Experimental Robotics

Session 1: Design.- Session 1: Design.- The SDM Hand: A Highly Adaptive Compliant Grasper for Unstructured Environments.- Reliable External Actuation for Extending Reachable Robotic Modular Self-Reconfiguration.- Design and Development of a Soft Actuator for a Robot Inspired by the Octopus Arm.- Portable Autonomous Vehicle Controller.- Design and Control of a Bio-inspired Human-Friendly Robot.- Session 2: Autonomous Driving.- Session 2: Autonomous Driving.- Path Planning for Autonomous Driving in Unknown Environments.- Experimental Results for Over-the-Horizon Planetary Exploration Using a LIDAR Sensor.- Efficient Techniques for Dynamic Vehicle Detection.- Comparison of Boosting Based Terrain Classification Using Proprioceptive and Exteroceptive Data.- Session 3: Cooperation.- Session 3: Cooperation.- Demonstrating the Benefits of Cooperation for a UAV Team Performing Vision Based Feature Localisation.- Maintaining Connectivity in Mobile Robot Networks.- From Theory to Practice: Distributed Coverage Control Experiments with Groups of Robots.- Co-ordinated Tracking and Planning Using Air and Ground Vehicles.- Distributed Robotic Radiation Mapping.- Session 4: Mini and Micro Robots.- Session 4: Mini and Micro Robots.- Visual Tracking for Teams of Miniature Robots.- Small, Fast, and under Control: Wireless Resonant Magnetic Micro-agents.- Visually Servoed Orientation Control of Biological Cells in Microrobotic Cell Manipulation.- Session 5: Human Robot Interaction.- Session 5: Human Robot Interaction.- A First Investigation into the Teleoperation of a Miniature Rotorcraft.- Toward Socially Assistive Robotics for Augmenting Interventions for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders.- Teaching Robots via Natural Nonverbal Cues.- The Psychological Effects of Attendance of an Android on Communication.- SHARY: A Supervision System Adapted to Human-Robot Interaction.- Session 6: Medical Robotics.- Session 6: Medical Robotics.- EMG-Based Position and Force Estimates in Coupled Human-Robot Systems: Towards EMG-Controlled Exoskeletons.- An Image-Based Localization Algorithm for Catheter Navigation in the Left Atrium.- Mechanical Response of Embryonic Stem Cells Using Haptics-Enabled Atomic Force Microscopy.- Task-Space Control of Continuum Manipulators with Coupled Tendon Drive.- Session 7: Locomotion.- Session 7: Locomotion.- Passing under Obstacles with Humanoid Robots.- Planning Support Contact-Points for Acyclic Motions and Experiments on HRP-2.- A Physical Model for Dynamical Arthropod Running on Level Ground.- Reliable Dynamic Motions for a Stiff Quadruped.- Bioinspired Jumping Locomotion in Small Robots: Natural Observation, Design, Experiments.- Session 8: Localization and Mapping.- Session 8: Localization and Mapping.- A Robust Method of Localization and Mapping Using Only Range.- Visual Appearance Mapping for Optimal Vision Based Servoing.- Place Recognition Using Keypoint Similarities in 2D Lidar Maps.- A First-Estimates Jacobian EKF for Improving SLAM Consistency.- Session 9: UUVs and UAVs.- Session 9: UUVs and UAVs.- Autonomous Autorotation of an RC Helicopter.- Preliminary Results for Model-Based Adaptive Control of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle.- Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping and Dense Stereoscopic Seafloor Reconstruction Using an AUV.- A Boosting Approach to Visual Servo-Control of an Underwater Robot.- Saving Energy with Buoyancy and Balance Control for Underwater Robots with Dynamic Payloads.- Session 10: Sensing and Planning.- Session 10: Sensing and Planning.- Adaptive Full Scan Model for Range Finders in Dynamic Environments.- Empirical Sampling of Path Sets for Local Area Motion Planning.- Motion Strategies for People Tracking in Cluttered and Dynamic Environments.- Tracking Odor Plumes in a Laminar Wind Field with Bio-inspired Algorithms.- Session 11: Vision.- Session 11: Vision.- Closed-Form Differential Kinematics for Concentric-Tube Continuum Robots with Application to Visual Servoing.- Humanoid Vision