Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Volume 75

Volume 75, Part A, January 2016

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  Yacine Amirat, David Daney, Samer Mohammed, Anne Spalanzani, Abdelghani Chibani, Olivier Simonin:
  Assistance and Service Robotics in a Human Environment. 1-3
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  Dominique Vaufreydaz, Wafa Johal, Claudine Combe:
  Starting engagement detection towards a companion robot using multimodal features. 4-16
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  Naouel Ayari, Abdelghani Chibani, Yacine Amirat, Eric T. Matson:
  A semantic approach for enhancing assistive services in ubiquitous robotics. 17-27
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  François Pasteau, Vishnu K. Narayanan, Marie Babel, François Chaumette:
  A visual servoing approach for autonomous corridor following and doorway passing in a wheelchair. 28-40
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  Samer Mohammed, Weiguang Huo, Jian Huang, Hala Rifaï, Yacine Amirat:
  Nonlinear disturbance observer based sliding mode control of a human-driven knee joint orthosis. 41-49
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  Samer Mohammed, Allou Samé, Latifa Oukhellou, Kyoungchul Kong, Weiguang Huo, Yacine Amirat:
  Recognition of gait cycle phases using wearable sensors. 50-59
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  David Fischinger, Peter Einramhof, Konstantinos E. Papoutsakis, Walter Wohlkinger, Peter Mayer, Paul Panek, Stefan Hofmann, Tobias Körtner, Astrid Weiss, Antonis A. Argyros, Markus Vincze:
  Hobbit, a care robot supporting independent living at home: First prototype and lessons learned. 60-78
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  Procopio Stein, Anne Spalanzani, Vítor M. F. Santos, Christian Laugier:
  Leader following: A study on classification and selection. 79-95
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  Ting Wang, Jean-Pierre Merlet, Guillaume Sacco, Philippe Robert, Jean-Michel Turpin, Bernard Teboul, Audrey Marteu, Olivier Guerin:
  Walking analysis of young and elderly people by using an intelligent walker ANG. 96-106
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  Sehoon Oh, Samer Mohammed, Kyoungchul Kong:
  Design and control of an active ankle-knee orthosis inspired by biarticular musculoskeletal structure of the human lower limb. 107-117

Volume 75, Part B, January 2016

Regular Papers

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  Abduladhem Abdulkareem Ali, Abdulmuttalib Turky Rashid, Mattia Frasca, Luigi Fortuna:
  An algorithm for multi-robot collision-free navigation based on shortest distance. 119-128
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  Nikhil Deshpande, Edward Grant, Thomas C. Henderson, Mark T. Draelos:
  Autonomous navigation using received signal strength and bearing-only pseudogradient interpolation. 129-144
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  Linping Chan, Fazel Naghdy, David Stirling:
  Position and force tracking for non-linear haptic telemanipulator under varying delays with an improved extended active observer. 145-160
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  Yuankai Li, Liang Ding, Guangjun Liu:
  Attitude-based dynamic and kinematic models for wheels of mobile robot on deformable slope. 161-175
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  Gaurav Chaudhary, Arpita Sinha, Twinkle Tripathy, Aseem Vivek Borkar:
  Conditions for target tracking with range-only information. 176-186
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  Hassan Bayani, Mehdi Tale Masouleh, Ahmad Kalhor:
  An experimental study on the vision-based control and identification of planar cable-driven parallel robots. 187-202
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  R. A. R. C. Gopura, D. S. V. Bandara, Kazuo Kiguchi, George K. I. Mann:
  Developments in hardware systems of active upper-limb exoskeleton robots: A review. 203-220
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  John P. Sustersic, Brad Wyble, Siddharth Advani, Vijaykrishnan Narayanan:
  Towards a unified multiresolution vision model for autonomous ground robots. 221-232
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  Dimitra Triantafyllou, Ioannis Mariolis, Andreas Kargakos, Sotiris Malassiotis, Nikos A. Aspragathos:
  A geometric approach to robotic unfolding of garments. 233-243
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  Savas Öztürk, Ahmet Emin Kuzucuoglu:
  A multi-robot coordination approach for autonomous runway Foreign Object Debris (FOD) clearance. 244-259
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  Wataru Takano, Yoshihiko Nakamura:
  Real-time Unsupervised Segmentation of human whole-body motion and its application to humanoid robot acquisition of motion symbols. 260-272
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  Yi Ren, Yechao Liu, Minghe Jin, Hong Liu:
  Biomimetic object impedance control for dual-arm cooperative 7-DOF manipulators. 273-287
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  Wataru Takano, Hirotaka Imagawa, Yoshihiko Nakamura:
  Spatio-temporal structure of human motion primitives and its application to motion prediction. 288-296
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  Chengju Liu, Tao Xu, Danwei Wang, Qijun Chen:
  Active balance of humanoids with foot positioning compensation and non-parametric adaptation. 297-309
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  Umashankar Nagarajan, Gabriel Aguirre-Ollinger, Ambarish Goswami:
  Integral admittance shaping: A unified framework for active exoskeleton control. 310-324
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  Jae-Yun Jun, Jean-Philippe Saut, Faïz BenAmar:
  Pose estimation-based path planning for a tracked mobile robot traversing uneven terrains. 325-339
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  Andrej Gams, Tadej Petric, Martin Do, Bojan Nemec, Jun Morimoto, Tamim Asfour, Ales Ude:
  Adaptation and coaching of periodic motion primitives through physical and visual interaction. 340-351
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  Miao Li, Kaiyu Hang, Danica Kragic, Aude Billard:
  Dexterous grasping under shape uncertainty. 352-364
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  Affan Shaukat, Yang Gao, Jeffrey A. Kuo, Bob A. Bowen, Paul E. Mort:
  Visual classification of waste material for nuclear decommissioning. 365-378
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  Martin Saska, Vojtech Spurný, Vojtech Vonásek:
  Predictive control and stabilization of nonholonomic formations with integrated spline-path planning. 379-397
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  Navvab Kashiri, Jinoh Lee, Nikos G. Tsagarakis, Michaël Van Damme, Bram Vanderborght, Darwin G. Caldwell:
  Proxy-based position control of manipulators with passive compliant actuators: Stability analysis and experiments. 398-408
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  Nuo Wi Noel Tay, János Botzheim, Naoyuki Kubota:
  Joint probabilistic approach for real-time face recognition with transfer learning. 409-421
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  Madhubhashi Senanayake, Ilankaikone Senthooran, Jan Carlo Barca, Hoam Chung, Joarder Kamruzzaman, M. Manzur Murshed:
  Search and tracking algorithms for swarms of robots: A survey. 422-434
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  Dorian Gálvez-López, Marta Salas, Juan D. Tardós, J. M. M. Montiel:
  Real-time monocular object SLAM. 435-449
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  Gossaye Mekonnen, Sanjeev Kumar, P. M. Pathak:
  Wireless hybrid visual servoing of omnidirectional wheeled mobile robots. 450-462
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  Andrey V. Savkin, Chao Wang, Ahmad Baranzadeh, Zhiyu Xi, Hung T. Nguyen:
  Distributed formation building algorithms for groups of wheeled mobile robots. 463-474
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  Carlos Fernández Caramés, F. Javier Serrano, Vidal Moreno, Belén Curto, Jesús Fernando Rodríguez-Aragón, Raúl Alves Santos:
  A real-time indoor localization approach integrated with a Geographic Information System (GIS). 475-489
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  Amit Shukla, Hamad Karki:
  Application of robotics in onshore oil and gas industry - A review Part I. 490-507
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  Amit Shukla, Hamad Karki:
  Application of robotics in offshore oil and gas industry - A review Part II. 508-524

Special Section on 3D Perception with PCL; Edited by Matteo Munaro, Radu Bogdan Rusu, and Emanuele Menegatti

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  Matteo Munaro, Filippo Basso, Emanuele Menegatti:
  OpenPTrack: Open source multi-camera calibration and people tracking for RGB-D camera networks. 525-538
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  Alexandru Eugen Ichim, Federico Tombari:
  Semantic parametric body shape estimation from noisy depth sequences. 539-549
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  Javier Navarrete, Vicente Morell, Miguel Cazorla, Diego Viejo, José García Rodríguez, Sergio Orts-Escolano:
  3DCOMET: 3D compression methods test dataset. 550-557
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  K. Berker Logoglu, Sinan Kalkan, Alptekin Temizel:
  CoSPAIR: Colored Histograms of Spatial Concentric Surflet-Pairs for 3D object recognition. 558-570
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  Daniel Gutiérrez-Gómez, Walterio W. Mayol-Cuevas, Josechu J. Guerrero:
  Dense RGB-D visual odometry using inverse depth. 571-583
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  Andrea Corti, Silvio Giancola, Giacomo Mainetti, Remo Sala:
  A metrological characterization of the Kinect V2 time-of-flight camera. 584-594
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  Changhyun Choi, Henrik I. Christensen:
  RGB-D object pose estimation in unstructured environments. 595-613
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  Miguel Oliveira, Luís Seabra Lopes, Gi Hyun Lim, S. Hamidreza Kasaei, Ana Maria Tomé, Aneesh Chauhan:
  3D object perception and perceptual learning in the RACE project. 614-626
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  Riccardo Monica, Jacopo Aleotti, Stefano Caselli:
  A KinFu based approach for robot spatial attention and view planning. 627-640
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  Jesus Martínez-Gómez, Vicente Morell, Miguel Cazorla, Ismael García-Varea:
  Semantic localization in the PCL library. 641-648
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  Eduardo Fernández-Moral, Patrick Rives, Vicente Arévalo, Javier González Jiménez:
  Scene structure registration for localization and mapping. 649-660

Special Section on Educational Robotics; Edited by Dimitris Alimisis and Michele Moro

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  Soumela Atmatzidou, Stavros N. Demetriadis:
  Advancing students' computational thinking skills through educational robotics: A study on age and gender relevant differences. 661-670
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  Stefano Michieletto, Elisa Tosello, Enrico Pagello, Emanuele Menegatti:
  Teaching humanoid robotics by means of human teleoperation through RGB-D sensors. 671-678
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  Martin Kandlhofer, Gerald Steinbauer:
  Evaluating the impact of educational robotics on pupils' technical- and social-skills and science related attitudes. 679-685
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  Gwen Nugent, Bradley S. Barker, Neal Grandgenett, Greg Welch:
  Robotics camps, clubs, and competitions: Results from a US robotics project. 686-691
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  Amy Eguchi:
  RoboCupJunior for promoting STEM education, 21st century skills, and technological advancement through robotics competition. 692-699