ROMANSY 18 - Robot Design, Dynamics and Control

Keynote Lectures.- Where Future Robots should Go and should not Go.- Robust Drives for Parallel Robots.- Minimal-Form Multibody Dynamics for Embedded Multidisciplinary Applications.- Novel Robot Design and Robot Modules/Components.- Constructive Redesign of a Modular Metamorphic Microgripper.- A One-Motor Full-Mobility 6-PUS Manipulator.- Dynamic Hybrid Position/Force Control for Parallel Robot Manipulators.- Decoupled Parallel Manipulator with Universal Joints and Additional Constraints.- Positio: A 4R Serial Manipulator Having a Surface of Isotropic Positioning.- Joint space and workspace analysis of a two-DOF closed-chain manipulator.- Identification of Base Parameters for Large-scale Kinematic Chains Based on Physical Consistency Approximation by Polyhedral Convex Cones.- Modeling Effects on Free Vibration of a Two-Link Flexible Manipulator.- Chatter Suppression in Sliding Mode Control: Strategies and Tuning Methods.- On Solving the Forward Kinematics of the 6-6 General Parallel Manipulator with an Efficient Evolutionary Algorithm.- Determination of Mobility in a Kinematic Chain by Properly Using the Jacobian Matrix.- Micro Hinges and their Application to Micro Robot Mechanisms.- Parallel RPR-?-RPR Manipulator Generating 2-DOF Translation along One-Sheet Revolute Hyperboloid.- A Study on the Effects of Cable Mass and Elasticity in Cable-Based Parallel Manipulators.- Service, Education, Medical, Space, Welfare and Rescue Robots.- Motion Planning of the Trident Snake Robot: An Endogenous Configuration Space Approach.- A Novel Stair-Climbing Wheelchair with Variable Configuration Four-Bar Linkage -Mechanism Design and Kinematics-.- Motion and Force measures on tortoises to design and control a biomimetic quadruped robot.- Mechanism Design Improvements of theAirway Management Training System WKA-3.- Design for a Dual-Arm Space Robot.- Mechanical Design of a Novel Biped Climbing and Walking Robot.- Humanoid Robots, Bio-Robotics, Multi-Robot, Multi-Agent Systems.- Development of the Anthropomorphic Waseda Saxophonist Robot.- Design and Simulation of a Waist-Trunk System for a Humanoid Robot.- Safe Navigation in Dynamic Environments.- Development of a Visual Interface for Sound Parameter Calibration of the Waseda Flutist Robot WF-4RIV.- Simulation of a Humanoid Robot walking gait on Moon Surface.- Development of New Biped Foot Mechanism Mimicking Human's Foot Arch Structure.- Design and Development of Bio-mimetic Quadruped Robot.- Static and Dynamic Maneuvers With a Tendon-Coupled Biped Robot.- Control, Modelling, and Analysis of Robotic Systems.- Kinematic Calibration of Small Robotic Work Spaces Using Fringe Projection.- Forward Dynamics of 3-DOF Parallel Robots: a Comparison Among Different Models.- Workspace Generation of Planar Wire-Actuated Parallel Manipulators with Antipodal Method.- Trajectory Following and Vibration Control for Flexible-link Manipulators.- Shaking Forces Minimization of High-Speed Robots via an Optimal Motion Planning.- Passivity Based Backstepping Control of an Elastic Robot.- Economical Control of Robot Systems Using Potential Energy.- Motion Control of an Under-Actuated Service Robot Using Natural Coordinates.- Control Law Synthesis for Slip Reduction of Wheeled Robot.- A Kinematic Model of the Tibio-Talar Joint Using a Minimum Energy Principle.- Innovations in Sensor Systems for Robots and Perception.- Development of the Ultrasound Probe Holding Robot WTA-1RII and an Automated Scanning Algorithm based on Ultrasound Image Feedback.- RFID-Assisted Detection and Handling of Packages.- VirtualHaptic Map Using Haptic Display Technology for Visually Impaired.- Extraction of Semantic Information from the 3D Laser Range Finder.- The Application of ICP and SIFT Algorithms for Mobile Robot Localization.- Estimation of Complex Anatomical Joint Motions Using a Spatial Goniometer.- Recent Advances in Robotics.- Modeling and Motion Planning for a Population of Mobile Robots.- Reconfigurable Planar Three-Legged Parallel Manipulators.- Multi-Objective Trajectory Planning in Wire-Actuated Parallel Manipulators.- Design of the Facial Expression Mechanism for Humanoid Robots.- A Method for Comparing Human Postures from Motion Capture Data.- Evaluation of the KOBIAN and HABIAN Emotion Expression Humanoid Robots with European Elderly People.- An Approach to the Dynamics and Kinematical Control of Motion Systems Consisting of a Chain of Bodies.- Modular Design of Emotion Expression Humanoid Robot KOBIAN.- A Random-Profile Approach for Trajectory Planning of Wheeled Mobile Robots With non-Slipping Constraint.- The Second Type of Singularity Analysis of the New Parallel Manipulator with 6 Degree-of-Freedom.