IROS 2007: San Diego, California, USA

Path Planning for Manipulation

• Rosen Diankov, James Kuffner:
  Randomized statistical path planning. 1-6
  
• Liangjun Zhang, Young J. Kim, Dinesh Manocha:
  A hybrid approach for complete motion planning. 7-14
  
• Jan Rosell, Carlos Vázquez, Alexander Pérez:
  C-space decomposition using deterministic sampling and distance. 15-20
  
• Thorsten Geeks, Dominik Henrich:
  Path planning and execution in fast-changing environments with known and unknown obstacles. 21-26
  
• Jaesik Choi, Eyal Amir:
  Factor-guided motion planning for a robot arm. 27-32
  

Mechanism Design I

• Kenjiro Tadakuma, Riichiro Tadakuma, Jose Berengueres:
  Development of holonomic omnidirectional Vehicle with "Omni-Ball": spherical wheels. 33-39
  
• Takeshi Aoki, Shigeo Hirose:
  Study on the brake operation of "Bridle Bellows". 40-45
  
• Adrian Martin, Mohammad Reza Emami:
  Analysis of robotic hardware-in-the-loop simulation architecture. 46-51
  
• S. Blank, Yantao Shen, Ning Xi, Chi Zhang, Uchechukwu C. Wejinya:
  High precision PSD guided robot localization: Design, mapping, and position control. 52-57
  
• Nobuki Oshima, Jorge Solis, Yu Ogura, Kazuyuki Hatake, Atsuo Takanishi:
  Development of the suture/ligature training system WKS-2 designed to provide more detailed information of the task performance. 58-63
  

Reinforcement Learning

• Laëtitia Matignon, Guillaume J. Laurent, Nadine Le Fort-Piat:
  Hysteretic q-learning : an algorithm for decentralized reinforcement learning in cooperative multi-agent teams. 64-69
  
• Tomoki Nishi, Yasutake Takahashi, Minoru Asada:
  Incremental behavior acquisition based on reliability of observed behavior recognition. 70-75
  
• Yasutake Takahashi, Kentarou Noma, Minoru Asada:
  Rapid behavior learning in multi-agent environment based on state value estimation of others. 76-81
  
• Wooyoung Kwon, Il Hong Suh, Sanghoon Lee, Young-Jo Cho:
  Fast reinforcement learning using stochastic shortest paths for a mobile robot. 82-87
  
• Kimura Kimura:
  Reinforcement learning in multi-dimensional state-action space using random rectangular coarse coding and Gibbs sampling. 88-95
  

Intelligent Vehicles

• Zhancheng Wang, Weimin Li, Yangsheng Xu:
  A novel power control strategy of series hybrid electric vehicle. 96-102
  
• Michaël Soulignac, Patrick Taillibert:
  Multiple path planning using wavefront collision. 103-108
  
• Gijs Dubbelman, Wannes van der Mark, Johan C. van den Heuvel, Frans C. A. Groen:
  Obstacle detection during day and night conditions using stereo vision. 109-116
  
• Yijun Matthew Chan, David Partouche, Michel Pasquier:
  An intelligent driving system for automatically anticipating and negotiating road curves. 117-122
  
• Stephan Sehestedt, Sarath Kodagoda, Alen Alempijevic, Gamini Dissanayake:
  Robust lane detection in urban environments. 123-128
  

Aerial Robotics: Modeling and Control

• Ahmad Hably, Nicolas Marchand:
  Global stabilization of a four rotor helicopter with bounded inputs. 129-134
  
• Marcel Bergerman, Omead Amidi, James Ryan Miller, Nick Vallidis, Todd Dudek:
  Cascaded position and heading control of a robotic helicopter. 135-140
  
• Tarek Madani, Abdelaziz Benallegue:
  Backstepping control with exact 2-sliding mode estimation for a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle. 141-146
  
• Hugo Romero, Anand Salazar, Anand Sanchez, Pedro Castillo, Rogelio Lozano:
  Modelling and real-time control stabilization of a new VTOL aircraft with eight rotors. 147-152
  
• Samir Bouabdallah, Roland Siegwart:
  Full control of a quadrotor. 153-158
  

Motion Control I

• Hanna Kurniawati, Thierry Fraichard:
  From path to trajectory deformation. 159-164
  
• Oscar Chuy, Yasuhisa Hirata, Kazuhiro Kosuge:
  Active type robotic mobility aid control based on passive behavior. 165-170
  
• Leonid B. Freidovich, Anton S. Shiriaev, Ian R. Manchester:
  Experimental implementation of stable oscillations of the Furuta pendulum around the upward equilibrium. 171-176
  
• Matthew McNaughton:
  CASTRO: robust nonlinear trajectory optimization using multiple models. 177-182
  
• Jaeyoung Lee, Je Sung Yeon, Jong Hyeon Park, Sanghun Lee:
  Robust back-stepping control for flexible-joint robot manipulators. 183-188
  

Medical Modeling and Mapping I

• Lei Ma, Christian Herrmann, Klaus Schilling:
  Modeling and prediction of lung tumor motion for robotic assisted radiotherapy. 189-194
  
• Philipp J. Stolka, Dominik Henrich:
  Using maps from local sensors for volume-removing tools. 195-201
  
• Agustin A. Navarro, Albert Hernansanz, Edgar Villarraga, Xavier Giralt, Joan Aranda Lopez:
  Automatic positioning of surgical instruments in minimally invasive roboticsurgery through vision-based motion analysis. 202-207
  
• Hongbin Liu, David P. Noonan, Yahya H. Zweiri, Kaspar Althoefer, Lakmal D. Seneviratne:
  The development of nonlinear viscoelastic model for the application of soft tissue identification. 208-213
  

Computer Vision Methodologies

• Zoran Zivkovic, Ben J. A. Kröse:
  Part based people detection using 2D range data and images. 214-219
  
• Xianghua Ying, Hongbin Zha:
  Camera calibration from a circle and a coplanar point at infinity with applications to sports scenes analyses. 220-225
  
• Gian Luca Mariottini, Domenico Prattichizzo:
  Uncalibrated video compass for mobile robots from paracatadioptric line images. 226-231
  
• Konstantinos Bitsakos, Li Yi, Cornelia Fermüller:
  Combining motion from texture and lines for visual navigation. 232-239
  
• Jeffrey B. Cole, David B. Grimes, Rajesh P. N. Rao:
  Learning full-body motions from monocular vision: dynamic imitation in a humanoid robot. 240-246
  

Field Robots I

• Jesús Nuevo, Cédric Pradalier, Luis Miguel Bergasa:
  Model-based load localisation for an autonomous hot metal carrier. 247-252
  
• Per Henrik Borgstrom, Nils Peter Borgstrom, Michael J. Stealey, Brett L. Jordan, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Maxim A. Batalin, William J. Kaiser:
  Discrete trajectory control algorithms for NIMS3D, an autonomous underconstrained three-dimensional cabled robot. 253-260
  
• Fabien Tâche, Wolfgang Fischer, Roland Siegwart, Roland Moser, Francesco Mondada:
  Compact magnetic wheeled robot with high mobility for inspecting complex shaped pipe structures. 261-266
  
• Yugang Liu, Guangjun Liu:
  Kinematics and interaction analysis for tracked mobile manipulators. 267-272
  

Micromanipulation I

• King Wai Chiu Lai, Ning Xi, Uchechukwu C. Wejinya, Yantao Shen, Wen J. Li:
  Automated robotic deposition system for manufacturing nano devices. 273-278
  
• Uchechukwu C. Wejinya, Ning Xi, Yantao Shen, King Wai Chiu Lai:
  Dynamic modeling of rotational motion of carbon nanotubes for intelligent manufacturing of CNT-based devices. 279-284
  
• Shahzad Khan, Ahmet Ozcan Nergiz, Asif Sabanovic, Volkan Patoglu:
  Development of a micromanipulation mystem with force sensing. 285-290
  
• Volkmar Eichhorn, Kenneth Carlson, Karin Nordström Andersen, Sergej Fatikow, Peter Bøggild:
  Nanorobotic manipulation setup for pick-and-place handling and nondestructive characterization of carbon nanotubes. 291-296
  
• Lu Ren, Lidai Wang, James K. Mills, Dong Sun:
  3-D automatic microassembly by vision-based control. 297-302
  

Locomotion

• Luther R. Palmer, David E. Orin:
  Quadrupedal running at high speed over uneven terrain. 303-308
  
• Woosung Yang, Nak Young Chong, ChangHwan Kim, Bum-Jae You:
  Self-adapting humanoid locomotion using a neural oscillator network. 309-316
  
• Finale Doshi, Emma Brunskill, Alexander C. Shkolnik, Thomas Kollar, Khashayar Rohanimanesh, Russ Tedrake, Nicholas Roy:
  Collision detection in legged locomotion using supervised learning. 317-322
  
• Ioannis Poulakakis, J. W. Grizzle:
  Monopedal running control: SLIP embedding and virtual constraint controllers. 323-330
  
• Michael Mistry, Jun Nakanishi, Stefan Schaal:
  Task space control with prioritization for balance and locomotion. 331-338
  

Sensor Data Processing

• Miti Ruchanurucks, Shunsuke Kudoh, Koichi Ogawara, Takaaki Shiratori, Katsushi Ikeuchi:
  Robot painter: from object to trajectory. 339-345
  
• Masamitsu Kurisu, Hiroki Muroi, Yasuyoshi Yokokohji:
  Calibration of laser range finder with a genetic algorithm. 346-351
  
• A. H. Abdul Hafez, Enric Cervera, C. V. Jawahar:
  Optimizing image and camera trajectories in robot vision control using on-line boosting. 352-357
  
• Hannes Bistry, Daniel Westhoff, Jianwei Zhang:
  A smart interface-unit for the integration of pre-processed laser range measurements into robotic systems and sensor networks. 358-363
  

Haptics and Manipulation

• Xianming Ye, Byungjune Choi, Sungchul Kang, Hyoukryeol Choi:
  Pen-type sensor for surface roughness perception. 364-369
  
• Davide Zerbato, Stefano Galvan, Paolo Fiorini:
  Calibration of mass spring models for organ simulations. 370-375
  
• Takeshi Ikawa, Hiroshi Noborio:
  On the precision and efficiency of hierarchical rheology MSD model. 376-383
  
• Angelika Peer, Yuta Komoguchi, Martin Buss:
  Towards a mobile haptic interface for bimanual manipulations. 384-391
  

Design of Medical Robots I

• Ana Luisa Trejos, Shiva Mohan, Harmanpreet Bassan, Amy Wei Lin, Aida Kashigar, Rajnikant V. Patel, Richard Malthaner:
  An experimental test-bed for robot-assisted image-guided minimally invasive lung brachytherapy. 392-397
  
• Ji Ma, Peter J. Berkelman:
  Task evaluations of a compact laparoscopic surgical robot system. 398-403
  
• Wael Bachta, Pierre Renaud, Edouard Laroche, Antonello Forgione, Jacques Gangloff:
  Design and control of a new active cardiac stabilizer. 404-409
  
• Daniel J. Abbott, Chris Becke, Richard I. Rothstein, William J. Peine:
  Design of an endoluminal NOTES robotic system. 410-416
  

AI Methodologies

• Paul Blaer, Peter K. Allen:
  Data acquisition and view planning for 3-D modeling tasks. 417-422
  
• Valdinei Freire da Silva, Pedro U. Lima, Anna Helena Reali Costa:
  Eliciting preferences over observed behaviours based on relative evaluations. 423-428
  
• Il Hong Suh, Gi Hyun Lim, Wonil Hwang, Hyowon Suh, Jung-Hwa Choi, Young-Tack Park:
  Ontology-based multi-layered robot knowledge framework (OMRKF) for robot intelligence. 429-436
  
• Abdelbaki Bouguerra, Lars Karlsson, Alessandro Saffiotti:
  Handling uncertainty in semantic-knowledge based execution monitoring. 437-443
  

Humanoid Robot Locomotion Control

• Tomomichi Sugihara, Yoshihiko Nakamura:
  Enhancement of boundary condition relaxation method for 3D hopping motion planning of biped robots. 444-449
  
• Toshio Fukuda, Shigetaka Kojima, Kosuke Sekiyama, Yasuhisa Hasegawa:
  Design method of brachiation controller based on virtual holonomic constraint. 450-455
  
• Kiyoshi Fujiwara, Shuuji Kajita, Kensuke Harada, Kenji Kaneko, Mitsuharu Morisawa, Fumio Kanehiro, Shinichiro Nakaoka, Hirohisa Hirukawa:
  An optimal planning of falling motions of a humanoid robot. 456-462
  
• Philipp Michel, Joel E. Chestnutt, Satoshi Kagami, Koichi Nishiwaki, James J. Kuffner, Takeo Kanade:
  GPU-accelerated real-time 3D tracking for humanoid locomotion and stair climbing. 463-469
  
• Koh Hosoda, Kenichi Narioka:
  Synergistic 3D limit cycle walking of an anthropomorphic biped robot. 470-475
  

Telerobotics I

• Farid Mobasser, Keyvan Hashtrudi-Zaad:
  Stable impedance reflecting teleoperation with online collision prediction. 476-482
  
• Cagdas D. Onal, Chytra Pawashe, Metin Sitti:
  A scaled bilateral control system for experimental 1-D teleoperated nanomanipulation applications. 483-488
  
• Panagiotis K. Artemiadis, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos:
  EMG-based teleoperation of a robot arm using low-dimensional representation. 489-495
  
• Ali Shahdi, Shahin Sirouspour:
  A multi-model decentralized controller for teleoperation with time delay. 496-501
  

Medical Modeling and Mapping II

• Jean-Baptiste Mathieu, Sylvain Martel:
  In vivo validation of a propulsion method for untethered medical microrobots using a clinical magnetic resonance imaging system. 502-508
  
• Timothy J. Franke, Ozkan Bebek, Murat Cenk Cavusoglu:
  Improved prediction of heart motion using an adaptive filter for robot assisted beating heart surgery. 509-515
  
• Hongbin Liu, Pinyo Puangmali, Kaspar Althoefer, Lakmal D. Seneviratne:
  Experimental study of soft tissue recovery using optical fiber probe. 516-521
  
• Takashi Suzuki, Hongen Liao, Etsuko Kobayashi, Ichiro Sakuma:
  Ultrasonic motor driving method for EMI-free image in MR image-guided surgical robotic system. 522-527
  

Face Detection and Emotions

• Gian Luca Mariottini, Domenico Prattichizzo, Mauro De Biasi, Carlo Snickars, Alessandra Rufa, Alberto De Capua, Simone Rossi:
  Human-robotics interface for the interaction with cognitive and emotional human domains. 528-533
  
• Natascha Esau, Lisa Kleinjohann, Bernd Kleinjohann:
  Integration of emotional reactions on human facial expressions into the robot head MEXI. 534-541
  
• Freerk Pieter Wilbers, Carlos Toshinori Ishi, Hiroshi Ishiguro:
  A blendshape model for mapping facial motions to an android. 542-547
  
• Carlos Toshinori Ishi, Judith Haas, Freerk Pieter Wilbers, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Norihiro Hagita:
  Analysis of head motions and speech, and head motion control in an android. 548-553
  

Autonomous Agents

• Shahram Mohseni Vahed, Haten Al Delaimi, Kaspar Althoefer, Lakmal D. Seneviratne:
  On-line energy-based method for soil estimation and classification in autonomous excavation. 554-559
  
• Georgios Lidoris, Klaas Klasing, Andrea Maria Bauer, Tingting Xu, Kolja Kühnlenz, Dirk Wollherr, Martin Buss:
  The autonomous city explorer project: aims and system overview. 560-565
  
• Gabriele Ferri, Michael V. Jakuba, Emanuele Caselli, Virgilio Mattoli, Barbara Mazzolai, Dana R. Yoerger, Paolo Dario:
  Localizing multiple gas/odor sources in an indoor environment using bayesian occupancy grid mapping. 566-571
  
• David C. Conner, Hadas Kress-Gazit, Howie Choset, Alfred A. Rizzi, George J. Pappas:
  Valet parking without a valet. 572-577
  

Micro/Nano Robots I

• Lianqing Liu, Ning Xi, Yilun Luo, Jiangbo Zhang, Guangyong Li:
  Sensor referenced guidance and control for robotic nanomanipulation. 578-583
  
• Evan Shechter, Arjun Arumbakkam, P. Lamoureux, Xueti Tang, M. Shima, Srinivas Akella:
  Towards batch fabrication and assembly of 3D microstructures: A sequential assembly planner with new hard magnet configuration. 584-589
  
• Kenji Suzuki, Hideaki Takanobu, K. Noya, H. Koike, Hirofumi Miura:
  Water strider robots with microfabricated hydrophobic legs. 590-595
  
• Mohd Ridzuan Ahmad, Masahiro Nakajima, Seiji Kojima, Michio Homma, Toshio Fukuda:
  Mechanical properties characterization of individual yeast cells using environment-SEM nanomanipulation system. 596-601
  

Human Motion Capture/Imitation I

• Dylan F. Glas, Takahiro Miyashita, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Norihiro Hagita:
  Laser tracking of human body motion using adaptive shape modeling. 602-608
  
• Takashi Minato, Hiroshi Ishiguro:
  Generating natural posture in an android by mapping human posture in three-dimensional position space. 609-616
  
• Dongheui Lee, Yoshihiko Nakamura:
  Motion capturing from monocular vision by statistical inference based on motion database: Vector field approach. 617-623
  
• Gentiane Venture, Katsu Yamane, Yoshihiko Nakamura, Masaya Hirashima:
  Estimating viscoelastic properties of human limb joints based on motion capture and robotic Identification Technologies. 624-629
  

Slam I

• Nosan Kwak, In-Kyu Kim, Heon-Cheol Lee, Beom Hee Lee:
  Adaptive prior boosting technique for the efficient sample size in fastSLAM. 630-635
  
• Esha D. Nerurkar, Stergios I. Roumeliotis:
  Power-SLAM: A linear-complexity, consistent algorithm for SLAM. 636-643
  
• Bastian Steder, Giorgio Grisetti, Slawomir Grzonka, Cyrill Stachniss, Axel Rottmann, Wolfram Burgard:
  Learning maps in 3D using attitude and noisy vision sensors. 644-649
  
• Oliver Wulf, Andreas Nüchter, Joachim Hertzberg, Bernardo Wagner:
  Ground truth evaluation of large urban 6D SLAM. 650-657
  
• Viet Nguyen, Ahad Harati, Roland Siegwart:
  A lightweight SLAM algorithm using Orthogonal planes for indoor mobile robotics. 658-663
  
• Antonio Henrique Pinto Selvatici, Anna Helena Reali Costa:
  Fast loopy belief propagation for topological Sam. 664-669
  

Tactile Sensing

• Makoto Shimojo, Takuma Araki, Seiichi Teshigawara, Aiguo Ming, Masatoshi Ishikawa:
  A net-structure tactile sensor covering free-form surface and ensuring high-speed response. 670-675
  
• Joshua R. Smith, Éric Garcia, Ryan Wistort, Ganesh Krishnamoorthy:
  Electric field imaging pretouch for robotic graspers. 676-683
  
• Yasunori Tada, Masahiro Inoue, Toshimi Kawasaki, Yasushi Kawahito, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Katsuaki Suganuma:
  A flexible and stretchable tactile sensor utilizing static electricity. 684-689
  
• Yoshihiro Tanaka, Hideo Sato, Hideo Fujimoto:
  Development of a finger-mounted tactile sensor for surface irregularity detection. 690-696
  
• Miha Vrhovec, Marko Munih:
  Improvement of coordinate measuring arm accuracy. 697-702
  
• Yuji Yamakawa, Akio Namiki, Masatoshi Ishikawa, Makoto Shimojo:
  One-handed knotting of a flexible rope with a high-speed multifingered hand having tactile sensors. 703-708
  

Learning I

• Mark Ollis, Wesley H. Huang, Michael Happold:
  A Bayesian approach to imitation learning for robot navigation. 709-714
  
• Shrihari Vasudevan, Roland Siegwart:
  A bayesian conceptualization of space for mobile robots. 715-720
  
• Jie Luo, Andrzej Pronobis, Barbara Caputo, Patric Jensfelt:
  Incremental learning for place recognition in dynamic environments. 721-728
  
• Mehmet Remzi Dogar, Maya Cakmak, Emre Ugur, Erol Sahin:
  From primitive behaviors to goal-directed behavior using affordances. 729-734
  
• Eric Sjoberg, Kevin Squire, Craig Martell:
  Online parameter estimation of a robot's motion model. 735-740
  
• Antonio Chella, Irene Macaluso, Lorenzo Riano:
  Automatic place detection and localization in autonomous robotics. 741-746
  

Smart Actuators I

• Jean Yves Gauthier, Arnaud Hubert, Joel Abadie, Nicolas Chaillet, Christian Lexcellent:
  Original hybrid control for robotic structures using magnetic shape memory alloys actuators. 747-752
  
• Yoko Yamanishi, Yu-Ching Lin, Fumihito Arai:
  Magnetically modified PDMS microtools for micro particle manipulation. 753-758
  
• Jagadeesan Jayender, Rajnikant V. Patel:
  Master-slave control of an active catheter instrumented with shape memory alloy actuators. 759-764
  
• Yohta Yamamoto, Kenji Kure, Takayoshi Iwai, Takefumi Kanda, Koichi Suzumori:
  Flexible displacement sensor using piezoelectric polymer for intelligent FMA. 765-770
  
• Nguyen Huu Chuc, Jong Kil Park, Doan Vu Thuy, Hyun Seok Kim, Jachoon Koo, Youngkwan Lee, Jea-do Nam, Hyouk Ryeol Choi:
  Multi-stacked artificial muscle actuator based on synthetic elastomer. 771-776
  
• Hisakazu Onoe, Koichi Suzumori, Takefumi Kanda:
  Development of tetra chamber actuator. 777-782
  

Wheeled Robots I and Personal Robots

• Alexander Wilhelm, William W. Melek, Jan Paul Huissoon, Christopher Michael Clark, Gerd Hirzinger, Norbert Sporer, Matthias Fuchs:
  Dynamics of step-climbing with deformable wheels and applications for mobile Robotics. 783-788
  
• Longjiang Zhou, Chee Leong Teo, Etienne Burdet:
  Analysis and parameter optimization of an elastic path controller. 789-794
  
• Martin Udengaard, Karl Iagnemma:
  Kinematic analysis and control of an omnidirectional mobile robot in rough terrain. 795-800
  
• Ulrich Nehmzow, Otar Akanyeti, C. Weinrich, Theocharis Kyriacou, Stephen A. Billings:
  Robot programming by demonstration through system identification. 801-806
  
• Kevin Yoon, Paul E. Rybski:
  Teaching procedural flow through dialog and demonstration. 807-814
  
• Zhichao Chen, Stanley T. Birchfield:
  Person following with a mobile robot using binocular feature-based tracking. 815-820
  

Space Robotics I

• Antonio Diaz-Calderon, Paul G. Backes, Robert G. Bonitz:
  An autonomous robotic scooping approach for planetary sample acquisition. 821-826
  
• Yannis Koveos, Athanasia Panousopoulou, Efthymios Kolyvas, Vasiliki Reppa, Konstantinos Koutroumpas, Athanasios Tsoukalas, Anthony Tzes:
  An integrated power aware system for robotic-based lunar exploration. 827-832
  
• Hari Das Nayar, Issa A. D. Nesnas:
  Re-usable kinematic models and algorithms for manipulators and vehicles. 833-838
  
• Farhad Aghili, Kourosh Parsa:
  Adaptive motion estimation of a tumbling satellite using laser-vision data with unknown noise characteristics. 839-846
  
• Satoko Abiko, Gerd Hirzinger:
  On-line parameter adaptation for a momentum control in the post-grasping of a tumbling target with model uncertainty. 847-852
  
• Julia M. B. Braman, Richard M. Murray, David A. Wagner:
  Safety verification of a fault tolerant reconfigurable autonomous goal-based robotic control system. 853-858
  

Surgery Assistants

• Lukas Ramrath, Ulrich G. Hofmann, Achim Schweikard:
  Spherical assistant for stereotactic surgery. 859-864
  
• Mohammad Matinfar, Clint Baird, Ali Batouli, Rrichard Clatterbuck, Peter Kazanzides:
  Robot-assisted skull base surgery. 865-870
  
• Vincent Duindam, Shankar Sastry:
  Geometric motion estimation and control for robotic-assisted beating-heart surgery. 871-876
  
• Deukhee Lee, Norihiro Koizumi, Kohei Ota, Shin Yoshizawa, Akira Ito, Yukio Kaneko, Yoichiro Matsumoto, Mamoru Mitsuishi:
  Ultrasound-based visual servoing system for lithotripsy. 877-882
  
• Greig L. McCreery, Ana Luisa Trejos, Rajni V. Patel, Michael D. Naish, Richard Malthaner:
  Evaluation of force feedback requirements for minimally invasive lung tumour localization. 883-888
  
• Jagadeesan Jayender, Mahdi Azizian, Rajni V. Patel:
  Autonomous robot-assisted active catheter insertion using image guidance. 889-894
  

Computer Vision

• Robert E. Karlsen, Gary Witus:
  Terrain understanding for robot navigation. 895-900
  
• Seung-Ho Baeg, Jae-Han Park, Jaehan Koh, Kyung-Wook Park, Moonhong Baeg:
  An object recognition system for a smart home environment on the basis of color and texture descriptors. 901-906
  
• Minami Asatani, Shigeki Sugimoto, Masatoshi Okutomi:
  A footstep-plan-based floor sensing method using stereo images for biped robot control. 907-912
  
• Leonidas Georgopoulos, Gillian M. Hayes, George Dimitri Konidaris:
  A forward model of optic flow for detecting external forces. 913-918
  
• Pedram Azad, Tamim Asfour, Rüdiger Dillmann:
  Stereo-based 6D object localization for grasping with humanoid robot systems. 919-924
  
• Idaku Ishii, Idaku Yamamoto, Kensuke Doi, Tokuo Tsuji:
  High-speed 3D image acquisition using coded structured light projection. 925-930
  

Multi-Robot Systems I

• Stefan Markov, Stefano Carpin:
  A cooperative distributed approach to target motion control in multirobot observation of multiple targets. 931-936
  
• Rui Soares, Estela Bicho, Toni Machado, Wolfram Erlhagen:
  Object transportation by multiple mobile robots controlled by attractor dynamics: theory and implementation. 937-944
  
• Anthony Cowley, Camillo J. Taylor:
  Orchestrating concurrency in robot swarms. 945-950
  
• Balajee Kannan, Lynne E. Parker:
  Metrics for quantifying system performance in intelligent, fault-tolerant multi-robot teams. 951-958
  
• Jutta Kiener, Oskar von Stryk:
  Cooperation of heterogeneous, autonomous robots: A case study of humanoid and wheeled robots. 959-964
  
• Nathan Michael, Jonathan Fink, Vijay Kumar:
  Controlling a team of ground robots via an aerial robot. 965-970
  

Surveillance and Vision Systems I

• Jeremy Schiff, Marci Meingast, Deirdre K. Mulligan, Shankar Sastry, Kenneth Y. Goldberg:
  Respectful cameras: detecting visual markers in real-time to address privacy concerns. 971-978
  
• Evan Ribnick, Stefan Atev, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, Osama Masoud, Richard M. Voyles:
  Detection of thrown objects in indoor and outdoor scenes. 979-984
  
• Eric Martinson:
  Hiding the acoustic signature of a mobile robot. 985-990
  
• Francesco Capezio, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, Antonio Sgorbissa, Renato Zaccaria:
  The ANSER project: Airport nonstop surveillance expert robot. 991-996
  
• Esra Kadioglu Urtis, Loren Fiore, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos:
  Visibility in motion. 997-1002
  
• Andreas Kolling, Stefano Carpin:
  The GRAPH-CLEAR problem: definition, theoretical properties and its connections to multirobot aided surveillance. 1003-1008
  

Human Motion Capture/Imitation II

• Ryunosuke Yokoya, Tetsuya Ogata, Jun Tani, Kazunori Komatani, Hiroshi G. Okuno:
  Discovery of other individuals by projecting a self-model through imitation. 1009-1014
  
• Manuel Lopes, Francisco S. Melo, Luis Montesano:
  Affordance-based imitation learning in robots. 1015-1021
  
• Florent Guenter, Aude Billard:
  Using reinforcement learning to adapt an imitation task. 1022-1027
  
• Zhe Li, Sven Wachsmuth, Jannik Fritsch, Gerhard Sagerer:
  View-adaptive manipulative action recognition for robot companions. 1028-1033
  
• Yuichi Sagawa, Masamichi Shimosaka, Taketoshi Mori, Tomomasa Sato:
  Fast online human pose estimation via 3D voxel data. 1034-1040
  
• Michael Dixon, Frederick Heckel, Robert Pless, William D. Smart:
  Faster and more accurate face detection on mobile robots using geometric constraints. 1041-1046
  

Localization I

• Christian Weiss, Hashem Tamimi, Andreas Masselli, Andreas Zell:
  A hybrid approach for vision-based outdoor robot localization using global and local image features. 1047-1052
  
• Agostino Martinelli:
  Improving the precision on multi robot localization by using a series of filters hierarchically distributed. 1053-1058
  
• Zhibin Liu, Zongying Shi, Mingguo Zhao, Wenli Xu:
  Mobile robots global localization using adaptive dynamic clustered particle filters. 1059-1064
  
• Wenfei Liu, Yu Zhou:
  Recovering the position and orientation of a mobile robot from a single image of identified landmarks. 1065-1070
  
• Nikolas Trawny, Xun S. Zhou, Ke X. Zhou, Stergios I. Roumeliotis:
  3D relative pose estimation from distance-only measurements. 1071-1078
  
• José E. Guivant, Roman Katz:
  Global urban localization based on road maps. 1079-1084
  

Haptic Sensing/Processing

• Renat Iskakov, Alin Albu-Schäffer, Manfred Schedl, Gerd Hirzinger, Vitaly Lopota:
  Influence of sensor quantization on the control performance of robotics actuators. 1085-1092
  
• Jun-Uk Chu, Yun-Jung Lee:
  Conjugate prior penalized learning of Gaussian mixture models for EMG pattern recognition. 1093-1098
  
• Tomoyuki Noda, Takahiro Miyashita, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Norihiro Hagita:
  Map acquisition and classification of haptic interaction using cross correlation between distributed tactile sensors on the whole body surface. 1099-1105
  
• Ewoud Frank van West, Akio Yamamoto, Benjamin Burns, Toshiro Higuchi:
  Non-contact handling of hard-disk media by human operator using electrostatic levitation and haptic Device. 1106-1111
  
• Yu-Ching Lin, Ayumi Asakura, Toshio Fukuda, Fumihito Arai:
  Design and fabrication of miniaturized force sensor with quartz crystal resonators. 1112-1117
  
• Ali Cherry, Joël Abadie, Emmanuel Piat:
  Modelling and optimization of a floating triangular platform used for nano and microforces sensing. 1118-1123
  

Humanoid Robot Manipulation

• Yunting Pang, Qiang Huang, Dongyong Jia, Ye Tian, Junyao Gao, Weimin Zhang:
  Object manipulation of a humanoid robot based on visual Servoing. 1124-1129
  
• Eiichi Yoshida, Mathieu Poirier, Jean-Paul Laumond, Rachid Alami, Kazuhito Yokoi:
  Pivoting based manipulation by humanoids: a controllability analysis. 1130-1135
  
• Yoshiyuki Ohmura, Yasuo Kuniyoshi:
  Humanoid robot which can lift a 30kg box by whole body contact and tactile feedback. 1136-1141
  
• Francesco Nori, Lorenzo Natale, Giulio Sandini, Giorgio Metta:
  Autonomous learning of 3D reaching in a humanoid robot. 1142-1147
  
• Xiaoxi Jiang, Marcelo Kallmann:
  Learning humanoid reaching tasks in dynamic environments. 1148-1153
  
• Yasuhisa Hirata, Hamin Song, Zhi Dong Wang, Kazuhiro Kosuge:
  Control of passive object handling robot with free joint for reducing human assistive force. 1154-1159
  

Smart Actuators II

• Jun Ueda, Thomas W. Secord, H. Harry Asada:
  Design of PZT cellular actuators with power-law strain amplification. 1160-1165
  
• Hossein Habibollahi Najafabadi, Seyed Mehdi Rezaei, Saeed Shiry Ghidary, Mohammad Zarei-nejad, Kamran Razi, Reza Seifabadi:
  Hysteresis compensation of piezoelectric actuators under dynamic load condition. 1166-1171
  
• Norihiro Kamamichi, Masaki Yamakita, Kinji Asaka, Zhi Wei Luo, Toshiharu Mukai:
  Experimental verifications on control and sensing of bucky gel actuator/sensor. 1172-1177
  
• Mizuho Shibata, Takahiro Yoshimura, Shinichi Hirai:
  Angle control of a loosely coupled mechanism in 3D space using length sensors. 1178-1183
  
• Deddy Nur Zaman, Takashi Suzuki, Hongen Liao, Etsuko Kobayashi, Yasuhiko Jimbo, Ichiro Sakuma:
  Development and evaluation of a novel actuator using MR magnetic field. 1184-1189
  
• Micky Rakotondrabe, Cedric Clevy, Philippe Lutz:
  H-INFINITY deflection control of a unimorph piezoelectric cantilever under thermal disturbance. 1190-1195
  

Wheeled Robots II

• Masayoshi Wada:
  Holonomic and omnidirectional wheelchairs with synchronized 4WD mechanism. 1196-1202
  
• Mathias Brandstötter, Michael W. Hofbaur, Gerald Steinbauer, Franz Wotawa:
  Model-based fault diagnosis and reconfiguration of robot drives. 1203-1209
  
• S. Ali A. Moosavian, Khalil Alipour, Yousef Bahramzadeh:
  Dynamics modeling and tip-over stability of suspended wheeled mobile robots with multiple arms. 1210-1215
  
• Wolfgang Fischer, Fabien Tâche, Roland Siegwart:
  Inspection system for very thin and fragile surfaces, based on a pair of wall climbing robots with magnetic wheels. 1216-1221
  
• Anthony Mandow, Jorge L. Martínez, Jesús Morales, Jose-Luis Blanco, Alfonso García-Cerezo, Javier Gonzalez:
  Experimental kinematics for wheeled skid-steer mobile robots. 1222-1227
  
• Sousuke Nakamura, Michele Faragalli, Noriaki Mizukami, Ichiro Nakatani, Yasuharu Kunii, Takashi Kubota:
  Wheeled robot with movable center of mass for traversing over rough terrain. 1228-1233
  

Service Robots I

• Rie Matsumoto, Hideki Nakayama, Tatsuya Harada, Yasuo Kuniyoshi:
  Journalist robot: robot system making news articles from real world. 1234-1241
  
• Wei Wang, Houxiang Zhang, Wenpeng Yu, Guanghua Zong, Jianwei Zhang:
  F&A compensating variable bang-bang control algorithm for pneumatic driving glass-wall cleaning robot. 1242-1247
  
• Alireza Ahrary, Masumi Ishikawa, M. Okada:
  Experimental evaluation of intelligent fault detection system for inspection of sewer pipes. 1248-1253
  
• Walid Zarrad, Philippe Poignet, Rui Pedro Duarte Cortesão, Olivier Company:
  Towards teleoperated needle insertion with haptic feedback controller. 1254-1259
  
• Frank Hoeller, Dirk Schulz, Mark Moors, Frank E. Schneider:
  Accompanying persons with a mobile robot using motion prediction and probabilistic roadmaps. 1260-1265
  

Analysis and Control of Medical Robots I

• Hongen Liao, Kazuhisa Yoshimura, Tomoki Utsugida, Kiyoshi Matsumiya, Ken Masamune, Takeyoshi Dohi:
  Surgical manipulator with linkage mechanism for anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. 1266-1271
  
• Massimiliano Zecca, Filippo Cavallo, Minoru Saito, Nobutsuna Endo, Yu Mizoguchi, Stefano Sinigaglia, Kazuko Itoh, Hideaki Takanobu, Giuseppe Megali, Oliver Tonet, Paolo Dario, Andrea Pietrabissa, Atsuo Takanishi:
  Using the Waseda Bioinstrumentation System WB-1R to analyze Surgeon's performance during laparoscopy - towards the development of a global performance index -. 1272-1277
  
• Noriaki Yamanaka, Kiyoshi Matsumiya, Ken Masamune, Takeyoshi Dohi, Hiromasa Yamashita, Toshio Chiba, Hongen Liao:
  Balloon-based manipulator with multiple linkages for intrauterine surgery. 1278-1283
  
• Tie Hu, Peter K. Allen, Dennis L. Fowler:
  In-vivo pan/tilt endoscope with integrated light source. 1284-1289
  
• Daniel T. Kettler, Richard D. Plowes, Paul M. Novotny, Nikolay V. Vasilyev, Pedro J. del Nido, Robert D. Howe:
  An active motion compensation instrument for beating heart mitral valve surgery. 1290-1295
  
• Yohan Noh, Koji Nagahiro, Yu Ogura, Hiroyuki Ishii, Jorge Solis, Kazuyuki Hatake, Atsuo Takanishi:
  Development of the airway management training system WKA-1 designed to embed arrays of sensors into a conventional mannequin. 1296-1301
  

Visual Servoing I

• Hirotsugu Okuno, Tetsuya Yagi:
  Real-time robot vision for collision avoidance inspired by neuronal circuits of insects. 1302-1307
  
• Hakan Bilen, Muhammet A. Hocaoglu, Erol Ozgur, Mustafa Unel, Asif Sabanovic:
  A comparative study of conventional visual servoing schemes in microsystem applications. 1308-1313
  
• Odile Bourquardez, François Chaumette:
  Visual servoing of an airplane for auto-landing. 1314-1319
  
• Mario Prats, Philippe Martinet, Angel P. Del Pobil, Sukhan Lee:
  VIsion force control in task-oriented grasping and manipulation. 1320-1325
  
• Omar Tahri, Youcef Mezouar, Nicolas Andreff, Philippe Martinet:
  Omnidirectional visual-servo of a Gough-Stewart platform. 1326-1331
  
• Loic Lacheze, Ryad Benosman:
  Visual localization using an optimal sampling of bags-of-features with entropy applied to repeatable test methods. 1332-1338
  

Multi-Robot Systems II

• Monica Anderson, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos:
  Reducing sensitivity to localization error through local search. 1339-1342
  
• Yi Feng, Zhigang Zhu, Jizhong Xiao:
  Self-localization of a heterogeneous multi-robot team in constrained 3D space. 1343-1350
  
• Garrett Dean Winward, Nicholas S. Flann:
  Coordination of multiple vehicles for area coverage tasks. 1351-1356
  
• Nathan Wiebe, John Anderson:
  A local approach to developing grounded spatial references in multi-robot systems. 1357-1364
  
• Seung-kook Yun, Daniela Rus:
  Optimal distributed planning of multi-robot placement on a 3D truss. 1365-1370
  
• Yan Meng, Jing Gan:
  LIVS: Local Interaction via Virtual Stigmergy coordination in distributed search and collective cleanup. 1371-1376
  

Recognition I

• Céline Meyer, Matthew Deans:
  Content based retrieval of images for planetary exploration. 1377-1382
  
• Toru Nakata:
  Temporal segmentation and recognition of body motion data based on inter-limb correlation analysis. 1383-1388
  
• Yu Nejigane, Masamichi Shimosaka, Taketoshi Mori, Tomomasa Sato:
  Online action recognition with wrapped boosting. 1389-1395
  
• Cedric Tessier, Christophe Debain, Roland Chapuis, Frederic Chausse:
  Simultaneous landmarks detection and data association in noisy environment for map aided localization. 1396-1401
  
• Daniel Kubus, Torsten Kröger, Friedrich M. Wahl:
  On-line rigid object recognition and pose estimation based on inertial parameters. 1402-1408
  
• Manoj Perera, Takaaki Shiratori, Shunsuke Kudoh, Atsushi Nakazawa, Katsushi Ikeuchi:
  Multilinear analysis for task recognition and person identification. 1409-1415
  

Multimodal Interaction

• Wataru Takano, Dana Kulic, Yoshihiko Nakamura:
  Interactive topology formation of linguistic space and motion space. 1416-1422
  
• Timothy Brick, Paul W. Schermerhorn, Matthias Scheutz:
  Speech and action: integration of action and language for mobile robots. 1423-1428
  
• Oliver C. Schrempf, David Albrecht, Uwe D. Hanebeck:
  Tractable probabilistic models for intention recognition based on expert knowledge. 1429-1434
  
• Osamu Sugiyama, Takayuki Kanda, Michita Imai, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Norihiro Hagita:
  Natural deictic communication with humanoid robots. 1441-1448
  
• Hugo Costelha, Pedro U. Lima:
  Modelling, analysis and execution of robotic tasks using petri nets. 1449-1454
  

SLAM II

• David Ribas, Pere Ridao, Juan D. Tardós, José Neira:
  Underwater SLAM in a marina environment. 1455-1460
  
• Alexander Kleiner, Dali Sun:
  Decentralized SLAM for pedestrians without direct communication. 1461-1466
  
• H. Jacky Chang, C. S. George Lee, Y. Charlie Hu, Yung-Hsiang Lu:
  Multi-robot SLAM with topological/metric maps. 1467-1472
  
• Jun Feng Dong, W. Sardha Wijesoma, Andrew P. Shacklock:
  Extended rao-blackwellised genetic algorithmic filter SLAM in dynamic environment with raw sensor measurement. 1473-1478
  
• Robert Ouellette, Kotaro Hirasawa:
  A comparison of SLAM implementations for indoor mobile robots. 1479-1484
  

Biologically-Inspired Robots: Manipulation

• Enver Tatlicioglu, Ian D. Walker, Darren M. Dawson:
  New dynamic models for planar extensible continuum robot manipulators. 1485-1490
  
• Bachar Almasri, Fathi Ben Ouezdou:
  New design of one motor driven under actuated humanoid hand. 1491-1496
  
• Deepak Trivedi, Amir Lotfi, Christopher D. Rahn:
  Geometrically exact dynamic models for soft robotic manipulators. 1497-1502
  
• Srinivas Neppalli, Bryan A. Jones:
  Design, construction, and analysis of a continuum robot. 1503-1507
  
• Hiromi Mochiyama, Masamitsu Watari, Hideo Fujimoto:
  A robotic catapult based on the closed elastica and Its application to robotic tasks. 1508-1513
  

Learning II

• Jo-Anne Ting, Evangelos Theodorou, Stefan Schaal:
  A Kalman filter for robust outlier detection. 1514-1519
  
• Zsolt Kira:
  Modeling cross-sensory and sensorimotor correlations to detect and localize faults in mobile robots. 1520-1526
  
• Georgios Petkos, Sethu Vijayakumar:
  Load estimation and control using learned dynamics models. 1527-1532
  
• Manuel Lopes, Bruno D. Damas:
  A learning framework for generic sensory-motor maps. 1533-1538
  
• Tom Erez, William D. Smart:
  Bipedal walking on rough terrain using manifold control. 1539-1544
  

Grasping I

• Satoshi Ito, Yuuki Mizukoshi, Minoru Sasaki:
  Numerical analysis for optimal posture of circular object grasped with frictions. 1545-1550
  
• Tim Baier-Löwenstein, Jianwei Zhang:
  Learning to grasp everyday objects using reinforcement-learning with automatic value cut-off. 1551-1556
  
• Vassilios N. Christopoulos, Paul R. Schrater:
  Handling shape and contact location uncertainty in grasping two-dimensional planar objects. 1557-1563
  
• Peng Tang, Jing Xiao:
  Automatic generation of contact state graphs between a polygon and a planar kinematic chain. 1564-1569
  
• Yusuke Maeda, Koutarou Oda, Satoshi Makita:
  Analysis of indeterminate contact forces in robotic grasping and contact tasks. 1570-1575
  

Aerial Robotics: Design and Testing

• Robert J. Wood:
  Design, fabrication, and analysis of a 3DOF, 3cm flapping-wing MAV. 1576-1581
  
• Keith W. Sevcik, Paul Y. Oh:
  Designing aerial robot sensor suites to account for obscurants. 1582-1587
  
• Yoshiyuki Higashi, Kazuo Tanaka, Hiroshi Ohtake, Hua O. Wang:
  Construction of simulation model of a flying robot with variable attack angle mechanism. 1588-1593
  
• Christopher DiLeo, Xinyan Deng:
  Experimental testbed and prototype development for a dragonfly-inspired robot. 1594-1599
  
• Alexandre Simões Martins, Antônio Padilha Lanari Bo, Geovany de Araújo Borges, João Yoshiyuki Ishihara:
  Design and experimental evaluation of rotor speed regulators for model helicopters in a test bench. 1600-1605
  

Telerobotics II

• Ryuta Ozawa, Nao Ueda:
  Supervisory control of a multi-fingered robotic hand system with data glove. 1606-1611
  
• Jordi Artigas, Carsten Preusche, Gerd Hirzinger:
  Time domain passivity for delayed haptic telepresence with energy reference. 1612-1617
  
• Mahdi Tavakoli, Robert D. Howe:
  The effect of joint elasticity on bilateral teleoperation. 1618-1623
  
• Mahdi Tavakoli, Arash Aziminejad, Rajni V. Patel, Mehrdad Moallem:
  Stability of discrete-time bilateral teleoperation control. 1624-1630
  
• Pawel Malysz, Shahin Sirouspour:
  Control design and experiments for enhanced detection of stiffness variation in soft-tissue telemanipulation. 1631-1636
  

Control Architecture and Programming I

• Sandra Mau, John M. Dolan:
  Scheduling for humans in multirobot supervisory control. 1637-1643
  
• Yoshiaki Jitsukawa, Ryuichi Ueda, Tamio Arai, Kazutaka Takeshita, Yuji Hasegawa, Shota Kase, Takashi Okuzumi, Kazunori Umeda, Hisashi Osumi:
  Fast decision making of autonomous robot under dynamic environment by sampling real-time Q-MDP value method. 1644-1650
  
• Steffen Knoop, Michael Pardowitz, Rüdiger Dillmann:
  Automatic robot programming from learned abstract task knowledge. 1651-1657
  
• Tinne De Laet, Wilm Decré, Johan Rutgeerts, Herman Bruyninckx, Joris De Schutter:
  An application of constraint-based task specification and estimation for sensor-based robot systems. 1658-1664
  
• Kazuo Tani, Takuya Kawamura, Shunsuke Sue:
  Semantics of tasks and motions of robots -multi-mode control as a bridge between tasks and motions-. 1665-1670
  

Computer Vision Algorithms

• Mohan Sridharan, Peter Stone:
  Global action selection for illumination invariant color modeling. 1671-1676
  
• François Saïdi, Olivier Stasse, Kazuhito Yokoi, Fumio Kanehiro:
  Online object search with a humanoid robot. 1677-1682
  
• Jonathan Courbon, Youcef Mezouar, Laurent Eck, Philippe Martinet:
  A generic fisheye camera model for robotic applications. 1683-1688
  
• Peter Hansen, Peter Corke, Wageeh Boles, Kostas Daniilidis:
  Scale invariant feature matching with wide angle images. 1689-1694
  
• SungHwan Ahn, Wan Kyun Chung, Sang-Rok Oh:
  Construction of hybrid visual map for indoor SLAM. 1695-1701
  

Localization II

• Amit Dhariwal, Gaurav S. Sukhatme:
  Experiments in robotic boat localization. 1702-1708
  
• Gianluigi Pillonetto, Stefano Carpin:
  Multirobot localization with unknown variance parameters using iterated Kalman filtering. 1709-1714
  
• Francisco Escolano, Boyan Bonev, Pablo Suau, Wendy Aguilar, Yann Frauel, Juan Manuel Sáez, Miguel Cazorla:
  Contextual visual localization: cascaded submap classification, optimized saliency detection, and fast view matching. 1715-1722
  
• Christian Siagian, Laurent Itti:
  Biologically-inspired robotics vision monte-carlo localization in the outdoor environment. 1723-1730
  
• Sooyong Lee, Jae-Bok Song:
  Use of coded infrared light as artificial landmarks for mobile robot localization. 1731-1736
  

Robot Audition II

• Florian Kraft, Matthias Wölfel:
  Humanoid robot noise suppression by particle filters for improved automatic speech recognition accuracy. 1737-1742
  
• Kazuyoshi Yoshii, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Toyotaka Torii, Yuji Hasegawa, Hiroshi Tsujino, Kazunori Komatani, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno:
  A biped robot that keeps steps in time with musical beats while listening to music with its own ears. 1743-1750
  
• Tomoaki Koiwa, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Jun-ichi Imura:
  Coarse speech recognition by audio-visual integration based on missing feature theory. 1751-1756
  
• Ryu Takeda, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Kazuhiro Komatani, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno:
  Exploiting known sound source signals to improve ICA-based robot audition in speech separation and recognition. 1757-1762
  

Outdoor Robotics I

• Nicolas Bouton, Roland Lenain, Benoit Thuilot, Philippe Martinet:
  Backstepping observer dedicated to tire cornering stiffness estimation: application to an all terrain vehicle and a farm tractor. 1763-1768
  
• Hiroshi Kobayashi, Hirokazu Nozaki:
  Development of muscle suit for supporting manual worker. 1769-1774
  
• Michele Guarnieri, Takao Inoh, Edwardo F. Fukushima, Shigeo Hirose:
  HELIOS VIII search and rescue robot: Design of an adaptive gripper and system improvements. 1775-1780
  
• Masataka Suzuki, Shinya Kitai, Shigeo Hirose:
  New types child units ofanchor climber: swarm type wall climbing robot system. 1781-1786
  
• Van Molino, Raj Madhavan, Elena Messina, Anthony Downs, Stephen Balakirsky, Adam Jacoff:
  Traversability metrics for rough terrain applied to repeatable test methods. 1787-1794
  

Design of Medical Robots II

• Cyrus Raoufi, Pinhas Ben-Tzvi, Andrew A. Goldenberg, Walter Kucharczyk:
  A MR-compatible tele-robotic system for MRI-guided intervention: system overview and mechanical design. 1795-1800
  
• Yo Kobayashi, Akinori Onishi, Takeharu Hoshi, Kazuya Kawamura, Masakatsu G. Fujie:
  Deformation simulation using a viscoelastic and nonlinear Organ model for control of a needle insertion manipulator. 1801-1808
  
• Xiaolong Yu, Howard J. Chizeck, Blake Hannaford:
  Comparison of transient performance in the control of soft tissue grasping. 1809-1814
  
• Dong-Geol Choi, Byung-Ju Yi, Whee Kuk Kim:
  Design of a spring backbone micro endoscope. 1815-1821
  

Manipulation and Compliant Assembly

• Irene Sardellitti, Jaeheung Park, Dongjun Shin, Oussama Khatib:
  Air muscle controller design in the distributed macro-mini (DM²) actuation approach. 1822-1827
  
• Jan Deiterding, Dominik Henrich:
  Automatic adaptation of sensor-based robots. 1828-1833
  
• Satoshi Makita, Yosuke Kadono, Yusuke Maeda, Sayaka Miura, Isao Kunioka, Kunio Yoshida:
  Manipulation of submillimeter-sized electronic parts using force control and vision-based position control. 1834-1839
  
• Byungduk Kang, Byungchan Kim, Shinsuk Park, Hyunkyu Kim:
  Modeling of Artificial Neural Network for the Prediction of the Multi-Joint Stiffness in Dynamic Condition. 1840-1845
  

Neurorobotics

• Hisashi Kanda, Tetsuya Ogata, Kazunori Komatani, Hiroshi G. Okuno:
  Vocal imitation using physical vocal tract model. 1846-1851
  
• Nicola Vitiello, Emanuele Cattin, Stefano Roccella, Francesco Giovacchini, Fabrizio Vecchi, Maria Chiara Carrozza, Paolo Dario:
  The NEURARM: towards a platform for joint neuroscience experiments on human motion control theories. 1852-1857
  
• Tetsuya Ogata, Masamitsu Murase, Jun Tani, Kazunori Komatani, Hiroshi G. Okuno:
  Two-way translation of compound sentences and arm motions by recurrent neural networks. 1858-1863
  

Kinematics and Identification

• Kevin Lipkin, Isaac Brown, Aaron Peck, Howie Choset, Justine Rembisz, Philip Gianfortoni, Allison Naaktgeboren:
  Differentiable and piecewise differentiable gaits for snake robots. 1864-1869
  
• Alexander Winkler, Jozef Suchy:
  Dynamic force/torque measurement using a 12DOF sensor. 1870-1875
  
• Yusof Ganji, Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi:
  Kinematic characterization of a cardiac ablation catheter. 1876-1881
  
• Josep M. Porta, Juan Cortés, Lluís Ros, Federico Thomas:
  A space decomposition method for path planning of loop linkages. 1882-1888
  

Aerial Robotics: Vehicles

• Robert J. Wood:
  Liftoff of a 60mg flapping-wing MAV. 1889-1894
  
• Axel Rottmann, Christian Plagemann, Peter Hilgers, Wolfram Burgard:
  Autonomous blimp control using model-free reinforcement learning in a continuous state and action space. 1895-1900
  
• Jonathan Ko, Daniel J. Klein, Dieter Fox, Dirk Hähnel:
  GP-UKF: Unscented kalman filters with Gaussian process prediction and observationmodels. 1901-1907
  
• Luiz G. B. Mirisola, Jorge Dias, Anibal T. de Almeida:
  Trajectory recovery and 3D mapping from rotation-compensated imagery for an airship. 1908-1913
  

Service Robots II

• Guanghui Cen, Hideichi Nakamoto, Nobuto Matsuhira, Ichiro Hagiwara:
  Effective application of Monte Carlo localization for service robot. 1914-1919
  
• Tohru Miyake, Hidenori Ishihara, Motoi Yoshimura:
  Basic studies on wet adhesion system for wall climbing robots. 1920-1925
  
• Kimitoshi Yamazaki, Takashi Tsubouchi, Masahiro Tomono:
  Modeling and motion planning for handling furniture by a mobile manipulator. 1926-1931
  
• SeongHee Jeong, Takayuki Takahashi:
  Wheeled inverted pendulum type assistant robot: inverted mobile, standing, and sitting motions. 1932-1937
  

Analysis and Control of Medical Robots II

• Gabriel Aguirre-Ollinger, J. Edward Colgate, Michael A. Peshkin, Ambarish Goswami:
  A 1-DOF assistive exoskeleton with virtual negative damping: effects on the kinematic response of the lower limbs. 1938-1944
  
• Samer Mohammed, Philippe Poignet, Philippe Fraisse, David Guiraud:
  Lower limbs movement restoration using input-output feedback linearization and model predictive control. 1945-1950
  
• Loi Wah Sun, Chung Kwong Yeung:
  Port placement and pose selection of the da Vinci surgical system for collision-free intervention based on performance optimization. 1951-1956
  
• Kosuke Inoue, Takaaki Sumi, Shugen Ma:
  CPG-based control of a simulated snake-like robot adaptable to changing ground friction. 1957-1962
  

Visual Servoing II

• Geraldo F. Silveira, Ezio Malis:
  Direct visual servoing with respect to rigid objects. 1963-1968
  
• Amir Massoud Farahmand, Azad Shademan, Martin Jägersand:
  Global visual-motor estimation for uncalibrated visual servoing. 1969-1974
  
• Vinutha Kallem, Maneesh Dewan, John P. Swensen, Gregory D. Hager, Noah J. Cowan:
  Kernel-based visual servoing. 1975-1980
  
• A. H. Abdul Hafez, Anil Kumar Nelakanti, C. V. Jawahar:
  Path planning approach to visual servoing with feature visibility constraints: A convex optimization based solution. 1981-1986
  

Sensor Networks

• Ren C. Luo, Wen Hui Chang:
  A novel self-maintenance ecological system of sensor network based on ecological balance environment. 1987-1992
  
• Lufeng Shi, Zhijun Zhao, Jindong Tan:
  Near optimal two-tier target tracking in sensor networks. 1993-1996
  
• Thomas C. Henderson, Christopher A. Sikorski, Edward Grant, Kyle Luthy:
  Computational sensor networks. 1997-2002
  
• Ravi K. Garimella, Weihua Sheng:
  Dynamic localization of multiple mobile subjects in wireless Ad Hoc networks. 2003-2008
  

Robot Audition I

• Sylvain Argentieri,