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TuA1

Egan Center Street Level Room Arteaga

Aerial Robotics: Communication, Perception and Control (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Roy, Nicholas

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Co-Chair: Floreano, Dario

Ec. Pol. Federal, Lausanne

08:30-08:45

TuA1.1

Efficient Planning under Uncertainty for a Target-Tracking Micro-Aerial Vehicle, pp. 1-8.

He, Ruijie

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Bachrach, Abraham

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Roy, Nicholas

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

08:45-09:00

TuA1.2

Homography-Based Visual Servoing of an Aircraft for Automatic Approach and Landing, pp. 9-14.

Gonçalves, Tiago

IST/TULisbon

Azinheira, Jose Raul

IST, T.U.Lisbon

Rives, Patrick

INRIA

09:00-09:15

TuA1.3

Communication-Based Leashing of Real Flying Robots, pp. 15-20.

Hauert, Sabine

EPFL

Leven, Severin

Ec. Pol. Federale de Lausanne

Zufferey, Jean-Christophe

EPFL

Floreano, Dario

Ec. Pol. Federal, Lausanne

09:15-09:30

TuA1.4

Vision Based MAV Navigation in Unknown and Unstructured Environments, pp. 21-28.

Blösch, Michael

ETH Zurich

Weiss, Stephan

ETH Zurich

Scaramuzza, Davide

ETH Zurich

Siegwart, Roland

ETH Zurich

09:30-09:45

TuA1.5

UAV Altitude and Attitude Stabilisation Using a Coaxial Stereo Vision System, pp. 29-34. Attachment

Moore, Richard James Donald

Univ. of Queensland

Thurrowgood, Saul

Univ. of Queensland

Bland, Daniel Peter

Univ. of Queensland

Soccol, Dean

Univ. of Queensland

Srinivasan, Mandyam

The Univ. of Queensland

09:45-10:00

TuA1.6

3D Pose Estimation Based on Planar Object Tracking for UAVs Control, pp. 35-41. Attachment

Mondragón, Iván Fernando

Computer Vision Group. Univ. Pol. de Madrid

Campoy, Pascual

Computer Vision Group. Univ. Pol. de Madrid

Martínez, Carol

UPM

Olivares, Miguel

Univ. Pol. Madrid,

 

TuA2

Egan Center Lower Level Room 6

Novel Designs and Architectures (Invited Sessions)

Chair: Cheng, Harry

Univ. of California, Davis

Co-Chair: Green, Keith Evan

Clemson Univ.

08:30-08:45

TuA2.1

Mechanism Design and Air Pressure Control System Improvements of the Waseda Saxophonist Robot, pp. 42-47. Attachment

Solis, Jorge

Waseda Univ.

Petersen, Klaus

Waseda Univ.

Yamamoto, Tetsuro

Waseda Univ.

Takeuchi, Masaki

Waseda Univ.

Ishikawa, Shimpei

Waseda Univ.

Takanishi, Atsuo

Waseda Univ.

Hashimoto, Kunimatsu

Toyota Motor Corp.

08:45-09:00

TuA2.2

"Architectural Robotics": An Interdisciplinary Course Rethinking the Machines We Live In, pp. 48-53.

Kapadia, Apoorva

Clemson Univ.

Walker, Ian

Clemson Univ.

Green, Keith Evan

Clemson Univ.

Manganelli, Joseph Charles

Clemson Univ.

Houayek, Henrique

Clemson Univ.

James, Adam

Clemson Univ.

Kanuri, Venkata Krishna Teja

Clemson Univ.

Mokhtar, Tarek

Clemson Univ.

Siles, Ivan

Clemson Univ.

Yanik, Paul

Clemson Univ.

09:00-09:15

TuA2.3

A Hovering Control Strategy for a Tail-Sitter VTOL UAV That Increases Stability against Large Disturbance, pp. 54-59. Attachment

Matsumoto, Takaaki

Tohoku Univ.

Kita, Koichi

Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd.

Suzuki, Ren

Tohoku Univ.

Oosedo, Atsushi

Tohoku Univ.

Go, Kenta

Tohoku Univ.

Hoshino, Yuta

Tohoku Univ.

Konno, Atsushi

Tohoku Univ.

Uchiyama, Masaru

Tohoku Univ.

09:15-09:30

TuA2.4

Design of Imobot, an Intelligent Reconfigurable Mobile Robot with Novel Locomotion, pp. 60-65. Attachment

Ryland, Graham

Univ. of Californial, Davis

Cheng, Harry

Univ. of California, Davis

09:30-09:45

TuA2.5

Sambot: A Self-Assembly Modular Robot for Swarm Robot, pp. 66-71. Attachment

Wei, Hongxing

Beihang Univ.

Cai, Yingpeng

Beihang Univ.

Li, Haiyuan

Beihang Univ.

Li, Dezhong

Beihang Univ.

Wang, Tianmiao

Beihang Univ.

09:45-10:00

TuA2.6

Hybrid Aerial and Scansorial Robotics, pp. 72-77. Attachment

Lussier Desbiens, Alexis

Stanford Univ.

Asbeck, Alan

Stanford Univ.

Cutkosky, Mark

Stanford Univ.

 

TuA3

Egan Center Street Level Room Boardroom

Biologically Inspired Swimming Robots (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Fiorini, Paolo

Univ. of Verona

Co-Chair: Kratochvil, Bradley

ETH Zurich

08:30-08:45

TuA3.1

An Improved Semi-Empirical Model for a Body And/or Caudal Fin (BCF) Fish Robot, pp. 78-83.

Low, K. H.

Nanyang Tech. Univ.

Chong, Chee Wee

Nanyang Tech. Univ.

Zhou, Chunlin

Nanyang Tech. Univ.

Seet, Gim Lee, Gerald

NTU

08:45-09:00

TuA3.2

Myometry-Driven Compliant-Body Design for Underwater Propulsion, pp. 84-89.

Akanyeti, Otar

Univ. of Verona

Ernits, Andres

Tallinn Univ. of Tech.

Fiazza, Maria-Camilla

Univ. of Verona

Toming, Gert

Tallinn Univ. of Tech.

Kunlikovskis, Guntis

Riga Tech. Univ.

Listak, Madis

Tallinn Univ. of Tech.

Raag, Rasmus

Tallinn Univ. of Tech.

Salumae, Taavi

Tallinn Univ. of Tech.

Fiorini, Paolo

Univ. of Verona

Kruusmaa, Maarja

Tallinn Univ. of Tech.

09:00-09:15

TuA3.3

Performance Study of a Fish Robot Propelled by a Flexible Caudal Fin, pp. 90-95.

Low, K. H.

Nanyang Tech. Univ.

Chong, Chee Wee

Nanyang Tech. Univ.

Zhou, Chunlin

Nanyang Tech. Univ.

09:15-09:30

TuA3.4

Non-Ideal Swimming of Artificial Bacterial Flagella Near a Surface, pp. 96-101.

Peyer, Kathrin Eva

ETH Zurich

Zhang, Li

ETH Zurich

Kratochvil, Bradley

ETH Zurich

Nelson, Bradley J.

ETH Zurich

09:30-09:45

TuA3.5

Analytical Modeling and Experimental Studies of Robotic Fish Turning, pp. 102-108.

Tan, Xiaobo

Michigan State Univ.

Carpenter, Michael

Michigan State Univ.

Thon, John

Michigan State Univ.

Alequin-Ramos, Freddie

Michigan State Univ.

09:45-10:00

TuA3.6

Omegabot: Crawling Robot Inspired by Ascotis Selenaria, pp. 109-114. Attachment

Koh, Je-Sung

Seoul National Univ.

Cho, Kyu-Jin

Seoul National Univ.

 

TuA4

Egan Center Lower Level Room 1

Range Sensing (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Durrant-Whyte, Hugh

The Univ. of Sydney

Co-Chair: Xi, Ning

Michigan State Univ.

08:30-08:45

TuA4.1

Inferring Motion Uncertainty from Shape-Matching, pp. 115-120.

Sun, Zuolei

Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.

van de Ven, Joop

Univ. of Sydney

Ramos, Fabio

Univ. of Sydney

Mao, Xuchu

Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.

Durrant-Whyte, Hugh

The Univ. of Sydney

08:45-09:00

TuA4.2

Real-Time 3D Shape Measurement System Based on Single Structure Light Pattern, pp. 121-126.

Xu, Jing

Michigan State Univ.

Xi, Ning

Michigan State Univ.

Zhang, Chi

Michigan State Univ.

Shi, Quan

Michigan State Univ.

09:00-09:15

TuA4.3

Scene Understanding in a Large Dynamic Environment through a Laser-Based Sensing, pp. 127-133.

Zhao, Huijing

Peking Univ.

Liu, Yiming

Peking Univ.

Zhu, Xiaolong

Peking Univ.

Zhao, Yipu

Peking Univ.

Zha, Hongbin

Peking Univ.

09:15-09:30

TuA4.4

Dynamic 3D Scene Analysis for Acquiring Articulated Scene Models, pp. 134-141. Attachment

Swadzba, Agnes

Bielefeld Univ.

Beuter, Niklas

Bielefeld Univ.

Wachsmuth, Sven

Bielefeld Univ.

Kummert, Franz

Univ. of Bielefeld

09:30-09:45

TuA4.5

Motion Estimation from Range Images in Dynamic Outdoor Scenes, pp. 142-147.

Moosmann, Frank

Univ. of Karlsruhe

Fraichard, Thierry

Inria

09:45-10:00

TuA4.6

Projected Texture Stereo, pp. 148-155.

Konolige, Kurt

Willow Garage

 

TuA5

Egan Center Lower Level Room 13/14

Human Robot Interaction (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Campbell, Mark

Cornell Univ.

Co-Chair: Burschka, Darius

Tech. Univ. München

08:30-08:45

TuA5.1

Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition Using Laplacian Eigenmaps-Based Manifold Learning, pp. 156-161. Attachment

Raducanu, Bogdan

Computer Vision Center

Dornaika, Fadi

Univ. of the Basque Country

08:45-09:00

TuA5.2

Representation and Constrained Planning of Manipulation Strategies in the Context of Programming by Demonstration, pp. 162-169.

Jäkel, Rainer

Univ. of Karlsruhe

Schmidt-Rohr, Sven R.

Univ. of Karlsruhe

Lösch, Martin

Univ. Karlsruhe (TH)

Dillmann, Rüdiger

Univ. of Karlsruhe

09:00-09:15

TuA5.3

Understanding a Child's Play for Robot Interaction by Sequencing Play Primitives Using Hidden Markov Models, pp. 170-177.

Park, Hae Won

Georgia Inst. of Tech.

Howard, Ayanna

Georgia Inst. of Tech.

09:15-09:30

TuA5.4

Predictive State Representations for Grounding Human-Robot Communication, pp. 178-185.

Meisner, Eric M.

Johns Hopkins Univ.

Das, Sanmay

RPI

Isler, Volkan

Univ. of Minnesota

Trinkle, Jeff

Rensselaer Pol. Inst.

Sabanovic, Selma

Indiana Univ.

Caporael, Linnda

Rensselaer Pol. Inst.

09:30-09:45

TuA5.5

Variational Bayesian Data Fusion of Multi-Class Discrete Observations with Applications to Cooperative Human-Robot Estimation, pp. 186-191.

Ahmed, Nisar

Cornell Univ.

Campbell, Mark

Cornell Univ.

09:45-10:00

TuA5.6

Estimation of Spatio-Temporal Object Properties for Manipulation Tasks from Observation of Humans, pp. 192-198.

Petsch, Susanne

Tech. Univ. München

Burschka, Darius

Tech. Univ. München

 

TuA6

Egan Center Lower Level Room 2

Human Robot Interaction for Assistive Technology (Invited Sessions)

Chair: Behal, Aman

Univ. of Central Florida

Co-Chair: Howard, Ayanna

Georgia Inst. of Tech.

Organizer: Behal, Aman

Univ. of Central Florida

Organizer: Kim, Dae-Jin

Univ. of Central Florida

08:30-08:45

TuA6.1

Ef_; Ciency Based Modulation for Wheelchair Driving Collaborative Control (I), pp. 199-204.

Urdiales, Cristina

Univ. de Málaga

Fernandez-Carmona, Manuel

Univ. de Málaga

Peula Palacios, Jose Manuel

Univ. of Málaga

Annicchiarico, Roberta

IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia

Sandoval, Francisco

Univ. Málaga

Caltagirone, Carlo

IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia - Univ. Tor Vergata Roma

08:45-09:00

TuA6.2

Real Time Estimation of Thumb Forces Using Surface Electromyogram for a Novel Human Machine Interface (I), pp. 205-210.

Park, Wonil

Korea Adv. Inst. of Science & Tech.

Kwon, Suncheol

KAIST

Kim, Jung

KAIST

09:00-09:15

TuA6.3

Stroke Survivor Gait Adaptation and Performance after Training on a Powered Ankle Foot Orthosis (I), pp. 211-216.

Ward, Jeffrey

Arizona State Univ.

Sugar, Thomas

Arizona State Univ.

Standeven, John

Washington Univ.

Engsberg, Jack

Washington Univ.

09:15-09:30

TuA6.4

On the Relationship between Autonomy, Performance, and Satisfaction: Lessons from a Three-Week User Study with Post-SCI Patients Using a Smart 6DOF Assistive Robotic Manipulator (I), pp. 217-222.

Kim, Dae-Jin

Univ. of Central Florida

Hazeltt, Rebekah

Univ. of Central Florida

Godfrey, Heather

Orlando Health

Rucks, Greta

Orlando Health

Portee, David

Orlando Health

John, Bricout

Univ. of Central Florida

Cunningham, Tara

Orlando Health

Behal, Aman

Univ. of Central Florida

09:30-09:45

TuA6.5

Linear-Quadratic-Gaussian Torque Control: Application to a Flexible Joint of a Rehabilitation Exoskeleton, pp. 223-228.

Vertechy, Rocco

Scuola Superiore Sant' Anna

Frisoli, Antonio

Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna

Solazzi, Massimiliano

Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna

Dettori, Andrea

Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna

Bergamasco, Massimo

Scuola Superiore S.Anna

09:45-10:00

TuA6.6

Transfer of Skills between Human Operators through Haptic Training with Robot Coordination, pp. 229-235. Attachment

Park, Chung Hyuk

Georgia Inst. of Tech.

Yoo, Jae Wook

Georgia Inst. of Tech.

Howard, Ayanna

Georgia Inst. of Tech.

 

TuA7

Egan Center Lower Level Room 11/12

Algorithms and Representations for SLAM (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Munich, Mario

Evolution Robotics

Co-Chair: Chung, Wan Kyun

POSTECH

08:30-08:45

TuA7.1

Vector Field SLAM, pp. 236-242.

Gutmann, Jens-Steffen

Evolution Robotics Inc.

Brisson, Gabriel

unaffiliated

Eade, Ethan

Evolution Robotics

Fong, Philip

Evolution Robotics

Munich, Mario

Evolution Robotics

08:45-09:00

TuA7.2

Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filters Multi Robot SLAM with Unknown Initial Correspondences and Limited Communication, pp. 243-249.

Carlone, Luca

Pol. di Torino

Kaouk Ng, Miguel Efrain

Pol. di Torino

Du, Jingjing

Pol. di torino

Bona, Basilio

Pol. di Torino

Indri, Marina

Pol. di Torino

09:00-09:15

TuA7.3

Robust RBPF-SLAM Using Sonar Sensors in Non-Static Environments, pp. 250-256.

Lee, Jung-Suk

POSTECH

Kim, Chanki

POSTECH

Chung, Wan Kyun

POSTECH

09:15-09:30

TuA7.4

A Hybrid SLAM Representation for Dynamic Marine Environments, pp. 257-264. Attachment

Bibby, Charles

Univ. of Oxford

Reid, Ian

Univ. of Oxford

09:30-09:45

TuA7.5

AntSLAM: Global Map Optimization Using Swarm Intelligence, pp. 265-272.

Iser, Rene

Tech. Univ. of Braunschweig

Wahl, Friedrich M.

Tech. Univ. of Braunschweig

09:45-10:00

TuA7.6

Hierarchical Optimization on Manifolds for Online 2D and 3D Mapping, pp. 273-278.

Grisetti, Giorgio

Unviersität Freiburg

Kuemmerle, Rainer

Univ. of Freiburg

Stachniss, Cyrill

Univ. of Freiburg

Frese, Udo

Univ. Bremen

Hertzberg, Christoph

Univ. Bremen

 

TuA8

Egan Center Street Level Room Cook Hall

Autonomous Navigation (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Spletzer, John

Lehigh Univ.

Co-Chair: Sadler, Brian

Army Res. Lab.

08:30-08:45

TuA8.1

On-Line Calibration of Multiple LIDARs on a Mobile Vehicle Platform, pp. 279-284.

Gao, Chao

Lehigh Univ.

Spletzer, John

Lehigh Univ.

08:45-09:00

TuA8.2

Planes, Trains and Automobiles -- Autonomy for the Modern Robot, pp. 285-292.

Sibley, Gabe

Univ. of Oxford

Mei, Christopher

Univ. of Oxford

Reid, Ian

Univ. of Oxford

Newman, Paul

Oxford Univ.

09:00-09:15

TuA8.3

Repeated AUV Surveying of Urchin Barrens in North Eastern Tasmania, pp. 293-299.

Williams, Stefan Bernard

Univ. of Sydney

Pizarro, Oscar

Australian Centre for Field Robotics

Jakuba, Michael

Univ. of Sydney

Mahon, Ian

Univ. of Sydney

Ling, Scott

Univ. of Tasmania

Johnson, Craig

Univ. of Tasmania

09:15-09:30

TuA8.4

The Office Marathon: Robust Navigation in an Indoor Office Environment, pp. 300-307. Attachment

Marder-Eppstein, Eitan

Willow Garage

Berger, Eric

Willow Garage

Foote, Tully

Willow Garage Inc.

Gerkey, Brian

Willow Garage

Konolige, Kurt

Willow Garage

09:30-09:45

TuA8.5

Toward Autonomous Scientific Exploration of Ice-Covered Lakes - Field Experiments with the ENDURANCE AUV in an Antarctic Dry Valley, pp. 308-315.

Gulati, Shilpa

Univ. of Texas at Austin

Richmond, Kristof

Stone Aerospace

Flesher, Christopher

Stone Aerospace

Hogan, Bart

Stone Aerospace

Murarka, Aniket

The Univ. of Texas at Austin

Kuhlmann, Gregory

The Univ. of Texas at Austin

Sridharan, Mohan

Texas Tech. Univ.

Stone, William

Stone Aerospace

Doran, Peter

Univ. of Illinois at Chicago

09:45-10:00

TuA8.6

Parallel Grid-Based Recursive Bayesian Estimation Using GPU for Real-Time Autonomous Navigation, pp. 316-321.

Furukawa, Tomonari

Virginia Pol. Inst. and State Univ.

Lavis, Benjamin

Univ. of California, Berkeley

Durrant-Whyte, Hugh

The Univ. of Sydney

 

TuA9

Egan Center Lower Level Room 3

Path Planning and Coordination for Multiple Robots (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Reveliotis, Spiridon

Georgia Inst. of Tech.

Co-Chair: Kaminka, Gal A

Bar Ilan Univ.

08:30-08:45

TuA9.1

Establishing the NP-Hardness of Maximally RAS-Based Approaches to Multi-Vehicle System Safety, pp. 322-327.

Roszkowska, Elzbieta

Wroclaw Univ. of Tech.

Reveliotis, Spiridon

Georgia Inst. of Tech.

08:45-09:00

TuA9.2

Adaptive Multi-Robot Coordination: A Game-Theoretic Perspective, pp. 328-334.

Kaminka, Gal A

Bar Ilan Univ.

Erusalimchik, Dan

Bar-Ilan Univ.

Kraus, Sarit

Bar-Ilan Univ.

09:00-09:15

TuA9.3

A Potential Field Approach to Finding Minimum-Exposure Paths in Wireless Sensor Networks, pp. 335-341.

Ferrari, Silvia

Duke Univ.

Foderaro, Greg

Duke Univ.

09:15-09:30

TuA9.4

Controllability for Pairs of Vehicles Maintaining Constant Distance, pp. 342-349.

Wang, Huifang

Univ. of Pisa

Pallottino, Lucia

Univ. di Pisa

Bicchi, Antonio

Univ. of Pisa

09:30-09:45

TuA9.5

Behavior-Based Evacuation Planning, pp. 350-355.

Rodriguez, Samuel

Texas A&M Univ.

Amato, Nancy

Texas A&M Univ.

09:45-10:00

TuA9.6

A Multi-Robot System for Unconfined Video-Conferencing, pp. 356-361.

Karnad, Nikhil

Univ. of Minnesota, Twin-Cities

Isler, Volkan

Univ. of Minnesota

 

TuA10

Egan Center Lower Level Room 9/10

AI Reasoning Methods (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Konolige, Kurt

Willow Garage

Co-Chair: Schermerhorn, Paul

Indiana Univ.

08:30-08:45

TuA10.1

Vision-Based Detection for Learning Articulation Models of Cabinet Doors and Drawers in Household Environments, pp. 362-368. Attachment

Sturm, Jürgen

Univ. of Freiburg

Konolige, Kurt

Willow Garage

Stachniss, Cyrill

Univ. of Freiburg

Burgard, Wolfram

Univ. of Freiburg

08:45-09:00

TuA10.2

Variable Resolution Decomposition for Robotic Navigation under a POMDP Framework, pp. 369-376.

Kaplow, Robert

McGill Univ.

Atrash, Amin

McGill Univ.

Pineau, Joelle

McGill Univ.

09:00-09:15

TuA10.3

Multi-Tasking SLAM, pp. 377-384. Attachment

Guez, Arthur

McGill Univ.

Pineau, Joelle

McGill Univ.

09:15-09:30

TuA10.4

Integrated Motor Control, Planning, Grasping and High-Level Reasoning in a Blocks World Using Probabilistic Inference, pp. 385-391. Attachment

Toussaint, Marc

TU Berlin

Nils, Plath

TU Berlin

Lang, Tobias

TU Berlin

Jetchev, Nikolay

TU Berlin

09:30-09:45

TuA10.5

Using Logic to Handle Conflicts between System, Component, and Infrastructure Goals in Complex Robotic Architectures, pp. 392-397.

Schermerhorn, Paul

Indiana Univ.

Scheutz, Matthias

Indiana Univ. Bloomington

09:45-10:00

TuA10.6

Categorizing Object-Action Relations from Semantic Scene Graphs, pp. 398-405.

Aksoy, Eren Erdal

Univ. of Goettingen

Abramov, Alexey

Univ. of Goettingen

Woergoetter, Florentin

Univ. of Goettingen, Inst. of Physics III

Dellen, Babette

Max Planck Inst. for Dynamics and Self-Organization

 

TuA11

Egan Center Lower Level Room 5

Detection and Surveillance (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Papanikolopoulos, Nikos

Univ. of Minnesota

Co-Chair: Young, Stuart

Army Res. Lab.

08:30-08:45

TuA11.1

Fusion of Laser and Vision for Multiple Targets Tracking Via On-Line Learning, pp. 406-411. Attachment

Song, Xuan

Peking Univ.

Zhao, Huijing

Peking Univ.

Cui, Jinshi

Peking Univ.

Shao, Xiaowei

Univ. of Tokyo

Shibasaki, Ryosuke

Univ. of Tokyo

Zha, Hongbin

Peking Univ.

08:45-09:00

TuA11.2

Multi-Camera Object Detection for Robotics, pp. 412-419.

Coates, Adam

Stanford Univ.

Ng, Andrew

Stanford Univ.

09:00-09:15

TuA11.3

A Strategy for Improving Observability with Mobile Robots, pp. 420-425.

Drenner, Andrew

ReconRobotics

Janssen, Michael

Univ. of Minnesota

Papanikolopoulos, Nikos

Univ. of Minnesota

09:15-09:30

TuA11.4

Moving Game Theoretical Patrolling Strategies from Theory to Practice: An USARSim Simulation, pp. 426-431.

Amigoni, Francesco

Pol. di Milano

Basilico, Nicola

Pol. di Milano

Gatti, Nicola

Pol. di Milano

Saporiti, Alessandro

Pol. di Milano

Troiani, Stefano

Pol. di Milano

09:30-09:45

TuA11.5

A Probability Density Function Approach to Distributed Sensors' Path Planning, pp. 432-439.

Ferrari, Silvia

Duke Univ.

Foderaro, Greg

Duke Univ.

Tremblay, Andrew

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

09:45-10:00

TuA11.6

Probabilistic Surveillance with Multiple Active Cameras, pp. 440-445.

Sommerlade, Eric

Univ. of Oxford

Reid, Ian

Univ. of Oxford

 

TuA12

Egan Center Lower Level Room 4

Human Detection, Tracking and Listening (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Kyriakopoulos, Kostas

National Tech. Univ. of Athens

Co-Chair: Okuno, Hiroshi G.

Kyoto Univ.

08:30-08:45

TuA12.1

A Multiple Hypothesis People Tracker for Teams of Mobile Robots, pp. 446-451.

Tsokas, Nicolas

National Tech. Univ. of Athens

Kyriakopoulos, Kostas

National Tech. Univ. of Athens

08:45-09:00

TuA12.2

Human Detection and Tracking Via Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Radar, pp. 452-457.

Chang, SangHyun

California Inst. of Tech.

Wolf, Michael

Jet Propulsion Lab.

Burdick, Joel

California Inst. of Tech.

09:00-09:15

TuA12.3

Hands in Action: Real-Time 3D Reconstruction of Hands in Interaction with Object, pp. 458-463. Attachment

Romero, Javier

KTH

Kjellstrom, Hedvig

KTH

Kragic, Danica

KTH

09:15-09:30

TuA12.4

People Tracking with Human Motion Predictions from Social Forces, pp. 464-469.

Luber, Matthias

Univ. of Freiburg

Stork, Johannes Andreas

Univ. of Freiburg

Tipaldi, Gian Diego

Univ. of Freiburg

Arras, Kai Oliver

Univ. of Freiburg

09:30-09:45

TuA12.5

Improvement in Listening Capability for Humanoid Robot HRP-2, pp. 470-475.

Takahashi, Toru

Kyoto Univ.

Nakadai, Kazuhiro

Honda Res. Inst. Japan Co., Ltd.

Komatani, Kazunori

Kyoto Univ.

Ogata, Tetsuya

Kyoto Univ.

Okuno, Hiroshi G.

Kyoto Univ.

09:45-10:00

TuA12.6

Mapping Indoor Environments Based on Human Activity, pp. 476-481.

Grzonka, Slawomir

Albert-Ludwigs-Univ. of Freiburg

Dijoux, Frederic

Albert-Ludwigs-Univ. Freiburg

Karwath, Andreas

Albert-Ludwigs Univ. Freiburg

Burgard, Wolfram

Univ. of Freiburg

 

TuA13

Egan Center Lower Level Room 7/8

Micro and Nano Scale Automation (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Arai, Fumihito

Tohoku Univ.

Co-Chair: Martel, Sylvain

Ec. Pol. de Montreal (EPM)

08:30-08:45

TuA13.1

Massive Parallel Assembly of Microbeads Fabrication of Microtools Having Spherical Structure and Powerful Laser Manipulation, pp. 482-487.

Maruyama, Hisataka

Tohoku Univ.

Iitsuka, Ryo

Tohoku Univ.

Onda, Kazuhisa

Tohoku Univ.

Arai, Fumihito

Tohoku Univ.

08:45-09:00

TuA13.2

Millimeter Scale Microrobots for the Nanoassembly Applications, pp. 488-493.

Murthy, Rakesh

Univ. of Texas at Arlington

Popa, Dan

The Univ. of Texas at Arlington

09:00-09:15

TuA13.3

A Micromanipulation System for Single Cell Deposition, pp. 494-499.

Lu, Zhe

Univ. of Toronto

Moraes, Christopher

Univ. of Toronto

Zhao, Yan

Univ. of Toronto

You, LiDan

Univ. of Toronto

Simmons, Craig A.

Univ. of Toronto

Sun, Yu

Univ. of Toronto

09:15-09:30

TuA13.4

Using a Swarm of Self-Propelled Natural Microrobots in the Form of Flagellated Bacteria to Perform Complex Micro-Assembly Tasks, pp. 500-505.

Martel, Sylvain

Ec. Pol. de Montreal (EPM)

Mohammadi, Mahmood

Ec. Pol. de Montreal (EPM)

09:30-09:45

TuA13.5

Closed Loop Performance of Polypyrrole Linear Contractile Actuators, pp. 506-511.

Paster, Eli

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Ruddy, Bryan

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Pillai, Priam

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Hunter, Ian

MIT

09:45-10:00

TuA13.6

Compensation of Rate-Dependent Hysteresis Nonlinearities in a Piezo Micro-Positioning Stage, pp. 512-517.

Al Janaideh, Mohammad

Concordia Univ.

Su, Chun-Yi

Concordia Univ.

 

TuB1

Dena'ina Center Tikahtnu A

50 Years of Robotics: Field Robotics (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Tadokoro, Satoshi

Tohoku Univ.

Co-Chair: Teller, Seth

MIT

10:25-11:00

TuB1.1

50 Years of Robotics and Automation: Field Robotics (I)*.

Hirose, Shigeo

Tokyo Inst. of Tech.

11:00-11:15

TuB1.2

Coping with Imbalanced Training Data for Improved Terrain Prediction in Autonomous Outdoor Robot Navigation, pp. 518-525.

Procopio, Michael

Sandia National Lab.

Mulligan, Jane

Univ. of Colorado at Boulder

Grudic, Greg

Univ. of Colorado at Boulder

11:15-11:30

TuB1.3

A Voice-Commandable Robotic Forklift Working Alongside Humans in Minimally-Prepared Outdoor Environments, pp. 526-533. Attachment

Teller, Seth

MIT

Walter, Matthew

MIT

Antone, Matthew

BAE Systems

Correa, Andrew

A

Davis, Randall

MIT

Fletcher, Luke

MIT

Frazzoli, Emilio

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Glass, Jim

MIT

How, Jonathan

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Huang, Albert S.

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Jeon, Jeong hwan

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Karaman, Sertac

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Luders, Brandon

MIT

Roy, Nicholas

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Sainath, Tara

IBM

11:30-11:45

TuB1.4

Visual Path Following on a Manifold in Unstructured Three-Dimensional Terrain, pp. 534-539. Attachment

Furgale, Paul Timothy

Univ. of Toronto

Barfoot, Timothy

Univ. of Toronto

 

TuB2

Dena'ina Center Tikahtnu B/C

50 Years of Robotics: Industrial Robotics and Automation (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Goldberg, Ken

UC Berkeley

Co-Chair: Lynch, Kevin

Northwestern Univ.

10:25-11:00

TuB2.1

Automation and Robotics (I)*.

Mason, Matthew T.

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

11:00-11:15

TuB2.2

Toward the Set of Frictional Velocity Fields Generable by 6-Degree-Of-Freedom Oscillatory Motion of a Rigid Plate, pp. 540-547.

Vose, Thomas

Northwestern Univ.

Umbanhowar, Paul

Northwestern Univ.

Lynch, Kevin

Northwestern Univ.

11:15-11:30

TuB2.3

A ZigBee Indoor Positioning Scheme Using Signal-Index-Pair Data Preprocess Method to Enhance Precision, pp. 548-553.

Hung, Min-Hsiung

Chung Cheng Inst. of Tech. National DefenseUniversity

Lin, Shih-Sung

Chung Cheng Inst. of Tech. National Defense Univ.

Cheng, Jui-Yu

Chung Cheng Inst. of Tech. National Defense Univ.

Chien, Wu-Lung

Chung Cheng Inst. of Tech. National DefenseUniversity

11:30-11:45

TuB2.4

Unified Impedance and Admittance Control, pp. 554-561.

Ott, Christian

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Mukherjee, Ranjan

Michigan State Univ.

Nakamura, Yoshihiko

Univ. of Tokyo

 

TuB3

Dena'ina Center Tikahtnu D/E

50 Years of Robotics: Medical and Life Sciences (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Hager, Gregory

Johns Hopkins Univ.

Co-Chair: Sakuma, Ichiro

The Univ. of Tokyo

10:25-11:00

TuB3.1

50 Years of Robotics and Automation: Robotics in Medical and Life Sciences (I)*.

Hannaford, Blake

Univ. of Washington

11:00-11:15

TuB3.2

Real-Time Position Control of Concentric Tube Robots, pp. 562-568. Attachment

Dupont, Pierre

Boston Univ.

Lock, Jesse

Boston Univ.

Itkowitz, Brandon

Boston Univ.

11:15-11:30

TuB3.3

Robotically Generated Force Fields for Stroke Patient Pelvic Obliquity Gait Rehabilitation, pp. 569-575.

Pietrusinski, Maciej

Northeastern Univ.

Cajigas, Iahn

MIT

Goldsmith, Mary

Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston Univ.

Bonato, Paolo

Harvard Medical School

Mavroidis, Constantinos

Northeastern Univ.

11:30-11:45

TuB3.4

Wireless Control of Magnetic Helical Microrobots Using a Rotating-Permanent-Magnet Manipulator, pp. 576-581. Attachment

Fountain, Thomas

Univ. of Utah

Kailat, Prem

Univ. of Utah

Abbott, Jake

Univ. of Utah

 

TuB4

Dena'ina Center Kahtnu 1/2

50 Years of Robotics: Energy, Environment and Society (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Sukhatme, Gaurav

Univ. of Southern California

Co-Chair: Whitcomb, Louis

The Johns Hopkins Univ.

10:25-11:00

TuB4.1

Robots for Energy and Environment: Evolution and Revolution (I)*.

Yoerger, Dana

Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.

11:00-11:15

TuB4.2

Gesture-Based Human-Robot Jazz Improvisation, pp. 582-587. Attachment

Hoffman, Guy

Georgia Tech.

Weinberg, Gil

Georgia Inst. of Tech.

11:15-11:30

TuB4.3

Statistical Mobility Prediction for Planetary Surface Exploration Rovers in Uncertain Terrain, pp. 588-593.

Ishigami, Genya

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Kewlani, Gaurav

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Iagnemma, Karl

MIT

11:30-11:45

TuB4.4

Navigation and Control of the Nereus Hybrid Underwater Vehicle for Global Ocean Science to 10, 903 M Depth: Preliminary Results, pp. 594-600.

Whitcomb, Louis

The Johns Hopkins Univ.

Jakuba, Michael

Univ. of Sydney

Kinsey, James

The Johns Hopkins Univ.

Martin, Stephen

John Hopkins Univ.

Webster, Sarah E.

Johns Hopkins Univ.

Howland, Jonathan

Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.

Taylor, Chris

WHOI

Gomez-Ibanez, Daniel

WHOI

Yoerger, Dana

Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.

 

TuD1

Egan Center Street Level Room Arteaga

Aerial Robotics: Design, Modeling and Control (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Agrawal, Sunil

Univ. of Delaware

Co-Chair: Christoforou, Eftychios

Univ. of Cyprus

14:20-14:35

TuD1.1

The Distributed Flight Array, pp. 601-607. Attachment

Oung, Raymond

ETH Zurich

Bourgault, Frederic

ETH Zürich

Donovan, Matthew

ETH Zurich

D'Andrea, Raffaello

ETHZ

14:35-14:50

TuD1.2

A New Method of Modeling the Actuation Dynamics of a Miniature Hingeless Helicopter Using Gyroscopic Moments, pp. 608-613.

Lau, Tak Kit

The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong

Liu, Yunhui

Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong

Lin, Kai Wun

The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong

14:50-15:05

TuD1.3

Angular Elevation Control of Robotic Kite Systems, pp. 614-619.

Christoforou, Eftychios

Univ. of Cyprus

15:05-15:20

TuD1.4

Flight Formation of Multiple Mini Rotorcraft Via Coordination Control, pp. 620-625.

Guerrero Mata, Jose Alfredo

Univ. of Tech. of Compičgne

Fantoni, Isabelle

Univ. of Tech. of Compičgne

Salazar, Sergio

Unisersité de Compiégne

Lozano, Rogelio

Univ. de Tech. de Compičgne

15:20-15:35

TuD1.5

Experimental Investigation of Effects of Flapping Wing Aspect Ratio and Flexibility on Aerodynamic Performance, pp. 626-631.

Zhang, Chengkun

Univ. of Delaware

Khan, Zaeem

Univ. of Delaware

Agrawal, Sunil

Univ. of Delaware

15:35-15:50

TuD1.6

Design of an Improved Land/Air Miniature Robot, pp. 632-637.

Kossett, Alex

Univ. of Minnesota

D'Sa, Ruben

Univ. of Minnesota

Purvey, Jesse

Univ. of Minnesota

Papanikolopoulos, Nikos

Univ. of Minnesota

 

TuD2

Egan Center Lower Level Room 6

Control of Parallel Robots (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Krovi, Venkat

Univ. at Buffalo (SUNY)

Co-Chair: Martinet, Philippe

Blaise Pascal Univ.

14:20-14:35

TuD2.1

Vector-Based Dynamic Modeling and Control of the Quattro Parallel Robot by Means of Leg Orientations, pp. 638-643.

Ozgur, Erol

Blaise Pascal Univ.

Andreff, Nicolas

Univ. de Franche Comté

Martinet, Philippe

Blaise Pascal Univ.

14:35-14:50

TuD2.2

Efficient High-Speed Vision-Based Computed Torque Control of the Orthoglide Parallel Robot, pp. 644-649.

Dahmouche, Redwan

Univ. Blaise Pascal

Andreff, Nicolas

Univ. de Franche Comté

Mezouar, Youcef

Blaise Pascal Univ.

Martinet, Philippe

Blaise Pascal Univ.

14:50-15:05

TuD2.3

Integrated Controller for an Over-Constrained Cable Driven Parallel Manipulator: KNTU CDRPM, pp. 650-655.

Vafaei, Alaleh

Advanced Robotics and Automated Systems(ARAS), K.N.ToosiUniversi

M. Aref, Mohammad

K.N. Toosi Univ. of Tech.

Taghirad, Hamid

K.N.Toosi Univ. of Tech.

15:05-15:20

TuD2.4

Optimization Strategies for Additional Actuators of Kinematically Redundant Parallel Kinematic Machines, pp. 656-661.

Kotlarski, Jens

Leibniz Univ. Hannover

Do Thanh, Trung

Hannover

Heimann, Bodo

Leibniz Univ. Hannover

Ortmaier, Tobias

Leibniz Univ. Hanover

15:20-15:35

TuD2.5

Implementation of a 4-DOF Parallel Mechanism As a Needle Insertion Device, pp. 662-668. Attachment

Chung, Jaeheon

Kyushu Univ.

Cha, Hyo Jung

Hanyang Univ.

Yi, Byung-Ju

Hanayang Univ.

Kim, Whee Kuk

Korea Univ.

15:35-15:50

TuD2.6

Enhanced Trajectory Tracking Performance with a Lower-Bound Stiffness Controller for Cable-Robot Systems, pp. 669-674.

Yu, Kun

Univ. at Buffalo

Lee, Leng-Feng

Univ. at Buffalo

Tang, Chinpei

The Univ. of Texas at Dallas

Krovi, Venkat

Univ. at Buffalo (SUNY)

 

TuD3

Egan Center Street Level Room Boardroom

Snake Robot Locomotion (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Gravdahl, Jan Tommy

Norwegian Univ. of Science and Tech.

Co-Chair: Matsuno, Fumitoshi

Kyoto Univ.

14:20-14:35

TuD3.1

A Hybrid Model of Obstacle-Aided Snake Robot Locomotion, pp. 675-682.

Liljebäck, Pĺl

SINTEF IKT

Pettersen, Kristin Y.

Norwegian Univ. of Science and Tech.

Stavdahl, Řyvind

Norwegian Univ. of Science and Tech. (NTNU)

Gravdahl, Jan Tommy

Norwegian Univ. of Science and Tech.

14:35-14:50

TuD3.2

A Snake Robot with a Contact Force Measurement System for Obstacle-Aided Locomotion, pp. 683-690.

Liljebäck, Pĺl

SINTEF IKT

Pettersen, Kristin Y.

Norwegian Univ. of Science and Tech.

Stavdahl, Řyvind

Norwegian Univ. of Science and Tech. (NTNU)

14:50-15:05

TuD3.3

Sidewinding on Slopes, pp. 691-696.

Hatton, Ross

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Choset, Howie

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

15:05-15:20

TuD3.4

Optimal Shape of a Snake Robot for Jumping, pp. 697-702.

Hoshino, Keiichi

The Univ. of Electro-Communications

Tanaka, Motoyasu

The Univ. of Electro-Communications

Matsuno, Fumitoshi

Kyoto Univ.

15:20-15:35

TuD3.5

Approximations to Continuous Curves of Active Cord Mechanism Made of Arc-Shaped Joints or Double Joints, pp. 703-708. Attachment

Yamada, Hiroya

Tokyo Inst. of Tech.

Hirose, Shigeo

Tokyo Inst. of Tech.

15:35-15:50

TuD3.6

An Adaptive Decentralized Control of a Serpentine Robot Based on the Discrepancy between Body, Brain and Environment, pp. 709-714. Attachment

Sato, Takahide

Tohoku Univ.

Watanabe, Wataru

Tohoku Univ.

Ishiguro, Akio

Tohoku Univ.

 

TuD4

Egan Center Lower Level Room 1

Personal and Service Robots (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Burgard, Wolfram

Univ. of Freiburg

Co-Chair: Bradski, Gary

Stanford Univ. and Willow Garage

14:20-14:35

TuD4.1

Robot, Feed Thyself: Plugging in to Unmodified Electrical Outlets by Sensing Emitted AC Electric Fields, pp. 715-722. Attachment

Mayton, Brian

Univ. of Washington

LeGrand, Louis

Intel Res.

Smith, Joshua R.

Intel

14:35-14:50

TuD4.2

Searching for Objects: Combining Multiple Cues to Object Locations Using a Maximum Entropy Model, pp. 723-728. Attachment

Joho, Dominik

Univ. of Freiburg

Burgard, Wolfram

Univ. of Freiburg

14:50-15:05

TuD4.3

Autonomous Door Opening and Plugging in with a Personal Robot, pp. 729-736. Attachment

Meeussen, Wim

Willow Garage inc.

Wise, Melonee

Willow Garage

Glaser, Stuart

Washington Univ. in St. Louis

Chitta, Sachin

Willow Garage Inc.

McGann, Conor

Willow Garage

Mihelich, Patrick

Willow Garage

Marder-Eppstein, Eitan

Willow Garage

Muja, Marius Constantin

Univ. of British Columbia

Eruhimov, Victor

Itseez Corp.

Foote, Tully

Willow Garage Inc.

Hsu, John

Willow Garage

Rusu, Radu Bogdan

Willow Garage, Inc

Marthi, Bhaskara

Willow Garage

Bradski, Gary

Stanford Univ. and Willow Garage

Konolige, Kurt

Willow Garage

Gerkey, Brian

Willow Garage

Berger, Eric

Willow Garage

15:05-15:20

TuD4.4

Intelligent Ambience That Can Lead Robot's Actions -System Design Concept and Experimental Evaluation of Intelligent Ambience, pp. 737-744. Attachment

Sakaguchi, Takeshi

AIST

Yokoi, Kazuhito

National Inst. of AIST

Wada, Kazuyoshi

Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.

15:20-15:35

TuD4.5

Learning Novel Objects Using Out-Of-Vocabulary Word Segmentation and Object Extraction for Home Assistant Robots, pp. 745-750.

Attamimi, Muhammad

The Univ. of Electro-Communications

Mizutani, Akira

The Univ. of Electro-Communicatuins

Nakamura, Tomoaki

Univ. of Electro-Communications

Sugiura, Komei

National Inst. of Information and Communications Tech.

Nagai, Takayuki

Univ. of Electro-Communications

Iwahashi, Naoto

National Inst. ofInformationandCommunicationsTechnology

Okada, Hiroyuki

Tamagawa Univ.

Omori, Takashi

Tamagawa Univ.

15:35-15:50

TuD4.6

Autonomous Operation of Novel Elevators for Robot Navigation, pp. 751-758. Attachment

Klingbeil, Ellen

Stanford Univ.

Carpenter, Blake

Stanford Univ.

Russakovsky, Olga

Stanford Univ.

Ng, Andrew

Stanford Univ.

 

TuD5

Egan Center Lower Level Room 13/14

Grasping Mechanisms (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Desai, Jaydev P.

Univ. of Maryland

Co-Chair: Melchiorri, Claudio

Univ. of Bologna

14:20-14:35

TuD5.1

Tailoring the Viscoelastic Properties of Soft Pads for Robotic Limbs through Purposely Designed Fluid Filled Structures, pp. 759-764.

Berselli, Giovanni

Univ. di Bologna

Vassura, Gabriele

Univ. of Bologna

Piccinini, Marco

Univ. of Bologna

14:35-14:50

TuD5.2

Design, Fabrication, and Implementation of Self-Sealing Suction Cup Arrays for Grasping, pp. 765-770. Attachment

Kessens, Chad C.

Univ. of Maryland

Desai, Jaydev P.

Univ. of Maryland

14:50-15:05

TuD5.3

Port-Hamiltonian Analysis of a Novel Robotic Finger Concept for Minimal Actuation Variable Impedance Grasping, pp. 771-776.

Wassink, Martin

Univ. of Twente

Carloni, Raffaella

Univ. of Twente

Stramigioli, Stefano

Univ. of Twente

15:05-15:20

TuD5.4

Development of Intelligent Robot Hand Using Proximity, Contact and Slip Sensing, pp. 777-784.

Hasegawa, Hiroaki

the Univ. of Electro-Communications

Mizoguchi, Yoshitomo

Univ. of Electro-Communications

Tadakuma, Kenjiro

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Ming, Aiguo

The Univ. of Electro-Communications

Ishikawa, Masatoshi

Univ. of Tokyo

Shimojo, Makoto

Univ. of Electro-COmmunications

15:20-15:35

TuD5.5

Weighted Barrier Functions for Computation of Force Distributions with Friction Cone Constraints, pp. 785-792.

Borgstrom, Per Henrik

UCLA

Batalin, Maxim

ITA and WHI, UCLA

Sukhatme, Gaurav

Univ. of Southern California

Kaiser, William

UCLA

15:35-15:50

TuD5.6

Design of Tendon-Driven Robotic Fingers: Modeling and Control Issues, pp. 793-798.

Borghesan, Gianni

Univ. of Bologna

Palli, Gianluca

Univ. of Bologna

Melchiorri, Claudio

Univ. of Bologna

 

TuD6

Egan Center Lower Level Room 2

Compliant Control and Robot Safety (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Kawamura, Sadao

Ritsumeikan Univ.

Co-Chair: Hirche, Sandra

Tech. Univ. München

14:20-14:35

TuD6.1

Analysis of Torque Capacities in Hybrid Actuation for Human-Friendly Robot Design, pp. 799-804.

Shin, Dongjun

Stanford Univ.

Seitz, Fabian

ETH Zürich

Khatib, Oussama

Stanford Univ.

Cutkosky, Mark

Stanford Univ.

14:35-14:50

TuD6.2

Design of Redundant Drive Joints with Double Actuation Using Springs in the Second Actuator to Avoid Excessive Active Torques, pp. 805-812.

Nagai, Kiyoshi

Ritsumeikan Univ.

Dake, Yuichiro

Ritsumeikan Univ.

Shiigi, Yasuto

Ritsumeikan Univ.

Loureiro, Rui C. V.

The Univ. of Reading

Harwin, William

Univ. of Reading

14:50-15:05

TuD6.3

Safe Joint Mechanism Using Inclined Link with Springs for Collision Safety and Positioning Accuracy of a Robot Arm, pp. 813-818. Attachment

Park, Jung-Jun

Korea Univ.

Song, Jae-Bok

Korea Univ.

15:05-15:20

TuD6.4

A Control Strategy for Operating Unknown Constrained Mechanisms, pp. 819-824.

Lutscher, Ewald

Tech. Univ. München

Lawitzky, Martin

Inst. of Automtic Control Engineering, Tech. Univ.

Cheng, Gordon

Tech. Univ. Munich

Hirche, Sandra

Tech. Univ. München

15:20-15:35

TuD6.5

Resonance-Based Task Space Controller for Multi-Joint Robot with Adjustable Equilibrium Angle of Elastic Element, pp. 825-830.

Uemura, Mitsunori

Ritsumeikan Univ.

Kawamura, Sadao

Ritsumeikan Univ.

15:35-15:50

TuD6.6

An Electric Field Pretouch System for Grasping and Co-Manipulation, pp. 831-838. Attachment

Mayton, Brian

Univ. of Washington

LeGrand, Louis

Intel Res.

Smith, Joshua R.

Intel

 

TuD7

Egan Center Lower Level Room 11/12

Behavior Learning (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Peters, Jan

Max-Planck Inst. for Bio. Cybernetics

Co-Chair: Lee, Daniel D.

Univ. of Pennsylvania

14:20-14:35

TuD7.1

A Probabilistic Approach to Mixed Open-Loop and Closed-Loop Control, with Application to Extreme Autonomous Driving, pp. 839-845. Attachment

Kolter, J. Zico

Stanford Univ.

Plagemann, Christian

Stanford Univ.

Jackson, David T.

Stanford

Ng, Andrew

Stanford Univ.

Thrun, Sebastian

Stanford Univ.

14:35-14:50

TuD7.2

Learning and Planning High-Dimensional Trajectories Via Structured Lagrangians, pp. 846-852. Attachment

Vernaza, Paul

Univ. of Pennsylvania

Yi, Seung Joon

Univ. OF PENNSYLVANIA

Lee, Daniel D.

Univ. of Pennsylvania

14:50-15:05

TuD7.3

Movement Templates for Learning of Hitting and Batting, pp. 853-858. Attachment

Kober, Jens

Max-Planck Inst. for Biological Cybernetics

Muelling, Katharina

Max Planck Inst. for Biological Cybernetics

Kroemer, Oliver

Max-Planck Inst. for Biological Cybernetics

Lampert, Christoph H.

Max-Planck Inst. for Biological Cybernetics

Schoelkopf, Bernhard

Max Planck Inst. for Biological Cybernetics

Peters, Jan

Max-Planck Inst. for Bio. Cybernetics

15:05-15:20

TuD7.4

Machine-Learning Based Control of a Human-Like Tendon-Driven Neck, pp. 859-865.

Jamone, Lorenzo

Univ. OF GENOA

Fumagalli, Matteo

Univ. OF GENOA

Natale, Lorenzo

Istutito Italiano di Tecnologia

Nori, Francesco

Italian Inst. of Tech.

Metta, Giorgio

Univ. of Genoa

Sandini, Giulio

Italian Inst. of Tech.

15:20-15:35

TuD7.5

Behavior Recognition for Learning from Demonstration, pp. 866-872.

Billing, Erik Alexander

Umeĺ Univ.

Hellström, Thomas

Umeĺ Univ.

Janlert, Lars-Erik

Umeĺ Univ.

15:35-15:50

TuD7.6

Learning of Probabilistic Grasping Strategies Using Programming by Demonstration, pp. 873-880.

Jäkel, Rainer

Univ. of Karlsruhe

Schmidt-Rohr, Sven R.

Univ. of Karlsruhe

Xue, Zhixing

FZI

Lösch, Martin

Univ. Karlsruhe (TH)

Dillmann, Rüdiger

Univ. of Karlsruhe

 

TuD8

Egan Center Street Level Room Cook Hall

Sensing and Perception for Autonomous Navigation (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Daniilidis, Kostas

Univ. of Pennsylvania

Co-Chair: Mulligan, Jane

Univ. of Colorado at Boulder

14:20-14:35

TuD8.1

Global Rover Localization by Matching Lidar and Orbital 3D Maps, pp. 881-886.

Carle, Patrick

Univ. of Toronto

Barfoot, Timothy

Univ. of Toronto

14:35-14:50

TuD8.2

An Integrated Probabilistic Model for Scan-Matching, Moving Object Detection and Motion Estimation, pp. 887-894.

van de Ven, Joop

Univ. of Sydney

Ramos, Fabio

Univ. of Sydney

Tipaldi, Gian Diego

Univ. of Freiburg

14:50-15:05

TuD8.3

A Segmentation Guided Label Propagation Scheme for Autonomous Navigation, pp. 895-902.

Ghosh, Soumya

Brown Univ.

Mulligan, Jane

Univ. of Colorado at Boulder

15:05-15:20

TuD8.4

A Real-Time Pedestrian Detection System Based on Structure and Appearance Classification, pp. 903-909.

Bansal, Mayank

Sarnoff Corp.

Jung, Sang-Hack

Sarnoff Corp.

Matei, Bogdan

Sarnoff Corp.

Eledath, Jayan

Sarnoff Corp.

Sawhney, Harpreet

Sarnoff Corp.

15:20-15:35

TuD8.5

Homography-Based Ground Plane Detection for Mobile Robot Navigation Using a Modified EM Algorithm, pp. 910-915.

Conrad, Daniel

Univ. of Missouri, Columbia

DeSouza, Guilherme

Univ. of Missouri-Columbia

15:35-15:50

TuD8.6

A Mobile Robotic Platform Exploiting the Navigational Capabilities of the Carassius Auratus Using a Natural Interface, pp. 916-921.

Accoto, Dino

Univ. Campus Bio-Medico

Lucibello, Luca

Univ. Campus Bio-medico di Roma

Campolo, Domenico

Nanyang Tech. Univ.

Guglielmelli, Eugenio

Univ. Campus Bio-Medico

 

TuD9

Egan Center Lower Level Room 3

Path Planning for Multi-Agent Systems (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Vaughan, Richard

Simon Fraser Univ.

Co-Chair: Jadbabaie, Ali

Univ. of Pennsylvania

14:20-14:35

TuD9.1

Constraint-Based Multi-Robot Path Planning, pp. 922-928.

Ryan, Malcolm

Univ. of New South Wales

14:35-14:50

TuD9.2

DisCoverage: A New Paradigm for Multi-Robot Exploration, pp. 929-934.

Haumann, A. Dominik

Tech. Univ. Darmstadt

Listmann, Kim Daniel

Tech. Univ. Darmstadt

Willert, Volker

Tech. Univ. of Darmstadt

14:50-15:05

TuD9.3

A Duality Approach to Path Planning for Multiple Robots, pp. 935-940.

Motee, Nader

Caltech

Jadbabaie, Ali

Univ. of Pennsylvania

Pappas, George J.

Univ. of Pennsylvania

15:05-15:20

TuD9.4

Solving the Continuous Time Multiagent Patrol Problem, pp. 941-946.

Marier, Jean-Samuel

Laval Univ.

Besse, Camille

Univ. Laval

Chaib-draa, Brahim

Laval Univ.

15:20-15:35

TuD9.5

Blinkered LOST: Restricting Sensor Field of View Can Improve Scalability in Emergent Multi-Robot Trail Following, pp. 947-952.

Sadat, Abbas

Simon Fraser Univ.

Vaughan, Richard

Simon Fraser Univ.

15:35-15:50

TuD9.6

Multi-Agent Path Planning with Multiple Tasks and Distance Constraints, pp. 953-959.

Bhattacharya, Subhrajit

Univ. of Pennsylvania

Likhachev, Maxim

Univ. of Pennsylvania

Kumar, Vijay

Univ. of Pennsylvania

 

TuD10

Egan Center Lower Level Room 9/10

Motion Planning in Dynamic Environments (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Fox, Dieter

Univ. of Washington

Co-Chair: Stilwell, Daniel

Virginia Tech.

14:20-14:35

TuD10.1

Control and Planning for Vehicles with Uncertainty in Dynamics, pp. 960-965. Attachment

Mellinger, Daniel

Univ. of Pennsylvania

Kumar, Vijay

Univ. of Pennsylvania

14:35-14:50

TuD10.2

Robotic Motion Planning in Dynamic, Cluttered, Uncertain Environments, pp. 966-973.

Du Toit, Noel E.

Caltech

Burdick, Joel

California Inst. of Tech.

14:50-15:05

TuD10.3

A Receding Horizon Controller for Motion Planning in the Presence of Moving Obstacles, pp. 974-980.

Stilwell, Daniel

Virginia Tech.

Xu, Bin

Virginia Tech.

Kurdila, Andrew

Virginia Tech.

15:05-15:20

TuD10.4

Learning to Navigate through Crowded Environments, pp. 981-986. Attachment

Henry, Peter

Univ. of Washington

Vollmer, Christian

Ilmenau Univ. of Tech.

Ferris, Brian

Univ. of Washington

Fox, Dieter

Univ. of Washington

15:20-15:35

TuD10.5

Optimal Trajectory Generation for Dynamic Street Scenarios in a Frenét Frame, pp. 987-993.

Werling, Moritz

Karlsruhe Inst. of Tech.

Ziegler, Julius

Univ. of Karlsruhe

Kammel, Sören

Bosch LLC

Thrun, Sebastian

Stanford Univ.

15:35-15:50

TuD10.6

A Dynamic Subgoal Path Planner for Unpredictable Environments, pp. 994-1001.

Liu, Hong

Peking Univ.

Wan, Weiwei

Peking Univ.

Zha, Hongbin

Peking Univ.

 

TuD11

Egan Center Lower Level Room 5

Image Matching and Registration (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Lee, Sukhan

Sungkyunkwan Univ.

Co-Chair: Scaramuzza, Davide

ETH Zurich

14:20-14:35

TuD11.1

Registration of 3D Facial Surfaces Using Covariance Matrix Pyramids, pp. 1002-1007.

Kaiser, Moritz

Tech. Univ. München

Kwolek, Bogdan

Rzeszow Univ. of Tech.

Staub, Christoph

TUM

Rigoll, Gerhard

Tech. Univ. München

14:35-14:50

TuD11.2

Improved Appearance-Based Matching in Similar and Dynamic Environments Using a Vocabulary Tree, pp. 1008-1013.

Sabatta, Deon George

CSIR

Scaramuzza, Davide

ETH Zurich

Siegwart, Roland

ETH Zurich

14:50-15:05

TuD11.3

A Novel Line Matching Method Based on Intersection Context, pp. 1014-1021.

Kim, Hyunwoo

Korean German Inst. of Tech.

Lee, Sukhan

Sungkyunkwan Univ.

15:05-15:20

TuD11.4

Physical Road Marker Property Estimation Using Monoscopic Vision, pp. 1022-1027.

Gumpp, Thomas

FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik

Nienhüser, Dennis

FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik

Zöllner, Johann Marius

FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik

15:20-15:35

TuD11.5

Feature Detection and Matching in Images with Radial Distortion, pp. 1028-1034.

Lourenço, Miguel

Univ. of Coimbra

Barreto, Joăo P.

Univ. of Coimbra

Malti, Abed

Inst. of Systems and Robotics-Univ. of Coimbra

15:35-15:50

TuD11.6

Minimum-Error Active Matching for Real-Time Vision, pp. 1035-1040.

Liu, Zhibin

Tsinghua Univ.

Shi, Zongying

Tsinghua Univ.

Xu, Wenli

Tsinghua Univ.

 

TuD12

Egan Center Lower Level Room 4

Surgical Robot Design (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Dupont, Pierre

Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Co-Chair: Webster III, Robert James

Vanderbilt Univ.

14:20-14:35

TuD12.1

Outer Shell Type 2 DOF Bending Manipulator Using Spring-Link Mechanism for Medical Applications, pp. 1041-1046. Attachment

Arata, Jumpei

Nagoya Insititute of Tech.

Saito, Yoshitaka

Nagoya Inst. of Tech.

Fujimoto, Hideo

Nagoya Inst. of Tech.

14:35-14:50

TuD12.2

A Model for Concentric Tube Continuum Robots under Applied Wrenches, pp. 1047-1052.

Rucker, Caleb

Vanderbilt Univ.

Jones, Bryan

Mississippi State Univ.

Webster III, Robert James

Vanderbilt Univ.

14:50-15:05

TuD12.3

Design, Simulation and Evaluation of Kinematic Alternatives for Insertable Robotic Effectors Platforms in Single Port Access Surgery, pp. 1053-1058. Attachment

Ding, Jienan

Columbia Univ.

Xu, Kai

Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.

Goldman, Roger E.

Columbia Univ.

Allen, Peter

Columbia Univ.

Fowler, Dennis

Columbia Univ.

Simaan, Nabil

Columbia Univ.

15:05-15:20

TuD12.4

Design and Control of Motion Compensation Cardiac Catheters, pp. 1059-1065.

Kesner, Samuel B.

Harvard Univ.

Howe, Robert D.

Harvard Univ.

15:20-15:35

TuD12.5

Development and Preliminary Evaluation of an Actuated MRI-Compatible Robotic Device for MRI-Guided Prostate Intervention, pp. 1066-1073.

Krieger, Axel

JHU

Iordachita, Iulian

Johns Hopkins Univ.

Song, Sang-Eun

The Johns Hopkins Univ.

Cho, Nathan Bongjoon

Johns Hopkins Univ.

Guion, Peter

National Inst. of Health

Fichtinger, Gabor

Queen's Univ.

Whitcomb, Louis

The Johns Hopkins Univ.

15:35-15:50

TuD12.6

Control of Cable Actuated Devices Using Smooth Backlash Inverse, pp. 1074-1079.

Agrawal, Varun

Purdue Univ.

Peine, William

Purdue Univ.

Yao, Bin

Purdue Univ.

Choi, SeungWook

REBO

 

TuD13

Egan Center Lower Level Room 7/8

Video Session: Novel Robotic Systems (Video Sessions)

Chair: Thompson, David

Jet Propulsion Lab. California Inst. of Tech.

Co-Chair: Kratochvil, Bradley

ETH Zurich

14:20-14:25

TuD13.1

OctoMag: An Electromagnetic System for 5-DOF Wireless Manipulation, pp. 1080-1081. Attachment

Kratochvil, Bradley

ETH Zurich

Kummer, Michael

ETH Zurich

Abbott, Jake

Univ. of Utah

Borer, Ruedi

ETH Zurich

Ergeneman, Olgaç

ETH Zurich

Nelson, Bradley J.

ETH Zurich

14:25-14:30

TuD13.2

Automated Micorassembly of Tissue Engineering Scaffold, pp. 1082-1083. Attachment

Zhao, Guoyong

National Univ. of Singapore

Teo, Chee Leong

National Univ. of Singapore

Hutmache, Dietmar Werner

Queensland Univ. of Tech.

Burdet, Etienne

imperial Coll. london

14:30-14:35

TuD13.3

From Compliant Balancing to Dynamic Walking on Humanoid Robot: Integration of CNS and CPG, pp. 1084-1085. Attachment

Hyon, Sang-Ho

ATR/NICT

Morimoto, Jun

ATR Computational Neuroscience Lab.

Kawato, Mitsuo

Press

14:35-14:40

TuD13.4

An Automatic and Complete Self-Calibration Method for Robotic Guided Laser Ablation, pp. 1086-1087. Attachment

Mönnich, Holger

Univ. of Karlsruhe

Stein, Daniel

Univ. of Karlsruhe

Raczkowsky, Joerg

Univ. of Karlsruhe (TH)

Woern, Heinz

Univ. Karlsruhe

14:40-14:45

TuD13.5

A Multi-Vehicle Testbed for Multi-Modal, Decentralized Sensing of the Environment, pp. 1088-1089. Attachment

Cortez, Andres

Univ. of New Mexico

Luna, Jose-Marcio

The Univ. of New Mexico

Fierro, Rafael

Univ. of New Mexico

Wood, John

Univ. of New Mexico

14:45-14:50

TuD13.6

Demonstration of a Prototype for Robot Assisted Endoscopic Sinus Surgery, pp. 1090-1091. Attachment

Rilk, Markus

Tech. Univ. Braunschweig

Kubus, Daniel

Tech. Univ. of Braunschweig

Wahl, Friedrich M.

Tech. Univ. of Braunschweig

Eichhorn, Klaus W.G.

Univ. of Bonn

Wagner, Ingo

Univ. of Bonn

Bootz, Friedrich

Univ. of Bonn

14:50-14:55

TuD13.7

High-Fidelity Telepresence and Teleaction, pp. 1092-1093. Attachment

Bauernschmitt, Robert

German Heart Center Munich

Buss, Martin

Tech. Univ. München

Deml, Barbara

Univ. der Bundeswehr München

Diepold, Klaus

Tech. Univ. München

Färber, Berthold

Univ. der Bundeswehr München

Faerber, Georg

TU Munchen

Hagn, Ulrich

DLR German Aerospace Center

Hirzinger, Gerd

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Hirche, Sandra

Tech. Univ. München

Knoll, Alois

TU Munich

Müller, Hermann

Ludwigs-Maximilians-Univ. München

Ortmaier, Tobias

Leibniz Univ. Hanover

Peer, Angelika

Tech. Univ. München

Popp, Michael

Faculty  Aerospace Tech. Univ. der Bundeswehr

Preusche, Carsten

DLR

Reinhart, Gunter

Tech. Univ. München

Shi, Zhuanghua

Ludwigs-Maximilians-Univ. München

Steinbach, Eckehard

Munich Univ. of Tech.

Ulbrich, Heinz

Tech. Univ. Muenchen

Walter, Ulrich

Tech. Univ. Munich

Zäh, Michael Friedrich

Tech. Univ. München

14:55-15:00

TuD13.8

Demonstration of Quadrupedal Locomotion Over Rough Terrain Using the LittleDog Robot, pp. 1094-1095. Attachment

Neuhaus, Peter

Inst. for Human and Machine Cognition

Pratt, Jerry

Inst. for Human and Machine Cognition

Johnson, Matthew

Inst. for Human & Machine Cognition

15:00-15:05

TuD13.9

RANGE - Robust Autonomous Navigation in GPS-Denied Environments, pp. 1096-1097. Attachment

Bachrach, Abraham

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

de Winter, Anton

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

He, Ruijie

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Hemann, Garrett

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Prentice, Samuel

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Roy, Nicholas

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

15:05-15:10

TuD13.10

Autonomous Re-Alignment of Multiple Table Robots, pp. 1098-1099. Attachment

Sawada, Yukiko

Univ. of Tsukuba

Tsubouchi, Takashi

Sys. and Info. Eng., U of Tsukuba

15:10-15:15

TuD13.11

Minimalistic, Dynamic, Tube Climbing Robot, pp. 1100-1101. Attachment

Degani, Amir

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Feng, Siyuan

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Choset, Howie

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Mason, Matthew T.

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

15:15-15:20

TuD13.12

Reporting on a Large Ocean Inlet Crossing Live Transmission Line Inspection Performed by LineScout Technology, pp. 1102-1103. Attachment

Montambault, Serge

Hydro-Québec Res. Inst.

Pouliot, Nicolas

Hydro-Québec Res. Inst.

Toth, Janos

British Columbia Transmission Corp.

Spalteholz, Bernhard

BC Hydro

15:20-15:25

TuD13.13

Integration of Aerial Robots and Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks. the AWARE Project, pp. 1104-1105. Attachment

Ollero, Anibal

Univ. of Seville

Maza, Ivan

Univ. of Seville

Caballero, Fernando

Univ. of Seville

Martínez-de Dios, J.R.

Univ. of Seville

15:25-15:30

TuD13.14

EXOSTATION: Haptic Exoskeleton Based Control Station, pp. 1106-1107. Attachment

Letier, Pierre

ULB

Motard, Elvina

Space Applications Services

Verschueren, Jean-Philippe

Micromega Dynamics

15:30-15:35

TuD13.15

Novel Locomotion of Imobot, an Intelligent Reconfigurable Mobile Robot, pp. 1108-1109. Attachment

Ryland, Graham

Univ. of Californial, Davis

Cheng, Harry

Univ. of California, Davis

15:35-15:40

TuD13.16

Science on the Fly: Enabling Science Autonomy During Robotic Traverse, pp. 1110-1111. Attachment

Wettergreen, David

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Thompson, David

Jet Propulsion Lab. California Inst. of Tech.

15:40-15:45

TuD13.17

MagMites - Microrobots for Wireless Microhandling in Dry and Wet Environments, pp. 1112-1113. Attachment

Frutiger, Dominic R.

ETH Zurich

Kratochvil, Bradley

ETH Zurich

Nelson, Bradley J.

ETH Zurich

15:45-15:50

TuD13.18

Hybrid Aerial and Scansorial Robotics, pp. 1114-1115. Attachment

Lussier Desbiens, Alexis

Stanford Univ.

Asbeck, Alan

Stanford Univ.

Dastoor, Sanjay

Stanford Univ.

Cutkosky, Mark

Stanford Univ.

 

TuE1

Egan Center Street Level Room Arteaga

Aerial Vehicles: Planning and Control (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Michael, Nathan

Univ. of Pennsylvania

Co-Chair: Abbeel, Pieter

Stanford Univ.

16:10-16:25

TuE1.1

A Robust State Estimation Method against GNSS Outage for Unmanned Miniature Helicopters, pp. 1116-1122.

Lau, Tak Kit

The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong

Liu, Yunhui

Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong

Lin, Kai Wun

The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong

16:25-16:40

TuE1.2

Probabilistic Motion Planning of Balloons in Strong, Uncertain Wind Fields, pp. 1123-1129.

Wolf, Michael

Jet Propulsion Lab.

Blackmore, Lars

Jet Propulsion Lab. California Inst. of

Kuwata, Yoshiaki

Jet Propulsion Lab.

Fathpour, Nanaz

Jet Propulsion Lab.

Newman, Claire

California Inst. of Tech.

Elfes, Alberto

Jet Propulsion Lab.

16:40-16:55

TuE1.3

Out-Of-Plane Orbit Estimation and Tracking for Aerial Recovery of Micro Air Vehicles, pp. 1130-1135.

Carlson, Daniel

Brigham Young Univ.

Colton, Mark

Brigham Young Univ.

16:55-17:10

TuE1.4

Circulation of Curves Using Vector Fields: Actual Robot Experiments in 2D and 3D Workspaces, pp. 1136-1141.

Gonçalves, Vinicius Mariano

UFMG

Pimenta, Luciano

Univ. Federal de Minas Gerais

Maia, Carlos Andrey

UFMG

Pereira, Guilherme

Univ. Federal de Minas Gerais

Dutra, Bruno C. O.

Univ. Federal de Minas Gerais

Michael, Nathan

Univ. of Pennsylvania

Fink, Jonathan

Univ. of Pennsylvania

Kumar, Vijay

Univ. of Pennsylvania

17:10-17:25

TuE1.5

Parameterized Maneuver Learning for Autonomous Helicopter Flight, pp. 1142-1148.

Tang, Jie

Univ. of California, Berkeley

Singh, Arjun

Univ. of California, Berkeley

Goehausen, Nimbus

Univ. of California, Berkeley

Abbeel, Pieter

Stanford Univ.

17:25-17:40

TuE1.6

Hovering Control of Vectored Thrust Aerial Vehicles, pp. 1149-1154.

Kumon, Makoto

Graduate School of Science and Tech. Kumamoto

Cover, Hugh

The Univ. of New South Wales

Katupitiya, Jayantha

The Univ. of New South Wales

 

TuE2

Egan Center Lower Level Room 6

Mechanism Design for Manipulators (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Arsenault, Marc

Royal Military Coll. of Canada

Co-Chair: Krovi, Venkat

Univ. at Buffalo (SUNY)

16:10-16:25

TuE2.1

Optimal Technology-Oriented Design of Parallel Robots for High-Speed Machining Applications, pp. 1155-1161.

Briot, Sébastien

IRCCyN

Pashkevich, Anatol

Ec. des Mines de Nantes

Chablat, Damien

IRCCyN

16:25-16:40

TuE2.2

Development of Power Robot Hand with Shape Adaptability Using Hydraulic McKibben Muscles, pp. 1162-1168.

Mori, Mayuko

Okayama Univ.

Suzumori, Koichi

Okayama Univ.

Wakimoto, Shuichi

Okayama Univ.

Kanda, Takefumi

Okayama Univ.

Masayuki, Takahashi

Company

Takashi, Hosoya

Company

Takematu Emi, Takematu Emi

ShinMaywa Industries, Ltd.

16:40-16:55

TuE2.3

Flexible Space Robotic Manipulator with Passively Switching Free Joint to Drive Joint, pp. 1169-1174.

Otsuki, Masatsugu

Inst. of Space and Astronautical Science, JAXA

16:55-17:10

TuE2.4

Torque and Stiffness Workspace Analysis for Flexible Tendon Driven Mechanisms, pp. 1175-1181.

Chalon, Maxime

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Wimboeck, Thomas

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Hirzinger, Gerd

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

17:10-17:25

TuE2.5

Optimization of the Prestress Stable Wrench Closure Workspace of Planar Parallel Three-Degree-Of-Freedom Cable-Driven Mechanisms with Four Cables, pp. 1182-1187.

Arsenault, Marc

Royal Military Coll. of Canada

17:25-17:40

TuE2.6

A Formal Methodology for Avoiding Hyperstaticity When Connecting an Exoskeleton to a Human Member, pp. 1188-1195.

Jarrassé, Nathanaël

Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris6

Morel, Guillaume

Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6

 

TuE3

Egan Center Street Level Room Boardroom

Biomimetic Robots (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Kim, Sangbae

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Co-Chair: Quinn, Roger, D.

Case Western Res. Univ.

16:10-16:25

TuE3.1

Towards a Multi-Segment Ambulatory Microrobot, pp. 1196-1202.

Hoffman, Katie

Harvard Univ.

Wood, Robert

Harvard Univ.

16:25-16:40

TuE3.2

Development of a Low Motion-Noise Humanoid Neck: Statics Analysis and Experimental Validation, pp. 1203-1208.

Gao, Bingtuan

Southeast Univ.

Xi, Ning

Michigan State Univ.

Shen, Yantao

Univ. of Nevada, Reno

Zhao, Jianguo

Michigan State Univ.

Yang, Ruiguo

Michigan State Univ.

16:40-16:55

TuE3.3

Actuated Bivalve Robot Study of the Burrowing Locomotion in Sediment, pp. 1209-1214.

Koller-Hodac, Agathe

Univ. of Applied Sciences Rapperswil

Germann, Daniel Peter

Univ. of Zurich, Switzerlad

Gilgen, Alexander

HSR Hochschule für Tech. Rapperswil

Dietrich, Katja

HSR

Hadorn, Maik

Univ. of Zurich

Schatz, Wolfgang

Univ. of Lucerne

Eggenberger Hotz, Peter

Univ. of Southern Denmark

16:55-17:10

TuE3.4

Spatial Memory and Learning: Towards a Set of Metrics to Evaluate Task Performance in Rats and Robots, pp. 1215-1220.

Weitzenfeld, Alfredo

Univ. of South Florida Pol.

Barrera, Alejandra

ITAM

Ramirez-Amaya, Victor

INB-UNAM

Caceres, Alejandra

UNAM

17:10-17:25

TuE3.5

A New Theory and Methods for Creating Peristaltic Motion in a Robotic Platform, pp. 1221-1227. Attachment

Boxerbaum, Alexander

Case Western Res. Univ.

Chiel, Hillel

Case Western Res. Univ.

Quinn, Roger, D.

Case Western Res. Univ.

17:25-17:40

TuE3.6

Peristaltic Locomotion with Antagonistic Actuators in Soft Robotics, pp. 1228-1233. Attachment

Seok, SangOk

MIT

Onal, Cagdas Denizel

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Wood, Robert

Harvard Univ.

Rus, Daniela

MIT

Kim, Sangbae

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

 

TuE4

Egan Center Lower Level Room 1

Field Robotics (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Sugano, Shigeki

Waseda Univ.

Co-Chair: Martinet, Philippe

Blaise Pascal Univ.

16:10-16:25

TuE4.1

Automated Robotic Grinding of the Control Rod Drive Mechanism J-Groove Weld at PWR Nuclear Power Plants, pp. 1234-1240.

Smoljkic, Gabrijel

Inetec, Inst. for nuclear Tech.

Sinkic, Marko

Inetec, Inst. for nuclear Tech.

Hrvoje, Franjic

Inetec, Inst. for nuclear Tech.

16:25-16:40

TuE4.2

Adaptive Formation Control of a Fleet of Mobile Robots: Application to Autonomous Field Operations, pp. 1241-1246.

Lenain, Roland

Cemagref

Preynat, Johan

Cemagref

Thuilot, Benoit

Clermont-Ferrand Univ.

Avanzini, Pierre

Univ. Blaise Pascal

Martinet, Philippe

Blaise Pascal Univ.

16:40-16:55

TuE4.3

Anytime Online Novelty Detection for Vehicle Safeguarding, pp. 1247-1254.

Sofman, Boris

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Bagnell, James

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Stentz, Anthony

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

16:55-17:10

TuE4.4

Continuous Path Tracing by a Cable-Suspended, Under-Actuated Robot: The Winch-Bot, pp. 1255-1260.

Cunningham, Daniel

MIT

Asada, Harry

MIT

17:10-17:25

TuE4.5

Mathematical Modelling of Container Transfers for a Fleet of Autonomous Straddle Carriers, pp. 1261-1266. Attachment

Yuan, Shuai

Univ. of Tech. Sydney

Skinner, Brad

Unversity of Tech. Sydney

Huang, Shoudong

Univ. of Tech. Sydney

Liu, Dikai

FacultyofEngineering

Dissanayake, Gamini

Univ. of Tech. Sydney

Lau, Haye

Univ. of Tech. Sydney

Pagac, Daniel

Patrick Tech. Systems

Pratley, Tim

Patrick Tech. Systems

17:25-17:40

TuE4.6

A Framework of State Identification for Operational Support Based on Task-Phase and Attentional-Condition Identification, pp. 1267-1272.

Kamezaki, Mitsuhiro

Waseda Univ.

Iwata, Hiroyasu

Waseda Univ.

Sugano, Shigeki

Waseda Univ.

 

TuE5

Egan Center Lower Level Room 13/14

Grasping: Algorithms (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Allen, Peter

Columbia Univ.

Co-Chair: Rimon, Elon

Tech.

16:10-16:25

TuE5.1

Performances of the Central-Axis Approach in Grasp Analysis, pp. 1273-1278.

Bounab, Belkacem

Military Pol. School

Sidobre, Daniel

Univ. of toulouse

Zaatri, Abdelouahab

Univ. Mentouri_Constantine

16:25-16:40

TuE5.2

Efficient Grasping of Novel Objects through Dimensionality Reduction, pp. 1279-1285. Attachment

Balaguer, Benjamin

Univ. of California, Merced

Carpin, Stefano

Univ. of California, Merced

16:40-16:55

TuE5.3

Immobilizing 2D Serial Chains in Form Closure Grasps, pp. 1286-1291.

Rimon, Elon

Tech.

van der Stappen, Frank

Utrecht Univ.

16:55-17:10

TuE5.4

Data-Driven Optimization for Underactuated Robotic Hands, pp. 1292-1299.

Ciocarlie, Matei

Columbia Univ.

Allen, Peter

Columbia Univ.

17:10-17:25

TuE5.5

A Fast N-Dimensional Ray-Shooting Algorithm for Grasping Force Optimization, pp. 1300-1305.

Zheng, Yu

Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Lin, Ming C.

Univ. of North Carolina

Manocha, Dinesh

UNC at Chapel Hill

17:25-17:40

TuE5.6

Object Modeling Using a ToF Camera under an Uncertainty Reduction Approach, pp. 1306-1312.

Foix, Sergi

CSIC-UPC

Alenyŕ, Guillem

CSIC-UPC

Andrade-Cetto, Juan

CSIC-UPC

Torras, Carme

CSIC - UPC

 

TuE6

Egan Center Lower Level Room 2

Haptic Controls (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Kuchenbecker, Katherine J.

Univ. of Pennsylvania

Co-Chair: Cavusoglu, M. Cenk

Case Western Res. Univ.

16:10-16:25

TuE6.1

Time Domain Passivity Control for Multi-Degree of Freedom Haptic Systems with Time Delay, pp. 1313-1319.

Hertkorn, Katharina

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Hulin, Thomas

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Kremer, Philipp

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Preusche, Carsten

DLR

Hirzinger, Gerd

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

16:25-16:40

TuE6.2

Multi-Dimensional Passive Sampled Port-Hamiltonian Systems, pp. 1320-1326.

Franken, Michel

Univ. of Twente

Reilink, Rob

Univ. of Twente

Misra, Sarthak

Univ. of Twente

Stramigioli, Stefano

Univ. of Twente

16:40-16:55

TuE6.3

A Digital Input Shaper for Stable and Transparent Haptic Interaction, pp. 1327-1332.

Lim, Yo-An

Gwangju Inst. of Science and Tech.

Ryu, Jeha

Gwangju Inst. Science & Tech.

16:55-17:10

TuE6.4

Peer-To-Peer Control Architecture for Multiuser Haptic Collaboration Over Undirected Delayed Packet-Switching Network, pp. 1333-1338.

Lee, Dongjun

Univ. of Tennessee-Knoxville

Huang, Ke

Univ. of Tennessee

17:10-17:25

TuE6.5

Three-Dimensional Human Arm and Hand Dynamics and Variability Model for a Stylus-Based Haptic Interface, pp. 1339-1346.

Fu, Michael J.

Case Western Res. Univ.

Cavusoglu, M. Cenk

Case Western Res. Univ.

17:25-17:40

TuE6.6

Control of a High Fidelity Ungrounded Torque Feedback Device: The Itorqu 2.1, pp. 1347-1352.

Winfree, Kyle

Univ. of Delaware

Romano, Joseph M.

Univ. of Pennsylvania

Gewirtz, Jamie

Univ. of Pennsylvania

Kuchenbecker, Katherine J.

Univ. of Pennsylvania

 

TuE7

Egan Center Lower Level Room 11/12

Feature Matching for SLAM (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Holz, Dirk

Univ. of Bonn

Co-Chair: Park, Sung-Kee

Korea Inst. of Science and Tech.

16:10-16:25

TuE7.1

High Quality Pose Estimation by Aligning Multiple Scans to a Latent Map, pp. 1353-1360.

Huang, Qi-Xing

Stanford Univ.

Anguelov, Dragomir

Google

16:25-16:40

TuE7.2

Spectral Scan Matching and Its Application to Global Localization for Mobile Robots, pp. 1361-1366.

Park, Soonyong

Korea Inst. of Science and Tech.

Park, Sung-Kee

Korea Inst. of Science and Tech.

16:40-16:55

TuE7.3

A Generalization of the Metric-Based Iterative Closest Point Technique for 3D Scan Matching, pp. 1367-1372.

Armesto, Leopoldo

Tech. Univ. of valencia

Minguez, Javier

Univ. of Zaragoza

Montesano, Luis

Univ. de Zaragoza

16:55-17:10

TuE7.4

Linearization of Rotations for Globally Consistent N-Scan Matching, pp. 1373-1379. Attachment

Nuechter, Andreas

Jacobs Univ. Bremen gGmbH

Elseberg, Jan

Jacobs Univ. Bremen

Schneider, Peter

Univ. of Koblenz-Landau

Paulus, Dietrich

Univ. Koblenz-Landau

17:10-17:25

TuE7.5

Sancta Simplicitas - on the Efficiency and Achievable Results of SLAM Using ICP-Based Incremental Registration, pp. 1380-1387.

Holz, Dirk

Univ. of Bonn

Behnke, Sven

Univ. of Bonn

17:25-17:40

TuE7.6

Extracting General-Purpose Features from LIDAR Data, pp. 1388-1393.

Li, Yangming

Univ. of Michigan

Olson, Edwin

Univ. of Michigan

 

TuE8

Egan Center Street Level Room Cook Hall

Place Recognition and Localization (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Burgard, Wolfram

Univ. of Freiburg

Co-Chair: Lyons, Damian

Fordham Univ.

16:10-16:25

TuE8.1

Visual Landmark Generation and Redetection with a Single Feature Per Frame, pp. 1394-1399.

Frintrop, Simone

Univ. of Bonn

Cremers, Armin

Univ. of Bonn

16:25-16:40

TuE8.2

Robust Place Recognition for 3D Range Data Based on Point Features, pp. 1400-1405.

Steder, Bastian

Univ. of Freiburg

Grisetti, Giorgio

Unviersität Freiburg

Burgard, Wolfram

Univ. of Freiburg

16:40-16:55

TuE8.3

Indoor Scene Recognition through Object Detection, pp. 1406-1413.

Espinace, Pablo

Pontificia Univ. Catolica de Chile

Kollar, Thomas

MIT

Soto, Alvaro

Pontificia Univ. Catolica de Chile

Roy, Nicholas

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

16:55-17:10

TuE8.4

Detection and Filtering of Landmark Occlusions Using Terrain Spatiograms, pp. 1414-1419.

Lyons, Damian

Fordham Univ.

17:10-17:25

TuE8.5

Geo-Referencing for UAV Navigation Using Environmental Classification, pp. 1420-1425.

Lindsten, Fredrik

Linköping Univ.

Callmer, Jonas

Linköping Univ.

Ohlsson, Henrik

Linköping Univ.

Törnqvist, David

Linköping Univ.

Schön, Thomas

Linköping Univ.

Gustafsson, Fredrik

Linköping Univ.

17:25-17:40

TuE8.6

A Saliency-Based Approach to Boost Trail Detection, pp. 1426-1431.

Santana, Pedro

Univ. of Lisbon

Alves, Nelson

Univ. Nova de Lisboa

Correia, Luís

Univ. of Lisbon

Barata, Jose

Univ. Nova de Lisboa

 

TuE9

Egan Center Lower Level Room 3

Task Allocation, Coordination and Control in Distributed Robot Systems (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Martinoli, Alcherio

EPFL

Co-Chair: Parker, Lynne

Univ. of Tennessee

16:10-16:25

TuE9.1

A Fast and Frugal Method for Team-Task Allocation in a Multi-Robot Transportation System, pp. 1432-1437.

Wawerla, Jens

Simon Fraser Univ.

Vaughan, Richard

Simon Fraser Univ.

16:25-16:40

TuE9.2

Comparing and Modeling Distributed Control Strategies for Miniature Self-Assembling Robots, pp. 1438-1445. Attachment

Evans, William C.

Ec. Pol. Fédérale de Lausanne

Mermoud, Gregory

EPFL

Martinoli, Alcherio

EPFL

16:40-16:55

TuE9.3

Multirobot Coordination by Auctioning POMDPs, pp. 1446-1451.

Spaan, Matthijs

Inst. Superior Técnico - Inst. for Systems and Robotics

Goncalves, Nelson

Inst. Superior Técnico - Inst. for Systems and Robotics

Sequeira, Joao

Inst. Superior Técnico - Inst. for Systems andRobotics

16:55-17:10

TuE9.4

A General Information Quality Based Approach for Satisfying Sensor Constraints in Multirobot Tasks, pp. 1452-1459.

Zhang, Yu (Tony)

Univ. of Tennessee

Parker, Lynne

Univ. of Tennessee

17:10-17:25

TuE9.5

Dynamic Vehicle Routing with Stochastic Time Constraints, pp. 1460-1467.

Pavone, Marco

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Frazzoli, Emilio

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

17:25-17:40

TuE9.6

Cooperative Control Synthesis for Moving-Target-Enclosing with Changing Topologies, pp. 1468-1473.

Guo, Jing

Zhejiang Univ.

Yan, Gangfeng

Zhejiang Univ.

Lin, Zhiyun

Zhejiang Univ.

 

TuE10

Egan Center Lower Level Room 9/10

Motion Planning, Scheduling and Coordination (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Zhang, Jianwei

Univ. of Hamburg

Co-Chair: Beetz, Michael

Tech. Univ. München

16:10-16:25

TuE10.1

On the Transparency of Automata As Discrete-Event Control Specifications, pp. 1474-1479.

Pham, Manh Tung

Nanyang Tech. Univ.

Dhananjayan, Amrith

Nanyang Tech. Univ.

Seow, Kiam Tian

Nanyang Tech. Univ.

16:25-16:40

TuE10.2

A Door Opening Method by Modular Re-Configurable Robot with Joints Working on Passive and Active Modes, pp. 1480-1485.

Ahmad, Saleh

Ryerson Univ.

Liu, Guangjun

Ryerson Univ.

16:40-16:55

TuE10.3

Understanding and Executing Instructions for Everyday Manipulation Tasks from the World Wide Web, pp. 1486-1491.

Tenorth, Moritz

TU München

Nyga, Daniel

Tech. Univ. München

Beetz, Michael

Tech. Univ. München

16:55-17:10

TuE10.4

Probabilistic Collision State Checker for Crowded Environments, pp. 1492-1498.

Althoff, Daniel

Tech. Univ. München

Althoff, Matthias

Tech. Univ. München

Wollherr, Dirk

Tech. Univ. München

Buss, Martin

Tech. Univ. München

17:10-17:25

TuE10.5

Priming Transformational Planning with Observations of Human Activities, pp. 1499-1504.

Tenorth, Moritz

TU München

Beetz, Michael

Tech. Univ. München

17:25-17:40

TuE10.6

HTN Robot Planning in Partially Observable Dynamic Environments, pp. 1505-1510.

Weser, Martin

Univ. of Hamburg

Off, Dominik

Univ. of Hamburg

Zhang, Jianwei

Univ. of Hamburg

 

TuE11

Egan Center Lower Level Room 5

Image Processing, Estimation and Calibration (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Chaumette, Francois

INRIA Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique

Co-Chair: Tsuji, Toshiaki

Saitama Univ.

16:10-16:25

TuE11.1

Motion Estimation Using Physical Simulation, pp. 1511-1517.

Duff, Damien Jade

Univ. of Birmingham

Wyatt, Jeremy

Univ. of Birmingham

Stolkin, Rustam

Univ. of Birmingham

16:25-16:40

TuE11.2

Camera Parameters Auto-Adjusting Technique for Robust Robot Vision, pp. 1518-1523.

Lu, Huimin

National Univ. of Defense Tech.

Zhang, Hui

National Univ. of Defense Tech.

Yang, Shaowu

National Univ. of Defense Tech.

Zheng, Zhiqiang

National Univ. of Defense Tech.

16:40-16:55

TuE11.3

A New Sensor Self-Calibration Framework from Velocity Measurements, pp. 1524-1529.

Kermorgant, Olivier

IRISA/INRIA Rennes Bretagne Atlantique

Folio, David

IRISA

Chaumette, Francois

INRIA Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique

16:55-17:10

TuE11.4

Stacked Integral Image, pp. 1530-1535.

Bhatia, Amit

North Carolina State Univ.

Snyder, Wesley

North Carolina State Univ.

Bilbro, Griff

NC State Univ.

17:10-17:25

TuE11.5

2000 Fps Real-Time Vision System with High-Frame-Rate Video Recording, pp. 1536-1541. Attachment

Ishii, Idaku

Hiroshima Univ.

Tatebe, Tetsuro

Hiroshima Univ.

Gu, Qingyi

Hiroshima Univ.

Moriue, Yuta

Hiroshima Univ.

Takaki, Takeshi

Hiroshima Univ.

Tajima, Kenji

Photron Limited

17:25-17:40

TuE11.6

Specular Reflection Removal on High-Speed Camera for Robot Vision, pp. 1542-1547.

Tsuji, Toshiaki

Saitama Univ.

 

TuE12

Egan Center Lower Level Room 4

Medical Robot Systems I (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Woern, Heinz

Univ. Karlsruhe

Co-Chair: Reed, Kyle Brandon

Univ. of South Florida

16:10-16:25

TuE12.1

Preoperative Planning of Robotics-Assisted Minimally Invasive Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting, pp. 1548-1553.

Azimian, Hamidreza

The Univ. of Western Ontario

Breetzke, Jeremy

The Univ. of Western Ontario

Trejos, Ana Luisa

The Univ. of Western Ontario

Patel, Rajni

The Univ. of Western Ontario

Naish, Michael David

Univ. of Western Ontario

Peters, Terry M.

Robarts Res. Inst.

Moore, John T.

Robarts Res. Inst.

Wedlake, Chris

Robarts Res. Inst.

Kiaii, Bob

Lawson Health Res. Inst.

16:25-16:40

TuE12.2

Hazard Analysis of Fracture Reduction Robot and Its Application to Safety Design of Fracture-Reduction Assisting Robotic System, pp. 1554-1561.

Joung, Sanghyun

the Univ. fo tokyo

Liao, Hongen

The Univ. of Tokyo

Kobayashi, Etsuko

The Univ. of Tokyo

Mitsuishi, Mamoru

The Univ. of Tokyo

Nakajima, Yoshikazu

The Univ. of Tokyo

Sugano, Nobuhiko

Osaka Univ.

Sakuma, Ichiro

The Univ. of Tokyo

16:40-16:55

TuE12.3

Kinematic Path-Following Control of a Mobile Robot on Arbitrary Surface, pp. 1562-1567.

Kane, Gavin John

Univ. of Karlsruhe

Boesecke, Robert

Medical Univ. of Heidelberg

Raczkowsky, Joerg

Univ. of Karlsruhe (TH)

Woern, Heinz

Univ. Karlsruhe

16:55-17:10

TuE12.4

A New Micromanipulator System for Middle Ear Surgery, pp. 1568-1573.

Maier, Thomas

Tech. Univ. München

Strauß, Gero

Univ. Leipzig

Hofer, Mathias

Univ. Hospital Leipzig

Kraus, Tobias

TU München

Runge, Annette

Univ. Hospital Leipzig

Stenzel, Roland

Tech. Univ. München

Gumprecht, Jan David Jerome

Tech. Univ. München

Berger, Thomas

Department of ENT, Univ. Hospital Leipzig

Dietz, Andreas

Univ. Hospital Leipzig

Lueth, Tim C.

Tech. Univ. München

17:10-17:25

TuE12.5

Analysis of Earthworm Like Robotic Locomotion on Compliant Surface, pp. 1574-1579.

Zarrouk, David

Tech.

Sharf, Inna

McGill Univ.

Shoham, Moshe

Tech. Israel Inst. of Tech.

 

TuE13

Egan Center Lower Level Room 7/8

Microscale Actuation and Manipulation (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Dario, Paolo

Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna

Co-Chair: Kummer, Michael

ETH Zurich

16:10-16:25

TuE13.1

Principle, Characterization and Control of a New Hybrid Thermo-Piezoelectric Microactuator, pp. 1580-1585.

Rakotondrabe, Micky

FEMTO-st Inst.

Ivan, Ioan Alexandru

AS2M department, FEMTO-st Inst. 24, rue Alain Savary Besanç

16:25-16:40

TuE13.2

Rotary Nanomotors Based on Head-To-Head Nanotube Shuttles, pp. 1586-1591.

Hamdi, Mustapha

Ec. Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees

Subramanian, Arunkumar

Swiss Federal Inst. of Tech. (ETH), Zurich

Dong, Lixin

Michigan State Univ.

Ferreira, Antoine

Univ. of Orléans

Nelson, Bradley J.

ETH Zurich

16:40-16:55

TuE13.3

Design of an Autonomous Swimming Miniature Robot Based on a Novel Concept of Magnetic Actuation, pp. 1592-1597. Attachment

Tortora, Giuseppe

Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna

Caccavaro, Sebastiano

Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna

Valdastri, Pietro

Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna

Menciassi, Arianna

Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna - SSSA

Dario, Paolo

Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna

16:55-17:10

TuE13.4

Modeling and Analysis of Wireless Resonant Magnetic Microactuators, pp. 1598-1603.

Nagy, Zoltan

ETH Zurich

Frutiger, Dominic R.

ETH Zurich

Leine, Remco I.

ETH Zurich

Glocker, Christoph

ETH Zurich

Nelson, Bradley J.

ETH Zurich

17:10-17:25

TuE13.5

Magnetic Nanosheets Manipulation: Modeling, Development and Validation, pp. 1604-1609.

Mattoli, Virgilio

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, IIT

Sinibaldi, Edoardo

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, IIT

Pensabene, Virginia

Univ. di Genova, IIT

Taccola, Silvia

Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna

Menciassi, Arianna

Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna - SSSA

Dario, Paolo

Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna

17:25-17:40

TuE13.6

OctoMag: An Electromagnetic System for 5-DOF Wireless Micromanipulation, pp. 1610-1616. Attachment

Kummer, Michael

ETH Zurich

Abbott, Jake

Univ. of Utah

Kratochvil, Bradley

ETH Zurich

Borer, Ruedi

ETH Zurich

Sengul, Ali

Ec. Pol. Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Nelson, Bradley J.

ETH Zurich

 

TuF1

Egan Center Street Level Room Arteaga

Quadrotor Control (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Tzes, Anthony

Univ. of Patras

Co-Chair: Michael, Nathan

Univ. of Pennsylvania

17:45-18:00

TuF1.1

Mini-Quadrotor Attitude Control Based on Hybrid Backstepping & Frenet-Serret Theory, pp. 1617-1622. Attachment

Colorado, Julian

Pol. Univ. of Madrid

Barrientos, Antonio

UPM

Martinez, Alexander

UPM

Benjamin Lafaverges, Benjamin

INSA Lyon Inst. in France

Valente, Joao

Tech. Univ. of Madrid

18:00-18:15

TuF1.2

The True Role of Accelerometer Feedback in Quadrotor Control, pp. 1623-1629.

Martin, Philippe

MINES ParisTech

Salaün, Erwan

Georgia Inst. of Tech.

18:15-18:30

TuF1.3

Robust Take-Off and Landing for a Quadrotor Vehicle, pp. 1630-1635.

Cabecinhas, David

Inst. Superior Tecnico

Naldi, Roberto

CASY  - D.E.I.S. - Univ. di Bologna

Marconi, Lorenzo

Univ. of Bologna

Silvestre, Carlos

Inst. Superior Tecnico

Cunha, Rita

Inst. Superior Tecnico

18:30-18:45

TuF1.4

Design and Experimental Verification of a Constrained Finite Time Optimal Control Scheme for the Attitude Control of a Quadrotor Helicopter Subject to Wind Gusts, pp. 1636-1641.

Alexis, Kostas

Univ. of Patras

Nikolakopoulos, George

Univ. of Patras

Tzes, Anthony

Univ. of Patras

18:45-19:00

TuF1.5

A Simple Learning Strategy for High-Speed Quadrocopter Multi-Flips, pp. 1642-1648. Attachment

Lupashin, Sergei

ETH Zurich

Schöllig, Angela

ETH Zürich

Sherback, Michael

ETH Zurich

D'Andrea, Raffaello

ETHZ

19:00-19:15

TuF1.6

Design of Guaranteed Safe Maneuvers Using Reachable Sets: Autonomous Quadrotor Aerobatics in Theory and Practice, pp. 1649-1654.

Gillula, Jeremy

Stanford Univ.

Huang, Haomiao

Stanford Univ.

Vitus, Michael

Stanford Univ.

Tomlin, Claire

UC Berkeley

 

TuF2

Egan Center Lower Level Room 6

Compliance in Actuation and Design (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Asada, Harry

MIT

Co-Chair: Song, Jae-Bok

Korea Univ.

17:45-18:00

TuF2.1

Hybrid Dual Actuator Unit: A Design of a Variable Stiffness Actuator Based on an Adjustable Moment Arm Mechanism, pp. 1655-1660. Attachment

Kim, Byeong-Sang

Korea Univ.

Song, Jae-Bok

Korea Univ.

18:00-18:15

TuF2.2

Phased-Array Piezoelectric Actuators Using a Buckling Mechanism Having Large Displacement Amplification and Nonlinear Stiffness, pp. 1661-1667.

Neal, Devin

MIT

Asada, Harry

MIT

18:15-18:30

TuF2.3

A Variable Physical Damping Actuator (VPDA) for Compliant Robotic Joints, pp. 1668-1674. Attachment

Laffranchi, Matteo

Italian Inst. of Tech.

Tsagarakis, Nikolaos

Italian Inst. of Tech. (IIT)

Caldwell, Darwin G.

Italian Inst. of Tech.

18:30-18:45

TuF2.4

Scaling up Shape Memory Alloy Actuators Using a Recruitment Control Architecture, pp. 1675-1680. Attachment

Odhner, Lael

Yale Univ.

Asada, Harry

MIT

18:45-19:00

TuF2.5

Modeling and Implementation of Solder-Activated Joints for Single-Actuator, Centimeter-Scale Robotic Mechanisms, pp. 1681-1686.

Telleria, Maria

Massachusetts Insitute of Tech.

Hansen, Malik

Boston Dynamics

Campbell, Donald

Boston Dynamics

Culpepper, Martin

MIT

Servi, Amelia

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

19:00-19:15

TuF2.6

On Joint Design with Intrinsic Variable Compliance: Derivation of the DLR QA-Joint, pp. 1687-1694. Attachment

Eiberger, Oliver

DLR - German Aerospace Center

Haddadin, Sami

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Weis, Michael

German Aerospace Center

Albu-Schäffer, Alin

DLR - German Aerospace Center

Hirzinger, Gerd

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

 

TuF3

Egan Center Street Level Room Boardroom

Bipedal Locomotion (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Spong, Mark

Univ. of Texas at Dallas

Co-Chair: Asano, Fumihiko

Japan Advanced Inst. of Science and Tech.

17:45-18:00

TuF3.1

Asymptotically Stable Gait Primitives for Planning Dynamic Bipedal Locomotion in Three Dimensions, pp. 1695-1702. Attachment

Gregg, Robert

Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Bretl, Timothy

Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Spong, Mark

Univ. of Texas at Dallas

18:00-18:15

TuF3.2

Simulation and Experimental Studies on Passive-Dynamic Walker That Consists of Two Identical Crossed Frames, pp. 1703-1708. Attachment

Asano, Fumihiko

Japan Advanced Inst. of Science and Tech.

18:15-18:30

TuF3.3

Biped Blind Walking on Changing Slope with Reflex Control System, pp. 1709-1714.

Tan, Feng

Tsinghua Univ.

Fu, Chenglong

Tsinghua Univ.

Chen, Ken

Tsinghua Univ.

18:30-18:45

TuF3.4

Gait Synthesis for a Three-Link Planar Biped Walker with One Actuator, pp. 1715-1720.

La Hera, Pedro

Umeĺ Univ.

Shiriaev, Anton

Umea Univ.

Freidovich, Leonid

Umeĺ Univ.

Mettin, Uwe

Umeĺ Univ.

18:45-19:00

TuF3.5

Bifurcations and Chaos in Passive Walking of a Compass-Gait Biped with Asymmetries, pp. 1721-1726.

Moon, Jae-Sung

Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Spong, Mark

Univ. of Texas at Dallas

19:00-19:15

TuF3.6

Joint Proprioception Acquisition Strategy Based on Joints-Muscles Topological Maps for Musculoskeletal Humanoids, pp. 1727-1732.

Nakanishi, Yuto

The Univ. of Tokyo

Hongo, Kazuo

The Univ. of Tokyo

Mizuuchi, Ikuo

Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Tech.

Inaba, Masayuki

The Univ. of Tokyo

 

TuF4

Egan Center Lower Level Room 1

Teleoperation and Networked Robots (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Chopra, Nikhil

Univ. of Maryland, Coll. Park

Co-Chair: Tadokoro, Satoshi

Tohoku Univ.

17:45-18:00

TuF4.1

Plugfest 2009: Global Interoperability in Telerobotics and Telemedicine, pp. 1733-1738.

King, H. Hawkeye

Univ. of Washington

Hannaford, Blake

Univ. of Washington

Kwok, Ka Wai

Imperial Coll. London

Yang, Guang-Zhong

Imperial Coll. London

Griffiths, Paul

Johns Hopkins Univ.

Okamura, Allison M.

Johns Hopkins Univ.

Farkhatdinov, Ildar

Korea Univ. of Tech. and Education

Ryu, Jee-Hwan

Korea Univ. of Tech. and Education

Sankaranarayanan, Ganesh

Rensselaer Pol. Inst.

Arikatla, Venkata Sreekanth

Rensselaer Pol. Inst.

Tadano, Kotaro

Tokyo Inst. of Tech.

Kawashima, Kenji

Tokyo Inst. of Tech.

Peer, Angelika

Tech. Univ. München

Schauß, Thomas

Tech. Univ. München

Buss, Martin

Tech. Univ. München

Miller, Levi Makaio

Univ. of Washington

Glozman, Daniel

Univ. of California Santa Cruz

Rosen, Jacob

Univ. of California at Santa Cruz

Low, Thomas

SRI International

18:00-18:15

TuF4.2

Towards a Situated, Multimodal Interface for Multiple UAV Control, pp. 1739-1744.

Jones, Geraint

Univ. Coll. London

Berthouze, Nadia

UCL

Bielski, Roman

Univ. Coll. London

Julier, Simon Justin

Univ. Coll. London

18:15-18:30

TuF4.3

An Evaluation of Local Autonomy Applied to Teleoperated Vehicles in Underground Mines, pp. 1745-1752.

Larsson, Johan

Örebro Univ.

Broxvall, Mathias

Örebro Univ.

Saffiotti, Alessandro

Orebro Univ.

18:30-18:45

TuF4.4

Real-Time Remote Transmission of Multiple Tactile Properties through Master-Slave Robot System, pp. 1753-1760.

Yamauchi, Takahiro

Tohoku Univ.

Okamoto, Shogo

Tohoku Univ.

Konyo, Masashi

Tohoku Univ.

Hidaka, Yusuke

Keio Univ.

Maeno, Takashi

Keio Univ.

Tadokoro, Satoshi

Tohoku Univ.

18:45-19:00

TuF4.5

An Attitude Control System for Underwater Vehicle-Manipulator Systems, pp. 1761-1767.

Sakagami, Norimitsu

Tokai Univ.

Shibata, Mizuho

Ritsumeikan Univ.

Kawamura, Sadao

Ritsumeikan Univ.

Inoue, Toshifumi

Dainippon Screen Manufacturing Co. Ltd.

Onishi, Hiroyuki

Dainippon Screen Manufacturing Co. Ltd.

Murakami, Shigeo

Dainippon Screen Manufacturing Co. Ltd.

19:00-19:15

TuF4.6

Control of Robotic Manipulators under Time-Varying Sensing-Control Delays, pp. 1768-1773.

Chopra, Nikhil

Univ. of Maryland, Coll. Park

 

TuF5

Egan Center Lower Level Room 13/14

Mobile Manipulation (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Kemp, Charlie

Georgia Inst. of Tech.

Co-Chair: Morrell, John

Yale Univ.

17:45-18:00

TuF5.1

Contact Feature Extraction on a Balancing Manipulation Platform, pp. 1774-1779.

McClung, Arthur

Yale Univ.

Zheng, Ying (Jean)

Yale Univ.

Morrell, John

Yale Univ.

18:00-18:15

TuF5.2

Interaction Analysis and Posture Optimization for a Reconfigurable Tracked Mobile Modular Manipulator Negotiating Slopes, pp. 1780-1785.

Liu, Yugang

Ryerson Univ.

Liu, Guangjun

Ryerson Univ.

18:15-18:30

TuF5.3

Optimized Dual-Trajectory Tracking Control of a 9-DoF WMRA System for ADL Tasks, pp. 1786-1791.

Farelo, Fabian

Univ. of South Florida

Alqasemi, Redwan

Univ. of South Florida

Dubey, Rajiv

Univ. of South Florida

18:30-18:45

TuF5.4

Kinematic Control of Nonholonomic Mobile Manipulators in the Presence of Steering Wheels, pp. 1792-1798. Attachment

De Luca, Alessandro

Univ. di Roma "La Sapienza"

Oriolo, Giuseppe

Univ. di Roma "La Sapienza"

Robuffo Giordano, Paolo

Max Planck Inst. for Biological Cybernetics

18:45-19:00

TuF5.5

Planning for Autonomous Door Opening with a Mobile Manipulator, pp. 1799-1806. Attachment

Chitta, Sachin

Willow Garage Inc.

Cohen, Benjamin

Univ. of Pennsylvania

Likhachev, Maxim

Univ. of Pennsylvania

19:00-19:15

TuF5.6

Pulling Open Doors and Drawers: Coordinating an Omni-Directional Base and a Compliant Arm with Equilibrium Point Control, pp. 1807-1814. Attachment

Jain, Advait

Georgia Inst. of Tech.

Kemp, Charlie

Georgia Inst. of Tech.

 

TuF6

Egan Center Lower Level Room 2

Haptic Interfaces (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Kuchenbecker, Katherine J.

Univ. of Pennsylvania

Co-Chair: Motard, Elvina

Space Applications Services

17:45-18:00

TuF6.1

Automatic Filter Design for Synthesis of Haptic Textures from Recorded Acceleration Data, pp. 1815-1821.

Romano, Joseph M.

Univ. of Pennsylvania

Yoshioka, Takashi

Johns Hopkins Univ.

Kuchenbecker, Katherine J.

Univ. of Pennsylvania

18:00-18:15

TuF6.2

Development of a 2-DOF Softness Feeling Display for Tactile Tele-Presentation of Deformable Surfaces, pp. 1822-1827.

Kimura, Fuminobu

Univ. of Tokyo

Yamamoto, Akio

Univ. of Tokyo

Higuchi, Toshiro

The Univ. of Tokyo

18:15-18:30

TuF6.3

Accurate Modeling of Low-Cost Piezoresistive Force Sensors for Haptic Interfaces, pp. 1828-1833.

Paredes-Madrid, Leonel

Inst. of Industrial Automation-CSIC

Torruella Naranjo, Pedro Manuel

Inst. of Industrial Automation - CSIC

Solaeche Estrada, Paul

Inst. of Industrial Automation - CSIC

Galiana, Ignacio

Univ. Pol. de Madrid

Gonzalez de Santos, Pablo

Industrial Automation Inst. - CSIC

18:30-18:45

TuF6.4

Shared Decision Making in a Collaborative Task with Reciprocal Haptic Feedback - an Efficiency-Analysis, pp. 1834-1839.

Groten, Raphaela

Tech. Univ. München

Feth, Daniela

Tech. Univ. München

Peer, Angelika

Tech. Univ. München

Buss, Martin

Tech. Univ. München

18:45-19:00

TuF6.5

EXOSTATION : Haptic Exoskeleton Based Control Station, pp. 1840-1845.

Letier, Pierre

ULB

Motard, Elvina

Space Applications Services

Verschueren, Jean-Philippe

Micromega Dynamics

19:00-19:15

TuF6.6

A Robotic Hand Rehabilitation System with Interactive Gaming Using Novel Electro-Rheological Fluid Based Actuators, pp. 1846-1851.

Unluhisarcikli, Ozer

Northeastern Univ.

Weinberg, Brian

Northeastern Univ.

Sivak, Mark

Northeastern Univ.

Mirelman, Anat

Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel

Bonato, Paolo

Harvard Medical School

Mavroidis, Constantinos

Northeastern Univ.

 

TuF7

Egan Center Lower Level Room 11/12

Learning and Adaptation for Sensing (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Siskind, Jeffrey Mark

Purdue Univ.

Co-Chair: Papanikolopoulos, Nikos

Univ. of Minnesota

17:45-18:00

TuF7.1

How to Separate Containers from Non-Containers? a Behavior-Grounded Approach to Acoustic Object Categorization, pp. 1852-1859.

Griffith, Shane

Iowa State Univ.

Sinapov, Jivko

Iowa State Univ.

Sukhoy, Vlad

Iowa State Univ.

Stoytchev, Alexander

Iowa State Univ.

18:00-18:15

TuF7.2

Body Schema Acquisition through Active Learning, pp. 1860-1866.

Martinez-Cantin, Ruben

Inst. Superior Tecnico

Lopes, Manuel

Univ. of Plymouth

Montesano, Luis

Univ. de Zaragoza

18:15-18:30

TuF7.3

Fully Autonomous Trajectory Estimation with Long-Range Passive RFID, pp. 1867-1872.

Vorst, Philipp

Univ. of Tübingen

Zell, Andreas

Univ. of Tübingen

18:30-18:45

TuF7.4

Multi-Class Batch-Mode Active Learning for Image Classification, pp. 1873-1878.

Joshi, Ajay

Univ. of Minnesota

Porikli, Fatih

Mitsubishi Electric Res. Lab.

Papanikolopoulos, Nikos

Univ. of Minnesota

18:45-19:00

TuF7.5

Learning Physically-Instantiated Game Play through Visual Observation, pp. 1879-1886.

Barbu, Andrei

Purdue Univ.

Narayanaswamy, Siddharth

Purdue Univ.

Siskind, Jeffrey Mark

Purdue Univ.

19:00-19:15

TuF7.6

Inferring the Semantics of Direction Signs in Public Places, pp. 1887-1892.

Maye, Jerome

ETH Zurich

Spinello, Luciano

Albert-Ludwigs-Univ. Freiburg

Triebel, Rudolph

ETH Zurich

Siegwart, Roland

ETH Zurich

 

TuF8

Egan Center Street Level Room Cook Hall

Visual Odometry (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Kim, Jinwook

Korea Inst. of Science and Tech.

Co-Chair: Vasseur, Pascal

Univ. of Picardie - Jules Verne

17:45-18:00

TuF8.1

VICP: Velocity Updating Iterative Closest Point Algorithm, pp. 1893-1898.

Hong, Seungpyo

Korea Inst. of Science and Tech.

Ko, Heedong

KIST

Kim, Jinwook

Korea Inst. of Science and Tech.

18:00-18:15

TuF8.2

A Bearing-Only 2D/3D-Homing Method under Visual Servoing Framework, pp. 4062-4067.

Liu, Ming

ETH Zurich

Pradalier, Cedric

ETH Zurich

Chen, Qijun

Tongji Univ.

Siegwart, Roland

ETH Zurich

18:15-18:30

TuF8.3

RANSAC Matching: Simultaneous Registration and Segmentation, pp. 1905-1912.

Yang, Shao-Wen

National Taiwan Univ.

Wang, Chieh-Chih

National Taiwan Univ.

Chang, Chun-Hua

Nation Taiwan Univ.

18:30-18:45

TuF8.4

Vision-Based Pose Estimation for Autonomous Indoor Navigation of Micro-Scale Unmanned Aircraft Systems, pp. 1913-1920.

Rudol, Piotr

Linköping Univ.

Wzorek, Mariusz

Linkoping Univ.

Doherty, Patrick

AIICS - Univ. of Linkopings

18:45-19:00

TuF8.5

Vision-Based Navigation with Pose Recovery under Visual Occlusion and Kidnapping, pp. 1921-1927. Attachment

Kim, Jungho

KAIST

Kweon, In So

KAIST

19:00-19:15

TuF8.6

Translation Estimation for Single Viewpoint Cameras Using Lines, pp. 1928-1933.

Ly, Sang

Univ. de Picardie Jules Verne

Demonceaux, Cédric

Univ. of Picardie - Jules Verne

Vasseur, Pascal

Univ. of Picardie - Jules Verne

 

TuF9

Egan Center Lower Level Room 3

Communication and Motion Planning in Robot Networks (Invited Sessions)

Chair: Fierro, Rafael

Univ. of New Mexico

Co-Chair: Mostofi, Yasamin

Univ. of New Mexico

Organizer: Mostofi, Yasamin

Univ. of New Mexico

Organizer: Fierro, Rafael

Univ. of New Mexico

17:45-18:00

TuF9.1

Adaptive Exploitation of Multipath Fading for Mobile Sensors, pp. 1934-1939.

Lindhé, Magnus

Royal Inst. of Tech.

Johansson, Karl H.

Royal Inst. of Tech.

18:00-18:15

TuF9.2

Online Methods for Radio Signal Mapping with Mobile Robots (I), pp. 1940-1945. Attachment

Fink, Jonathan

Univ. of Pennsylvania

Kumar, Vijay

Univ. of Pennsylvania

18:15-18:30

TuF9.3

Estimation of Communication Signal Strength in Robotic Networks (I), pp. 1946-1951.

Mostofi, Yasamin

Univ. of New Mexico

Malmirchegini, Mehrzad

Univ. of New Mexico

Ghaffarkhah, Alireza

Univ. of New Mexico

18:30-18:45

TuF9.4

Maintaining Connectivity in Environments with Obstacles, pp. 1952-1957.

Tekdas, Onur

Univ. of Minnesota

Plonski, Patrick

Univ. of Minnesota

Karnad, Nikhil

Univ. of Minnesota, Twin-Cities

Isler, Volkan

Univ. of Minnesota

18:45-19:00

TuF9.5

Semi-Autonomous Networks: Theory and Decentralized Protocols (I), pp. 1958-1963.

Chapman, Airlie

Univ. of Washington

Schoof, Eric

Univ. of Washington

Mesbahi, Mehran

Univ. of Washington

19:00-19:15

TuF9.6

Distributed Control for Optimization of a Communication Network, pp. 1964-1971.

Gil, Stephanie

MIT

Schwager, Mac

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Julian, Brian

MIT

Rus, Daniela

MIT

Gil, Stephanie

MIT

 

TuF10

Egan Center Lower Level Room 9/10

Motion and Path Planning (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Geraerts, Roland

Utrecht Univ.

Co-Chair: Knepper, Ross A

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

17:45-18:00

TuF10.1

Calculus of Variations for Guaranteed Optimal Path Planning of Aircraft Formations, pp. 1972-1977.

L'Afflitto, Andrea

Virginia Pol. Inst. and State Univ.

Sultan, Cornel

Virginia Tech.

18:00-18:15

TuF10.2

Path Planning Based on Fluid Mechanics for Mobile Robots Using Unstructured Terrain Models, pp. 1978-1984. Attachment

Gingras, David

Canadian Space Agency

Dupuis, Erick

Canadian Space Agency

Payre, Guy

Univ. of Sherbrooke

De Lafontaine, Jean

Univ. of Sherbrooke

18:15-18:30

TuF10.3

Hierarchical Planning Architectures for Mobile Manipulation Tasks in Indoor Environments, pp. 1985-1990.

Knepper, Ross A

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Srinivasa, Siddhartha

Intel Lab. Pittsburgh

Mason, Matthew T.

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

18:30-18:45

TuF10.4

A New Approach to Time-Optimal Straight-Line Trajectory for Omni-Directional Mobile Robots with Multi-Objective Costs, pp. 1991-1996.

Kim, Ki Bum

KAIST (Korea Advanced Inst. of Science and Tech.

Kim, Byung Kook

KAIST

18:45-19:00

TuF10.5

Planning Short Paths with Clearance Using Explicit Corridors, pp. 1997-2004.

Geraerts, Roland

Utrecht Univ.

19:00-19:15

TuF10.6

On the Implementation of Single-Query Sampling-Based Motion Planners, pp. 2005-2011.

Sucan, Ioan Alexandru

Rice Univ.

Kavraki, Lydia

Rice Univ.

 

TuF11

Egan Center Lower Level Room 5

Multi-View Recognition and Pose Estimation (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Dillmann, Rüdiger

Univ. of Karlsruhe

Co-Chair: Daniilidis, Kostas

Univ. of Pennsylvania

17:45-18:00

TuF11.1

Autonomous Acquisition of Visual Multi-View Object Representations for Object Recognition on a Humanoid Robot, pp. 2012-2019.

Welke, Kai

Univ. of Karlsruhe

Issac, Jan

Univ. of Karlsruhe

Schiebener, David

Univ. of Karlsruhe

Asfour, Tamim

Univ. of Karlsruhe

Dillmann, Rüdiger

Univ. of Karlsruhe

18:00-18:15

TuF11.2

Simultaneous Object Class and Pose Estimation for Mobile Robotic Applications with Minimalistic Recognition, pp. 2020-2027.

Aydemir, Alper

Royal Inst. of Tech. (KTH)

Bishop, Adrian

Royal Inst. of Tech. (KTH)

Jensfelt, Patric

Royal Inst. of Tech.

18:15-18:30

TuF11.3

Pose Estimation in Heavy Clutter Using a Multi-Flash Camera, pp. 2028-2035. Attachment

Liu, Ming-Yu

Univ. of Maryland Coll. Park

Tuzel, Oncel

MERL

Veeraraghavan, Ashok

Mitsubishi Electric Res. Lab.

Chellappa, Rama

Univ. of Maryland, Coll. Park

Agrawal, Amit

Mitsubishi Electric Res. Lab.

Okuda, Haruhisa

Mitsubishi Electric Corp.

18:30-18:45

TuF11.4

A Probabilistic Framework for Stereo-Vision Based 3D Object Search with 6D Pose Estimation, pp. 2036-2042.

Ma, Jeremy

California Inst. of Tech.

Burdick, Joel

California Inst. of Tech.

18:45-19:00

TuF11.5

MOPED: A Scalable and Low Latency Object Recognition and Pose Estimation System, pp. 2043-2049.

Martinez, Manuel

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Collet, Alvaro

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Srinivasa, Siddhartha

Intel Lab. Pittsburgh

19:00-19:15

TuF11.6

Efficient Multi-View Object Recognition and Full Pose Estimation, pp. 2050-2055. Attachment

Collet, Alvaro

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Srinivasa, Siddhartha

Intel Lab. Pittsburgh

 

TuF12

Egan Center Lower Level Room 4

Medical Robot Systems II (Regular Sessions)

Co-Chair: Alterovitz, Ron

Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

17:45-18:00

TuF12.1

Robotic Delivery of Complex Radiation Volumes for Small Animal Research, pp. 2056-2061.

Matinfar, Mohammad

Johns Hopkins Univ.

Iordachita, Iulian

Johns Hopkins Univ.

Wong, John

Johns Hopkins Univ.

Kazanzides, Peter

Johns Hopkins Univ.

18:00-18:15

TuF12.2

Needle Path Planning for Digital Breast Tomosynthesis Biopsy, pp. 2062-2067.

Vancamberg, Laurence

General Electric Healthcare and ISIR-Inst. des systčmesintell

Sahbani, Anis

Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, ISIR, CNRS-UMR 7222

Muller, Serge

GE Healthcare

Morel, Guillaume

Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6

18:15-18:30

TuF12.3

Evaluation of Robotic Needle Steering in Ex Vivo Tissue, pp. 2068-2073.

Majewicz, Ann

Johns Hopkins Univ.

Wedlick, Thomas

Johns Hopkins Univ.

Reed, Kyle Brandon

Univ. of South Florida

Okamura, Allison M.

Johns Hopkins Univ.

18:30-18:45

TuF12.4

Superhuman Performance of Surgical Tasks by Robots Using Iterative Learning from Human-Guided Demonstrations, pp. 2074-2081. Attachment

van den Berg, Jur

Univ. of California at Berkeley

Miller, Stephen

Univ. of Califonia at Berkeley

Duckworth, Daniel

Univ. of California in Berkeley

Hu, Humphrey

Univ. of California at Berkeley

Wan, Andrew

Univ. of California at Berkeley

Fu, Xiao-Yu

Univ. of California at Berkeley

Goldberg, Ken

UC Berkeley

Abbeel, Pieter

UC Berkeley

18:45-19:00

TuF12.5

Planning Active Cannula Configurations through Tubular Anatomy, pp. 2082-2087.

Lyons, Lisa

Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Webster III, Robert James

Vanderbilt Univ.

Alterovitz, Ron

Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

19:00-19:15

TuF12.6

Toward Automated Tissue Retraction in Robot-Assisted Surgery, pp. 2088-2094. Attachment

Patil, Sachin

UNC Chapel Hill

Alterovitz, Ron

Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

TuF13

Egan Center Lower Level Room 7/8

Flexible Automation and Manufacturing (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Li, Jingshan

Univ. of Kentucky

Co-Chair: Kiguchi, Kazuo

Saga Univ.

17:45-18:00

TuF13.1

Desktop Orthogonal-Type Robot with Abilities of Compliant Motion and Stick-Slip Motion for Lapping of LED Lens Molds, pp. 2095-2100.

Nagata, Fusaomi

Tokyo Univ. of Science, Yamaguchi

Mizobuchi, Takanori

Tokyo Univ. of Science, Yamaguchi

Tani, Shintaro

Tokyo Univ. of Science, Yamaguchi

Hase, Tetsuo

Meiho Co. Ltd.

Haga, Zenku

Meiho Co. Ltd.

Watanabe, Keigo

Saga Univ.

Habib, Maki Khalil

Saga Univ.

Kiguchi, Kazuo

Saga Univ.

18:00-18:15

TuF13.2

Autonomous Cruise Control of Circulating Multi-Robot for Congestion, pp. 2101-2106.

Hoshino, Satoshi

Tokyo Inst. of Tech.

Seki, Hiroya

Tokyo Inst. of Tech.

Naka, Yuji

Tokyo Inst. of Tech.

Ota, Jun

The Univ. of Tokyo

18:15-18:30

TuF13.3

Developing a Dual-Stage Indirect Virtual Metrology Architecture, pp. 2107-2112.

Tsai, Wen-Huang

National Cheng Kung Univ.

Cheng, Fan-Tien

National Cheng Kung Univ.

Wu, Wei-Ming

National Cheng Kung Univ.

Lin, Tung-Ho

National Cheng Kung Univ.

18:30-18:45

TuF13.4

Embodiment Independent Manipulation through Action Abstraction, pp. 2113-2118. Attachment

Laaksonen, Janne

Lappeenranta Univ. of Tech.

Felip, Javier

Univ. Jaume I

Morales, Antonio

Univ. Jaume I

Kyrki, Ville

Lappeenranta Univ. of Tech.

18:45-19:00

TuF13.5

Quality Improvement through Product Sequencing in Flexible Manufacturing Systems, pp. 2119-2124.

Wang, Junwen

Univ. of Kentucky

Li, Jingshan

Univ. of Kentucky

Arinez, Jorge

General Motors Res. & Development Center

Biller, Stephan

General Motors Corp.

19:00-19:15

TuF13.6

Performance Approximation and Bottleneck Identification in Re-Entrant Lines, pp. 2125-2130.

Liu, Yang

Univ. of Kentucky

Li, Jingshan

Univ. of Kentucky

Chiang, Shu-Yin

Ming Chuan Univ.

 

WeA1

Egan Center Street Level Room Arteaga

Compliance and Force Control (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Newman, Wyatt

Case Western Res. Univ.

Co-Chair: Haddadin, Sami

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

08:30-08:45

WeA1.1

A Compliant Constant-Force Mechanism for Adaptive Robot End-Effector Operations, pp. 2131-2136.

Lan, Chao-Chieh

National Cheng Kung Univ.

Wang, Jhe-Hong

National Cheng Kung Univ.

Chen, Yi-Ho

National Cheng Kung Univ.

08:45-09:00

WeA1.2

Active Force Control for Robotic Micro-Assembly: Application to Guiding Tasks, pp. 2137-2142.

Rabenorosoa, Kanty

FEMTO-st Inst.

Clévy, Cédric

Franche-Comté Univ.

Lutz, Philippe

Lab. d'Automatique de Besançon

09:00-09:15

WeA1.3

Assessing Internal Models for Faster Learning of Robotic Assembly, pp. 2143-2148.

Marvel, Jeremy

Case Western Res. Univ.

Newman, Wyatt

Case Western Res. Univ.

09:15-09:30

WeA1.4

Optimal Passive Dynamics for Torque/Force Control, pp. 2149-2154.

Kemper, Kevin

Oregon State Univ.

Koepl, Devin

Oregon State Univ.

Hurst, Jonathan

Oregon State Univ.

09:30-09:45

WeA1.5

Dynamic Modelling and Control of Variable Stiffness Actuators, pp. 2155-2162.

Albu-Schäffer, Alin

DLR - German Aerospace Center

Wolf, Sebastian

DLR - German Aerospace Center

Eiberger, Oliver

DLR - German Aerospace Center

Haddadin, Sami

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Petit, Florian

Inst. of Robotics and Mechatronics, German Aerospace Center

Chalon, Maxime

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

09:45-10:00

WeA1.6

Classification and Prediction for Accurate Sensor-Based Assembly to Moving Objects, pp. 2163-2168. Attachment

Lange, Friedrich

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Scharrer, Johannes

Inst. für Werkzeugmaschinen und BetriebswissenschaftenTU Münc

Hirzinger, Gerd

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

 

WeA2

Egan Center Street Level Room Cook Hall

Novel Actuators (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Suzuki, Kenji

Univ. of Tsukuba

Co-Chair: Goldfarb, Michael

Vanderbilt Univ.

08:30-08:45

WeA2.1

A Multi-Cell Piezoelectric Device for Tunable Resonance Actuation and Energy Harvesting, pp. 2169-2176.

Secord, Thomas

MIT

Mazumdar, Anirban

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Asada, Harry

MIT

08:45-09:00

WeA2.2

New Magnetic Rotational Drive by Use of Magnetic Particles with Specific Gravity Smaller Than a Liquid, pp. 2177-2182.

Nokata, Makoto

Ritsumeikan Univ.

09:00-09:15

WeA2.3

New Actuator System Using Movable Pulley for Bio-Mimetic System and Wearable Robot Applications, pp. 2183-2188. Attachment

Lee, Hoyul

Hanyang Univ.

Lee, Chulwoo

Hanyang Univ.

Kim, Seong-Jin

Hanyang Univ.

Choi, Youngjin

Hanyang Univ.

09:15-09:30

WeA2.4

Design of a Multi-Disc Electromechanical Modulated Dissipator, pp. 2189-2196.

Farris, Ryan

Vanderbilt Univ.

Goldfarb, Michael

Vanderbilt Univ.

09:30-09:45

WeA2.5

Low-Temperature H2O2-Powered Actuators for Biorobotics: Thermodynamic and Kinetic Analysis, pp. 2197-2202.

Vitale, Flavia

Univ. "La Sapienza"

Accoto, Dino

Univ. Campus Bio-Medico

Turchetti, Luca

Univ. "La Sapienza"

Indini, Stefano

Univ. Campus Bio-Medico di Roma

Annesini, Maria Cristina

Univ. "La Sapienza"

Guglielmelli, Eugenio

Univ. Campus Bio-Medico

09:45-10:00

WeA2.6

A Multiple SMA Hybrid Actuator to Generate Expressions on the Face, pp. 2203-2208.

Jayatilake, Prabhath Dushyantha

Univ. of Tsukuba

Suzuki, Kenji

Univ. of Tsukuba

 

WeA3

Egan Center Street Level Room Boardroom

Lower Limb Rehabilitation (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Caldwell, Darwin G.

Italian Inst. of Tech.

Co-Chair: Furusho, Junji

Osaka Univ.

08:30-08:45

WeA3.1

Development of Third-Generation Intelligently Controllable Ankle-Foot Orthosis with Compact MR Fluid Brake, pp. 2209-2214. Attachment

Kikuchi, Takehito

Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamagata Univ.

Tanida, Sosuke

Osaka Univ.

Otsuki, Kikuko

Osaka Univ.

Yasuda, Takashi

Shiga School of Medical Tech.

Furusho, Junji

Osaka Univ.

08:45-09:00

WeA3.2

MoonWalker, a Lower Limb Exoskeleton Able to Sustain Bodyweight Using a Passive Force Balancer, pp. 2215-2220. Attachment

Krut, Sebastien

LIRMM (CNRS & Univ. Montpellier 2)

Benoit, Michel

LIRMM

Dombre, Etienne

Univ. Montpellier II & CNRS

Pierrot, François

CNRS - LIRMM

09:00-09:15

WeA3.3

Control Strategies for Ankle Rehabilitation Using a High Performance Ankle Exerciser, pp. 2221-2227. Attachment

Saglia, Jody Alessandro

King's Coll. London

Tsagarakis, Nikolaos

Italian Inst. of Tech. (IIT)

Dai, Jian

King's Coll. London, Univ. of London

Caldwell, Darwin G.

Italian Inst. of Tech.

09:15-09:30

WeA3.4

Fast Operation of Anatomical and Stiff Tendon Neuromuscular Models in EMG-Driven Modeling, pp. 2228-2234.

Sartori, Massimo

Univ. of Padova

Lloyd, David

Univ. of Western Australia, M408

Reggiani, Monica

Univ. of Padua

Pagello, Enrico

Univ. of Padua

09:30-09:45

WeA3.5

Leg-Dependent Force Control for Body Weight Support by Gait Cycle Estimation from Pelvic Movement, pp. 2235-2240.

Watanabe, Takao

Waseda Univ.

Ohki, Eiichi

Waseda Univ.

Fujie, Masakatsu G.

Waseda Univ.

Kobayashi, Yo

Waseda Univ.

09:45-10:00

WeA3.6

A Novel Passive Pelvic Device for Assistance During Locomotion, pp. 2241-2246.

Mokhtarian, Ali

Isfahan Univ. of Tech.

Fattah, Abbas

Isfahan Univ. of Tech.

Agrawal, Sunil

Univ. of Delaware

 

WeA4

Egan Center Lower Level Room 1

Space and Underwater Applications (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Papadopoulos, Evangelos

NTUA

Co-Chair: Cheng, Yang

JPL

08:30-08:45

WeA4.1

Towards Passive Object On-Orbit Manipulation by Cooperating Free-Flying Robots, pp. 2247-2252.

Rekleitis, Georgios

National Tech. Univ. of Athens

Papadopoulos, Evangelos

National Tech. Univ. of Athens

08:45-09:00

WeA4.2

Biomimetic Optic Flow Sensing Applied to a Lunar Landing Scenario, pp. 2253-2260. Attachment

Valette, Florent

CNRS/ Univ. de la méditerranée

Ruffier, Franck

CNRS / Univ. de la Méditerranée

Viollet, Stephane

Univ. Mediterranée/CNRS

Seidl, Tobias

ESA-European Space Agency

09:00-09:15

WeA4.3

Experimental Results of a Novel Amphibian Solution for Aquatic Robot, pp. 2261-2266. Attachment

Ju, Liang

Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna

Ferri, Gabriele

Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa

Laschi, Cecilia

Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna

Mazzolai, Barbara

Scuola Superiore S.Anna

Dario, Paolo

Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna

09:15-09:30

WeA4.4

Two Steps Natural Actor Critic Learning for Underwater Cable Tracking, pp. 2267-2272. Attachment

El-Fakdi, Andres

Univ. of Girona - VAT:ESQ6750002E

Carreras, Marc

Univ. de Girona

Galceran, Enric

Univ. of Girona

09:30-09:45

WeA4.5

Visually Aided Feature Extraction from 3D Range Data, pp. 2273-2279.

Sok, Chhay

Nanyang Tech. Univ.

Adams, Martin

Nanyang Tech. Univ.

09:45-10:00

WeA4.6

Real-Time Surface Slope Estimation by Homography Alignment for Spacecraft Safe Landing, pp. 2280-2286.

Cheng, Yang

JPL

 

WeA5

Egan Center Lower Level Room 13/14

Models for Grasping (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Piater, Justus

Univ. of Liege

Co-Chair: Matsuoka, Yoky

Univ. of Washington

08:30-08:45

WeA5.1

Refining Grasp Affordance Models by Experience, pp. 2287-2293.

Detry, Renaud

Univ. of Ličge

Kraft, Dirk

Univ. of Southern Denmark

Buch, Anders Glent

Univ. of Southern Denmark

Krüger, Norbert

Univ. of Southern Denmark

Piater, Justus

Univ. of Liege

08:45-09:00

WeA5.2

Human-Guided Grasp Measures Improve Grasp Robustness on Physical Robot, pp. 2294-2301.

Balasubramanian, Ravi

Yale Univ.

Xu, Ling

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Brook, Peter

Univ. of Washington

Smith, Joshua R.

Intel

Matsuoka, Yoky

Univ. of Washington

09:00-09:15

WeA5.3

Visual Tracking of a Jaw Gripper Based on Articulated 3D Models for Grasping, pp. 2302-2307. Attachment

Sorribes, José Juan

Jaume-I Univ.

Prats, Mario

Univ. Jaume I

Morales, Antonio

Univ. Jaume I

09:15-09:30

WeA5.4

Cloth Grasp Point Detection Based on Multiple-View Geometric Cues with Application to Robotic Towel Folding, pp. 2308-2315.

Maitin-Shepard, Jeremy

Univ. of California, Berkeley

Lei, Jinna

Univ. of California, Berkeley

Cusumano-Towner, Marco

Univ. of California, Berkeley

Abbeel, Pieter

UC Berkeley

09:30-09:45

WeA5.5

Modeling Non-Convex Configuration Space Using Linear Complementarity Problems, pp. 2316-2321. Attachment

Nguyen, Binh

Rensselaer Pol. Inst.

Trinkle, Jeff

Rensselaer Pol. Inst.

09:45-10:00

WeA5.6

Implicit Nonlinear Complementarity: A New Approach to Contact Dynamics, pp. 2322-2329. Attachment

Todorov, Emanuel

Univ. of Washington

 

WeA6

Egan Center Lower Level Room 2

Haptics and Human Augmentation (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Chitta, Sachin

Willow Garage Inc.

Co-Chair: Kawashima, Kenji

Tokyo Inst. of Tech.

08:30-08:45

WeA6.1

An Inertia-Based Surface Identification System, pp. 2330-2335.

Windau, Jens

Univ. of Southern California

Shen, Wei-Min

USC Information Science Inst.

08:45-09:00

WeA6.2

Material Classification by Tactile Sensing Using Surface Textures, pp. 2336-2341.

Jamali, Nawid

Univ. of New South Wales

Sammut, Claude

Univ. of New South Wales

09:00-09:15

WeA6.3

Tactile Object Class and Internal State Recognition for Mobile Manipulation, pp. 2342-2348.

Chitta, Sachin

Willow Garage Inc.

Piccoli, Matthew

Univ. of Pennsylvania

Sturm, Jürgen

Univ. of Freiburg

09:15-09:30

WeA6.4

Haptic Object Recognition Using Passive Joints and Haptic Key Features, pp. 2349-2355.

Gorges, Nicolas

Karlsruhe Inst. of Tech.

Escaida Navarro, Stefan

Univ. Karlsruhe

Goeger, Dirk

Univ. Karlsruhe

Woern, Heinz

Univ. Karlsruhe

09:30-09:45

WeA6.5

Controlling a Power Assist Robot for Lifting Objects Considering Human's Unimanual, Bimanual and Cooperative Weight Perception, pp. 2356-2362.

Rahman, S.M.Mizanoor

Mie Univ.

Ikeura, Ryojun

Mie Univ.

Nobe, Masaya

Mie Univ.

Sawai, Hideki

Mie Univ.

09:45-10:00

WeA6.6

Development of Grip Amplified Glove Using Bi-Articular Mechanism with Pneumatic Artificial Rubber Muscle, pp. 2363-2368.

Tadano, Kotaro

Tokyo Inst. of Tech.

Akai, Masao

Tokyo Inst. of Tech.

Kadota, Kazuo

Tokyo Inst. of Tech.

Kawashima, Kenji

Tokyo Inst. of Tech.

 

WeA7

Egan Center Lower Level Room 11/12

Learning and Adaptation in Humanoids (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Schaal, Stefan

Univ. of Southern California

Co-Chair: Mistry, Michael

Disney Res. Pittsburgh

08:30-08:45

WeA7.1

Generalized Model Learning for Reinforcement Learning on a Humanoid Robot, pp. 2369-2374. Attachment

Hester, Todd

Univ. of Texas at Austin

Quinlan, Michael

Univ. of Texas at Austin

Stone, Peter

Univ. of Texas at Austin

08:45-09:00

WeA7.2

Learning Reliable and Efficient Navigation with a Humanoid, pp. 2375-2380. Attachment

Oßwald, Stefan

Univ. of Freiburg

Hornung, Armin

Univ. of Freiburg

Bennewitz, Maren

Univ. of Freiburg

09:00-09:15

WeA7.3

BM: An Iterative Algorithm to Learn Stable Non-Linear Dynamical Systems with Gaussian Mixture Models, pp. 2381-2388.

Khansari-Zadeh, Seyed Mohammad

EPFL

Billard, Aude

EPFL

09:15-09:30

WeA7.4

Hierarchical, Knowledge-Oriented Opto-Acoustic Scene Analysis for Humanoid Robots and Man-Machine Interaction, pp. 2389-2396.

Machmer, Timo

Karlsruhe Inst. of Tech. (KIT)

Swerdlow, Alexej

Karlsruhe Inst. of Tech. (KIT)

Kuehn, Benjamin

Karlsruhe Inst. of Tech. (KIT)

Kroschel, Kristian

Fraunhofer Inst. of Optronics, System Tech. and Image

09:30-09:45

WeA7.5

Reinforcement Learning of Motor Skills in High Dimensions: A Path Integral Approach, pp. 2397-2403.

Theodorou, Evangelos

Univ. of Southern California

Buchli, Jonas

Univ. of Southern California

Schaal, Stefan

Univ. of Southern California

09:45-10:00

WeA7.6

Associative Processes between Behavioral Symbols and a Large Scale Language Model, pp. 2404-2409.

Takano, Wataru

Tokyo Univ.

Nakamura, Yoshihiko

Univ. of Tokyo

 

WeA8

Egan Center Lower Level Room 3

Visual Tracking and Navigation (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Sagues, Carlos

Univ. of Zaragoza

Co-Chair: Das, Aveek

Sarnoff Corp.

08:30-08:45

WeA8.1

A Hybrid Estimation Approach for Autonomous Dirt Road Following Using Multiple Clothoid Segments, pp. 2410-2415. Attachment

Manz, Michael

Univ. of the Bundeswehr Munich

von Hundelshausen, Felix

UniBW

Wuensche, Hans J

UniBw Munich

08:45-09:00

WeA8.2

Concurrent Visual Multiple Lane Detection for Autonomous Vehicles, pp. 2416-2422.

Gupta, Rachana

North Carolina State Univ.

Snyder, Wesley

North Carolina State Univ.

Pitts, W. Shepherd

Lotus Engineering USA INC

09:00-09:15

WeA8.3

Ground Robot Navigation Using Uncalibrated Cameras, pp. 2423-2430. Attachment

Koch, Olivier

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Walter, Matthew

MIT

Huang, Albert S.

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Teller, Seth

MIT

09:15-09:30

WeA8.4

Robust Visual Path Following for Heterogeneous Mobile Platforms, pp. 2431-2437.

Das, Aveek

Sarnoff Corp.

Naroditsky, Oleg

Sarnoff, Univ. of Pennsylvania

Zhu, Zhiwei

Sarnoff

Samarasekera, Supun

Sarnoff

Kumar, Rakesh

Sarnoff

09:30-09:45

WeA8.5

3D Reconstruction of Fish Schooling Kinematics from Underwater Video, pp. 2438-2443.

Butail, Sachit

Univ. of Maryland

Paley, Derek

Univ. of Maryland

09:45-10:00

WeA8.6

Omnidirectional Visual Homing Using the 1D Trifocal Tensor, pp. 2444-2450. Attachment

Aranda, Miguel

Univ. of Zaragoza

Lopez-Nicolas, Gonzalo

Univ. de Zaragoza

Sagues, Carlos

Univ. of Zaragoza

 

WeA9

Egan Center Lower Level Room 9/10

Stochastic Multi-Robot and Modular Robot Systems (Invited Sessions)

Chair: Yim, Mark

Univ. of Pennsylvania

Co-Chair: Napp, Nils

Univ. of Washington

Organizer: Napp, Nils

Univ. of Washington

Organizer: Shaw, Fayette

Univ. of Washington

08:30-08:45

WeA9.1

Adaptation to Robot Failures and Shape Change in Decentralized Construction (I), pp. 2451-2458. Attachment

Yun, Seung-kook

MIT

Rus, Daniela

MIT

08:45-09:00

WeA9.2

Robust by Composition: Programs for Multi Robot Systems (I), pp. 2459-2466.

Napp, Nils

Univ. of Washington

Klavins, Eric

Univ. of Washington

09:00-09:15

WeA9.3

Factory Floor: A Robotically Reconfigurable Construction Platform (I), pp. 2467-2472.

Galloway, Kevin

Univ. of Pennslyvannia

Jois, Rekha

Univ. of Pennsylvania

Yim, Mark

Univ. of Pennsylvania

09:15-09:30

WeA9.4

Fluidic Manipulation for Scalable Stochastic 3D Assembly of Modular Robots (I), pp. 2473-2478. Attachment

Tolley, Michael Thomas

Cornell Univ.

Lipson, Hod

Cornell Univ.

09:30-09:45

WeA9.5

A Robotic Module for Stochastic Fluidic Assembly of 3D Self-Reconfiguring Structures (I), pp. 2479-2484.

Neubert, Jonas

Cornell Univ.

Cantwell, Abraham

Cornell Univ.

Constantin, Stephane

Cornell Univ.

Kalontarov, Michael

Cornell Univ.

Erickson, David

Cornell Univ.

Lipson, Hod

Cornell Univ.

09:45-10:00

WeA9.6

Robot Pebbles: One Centimeter Modules for Programmable Matter through Self-Disassembly, pp. 2485-2492.

Gilpin, Kyle

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Knaian, Ara

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Rus, Daniela

MIT

 

WeA10

Egan Center Lower Level Room 4

Motion and Path Planning for Articulated Systems (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Manocha, Dinesh

UNC at Chapel Hill

Co-Chair: Hauser, Kris

Indiana Univ.

08:30-08:45

WeA10.1

Fast Smoothing of Manipulator Trajectories Using Optimal Bounded-Acceleration Shortcuts, pp. 2493-2498.

Hauser, Kris

Indiana Univ.

Ng-Thow-Hing, Victor

Honda Res. Inst.

08:45-09:00

WeA10.2

Constrained Closed Loop Inverse Kinematics, pp. 2499-2506.

Dariush, Behzad

Honda Res. Inst. USA

Zhu, Youding

The Ohio State Univ.

Arumbakkam, Arjun

Honda Res. Inst. USA, Inc.

Fujimura, Kikuo

Honda Res. Inst.

09:00-09:15

WeA10.3

A Skill-Based Motion Planning Framework for Humanoids, pp. 2507-2514. Attachment

Kallmann, Marcelo

Univ. of California, Merced

Huang, Yazhou

Univ. of California Merced

Backman, Robert

Univ. of California, Merced

09:15-09:30

WeA10.4

High-Dimensional Planning on the GPU, pp. 2515-2522.

Kider Jr., Joseph T.

Univ. of Pennsylvania

Henderson, Mark

Univ. of Pennsylvania

Likhachev, Maxim

Univ. of Pennsylvania

Safonova, Alla

Univ. of Pennsylvania

09:30-09:45

WeA10.5

Trajectory Prediction in Cluttered Voxel Environments, pp. 2523-2528. Attachment

Jetchev, Nikolay

TU Berlin

Toussaint, Marc

TU Berlin

09:45-10:00

WeA10.6

Retraction-Based RRT Planner for Articulated Models, pp. 2529-2536.

Pan, Jia

UNC Chapel Hill

Zhang, Liangjun

Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Manocha, Dinesh

UNC at Chapel Hill

 

WeA11

Egan Center Lower Level Room 7/8

Omnidirectional Vision (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Bayro-Corrochano, Eduardo-Jose

CINVESTAV, Unidad Guadalajara

Co-Chair: Guerrero, J.J.

Univ. de Zaragoza

08:30-08:45

WeA11.1

3-D Shape Measurement of Pipe by Range Finder Constructed with Omni-Directional Laser and Omni-Directional Camera, pp. 2537-2542. Attachment

Matsui, Kenki

Shizuoka Univ.

Yamashita, Atsushi

Shizuoka Univ.

Kaneko, Toru

Shizuoka Univ.

08:45-09:00

WeA11.2

Vision-Based Robot Control with Omnidirectional Cameras and Conformal Geometric Algebra, pp. 2543-2548.

López-Franco, Carlos Alberto

Univ. of Guadalajara

Arana Daniel, Nancy Guadalupe

Univ. of Guadalajara

Bayro-Corrochano, Eduardo-Jose

CINVESTAV, Unidad Guadalajara

09:00-09:15

WeA11.3

Self-Orientation of a Hand-Held Catadioptric System in Man-Made Environments, pp. 2549-2555. Attachment

Puig, Luis

Univ. de Zaragoza

Bermúdez, Jesús

Univ. de Zaragoza

Guerrero, J.J.

Univ. de Zaragoza

09:15-09:30

WeA11.4

Application of Particle Filters to Vision-Based Orientation Estimation Using Harmonic Analysis, pp. 2556-2561. Attachment

Schairer, Timo

Univ. of Tuebingen

Huhle, Benjamin

Univ. of Tuebingen

Strasser, Wolfgang

Univ. of Tuebingen

09:30-09:45

WeA11.5

Central Catadioptric Line Matching for Robotic Applications, pp. 2562-2567.

Vasseur, Pascal

Univ. of Picardie - Jules Verne

Demonceaux, Cédric

Univ. of Picardie - Jules Verne

09:45-10:00

WeA11.6

Cooperative Tracking of Moving Objects and Face Detection with a Dual Camera Sensor, pp. 2568-2573.

Ghidoni, Stefano

Univ. of Padua

Pretto, Alberto

Univ. of Padua

Menegatti, Emanuele

The Univ. of Padua

 

WeA12

Egan Center Lower Level Room 5

MRI-Compatible Robots (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Althoefer, Kaspar

Kings Coll. London

Co-Chair: Iordachita, Iulian

Johns Hopkins Univ.

08:30-08:45

WeA12.1

Cardiac Interventions under MRI Guidance Using Robotic Assistance, pp. 2574-2579.

Li, Ming

National Inst. of Health

Kapoor, Ankur

National Inst. of Health

Mazilu, Dumitru

National Inst. of Health

Wood, Brad

National Inst. of Health

Horvath, Keith

National Inst. of Health

08:45-09:00

WeA12.2

Development of a Pneumatic Robot for MRI-Guided Transperineal Prostate Biopsy and Brachytherapy: New Approaches, pp. 2580-2585.

Song, Sang-Eun

The Johns Hopkins Univ.

Cho, Nathan Bongjoon

Johns Hopkins Univ.

Fischer, Gregory

Worcester Pol. Inst.

Hata, Nobuhiko

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Tempany, Clare

Brigham & Women's hospital, Harvard MEDICAL sCHOOL

Fichtinger, Gabor

Queen's Univ.

Iordachita, Iulian

Johns Hopkins Univ.

09:00-09:15

WeA12.3

Design and Development of a 3-Axis MRI-Compatible Force Sensor, pp. 2586-2591.

Tan, U-Xuan

Univ. of Maryland

Yang, Bo

Univ. of Maryland, Coll. Park

Gullapalli, Rao

Univ. of Maryland School of Medicine

Desai, Jaydev P.

Univ. of Maryland

09:15-09:30

WeA12.4

Miniaturized Triaxial Optical Fiber Force Sensor for MRI-Guided Minimally Invasive Surgery, pp. 2592-2597.

Puangmali, Pinyo

King's Coll. London

Dasgupta, Prokar

King's Coll. London

Seneviratne, Lakmal

Kings Coll. London

Althoefer, Kaspar

Kings Coll. London

09:30-09:45

WeA12.5

Novel Miniature MRI-Compatible Fibre-Optic Force Sensor for Cardiac Catheterization Procedures, pp. 2598-2603.

Polygerinos, Panagiotis

King's Coll. London

Puangmali, Pinyo

King's Coll. London

Schaeffter, Tobias

King's Coll. London

Razavi, Reza

King's Coll. London

Seneviratne, Lakmal

Kings Coll. London

Althoefer, Kaspar

Kings Coll. London

 

WeA13

Egan Center Lower Level Room 6

Filtering, Estimation and Localization (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Hagita, Norihiro

ATR

Co-Chair: Choi, Hyouk Ryeol

Sungkyunkwan Univ.

08:30-08:45

WeA13.1

Improved Monte Carlo Localization of Autonomous Robots through Simultaneous Estimation of Motion Model Parameters, pp. 2604-2609.

Mueller, Joerg

Univ. of Freiburg

Gonsior, Christoph

Univ. of Freiburg

Burgard, Wolfram

Univ. of Freiburg

08:45-09:00

WeA13.2

Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filtering for Probing-Based 6-DOF Localization in Robotic Assembly, pp. 2610-2617. Attachment

Taguchi, Yuichi

Mitsubishi Electric Res. Lab.

Marks, Tim K.

Mitsubishi Electric Res. Lab. (MERL)

Okuda, Haruhisa

Mitsubishi Electric Corp.

09:00-09:15

WeA13.3

Global Localization for a Small Mobile Robot Using Magnetic Pattern, pp. 2618-2623. Attachment

You, Won Suk

Sungkyunkwan

Choi, Byung June

Sungkyunkwan Univ.

Kim, Bumsoo

Sungkyunkwan Univ.

Koo, Ja Choon

Sungkyunkwan Univ.

Moon, Hyungpil

SungKyunKwan Univ.

Chung, Wan Kyun

POSTECH

Choi, Hyouk Ryeol

Sungkyunkwan Univ.

09:15-09:30

WeA13.4

Low-Cost Attitude and Heading Reference System: Filter Design and Experimental Evaluation, pp. 2624-2629.

Batista, Pedro

Inst. Superior Técnico

Silvestre, Carlos

Inst. Superior Tecnico

Oliveira, Paulo

Inst. Superior Técnico

Cardeira, Bruno

Inst. Superior Técnico

09:30-09:45

WeA13.5

Accelerometer-Based Tilt Estimation of a Rigid Body with Only Rotational Degrees of Freedom, pp. 2630-2636. Attachment

Trimpe, Sebastian

ETH Zurich

D'Andrea, Raffaello

ETHZ

09:45-10:00

WeA13.6

Person Identification by Integrating Wearable Sensors and Tracking Results from Environmental Sensors, pp. 2637-2642.

Ikeda, Tetsushi

ATR

Ishiguro, Hiroshi

Osaka Univ.

Glas, Dylan F.

ATR

Shiomi, Masahiro

ATR

Miyashita, Takahiro

ATR

Hagita, Norihiro

ATR

 

WeB1

Dena'ina Center Tikahtnu A

50 Years of Robotics: Perception (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Corke, Peter

CSIRO

Co-Chair: Kragic, Danica

KTH

10:25-11:00

WeB1.1

Robot Vision: Where It Has Been and Where It Will Be (I)*.

Kanade, Takeo

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

11:00-11:15

WeB1.2

High-Speed Liquid Lens for Computer Vision, pp. 2643-2648.

Oku, Hiromasa

Univ. of Tokyo

Ishikawa, Masatoshi

Univ. of Tokyo

11:15-11:30

WeB1.3

FAB-MAP 3D: Topological Mapping with Spatial and Visual Appearance, pp. 2649-2656.

Paul, Rohan

Univ. of Oxford

Newman, Paul

Oxford Univ.

11:30-11:45

WeB1.4

Real-Time Monocular SLAM: Why Filter?, pp. 2657-2664.

Strasdat, Hauke

Imperial Coll.

Montiel, J.M.M

Univ. de Zaragoza

Davison, Andrew J

Imperial Coll. London

 

WeB2

Dena'ina Center Tikahtnu B/C

50 Years of Robotics: Learning (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Oh, Paul Y.

Drexel Univ.

Co-Chair: Billard, Aude

EPFL

10:25-11:00

WeB2.1

Machine Learning for Robotic Perception and Control (I)*.

Thrun, Sebastian

Stanford Univ.

11:00-11:15

WeB2.2

Fast, Robust Quadruped Locomotion Over Challenging Terrain, pp. 2665-2670. Attachment

Kalakrishnan, Mrinal

Univ. of Southern California

Buchli, Jonas

Univ. of Southern California

Pastor, Peter

Univ. of Southern California

Mistry, Michael

Disney Res. Pittsburgh

Schaal, Stefan

Univ. of Southern California

11:15-11:30

WeB2.3

Evaluation of a Probabilistic Approach to Learn and Reproduce Gestures by Imitation, pp. 2671-2676. Attachment

Calinon, Sylvain

FONDAZIONE IST. ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA

Sauser, Eric

EPFL

Billard, Aude

EPFL

Caldwell, Darwin G.

Italian Inst. of Tech.

11:30-11:45

WeB2.4

Using Model Knowledge for Learning Inverse Dynamics, pp. 2677-2682.

Nguyen-Tuong, Duy

Max Planck Inst. for Biological Cybernetics

Peters, Jan

Max-Planck Inst. for Bio. Cybernetics

 

WeB3

Dena'ina Center Tikahtnu D/E

50 Years of Robotics: Planning (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Amato, Nancy

Texas A&M Univ.

Co-Chair: Hsu, David

National Univ. of Singapore

10:25-11:00

WeB3.1

Motion Planning: What Does It Move For? (I)*.

Laumond, Jean-Paul

LAAS-CNRS

11:00-11:15

WeB3.2

Object Caging under Imperfect Shape Knowledge, pp. 2683-2688.

Pipattanasomporn, Peam

Chulalongkorn Univ.

Sudsang, Attawith

Chulalongkorn Univ.

11:15-11:30

WeB3.3

Sampling-Based Motion Planning with Temporal Goals, pp. 2689-2696.

Bhatia, Amit

Rice Univ.

Kavraki, Lydia

Rice Univ.

Moshe, Vardi

Rice Univ.

11:30-11:45

WeB3.4

Planning Pre-Grasp Manipulation for Transport Tasks, pp. 2697-2704. Attachment

Chang, Lillian

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Srinivasa, Siddhartha

Intel Lab. Pittsburgh

Pollard, Nancy S

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

 

WeB4

Dena'ina Center Kahtnu 1/2

50 Years of Robotics: Control (Regular Sessions)

Chair: De Luca, Alessandro

Univ. di Roma

Co-Chair: Albu-Schäffer, Alin

DLR - German Aerospace Center

10:25-11:00

WeB4.1

The Interplay between Robotics and Control Theory (I)*.

Spong, Mark

Univ. of Texas at Dallas

11:00-11:15

WeB4.2

Biomimetic Motor Behavior for Simultaneous Adaptation of Force, Impedance and Trajectory in Interaction Tasks, pp. 2705-2711.

Ganesh, Gowrishankar

ATR International

Albu-Schäffer, Alin

DLR - German Aerospace Center

Haruno, Masahiko

ATR International

Kawato, Mitsuo

Press

Burdet, Etienne

imperial Coll. london

11:15-11:30

WeB4.3

Human-In-The-Loop: Terminal Constraint Receding Horizon Control with Human Inputs, pp. 2712-2717.

Chipalkatty, Rahul

Georgia Inst. of Tech.

Egerstedt, Magnus

Georgia Inst. of Tech.

11:30-11:45

WeB4.4

Topology Control of Dynamic Networks in the Presence of Local and Global Constraints, pp. 2718-2723.

Moshtagh, Nima

Scientific System Company Inc.

Mesbahi, Mehran

Univ. of Washington

Mehra, Raman

Scientific System Company Inc.

 

WeD1

Egan Center Street Level Room Arteaga

Mechanics and Planning for Multibody Systems (Invited Sessions)

Chair: Murphey, Todd

Northwestern Univ.

Co-Chair: Li, Zexiang

HKUST

Organizer: Selig, J.M.

London South Bank Univ.

14:20-14:35

WeD1.1

Probabilistically Complete Planning with End-Effector Pose Constraints, pp. 2724-2730.

Berenson, Dmitry

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Srinivasa, Siddhartha

Intel Lab. Pittsburgh

14:35-14:50

WeD1.2

Variational Solutions to Simultaneous Collisions between Multiple Rigid Bodies, pp. 2731-2738.

Seghete, Vlad

Northwestern Univ.

Murphey, Todd

Northwestern Univ.

14:50-15:05

WeD1.3

Quotient Kinematics Machines: Concept, Analysis and Synthesis, pp. 2739-2744.

Wu, Yuanqing

Shanghai Jiaotong Univ.

Wang, Hong

Harbin Inst. of Tech. Shenzhen Graduate

Li, Zexiang

HKUST

Lou, Yunjiang

Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Inst. of Tech.

Shi, Jinbo

Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Tech.

15:05-15:20

WeD1.4

Graph Theory Roots of Spatial Operators for Kinematics and Dynamics, pp. 2745-2750.

Jain, Abhinandan

Jet Propulsion Lab.

15:20-15:35

WeD1.5

Information Theory on Lie Groups and Mobile Robotics Applications (I), pp. 2751-2757.

Chirikjian, Gregory

Johns Hopkins Univ.

 

WeD2

Egan Center Street Level Room Cook Hall

Cellular and Modular Robots (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Stoy, Kasper

Univ. of Southern Denmark

Co-Chair: Nagpal, Radhika

Harvard Univ.

14:20-14:35

WeD2.1

Design of a New Independently-Mobile Reconfigurable Modular Robot, pp. 2758-2764.

Kutzer, Michael Dennis Mays

Johns Hopkins Univ. Applied Physics Lab.

Moses, Matthew S

Johns Hopkins Univ.

Brown, Christopher

MIT

Scheidt, David

Johns Hopkins Univ.

Chirikjian, Gregory

Johns Hopkins Univ.

Armand, Mehran

Johns Hopkins Univ. Applied Physics Lab.

14:35-14:50

WeD2.2

A Distributed Strategy for Gait Adaptation in Modular Robots, pp. 2765-2770. Attachment

Christensen, David Johan

Univ. of Southern Denmark

Schultz, Ulrik Pagh

Univ. of Southern Denmark

Stoy, Kasper

Univ. of Southern Denmark

14:50-15:05

WeD2.3

An Autonomous Robot That Duplicates Itself from Low-Complexity Components, pp. 2771-2776.

Lee, Kiju

Case Western Res. Univ.

Chirikjian, Gregory

Johns Hopkins Univ.

15:05-15:20

WeD2.4

Coordinating Collective Locomotion in an Amorphous Modular Robot, pp. 2777-2784.

Yu, Chih-Han

Harvard Univ.

Werfel, Justin

Harvard Univ.

Nagpal, Radhika

Harvard Univ.

15:20-15:35

WeD2.5

Strength Analysis of Miniature Folded Right Angle Tetrahedron Chain Programmable Matter, pp. 2785-2790. Attachment

White, Paul

Univ. of Pennsylvania

Posner, Michael

Univ. of Pennsylvania

Yim, Mark

Univ. of Pennsylvania

15:35-15:50

WeD2.6

On the Complexity of Optimal Reconfiguration Planning for Modular Reconfigurable Robots, pp. 2791-2796.

Hou, Feili

Univ. of Soutern California

Shen, Wei-Min

USC Information Science Inst.

 

WeD3

Egan Center Street Level Room Boardroom

Climbing and Navigating Rough Terrain (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Choset, Howie

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Co-Chair: Zhang, Jianwei

Univ. of Hamburg

14:20-14:35

WeD3.1

Adhesion Recovery and Passive Peeling in a Wall Climbing Robot Using Adhesives, pp. 2797-2802.

Kute, Casey

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Murphy, Michael

Boston Dynamics

Menguc, Yigit

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Sitti, Metin

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

14:35-14:50

WeD3.2

DSAC – Dynamic, Single Actuated Climber: Local Stability and Bifurcations, pp. 2803-2809. Attachment

Degani, Amir

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Choset, Howie

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Mason, Matthew T.

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

14:50-15:05

WeD3.3

Toward a Rapid and Robust Attachment Strategy for Vertical Climbing, pp. 2810-2815. Attachment

Palmer III, Luther R.

Univ. of South Florida

Diller, Eric D.

Case Western Res. Univ.

Quinn, Roger, D.

Case Western Res. Univ.

15:05-15:20

WeD3.4

Internal Force Compensating Method for Wall-Climbing Caterpillar Robot, pp. 2816-2820.

Wang, Wei

Beihang Univ.

Wang, Kun

Beihang Univ.

Zhang, Houxiang

Computer Science

Zhang, Jianwei

Univ. of Hamburg

15:20-15:35

WeD3.5

Axel Rover Paddle Wheel Design, Efficiency, and Sinkage on Deformable Terrain, pp. 2821-2827. Attachment

Abad-Manterola, Pablo

California Inst. of Tech.

Burdick, Joel

California Inst. of Tech.

Nesnas, Issa

Jet Propulsion Lab.

Chinchali, Sandeep

Caltech

Fuller, Christine

Caltech

Zhou, Xuecheng

Caltech

15:35-15:50

WeD3.6

Haptic Terrain Classification for Legged Robots, pp. 2828-2833.

Hoepflinger, Mark

Swiss Federal Inst. of Tech.

Remy, C. David

ETH Zurich

Hutter, Marco

ETH Zurich

Siegwart, Roland

ETH Zurich

Spinello, Luciano

ETH Zurich

 

WeD4

Egan Center Lower Level Room 1

Search and Rescue Robots (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Merlet, Jean-Pierre

INRIA

Co-Chair: Nejat, Goldie

Univ. of Toronto

14:20-14:35

WeD4.1

A Portable, Modular Parallel Wire Crane for Rescue Operations, pp. 2834-2839.

Merlet, Jean-Pierre

INRIA

Daney, David

INRIA Sophia Antipolis

14:35-14:50

WeD4.2

Probabilistic Search with Agile UAVs, pp. 2840-2845.

Waharte, Sonia

Univ. of Oxford

Symington, Andrew Colquhoun

Oxford Univ.

Trigoni, Niki

Univ. of Oxford

14:50-15:05

WeD4.3

User Interfaces for Human Robot Interactions with a Swarm of Robots in Support to Firefighters, pp. 2846-2851.

Gancet, Jeremi

Space Applications Services

Motard, Elvina

Space Applications Services

Naghsh, Amir

Sheffield Hallam Univ.

Roast, Chris

Sheffield Hallam Univ.

Munoz, Miguel

Space Applications Services

Marques, Lino

Univ. of Coimbra

15:05-15:20

WeD4.4

Feature Selection for Gas Identification with a Mobile Robot, pp. 2852-2857.

Trincavelli, Marco

Örebro Univ.

Loutfi, Amy

Örebro Univ.

15:20-15:35

WeD4.5

The Search for Survivors: Cooperative Human-Robot Interaction in Search and Rescue Environments Using Semi-Autonomous Robots, pp. 2858-2863.

Doroodgar, Barzin

Univ. of Toronto

Ficocelli, Maurizio

State Univ. of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook

Mobedi, Babak

Univ. of Toronto

Nejat, Goldie

Univ. of Toronto

15:35-15:50

WeD4.6

Trials of 3-D Map Construction Using the Tele-Operated Crawler Robot Kenaf at Disaster City, pp. 2864-2870. Attachment

Ohno, Kazunori

Tohoku Univ.

Tadokoro, Satoshi

Tohoku Univ.

Nagatani, Keiji

Tohoku Univ.

Koyanagi, Eiji

Chiba Inst. of Tech.

Yoshida, Tomoaki

Chiba Inst. of Tech.

 

WeD5

Egan Center Lower Level Room 1/14

Motion Planning for Manipulation and Grasping (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Likhachev, Maxim

Univ. of Pennsylvania

Co-Chair: Chitta, Sachin

Willow Garage Inc.

14:20-14:35

WeD5.1

An Adaptive Roadmap Guided Multi-RRTs Strategy for Single Query Path Planning, pp. 2871-2876. Attachment

Wang, Wei

National Univ. of Defense Tech.

Li, Yan

National Univ. of Defense Tech.

Xu, Xin

National Univ. of Defense Tech.

Yang, Simon X.

Univ. of Guelph

14:35-14:50

WeD5.2

Planning and Control of an Internal Point of a Deformable Object, pp. 2877-2882.

Das, Jadav

Vanderbilt Univ.

Sarkar, Nilanjan

Vanderbilt Univ.

14:50-15:05

WeD5.3

Integrated Grasp and Motion Planning, pp. 2883-2888.

Vahrenkamp, Nikolaus

Univ. of Karlsruhe

Do, Martin

Karlsruhe Inst. of Tech. (KIT)

Asfour, Tamim

Univ. of Karlsruhe

Dillmann, Rüdiger

Univ. of Karlsruhe

15:05-15:20

WeD5.4

Towards One Shot Learning by Imitation for Humanoid Robots, pp. 2889-2894.

Wu, Yan

Imperial Coll. London

Demiris, Yiannis

Imperial Coll. London

15:20-15:35

WeD5.5

Combining Planning Techniques for Manipulation Using Realtime Perception, pp. 2895-2901. Attachment

Sucan, Ioan Alexandru

Rice Univ.

Kalakrishnan, Mrinal

Univ. of Southern California

Chitta, Sachin

Willow Garage Inc.

15:35-15:50

WeD5.6

Search-Based Planning for Manipulation with Motion Primitives, pp. 2902-2908. Attachment

Cohen, Benjamin

Univ. of Pennsylvania

Chitta, Sachin

Willow Garage Inc.

Likhachev, Maxim

Univ. of Pennsylvania

 

WeD6

Egan Center Lower Level Room 2

Orthoses, Protheses and Rehabilitation Systems (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Kong, Kyoungchul

Univ. of California, Berkeley

Co-Chair: Kuchenbecker, Katherine J.

Univ. of Pennsylvania

14:20-14:35

WeD6.1

Classification of Individual Finger Motions Hybridizing Electromyogram in Transient and Converged States, pp. 2909-2915.

Kondo, Genta

The Univ. of Tokyo

Kato, Ryu

The Univ. of Tokyo

Yokoi, Hiroshi

the Univ. of Electro-Communications

Arai, Tamio

Univ. of Tokyo

14:35-14:50

WeD6.2

EMG Based Design and Evaluation of Micro Macro Neural Network for Rollover Support Trunk Orthosis, pp. 2916-2921.

Ando, Takeshi

Waseda Univ.

Okamoto, Jun

Waseda Univ.

Takahashi, Mitsuru

Shizuoka Cancer Center

Fujie, Masakatsu G.

Waseda Univ.

14:50-15:05

WeD6.3

Estimation of Instantaneous Tremor Parameters for FES–Based Tremor Suppression, pp. 2922-2927.

Gallego, Juan Alvaro

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

Rocon, Eduardo

Inst. de Automática Industrial

Pons, Jose Luis

CSIC

15:05-15:20

WeD6.4

Tremor Attenuation Using FES-Based Joint Stiffness Control, pp. 2928-2933.

Bó, Antônio Padilha Lanari

LIRMM UMR 5506 CNRS UM2

Poignet, Philippe

LIRMM UMR 5506 CNRS UM2

15:20-15:35

WeD6.5

Through the Development of a Biomechatronic Knee Prosthesis for Transfemoral Amputees: Mechanical Design and Manufacture, Human Gait Characterization, Intelligent Control Strategies and Tests, pp. 2934-2939. Attachment

Torrealba, Rafael R.

Simón Bolívar Univ.

Pérez-D'Arpino, Claudia

Simón Bolívar Univ.

Cappelletto, Jose

Simón Bolívar Univ.

Fermín-León, Leonardo

Simón Bólivar Univ.

Fernandez-Lopez, Gerardo

Simon Bolivar Univ.

Grieco, Juan Carlos

Simon Bolivar Univ.

15:35-15:50

WeD6.6

A Compact Rotary Series Elastic Actuator for Knee Joint Assistive System, pp. 2940-2945.

Kong, Kyoungchul

Univ. of California, Berkeley

Bae, Joonbum

Univ. of California, Berkeley

Tomizuka, Masayoshi

Univ. of California

 

WeD7

Egan Center Lower Level Room 11/12

Learning Models, Trajectories and Strategies (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Ramamoorthy, Subramanian

The Univ. of Edinburgh

Co-Chair: Mistry, Michael

Disney Res. Pittsburgh

14:20-14:35

WeD7.1

Geodesic Trajectory Generation on Learnt Skill Manifolds, pp. 2946-2952. Attachment

Havoutis, Ioannis

Univ. of Edinburgh

Ramamoorthy, Subramanian

The Univ. of Edinburgh

14:35-14:50

WeD7.2

Dimensionality Reduction for Trajectory Learning from Demonstration, pp. 2953-2958.

Melchior, Nik

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Simmons, Reid

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

14:50-15:05

WeD7.3

Supervised Learning of Internal Models for Autonomous Goal-Oriented Robot Navigation Using Reservoir Computing, pp. 2959-2964.

Antonelo, Eric Aislan

Ghent Univ.

Schrauwen, Benjamin

Ghent Univ.

15:05-15:20

WeD7.4

A HMM-Based Approach to Learning Probability Models of Programming Strategies for Industrial Robots, pp. 2965-2970.

Hollmann, Rebecca

Fraunhofer Inst. Manufacturing Engineering and Automation

Haegele, Martin

Fraunhofer IPA

Verl, Alexander

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

Rost, Arne

Fraunhofer IPA

15:20-15:35

WeD7.5

Apprenticeship Learning Via Soft Local Homomorphisms, pp. 2971-2976.

Boularias, Abdeslam

Laval Univ.

Chaib-draa, Brahim

Laval Univ.

15:35-15:50

WeD7.6

A Game-Theoretic Procedure for Learning Hierarchically Structured Strategies, pp. 2977-2983.

Rosman, Benjamin

The Univ. of Edinburgh

Ramamoorthy, Subramanian

The Univ. of Edinburgh

 

WeD8

Egan Center Lower Level Room 3

Navigation and Control (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Guglielmelli, Eugenio

Univ. Campus Bio-Medico

Co-Chair: Richards, Arthur

Univ. of Bristol

14:20-14:35

WeD8.1

Sensor-Based Tracking of Environmental Level Sets by a Unicycle-Like Mobile Robot, pp. 2984-2988.

Matveev, Alexey

Saint Petersburg Univ.

Teimoori Sangani, Hamid

The Univ. of New South Wales (UNSW)

Savkin, Andrey

Univ. of New South Wales

14:35-14:50

WeD8.2

Design of Navigation Behaviors and the Selection Framework with Generalized Stochastic Petri Nets Toward Dependable Navigation of a Mobile Robot, pp. 2989-2994. Attachment

Moon, Chang-bae

Korea Univ.

Chung, Woojin

Korea Univ.

14:50-15:05

WeD8.3

An AUVs Path Planner Using Genetic Algorithms with a Deterministic Crossover Operator, pp. 2995-3000.

Cheng, Chi-Tsun

The Hong Kong Pol. Univ.

Fallahi, Kia

Univ. of Calgary

Leung, Henry

Univ. of Calgary

Tse, Chi K.

The Hong Kong Pol. Univ.

15:05-15:20

WeD8.4

Robust Adaptive Formation Control of Fully Actuated Marine Vessels Using Local Potential Functions, pp. 3001-3007.

Ghommam, Jawhar

Orléans

Saad, Maarouf

École de Tech. supérieure

Mnif, Faiçal

Sultan Qaboos Univ.

15:20-15:35

WeD8.5

Receding Horizon Control in Unknown Environments: Experimental Results, pp. 3008-3013. Attachment

Deittert, Markus

Univ. of Bristol

Richards, Arthur

Univ. of Bristol

Mathews, George

The Univ. of Sydney

15:35-15:50

WeD8.6

Variable-Resolution Map Building and Real-Time Path Planning of Omni-Directional Mobile Robots, pp. 3014-3019.

Xiang, Jingyu

Nagoya Univ.

Tazaki, Yuichi

Nagoya Univ.

Inagaki, Shinkichi

Nagoya Univ.

Suzuki, Tatsuya

Nagoya Univ.

 

WeD9

Egan Center Lower Level Room 9/10

Distributed Systems for Estimation, Tracking and Pursuit (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Fierro, Rafael

Univ. of New Mexico

Co-Chair: Michael, Nathan

Univ. of Pennsylvania

14:20-14:35

WeD9.1

Model-Based Motion Tracking System Using Distributed Network Cameras, pp. 3020-3025. Attachment

Iwashita, Yumi

Kyushu Univ.

Kurazume, Ryo

Kyushu Univ.

Mori, Takamitsu

Kyushu Univ.

Saito, Masaki

Kyushu Univ.

Hasegawa, Tsutomu

Kyushu Univ.

14:35-14:50

WeD9.2

Distributed Nonlinear Estimation for Robot Localization Using Weighted Consensus, pp. 3026-3031.

Simonetto, Andrea

TU Delft

Keviczky, Tamas

Delft Univ. of Tech.

Babuska, Robert

Delft Univ. of Tech.

14:50-15:05

WeD9.3

Dynamic Consensus for Merging Visual Maps under Limited Communications, pp. 3032-3037.

Aragues, Rosario

Univ. de Zaragoza, DIIS-I3A

Cortes, Jorge

Univ. of California, San Diego

Sagues, Carlos

Univ. of Zaragoza

15:05-15:20

WeD9.4

Detecting Anomalies in Unmanned Vehicles Using the Mahalanobis Distance, pp. 3038-3044.

Lin, Raz

Bar-Ilan Univ.

Khalastchi, Eliahu

Bar-Ilan

Kaminka, Gal A

Bar Ilan Univ.

15:20-15:35

WeD9.5

Multi-Robot Pursuit-Evasion without Maps, pp. 3045-3051. Attachment

Kolling, Andreas

Univ. of California Merced

Carpin, Stefano

Univ. of California, Merced

15:35-15:50

WeD9.6

Multi-Vehicle Testbed for Decentralized Environmental Sensing, pp. 3052-3058. Attachment

Cortez, Andres

Univ. of New Mexico

Luna, Jose-Marcio

The Univ. of New Mexico

Fierro, Rafael

Univ. of New Mexico

Wood, John

Univ. of New Mexico

 

WeD10

Egan Center Lower Level Room 4

Motion and Trajectory Planning (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Gupta, Kamal

Simon Fraser Univ.

Co-Chair: Claassens, Jonathan

CSIR

14:20-14:35

WeD10.1

Planning Most-Likely Paths from Overhead Imagery, pp. 3059-3064.

Murphy, Elizabeth

Oxford Univ.

Newman, Paul

Oxford Univ.

14:35-14:50

WeD10.2

B-Spline Based Filters for Multi-Point Trajectories Planning, pp. 3065-3070.

Biagiotti, Luigi

Univ. of Modena and Reggio Emilia

Melchiorri, Claudio

Univ. of Bologna

14:50-15:05

WeD10.3

On the Design of Deformable Input / State-Lattice Graphs, pp. 3071-3077.

Rufli, Martin

ETH Zurich

Siegwart, Roland

ETH Zurich

15:05-15:20

WeD10.4

Distributed Roadmaps for Robot Navigation in Sensor Networks, pp. 3078-3083. Attachment

Yao, Zhenwang

Simon Fraser Univ.

Gupta, Kamal

Simon Fraser Univ.

15:20-15:35

WeD10.5

DAvinCi: A Cloud Computing Framework for Service Robots, pp. 3084-3089.

Arumugam, Rajesh

A*Star Data Storage Inst.

Enti Ranga Reddy, Vikas Reddy

Data Storage Inst.

Liu, Bingbing

Data Storage Inst.

Wu, Xiaojun

Data Storage Inst.

Baskaran, Krishnamoorthy

Data storage Inst.

Foong, Foo Kong

DATA STORAGE Inst.

Kumar, Appadorai Senthil

Data Storage Inst.

Kang, Dee Meng

Data Storage Inst.

Goh, Wai Kit

NUS

15:35-15:50

WeD10.6

An RRT-Based Path Planner for Use in Trajectory Imitation, pp. 3090-3095. Attachment

Claassens, Jonathan

CSIR

 

WeD11

Egan Center Lower Level Room 7/8

Recognition and Detection (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Kragic, Danica

KTH

Co-Chair: Christensen, Henrik Iskov

Georgia Inst. of Tech.

14:20-14:35

WeD11.1

A Saliency-Based Solution for Robust Off-Road Obstacle Detection, pp. 3096-3101.

Santana, Pedro

Univ. of Lisbon

Guedes, Magno

Univ. Nova de Lisboa

Correia, Luís

Univ. of Lisbon

Barata, Jose

Univ. Nova de Lisboa

14:35-14:50

WeD11.2

Scalable Real-Time Object Recognition and Segmentation Via Cascaded, Discriminative Markov Random Fields, pp. 3102-3107. Attachment

Vernaza, Paul

Univ. of Pennsylvania

Lee, Daniel D.

Univ. of Pennsylvania

14:50-15:05

WeD11.3

Real-Time Identification and Localization of Body Parts from Depth Images, pp. 3108-3113.

Plagemann, Christian

Stanford Univ.

Ganapathi, Varun

Stanford Univ.

Koller, Daphne

Stanford Univ.

Thrun, Sebastian

Stanford Univ.

15:05-15:20

WeD11.4

Active 3D Scene Segmentation and Detection of Unknown Objects, pp. 3114-3120. Attachment

Björkman, Mĺrten

KTH

Kragic, Danica

KTH

15:20-15:35

WeD11.5

Using Stereo for Object Recognition, pp. 3121-3127.

Helmer, Scott

Univ. of British Columbia

Lowe, David

UBC

15:35-15:50

WeD11.6

High-Speed 3D Object Recognition Using Additive Features in a Linear Subspace, pp. 3128-3134.

Kanezaki, Asako

Grad. School of Information Science and Tech. Univ. Toky

Nakayama, Hideki

Grad. School of Information Science and Tech. Univ. of Tok

Harada, Tatsuya

The Univ. of Tokyo

Kuniyoshi, Yasuo

The Univ. of Tokyo

 

WeD12

Egan Center Lower Level Room 5

Microrobot Design (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Bergbreiter, Sarah

Univ. of Maryland, Coll. Park

Co-Chair: Cho, Jung

Lehigh Univ.

14:20-14:35

WeD12.1

Brake Design for Dynamic Modular Robots, pp. 3135-3140.

Thorne, Chris

Univ. of Pennsylvania

Yim, Mark

Univ. of Pennsylvania

Skorodinski, Nikita

Univ. of Pennsylvania

Tipton, Hughes

Univ. of Pennsylvania

Van Schoyck, Travis

Univ. of Pennsylvania

14:35-14:50

WeD12.2

Biosensing and Actuation for Microbiorobots, pp. 3141-3146.

Sakar, Mahmut Selman

Univ. of Pennsylvania

Steager, Edward

Drexel Univ.

Julius, Agung

Univ. of Pennsylvania

Kim, MinJun

Drexel Univ.

Kumar, Vijay

Univ. of Pennsylvania

Pappas, George J.

Univ. of Pennsylvania

14:50-15:05

WeD12.3

Dual-Stylus-Arm Scratch Drive Micro-Robots Controlled by an Onboard Parallax Algorithm, pp. 3147-3152.

Cho, Jung

Lehigh Univ.

Arnold, Mark

Lehigh Univ.

15:05-15:20

WeD12.4

Integrated Silicon-PDMS Process for Microrobot Mechanisms, pp. 3153-3158.

Gerratt, Aaron P.

Univ. of Maryland, Coll. Park

Penskiy, Ivan

Univ. of Maryland, Coll. Park

Bergbreiter, Sarah

Univ. of Maryland, Coll. Park

15:20-15:35

WeD12.5

Model-Based Control of a High-Precision Imprinting Actuator for Micro-Channel Fabrications, pp. 3159-3164.

Teo, Tat Joo

Nanyang Tech. Univ.

Chen, I-Ming

Nanyang Tech. Univ.

Kiew, Choon Meng

Singapore Inst. of Manufacturing Tech.

Yang, Guilin

Singapore Inst. of Manufacturing Tech.

Lin, Wei

SIMTech

15:35-15:50

WeD12.6

Three-Axis Micro-Force Sensor with Tunable Force Range and Sub-Micronewton Measurement Uncertainty, pp. 3165-3170.

Muntwyler, Simon

ETH Zurich

Beyeler, Felix

ETH Zurich

Nelson, Bradley J.

ETH Zurich

 

WeD13

Egan Center Lower Level Room 6

Localization, Mapping and Control for Multiple Vehicles (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Oriolo, Giuseppe

Univ. di Roma

Co-Chair: Teller, Seth

MIT

14:20-14:35

WeD13.1

Nonlinear Observability of the Centralized Multi-Vehicle SLAM Problem, pp. 3171-3178.

Perera, Linthotage Dushantha Lochana

The Univ. of Sydney

Nettleton, Eric

The Univ. of Sydney

14:35-14:50

WeD13.2

Localization of Probabilistic Robot Formations in SLAM, pp. 3179-3184.

Lazaro, Maria Teresa

Inst. de Investigación en Ingeniería de Aragón,Univ. of

Castellanos, Jose A.

Univ. of Zaragoza

14:50-15:05

WeD13.3

Multiple Relative Pose Graphs for Robust Cooperative Mapping, pp. 3185-3192. Attachment

Kim, Been

MIT, CSAIL

Kaess, Michael

MIT

Fletcher, Luke

MIT

Leonard, John

MIT

Bachrach, Abraham

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Roy, Nicholas

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Teller, Seth

MIT

15:05-15:20

WeD13.4

On the Solvability of the Mutual Localization Problem with Anonymous Position Measures, pp. 3193-3199. Attachment

Franchi, Antonio

Sapienza Univ. of Rome

Stegagno, Paolo

Univ. La Sapienza, Roma

Oriolo, Giuseppe

Univ. di Roma "La Sapienza"

15:20-15:35

WeD13.5

On the Global Optimum of Planar, Range-Based Robot-To-Robot Relative Pose Estimation, pp. 3200-3206.

Trawny, Nikolas

Univ. of Minnesota

Roumeliotis, Stergios

Univ. of Minnesota

15:35-15:50

WeD13.6

Graph Based Distributed Control of Non-Holonomic Vehicles Endowed with Local Positioning Information Engaged in Escorting Missions, pp. 3207-3214.

Falconi, Riccardo

Univ. of Bologna

Gowal, Sven

EPFL

Martinoli, Alcherio

EPFL

 

ThA1

Egan Center Street Level Room Boardroom

Control and Planning (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Kress-Gazit, Hadas

Cornell Univ.

Co-Chair: Techy, Laszlo

Univ. of Washington

08:30-08:45

ThA1.1

Automatic Synthesis of Robot Controllers for Tasks with Locative Prepositions, pp. 3215-3220.

Kress-Gazit, Hadas

Cornell Univ.

Pappas, George J.

Univ. of Pennsylvania

08:45-09:00

ThA1.2

High Quality Goal Connection for Nonholonomic Obstacle Navigation Allowing for Drift Using Dynamic Potential Fields, pp. 3221-3226.

Weir, Michael Kenneth

Univ. of St Andrews

Bott, Matthew Paul

Univ. of St Andrews

09:00-09:15

ThA1.3

Motion Planning and Control from Temporal Logic Specifications with Probabilistic Satisfaction Guarantees, pp. 3227-3232.

Lahijanian, Morteza

Boston Univ.

Wasniewski, Joseph

Boston Univ.

Andersson, Sean

Boston Univ.

Belta, Calin

Boston Univ.

09:15-09:30

ThA1.4

Dynamic Sensor Planning with Stereo for Model Identification on a Mobile Platform, pp. 3233-3239.

Ma, Jeremy

California Inst. of Tech.

Burdick, Joel

California Inst. of Tech.

09:30-09:45

ThA1.5

Planar Path Planning for Flight Vehicles in Wind with Turn Rate and Acceleration Bounds, pp. 3240-3245.

Techy, Laszlo

Univ. of Washington

Woolsey, Craig

Virginia Tech.

Morgansen, Kristi

Univ. of Washington

09:45-10:00

ThA1.6

Balanced State-Space Coverage in Planning with Dynamics, pp. 3246-3253.

Li, Yanbo

Univ. of Nevada at Reno

Bekris, Kostas E.

Univ. of Nevada, Reno

 

ThA2

Egan Center Lower Level Room 1

Flexible Actuators (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Suzumori, Koichi

Okayama Univ.

Co-Chair: Verl, Alexander

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

08:30-08:45

ThA2.1

The QuadHelix-Drive - an Improved Rope Actuator for Robotic Applications, pp. 3254-3259.

Rost, Arne

Fraunhofer IPA

Verl, Alexander

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

08:45-09:00

ThA2.2

Fabrication and Basic Experiments of Pneumatic Multi-Chamber Rubber Tube Actuator for Assisting Colonoscope Insertion, pp. 3260-3265. Attachment

Wakimoto, Shuichi

Okayama Univ.

Suzumori, Koichi

Okayama Univ.

09:00-09:15

ThA2.3

Flexible Sliding Actuator Using a Flat Tube and Its Application to the Rescue Operation, pp. 3266-3272.

Mori, Yotaro

Tokyo Inst. of Tech.

Tsukagoshi, Hideyuki

Tokyo Inst. of Tech.

Kitagawa, Ato

Tokyo Inst. of Tech.

09:15-09:30

ThA2.4

Modeling and Design of Energy Efficient Variable Stiffness Actuators, pp. 3273-3278.

Visser, Ludo C.

Univ. of Twente

Carloni, Raffaella

Univ. of Twente

Unal, Ramazan

Univ. of Twente

Stramigioli, Stefano

Univ. of Twente

09:30-09:45

ThA2.5

Variable Stiffness Actuators: A Port-Based Analysis and a Comparison of Energy Efficiency, pp. 3279-3284.

Visser, Ludo C.

Univ. of Twente

Carloni, Raffaella

Univ. of Twente

Stramigioli, Stefano

Univ. of Twente

09:45-10:00

ThA2.6

Mechanism Design for Variable Stiffness Actuation Based on Enumeration and Analysis of Performance, pp. 3285-3291.

Catalano, Manuel

Faculty of Engineering - Univ. of Pisa

Schiavi, Riccardo

Univ. of Pisa

Bicchi, Antonio

Univ. of Pisa

 

ThA3

Egan Center Lower Level Room 13/14

Dynamically Stable Humanoids (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Goswami, Ambarish

Honda Res. Inst.

Co-Chair: Ruiz-del-Solar, Javier

Univ. de Chile

08:30-08:45

ThA3.1

Switching Control and Quick Stepping Motion Generation Based on the Maximal CPI Sets for Falling Avoidance of Humanoid Robots, pp. 3292-3297.

Yamamoto, Ko

Tokyo Inst. of Tech.

Nakamura, Yoshihiko

Univ. of Tokyo

08:45-09:00

ThA3.2

A Study of Bouncing Rod Dynamics Aiming at Passive Running, pp. 3298-3303. Attachment

Miyamoto, Hiroki

Nagoya Inst. of Tech.

Sano, Akihito

Nagoya Inst. of Tech.

Ikemata, Yoshito

Nagoya Inst. of Tech.

Maruyama, Shintaro

Nagoya Inst. of Tech.

Fujimoto, Hideo

Nagoya Inst. of Tech.

09:00-09:15

ThA3.3

Golem Krang: Dynamically Stable Humanoid Robot for Mobile Manipulation, pp. 3304-3309.

Stilman, Mike

Georgia Tech.

Olson, Jon

Georgia Inst. of Tech.

Gloss, William

Georgia Tech.

09:15-09:30

ThA3.4

Control of Bipedal Running by the Angular-Momentum-Based Synchronization Structure, pp. 3310-3315.

Nakamura, Keisuke

Tokyo Inst. of Tech.

Nakaura, Shigeki

Sasebo National Coll. of Tech.

Sampei, Mitsuji

Tokyo Inst. of Tech.

09:30-09:45

ThA3.5

Generalized Direction Changing Fall Control of Humanoid Robots among Multiple Objects, pp. 3316-3322. Attachment

Goswami, Ambarish

Honda Res. Inst.

Nagarajan, Umashankar

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

09:45-10:00

ThA3.6

Fall Detection and Management in Biped Humanoid Robots, pp. 3323-3328.

Ruiz-del-Solar, Javier

Univ. de Chile

Moya, Javier

Univ. de Chile

Parra-Tsunekawa, Isao

Univ. de Chile

 

ThA4

Egan Center Lower Level Room 2

Multi-UAV Systems and Collision Avoidance (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Floreano, Dario

Ec. Pol. Federal, Lausanne

Co-Chair: Mahony, Robert

Australian National Univ.

08:30-08:45

ThA4.1

Autonomous Flight at Low Altitude with Vision-Based Collision Avoidance and GPS-Based Path Following, pp. 3329-3334. Attachment

Zufferey, Jean-Christophe

EPFL

Beyeler, Antoine

EPFL

Floreano, Dario

Ec. Pol. Federal, Lausanne

08:45-09:00

ThA4.2

Autonomous Battery Swapping System for Small-Scale Helicopters, pp. 3335-3340.

Swieringa, Kurt

Univ. of Michigan

Hanson, Clarence

Univ. of Michigans

Richardson, Johnhenri

Univ. of Michigan

White, Jonathan

Univ. of Michigan

Hasan, Zahid

Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Qian, Elizabeth

Univ. of Michigan

Girard, Anouck

Univ. of Michigan at Ann Arbor

09:00-09:15

ThA4.3

A General Optical Flow Based Terrain-Following Strategy for a VTOL UAV Using Multiple Views, pp. 3341-3348. Attachment

Herisse, Bruno

CEA

Oustričres, Sophie

CEA

Hamel, Tarek

UNSA-CNRS

Mahony, Robert

Australian National Univ.

Russotto, Francois-Xavier

French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)

09:15-09:30

ThA4.4

An Indoor Flying Platform with Collision Robustness and Self-Recovery, pp. 3349-3354. Attachment

Klaptocz, Adam

Ec. Pol. Federale de Lausanne

Boutinard Rouelle, Grégoire

Ec. Pol. Federale de Lausanne

Briod, Adrien

Ec. Pol. Federale de Lausanne

Zufferey, Jean-Christophe

EPFL

Floreano, Dario

Ec. Pol. Federal, Lausanne

09:30-09:45

ThA4.5

Synchronizing the Motion of a Quadrocopter to Music, pp. 3355-3360. Attachment

Schöllig, Angela

ETH Zürich

Augugliaro, Federico

ETH Zurich

Lupashin, Sergei

ETH Zurich

D'Andrea, Raffaello

ETHZ

09:45-10:00

ThA4.6

MAV Navigation through Indoor Corridors Using Optical Flow, pp. 3361-3368.

Scaramuzza, Davide

ETH Zurich

Weiss, Stephan

ETH Zurich

Siegwart, Roland

ETH Zurich

Zingg, Simon

ETH Zurich

 

ThA5

Egan Center Lower Level Room 11/12

Anthropomorphic Robot Systems (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Mukherjee, Ranjan

Michigan State Univ.

Co-Chair: Orin, David

The Ohio State Univ.

08:30-08:45

ThA5.1

HRP-2 Plays the Yoyo: From Human to Humanoid Yoyo Playing Using Optimal Control, pp. 3369-3376.

Mombaur, Katja

LAAS-CNRS

Sreenivasa, Manish N.

LAAS-CNRS

08:45-09:00

ThA5.2

Whole-Body Cooperative Force Control for a Two-Armed and Two-Wheeled Mobile Robot Using Generalized Inverse Dynamics and Idealized Joint Units, pp. 3377-3383. Attachment

Nagasaka, Kenichiro

Sony Corp.

Kawanami, Yasunori

Sony Corp.

Shimizu, Satoru

Sony Corp.

Kito, Takashi

Sony Corp.

Tsuboi, Toshimitsu

Sony Corp.

Miyamoto, Atsushi

Sony Corp.

Fukushima, Tetsuharu

Sony Corp.

Shimomura, Hideki

Sony Corp.

09:00-09:15

ThA5.3

The Bielefeld Anthropmorphic Robot Head ``Flobi'', pp. 3384-3391.

Lütkebohle, Ingo

Bielefeld Univ.

Hegel, Frank

Bielefeld Univ.

Schulz, Simon

Bielefeld Univ.

Hackel, Matthias

Mabotics GmbH

Wrede, Britta

Bielefeld Univ.

Wachsmuth, Sven

Bielefeld Univ.

Sagerer, Gerhard

Univ. of Bielefeld

09:15-09:30

ThA5.4

Design and Control of an Underactuated Three-Link Rolling Biped, pp. 3392-3397.

Flynn, Louis

Michigan State Univ.

Jafari, Rouhollah

Michigan State Univ.

Mukherjee, Ranjan

Michigan State Univ.

09:30-09:45

ThA5.5

Whole-Body Humanoid Control from Upper-Body Task Specifications, pp. 3398-3405.

Bin Hammam, Ghassan

The Ohio State Univ.

Orin, David

The Ohio State Univ.

Dariush, Behzad

Honda Res. Inst. USA

09:45-10:00

ThA5.6

Inverse Dynamics Control of Floating Base Systems Using Orthogonal Decomposition, pp. 3406-3412. Attachment

Mistry, Michael

Disney Res. Pittsburgh

Buchli, Jonas

Univ. of Southern California

Schaal, Stefan

Univ. of Southern California

 

ThA6

Egan Center Street Level Room Cook Hall

Physical Human Robot Interaction (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Haddadin, Sami

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Co-Chair: Kermani, Mehrdad R.

Univ. of Western Ontario

08:30-08:45

ThA6.1

Distributed Motion Control of Multiple Passive Object Handling Robots Considering Feasible Region of Brake Control, pp. 3413-3419.

Hirata, Yasuhisa

Tohoku Univ.

Ojima, Yosuke

Tohoku Univ.

Kosuge, Kazuhiro

Tohoku Univ.

08:45-09:00

ThA6.2

3-DOF Cartesian Force Limiting Device Based on the Delta Architecture for Safe Physical Human-Robot Interaction, pp. 3420-3425. Attachment

Lauzier, Nicolas

Univ. Laval

Gosselin, Clement

Univ. Laval

09:00-09:15

ThA6.3

Soft-Tissue Injury in Robotics, pp. 3426-3433. Attachment

Haddadin, Sami

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Albu-Schäffer, Alin

DLR - German Aerospace Center

Hirzinger, Gerd

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

09:15-09:30

ThA6.4

Prediction-Based Reactive Control Strategy for Human-Robot Interactions, pp. 3434-3439.

Najmaei, Nima

Univ. of Western Ontario

Kermani, Mehrdad R.

Univ. of Western Ontario

09:30-09:45

ThA6.5

Pushing a Robot Along - a Natural Interface for Human-Robot Interaction, pp. 3440-3445.

Frémy, Julien

Univ. de Sherbrooke

Lauria, Michel

Univ. of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO)

Michaud, Francois

Univ. de Sherbrooke

09:45-10:00

ThA6.6

Ankle and Hip Balance Control Strategies with Transitions, pp. 3446-3451. Attachment

Kanamiya, Yoshikazu

Tokyo City Univ.

Ota, Shun

Tokyo City Univ.

Sato, Daisuke

Tokyo City Univ.

 

ThA7

Egan Center Lower Level Room 3

Data Fusion and Mapping (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Ramos, Fabio

Univ. of Sydney

Co-Chair: Birk, Andreas

Jacobs Univ.

08:30-08:45

ThA7.1

Heteroscedastic Gaussian Processes for Data Fusion in Large Scale Terrain Modeling, pp. 3452-3459.

Vasudevan, Shrihari

Univ. of Sydney

Ramos, Fabio

Univ. of Sydney

Nettleton, Eric

The Univ. of Sydney

Durrant-Whyte, Hugh

The Univ. of Sydney

08:45-09:00

ThA7.2

Generating Individual Maps from Universal Map for Heterogeneous Mobile Robots, pp. 3460-3465. Attachment

Takemura, Kentaro

Nara Inst. of Science and Tech.

Araki, Ato

Nara Inst. of Science and Tech.

Ido, Junichi

Nara Inst. of Science and Tech.

Matsumoto, Yoshio

Osaka Univ.

Takamatsu, Jun

Nara Inst. of Science and Tech.

Ogasawara, Tsukasa

Nara Inst. of Science and Tech.

09:00-09:15

ThA7.3

Extraction of Quadrics from Noisy Point-Clouds Using a Sensor Noise Model, pp. 3466-3471.

Vaskevicius, Narunas

Jacobs Univ.

Pathak, Kaustubh

Jacobs Univ. Bremen

Pascanu, Razvan

Jacobs Univ. Bremen

Birk, Andreas

Jacobs Univ.

09:15-09:30

ThA7.4

Using Recursive Spectral Registrations to Determine Brokenness As Measure of Structural Map Errors, pp. 3472-3477.

Birk, Andreas

Jacobs Univ.

09:30-09:45

ThA7.5

Contextual Occupancy Maps Incorporating Sensor and Location Uncertainty, pp. 3478-3485.

O'Callaghan, Simon Timothy

Univ. of Sydney

Ramos, Fabio

Univ. of Sydney

Durrant-Whyte, Hugh

The Univ. of Sydney

09:45-10:00

ThA7.6

Automatic Reconstruction of Textured 3D Models, pp. 3486-3493. Attachment

Pitzer, Benjamin

Robert Bosch LLC

Kammel, Sören

Bosch LLC

DuHadway, Charles

Robert Bosch LLC

Becker, Jan

Robert Bosch LLC

 

ThA8

Egan Center Lower Level Room 9/10

3D and Vision Based SLAM (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Rives, Patrick

INRIA

Co-Chair: Solŕ, Joan

LAAS-CNRS, Univ. of Toulouse

08:30-08:45

ThA8.1

On Combining Visual SLAM and Visual Odometry, pp. 3494-3500.

Williams, Brian Patrick

Univ. of Oxford

Reid, Ian

Univ. of Oxford

08:45-09:00

ThA8.2

Visual Odometry Priors for Robust EKF-SLAM, pp. 3501-3506. Attachment

Fernández Alcantarilla, Pablo

Univ. of Alcalá

Bergasa, Luis Miguel

Univ. of Alcala

Dellaert, Frank

Georgia Inst. of Tech.

09:00-09:15

ThA8.3

FAB-MAP + RatSLAM: Appearance-Based SLAM for Multiple Times of Day, pp. 3507-3512. Attachment

Glover, Arren

Univ. of Queensland

Maddern, William

Univ. of Queensland

Milford, Michael

The Univ. of Queensland

Wyeth, Gordon

Queensland Univ. of Tech.

09:15-09:30

ThA8.4

Consistency of the Monocular EKF-SLAM Algorithm for Three Different Landmark Parametrizations, pp. 3513-3518. Attachment

Solŕ, Joan

LAAS-CNRS, Univ. of Toulouse

09:30-09:45

ThA8.5

Indoor SLAM Based on Composite Sensor Mixing Laser Scans and Omnidirectional Images, pp. 3519-3524. Attachment

Gallegos, Gabriela

INRIA

Rives, Patrick

INRIA

09:45-10:00

ThA8.6

Optimization Techniques for Laser-Based 3D Particle Filter SLAM, pp. 3525-3530.

Welle, Jochen

Fraunhofer FKIE

Schulz, Dirk

Fraunhofer Inst. for Communication, Information Processing a

Bachran, Thomas

Fraunhofer

Cremers, Armin

Univ. of Bonn

 

ThA9

Egan Center Lower Level Room 4

Distributed Systems: Coordinated Control (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Tanner, Herbert G.

Univ. of Delaware

Co-Chair: Poduri, Sameera

USC

08:30-08:45

ThA9.1

Multiple Vehicles Mission Coordination Using Petri Nets, pp. 3531-3536. Attachment

Palomeras, Narcis

Univ. de Girona - VAT:ESQ6750002E

Ridao, Pere

Univ. de Girona

Silvestre, Carlos

Inst. Superior Tecnico

El-Fakdi, Andres

Univ. of Girona

08:45-09:00

ThA9.2

Abstractions and Controllers for Groups of Robots in Environments with Obstacles, pp. 3537-3542.

Ayanian, Nora

Univ. of Pennsylvania

Kumar, Vijay

Univ. of Pennsylvania

09:00-09:15

ThA9.3

Probabilistic Shadow Information Spaces, pp. 3543-3549.

Yu, Jingjin

U of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

LaValle, Steven M

Univ. of Illinois

09:15-09:30

ThA9.4

Multi-Agent Search Strategy Based on Centroidal Voronoi Configuration, pp. 3550-3555.

Guruprasad, Kr

National Inst. of Tech. Karnataka

Ghose, Debasish

Indian Inst. of Science

09:30-09:45

ThA9.5

Decentralized Stabilization of Heterogeneous Linear Multi-Agent Systems, pp. 3556-3561.

Gasparri, Andrea

Univ. degli Studi Roma Tre

Franceschelli, Mauro

Univ. of Cagliari, Italy

Ulivi, Giovanni

Univ. di Roma Tre

Giua, Alessandro

Univ. of Cagliari, Italy

09:45-10:00

ThA9.6

Distributed Pursuit-Evasion with Limited-Visibility Sensors Via Frontier-Based Exploration, pp. 3562-3568. Attachment

Durham, Joseph W.

UCSB

Franchi, Antonio

Sapienza Univ. of Rome

Bullo, Francesco

UCSB

 

ThA10

Egan Center Lower Level Room 7/8

Motion Planning and Learning (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Tovar, Benjamin

Northwestern Univ.

Co-Chair: Kavraki, Lydia

Rice Univ.

08:30-08:45

ThA10.1

Searching and Mapping among Indistinguishable Convex Obstacles, pp. 3569-3574.

Tovar, Benjamin

Northwestern Univ.

LaValle, Steven M

Univ. of Illinois

08:45-09:00

ThA10.2

Rapid Updating for Path-Planning Using Nonlinear Branch-And-Bound, pp. 3575-3580.

Eele, Alison Jennifer

Univ. of Bristol

Richards, Arthur

Univ. of Bristol

09:00-09:15

ThA10.3

Global Reachability and Path Planning for Planetary Exploration with Montgolfiere Balloons, pp. 3581-3588.

Blackmore, Lars

Jet Propulsion Lab. California Inst. of

Kuwata, Yoshiaki

Jet Propulsion Lab.

Wolf, Michael

Jet Propulsion Lab.

Assad, Chris

Jet Propulsion Lab.

Fathpour, Nanaz

Jet Propulsion Lab.

Newman, Claire

California Inst. of Tech.

Elfes, Alberto

Jet Propulsion Lab.

09:15-09:30

ThA10.4

An Optimization Approach to Rough Terrain Locomotion, pp. 3589-3595. Attachment

Zucker, Matthew

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Bagnell, James

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Atkeson, Christopher

CMU

Kuffner, James

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

09:30-09:45

ThA10.5

Exploiting Domain Knowledge in Planning for Uncertain Robot Systems Modeled As POMDPs, pp. 3596-3603.

Candido, Salvatore

Univ. of Illinois

Davidson, James

Univ. of Illinois

Hutchinson, Seth

Univ. of Illinois

09:45-10:00

ThA10.6

A Hierarchical Decoupled Approach for Multi Robot Motion Planning on Trees, pp. 3604-3609.

Masehian, Ellips

Tarbiat Modares Univ.

Hassan Nejad, Azadeh

Tarbiat Modares Univ.

 

ThA11

Egan Center Lower Level Room 5

Sensing and Recognition (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Campos, Mario F. Montenegro

Federal Univ. of Minas Gerais

Co-Chair: Yamauchi, Brian

iRobot Corp.

08:30-08:45

ThA11.1

All-Weather Perception for Man-Portable Robots Using Ultra-Wideband Radar, pp. 3610-3615.

Yamauchi, Brian

iRobot Corp.

08:45-09:00

ThA11.2

FLIRT - Interest Regions for 2D Range Data, pp. 3616-3622. Attachment

Tipaldi, Gian Diego

Univ. of Freiburg

Arras, Kai Oliver

Univ. of Freiburg

09:00-09:15

ThA11.3

A Hybrid Framework for Ego Noise Cancellation of a Robot, pp. 3623-3628.

Ince, Gokhan

Honda Res. Inst. Japan Co., Ltd.

Nakadai, Kazuhiro

Honda Res. Inst. Japan Co., Ltd.

Rodemann, Tobias

Honda Res. Inst. Europe

Hasegawa, Yuji

Honda Res. Inst. Japan Co., Ltd.

Tsujino, Hiroshi

Honda Res. Inst. Co., Ltd.

Imura, Jun-ichi

Tokyo Inst. of Tech.

09:15-09:30

ThA11.4

Design and Validation of a Multi-Finger Sensing Device Based on Optical Linear Encoder, pp. 3629-3634.

Li, Kang

Nanyang Tech. Univ.

Chen, I-Ming

Nanyang Tech. Univ.

Yeo, Song Huat

Nanyang Tech. Univ.

09:30-09:45

ThA11.5

Novelty Detection and 3D Shape Retrieval Using Superquadrics and Multi-Scale Sampling for Autonomous Mobile Robots, pp. 3635-3640.

Drews Jr, Paulo

Federal Univ. of Minas Gerais

Núńez Trujillo, Pedro

Univ. de Extremadura

Rocha, Rui

Inst. of Systems and Robotics - Univ. of Coimbra

Campos, Mario F. Montenegro

Federal Univ. of Minas Gerais

Dias, Jorge

Univ. of Coimbra

09:45-10:00

ThA11.6

Wearable Accelerometer Based Extendable Activity Recognition System, pp. 3641-3647.

Yang, Jie

Shanghai Jiaotong Univ.

Shi, Pengfei

Shanghai Jiaotong Univ.

 

ThA12

Egan Center Street Level Room Arteaga

Force and Contact Sensing in Medicine (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Simaan, Nabil

Columbia Univ.

Co-Chair: Ishii, Idaku

Hiroshima Univ.

08:30-08:45

ThA12.1

Force Visualization Mechanism Using a Moire Fringe Applied to Endoscopic Surgical Instruments, pp. 3648-3653. Attachment

Takaki, Takeshi

Hiroshima Univ.

Omasa, Youhei

Hiroshima Univ.

Ishii, Idaku

Hiroshima Univ.

Kawahara, Tomohiro

Hiroshima Univ.

Okajima, Masazumi

Hiroshima Univ.

08:45-09:00

ThA12.2

Miniaturized Force-Indentation Depth Sensor for Tissue Abnormality Identification During Laparoscopic Surgery, pp. 3654-3659.

Liu, Hongbin

King's Coll. London

Li, Jichun

King's Coll. London,Univ. of London

Poon, Qi-Ian

King's Coll. London

Seneviratne, Lakmal

Kings Coll. London

Althoefer, Kaspar

Kings Coll. London

09:00-09:15

ThA12.3

Force/Position-Based Modular System for Minimally Invasive Surgery, pp. 3660-3665.

Trejos, Ana Luisa

The Univ. of Western Ontario

Lyle, Andrew

Lawson Health Res. Inst.

Escoto, Abelardo

Lawson Health Res. Inst.

Naish, Michael David

Univ. of Western Ontario

Patel, Rajni

The Univ. of Western Ontario

09:15-09:30

ThA12.4

Finding Lost Wrenches: Using Continuum Robots for Contact Detection and Estimation of Contact Location, pp. 3666-3673.

Simaan, Nabil

Columbia Univ.

Bajo, Andrea

Columbia Univ.

09:30-09:45

ThA12.5

A Force Sensing Automated Insertion Tool for Cochlear Electrode Implantation, pp. 3674-3679.

Schurzig, Daniel

Vanderbilt Univ. Medical Center

Labadie, Robert F

Vanderbilt Univ.

Webster III, Robert James

Vanderbilt Univ.

Hussong, Andreas

Leibniz Univ. Hannover

Rau, Thomas

Hannover Medical School

09:45-10:00

ThA12.6

Photoelastic Stress Analysis Error Quantification in Vasculature Models for Robot Feedback Control, pp. 3680-3685.

Tercero Villagran, Carlos Rafael

Nagoya Univ.

Ikeda, Seiichi

Nagoya Univ.

Matsushima, Motoki

Nagoya Univ.

Fukuda, Toshio

Nagoya Univ.

Negoro, Makoto

Fujita Health Univ.

Takahashi, Ikuo

Anjo Kosei Hospital

 

ThA13

Egan Center Lower Level Room 6

Calibration and System Identification (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Robertsson, Anders

LTH, Lund Univ.

Co-Chair: Chirikjian, Gregory

Johns Hopkins Univ.

08:30-08:45

ThA13.1

Calibration of a Structure Light Based Windshield Inspection System, pp. 3686-3691.

Zhang, Chi

Michigan State Univ.

Xi, Ning

Michigan State Univ.

Xu, Jing

Michigan State Univ.

Shi, Quan

Michigan State Univ.

08:45-09:00

ThA13.2

Thermal Calibration of a 3 DOF Ultra High-Precision Robot Operating in Industrial Environment, pp. 3692-3697.

Lubrano, Emanuele

EPFL

Clavel, Reymond

Ec. Pol. Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

09:00-09:15

ThA13.3

A-Priori Fisher Information of Nonlinear State Space Models for Experiment Design, pp. 3698-3702.

Dietrich, Franz

Tech. Univ. Braunschweig

Raatz, Annika

Tech. Univ. Braunschweig

Hesselbach, Juergen

Tech. Univ. Braunschweig

09:15-09:30

ThA13.4

Estimation of Model Parameters for Steerable Needles, pp. 3703-3708.

Park, Wooram

Johns Hopkins Univ.

Reed, Kyle Brandon

Univ. of South Florida

Okamura, Allison M.

Johns Hopkins Univ.

Chirikjian, Gregory

Johns Hopkins Univ.

09:30-09:45

ThA13.5

A Kinematic Error Model for a Parallel Gantry-Tau Manipulator, pp. 3709-3714.

Dressler, Isolde

LTH, Lund Univ.

Brogardh, Torgny

ABB Robotics

Robertsson, Anders

LTH, Lund Univ.

09:45-10:00

ThA13.6

Identification of Flying Humanoids and Humans, pp. 3715-3720.

Ayusawa, Ko

Univ. of Tokyo

Venture, Gentiane

Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Tech.

Nakamura, Yoshihiko

Univ. of Tokyo

 

ThB1

Egan Center Street Level Room Boardroom

Kinematically Redundant Systems (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Papadopoulos, Evangelos

NTUA

Co-Chair: Chaumette, Francois

INRIA Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique

10:20-10:35

ThB1.1

General Parameterization of Holonomic Kinematic Inversion Algorithms for Redundant Manipulators, pp. 3721-3726. Attachment

Rocco, Paolo

Pol. di Milano

Zanchettin, Andrea Maria

Pol. di Milano

10:35-10:50

ThB1.2

A New Large Projection Operator for the Redundancy Framework, pp. 3727-3732.

Marey, Mohammed

INRIA Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique (IRISA)

Chaumette, Francois

INRIA Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique

10:50-11:05

ThB1.3

Fast Resolution of Hierarchized Inverse Kinematics with Inequality Constraints, pp. 3733-3738.

Escande, Adrien

CEA

Mansard, Nicolas

CNRS

Wieber, Pierre-Brice

INRIA Rhône-Alpes

11:05-11:20

ThB1.4

Control Design and Allocation of an Over-Actuated Triangular Floating Platform, pp. 3739-3744.

Vlachos, Kostas

National Tech. Univ. of Athens

Papadopoulos, Evangelos

NTUA

11:20-11:35

ThB1.5

Dynamic Pushing Strategies for Dynamically Stable Mobile Manipulators, pp. 3745-3750.

Kolhe, Pushkar

Georgia Inst. of Tech.

Dantam, Neil

Georgia Inst. of Tech.

Stilman, Mike

Georgia Tech.

 

ThB2

Egan Center Lower Level Room 1

Mechanism Design of Mobile Robots (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Nakamura, Taro

Chuo Univ.

Co-Chair: Wyeth, Gordon

Queensland Univ. of Tech.

10:20-10:35

ThB2.1

Design and Evaluation of a Fin-Based Underwater Propulsion System, pp. 3751-3756. Attachment

Peter, Benjamin Matthias

ETH Zurich

Ratnaweera, Roman

ETH Zürich

Pradalier, Cedric

ETH Zurich

Fischer, Wolfgang

ETH Zürich

Siegwart, Roland

ETH Zurich

10:35-10:50

ThB2.2

Self Locomotion of a Spherical Rolling Robot Using a Novel Deformable Pneumatic Method, pp. 3757-3762. Attachment

Wait, Keith

Vanderbilt Univ.

Jackson, Phil

Disney

Smoot, Lanny

Walt Disney Imagineering R&D

10:50-11:05

ThB2.3

Novel Differential Drive Steering System with Energy Saving and Normal Tire Using Spur Gear for an Omni-Directional Mobile Robot, pp. 3763-3768.

Ueno, Yuki

Toyohashi Univ. of Tech.

Ohno, Takashi

Toyohashi Univ. of Tech.

Terashima, Kazuhiko

Toyohashi Univ. of Tech.

Kitagawa, Hideo

Gifu National Coll. of Tech.

Funato, Kazuhiro

KER CO., LTD

Kakihara, Kiyoaki

KER CO., LTD

11:05-11:20

ThB2.4

Locomotion Strategies for an Omni-Directional Mobile Robot Using Traveling Waves Propagation, pp. 3769-3774.

Nakamura, Taro

Chuo Univ.

11:20-11:35

ThB2.5

A Practical Implementation of a Continuous Isotropic Spherical Omnidirectional Drive, pp. 3775-3780.

Ball, David

The Univ. of Queensland

Lehnert, Christopher

The Univ. of Queensland

Wyeth, Gordon

Queensland Univ. of Tech.

 

ThB3

Egan Center Lower Level Room 13/14

Robot Designs Inspired by Bacteria, Mold and Insects (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Sitti, Metin

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Co-Chair: Kim, Sangbae

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

10:20-10:35

ThB3.1

Bacteria Controller Implementation on a Physical Platform for Pollution Monitoring, pp. 3781-3786.

Oyekan, John Oluwagbemiga

Univ. of Essex

Hu, Huosheng

Univ. of Essex

10:35-10:50

ThB3.2

Taming Large Degrees of Freedom –A Case Study with an Amoeboid Robot–, pp. 3787-3792. Attachment

Umedachi, Takuya

Tohoku Univ.

Takeda, Koichi

Tohoku Univ.

Nakagaki, Toshiyuki

Hokkaido Univ.

Kobayashi, Ryo

Hiroshima Univ.

Ishiguro, Akio

Tohoku Univ.

10:50-11:05

ThB3.3

A Tunable Physical Model of Arthropod Antennae, pp. 3793-3798.

Demir, Alican

Johns Hopkins Univ.

Samson, Edward

Johns Hopkins Univ.

Cowan, Noah J.

Johns Hopkins Univ.

11:05-11:20

ThB3.4

Surface Tension Driven Water Strider Robot Using Circular Footpads, pp. 3799-3804. Attachment

Ozcan, Onur

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Wang, Han

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Taylor, Jonathan D.

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Sitti, Metin

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

11:20-11:35

ThB3.5

An Insect-Based Method for Learning Landmark Reliability Using Expectation Reinforcement in Dynamic Environments, pp. 3805-3812.

Mathews, Zenon

UPF Barcelona

Verschure, Paul

Catalan Inst. of Advanced Studies (ICREA), Foundation

Bermudez i Badia, Sergi

Univ. Pompeu Fabra (UPF)

 

ThB4

Egan Center Lower Level Room 2

Robotics in Agriculture, Construction and Forestry (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Sugano, Shigeki

Waseda Univ.

Co-Chair: Heger, Frederik W.

The Robotics Inst. Carnegie Mellon Univ.

10:20-10:35

ThB4.1

A New Device Dedicated to Autonomous Mobile Robot Dynamic Stability: Application to an Off-Road Mobile Robot, pp. 3813-3818.

Bouton, Nicolas

Cemagref

Lenain, Roland

Cemagref

Thuilot, Benoit

Clermont-Ferrand Univ.

Martinet, Philippe

Blaise Pascal Univ.

10:35-10:50

ThB4.2

Autonomous Maneuver of a Farm Vehicle with a Trailed Implement: Motion Planner and Lateral-Longitudinal Controllers, pp. 3819-3824.

Cariou, Christophe

Cemagref

Lenain, Roland

Cemagref

Thuilot, Benoit

Clermont-Ferrand Univ.

Martinet, Philippe

Blaise Pascal Univ.

10:50-11:05

ThB4.3

Robust Robotic Assembly through Contingencies, Plan Repair and Re-Planning, pp. 3825-3830.

Heger, Frederik W.

The Robotics Inst. Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Singh, Sanjiv

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

11:05-11:20

ThB4.4

Ground Plane Identification Using LIDAR in Forested Environments, pp. 3831-3836.

McDaniel, Matt

MIT

Nishihata, Takayuki

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Brooks, Christopher

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Iagnemma, Karl

MIT

11:20-11:35

ThB4.5

A Robotic Sensor Network for Monitoring Carp in Minnesota Lakes, pp. 3837-3842.

Bhadauria, Deepak

Univ. of Minnesota

Isler, Volkan

Univ. of Minnesota

Studenski, Andrew

Univ. of Minnesota

Tokekar, Pratap

Univ. of Minnesota

 

ThB5

Egan Center Lower Level Room 11/12

Industrial Robots (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Hirose, Shigeo

Tokyo Inst. of Tech.

Co-Chair: Newman, Wyatt

Case Western Res. Univ.

10:20-10:35

ThB5.1

A Passive Weight Compensation Mechanism with a Non-Circular Pulley and a Spring, pp. 3843-3848. Attachment

Endo, Gen

Tokyo Inst. of Tech.

Yamada, Hiroya

Tokyo Inst. of Tech.

Yajima, Akira

Canon Inc.

Ogata, Masaru

CANON INC.

Hirose, Shigeo

Tokyo Inst. of Tech.

10:35-10:50

ThB5.2

Intrinsic Repeatability: A New Index for Repeatability Characterisation, pp. 3849-3854.

Brethe, Jean-François

LE HAVRE Univ.

10:50-11:05

ThB5.3

The Adaptive Selection Matrix - a Key Component for Sensor-Based Control of Robotic Manipulators, pp. 3855-3862.

Finkemeyer, Bernd

KUKA Roboter GmbH

Kroeger, Torsten

Tech. Univ. Braunschweig

Wahl, Friedrich M.

Tech. Univ. of Braunschweig

11:05-11:20

ThB5.4

Assembling Wheels to Continuously Conveyed Car Bodies Using a Standard Industrial Robot, pp. 3863-3869. Attachment

Lange, Friedrich

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Werner, Jochen

Tech. Univ. München

Scharrer, Johannes

Inst. für Werkzeugmaschinen und BetriebswissenschaftenTU Münc

Hirzinger, Gerd

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

11:20-11:35

ThB5.5

Independent Component Analysis and Bayes’ Theorem for Robotics and Automation, pp. 3870-3875.

Hudson, Richard

CWRU

Newman, Wyatt

Case Western Res. Univ.

 

ThB6

Egan Center Street Level Room Cook Hall

Force Sensing, Teleoperation and Virtual Reality (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Melchiorri, Claudio

Univ. of Bologna

Co-Chair: Buelthoff, Heinrich H.

Max Planck Inst. for Biol. Cybernetics

10:20-10:35

ThB6.1

A Novel Framework for Closed-Loop Robotic Motion Simulation - Part I: Inverse Kinematics Design, pp. 3876-3883. Attachment

Robuffo Giordano, Paolo

Max Planck Inst. for Biological Cybernetics

Masone, Carlo

Univ. di Roma "la Sapienza"

Tesch, Joachim

Max Planck Inst. for Biological Cybernetics

Breidt, Martin

Max Planck Inst. for Biological Cybernetics

Pollini, Lorenzo

Univ. of Pisa

Buelthoff, Heinrich H.

Max Planck Inst. for Biol. Cybernetics

10:35-10:50

ThB6.2

Motion Tracking in Robotic Manipulators in Presence of Sensor Delay, pp. 3884-3889.

Bahrami, Somayeh

Sharif Univ. of Tech.

Namvar, Mehrzad

Sharif Univ. of Tech.

10:50-11:05

ThB6.3

Friction and Visco-Elasticity Effects in Tendon-Based Transmission Systems, pp. 3890-3895.

Palli, Gianluca

Univ. of Bologna

Borghesan, Gianni

Univ. of Bologna

Melchiorri, Claudio

Univ. of Bologna

11:05-11:20

ThB6.4

A Novel Framework for Closed-Loop Robotic Motion Simulation - Part II: Motion Cueing Design and Experimental Validation, pp. 3896-3903. Attachment

Robuffo Giordano, Paolo

Max Planck Inst. for Biological Cybernetics

Masone, Carlo

Univ. di Roma "la Sapienza"

Tesch, Joachim

Max Planck Inst. for Biological Cybernetics

Breidt, Martin

Max Planck Inst. for Biological Cybernetics

Pollini, Lorenzo

Univ. of Pisa

Buelthoff, Heinrich H.

Max Planck Inst. for Biol. Cybernetics

11:20-11:35

ThB6.5

High-Fidelity Joint Drive System by Torque Feedback Control Using High Precision Linear Encoder, pp. 3904-3909.

Kawakami, Tomohiro

Univ. of Tokyo

Ayusawa, Ko

Univ. of Tokyo

Kaminaga, Hiroshi

The Univ. of Tokyo

Nakamura, Yoshihiko

Univ. of Tokyo

 

ThB7

Egan Center Lower Level Room 3

Sensor Fusion and Mapping (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Dillmann, Rüdiger

Univ. of Karlsruhe

Co-Chair: Lakaemper, Rolf

Temple Univ.

10:20-10:35

ThB7.1

Discovering and Mapping Complete Surfaces with Stereo, pp. 3910-3915.

Shade, Robert

Oxford Univ.

Newman, Paul

Oxford Univ.

10:35-10:50

ThB7.2

Multiple Depth/Presence Sensors: Integration and Optimal Placement for Human/Robot Coexistence, pp. 3916-3923.

Flacco, Fabrizio

Univ. di Roma "La Sapienza"

De Luca, Alessandro

Univ. di Roma "La Sapienza"

10:50-11:05

ThB7.3

A Line Segment Based System for 2D Global Mapping, pp. 3924-3931.

Elseberg, Jan

Jacobs Univ. Bremen

Creed, Ross

Saint Joseph's Univ.

Lakaemper, Rolf

Temple Univ.

11:05-11:20

ThB7.4

Recursive Importance Sampling for Efficient Grid-Based Occupancy Filtering in Dynamic Environments, pp. 3932-3938.

Brechtel, Sebastian

Karlsruhe Inst. of Tech.

Gindele, Tobias

Karlsruhe Inst. of Tech.

Dillmann, Rüdiger

Univ. of Karlsruhe

11:20-11:35

ThB7.5

Boundary Detection Based on Supervised Learning, pp. 3939-3945.

Kwak, Kiho

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Huber, Daniel

CMU

Chae, Jeongsook

Agency for Defense Development

Kanade, Takeo

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

 

ThB8

Egan Center Lower Level Room 9/10

Intelligent Transportation Systems (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Belta, Calin

Boston Univ.

Co-Chair: Li, Shigang

Tottori Univ.

10:20-10:35

ThB8.1

Robust and Accurate Road Map Inference, pp. 3946-3953.

Agamennoni, Gabriel

The Univ. of Sydney

Nieto, Juan

Univ. of Sydney, Australian Centre for Field Robotics

Nebot, Eduardo

Unversity of Sydney

10:35-10:50

ThB8.2

Estimating Camera Pose from H-Pattern of Parking Lot, pp. 3954-3959.

Li, Shigang

Tottori Univ.

Hai, Ying

Tottori Univ.

10:50-11:05

ThB8.3

Recognition of Situation Classes at Road Intersections, pp. 3960-3965.

Kaefer, Eugen

Daimler AG

Hermes, Christoph

Bielefeld Univ.

Woehler, Christian

Daimler AG

Ritter, Helge Joachim

Bielefeld Univ.

Kummert, Franz

Univ. of Bielefeld

11:05-11:20

ThB8.4

An Online Algorithm for Constrained POMDPs, pp. 3966-3973.

Undurti, Aditya

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

How, Jonathan

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

11:20-11:35

ThB8.5

Navigating Multiple Simple-Airplanes in 3D Workspace, pp. 3974-3980.

Snape, Jamie

Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Manocha, Dinesh

UNC at Chapel Hill

 

ThB9

Egan Center Lower Level Room 4

Control of Grasping and Manipulation (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Guarino Lo Bianco, Corrado

Univ. of Parma

Co-Chair: Schumacher, Walter

TU Braunschweig

10:20-10:35

ThB9.1

Frequency Criteria for the Grasping Control of a Hyper-Redundant Robot, pp. 3981-3988.

Ivanescu, Mircea

Univ. of Craiova

Bizdoaca, Nicu George

Univ. of CRaiova

Florescu, Mihaela Cecilia

Univ. of Craiova

Popescu, Nirvana

Univ. Pol. BUCURESTI

Popescu, Decebal

Univ. Pol. BUCURESTI

10:35-10:50

ThB9.2

A Discrete-Time Filter for the On-Line Generation of Trajectories with Bounded Velocity, Acceleration, and Jerk, pp. 3989-3994.

Gerelli, Oscar

Univ. of Parma

Guarino Lo Bianco, Corrado

Univ. of Parma

10:50-11:05

ThB9.3

Real-Time Collision Detection for Intrinsic Safety of Multi-Fingered SDH-2, pp. 3995-4000.

Haase, Thomas

Karlsruhe Inst. of Tech. (KIT)

Woern, Heinz

Univ. Karlsruhe

11:05-11:20

ThB9.4

Anti-Windup Design for Trajectory Tracking of a Parallel Robot - an Holistic Approach, pp. 4001-4008.

Wobbe, Frank

TU Braunschweig

Nguyen, Dang Hung

TU Braunschweig

Schumacher, Walter

TU Braunschweig

11:20-11:35

ThB9.5

Stabilizing Hybrid Switched Motion Control Systems with an On-Line Trajectory Generator, pp. 4009-4015.

Kroeger, Torsten

Tech. Univ. Braunschweig

Wahl, Friedrich M.

Tech. Univ. of Braunschweig

 

ThB10

Egan Center Lower Level Room 7/8

Collision Avoidance (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Xiao, Jing

UNC-Charlotte

Co-Chair: Bernabeu, Enrique J

Univ. Pol. de Valencia

10:20-10:35

ThB10.1

Continuous Collision Detection for Non-Rigid Contact Computations Using Local Advancement, pp. 4016-4021.

Tang, Min

Ewha Womans Univ.

Kim, Young J.

Ewha Womans Univ.

Manocha, Dinesh

UNC at Chapel Hill

10:35-10:50

ThB10.2

Inevitable Collision States: A Probabilistic Perspective, pp. 4022-4027.

Bautin, Antoine

INRIA-LORIA Henri Poincaré Univ.

Martinez-Gomez, Luis

INRIA

Fraichard, Thierry

INRIA

10:50-11:05

ThB10.3

Continuous Distance Computation for Planar Non-Holonomic Motions with Constant Accelerations, pp. 4028-4034.

Bernabeu, Enrique J

Univ. Pol. de Valencia

11:05-11:20

ThB10.4

Using Time-Of-Flight Cameras with Active Gaze Control for 3D Collision Avoidance, pp. 4035-4040.

Droeschel, David

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Univ. Bonn

Holz, Dirk

Univ. of Bonn

Stückler, Jörg

Univ. of Bonn

Behnke, Sven

Univ. of Bonn

11:20-11:35

ThB10.5

An Efficient Algorithm for On-Line Determination of Collision-Free Configuration-Time Points Directly from Sensor Data, pp. 4041-4047. Attachment

Vatcha, Rayomand

Univ. of North Carolina - Charlotte

Xiao, Jing

UNC-Charlotte

 

ThB11

Egan Center Lower Level Room 5

Visual Tracking I (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Pradalier, Cedric

ETH Zurich

Co-Chair: Chung, Myung Jin

KAIST

10:20-10:35

ThB11.1

Real-Time 3D Model-Based Tracking Using Edge and Keypoint Features for Robotic Manipulation, pp. 4048-4055. Attachment

Choi, Changhyun

Georgia Inst. of Tech.

Christensen, Henrik Iskov

Georgia Inst. of Tech.

10:35-10:50

ThB11.2

Robust Unified Stereo-Based 3D Head Tracking and Its Application to Face Recognition, pp. 4056-4061. Attachment

An, Kwang Ho

KAIST

Chung, Myung Jin

KAIST

10:50-11:05

ThB11.3

A Constricted Bundle Adjustment Parameterization for Relative Scale Estimation in Visual Odometry, pp. 1899-1904.

Fraundorfer, Friedrich

ETH Zurich

Scaramuzza, Davide

ETH Zurich

Pollefeys, Marc

ETH Zurich

11:05-11:20

ThB11.4

A Vision-Based Method for Estimating Vibrations of a Flexible Arm Using On-Line Sinusoidal Regression, pp. 4068-4075. Attachment

Dubus, Gregory

CEA List

David, Olivier

CEA List

Measson, Yvan

CEA LIST

11:20-11:35

ThB11.5

Probabilistic Target Detection by Camera-Equipped UAVs, pp. 4076-4081.

Symington, Andrew Colquhoun

Oxford Univ.

Waharte, Sonia

Univ. of Oxford

Julier, Simon Justin

Univ. Coll. London

Trigoni, Niki

Univ. of Oxford

 

ThB12

Egan Center Street Level Room Arteaga

Micro-Nano Robotics (Invited Sessions)

Chair: Nakajima, Masahiro

Nagoya Univ.

Co-Chair: Arai, Fumihito

Tohoku Univ.

Organizer: Nakajima, Masahiro

Nagoya Univ.

Organizer: Sitti, Metin

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Organizer: Fukuda, Toshio

Nagoya Univ.

10:20-10:35

ThB12.1

Manipulation of Flagellar Driving Force by Local Environmental Control System with Multiple Nanoprobes, pp. 4082-4087.

Nogawa, Kousuke

Nagoya Univ.

Kojima, Masaru

Nagoya Univ.

Nakajima, Masahiro

Nagoya Univ.

Homma, Michio

Nagoya Univ.

Fukuda, Toshio

Nagoya Univ.

10:35-10:50

ThB12.2

Combined Nanorobotic AFM/SEM System As Novel Toolbox for Automated Hybrid Analysis and Manipulation of Nanoscale Objects (I), pp. 4088-4093.

Mick, Uwe

Univ. of Oldenburg

Eichhorn, Volkmar

Univ. of Oldenburg

Wortmann, Tim

Univ. of Oldenburg

Diederichs, Claas

Department of Computing Science, Univ. of Oldenburg

Fatikow, Sergej

Univ. of Oldenburg

10:50-11:05

ThB12.3

On-Demand and Size-Controlled Production of Emulsion Droplets by Magnetically Driven Microtool (I), pp. 4094-4099.

Yamanishi, Yoko

Tohoku Univ.

Feng, Lin

Tohoku Univ.

Arai, Fumihito

Tohoku Univ.

11:05-11:20

ThB12.4

Novel Four-Point-Probe Design and Nanorobotic Dual Endeffector Strategy for Electrical Characterization of As-Grown SWCNT Bundles (I), pp. 4100-4105.

Eichhorn, Volkmar

Univ. of Oldenburg

Fatikow, Sergej

Univ. of Oldenburg

Sardan, Ozlem

Tech. Univ. of Denmark

Hansen, Torben Mikael

Tech. Univ. of Denmark

Břggild, Peter

Tech. Univ. of Denmark

Occhipinti, Luigi G.

STMicroelectronics

11:20-11:35

ThB12.5

Automated Microassembly Using Precision Based Hybrid Control (I), pp. 4106-4112. Attachment

Das, Aditya

Univ. of Texas at Arlington

Popa, Dan

The Univ. of Texas at Arlington

Stephanou, Harry

Univ. of  Texas at  Arlington

 

ThB13

Egan Center Lower Level Room 6

Micro and Nano Robotics for Biological Applications (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Chaillet, Nicolas

Univ. of Franche-Comté / FEMTO-ST Inst.

Co-Chair: Huang, Wenhao

Univ. of Science and Tech. of China

10:20-10:35

ThB13.1

A New Stiffness Evaluation Toward High Speed Cell Sorter, pp. 4113-4118. Attachment

Hirose, Yuki

Osaka Univ.

Tadakuma, Kenjiro

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Higashimori, Mitsuru

Osaka Univ.

Arai, Tatsuo

Osaka Univ.

Kaneko, Makoto

Osaka Univ.

Iitsuka, Ryo

Tohoku Univ.

Yamanishi, Yoko

Tohoku Univ.

Arai, Fumihito

Tohoku Univ.

10:35-10:50

ThB13.2

Force Analysis and Path Planning of the Trapped Cell in Robotic Manipulation with Optical Tweezers, pp. 4119-4124.

Wu, Yanhua

City Univ. of Hong Kong

Tan, Youhua

City Univ. of HongKong

Sun, Dong

City Univ. of Hong Kong

Huang, Wenhao

Univ. of Science and Tech. of China

10:50-11:05

ThB13.3

Modeling the Trajectory of a Micro Particle in a Dielectrophoresis Device for Dynamic Control, pp. 4125-4130.

Kharboutly, Mohamed

FEMTO-ST Inst. CNRS UFC/ENSMM/UTBM

Gauthier, Michael

FEMTO-ST Inst.

Chaillet, Nicolas

Univ. of Franche-Comté / FEMTO-ST Inst.

11:05-11:20

ThB13.4

Computer-Assisted Patch Clamping, pp. 4131-4136.

Azizian, Mahdi

Univ. of Western Ontario

Patel, Rajni

The Univ. of Western Ontario

Gavrilovici, Cezar

Univ. of Western Ontario, Robarts Res. Inst.

Poulter, Michael

Univ. of Western Ontario, Robarts Res. Inst.

 

ThD1

Egan Center Street Level Room Boardroom

Motion Control of Manipulators I (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Doulgeri, Zoe

Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki

Co-Chair: Neubert, Jeremiah

Univ. of North Dakota

14:20-14:35

ThD1.1

PID Type Robot Joint Position Regulation with Prescribed Performance Guaranties, pp. 4137-4142.

Doulgeri, Zoe

Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki

Karayiannidis, Yiannis

Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki

14:35-14:50

ThD1.2

Optimal Feedback Control for Anthropomorphic Manipulators, pp. 4143-4150. Attachment

Mitrovic, Djordje

School of Informatics, Univ. of Edinburgh

Nagashima, Sho

NAIST

Klanke, Stefan

Univ. of Edinburgh

Matsubara, Takamitsu

NAIST/ATR

Vijayakumar, Sethu

Univ. of Edinburgh

14:50-15:05

ThD1.3

Redundant Control of a Humanoid Robot Head with Foveated Vision for Object Tracking, pp. 4151-4156. Attachment

Omrcen, Damir

Jozef Stefan Inst.

Ude, Ales

Jozef Stefan Inst.

15:05-15:20

ThD1.4

Motion Generation through Biologically-Inspired Torque Pulses, pp. 4157-4162. Attachment

Neubert, Jeremiah

Univ. of North Dakota

Ferrier, Nicola

Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison

15:20-15:35

ThD1.5

An Analysis of the Operational Space Control of Robots, pp. 4163-4168.

Vuong, Ngoc Dung

National Univ. of Singapore

Ang Jr, Marcelo H

National Univ. of Singapore

Lim, Tao Ming

SIMTech

Lim, Ser Yong

Singapore Inst. of Manufacturing Tech.

15:35-15:50

ThD1.6

Design and Control of a Novel 3D Casting Manipulator, pp. 4169-4174. Attachment

Fagiolini, Adriano

Univ. of Pisa

Belo, Felipe

Univ. of Pisa

Catalano, Manuel

Faculty of Engineering - Univ. of Pisa

Bonomo, Fabio

Faculty of Engineering - Univ. of Pisa

Alicino, Simone

Faculty of Engineering - Univ. of Pisa

Bicchi, Antonio

Univ. of Pisa

 

ThD2

Egan Center Lower Level Room 1

Mechanism Design and Actuation (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Albu-Schäffer, Alin

DLR - German Aerospace Center

Co-Chair: Sensinger, Jonathon

Northwestern Univ.

14:20-14:35

ThD2.1

Selecting Motors for Robots Using Biomimetic Trajectories: Optimum Benchmarks, Windings, and Other Considerations, pp. 4175-4181.

Sensinger, Jonathon

Northwestern Univ.

14:35-14:50

ThD2.2

Control of a Hydraulically-Actuated Quadruped Robot Leg, pp. 4182-4188. Attachment

Focchi, Michele

Italian Inst. of Tech.

Guglielmino, Emanuele

Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

Semini, Claudio

Italian Inst. of Tech. and Univ. of Genoa

Boaventura Cunha, Thiago

Italian Inst. of Tech.

Yang, Yousheng

Italian Inst. of Tech.

Caldwell, Darwin G.

Italian Inst. of Tech.

14:50-15:05

ThD2.3

Bidirectional Antagonistic Variable Stiffness Actuation: Analysis, Design & Implementation, pp. 4189-4196.

Petit, Florian

Inst. of Robotics and Mechatronics, German Aerospace Center

Chalon, Maxime

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Friedl, Werner

Inst. of Robotics and Mechatronics, German Aerospace Center

Grebenstein, Markus

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Albu-Schäffer, Alin

DLR - German Aerospace Center

Hirzinger, Gerd

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

15:05-15:20

ThD2.4

A Novel Compact and Lightweight Actuator for Wearable Robots, pp. 4197-4203.

Bergamasco, Massimo

Scuola Superiore S.Anna

Salsedo, Fabio

PERCRO - Scuola Superiore S.Anna

Marcheschi, Simone

PERCRO - Scuola Superiore S.Anna

Lucchesi, Nicola

Scuola Superiore Sant' Anna

Fontana, Marco

PERCRO - Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna

15:20-15:35

ThD2.5

Backdrivability Analysis of Electro-Hydrostatic Actuator and Series Dissipative Actuation Model, pp. 4204-4211.

Kaminaga, Hiroshi

The Univ. of Tokyo

Amari, Tomoya

The Univ. of Tokyo

Katayama, Yukihiro

The Univ. of Tokyo

Ono, Junya

The Univ. of  Tokyo

Shimoyama, Yuto

Univ. of Tokyo

Nakamura, Yoshihiko

Univ. of Tokyo

15:35-15:50

ThD2.6

Stretchable Liquid Tactile Sensor for Robot-Joints, pp. 4212-4217.

Noda, Kentaro

Univ. of Tokyo

Iwase, Eiji

The Univ. of Tokyo

Matsumoto, Kiyoshi

The Univ. of Tokyo

Shimoyama, Isao

Univ. of Tokyo

 

ThD3

Egan Center Lower Level Room 13/14

Humanoid Locomotion (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Sugihara, Tomomichi

Kyushu Univ.

Co-Chair: Goswami, Ambarish

Honda Res. Inst.

14:20-14:35

ThD3.1

Eulerian ZMP Resolution Based Bipedal Walking: Discussions on the Intrinsic Angular Momentum Rate Change about Center of Mass, pp. 4218-4223.

Ugurlu, Barkan

Italian Inst. of Tech.

Kawamura, Atsuo

Yokohama National Univ.

14:35-14:50

ThD3.2

Consistent Biped Step Control with COM-ZMP Oscillation Based on Successive Phase Estimation in Dynamics Morphing, pp. 4224-4229.

Sugihara, Tomomichi

Kyushu Univ.

14:50-15:05

ThD3.3

Strategies for Adjusting the ZMP Reference Trajectory for Maintaining Balance in Humanoid Walking, pp. 4230-4236. Attachment

Nishiwaki, Koichi

National Inst. of AIST

Kagami, Satoshi

National Inst. of AIST

15:05-15:20

ThD3.4

Trajectory Generation with Natural ZMP References for the Biped Walking Robot SURALP, pp. 4237-4242. Attachment

Taskiran, Evrim

Sabanci Univ.

Yilmaz, Metin

Sabanci Univ.

Koca, Ozer

Sabanci Univ.

Seven, Utku

Sabanci Univ.

Erbatur, Kemalettin

Sabanci Univ.

15:20-15:35

ThD3.5

Approximation of Feasibility Tests for Reactive Walk on HRP-2, pp. 4243-4248. Attachment

Perrin, Nicolas

Univ. de Toulouse ; UPS, INSA, INP, ISAE ; LAAS

Stasse, Olivier

CNRS/AIST

Lamiraux, Florent

CNRS

Yoshida, Eiichi

National Inst. of AIST

15:35-15:50

ThD3.6

Analysis on a Friction Based ``Twirl" for Biped Robots, pp. 4249-4255.

Miura, Kanako

National Inst. of Advanced IndustrialScienceandTechnology

Nakaoka, Shin'ichiro

AIST

Morisawa, Mitsuharu

National Inst. of AIST

Kanehiro, Fumio

National Inst. of AIST

Harada, Kensuke

National Inst. of AIST

Kajita, Shuuji

National Inst. of AIST

 

ThD4

Egan Center Lower Level Room 2

Marine Robotics: Localization, Control and Navigation (Invited Sessions)

Chair: Antonelli, Gianluca

Univ. degli Studi di Cassino

Co-Chair: Kondo, Hayato

Tokyo Univ. of Marine Science and Tech.

Organizer: Antonelli, Gianluca

Univ. degli Studi di Cassino

Organizer: Kondo, Hayato

Tokyo Univ. of Marine Science and Tech.

Organizer: Marani, Giacomo

Univ. of Hawaii

Organizer: Stack, Jason

Office of Naval Res.

Organizer: Wettergren, Thomas

Naval Undersea Warfare Center

14:20-14:35

ThD4.1

A Measurement Distribution Framework for Cooperative Navigation Using Multiple AUVs (I), pp. 4256-4263.

Fallon, Maurice

MIT

Papadopoulos, Georgios

NTUA

Leonard, John

MIT

14:35-14:50

ThD4.2

Design and Experimental Evaluation of an Integrated USBL/INS System for AUVs (I), pp. 4264-4269.

Morgado, Marco

Inst. for Systems and Robotics - Lisbon - Inst. Superior

Oliveira, Paulo Jorge Ramalho

ISR- Inst. of Systems and Robotics - IST-Tech.

Silvestre, Carlos

Inst. Superior Tecnico

14:50-15:05

ThD4.3

Designing Behaviors to Improve Observability for Relative Localization of AUVs (I), pp. 4270-4275.

Antonelli, Gianluca

Univ. degli Studi di Cassino

Caiti, Andrea

Univ. of Pisa

Calabro', Vincenzo

Univ. degli studi di Pisa

Chiaverini, Stefano

Univ. di Cassino

15:05-15:20

ThD4.4

Observability Analysis of Relative Localization for AUVs Based on Ranging and Depth Measurements, pp. 4276-4281.

Antonelli, Gianluca

Univ. degli Studi di Cassino

Arrichiello, Filippo

Univ. di Cassino

Chiaverini, Stefano

Univ. di Cassino

Sukhatme, Gaurav

Univ. of Southern California

15:20-15:35

ThD4.5

Maximum Likelihood Mapping with Spectral Image Registration, pp. 4282-4287. Attachment

Pfingsthorn, Max

Jacobs Univ.

Birk, Andreas

Jacobs Univ.

Schwertfeger, Sören

Jacobs Univ.

Buelow, Heiko

Jacobs Univ.

Pathak, Kaustubh

Jacobs Univ. Bremen

15:35-15:50

ThD4.6

Geometric Formation Control for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles, pp. 4288-4293.

Yang, Huizhen

Northwestern Pol. Univ.

Zhang, Fumin

Georgia Inst. of Tech.

 

ThD5

Egan Center Lower Level Room 11/12

Dynamic Manipulation (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Platt, Robert

NASA

Co-Chair: Sudsang, Attawith

Chulalongkorn Univ.

14:20-14:35

ThD5.1

Two-Phased Controller for a Pair of 2-DOF Soft Fingertips Based on the Qualitative Relationship between Joint Angles and Object Location, pp. 4294-4301.

Yamazaki, Yujiro

Ritsumeikan Univ.

Inoue, Takahiro

Okayama Prefectural Univ.

Hirai, Shinichi

Ritsumeikan Univ.

14:35-14:50

ThD5.2

A Measurement Model for Tracking Hand-Object State During Dexterous Manipulation, pp. 4302-4308.

Corcoran, Craig

Rice Univ.

Platt, Robert

MIT

14:50-15:05

ThD5.3

External Sensorless Dynamic Object Manipulation by a Dual Soft-Fingered Robotic Hand with Torsional Fingertip Motion, pp. 4309-4314. Attachment

Tahara, Kenji

Kyushu Univ.

Maruta, Keigo

Kyushu Univ.

Yamamoto, Motoji

Kyushu Univ.

15:05-15:20

ThD5.4

Two-Dimensional Dynamic Modeling of a Sliding Motion of a Soft Fingertip Focusing on Stick-To-Slip Transition, pp. 4315-4321. Attachment

Ho, Van

Ritsumeikan Univ.

Hirai, Shinichi

Ritsumeikan Univ.

15:20-15:35

ThD5.5

Dynamic Object Manipulation Using a Virtual Frame by a Triple Soft-Fingered Robotic Hand, pp. 4322-4327. Attachment

Tahara, Kenji

Kyushu Univ.

Arimoto, Suguru

Ritsumeikan Univ.

Yoshida, Morio

RIKEN

15:35-15:50

ThD5.6

Regrasp Planning of Three-Fingered Hand for a Polygonal Object, pp. 4328-4333.

Phoka, Thanathorn

Chulalongkorn Univ.

Sudsang, Attawith

Chulalongkorn Univ.

 

ThD6

Egan Center Street Level Room Cook Hall

Rehabilitation Robotics and Human-Robot Interaction (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Agrawal, Sunil

Univ. of Delaware

Co-Chair: Munih, Marko

Univ. of Ljubljana

14:20-14:35

ThD6.1

Wearable Cable-Driven Upper Arm Exoskeleton - Motion with Transmitted Joint Force and Moment Minimization, pp. 4334-4339.

Mao, Ying

Univ. of Delaware

Agrawal, Sunil

Univ. of Delaware

14:35-14:50

ThD6.2

Visualizing Perspectives and Trends in Robotics Based on Patent Mining, pp. 4340-4347.

Ruffaldi, Emanuele

Scuola Superiore S.Anna

Sani, Elisabetta

Scuola Superiore S.Anna

Bergamasco, Massimo

Scuola Superiore S.Anna

14:50-15:05

ThD6.3

A Robot Companion for Inclusive Games: A User-Centred Design Perspective, pp. 4348-4353.

Marti, Patrizia

Univ. of Siena

Giusti, Leonardo

Univ. of Siena

15:05-15:20

ThD6.4

Trends and Considerations in Robot-Assisted Autism Therapy, pp. 4354-4359.

Ricks, Daniel

Brigham Young Univ. Provo, UT

Colton, Mark

Brigham Young Univ.

15:20-15:35

ThD6.5

Robotic Rehabilitation Tasks and Measurements of Psychophysiological Responses, pp. 4360-4365.

Munih, Marko

Univ. of Ljubljana

Novak, Domen

Univ. of Ljubljana

Ziherl, Jaka

Univ. of Ljubljana

Olenšek, Andrej

Univ. of Ljubljana

Podobnik, Janez

Unioversity of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering

Bajd, Tadej

Univ. of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering

Mihelj, Matjaž

Univ. of Ljubljana

15:35-15:50

ThD6.6

Upper-Limit Evaluation of a Robot Audition Based on ICA-BSS in Multi-Source, Barge-In and Highly Reveberant Conditions, pp. 4366-4371.

Takeda, Ryu

Kyoto Univ.

Nakadai, Kazuhiro

Honda Res. Inst. Japan Co., Ltd.

Takahashi, Toru

Kyoto Univ.

Komatani, Kazunori

Kyoto Univ.

Ogata, Tetsuya

Kyoto Univ.

Okuno, Hiroshi G.

Kyoto Univ.

 

ThD7

Egan Center Lower Level Room 3

Localization for Mobile Robots I (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Stump, Ethan

Univ. of Pennsylvania

Co-Chair: Kleiner, Alexander

Univ. of Freiburg

14:20-14:35

ThD7.1

Robust Vehicle Localization in Urban Environments Using Probabilistic Maps, pp. 4372-4378.

Levinson, Jesse

Stanford Univ.

Thrun, Sebastian

Stanford Univ.

14:35-14:50

ThD7.2

WiFi Localization and Navigation for Autonomous Indoor Mobile Robots, pp. 4379-4384.

Biswas, Joydeep

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Veloso, Manuela

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

14:50-15:05

ThD7.3

Improved GPS Sensor Model for Mobile Robots in Urban Terrain, pp. 4385-4390.

Maier, Daniel

Univ. of Freiburg

Kleiner, Alexander

Univ. of Freiburg

15:05-15:20

ThD7.4

Accurate Mobile Robot Localization in Indoor Environments Using Bluetooth, pp. 4391-4396.

Raghavan, Aswin

National Inst. of Tech. Trichy

Ravindran, Balaraman

IIT Madras

Sivasamy Sivamurugan, Manimaran

National Inst. of Tech. Tiruchirapalli

Ananthapadmanaban, Harini

National Inst. of Tech. Tiruchirapalli

15:20-15:35

ThD7.5

Visual Robot Localization Using Compact Binary Landmarks, pp. 4397-4403.

Ikeda, Kouichirou

Univ. of Fukui

Tanaka, Kanji

Fukui Univ.

15:35-15:50

ThD7.6

A General Gaussian-Mixture Approach for Range-Only Mapping Using Multiple Hypotheses, pp. 4404-4409.

Caballero, Fernando

Univ. of Seville

Merino, Luis

Pablo de Olavide Univ.

Ollero, Anibal

Univ. of Seville

 

ThD8

Egan Center Lower Level Room 9/10

Navigation on Uneven Terrain (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Collins, Emmanuel

FAMU-FSU Coll. of Engineering

Co-Chair: Ramos, Fabio

Univ. of Sydney

14:20-14:35

ThD8.1

Stereo Mapping and Localization for Long-Range Path Following on Rough Terrain, pp. 4410-4416.

Furgale, Paul Timothy

Univ. of Toronto

Barfoot, Timothy

Univ. of Toronto

14:35-14:50

ThD8.2

Updating Control Modes Based on Terrain Classification, pp. 4417-4423.

Coyle, Eric Joe

Florida State Univ. Florida A&M Univ.

Collins, Emmanuel

FAMU-FSU Coll. of Engineering

Lu, Liang

FAMU-FSU Coll. of Engineering

14:50-15:05

ThD8.3

Integrated Planning and Control of Large Tracked Vehicles in Open Terrain, pp. 4424-4430.

Singh, Surya

Univ. of Sydney

Nettleton, Eric

The Univ. of Sydney

Durrant-Whyte, Hugh

The Univ. of Sydney

Fan, Xiuyi

Imperial Coll. London

Oppolzer, Florian

Univ. of Sydney

15:05-15:20

ThD8.4

Real-World Validation of Three Tipover Algorithms for Mobile Robots, pp. 4431-4436.

Roan, Philip

Univ. of Washington

Burmeister, Aaron

SPAWAR Systems Center, Pacific

Rahimi, Amin

SPAWAR Systems Center, Pacific

Holz, Kevin

SPAWAR Systems Center, Pacific

Hooper, David

SPAWAR Systems Center, Pacific

15:20-15:35

ThD8.5

Inferring Geometry from Imagery - Enabling High Speed Traversal, pp. 4437-4443.

Broten, Gregory, S

DRDC

Mackay, David

Defence Res. and Development Canada

15:35-15:50

ThD8.6

Automated Rock Recognition with Wavelet Feature Space Projection and Gaussian Process Classification, pp. 4444-4450.

Zhou, Hang

Univ. of Sydney

Monteiro, Sildomar

Univ. of Sydney

Hatherly, Peter

Univ. of Sydney

Ramos, Fabio

Univ. of Sydney

Nettleton, Eric

The Univ. of Sydney

Oppolzer, Florian

Univ. of Sydney

 

ThD9

Egan Center Lower Level Room 4

Multi-Agent Coordination (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Goodwine, Bill

Univ. of Notre Dame

Co-Chair: Egerstedt, Magnus

Georgia Inst. of Tech.

14:20-14:35

ThD9.1

On the Need for Communication in Distributed Implementations of LTL Motion Specifications, pp. 4451-4456.

Kloetzer, Marius

Tech. Univ. of Iasi

Itani, Sara

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Birch, Sam

Boston Univ. Acad.

Belta, Calin

Boston Univ.

14:35-14:50

ThD9.2

Multi-Robot Coordination with Periodic Connectivity, pp. 4457-4462. Attachment

Hollinger, Geoffrey

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Singh, Sanjiv

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

14:50-15:05

ThD9.3

Decentralized Grid-Based Algorithms for Formation Reconfiguration and Synchronization, pp. 4463-4468.

Miklic, Damjan

Univ. of Zagreb

Bogdan, Stjepan

Univ. of Zagreb

Fierro, Rafael

Univ. of New Mexico

15:05-15:20

ThD9.4

Optimal Motion Primitives for Multi-UAV Convoy Protection, pp. 4469-4474.

Rahmani, Amir

Georgia Inst. of Tech.

Ding, Xu Chu

Georgia Inst. of Tech.

Egerstedt, Magnus

Georgia Inst. of Tech.

15:20-15:35

ThD9.5

Bifurcations of Optimal Solutions for Coordinated Robotic Systems: Numerical and Homotopy Methods, pp. 4475-4480.

Deng, Baoyang

Univ. of Notre Dame

Valenzuela, Andres

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Goodwine, Bill

Univ. of Notre Dame

15:35-15:50

ThD9.6

On Agreement Problems with Gossip Algorithms in Absence of Common Reference Frames, pp. 4481-4486.

Gasparri, Andrea

Univ. degli Studi Roma Tre

Franceschelli, Mauro

Univ. of Cagliari, Italy

 

ThD10

Egan Center Lower Level Room 7/8

Motion Planning and Trajectory Control (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Tanner, Herbert G.

Univ. of Delaware

Co-Chair: Stilman, Mike

Georgia Tech.

14:20-14:35

ThD10.1

Computing Push Plans for Disk-Shaped Robots, pp. 4487-4492.

Gerrits, Dirk

Tech. Univ. Eindhoven

de Berg, Mark

TU Eindhoven

14:35-14:50

ThD10.2

Optimizing Coordinate Choice for Locomoting Systems, pp. 4493-4498.

Hatton, Ross

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Choset, Howie

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

14:50-15:05

ThD10.3

Dipole-Like Fields for Stabilization of Systems with Pfaffian Constraints, pp. 4499-4504.

Panagou, Dimitra

National Tech. Univ. of Athens

Tanner, Herbert G.

Univ. of Delaware

Kyriakopoulos, Kostas

National Tech. Univ. of Athens

15:05-15:20

ThD10.4

From Motion Planning to Trajectory Control with Bounded Jerk for Service Manipulator Robots, pp. 4505-4510.

Broquere, Xavier

Univ. de Toulouse

Sidobre, Daniel

Univ. of toulouse

Nguyen, Khoi

Univ. of Toulouse

15:20-15:35

ThD10.5

Application of Caging Manipulation and Compliant Mechanism for a Container Case Hand-Over Task, pp. 4511-4518.

Fukui, Rui

The Univ. of Tokyo

Mori, Taketoshi

The Univ. of Tokyo

Sato, Tomomasa

The Univ. of Tokyo

15:35-15:50

ThD10.6

Robot Limbo: Optimized Planning and Control for Dynamically Stable Robots under Vertical Obstacles, pp. 4519-4524. Attachment

Teeyapan, Kasemsit

Georgia Inst. of Tech.

Wang, Jiuguang

Georgia Inst. of Tech.

Kunz, Tobias

Georgia Tech.

Stilman, Mike

Georgia Tech.

 

ThD11

Egan Center Lower Level Room 5

Visual Tracking II (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Yagi, Yasushi

Osaka Univ.

Co-Chair: Kweon, In So

KAIST

14:20-14:35

ThD11.1

Object Tracking with Measurements from Single or Multiple Cameras, pp. 4525-4530. Attachment

Linderoth, Magnus

Lund Univ.

Johansson, Rolf

LTH, Lund Univ.

Robertsson, Anders

LTH, Lund Univ.

Ǻström, Karl

LTH, Lund Univ.

14:35-14:50

ThD11.2

General Object Tracking with a Component-Based Target Descriptor, pp. 4531-4536. Attachment

Frintrop, Simone

Univ. of Bonn

14:50-15:05

ThD11.3

Visual Tracking for Non-Rigid Objects Using Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filter, pp. 4537-4544. Attachment

Kim, Jungho

KAIST

Park, Chaehoon

KAIST

Kweon, In So

KAIST

15:05-15:20

ThD11.4

A Salient Feature and Scene Semantics Based Attention Model for Human Tracking on Mobile Robot, pp. 4545-4552. Attachment

Liu, Hong

Peking Univ.

He, Huijun

Peking Univ.

15:20-15:35

ThD11.5

Consecutive Visual Tracking and Segmentation Using Appearance and Spatial Information of Patches, pp. 4553-4558.

Wang, Junqiu

OSAKA Univ.

Yagi, Yasushi

Osaka Univ.

15:35-15:50

ThD11.6

Using Multiple Hypothesis in Model-Based Tracking, pp. 4559-4565. Attachment

Teuličre, Céline

CEA-LIST

Marchand, Eric

Univ. de Rennes 1

Eck, Laurent

CEA

 

ThD12

Egan Center Street Level Room Arteaga

Vision and Motion Compensation for Medical Robots (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Webster III, Robert James

Vanderbilt Univ.

Co-Chair: Desai, Jaydev P.

Univ. of Maryland

14:20-14:35

ThD12.1

Towards Accurate Motion Compensation in Surgical Robotics, pp. 4566-4572. Attachment

Tobergte, Andreas

German Aerospace Centre

Fröhlich, Florian Alexander

DLR (German Aerospace Center)

Pomarlan, Mihai

German Aerospace Centre

Hirzinger, Gerd

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

14:35-14:50

ThD12.2

Breathing Motion Compensation for Robot Assisted Laser Osteotomy, pp. 4573-4578.

Busack, Martin

Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6

Morel, Guillaume

Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6

Bellot, Delphine

Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6

14:50-15:05

ThD12.3

Beating Heart Motion Prediction for Robust Visual Tracking, pp. 4579-4584. Attachment

Richa, Rogerio

Univ. Montpellier 2

Bó, Antônio Padilha Lanari

LIRMM UMR 5506 CNRS UM2

Poignet, Philippe

LIRMM UMR 5506 CNRS UM2

15:05-15:20

ThD12.4

Automation of Tissue Piercing Using Circular Needles and Vision Guidance for Computer Aided Laparoscopic Surgery, pp. 4585-4590. Attachment

Staub, Christoph

TU Munich

Osa, Takayuki

The Univ. of Tokyo

Knoll, Alois

TU Munich

Bauernschmitt, Robert

German Heart Center Munich

15:20-15:35

ThD12.5

Visual Sensing of Continuum Robot Shape Using Self-Organizing Maps, pp. 4591-4596.

Croom, Jordan

Vanderbilt Univ.

Rucker, Caleb

Vanderbilt Univ.

Romano, Joseph M.

Univ. of Pennsylvania

Webster III, Robert James

Vanderbilt Univ.

15:35-15:50

ThD12.6

Visual Vein-Finding for Robotic IV Insertion, pp. 4597-4602.

Brewer, Reuben

Stanford Univ.

Salisbury, Kenneth

Stanford Univ.

 

ThD13

Egan Center Lower Level Room 6

Software Tools for Robotics (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Biggs, Geoffrey

National Inst. of Advanced Industrial Science and Tech. (AIST)

Co-Chair: Morbidi, Fabio

Univ. of Siena

14:20-14:35

ThD13.1

KCT: A MATLAB Toolbox for Motion Control of KUKA Robot Manipulators, pp. 4603-4608.

Chinello, Francesco

Univ. of Siena

Scheggi, Stefano

Univ. of Siena

Morbidi, Fabio

Univ. of Siena

Prattichizzo, Domenico

Univ. of Siena

14:35-14:50

ThD13.2

Graphical State-Space Programmability As a Natural Interface for Robotic Control, pp. 4609-4614.

Sattar, Junaed

McGill Univ.

Xu, Anqi

McGill Univ.

Dudek, Gregory

McGill Univ.

Charette, Gabriel

McGill Univ.

14:50-15:05

ThD13.3

Flexible, Adaptable Utility Components for Component-Based Robot Software, pp. 4615-4620.

Biggs, Geoffrey

National Inst. of Advanced Industrial Science and Tech.

15:05-15:20

ThD13.4

Applying Regression Testing to Software for Robot Hardware Interaction, pp. 4621-4626.

Biggs, Geoffrey

National Inst. of Advanced Industrial Science and Tech.

15:20-15:35

ThD13.5

GenoM3: Building Middleware-Independent Robotic Components, pp. 4627-4632.

Mallet, Anthony

LAAS/CNRS

Pasteur, Cédric

Ec. Pol.

Herrb, Matthieu

LAAS/CNRS

Lemaignan, Séverin

LAAS/CNRS

Ingrand, Francois Felix

LAAS/CNRS

15:35-15:50

ThD13.6

The CBC: A LINUX-Based Low-Cost Mobile Robot Controller, pp. 4633-4638.

Miller, David

Univ. of Oklahoma

Oelke, Matthew

KIPR

Roman, Matthew

Univ. of Oklahoma

Villatoro, Jorge

KIPR

Winton, Charles

Univ. of North Florida

 

ThE1

Egan Center Street Level Room Boardroom

Motion Control of Manipulators II (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Poignet, Philippe

LIRMM UMR 5506 CNRS UM2

Co-Chair: Zhu, Wen-Hong

Canadian Space Agency

16:10-16:25

ThE1.1

Adaptive Control of Robot Manipulators Including Actuator Dynamics and without Joint Torque Measurement, pp. 4639-4644.

Salimi, Yahya

Sharif Univ. of Tech.

Namvar, Mehrzad

Sharif Univ. of Tech.

16:25-16:40

ThE1.2

A Globally Convergent Observer for Velocity Estimation in Robotic Manipulators with Uncertain Dynamics, pp. 4645-4650.

Lotfi, Nima

Sharif Univ. of Tech.

Namvar, Mehrzad

Sharif Univ. of Tech.

16:40-16:55

ThE1.3

A Simple Nonlinear PID Control for Global Finite-Time Regulation of Robot Manipulators without Velocity Measurements, pp. 4651-4656.

Su, Yuxin

Xidian Univ.

Zheng, Chunhong

Xidian Univ.

16:55-17:10

ThE1.4

FPGA-Based Adaptive Friction Compensation for Precision Control of Harmonic Drivers, pp. 4657-4662.

Zhu, Wen-Hong

Canadian Space Agency

17:10-17:25

ThE1.5

SP-ID Regulation of Rigid-Link Electrically-Driven Robots with Uncertain Kinematics, pp. 4663-4668.

Liu, Chao

LIRMM (UMR5506), CNRS, France

Poignet, Philippe

LIRMM UMR 5506 CNRS UM2

17:25-17:40

ThE1.6

Ball Dribbling with an Underactuated Continuous-Time Control Phase, pp. 4669-4674.

Mettin, Uwe

Umeĺ Univ.

Shiriaev, Anton

Umea Univ.

Bätz, Georg

Tech. Univ. München

Wollherr, Dirk

Tech. Univ. München

 

ThE2

Egan Center Lower Level Room 1

Kinematics of Parallel Robots (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Torras, Carme

CSIC - UPC

Co-Chair: Merlet, Jean-Pierre

INRIA

16:10-16:25

ThE2.1

Towards 100G with PKM. Is Actuation Redundancy a Good Solution for Pick-And-Place, pp. 4675-4682.

Corbel, David

LIRMM - CNRS

Gouttefarde, Marc

LIRMM

Company, Olivier

Univ. of Montpellier 2

Pierrot, François

CNRS - LIRMM

16:25-16:40

ThE2.2

Improving the Kinematic Performance of the SCARA-Tau PKkM, pp. 4683-4690.

Isaksson, Mats

Deakin Univ.

Brogardh, Torgny

ABB Robotics

Lundberg, Ivan

ABB Corp. Res.

Nahavandi, Saeid

Deakin Univ.

16:40-16:55

ThE2.3

A PSO Algorithm for Mapping the Workspace Boundary of Parallel Manipulators, pp. 4691-4696. Attachment

Saputra, Vincensius Billy

National Univ. of Singapore

Nee, A.Y.C.

National Univ. of Singapore

16:55-17:10

ThE2.4

Motion Planning for a Novel Reconfigurable Parallel Manipulator with Lockable Revolute Joints, pp. 4697-4702. Attachment

Grosch, Patrick

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) and Tech.

Di Gregorio, Raffaele

Univ. di Ferrara

López, Javier

Inst. de Robňtica i Informŕtica Industrial (CSIC-UPC)

Thomas, Federico

CSIC-UPC

17:10-17:25

ThE2.5

A Family of Quadratically-Solvable 5-SPU Parallel Robots, pp. 4703-4708.

Borrŕs Sol, Júlia

CSIC-UPC

Thomas, Federico

CSIC-UPC

Torras, Carme

CSIC - UPC

17:25-17:40

ThE2.6

On the Determination of Cable Characteristics for Large Dimension Cable-Driven Parallel Mechanisms, pp. 4709-4714.

Riehl, Nicolas

LIRMM

Gouttefarde, Marc

LIRMM

Baradat, Cédric

Fondation Fatronik

Pierrot, François

CNRS - LIRMM

 

ThE3

Egan Center Lower Level Room 13/14

Legged Robots (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Clark, Jonathan

Florida State Univ.

Co-Chair: Buehler, Martin

iRobot

16:10-16:25

ThE3.1

Avoidance Behavior from External Forces for Biped Vehicle, pp. 4715-4720. Attachment

Hashimoto, Kenji

Waseda Univ.

Sawato, Terumasa

Waseda Univ.

Hayashi, Akihiro

Waseda Univ.

Yoshimura, Yuki

Waseda Univ.

Asano, Teppei

Waseda Univ.

Hattori, Kentaro

Waseda Univ.

Sugahara, Yusuke

Tohoku Univ.

Lim, Hun-ok

Kanagawa Univ.

Takanishi, Atsuo

Waseda Univ.

16:25-16:40

ThE3.2

Control of Underactuated Planar Hexapedal Pronking through a Dynamically Embedded SLIP Monopod, pp. 4721-4727.

Ankarali, Mustafa Mert

Middle East Tech. Univ.

Saranli, Uluc

Bilkent Univ.

Saranli, Afsar

Middle East Tech. Univ.

16:40-16:55

ThE3.3

Analysis and Evaluation of the Stability of a Biologically Inspired, Leg Loss Tolerant Gait for Six and Eight-Legged Walking Robots, pp. 4728-4735.

Goerner, Martin

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Hirzinger, Gerd

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

16:55-17:10

ThE3.4

Autonomous Navigation for BigDog, pp. 4736-4741.

Wooden, David

Boston Dynamics

Malchano, Matthew

Boston Dynamics

Blankespoor, Kevin

Boston Dynamics

Howard, Andrew

JPL

Rizzi, Alfred

Boston Dynamics

Raibert, Marc

Boston Dynamics

17:10-17:25

ThE3.5

Pushing Methods for Working Six-Legged Robots Capable of Locomotion and Manipulation in Three Modes, pp. 4742-4748.

Inoue, Kenji

Yamagata Univ.

Ooe, Kanjiro

Yamagata Univ.

Lee, Suwoong

Yamagata Univ.

17:25-17:40

ThE3.6

Design of a Dynamically Stable Horizontal Plane Runner, pp. 4749-4754.

Shill, Jacob

Florida State Univ.

Miller, Bruce

Florida State Univ.

Schmitt, John

Oregon State Univ.

Clark, Jonathan

Florida State Univ.

 

ThE4

Egan Center Lower Level Room 2

Marine Robotics: Motion and Path Planning (Invited Sessions)

Chair: Stack, Jason

Office of Naval Res.

Co-Chair: Wettergren, Thomas

Naval Undersea Warfare Center

Organizer: Antonelli, Gianluca

Univ. degli Studi di Cassino

Organizer: Kondo, Hayato

Tokyo Univ. of Marine Science and Tech.

Organizer: Marani, Giacomo

Univ. of Hawaii

Organizer: Stack, Jason

Office of Naval Res.

Organizer: Wettergren, Thomas

Naval Undersea Warfare Center

16:10-16:25

ThE4.1

On Optimal AUV Track-Spacing for Underwater Mine Detection (I), pp. 4755-4762.

Williams, David

NATO Undersea Res. Centre

16:25-16:40

ThE4.2

Cooperative Caging Using Autonomous Aquatic Surface Vehicles (I), pp. 4763-4769. Attachment

Arrichiello, Filippo

Univ. di Cassino

Heidarsson, Hordur Kristinn

Univ. of Southern California

Chiaverini, Stefano

Univ. di Cassino

Sukhatme, Gaurav

Univ. of Southern California

16:40-16:55

ThE4.3

Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Trajectory Design Coupled with Predictive Ocean Models: A Case Study (I), pp. 4770-4777.

Smith, Ryan

Univ. of Southern California

Arvind, Pereira

Univ. of Southern California

Chao, Yi

California Inst. of Tech.

Li, Peggy

California Inst. of Tech.

Caron, David A.

Univ. of Southern California

Jones, Burton

Univ. of Southern California

Sukhatme, Gaurav

Univ. of Southern California

16:55-17:10

ThE4.4

Spatiotemporal Path Planning in Strong, Dynamic, Uncertain Currents, pp. 4778-4783.

Thompson, David

Jet Propulsion Lab. California Inst. of Tech.

Chien, Steve

Jet Propulsion Lab.

Balasuriya, Arjuna

MIT

Petillo, Stephanie

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Chao, Yi

California Inst. of Tech.

Li, Peggy

California Inst. of Tech.

Arrott, Matt

California Inst. for Telecommunications and Information Tech.

Meisinger, Michael

California Inst. for Telecommunications and Information Tech.

Cahill, Bronwyn

Rutgers Univ.

Levin, Julia

Rutgers Univ.

Schofield, Oscar

Rutgers Univ.

17:10-17:25

ThE4.5

Towards Marine Bloom Trajectory Prediction for AUV Mission Planning (I), pp. 4784-4790.

Das, Jnaneshwar

Univ. of Southern California

Rajan, Kanna

Monterey Bay Aquarium Res. Inst.

Frolov, Sergey

Monterey Bay Aquarium Res. Inst.

Py, Frederic

Monterey Bay Aquarium Res. Inst.

Ryan, John

Monterey Bay Aquarium Res. Inst.

Caron, David A.

Univ. of Southern California

Sukhatme, Gaurav

Univ. of Southern California

17:25-17:40

ThE4.6

Informative Path Planning for an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, pp. 4791-4796.

Binney, Jonathan

Univ. of Southern California

Krause, Andreas

California Inst. of Tech.

Sukhatme, Gaurav

Univ. of Southern California

 

ThE5

Egan Center Lower Level Room 11/12

Cognitive Human Robot Recognition and Learning (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Choi, Jongsuk

Korea Inst. of Sci. and Tech.

Co-Chair: Tacchella, Armando

Univ. di Genova

16:10-16:25

ThE5.1

Training Special Needs Infants to Drive Mobile Robots Using Force-Feedback Joystick, pp. 4797-4802. Attachment

Agrawal, Sunil

Univ. of Delaware

Chen, Xi

Univ. of Delaware

Galloway, James

Univ. of Delaware

16:25-16:40

ThE5.2

Learning Discriminative MspLBP Features Based on Ada-LDA for Multi-Class Pattern Classification, pp. 4803-4808.

An, Kwang Ho

KAIST

Chung, Myung Jin

KAIST

16:40-16:55

ThE5.3

Safe and Effective Learning: A Case Study, pp. 4809-4814. Attachment

Metta, Giorgio

Univ. of Genoa

Natale, Lorenzo

Istutito Italiano di Tecnologia

Pathak, Shashank

Univ. di Genova

Pulina, Luca

Univ. di Genova

Tacchella, Armando

Univ. di Genova

16:55-17:10

ThE5.4

Activation of a Mobile Robot through a Brain Computer Interface, pp. 4815-4821.

Achanccaray, David Ronald

Pontificia Univ. Catolica de Rio de Janeiro

Meggiolaro, Marco Antonio

Pontifical Catholic Univ. of Rio de Janeiro

Barbosa, Alexandre Ormiga Galvăo

Pontifical Catholic Univ. of Rio de Janeiro

17:10-17:25

ThE5.5

Robot Reinforcement Learning Using EEG-Based Reward Signals, pp. 4822-4829.

Iturrate, Ińaki

Centro Pol. Superior, Univ. of Zaragoza

Montesano, Luis

Inst. Superior Tecnico

Minguez, Javier

Univ. of Zaragoza

17:25-17:40

ThE5.6

DSP Integration of Sound Source Localization and Multi-Channel Wiener Filter, pp. 4830-4835.

Lee, Byoung-gi

Korea Inst. of Science and Tech.

Kim, Hyun-dong

Korea Inst. of Science and Tech.

Choi, Jongsuk

Korea Inst. of Sci. and Tech.

Kim, Se-yun

Seoul National Univ.

Cho, Nam-ik

Seoul National Univ.

 

ThE6

Egan Center Street Level Room Cook Hall

Tactile Sensing (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Mastrogiovanni, Fulvio

Univ. of Genova, Italy

Co-Chair: Hirai, Shinichi

Ritsumeikan Univ.

16:10-16:25

ThE6.1

A Robust, Low-Cost and Low-Noise Artificial Skin for Human-Friendly Robots, pp. 4836-4841.

Ulmen, John

Stanford Univ.

Cutkosky, Mark

Stanford Univ.

16:25-16:40

ThE6.2

Characterization of the Electrical Resistance of Carbon-Black-Filled Silicone: Application to a Flexible and Stretchable Robot Skin, pp. 4842-4848.

Lacasse, Marc-Antoine

Laval Univ.

Duchaine, Vincent

Univ. Laval

Gosselin, Clement

Univ. Laval

16:40-16:55

ThE6.3

Towards Automated Self-Calibration of Robot Skin, pp. 4849-4854.

Denei, Simone

Univ. of Genova

Cannata, Giorgio

Univ. of Genova

Mastrogiovanni, Fulvio

Univ. of Genova, Italy

16:55-17:10

ThE6.4

Design of a Small-Scale Tactile Sensor with Three Sensing Points for Using in Robotic Fingertips, pp. 4855-4860. Attachment

Ho, Van

Ritsumeikan Univ.

Dao, Viet Dzung

Ritsumeikan Univ.

Sugiyama, Susumu

Ritsumeikan Univ.

Hirai, Shinichi

Ritsumeikan Univ.

17:10-17:25

ThE6.5

Development of a Sensor System with Syringe Based on Tactile Sensing Using Balloon Expansion, pp. 4861-4866.

Tanaka, Yoshihiro

Nagoya Inst. of Tech.

Doumoto, Kazuki

Nagoya Inst. of Tech.

Sano, Akihito

Nagoya Inst. of Tech.

Fujimoto, Hideo

Nagoya Inst. of Tech.

17:25-17:40

ThE6.6

High Sensitivity Initial Slip Sensor for Dexterous Grasp, pp. 4867-4872. Attachment

Teshigawara, Seiichi

The Univ. of Electro-Communications

Tadakuma, Kenjiro

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Ming, Aiguo

The Univ. of Electro-Communications

Ishikawa, Masatoshi

Univ. of Tokyo

Shimojo, Makoto

Univ. of Electro-COmmunications

 

ThE7

Egan Center Lower Level Room 3

Localization for Mobile Robots II (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Borges, Paulo Vinicius Koerich

CSIRO

Co-Chair: Behnke, Sven

Univ. of Bonn

16:10-16:25

ThE7.1

Localization of Mobile Robots Using Incremental Local Maps, pp. 4873-4880.

Iser, Rene

Tech. Univ. of Braunschweig

Martens, Arthur

Tech. Univ. Braunschweig

Wahl, Friedrich M.

Tech. Univ. of Braunschweig

16:25-16:40

ThE7.2

Learning Visibility of Landmarks for Vision-Based Localization, pp. 4881-4888. Attachment

Fernández Alcantarilla, Pablo

Univ. of Alcalá

Oh, Sang Min

Kitware Inc.

Mariottini, Gian Luca

Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering

Bergasa, Luis Miguel

Univ. of Alcala

Dellaert, Frank

Georgia Inst. of Tech.

16:40-16:55

ThE7.3

Explicit Coordinated Localization Using Common Visual Objects, pp. 4889-4894.

Peula Palacios, Jose Manuel

Univ. of Málaga

Cebolla, Javier

UMA

Urdiales, Cristina

Univ. de Málaga

Sandoval, Francisco

Univ. Málaga

16:55-17:10

ThE7.4

Improving Indoor Navigation of Autonomous Robots by an Explicit Representation of Doors, pp. 4895-4901.

Nieuwenhuisen, Matthias

Univ. of Bonn

Stückler, Jörg

Univ. of Bonn

Behnke, Sven

Univ. of Bonn

17:10-17:25

ThE7.5

Vision-Based Localization Using an Edge Map Extracted from 3D Laser Range Data, pp. 4902-4909. Attachment

Borges, Paulo Vinicius Koerich

CSIRO

Zlot, Robert

CSIRO

Bosse, Michael

CSIRO ICT Centre

Nuske, Stephen

CMU Robotics Inst.

Tews, Ashley Desmond

CSIRO

17:25-17:40

ThE7.6

Topological Localization Using Sonar Gridmap Matching in Home Environment, pp. 4910-4915.

Choi, Jinwoo

POSTECH

Choi, Minyong

POSTECH

Suh, Il Hong

Hanyang Univ.

Chung, Wan Kyun

POSTECH

 

ThE8

Egan Center Lower Level Room 9/10

Wheeled Robots: Dynamics, Control and Planning (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Lee, Kok-Meng

Georgia Inst. of Tech.

Co-Chair: Xi, Ning

Michigan State Univ.

16:10-16:25

ThE8.1

Recursive Convex Replanning for the Trajectory Tracking of Wheeled Mobile Robots, pp. 4916-4921. Attachment

Argenti, Mauro

Univ. of Parma

Consolini, Luca

Univ. of Parma

Lini, Gabriele

Univ. di Parma

Piazzi, Aurelio

Univ. di Parma

16:25-16:40

ThE8.2

Terramechanics-Based High-Fidelity Dynamics Simulation for Wheeled Mobile Robot on Deformable Rough Terrain, pp. 4922-4927. Attachment

Ding, Liang

Harbin Inst. of Tech.

Nagatani, Keiji

Tohoku Univ.

Sato, Keisuke

Tohoku Univ.

Mora Vargas, Andres Esteban

Tohoku Univ.

Yoshida, Kazuya

Tohoku Univ.

Gao, Haibo

Harbin Inst. of Tech.

16:40-16:55

ThE8.3

Pushing Motion Control of N Passive Off-Hooked Trailers by a Car-Like Mobile Robot, pp. 4928-4933. Attachment

Yoo, Kwanghyun

Korea Univ.

Chung, Woojin

Korea Univ.

16:55-17:10

ThE8.4

Development of Falcon III: Terrain-Adaptive Body-Stabilizing Three-Wheeled Vehicle, pp. 4934-4939.

Ickowzcy, Ewerton

Tokyo Inst. of Tech.

Aoki, Takeshi

Tokyo Inst. of Tech.

Hirose, Shigeo

Tokyo Inst. of Tech.

17:10-17:25

ThE8.5

Dynamic Model and Adaptive Tracking Controller for 4-Powered Caster Vehicle, pp. 4940-4945.

Liu, Yong

Michigan State Univ.

Jia, Yunyi

Michigan State Univ.

Xi, Ning

Michigan State Univ.

17:25-17:40

ThE8.6

Near-Optimal Autonomous Pursuit Evasion for Nonholonomic Wheeled Mobile Robot Subject to Wheel Slip, pp. 4946-4951.

Tian, Yu

Vanderbilt Univ.

Das, Jadav

Vanderbilt Univ.

Sarkar, Nilanjan

Vanderbilt Univ.

 

ThE9

Egan Center Lower Level Room 4

Multi-Robot Systems and Swarms (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Hsieh, M. Ani

Drexel Univ.

Co-Chair: Marques, Lino

Univ. of Coimbra

16:10-16:25

ThE9.1

Near Optimal Swarm Deployment Using Descriptor Functions, pp. 4952-4957.

Niccolini, Marta

Univ. of Pisa

Innocenti, Mario

Univ. of Pisa

Pollini, Lorenzo

Univ. of Pisa

16:25-16:40

ThE9.2

An Olfactory-Based Robot Swarm Navigation Method, pp. 4958-4963. Attachment

Marjovi, Ali

Univ. of Coimbra

Nunes, Joăo Gonçalo

Inst. of Systems and Robotics (ISR) - Univ. of Coimbra

Sousa, Pedro

Univ. of Coimbra

Faria, Ricardo

Univ. of Coimbra

Marques, Lino

Univ. of Coimbra

16:40-16:55

ThE9.3

Flocking Control of Multiple Agents in Noisy Environments, pp. 4964-4969.

La, Hung

Oklahoma State Univ.

Sheng, Weihua

Oklahoma State Univ.

16:55-17:10

ThE9.4

Towards Dynamic Team Formation for Robot Ensembles, pp. 4970-4975.

Mather, T, William

Drexel Univ.

Hsieh, M. Ani

Drexel Univ.

Frazzoli, Emilio

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

17:10-17:25

ThE9.5

Non-Rigid Formations of Nonholonomic Robots, pp. 4976-4981.

Consolini, Luca

Univ. of Parma

Morbidi, Fabio

Univ. of Siena

Prattichizzo, Domenico

Univ. of Siena

Tosques, Mario

Univ. of Parma

17:25-17:40

ThE9.6

Voronoi Coverage of Non-Convex Environments with a Group of Networked Robots, pp. 4982-4989. Attachment

Breitenmoser, Andreas

ETH Zurich

Schwager, Mac

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Metzger, Jean-Claude

ETH Zurich

Siegwart, Roland

ETH Zurich

Rus, Daniela

MIT

 

ThE10

Egan Center Lower Level Room 7/8

Motion Planning for Nonholonomic Systems (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Tedrake, Russ

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Co-Chair: Plaku, Erion

Johns Hopkins Univ.

16:10-16:25

ThE10.1

Towards Constrained Motion Planning of Mobile Manipulators, pp. 4990-4995.

Janiak, Mariusz

Wroclaw Univ. of Tech.

Tchon, Krzysztof

WrocB;aw Univ. of Tech.

16:25-16:40

ThE10.2

Trajectory Generation and Steering Optimization for Self-Assembly of a Modular Robotic System, pp. 4996-5001.

Wolfe, Kevin

Johns Hopkins Univ.

Kutzer, Michael Dennis Mays

Johns Hopkins Univ. Applied Physics Lab.

Armand, Mehran

Johns Hopkins Univ. Applied Physics Lab.

Chirikjian, Gregory

Johns Hopkins Univ.

16:40-16:55

ThE10.3

Sampling-Based Motion and Symbolic Action Planning with Geometric and Differential Constraints, pp. 5002-5008.

Plaku, Erion

Johns Hopkins Univ.

Hager, Gregory

Johns Hopkins Univ.

16:55-17:10

ThE10.4

Optimal Ball Pitching with an Underactuated Model of a Human Arm, pp. 5009-5014.

Mettin, Uwe

Umeĺ Univ.

Shiriaev, Anton

Umea Univ.

Freidovich, Leonid

Umeĺ Univ.

Sampei, Mitsuji

Tokyo Inst. of Tech.

17:10-17:25

ThE10.5

Single-Query, Bi-Directional, Lazy Roadmap Planner Applied to Car-Like Robots, pp. 5015-5020.

Balakirsky, Stephen

NIST

Dimitrov, Denis

Georgetown Univ.

17:25-17:40

ThE10.6

A Quadratic Regulator-Based Heuristic for Rapidly Exploring State Space, pp. 5021-5028.

Glassman, Elena Leah

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Tedrake, Russ

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

 

ThE11

Egan Center Lower Level Room 5

Visual Learning (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Burschka, Darius

Tech. Univ. München

Co-Chair: Triebel, Rudolph

ETH Zurich

16:10-16:25

ThE11.1

Illumination-Invariant Image-Based Novelty Detection in a Cognitive Mobile Robot's Environment, pp. 5029-5034.

Maier, Werner

Tech. Univ. Muenchen

Bao, Fengqing

Tech. Univ. München

Mair, Elmar

Tech. Univ. München (TUM)

Steinbach, Eckehard

Munich Univ. of Tech.

Burschka, Darius

Tech. Univ. München

16:25-16:40

ThE11.2

Online Navigation Summaries, pp. 5035-5040.

Girdhar, Yogesh

McGill Univ.

Dudek, Gregory

McGill Univ.

16:40-16:55

ThE11.3

Unsupervised Discovery of Repetitive Objects, pp. 5041-5046.

Shin, Jiwon

ETH Zurich

Triebel, Rudolph

ETH Zurich

Siegwart, Roland

ETH Zurich

16:55-17:10

ThE11.4

Self-Supervised Cross-Modal Online Learning of Basic Object Affordances for Developmental Robotic Systems, pp. 5047-5054.

Ridge, Barry

Univ. of Ljubljana

Sko

;aj, Danijel

Univ. of Ljubljana

Leonardis, Ales

Univ. of Ljubljana

17:10-17:25

ThE11.5

Viewpoint Detection Models for Sequential Embodied Object Category Recognition, pp. 5055-5061.

Meger, David Paul

Univ. of British Columbia

Ankur, Gupta

The Univ. of British Columbia

Little, James J.

UBC

17:25-17:40

ThE11.6

Learning to Grasp Objects with Multiple Contact Points, pp. 5062-5069. Attachment

Le, Quoc

Stanford Univ.

Kamm, David

Stanford Univ.

Ng, Andrew

Stanford Univ.

 

ThE12

Egan Center Street Level Room Arteaga

Neurorobotics and Human Measurement (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Morellas, Vassilios

U. of Minnesota

Co-Chair: Gassert, Roger

ETH Zurich

16:10-16:25

ThE12.1

Highly-Accurate, Implantable Micromanipulator for Single Neuron Recordings, pp. 5070-5075.

Yang, Sungwook

Korea Inst. of Science and Tech.

Kim, Jinseok

KIST

Yoon, Eui-Sung

Korea Inst. of Science and Tech.

16:25-16:40

ThE12.2

Effects of Nerve Signal Transmission Delay in Somatosensory Reflex Modeling Based on Inverse Dynamics and Optimization, pp. 5076-5083.

Murai, Akihiko

The Univ. of Tokyo

Yamane, Katsu

Disney

Nakamura, Yoshihiko

Univ. of Tokyo

16:40-16:55

ThE12.3

ReGrasp, a Robotic Tool to Investigate Fine Motor Control and Track Therapy-Induced Neuroplasticity, pp. 5084-5089.

Duenas, Julio

ETH

Lambercy, Olivier

ETH Zurich

Chapuis, Dominique

Ec. Pol. Federale de Lausanne

Gassert, Roger

ETH Zurich

16:55-17:10

ThE12.4

Investigating Human Balance Using a Robotic Motion Platform, pp. 5090-5095.

Huryn, Thomas Peter

Univ. of British Columbia

Luu, Billy Liang

Univ. of British Columbia

Van der Loos, H.F. Machiel

Univ. of British Columbia (UBC)

Blouin, Jean Sebastien

Univ. of British Columbia

Croft, Elizabeth

Univ. of British Columbia

17:10-17:25

ThE12.5

Walking Speed Estimation Using Shank-Mounted Accelerometers, pp. 5096-5101.

Bishop, Emily Lynn

Univ. of Calgary

Li, Qingguo

Queen's Univ.

17:25-17:40

ThE12.6

Human Motion Patterns from Single Camera Cues for Medical Applications, pp. 5102-5107.

Ribnick, Evan

Univ. of Minnesota

Morellas, Vassilios

U. of Minnesota

Papanikolopoulos, Nikos

Univ. of Minnesota

 

ThE13

Egan Center Lower Level Room 6

Planning with Deformation and Contact (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Kaneko, Makoto

Osaka Univ.

Co-Chair: Schmidt, Daniel

Robotics Res. Lab. Tech. Univ. Kaiserslautern

16:10-16:25

ThE13.1

Simulation and Control of an Autonomous Bucket Excavator for Landscaping Tasks, pp. 5108-5113.

Schmidt, Daniel

Robotics Res. Lab. Tech. Univ. Kaiserslautern

Proetzsch, Martin Johannes

Univ. of Kaiserslautern

Berns, Karsten

Univ. of Kaiserslautern

16:25-16:40

ThE13.2

A Dipole Field for Object Delivery by Pushing on a Flat Surface, pp. 5114-5119. Attachment

Igarashi, Takeo

The Univ. of Tokyo

Inami, Masahiko

Keio Univ.

Kamiyama, Yoichi

JST ERATO Igarashi Design Interface Project

16:40-16:55

ThE13.3

Active Shaping of an Unknown Rheological Object Based on Deformation Decomposition into Elasticity and Plasticity, pp. 5120-5126. Attachment

Higashimori, Mitsuru

Osaka Univ.

Yoshimoto, Kayo

Osaka Univ.

Kaneko, Makoto

Osaka Univ.

16:55-17:10

ThE13.4

Avoiding Zeno's Paradox in Impulse-Based Rigid Body Simulation, pp. 5127-5132. Attachment

Drumwright, Evan

Univ. of Southern California

17:10-17:25

ThE13.5

Deformable Robot Motion Planning in a Reduced-Dimension Configuration Space, pp. 5133-5138.

Mahoney, Arthur

Univ. of Utah

Bross, Joshua

Univ. of Utah

Johnson, David

Univ. of Utah

17:25-17:40

ThE13.6

An Efficient Algorithm for Self-Reconfiguration Planning in a Modular Robot, pp. 5139-5146.

Larkworthy, Tom

Univ. of Edinburgh

Ramamoorthy, Subramanian

The Univ. of Edinburgh

 

ThF1

Egan Center Street Level Room Boardroom

Robust and Adaptive Control (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Liu, Guangjun

Ryerson Univ.

Co-Chair: Fraisse, Philippe

LIRMM

17:45-18:00

ThF1.1

A Mixed GPC-H Infinity Robust Cascade Position-Pressure Control Strategy for Electropneumatic Cylinders, pp. 5147-5154.

Chikh, Lotfi

LIRMM (Lab. d'Informatique de Robotique et de Microélectr

Poignet, Philippe

LIRMM UMR 5506 CNRS UM2

Pierrot, François

CNRS - LIRMM

Baradat, Cédric

Fondation Fatronik

18:00-18:15

ThF1.2

Reach Then See: A New Adaptive Controller for Robot Manipulator Based on Dual Task-Space Information, pp. 5155-5160.

Cheah, C. C.

Nanyang Tech. Univ.

Li, Xiang

Nanyang Tech. Univ.

18:15-18:30

ThF1.3

Spring Assisted Modular and Reconfigurable Robot: Design, Analysis and Control, pp. 5161-5166.

Liu, Guangjun

Ryerson Univ.

Liu, Yugang

Ryerson Univ.

18:30-18:45

ThF1.4

Realization of Biped Walking on Uneven Terrain by New Foot Mechanism Capable of Detecting Ground Surface, pp. 5167-5172.

Kang, Hyun-jin

Waseda Univ.

Hashimoto, Kenji

Waseda Univ.

Kondo, Hideki

Waseda Univ.

Hattori, Kentaro

Waseda Univ.

Nishikawa, Kosuke

Waseda Univ.

Hama, Yuichiro

Waseda Univ.

Lim, Hun-ok

Kanagawa Univ.

Takanishi, Atsuo

Waseda Univ.

Suga, Keisuke

TOYOTA motor Corp.

Kato, Keisuke

Sony Corp.

18:45-19:00

ThF1.5

Improving Stability and Performance of Digitally Controlled Systems: The Concept of Modified Holds, pp. 5173-5180. Attachment

Ghaffari Toiserkan, Kamran

McGill Univ.

Kovecses, Jozsef

McGIll Univ.

19:00-19:15

ThF1.6

Adaptive Admittance Control of a Robot Manipulator under Task Space Constraint, pp. 5181-5186.

Tee, Keng Peng

Inst. for Infocomm Res.

Yan, Rui

Inst. for Infocomm Res.

Li, Haizhou

Inst. for Infocomm Res.

 

ThF2

Egan Center Lower Level Room 1

Underactuated Robots (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Bobrow, James

Univ. of California, Irvine

Co-Chair: Poulakakis, Ioannis

Princeton Univ.

17:45-18:00

ThF2.1

Point-To-Point Motion Control of a Pendulum-Like 3-Dof Underactuated Cable-Driven Robot, pp. 5187-5193. Attachment

Lefrancois, Simon

Univ. Laval

Gosselin, Clement

Univ. Laval

18:00-18:15

ThF2.2

Stabilizing a Vehicle Near Rollover: An Analogy to Cart-Pole Stabilization, pp. 5194-5200. Attachment

Peters, Steven

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Bobrow, James

Univ. of California, Irvine

Iagnemma, Karl

MIT

18:15-18:30

ThF2.3

Differentially Flat Mobile Manipulators Mounted with an Under-Actuated Vertical Arm, pp. 5201-5206.

Ryu, Ji-Chul

Univ. of Delaware

Agrawal, Sunil

Univ. of Delaware

18:30-18:45

ThF2.4

Design and Analysis of a Soft Mobile Robot Composed of Multiple Thermally Activated Joints Driven by a Single Actuator, pp. 5207-5212. Attachment

Cheng, Nadia

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Ishigami, Genya

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Hawthorne, Stephan

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Chen, Hao

Univ. of California, Berkeley

Hansen, Malik

Boston Dynamics

Telleria, Maria

Massachusetts Insitute of Tech.

Playter, Robert

Boston Dynamics

Iagnemma, Karl

MIT

18:45-19:00

ThF2.5

The Effect of Dynamic Singularities on Robotic Control and Design, pp. 5213-5218.

Goodwine, Bill

Univ. of Notre Dame

Nightingale, Jason

Univ. of Notre Dame

19:00-19:15

ThF2.6

Spring Loaded Inverted Pendulum Embedding: Extensions Toward the Control of Compliant Running Robots, pp. 5219-5224.

Poulakakis, Ioannis

Princeton Univ.

 

ThF3

Egan Center Lower Level Room 13/14

Walking Robots (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Goswami, Ambarish

Honda Res. Inst.

Co-Chair: Kimura, Hiroshi

Kyoto Inst. of Tech.

17:45-18:00

ThF3.1

Stable Dynamic Walking of a Quadruped Robot ``Kotetsu'' Using Phase Modulations Based on Leg Loading/Unloading, pp. 5225-5230. Attachment

Maufroy, Christophe

Univ. of Electro-Communications

Nishikawa, Tomohiro

Kyoto Inst. of Tech.

Kimura, Hiroshi

Kyoto Inst. of Tech.

18:00-18:15

ThF3.2

Passive Dynamic Walking with Quadrupeds - Extensions towards 3D, pp. 5231-5236.

Remy, C. David

ETH Zurich

Hutter, Marco

ETH Zurich

Siegwart, Roland

ETH Zurich

18:15-18:30

ThF3.3

A Two-Dimensional Passive Dynamic Running Biped with Knees, pp. 5237-5242. Attachment

Owaki, Dai

Tohoku Univ.

Koyama, Masatoshi

Tohoku Univ.

Yamaguchi, Shin'ichi

Tohoku Univ.

Kubo, Shota

Tohoku Univ.

Ishiguro, Akio

Tohoku Univ.

18:30-18:45

ThF3.4

Constrained Convergent Gait Regulation for a Climbing Robot, pp. 5243-5249.

Trujillo, Salomon

Stanford Univ.

Heyneman, Barrett

Stanford Univ.

Cutkosky, Mark

Stanford Univ.

18:45-19:00

ThF3.5

Stable and Robust Walking with Compliant Legs, pp. 5250-5255.

Rummel, Juergen

Univ. of Jena

Blum, Yvonne

Univ. of Jena

Maus, Horst Moritz

Univ. of Jena

Rode, Christian

Univ. of Jena

Seyfarth, Andre

Univ. of Jena

19:00-19:15

ThF3.6

Map-Based Adaptive Foothold Planning for Unstructured Terrain Walking, pp. 5256-5261.

Belter, Dominik

Poznan Univ. of Tech.

Labecki, Przemyslaw

Poznan Univ. of Tech.

Skrzypczynski, Piotr

Poznan Univ. of Tech.

 

ThF4

Egan Center Lower Level Room 2

Marine Robotics: Autonomous Underwater and Surface Vehicles (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Kyriakopoulos, Kostas

National Tech. Univ. of Athens

Co-Chair: Abbeel, Pieter

Stanford Univ.

17:45-18:00

ThF4.1

A Visual-Servoing Scheme for Semi-Autonomous Operation of an Underwater Robotic Vehicle Using an IMU and a Laser Vision System, pp. 5262-5267.

Karras, George

National Tech. Univ. of Athens

Loizou, Savvas

Frederick Univ.

Kyriakopoulos, Kostas

National Tech. Univ. of Athens

18:00-18:15

ThF4.2

Experimental Evaluation of an Autonomous Surface Vehicle for Water Quality and Greenhouse Gas Emission Monitoring, pp. 5268-5274.

Dunbabin, Matthew David

CSIRO ICT Centre

Grinham, Alistair

Univ. of Queensland

18:15-18:30

ThF4.3

Control-Oriented Modelling of a Hybrid AUV, pp. 5275-5280.

Calabro', Vincenzo

Univ. degli studi di Pisa

Caiti, Andrea

Univ. of Pisa

18:30-18:45

ThF4.4

On the Influence of Ship Motion Prediction Accuracy on Motion Planning and Control of Robotic Manipulators on Seaborne Platforms, pp. 5281-5288.

From, Pĺl Johan

Norwegian Univ. of Science and Tech.

Gravdahl, Jan Tommy

Norwegian Univ. of Science and Tech.

Abbeel, Pieter

UC Berkeley

18:45-19:00

ThF4.5

Design of an Omnidirectional Propulsion System for Small Jet-Boats, pp. 5289-5294.

Foley, David

Univ. de Sherbrooke

Plante, Jean-Sebastien

Univ. de Sherbrooke

19:00-19:15

ThF4.6

Complete SE(3) Underwater Robot Control with Arbitrary Thruster Configurations, pp. 5295-5301. Attachment

Doniec, Marek

MIT

Vasilescu, Iuliu

MIT

Detweiler, Carrick

MIT

Rus, Daniela

MIT

 

ThF5

Egan Center Lower Level Room 11/12

Teleoperation Systems (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Mahony, Robert

Australian National Univ.

Co-Chair: Oyama, Eimei

AIST

17:45-18:00

ThF5.1

A Novel Approach to Haptic Teleoperation of Aerial Robot Vehicles, pp. 5302-5308.

Stramigioli, Stefano

Univ. of Twente

Mahony, Robert

Australian National Univ.

Corke, Peter

QUT

18:00-18:15

ThF5.2

Performance Evaluation of Monocular Predictive Display, pp. 5309-5314.

Rachmielowski, Adam

Univ. of Alberta

Birkbeck, Neil

Univ. of Alberta

Jagersand, Martin

Univ. of Alberta

18:15-18:30

ThF5.3

A Study on Wearable Behavior Navigation System - Development of Simple Parasitic Humanoid System -, pp. 5315-5321.

Oyama, Eimei

AIST

18:30-18:45

ThF5.4

Remote Teleoperation of an Unmanned Aircraft with a Brain-Machine Interface: Theory and Preliminary Results, pp. 5322-5327. Attachment

Akce, Abdullah

Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Johnson, Miles

Univ. oif Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Bretl, Timothy

Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

18:45-19:00

ThF5.5

Generalized Bilateral MIMO Control by States Convergence with Time Delay and Application for the Teleoperation of a 2-DOF Helicopter, pp. 5328-5333.

Pérez-D'Arpino, Claudia

Simón Bolívar Univ.

Medina-Meléndez, Wilfredis

Simón Bolívar Univ.

Fermín-León, Leonardo

Simón Bólivar Univ.

Bogado, Juan Manuel

Simón Bolívar Univ.

Torrealba, Rafael R.

Simón Bolívar Univ.

Fernandez-Lopez, Gerardo

Simon Bolivar Univ.

19:00-19:15

ThF5.6

Online Intention Recognition for Computer-Assisted Teleoperation, pp. 5334-5339.

Stefanov, Nikolay

Tech. Univ. München

Peer, Angelika

Tech. Univ. München

Buss, Martin

Tech. Univ. München

 

ThF6

Egan Center Street Level Room Cook Hall

Teleoperation with Haptics (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Niemeyer, Gunter

Willow Garage and Stanford Univ.

Co-Chair: Cavusoglu, M. Cenk

Case Western Res. Univ.

17:45-18:00

ThF6.1

Haptics-Enabled Teleoperation for Robot-Assisted Tumor Localization, pp. 5340-5345.

Talasaz, Ali

Univ. of Western Ontario

Patel, Rajni

The Univ. of Western Ontario

Naish, Michael David

Univ. of Western Ontario

18:00-18:15

ThF6.2

Psychophysical Evaluation of Control Scheme Designed for Optimal Kinesthetic Perception in Scaled Teleoperation, pp. 5346-5351.

Son, Hyoung Il

KAIST

Bhattacharjee, Tapomayukh

KAIST

Jung, Hoeryong

KAIST

Lee, Doo Yong

KAIST

18:15-18:30

ThF6.3

User-Controlled Variable Impedance Teleoperation, pp. 5352-5357.

Walker, Daniel S.

Stanford

Wilson, Robert

Stanford Univ.

Niemeyer, Gunter

Willow Garage and Stanford Univ.

18:30-18:45

ThF6.4

Improvement of Model-Mediated Teleoperation Using a New Hybrid Environment Estimation Technique, pp. 5358-5363.

Achhammer, Andreas

TU Munich

Weber, Carolina

Univ. München

Peer, Angelika

Tech. Univ. München

Buss, Martin

Tech. Univ. München

18:45-19:00

ThF6.5

Restriction Space Projection Method for Position Sensor Based Force Reflection of Multi Degrees-Of-Freedom Bilateral Teleoperation Systems in Unstructured Environments, pp. 5364-5369.

Kim, Keehoon

Korea Inst. of Science and Tech.

Chung, Wan Kyun

POSTECH

Cavusoglu, M. Cenk

Case Western Res. Univ.

19:00-19:15

ThF6.6

Position Tracking Using Adaptive Control for Bilateral Teleoperators with Time-Delays, pp. 5370-5375.

Nuńo, Emmanuel

Tech. Univ. of Catalonia

Basanez, Luis

Tech. Univ. of Catalonia

Ortega, Romeo

supelec

Obregón-Pulido, Guillermo

Univ.  de Guadalajara

 

ThF7

Egan Center Lower Level Room 3

SLAM Solutions for Indoor Environments (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Adams, Martin

Nanyang Tech. Univ.

Co-Chair: Roumeliotis, Stergios

Univ. of Minnesota

17:45-18:00

ThF7.1

A Laser-Aided Inertial Navigation System (L-INS) for Human Localization in Unknown Indoor Environments, pp. 5376-5382.

Hesch, Joel

Univ. of Minnesota

Mirzaei, Faraz

Univ. of Minnesota

Mariottini, Gian Luca

Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering

Roumeliotis, Stergios

Univ. of Minnesota

18:00-18:15

ThF7.2

Consistent Mapping of Multistory Buildings by Introducing Global Constraints to Graph-Based SLAM, pp. 5383-5388. Attachment

Karg, Michael

Univ. of Ulm

Wurm, Kai M.

Univ. of Freiburg

Stachniss, Cyrill

Univ. of Freiburg

Dietmayer, Klaus

Univ. of Ulm

Burgard, Wolfram

Univ. of Freiburg

18:15-18:30

ThF7.3

Applying Domain Knowledge to SLAM Using Virtual Measurements, pp. 5389-5394.

Trevor, Alexander J B

Georgia Inst. of Tech.

Rogers III, John G.

Georgia Inst. of Tech.

Nieto-Granda, Carlos

Georgia Inst. of Tech.

Christensen, Henrik Iskov

Georgia Inst. of Tech.

18:30-18:45

ThF7.4

Affordable SLAM through the Co-Design of Hardware and Methodology, pp. 5395-5401.

Magnenat, Stéphane

EPFL

Longchamp, Valentin

Pol. Fédérale de Lausanne

Bonani, Michael

EPFL

Rétornaz, Philippe

École Pol. Fédérale de Lausanne

Germano, Paolo

EPFL

Bleuler, Hannes

Ec. Pol. Federale de Lausanne

Mondada, Francesco

EPFL

18:45-19:00

ThF7.5

Probabilistic Mapping for Mobile Robots Using Spatial Correlation Models, pp. 5402-5409.

Pitzer, Benjamin

Robert Bosch LLC

Stiller, Christoph

Univ. Karlsruhe (TH)

19:00-19:15

ThF7.6

Rao-Blackwellised PHD SLAM, pp. 5410-5416.

Mullane, John

Nanyang Tech. Univ.

Vo, Ba-Ngu

Univ. of Melbourne

Adams, Martin

Nanyang Tech. Univ.

 

ThF8

Egan Center Lower Level Room 9/10

Wheeled Robots: Sensing, Estimation and Calibration (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Lee, Kok-Meng

Georgia Inst. of Tech.

Co-Chair: Hofbaur, Michael

Private Univ. UMIT

17:45-18:00

ThF8.1

Simultaneous Calibration of Odometry and Camera for a Differential Drive Mobile Robot, pp. 5417-5422.

Antonelli, Gianluca

Univ. degli Studi di Cassino

Caccavale, Fabrizio

Univ. degli Studi della Basilicata

Grossi, Flavio

Univ. degli Studi di Cassino

Marino, Alessandro

Univ. degli Studi della Basilicata

18:00-18:15

ThF8.2

Relaxed Optimization for Mode Estimation in Skid Steering, pp. 5423-5428.

Caldwell, Timothy

Northwestern Univ.

Murphey, Todd

Northwestern Univ.

18:15-18:30

ThF8.3

Location of Optical Mouse Sensors on Mobile Robots for Odometry, pp. 5429-5434.

Cimino, Mauro

Oklahoma State Univ.

Pagilla, Prabhakar

Oklahoma State Univ.

18:30-18:45

ThF8.4

Instantaneous Centre of Rotation Estimation of an Omnidirectional Mobile Robot, pp. 5435-5440.

Clavien, Lionel

Univ. de Sherbrooke

Lauria, Michel

Univ. of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO)

Michaud, Francois

Univ. de Sherbrooke

18:45-19:00

ThF8.5

On-Line Kinematics Reasoning for Reconfigurable Robot Drives, pp. 5441-5446.

Hofbaur, Michael

Private Univ. UMIT

Brandstötter, Mathias

Private Univ. UMIT

Schoerghuber, Christoph

Graz Univ. of Tech.

Steinbauer, Gerald

Graz Univ. of Tech.

19:00-19:15

ThF8.6

Magnetic Field-Based Sensing Method for Spherical Joint, pp. 5447-5452.

Foong, Shaohui

Georgia Inst. of Tech.

Lee, Kok-Meng

Georgia Inst. of Tech.

Bai, Kun

Georgia Inst. of Tech.

 

ThF9

Egan Center Lower Level Room 4

Networked Robots (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Sycara, Katia

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Co-Chair: Derenick, Jason

Univ. of Pennsylvania

17:45-18:00

ThF9.1

Towards Optimally Efficient Field Estimation with Threshold-Based Pruning in Real Robotic Sensor Networks, pp. 5453-5459.

Prorok, Amanda

EPFL

Martinoli, Alcherio

EPFL

Cianci, Christopher M.

EPFL

18:00-18:15

ThF9.2

Coordinated Multi-Robot Real-Time Exploration with Connectivity and Bandwidth Awareness, pp. 5460-5465.

Pei, Yuanteng

Michigan State Univ.

Mutka, Matt

Michigan State Uinversity

Xi, Ning

Michigan State Univ.

18:15-18:30

ThF9.3

RSS-Based Relative Localization and Tethering for Moving Robots in Unknown Environments, pp. 5466-5471. Attachment

Zickler, Stefan

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Veloso, Manuela

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

18:30-18:45

ThF9.4

Towards Simplicial Coverage Repair for Mobile Robot Teams, pp. 5472-5477.

Derenick, Jason

Univ. of Pennsylvania

Kumar, Vijay

Univ. of Pennsylvania

Jadbabaie, Ali

Univ. of Pennsylvania

18:45-19:00

ThF9.5

Multi-Robot Flooding Algorithm for the Exploration of Unknown Indoor Environments, pp. 5478-5483.

Cabrera-Mora, Flavio

The Graduate Center of the City Univ. of New York

Xiao, Jizhong

City Coll. of New York

Brass, Peter

City Coll. New York

19:00-19:15

ThF9.6

Reconfiguration Algorithms for Mobile Robotic Networks, pp. 5484-5489.

Chakraborty, Nilanjan

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Sycara, Katia

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

 

ThF10

Egan Center Lower Level Room 7/8

Surveillance and Spatio-Temporal Coverage (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Tedrake, Russ

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Co-Chair: Rekleitis, Ioannis

McGill Univ.

17:45-18:00

ThF10.1

Modeling and Decision Making in Spatio-Temporal Processes for Environmental Surveillance, pp. 5490-5497.

Singh, Amarjeet

Univ. of California, Los Angeles

Ramos, Fabio

Univ. of Sydney

Durrant-Whyte, Hugh

The Univ. of Sydney

Kaiser, William

UCLA

18:00-18:15

ThF10.2

An Iterative Mixed Integer Linear Programming Approach to Pursuit Evasion Problems in Polygonal Environments, pp. 5498-5503.

Thunberg, Johan

Royal Inst. of Tech. (KTH)

Ogren, Petter

Swedish Defence Res. Agency

18:15-18:30

ThF10.3

Simulation-Based LQR-Trees with Input and State Constraints, pp. 5504-5510. Attachment

Reist, Philipp

Swiss Federal Inst. of Tech.

Tedrake, Russ

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

18:30-18:45

ThF10.4

Evader Surveillance under Incomplete Information, pp. 5511-5518.

Becerra, Israel

Centro de Investigacion en Matematicas

Murrieta-Cid, Rafael

Center for Mathematical Res.

Monroy, Raúl

Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Estado de México

18:45-19:00

ThF10.5

Guaranteed Navigation with an Unreliable Blind Robot, pp. 5519-5524.

Lewis, Jeremy

Univ. of South Carolina

O'Kane, Jason

Univ. of South Carolina

19:00-19:15

ThF10.6

Optimal Coverage of a Known Arbitrary Environment, pp. 5525-5530.

Rekleitis, Ioannis

McGill Univ.

Mannadiar, Raphael

McGill Univ.

 

ThF11

Egan Center Lower Level Room 5

Visual Servoing (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Marchand, Eric

Univ. de Rennes 1, IRISA, INRIA Rennes

Co-Chair: Jagersand, Martin

Univ. of Alberta

17:45-18:00

ThF11.1

Improving Mutual Information Based Visual Servoing, pp. 5531-5536.

Dame, Amaury

CNRS

Marchand, Eric

Univ. de Rennes 1

18:00-18:15

ThF11.2

Visual Servoing from Three Points Using a Spherical Projection Model, pp. 5537-5542.

Fomena Tatsambon, Romeo

Univ. de Rennes 1, IRISA

Tahri, Omar

Inst. de Sistemas e Robótica, Univ. de Coimbra

Chaumette, Francois

INRIA Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique

18:15-18:30

ThF11.3

Robust Hand-Eye Calibration for Computer Aided Medical Endoscopy, pp. 5543-5549.

Malti, Abed

Inst. of Systems and Robotics-Univ. of Coimbra

Barreto, Joăo P.

Univ. of Coimbra

18:30-18:45

ThF11.4

Spherical Image-Based Visual Servo and Structure Estimation, pp. 5550-5555. Attachment

Corke, Peter

QUT

18:45-19:00

ThF11.5

A Switching Control Law for a Networked Visual Servo Control System, pp. 5556-5563.

Wu, Haiyan

Tech. Univ. Muenchen

Chen, Chih-Chung

Tech. Univ. München

Feng, Jiayun

Tech. Univ. Muenchen

Kühnlenz, Kolja

Tech. Univ. München

Hirche, Sandra

Tech. Univ. München

19:00-19:15

ThF11.6

Robust Jacobian Estimation for Uncalibrated Visual Servoing, pp. 5564-5569.

Shademan, Azad

Univ. of Alberta

Farahmand, Amir-massoud

Univ. of Alberta

Jagersand, Martin

Univ. of Alberta

 

ThF12

Egan Center Street Level Room Arteaga

Human Augmentation and Medical Applications (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Mavroidis, Constantinos

Northeastern Univ.

Co-Chair: Jiang, Xin

Tohoku Univ.

17:45-18:00

ThF12.1

Multi-Turn, Tension-Stiffening Catheter Navigation System, pp. 5570-5575.

Chen, Yi

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Chang, Jean

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Greenlee, Alison S.

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Cheung, Kenneth C.

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Slocum, Alexander

Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Gupta, Rajiv

Massachusetts General Hospital

18:00-18:15

ThF12.2

Intuitive Human Skill Reconstruction for Compliance Control, pp. 5576-5581. Attachment

Okodi, Samuel M.

Tohoku Univ.

Jiang, Xin

Tohoku Univ.

Abiko, Satoko

Tohoku Univ.

Konno, Atsushi

Tohoku Univ.

Uchiyama, Masaru

Tohoku Univ.

18:15-18:30

ThF12.3

Increasing Robotic Wheelchair Safety with Collaborative Control: Evidence from Secondary Task Experiments, pp. 5582-5587.

Carlson, Tom

Imperial Coll. London

Demiris, Yiannis

Imperial Coll. London

18:30-18:45

ThF12.4

Precise Bending Angle Control of Hydraulic Active Catheter by Pressure Pulse Drive, pp. 5588-5593.

Ikuta, Koji

Nagoya Univ.

Matsuda, Yoshikatsu

Nagoya Univ.

Yajima, Daisuke

Nagoya Univ.

Ota, Yusuke

Chiba Inst. of Tech.

18:45-19:00

ThF12.5

Simulation Platform for Self-Assembly Structures in MRI-Guided Nanorobotic Drug Delivery Systems, pp. 5594-5600.

Vartholomeos, Panagiotis

National Tech. Univ. of Athens

Mavroidis, Constantinos

Northeastern Univ.

19:00-19:15

ThF12.6

Guidance of a Steerable Cannula Robot in Soft Tissue Using Preoperative Imaging and Conoscopic Surface Contour Sensing, pp. 5601-5606.

Lathrop, Ray

Vanderbilt Univ.

Rucker, Caleb

Vanderbilt Univ.

Webster III, Robert James

Vanderbilt Univ.

 

ThF13

Egan Center Lower Level Room 6

Actuation and Control (Regular Sessions)

Chair: Liu, Peter

Tamkang Univ.

Co-Chair: Papadopoulos, Evangelos

National Tech. Univ. of Athens

17:45-18:00

ThF13.1

Using Tilt-Control in Non-Contact Manipulation Systems: Development of 2-DOF Tilting Actuator with Remote Center of Rotation, pp. 5607-5612. Attachment

van West, Ewoud Frank

The Univ. of Tokyo

Yamamoto, Akio

Univ. of Tokyo

Higuchi, Toshiro

The Univ. of Tokyo

18:00-18:15

ThF13.2

Precise Robot Motions Using Dual Motor Control, pp. 5613-5620.

Robertz, Sven

Lund Univ.

Halt, Lorenz

Lund Univ.

Kelkar, Sameer

Gudel AG

Nilsson, Klas

Lund Univ.

Robertsson, Anders

LTH, Lund Univ.

Schaer, Dominique

Gudel AG

Schiffer, Johannes

TU Berlin

18:15-18:30

ThF13.3

Sensorless Linear Induction Motor Control Using Fuzzy Observers for Speed Tracking, pp. 5621-5626.

Liu, Peter

Tamkang Univ.

Hung, Cheng-Yao

Wistron

Chiu, Chian-Song

Chung-Yuan Christian Univ.

Lian, Kuang-Yow

National Taipei Univ. of Tech.