Experimental Robotics VIII

Keynotes.- Research Robots for Applications in AI, Teleoperation and Entertainment.- Torque-controlled Light Weight Arms and Articulated Hands - Do We Reach Technological Limits Now?.- Snakes and Strings: New Robotic Components for Rescue Operations.- Humanoids.- HERMES - an Intelligent Humanoid Robot Designed and Tested for Dependability.- Experimental Study of Biped Locomotion of Humanoid Robot HRP-1S.- Online Humanoid Walking Control and 3D Vision-based Locomotion.- Practical Aspects of Biped Locomotion.- Human-centered Robotics.- Mechanical Characterization of the Immersion Corp. Haptic, Bimanual, Surgical Simulator Interface.- A New Actuation Approach for Human Friendly Robot Design.- Robust Controller Design for Cancelling Biodynamic Feedthrough.- Path Planning and Localization.- Experimental Verification of Deposition Models for Automotive Painting with Electrostatic Rotating Bell Atomizers.- Localization for Mobile Robot Teams: A Distributed MLE Approach.- 3D Rover Localization in Airborne Ladar Data.- Online Sensor-based Behaviour Decision and Navigation of a Mobile Robot in Unknown Indoor Environment.- Robox, a Remarkable Mobile Robot for the Real World.- Slam.- Cooperative Data Fusion Amongst Multiple Uninhabited Air Vehicles.- Robust Simultaneous Localization and Mapping for Very Large Outdoor Environments.- Recent Results in Extensions to Simultaneous Localization and Mapping.- Learning Occupancy Grids of Non-Stationary Objects with Mobile Robots.- Visual Servoing.- Tracking People from a Mobile Platform.- Visual Servoing/Tracking Using Central Catadioptric Images.- A Visually Servoed MEMS Manipulator.- Visual-servoed Parking with Limited View Angle.- Multiple Robots.- Sensor Computations in Modular Self Reconfigurable Robots.- Cooperative Transport ofPlanar Objects by Multiple Mobile Robots Using Object Closure.- Modeling Swarm Robotic Systems.- Experiments in Distributed Control for Modular Robots.- Identification and Control.- An Experimental Robot Load Identification Method for Industrial Application.- Friction Model Validation in Sliding and Presliding Regimes with High Resolution Encoders.- Experiments on Rest-to-rest Motion of a Flexible Arm.- Experimental Bilateral Control Telemanipulation Using a Virtual Exoskeleton.- Design.- The Capturing Robot with Super High Acceleration.- Acquiring Motion Elements for Bidirectional Computation of Motion Recognition and Generation.- Manipulation of Micro-objects Using Adhesion Forces and Dynamical Effects.- Toward Self-replicating Robots.- Medical Robotics.- Robotized Skin Harvesting.- Faithful Haptic Feedback in Medical Simulators.- Optimal Planning of Robotically Assisted Heart Surgery: Transfer Precision in the Operating Room.- Towards Semi-autonomy in Laparoscopic Surgery: First Live Experiments.- Modelling and Experimental Validation of the Locomotion of Endoscopic Robots in the Colon.- Flying Robots.- Aggressive Maneuvering Flight Tests of a Miniature Robotic Helicopter.- An Experimental Study of the Autonomous Helicopter Landing Problem.- Sensing and Control for a Small-Size Helicopter.- The Autonomous Blimp Project of LAAS/CNRS - Current Status.- Manipulation.- SMC Rover: Planetary Rover with Transformable Wheels.- Sensing Local Geometry for Dexterous Manipulation.- Contact State Estimation using Multiple Model Estimation and Hidden Markov Models.- Manipulability Enhancement by an Impedance Parameter Tuning for a Remote Ultrasound Diagnostic System.- Haptics.- Toward Observation of Human Assembly Skill Using Virtual Task Space.- Testing Time Domain PassivityControl of Haptic Enabled Systems.- Interactive Exploration of Remote Objects Using a Haptic-VR Interface.- Change of Height: An Approach to the Haptic Display of Shape and Texture Without Surface Normal.- Walking Machines.- Experimental BIPedal Walking.- Practical Experience with Vision-guided Biped Walking.- Foot Design for a Large Walking Delta Robot.- Preliminary Bounding Experiments in a Dynamic Hexapod.- Field Robotics.- A Go Where You Look Tele-autonomous Rough Terrain Mobile Robot.- Vision In and Out of Vehicles: Integrated Driver and Road Scene Monitoring.- Slip-based Traction Control of a Planetary Rover.- Experimental Study of High-speed Rough-terrain Mobile Robot Models for Reactive Behaviors.