Advances in Autonomous Robotics Systems

Modeling of a Large Structured Environment: With a Repetitive Canonical Geometric-Semantic Model.- Monte Carlo Localization for Teach-and-Repeat Feature-Based Navigation.- An Improved Cellular Automata-Based Model for Robot Path-Planning.- Bioinspired Mechanisms and Sensorimotor Schemes for Flying: A Preliminary Study for a Robotic Bat.- Evolutionary Coordination System for Fixed-Wing Communications Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.- Multi-agent Environment Exploration with AR.Drones.- H8 Path Tracking Control for Quadrotors Based on Quaternion Representation.- Towards an Ethical Robot: Internal Models, Consequences and Ethical Action Selection.- "The Fridge Door is Open"-Temporal Verification of a Robotic Assistant's Behaviours.- Implementation and Test of Human-Operated and Human-Like Adaptive Impedance Controls on Baxter Robot.- Hybrid Communication System for Long Range Resource Tracking in Search and Rescue Scenarios.- Wearable Self Sufficient MFC Communication System Powered by Urine.- Morphogenetic Self-Organization of Collective Movement without Directional Sensing.- The Pi Swarm: A Low-Cost Platform for Swarm Robotics Research and Education.- Tactile Features: Recognising Touch Sensations with a Novel and Inexpensive Tactile Sensor.- Polygonal Models for Clothing.- Design of a Multi-purpose Low-Cost Mobile Robot for Research and Education.- Adaptive Swarm Robot Region Coverage Using Gene Regulatory Networks.- Communicating Unknown Objects to Robots through Pointing Gestures.- A Cost-Effective Automatic 3D Reconstruction Pipeline for Plants Using Multi-view Images.- Improving the Generation of Rapidly Exploring Randomised Trees (RRTs) in Large Scale Virtual Environments Using Trails.- Intelligent Computation of Inverse Kinematics of a 5-dof Manipulator Using MLPNN.- Humanoid Robot Gait Generator: Foot Steps Calculation for Trajectory Following.- A Method for Matching Desired Non-Feature Points to Size Martian Rocks Based upon SIFT.- CogLaboration: TowardsFluent Human-Robot Object Handover Interactions.- euRathlon Outdoor Robotics Challenge: Year 1 Report.- FROctomap: An Efficient Spatio-Temporal Environment Representation.- Combined Force and Position Controller Based on Inverse Dynamics: Application to Cooperative Robotics (Extended Abstract).- Learning Objects from RGB-D Sensors for Cleaning Tasks Using a Team of Cooperative Humanoid Robots.- Acoustic Based Search and Rescue on a UAV.- Visual Commands for Tracking and Control.- A Novel Saliency Method Based on Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) and Its Application to Planetary Exploration.