hand with tactile sensor based on robust force and position control. 264-271 - Thomas Wimböck, Christian Ott, Gerd Hirzinger:
Analysis and experimental evaluation of the Intrinsically Passive Controller (IPC) for multifingered hands. 278-284 - Andreas J. Schmid, Nicolas Gorges, Dirk Goger, Heinz Wörn:
Opening a door with a humanoid robot using multi-sensory tactile feedback. 285-291 - Gary M. Bone, Andrew Lambert, Mark Edwards:
Automated modeling and robotic grasping of unknown three-dimensional objects. 292-298 - Tsuneo Yoshikawa, Masanao Koeda, Hiroshi Fujimoto:
Shape recognition and grasping by robotic hands with soft fingers and omnidirectional camera. 299-304
Exotic Sensors
- Hisataka Maruyama, Fumihito Arai, Toshio Fukuda:
Fabrication of functional gel-microbead for local environment measurement in microchip. 305-310 - Wei Dong, Kwang Yong Lim, Young Koon Goh, Kim Doang Nguyen, I-Ming Chen, Song Huat Yeo, Henry Been-Lirn Duh:
A low-cost motion tracker and its error analysis. 311-316 - Shinichi Yokota, Mamoru Suzuki, Kenjiro Takemura, Kazuya Edamura, Hideo Kumagai, Tsunehiko Imamura:
Concept of a liquid rate gyroscope using an electro-conjugate fluid. 317-322 - Frédéric Rivard, Jonathan Bisson, François Michaud, Dominic Létourneau:
Ultrasonic relative positioning for multi-robot systems. 323-328 - Kok-Meng Lee, Shaohui Foong:
Lateral optical sensor with slip detection of natural objects on moving conveyor. 329-334 - Tianguang Zhang, Haiyan Wu, Alexander Borst, Kolja Kühnlenz, Martin Buss:
An FPGA implementation of insect-inspired motion detector for high-speed vision systems. 335-340
Dynamic Walking
- Dai Owaki, Koichi Osuka, Akio Ishiguro:
On the embodiment that enables passive dynamic bipedal running. 341-346 - Sanford G. Meek, JongWon Kim, Michael Anderson:
Stability of a trotting quadruped robot with passive, underactuated legs. 347-351 - Simon Curran, David E. Orin:
Evolution of a jump in an articulated leg with series-elastic actuation. 352-358 - Subramanian Ramamoorthy, Benjamin Kuipers:
Trajectory generation for dynamic bipedal walking through qualitative model based manifold learning. 359-366 - Juergen Rummel, Fumiya Iida, James Andrew Smith, André Seyfarth:
Enlarging regions of stable running with segmented legs. 367-372 - Mirko Kovac, Martin Fuchs, André Guignard, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano:
A miniature 7g jumping robot. 373-378
Automation
- Onno C. Goemans, A. Frank van der Stappen:
On the design of traps for feeding 3D parts on vibratory tracks. 385-392 - Marius Kloetzer, Calin Belta:
Distributed implementations of global temporal logic motion specifications. 393-398 - Mitsuru Higashimori, Keisuke Utsumi, Makoto Kaneko:
Dexterous hyper plate inspired by pizza manipulation. 399-406 - Wenhui Wang, Yu Sun, Ming Zhang, Robin Anderson, Lowell Langille, Warren Chan:
A microrobotic adherent cell injection system for investigating intracellular behavior of quantum dots. 407-412
Micro/Nano Robotic Applications
- Tomoyuki Uchida, Hiroyuki Oura, Seiichi Ikeda, Fumihito Arai, Makoto Negoro, Toshio Fukuda:
Fabrication of biodegradable scaffolds by use of self-assembled magnetic sugar particles as a casting template. 413-418 - Steven Floyd, Chytra Pawashe, Metin Sitti:
An untethered magnetically actuated micro-robot capable of motion on arbitrary surfaces. 419-424 - Ruoting Yang, Tzyh Jong Tarn, Mingjun Zhang:
Event-based two degree-of-freedom control for micro-/nanoscale systems based on differential flatness. 425-430 - Lianqing Liu, Ning Xi, Yilun Luo, Yuechao Wang, Jiangbo Zhang, Guangyong Li:
Detection and real-time correction of faulty visual feedback in atomic force microscopy based nanorobotic manipulation. 431-436 - Sergej Fatikow, Daniel Jasper, Christoph Edeler, Christian Dahmen:
CameraMan: A multirobot system for nanohandling in a scanning electron microscope. 437-442 - Mustapha Hamdi, Antoine Ferreira:
Design and computational analysis of a linear nanotube servomotor using DNA actuation. 443-448
Localization
- Yoichi Morales Saiki, Eijiro Takeuchi, Takashi Tsubouchi:
Vehicle localization in outdoor woodland environments with sensor fault detection. 449-454 - Miguel Torres-Torriti, Andres Guesalaga:
Scan-to-map matching using the Hausdorff distance for robust mobile robot localization. 455-460 - José-Luis Blanco, Javier Gonzalez, Juan-Antonio Fernández-Madrigal:
An optimal filtering algorithm for non-parametric observation models in robot localization. 461-466 - Patrick Pfaff, Christian Plagemann, Wolfram Burgard:
Gaussian mixture models for probabilistic localization. 467-472 - Guoquan Huang, Anastasios I. Mourikis, Stergios I. Roumeliotis:
Analysis and improvement of the consistency of extended Kalman filter based SLAM. 473-479 - Yoann Dieudonné, Ouiddad Labbani-Igbida, Franck Petit:
On the solvability of the localization problem in robot networks. 480-485
Vision-Based Estimation and Control
- Giulio Reina, Genya Ishigami, Keiji Nagatani, Kazuya Yoshida:
Vision-based estimation of slip angle for mobile robots and planetary rovers. 486-491 - Trung Ngo Thanh, Hajime Nagahara, Ryusuke Sagawa, Yasuhiro Mukaigawa, Masahiko Yachida, Yasushi Yagi:
Robust and real-time egomotion estimation using a compound omnidirectional sensor. 492-497 - Fabio Morbidi, Gian Luca Mariottini, Domenico Prattichizzo:
Vision-based range estimation via Immersion and Invariance for robot formation control. 504-509 - Guillaume Allibert, Estelle Courtial, Youssoufi Touré:
Visual predictive control for manipulators with catadioptric camera. 510-515 - Daniel Pizarro, Marta Marrón, Daniel Peón, Manuel Mazo Quintas, Juan Carlos García García, Miguel Ángel Sotelo Vázquez, Enrique Santiso:
Robot and obstacles localization and tracking with an external camera ring. 516-521
Vision-Based Localization
- Andrzej Pronobis, Óscar Martínez Mozos, Barbara Caputo:
SVM-based discriminative accumulation scheme for place recognition. 522-529 - Muhammad Muneeb Ullah, Andrzej Pronobis, Barbara Caputo, Jie Luo, Patric Jensfelt, Henrik I. Christensen:
Towards robust place recognition for robot localization. 530-537 - Arnau Ramisa, Adriana Tapus, Ramón López de Mántaras, Ricardo Toledo:
Mobile robot localization using panoramic vision and combinations of feature region detectors. 538-543 - Stephen Nuske, Jonathan M. Roberts, Gordon Wyeth:
Visual localisation in outdoor industrial building environments. 544-550 - Keith Yu Kit Leung, Christopher Michael Clark, Jan Paul Huissoon:
Localization in urban environments by matching ground level video images with an aerial image. 551-556 - Chang Cheng, David L. Page, Mongi A. Abidi:
Object-based place recognition and loop closing with jigsaw puzzle image segmentation algorithm. 557-562
Mobile Sensor Networks
- Christian Ott, Yoshihiko Nakamura:
Employing wave variables for coordinated control of robots with distributed control architecture. 575-582 - Joseph Djugash, Sanjiv Singh, Ben Grocholsky:
Decentralized mapping of robot-aided sensor networks. 583-589 - Florian Zeiger, Nikolaus Kraemer, Klaus Schilling:
Commanding mobile robots via wireless ad-hoc networks - A comparison of four ad-hoc routing protocol implementations. 590-595 - Fernando Caballero, Luis Merino, Iván Maza, Aníbal Ollero:
A particle filtering method for wireless sensor network localization with an aerial robot beacon. 596-601
Space and Underwater Robotics
- Mircea Badescu, Sergiu Stroescu, Stewart Sherrit, Jack Aldrich, Xiaoqi Bao, Yoseph Bar-Cohen, Zensheu Chang, Wilson Hernandez, Alaa Ibrahim:
Rotary hammer ultrasonic/sonic drill system. 602-607 - Masahiro Ono, Peggy Boning, Tatsuro Nohara, Steven Dubowsky:
Experimental validation of a fuel-efficient robotic maneuver control algorithm for very large flexible space structures. 608-613 - Daniel M. Gaines, Tara A. Estlin, Caroline Chouinard:
Spatial coverage planning for a planetary rover. 614-620 - Michael J. Stealey, Amarjeet Singh, Maxim A. Batalin, Brett L. Jordan, William J. Kaiser:
NIMS-AQ: A novel system for autonomous sensing of aquatic environments. 621-628 - Victor L. Chen, Maxim A. Batalin, William J. Kaiser, Gaurav S. Sukhatme:
Towards spatial and semantic mapping in aquatic environments. 629-636
Teleoperation
- José Maria Azorín, Rafael Aracil, Carlos Pérez-Vidal, Nicolás M. García, José M. Sabater Navarro:
Transparent bilateral control for time-delayed teleoperation by state convergence. 643-648 - Jagadeesan Jayender, Mahdi Azizian, Rajni V. Patel:
Bilateral telemanipulation of a flexible catheter in a constrained environment. 649-654 - Emmanuel B. Vander Poorten, Takahiro Kanno, Yasuyoshi Yokokohji:
Robust variable-scale bilateral control for micro teleoperation. 655-662 - Amir Haddadi, Keyvan Hashtrudi-Zaad:
A new robust stability analysis and design tool for bilateral teleoperation control systems. 663-670 - Jordi Artigas, Carsten Preusche, Gerd Hirzinger, Gianni Borghesan, Claudio Melchiorri:
Bilateral energy transfer in delayed teleoperation on the time domain. 671-676 - Ilia G. Polushin, Peter Xiaoping Liu, Chung-Horng Lung:
Stability of bilateral teleoperators with projection-based force reflection algorithms. 677-682
Biologically Inspired Robotic Fish
- Anirban Mazumdar, Pablo Valdivia y Alvarado, Kamal Youcef-Toumi:
Maneuverability of a robotic tuna with compliant body. 683-688 - Ernest Mbemmo, Zheng Chen, Stephan Shatara, Xiaobo Tan:
Modeling of biomimetic robotic fish propelled by an ionic polymer-metal composite actuator. 689-694 - Chao Zhou, Min Tan, Zhiqiang Cao, Shuo Wang, Douglas C. Creighton, Nong Gu, Saeid Nahavandi:
Kinematic modeling of a bio-inspired robotic fish. 695-699 - James L. Tangorra, George V. Lauder, Peter G. Madden, Rajat Mittal, Meliha Bozkurttas, Ian W. Hunter:
A biorobotic flapping fin for propulsion and maneuvering. 700-705 - Kyu-Jin Cho, Elliot Wright Hawkes, Chris Quinn, Robert J. Wood:
Design, fabrication and analysis of a body-caudal fin propulsion system for a microrobotic fish. 706-711 - Stephan Shatara, Xiaobo Tan, Ernest Mbemmo, Nathan Gingery, Stephan Henneberger:
Experimental investigation on underwater acoustic ranging for small robotic fish. 712-717
Assistive Hands
- Yasuhisa Hasegawa, Yasuyuki Mikami, Kosuke Watanabe, Yoshiyuki Sankai:
Five-fingered assistive hand with mechanical compliance of human finger. 718-724 - Claudio Castellini, P. Patrick van der Smagt, Giulio Sandini, Gerd Hirzinger:
Surface EMG for force control of mechanical hands. 725-730 - Ranathunga Arachchilage Ruwan Chandra Gopura, Kazuo Kiguchi:
EMG-based control of an exoskeleton robot for human forearm and wrist motion assist. 731-736 - Ravi Balasubramanian, Yoky Matsuoka:
Biological stiffness control strategies for the Anatomically Correct Testbed (ACT) hand. 737-742 - Jun-Uk Chu, Dong-Hyun Jung, Yun-Jung Lee:
Design and control of a multifunction myoelectric hand with new adaptive grasping and self-locking mechanisms. 743-748 - Clément Gosselin, Frederic Pelletier, Thierry Laliberté:
An anthropomorphic underactuated robotic hand with 15 dofs and a single actuator. 749-754
Novel Actuators
- Ewoud Frank van West, Akio Yamamoto, Toshiro Higuchi:
Transportation of hard disk media using electrostatic levitation and tilt control. 755-760 - Thomas W. Secord, Jun Ueda, H. Harry Asada:
Dynamic analysis of a high-bandwidth, large-strain, PZT cellular muscle actuator with layered strain amplification. 761-766 - Sewoong Kim:
Modeling and fault analysis of BLDC motor based servo actuators for manipulators. 767-772 - Josiah Rosmarin, H. Harry Asada:
Synergistic design of a humanoid hand with hybrid DC motor - SMA array actuators embedded in the palm. 773-778 - Michael Karpelson, Gu-Yeon Wei, Robert J. Wood:
A review of actuation and power electronics options for flapping-wing robotic insects. 779-786 - U-Xuan Tan, Ferdinan Widjaja, Win Tun Latt, Kalyana Chakravarthy Veluvolu, Cheng Yap Shee, Cameron N. Riviere, Wei Tech Ang:
Adaptive rate-dependent feedforward controller for hysteretic piezoelectric actuator. 787-792
Quadrapedal Locomotion
- Panagiotis Chatzakos, Evangelos Papadopoulos:
The influence of DC electric drives on sizing quadruped robots. 793-798 - Sam D. Herbert, Andrew Drenner, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos:
Loper: A quadruped-hybrid stair climbing robot. 799-804