Experimental Robotics The 10th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics

At the dawn of the new millennium, robotics is undergoing a major transformation in scope and dimension. From a largely dominant industrial focus, robotics is rapidly expanding into the challenges of unstructured environments. Interacting with, assi- ing, serving, and exploring with humans, the emerging robots will increasingly touch people and their lives. The goal of the new series of Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR) is to bring, in a timely fashion, the latest advances and developments in robotics on the basis of their significance and quality. It is our hope that the wider dissemination of research developments will stimulate more exchanges and collaborations among the research community and contribute to further advancement of this rapidly growing field. Since its inception, wanted by my STAR Co-Editor Oussama Khatib some twenty years ago, the International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER) was p- lished by Springer. Since the two past editions, ISER has found a more suitable home under STAR, together with other thematic symposia devoted to excellence in robotics research.

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