Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics IX

Homotopic Path Planning on Manifolds for Cabled Mobile Robots.- An Equivalence Relation for Local Path Sets.- Using Lie Group Symmetries for Fast Corrective Motion Planning.- Asynchronous Distributed Motion Planning with Safety Guarantees under Second-Order Dynamics.- Incremental Sampling-Based Algorithms for Open-loop Solutions of Pursuit-Evasion Games.- Multiagent Pursuit Evasion, or Playing Kabaddi.- Reconguring Chain-type Modular Robots Based on the Carpenter's Rule Theorem.- Robomotion: Scalable, Physically Stable Locomotion for Self- Recongurable Robots.- Adaptive Time Stepping in Real-Time Motion Planning.- The Bayes Tree: An Algorithmic Foundation for Probabilistic Robot Mapping.- Monte Carlo Value Iteration for Continuous State POMDPs.- Randomized Belief-Space Replanning in Partially-Observable Continuous Spaces.- GPU-based Parallel Collision Detection for Real-Time Motion Planning.- CCQ: Ecient Local Planning using Connection Collision Query.- Modeling Contact Friction and Joint Friction in Dynamic Robotic Simulation using the Principle of Maximum Dissipation.- Energy-based Modeling of Tangential Compliance in 3-Dimensional Impact.- Sampling-Diagrams Automata: A Tool for Analyzing Path Quality in Tree Planners.- Sucient Conditions for the Existence of Resolution Complete Planning Algorithms.- Grasp Invariance.- Path Planning on Manifolds using Randomized Higher-Dimensional Continuation.- Algorithms and Analytic Solutions using Sparse Residual Dipolar Couplings for High-Resolution Automated Protein Backbone Structure Determination by NMR:.- LQG-Based Planning, Sensing, and Control of Steerable Needles.- Goldberg Cyber Detectives: Determining When Robots or People Misbehave.- Gravity-Based Robotic Cloth Folding.