International Symposium on Intelligent Robotic Systems

18-20 July 2001

Electronic Proceedings

Principled and Efficient Methods for Control and Learning in Robot Teams and Humanoids
 

M.J. Mataric
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

Control of Movement time and sequential action through attractor dynamics :
A simulation study demonstrating object interception and coordination

G. Schöner, C. Santos
CNRS - Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences Cognitives, Marseille, France

Keep It Simple, Hybrid! -- A case Study in Autonomous Office Courier Robot Control

A. Arghir, J. Hertzberg
GMD - National Research Center for Information Technology, Sankt Augustin, Germany

Finding solvable priority schemes for decoupled path planning techniques for teams of mobile robots

M. Bennewitz, W. Burgard
Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg, Germany

A multi robot system of three manipulators with on-line path planning abilities : some preliminary notions and Experiments

M. Mediavilla , J.C. Fraile
ETSII - University of Valladolid, Spain

Classic and Robust PID Heading Control of an Unmanned Robotic Airship

J. Carvalho, E. De Paiva, J. Azinheira, P. Ferreira, J. Ramos, S. Bueno, M. Bergerman,
S. Maeta, L. Mirisola, B. Faria, A. Elfes
Robotics and Computer Vision Laboratory-LRV/ITI, Campinas-SP, Brazil

Avoiding self-occlusions and Preserving Visibility by Path Planning in the Image Space

Y. Mezouar and F. Chaumette
IRISA, Rennes, France

Control aspects of maintaining non-holonomic robots in geometric formation

A. Paulino, H. Araujo
Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Tracking Mobile Robot Trajectories Inside a Feedback Control Loop - Experimental Results

A. Steinicke¹, J. Reuter², S. Schönknecht^3
1 Daimler Chrysler Research, Berlin, Germany
² IAV GmbH, Berlin, Germany
^{3 TU-Berlin, Germany}

Biomimetic Walking Robot Scorpion : Control and Modeling

B. Klaassen, R. Linnemann, D. Spenneberg, F. Kirchner
GMD - National Research Center for Information Technology, Sankt Augustin, Germany

Combining reactive behaviors for goal-oriented navigation

G. Attolico, G. Cicirelli, T. D'orazio
Istituto Elaborazione Segnali ed Immagini - CNR, Bari, Italy

Collective emergent robotics : Towards a design methodology

O. Labbani-Igbida
CREA, Université de Picardie Jules Vernes, Amiens, France

Robotic Assembly of Naturally Varying Food Items via Teaching by Example

T. G. Williams, J. J. Rowland, M. H. Lee
Department of Computer Science, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, U.K.

Progress in 3-D Mapping and Localization

M. Hebert, CMU, Pittsburgh, USA

Interactive tools for quality enhancement in 3D modelling from reality

M. Ruggeri, P. Dias, V. Sequeira, J. G.M. Goncalves
European Commission-Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy

Range Image Registration by using an Edge-Based Representation

A.D. Sappa¹, A. Restrepo-Specht², M. Devy^2
1 RTS Advanced Robotics Ltd., Manchester, UK
² LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France

3D reconstruction of a static indoor environment by fusion of sonar and video data

J.M. Leiva, P. Martinez, E.J. Perez, C. Urdiales, F. Sandoval
Departamento de Tecnologia Electronica, University of Malaga, Spain

Interactive reconstruction from an Omnidirectional Image

J. Gaspar, E. Grossmann, J. Santos-Victor
Instituto de Sistemas e Robotica, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, Portugal

3-D Scene Reconstruction from Cylindrical Panoramic Images

R. Bunschoten, B. Krose
Computer Science Institute, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Digital Elevation Map Building from Low Altitude Stereo Imagery

S. Lacroix, I-K. Jung, A. Mallet
LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France

Artificial Landmark Navigation System

I. Hallman, B. Siemiatkowska
Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy, Warsaw, Poland

Vertical world feature detection and mapping using stereo vision and accelerometers

J. Lobo¹, C. Queiroz², J. Dias^1
1 Electrical Engineering Department, University of Coimbra, Portugal
² Informatics Engineering Department, Polytecnic Institute of Tomar, Portugal

Selecting Landmarks for a Visual Based Navigation Task

R. Swain-Oropeza¹, D. Burschka², D. Kriegman³, G. Hager², M. Knapek^4
1 Tec de Monterryey CEM, Computer Science, Edo. de Mexico, Mexico
² Johns Hopkins University, Computer Science, Baltimore, USA
³ University of Illinois, Computer Science, Urbana-Champaign, USA
⁴ Technical University of Munich, Computer Science, Munich, Germany

Information Sampling for Optimal Image Data Selection

N. Winters¹, J. Santos-Victor^2
1 Department of Computer Science, University of Dublin,
² Instituto de Sistemas e Robotica, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, Portugal

Analysis of two methods for the estimation of partial 3D velocity

N. Goncalves, H. Araujo
Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Coimbra, Portugal

How to self-calibrate a structured light sensor ?

D. Fofi¹, E.M. Mouaddib¹, J. Salvi^2
1 CREA, University of Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France
² University of Gerona, Gerona, Spain

Context-Driven Model Switching for Visual Tracking

H. Kruppa, M. Spengler, B. Schiele
Perceptual Computing and Computer Vision Group, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Biological mechanisms for navigation, spatial orientation and gazeControl :
common principles with robotic systems

A. Berthoz
College de France, LPPA, Paris, France

Biorobotic design criteria for innovative limb prosthesis

A. Rovetta, M. Canina, G. Campa, S. Della Santina
Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Meccanica, Milan, Italy

Design and control of a robotic assistant for laparoscopic surgery

D.V.F. Munoz, J. Gomez-De-Gabriel, J. Fernandez-Lozano, I. Garcia-Morales, R. Molina-Mesa,
C. Perez-del-Pulgar, J. Seron-Barba, M. Azouaghe
Instituto de Automatica y Robotica Avanzada de Andaluvia, University of Malaga, Spain

Navigation in Realistic Environment

G. Zunino, H. I. Christensen
Centre for Autonomous Systems, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden

Cooperative Localization and Map Building for Multi-Robot Systems : a Set Membership Approach

M. Di Marco, A. Garulli, A. Vicino
University of Siena, Italy

Design of a Robust Real-Time Dynamic Localization System for Mobile Robots

G. Borges, M.-J. Aldon
LIRMM-CNRS, Montpellier, France

Real Time Self Localization Using a Single Frontal Camera

F. Marando, M. Piaggio, A. Scalzo
DIST, University of Genoa, Italy

Robot Motion Planning for Model Building under Perception Constraints

B. Tovar-Lopez, R. Murrieta-Cid, C. Esteves-Jaramillo
ITESM, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico

A Custom IR Scanner for Landmark Detection with the Autonomous Sewer Robot MAKRO

E. Rome, H. Surmann, H. Streich, U. Licht, K.L. Paap
GMD - National Research Center for Information Technology, Sankt Augustin, Germany

Exploiting the physics : Doppler-based navigation with a bat-inspired mobile robot

J.M. Carmena, J.C.T. Hallam
Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Sensor Fusion for Localizing a Mobile Robot Outside of Buildings

M. Hassel*, J. Hertzberg
GMD - National Research Center for Information Technology, Sankt Augustin, Germany
* Current address : MZ robotics laboratory GmbH, Rheinbach, Germany

Statistical environment representation for navigation in natural environments

S. Rolfes, M.J. Rendas
I3S-CNRS,Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, France

Topological navigation and Qualitative localization for indoor environment using multisensory perception

P. Ranganathan¹, J.B. Hayet², M. Devy², S. Hutchinson¹, F. Lerasle^2
1 Beckman Institute at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
² LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France

Recognition of contexts with scanner-laser for mobile robot navigation

R. Fernandez, A. Mandow, M.J. Lopez-Baldan, A. Garcia-Cerezo
University of Malaga, Spain