Autonomous Robots, Volume 42

Volume 42, Number 1, January 2018

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  Luka Peternel, Tadej Petric, Jan Babic:
  Robotic assembly solution by human-in-the-loop teaching method based on real-time stiffness modulation. 1-17
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  Bogdan Moldovan, Plinio Moreno, Davide Nitti, José Santos-Victor, Luc De Raedt:
  Relational affordances for multiple-object manipulation. 19-44
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  Joel Rey, Klas Kronander, Farbod Farshidian, Jonas Buchli, Aude Billard:
  Learning motions from demonstrations and rewards with time-invariant dynamical systems based policies. 45-64
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  Huei-Yung Lin, Chia-Wei Yao, Kai-Sheng Cheng, Tran Van Luan:
  Topological map construction and scene recognition for vehicle localization. 65-81
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  Mark Renfrew, Mark A. Griswold, Murat Cenk Cavusoglu:
  Active localization and tracking of needle and target in robotic image-guided intervention systems. 83-97
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  Rui Jiang, Shuai Yang, Shuzhi Sam Ge, Xiaomei Liu, Han Wang, Tong Heng Lee:
  GPS/odometry/map fusion for vehicle positioning using potential function. 99-110
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  Junaed Sattar, Gregory Dudek:
  Visual identification of biological motion for underwater human-robot interaction. 111-124
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  Dongheui Lee, Raffaele Soloperto, Matteo Saveriano:
  Bidirectional invariant representation of rigid body motions and its application to gesture recognition and reproduction. 125-145
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  Joost Geeroms, Louis Flynn, Rene Jimenez-Fabian, Bram Vanderborght, Dirk Lefeber:
  Energetic analysis and optimization of a MACCEPA actuator in an ankle prosthesis - Energetic evaluation of the CYBERLEGs alpha-prosthesis variable stiffness actuator during a realistic load cycle. 147-158
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  Miao Li, Kenji Tahara, Aude Billard:
  Learning task manifolds for constrained object manipulation. 159-174

Volume 42, Number 2, February 2018

Special issue on Active Perception

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  Robert Fitch, Volkan Isler, Pratap Tokekar, Davide Scaramuzza:
  Guest editorial: Special issue on active perception. 175-176
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  Ruzena Bajcsy, Yiannis Aloimonos, John K. Tsotsos:
  Revisiting active perception. 177-196
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  Jeffrey A. Delmerico, Stefan Isler, Reza Sabzevari, Davide Scaramuzza:
  A comparison of volumetric information gain metrics for active 3D object reconstruction. 197-208
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  Yash Satsangi, Shimon Whiteson, Frans A. Oliehoek, Matthijs T. J. Spaan:
  Exploiting submodular value functions for scaling up active perception. 209-233
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  Henry Carrillo, Philip M. Dames, Vijay Kumar, José A. Castellanos:
  Autonomous robotic exploration using a utility function based on Rényi's general theory of entropy. 235-256
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  Erik Nelson, Micah Corah, Nathan Michael:
  Environment model adaptation for mobile robot exploration. 257-272
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  Maani Ghaffari Jadidi, Jaime Valls Miró, Gamini Dissanayake:
  Gaussian processes autonomous mapping and exploration for range-sensing mobile robots. 273-290
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  Andreas Bircher, Mina Kamel, Kostas Alexis, Helen Oleynikova, Roland Siegwart:
  Receding horizon path planning for 3D exploration and surface inspection. 291-306
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  Yoonseon Oh, Sungjoon Choi, Songhwai Oh:
  Chance-constrained target tracking using sensors with bounded fan-shaped sensing regions. 307-327
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  Kuo-Shih Tseng, Bérénice Mettler:
  Near-optimal probabilistic search using spatial Fourier sparse set. 329-351
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  Vadim Indelman:
  Cooperative multi-robot belief space planning for autonomous navigation in unknown environments. 353-373
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  Juan-Pablo Ramirez-Paredes, Emily A. Doucette, Jess Willard Curtis, Nicholas R. Gans:
  Distributed information-based guidance of multiple mobile sensors for urban target search. 375-389
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  Timothy Patten, Wolfram Martens, Robert Fitch:
  Monte Carlo planning for active object classification. 391-421
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  Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Serkan Türker, Christian Rink, Manuel Brucker, Simon Kriegel, Tim Bodenmüller, Sebastian Riedel:
  Improving object orientation estimates by considering multiple viewpoints - Orientation histograms of symmetries and measurement models for view selection. 423-442
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  Riccardo Monica, Jacopo Aleotti:
  Contour-based next-best view planning from point cloud segmentation of unknown objects. 443-458
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  Rui Pimentel de Figueiredo, Alexandre Bernardino, José Santos-Victor, Helder Araújo:
  On the advantages of foveal mechanisms for active stereo systems in visual search tasks. 459-476
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  Gabriel Bustamante, Patrick Danès, Thomas Forgue, Ariel Podlubne, Jérôme Manhes:
  An information based feedback control for audio-motor binaural localization. 477-490
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  Christophe Reymann, Alessandro Renzaglia, Fayçal Lamraoui, Murat Bronz, Simon Lacroix:
  Adaptive sampling of cumulus clouds with UAVs. 491-512

Volume 42, Number 3, March 2018

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  Yonggen Ling, Manohar Kuse, Shaojie Shen:
  Edge alignment-based visual-inertial fusion for tracking of aggressive motions. 513-528
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  Alexandros Paraschos, Christian Daniel, Jan Peters, Gerhard Neumann:
  Using probabilistic movement primitives in robotics. 529-551
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  Penglei Dai, Javad Taghia, Stanley Lam, Jay Katupitiya:
  Integration of sliding mode based steering control and PSO based drive force control for a 4WS4WD vehicle. 553-568
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  Greet Van de Perre, Hoang-Long Cao, Albert De Beir, Pablo Gómez Esteban, Dirk Lefeber, Bram Vanderborght:
  Generic method for generating blended gestures and affective functional behaviors for social robots. 569-580
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  Oliver Kroemer, Simon Leischnig, Stefan Luettgen, Jan Peters:
  A kernel-based approach to learning contact distributions for robot manipulation tasks. 581-600
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  Janno Lunenburg, René van de Molengraft, Maarten Steinbuch:
  A representation method based on the probability of collision for safe robot navigation in domestic environments. 601-614
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  Hongsheng He, Yan Li, Jindong Tan:
  Relative motion estimation using visual-inertial optical flow. 615-629
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  Ruikun Luo, Rafi Hayne, Dmitry Berenson:
  Unsupervised early prediction of human reaching for human-robot collaboration in shared workspaces. 631-648
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  Arturo Torres-González, José Ramiro Martinez de Dios, Aníbal Ollero:
  Range-only SLAM for robot-sensor network cooperation. 649-663
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  Roberto Arroyo, Pablo F. Alcantarilla, Luis Miguel Bergasa, Eduardo Romera:
  Are you ABLE to perform a life-long visual topological localization? 665-685

Volume 42, Number 4, April 2018

Special Issue: Online Decision-Making in Multi-Robot Coordination

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  Jen Jen Chung, Jan Faigl, Geoffrey A. Hollinger:
  Guest editorial: Special issue on online decision making in multi-robot coordination. 687-689
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  Tal Regev, Vadim Indelman:
  Decentralized multi-robot belief space planning in unknown environments via identification and efficient re-evaluation of impacted paths. 691-713
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  Graeme Best, Jan Faigl, Robert Fitch:
  Online planning for multi-robot active perception with self-organising maps. 715-738
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  Alex Goldhoorn, Anais Garrell, René Alquézar, Alberto Sanfeliu:
  Searching and tracking people with cooperative mobile robots. 739-759
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  Edwin Kreuzer, Eugen Solowjow:
  Learning environmental fields with micro underwater vehicles: a path integral - Gaussian Markov random field approach. 761-780
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  Christos K. Verginis, Dimos V. Dimarogonas:
  Timed abstractions for distributed cooperative manipulation. 781-799
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  Javier Alonso-Mora, Jonathan A. DeCastro, Vasumathi Raman, Daniela Rus, Hadas Kress-Gazit:
  Reactive mission and motion planning with deadlock resolution avoiding dynamic obstacles. 801-824
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  William Bentz, Tru Hoang, Enkhmurun Bayasgalan, Dimitra Panagou:
  Complete 3-D dynamic coverage in energy-constrained multi-UAV sensor networks. 825-851
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  Constantinos Vrohidis, Panagiotis Vlantis, Charalampos P. Bechlioulis, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos:
  Reconfigurable multi-robot coordination with guaranteed convergence in obstacle cluttered environments under local communication. 853-873
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  Jacopo Banfi, Alberto Quattrini Li, Ioannis M. Rekleitis, Francesco Amigoni, Nicola Basilico:
  Strategies for coordinated multirobot exploration with recurrent connectivity constraints. 875-894
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  Jean Gregoire, Michal Cáp, Emilio Frazzoli:
  Locally-optimal multi-robot navigation under delaying disturbances using homotopy constraints. 895-907
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  Qi Lu, Joshua P. Hecker, Melanie E. Moses:
  Multiple-place swarm foraging with dynamic depots. 909-926
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  Stefan Jorgensen, Robert H. Chen, Mark B. Milam, Marco Pavone:
  The Team Surviving Orienteers problem: routing teams of robots in uncertain environments with survival constraints. 927-952

Volume 42, Number 5, June 2018

Special Issue: Learning for Human-Robot Collaboration

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  Leonel Dario Rozo, Heni Ben Amor, Sylvain Calinon, Anca D. Dragan, Dongheui Lee:
  Special issue on learning for human-robot collaboration. 953-956
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  Arash Ajoudani, Andrea Maria Zanchettin, Serena Ivaldi, Alin Albu-Schäffer, Kazuhiro Kosuge, Oussama Khatib:
  Progress and prospects of the human-robot collaboration. 957-975
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  Tian Zhou, Juan Pablo Wachs:
  Early prediction for physical human robot collaboration in the operating room. 977-995
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  Nima Enayati, Giancarlo Ferrigno, Elena De Momi:
  Skill-based human-robot cooperation in tele-operated path tracking. 997-1009
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  Luka Peternel, Nikos G. Tsagarakis, Darwin G. Caldwell, Arash Ajoudani:
  Robot adaptation to human physical fatigue in human-robot co-manipulation. 1011-1021
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  Bojan Nemec, Nejc Likar, Andrej Gams, Ales Ude:
  Human robot cooperation with compliance adaptation along the motion trajectory. 1023-1035
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  Gennaro Raiola, Susana Sanchez Restrepo, Pauline Chevalier, Pedro Rodríguez-Ayerbe, Xavier Lamy, Sami Tliba, Freek Stulp:
  Co-manipulation with a library of virtual guiding fixtures. 1037-1051
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  David Vogt, Simon Stepputtis, Bernhard Jung, Heni Ben Amor:
  One-shot learning of human-robot handovers with triadic interaction meshes. 1053-1065
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  Phoebe Liu, Dylan F. Glas, Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishiguro:
  Learning proactive behavior for interactive social robots. 1067-1085
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  Won-Hyong Lee, Jong-Hwan Kim:
  Hierarchical emotional episodic memory for social human robot collaboration. 1087-1102
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  Thibaut Munzer, Marc Toussaint, Manuel Lopes:
  Efficient behavior learning in human-robot collaboration. 1103-1115

Volume 42, Number 6, August 2018

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  Tiantian Shen, Sina Radmard, Ambrose Chan, Elizabeth A. Croft, Graziano Chesi:
  Optimized vision-based robot motion planning from multiple demonstrations. 1117-1132
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  Mathieu Labbé, François Michaud:
  Long-term online multi-session graph-based SPLAM with memory management. 1133-1150
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  Muriel Lang, Martin Kleinsteuber, Sandra Hirche:
  Gaussian process for 6-DoF rigid motions. 1151-1167
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  Yi Hou, Hong Zhang, Shilin Zhou:
  BoCNF: efficient image matching with Bag of ConvNet features for scalable and robust visual place recognition. 1169-1185
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  Juan Jesús Roldán, Miguel A. Olivares-Méndez, Jaime del Cerro, Antonio Barrientos:
  Analyzing and improving multi-robot missions by using process mining. 1187-1205
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  Michael W. Otte, Michael Kuhlman, Donald Sofge:
  Competitive target search with multi-agent teams: symmetric and asymmetric communication constraints. 1207-1230
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  Eliahu Khalastchi, Meir Kalech:
  A sensor-based approach for fault detection and diagnosis for robotic systems. 1231-1248
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  Takashi Takuma, Hiroki Oku, Norimasa Asagi, Wataru Kase:
  Design of vertebrae-inspired trunk mechanism for controlling walking behavior of semi-passive walker. 1249-1262
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  Angel Santamaria-Navarro, Giuseppe Loianno, Joan Solà, Vijay Kumar, Juan Andrade-Cetto:
  Autonomous navigation of micro aerial vehicles using high-rate and low-cost sensors. 1263-1280
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  Brian Reily, Fei Han, Lynne E. Parker, Hao Zhang:
  Skeleton-based bio-inspired human activity prediction for real-time human-robot interaction. 1281-1298

Volume 42, Number 7, October 2018

Special Issue on Robotics: Science and Systems

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  Nancy M. Amato, Oliver Brock, Marco Morales, Shawna L. Thomas:
  Special issue on "Robotics: Science and Systems", 2016. 1299-1300
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  Pablo F. Alcantarilla, Simon Stent, Germán Ros, Roberto Arroyo, Riccardo Gherardi:
  Street-view change detection with deconvolutional networks. 1301-1322
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  Fei Han, Hua Wang, Guoquan Huang, Hao Zhang:
  Sequence-based sparse optimization methods for long-term loop closure detection in visual SLAM. 1323-1335
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  Gangyuan Jing, Tarik Tosun, Mark Yim, Hadas Kress-Gazit:
  Accomplishing high-level tasks with modular robots. 1337-1354
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  Yilun Zhou, Benjamin Burchfiel, George Konidaris:
  Representing, learning, and controlling complex object interactions. 1355-1367
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  Dhanushka Kularatne, Subhrajit Bhattacharya, M. Ani Hsieh:
  Going with the flow: a graph based approach to optimal path planning in general flows. 1369-1387
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  Jeffrey Kane Johnson:
  On the relationship between dynamics and complexity in multi-agent collision avoidance. 1389-1404
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  Dorsa Sadigh, Nick Landolfi, Shankar S. Sastry, Sanjit A. Seshia, Anca D. Dragan:
  Planning for cars that coordinate with people: leveraging effects on human actions for planning and active information gathering over human internal state. 1405-1426
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  Federico Rossi, Rick Zhang, Yousef Hindy, Marco Pavone:
  Routing autonomous vehicles in congested transportation networks: structural properties and coordination algorithms. 1427-1442
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  Radhen Patel, Rebecca Cox, Nikolaus Correll:
  Integrated proximity, contact and force sensing using elastomer-embedded commodity proximity sensors. 1443-1458
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  Clemens Eppner, Sebastian Höfer, Rico Jonschkowski, Roberto Martín-Martín, Arne Sieverling, Vincent Wall, Oliver Brock:
  Four aspects of building robotic systems: lessons from the Amazon Picking Challenge 2015. 1459-1475
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  José Cano, David Robert White, Alejandro Bordallo, Ciaran McCreesh, Anna Lito Michala, Jeremy Singer, Vijay Nagarajan:
  Solving the task variant allocation problem in distributed robotics. 1477-1495
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  Qianli Ma, Zachariah Goh, Sipu Ruan, Gregory S. Chirikjian:
  Probabilistic approaches to the AXB = YCZ calibration problem in multi-robot systems. 1497-1520

Volume 42, Number 8, December 2018

Special Issue on Distributed Robotics: From Fundamentals to Applications

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  Roderich Groß, Andreas Kolling, Spring Berman, Alcherio Martinoli, Emilio Frazzoli, Fumitoshi Matsuno:
  Guest editorial: Special issue on distributed robotics - from fundamentals to applications. 1521-1523
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  Charalampos P. Bechlioulis, Michael A. Demetriou, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos:
  A distributed control and parameter estimation protocol with prescribed performance for homogeneous lagrangian multi-agent systems. 1525-1541
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  Julio Godoy, Tiannan Chen, Stephen J. Guy, Ioannis Karamouzas, Maria L. Gini:
  ALAN: adaptive learning for multi-agent navigation. 1543-1562
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  Young-Ho Kim, Dylan A. Shell:
  Bound to help: cooperative manipulation of objects via compliant, unactuated tails. 1563-1582
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  Masahiro Yoshimoto, Takahiro Endo, Ryuma Maeda, Fumitoshi Matsuno:
  Decentralized navigation method for a robotic swarm with nonhomogeneous abilities. 1583-1599
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  Barbara Arbanas, Antun Ivanovic, Marko Car, Matko Orsag, Tamara Petrovic, Stjepan Bogdan:
  Decentralized planning and control for UAV-UGV cooperative teams. 1601-1618
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  Benoît Piranda, Julien Bourgeois:
  Designing a quasi-spherical module for a huge modular robot to create programmable matter. 1619-1633
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  Yang Li, John Klingner, Nikolaus Correll:
  Distributed camouflage for swarm robotics and smart materials. 1635-1650
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  Andrew J. Smith, Geoffrey A. Hollinger:
  Distributed inference-based multi-robot exploration. 1651-1668
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  Brandon M. Zoss, David Mateo, Yoke Kong Kuan, Grgur Tokic, Mohammadreza Chamanbaz, Louis Goh, Francesco Vallegra, Roland Bouffanais, Dick K. P. Yue:
  Distributed system of autonomous buoys for scalable deployment and monitoring of large waterbodies. 1669-1689
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  Michael W. Otte, Nikolaus Correll:
  Dynamic teams of robots as ad hoc distributed computers: reducing the complexity of multi-robot motion planning via subspace selection. 1691-1713
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  Indrajeet Yadav, Chetan D. Pahlajani, Herbert G. Tanner, Ioannis Poulakakis:
  Information-sharing and decision-making in networks of radiation detectors. 1715-1730
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  Beth L. Boardman, Troy Harden, Sonia Martínez:
  Limited range spatial load balancing in non-convex environments using sampling-based motion planners. 1731-1748
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  Daniel Claes, Karl Tuyls:
  Multi robot collision avoidance in a shared workspace. 1749-1770
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  Ellen A. Cappo, Arjav Desai, Matthew Collins, Nathan Michael:
  Online planning for human-multi-robot interactive theatrical performance. 1771-1786
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  Mario Coppola, Kimberly N. McGuire, Kirk Y. W. Scheper, Guido C. H. E. de Croon:
  On-board communication-based relative localization for collision avoidance in Micro Air Vehicle teams. 1787-1805
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  Hyongju Park, Seth Hutchinson:
  Robust rendezvous for multi-robot system with random node failures: an optimization approach. 1807-1818
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  ChangSu Ha, Jaemin Yoon, Changu Kim, Yonghan Lee, Seongjin Kwon, Dongjun Lee:
  Teleoperation of a platoon of distributed wheeled mobile robots with predictive display. 1819-1836