Experimental Robotics VI

From insects to robots.- Control and coordination of multiple mobile robots in manipulation and material handling tasks.- Experiments in constrained prehensile manipulation: Distributed manipulation with ropes.- Experiments with desktop mobile manipulators.- Experimental approach on grasping and manipulating multiple objects.- Preliminary results on the use of stereo, color cameras and laser sensors in antarctica.- Sensors for the object detection in environments with high heat radiation and photoresist or diffuse visibility conditions.- New techniques for 3D modeling ... ... and for doing without.- A mobile robot navigation by means of range data from ultra wide angle laser sensor and simple linguistic behavior instructions.- Explicit incorporation of 2D constraints in vision based control of robot manipulators.- Experiments with medium-level intelligent force control.- Coordinated manipulation under distributed impedance control.- Experiments and factory application of force control and contour following over visco-elastic surface.- Coordinated control of a nonholonomic mobile manipulator.- Exploiting redundancy for autonomous calibration of a planar robot.- Models for automated earthmoving.- Robot control in maxillofacial surgery.- Experiments and experiences in developing a large robot mining system.- Slope display on a locomotion interface.- Control of contact forces in wheeled and legged off-road vehicles.- Control of a gyroscopically stabilized robot.- Localization and map building for a mobile robot.- Construction and modelling of a carangiform robotic fish.- Can an underactuated leg with a passive spring at the knee achieve a ballistic step?.- Navigation of a martian rover in very rough terrain.- An experimental and theoretical investigation into simultaneous localisation and map building.- Continuous probabilistic mapping by autonomous robots.- Sensor influence in the performance of simultaneous mobile robot localization and map building.- Experimental analysis of adaptive concurrent mapping and localization using sonar.- Quasi real-time walking control of a bipedal humanoid robot based on walking pattern synthesis.- Experimental validation of physics-based planning and control algorithms for planetary robotic rovers.- Elastic strips: A framework for integrated planning and execution.- RoverBug: Long range navigation for mars rovers.- Human skill transfer using haptic virtual reality technology.- Experiments with web-based telerobots.- A review of robot world cup soccer research issues RoboCup: Today and tomorrow.- A portable programming framework.- ACME, a telerobotic active measurement facility.- A new computational model of friction applied to haptic rendering.- Macro-micro control to improve bilateral force-reflecting teleoperation.- Haptic surface exploration.- Force and vision feedback for robotic manipulation of the microworld.- Experiments on the control of flexible-link manipulators carrying large payloads.- Identification of joint elasticity of industrial robots.- Modelling friction in multi-loop linkages.- Implementation of dual-arm cooperative control by exploiting actuator back-drivability.- Towards human friendly robots: Vision-based interfaces and safe mechanisms.- Development of a humanoid H4 with soft and distributed tactile sensor skin.- Development of the torso robot - Design of the new shoulder mechanism 'cybernetic shoulder'.- Combination of several vision sensors for interpretation of human actions.