Experimental Robotics: The 10th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (Hardcover, 2008)

Manipulation.- Contact State Segmentation Using Particle Filters for Programming by Human Demonstration in Compliant Motion Tasks.- Experimental Investigation of Mechanics in Soft-Fingered Grasping and Manipulation.- Motion Planning for Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Linear Objects.- Learning to Grasp Novel Objects Using Vision.- Stable Grasp and Manipulation in 3D Space with 2-Soft-Fingered Robot Hand.- Vision.- Combining Object Recognition and SLAM for Extended Map Representations.- Long-Term Motion Estimation from Images.- Real-Time Time-to-Collision from Variation of Intrinsic Scale.- Using Scene Similarity for Place Labelling.- Navigation.- Robust GPS/INS-Aided Localization and Mapping Via GPS Bias Estimation.- Vision Assisted Laser Scanner Navigation for Autonomous Robots.- Selection and Monitoring of Navigation Modes for an Autonomous Rover.- Medical and Bio-robotics.- Automatic Determination of the Actions and Force Feedback Augmentation in the Minimal Invasive Surgical System.- Control of Muscle Force During Exercise Using a Musculoskeletal-Exoskeletal Integrated Human Model.- Robot Assisted Fracture Reduction.- User Personality Matching with a Hands-Off Robot for Post-stroke Rehabilitation Therapy.- Estimation and Mapping.- Outdoor Mapping and Navigation Using Stereo Vision.- Control for Localization of Targets Using Range-Only Sensors.- Experiments with Simultaneous Environment Mapping and Multi-target Tracking.- Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filters for Recognizing Activities and Spatial Context from Wearable Sensors.- Field Robotics.- Development of Teleoperated Landmine Detection Buggy GRYPHON for Practical Humanitarian Demining Tasks.- Long-Range Autonomous Instrument Placement.- A Four Wheel Drive Boom Lift Robot for Bush Fire Fighting.- Estimation and Control.- Mobile Robot Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Using Low Cost Vision Sensors.- Sensor-Based Behavior Control for an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle.- Visual Servoing on Image Maps.- Context Sensitive Driver Assistance Based on Gaze - Road Scene Correlation.- Small-Scale Robot Formation Movement Using a Simple On-Board Relative Positioning System.- Navigation.- Learning Informative Features for Indoor Traversability.- Activity-Based Semantic Mapping of an Urban Environment.- Robot Navigation in Multi-terrain Outdoor Environments.- Constrained Optimization Path Following of Wheeled Robots in Natural Terrain.- Estimation and Localization.- Multi-level State Estimation in an Outdoor Decentralised Sensor Network.- Occupancy Grids from Stereo and Optical Flow Data.- MLS Based Distributed, Bearing, Range and Posture Estimation for Schools of Submersibles.- Cooperative Localization for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles.- Vision-Based Localization Using a Central Catadioptric Vision System.- Design.- On the Design of a Fast Parallel Robot Based on Its Dynamic Model.- Dynamic Rolling for a Modular Loop Robot.- Shady: Robust Truss Climbing with Mechanical Compliances.- A New Actuation Approach for Haptic Interface Design.- Real-Time Microforce Sensors and High Speed Vision System for Insect Flight Control Analysis.- Cooperative Control.- Experiments with Cooperative Networked Control of Underwater Robots.- Comparing Coordination Schemes for Miniature Robotic Swarms: A Case Study in Boundary Coverage of Regular Structures.- Feedback Control of Stochastic Cellular Actuators.- An Optimization-Based Approach to Time-Critical Cooperative Surveillance and Coverage with UAVs.- The Demonstration of a Cooperative Control Architecture for UAV Teams.- Humanoids.- Humanoid Robot HRP-2 with Human Supervision.- Biped Humanoid Robot Capable of Being Used as Human Motion Simulator.- Task Autonomy for a Teleoperated Humanoid Robot.- Short Cycle Pattern Generation for Online Walking Control System of Humanoids.- Grasp Recognition and Manipulation with the Tango.