Experimental Robotics: The 14th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-2
Towards a Comparative Measure of Legged Agility....Pages 3-16
On Prismatic and Torsional Actuation for Running Legged Robots....Pages 17-31
Experimental Results for Dexterous Quadruped Locomotion Planning with RoboSimian....Pages 33-46
Experimental Evaluation of Obstacle Clearance by a Hybrid Wheel-Legged Robot....Pages 47-58
Front Matter....Pages 59-60
Haptic Control Implementation of a 3-RRR Spherical Parallel Manipulator for Medical Uses....Pages 61-72
Experiments on the Simultaneous Hand-Held Control of Rigid Endoscopes and Robots Passing Through Them....Pages 73-87
Using Haptic fMRI to Enable Interactive Motor Neuroimaging Experiments....Pages 89-103
Dual Stage Options for Interface Designs Suitable for Haptic Interaction at the Micro-Nano Scales....Pages 105-114
Front Matter....Pages 115-116
Compact Hand with Passive Grasping....Pages 117-132
Robotic Manipulation for Identification of Flexible Objects....Pages 133-147
Guided Manipulation Planning at the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials....Pages 149-163
Redundancy Resolution in Human-Robot Co-manipulation with Cartesian Impedance Control....Pages 165-176
Front Matter....Pages 177-178
Online Camera Registration for Robot Manipulation....Pages 179-194
Collision Avoidance for Quadrotors with a Monocular Camera....Pages 195-209
Initialization-Free Monocular Visual-Inertial State Estimation with Application to Autonomous MAVs....Pages 211-227
Active Online Calibration of Multiple Sensors for Autonomous Surface Vessels....Pages 229-241
Front Matter....Pages 243-244
Experiments in Leader Classification and Following with an Autonomous Wheelchair....Pages 245-260
Perceptual Models of Human-Robot Proxemics....Pages 261-276
The Interactive Urban Robot IURO: Towards Robot Action in Human Environments....Pages 277-291
On Planning and Task Achievement Modalities for Human-Robot Collaboration....Pages 293-306
Front Matter....Pages 307-308
Asynchronous Adaptive Conditioning for Visual-Inertial SLAM....Pages 309-321
An Experimental Study of Robust Distributed Multi-robot Data Association from Arbitrary Poses....Pages 323-337
Interactive Semantic Mapping: Experimental Evaluation....Pages 339-355
Experimental Analysis of a UAV-Based Wireless Power Transfer Localization System....Pages 357-371
Inferring Maps and Behaviors from Natural Language Instructions....Pages 373-388
Front Matter....Pages 389-390
Planar Cable Robot with Variable Stiffness....Pages 391-403
Hydraulic Autonomous Soft Robotic Fish for 3D Swimming....Pages 405-420
Foldable Joints for Foldable Robots....Pages 421-433
A Design Environment for the Rapid Specification and Fabrication of Printable Robots....Pages 435-449
Front Matter....Pages 451-452
Anticipatory Planning for Human-Robot Teams....Pages 453-470
Autonomous Realization of Simple Machines....Pages 471-486
An Experimental Protocol for Benchmarking Robotic Indoor Navigation....Pages 487-504
Front Matter....Pages 505-506
Precise Assembly of 3D Truss Structures Using EKF-Based Error Prediction and Correction....Pages 507-521
Customized Sensing for Robot Swarms....Pages 523-534
Automatic Distribution of Disposable Self-Deploying Sensor Modules....Pages 535-543
Towards Autonomous Lakeshore Monitoring....Pages 545-557
Front Matter....Pages 559-560
Controlling Basin Breakout for Robots Operating in Uncertain Flow Environments....Pages 561-576
Distributed Learning of Cooperative Robotic Behaviors Using Particle Swarm Optimization....Pages 577-590
Provably Correct Persistent Surveillance for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Subject to Charging Constraints....Pages 591-604
Front Matter....Pages 605-619
Localizing Handle-Like Grasp Affordances in 3D Point Clouds....Pages 621-622
An Experimental Study for Identifying Features of Legible Manipulator Paths....Pages 623-638
Towards Coordinated Precision Assembly with Robot Teams....Pages 639-653
Robot Hand Synergy Mapping Using Multi-factor Model and EMG Signal....Pages 655-669
Muscular Effort for the Characterization of Human Postural Behaviors....Pages 671-683
Object Modeling and Recognition from Sparse, Noisy Data via Voxel Depth Carving....Pages 685-696
Model-Based Insights on the Design of a Hexapod Magnetic Walker....Pages 697-713
Real-Time Stabilisation for Hexapod Robots....Pages 715-727
State Estimation for Shore Monitoring Using an Autonomous Surface Vessel....Pages 729-744
Adaptive Path Planning for Tracking Ocean Fronts with an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle....Pages 745-760
Robust Underwater Obstacle Detection for Collision Avoidance....Pages 761-775
Gaussian Process Occupancy Maps for Dynamic Environments....Pages 777-790
A Spatial-Temporal Approach for Moving Object Recognition with 2D LIDAR....Pages 791-805
Probabilistic Grid-Based Collision Risk Prediction for Driving Application....Pages 807-820
Modular and Adaptive Wheelchair Automation....Pages 821-834
Fall Prediction for New Sequences of Motions....Pages 835-848
Towards Collaborative Mapping and Exploration Using Multiple Micro Aerial Robots....Pages 849-864
Cooperative Control for Target Tracking with Onboard Sensing....Pages 865-878
Shape Change Through Programmable Stiffness....Pages 879-892
Front Matter....Pages 893-907
French Archaeology’s Long March to the Deep—The Lune Project: Building the Underwater Archaeology of the Future....Pages 909-909
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