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Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems

14th Annual Conference, TAROS 2013, Oxford, UK, August 28--30, 2013, Revised Selected Papers

  • Ashutosh Natraj
  • Stephen Cameron
  • Chris Melhuish
  • Mark Witkowski
Conference proceedings TAROS 2013

Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 8069)

Also part of the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence book sub series (LNAI, volume 8069)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages I-XIII
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  2. Artificial Intelligence

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 1-1
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    2. Dynamic Power Sharing for Self-Reconfigurable Modular Robots
      Chi-An Chen, Akiya Kamimura, Luenin Barrios, Wei-Min Shen
      Pages 3-14
    3. Heuristically-Accelerated Reinforcement Learning: A Comparative Analysis of Performance
      Murilo Fernandes Martins, Reinaldo A. C. Bianchi
      Pages 15-27
    4. TREEBOT: Tree Recovering Renewable Energy Robot
      Giovanni Gerardo Muscolo, Rezia Molfino
      Pages 28-29
    5. Coy-B, an Art Robot for Exploring the Ontology of Artificial Creatures
      Paul Granjon
      Pages 30-33
    6. Time Preference for Information in Multi-agent Exploration with Limited Communication
      Victor Spirin, Stephen Cameron, Julian de Hoog
      Pages 34-45
    7. Discrimination of Social Tactile Gestures Using Biomimetic Skin
      Hector Barron-Gonzalez, Tony Prescott
      Pages 46-48

  3. Bio-inspired and Aerial Robotics

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 49-49
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    2. A Personal Robotic Flying Machine with Vertical Takeoff Controlled by the Human Body Movements
      Vittorio Cipolla, Aldo Frediani, Rezia Molfino, Giovanni Gerardo Muscolo, Fabrizio Oliviero, Domenec Puig et al.
      Pages 51-52
    3. Developing the Cerebellar Chip as a General Control Module for Autonomous Systems
      Emma D. Wilson, Sean R. Anderson, Tareq Assaf, Jonathan M. Rossiter, Martin J. Pearson, John Porrill
      Pages 53-63
    4. UAV Horizon Tracking Using Memristors and Cellular Automata Visual Processing
      Ioannis Georgilas, Ella Gale, Andrew Adamatzky, Chris Melhuish
      Pages 64-75
    5. Sensor Integrated Navigation for a Target Finding UAV
      Michael J. Park, Charles Coldwell
      Pages 76-89
    6. Inventing a Micro Aerial Vehicle Inspired by the Mechanics of Dragonfly Flight
      Nina Gaissert, Rainer Mugrauer, Günter Mugrauer, Agalya Jebens, Kristof Jebens, Elias Maria Knubben
      Pages 90-100

  4. Computer Vision

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 101-101
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    2. Sensor Data Fusion Using Unscented Kalman Filter for VOR-Based Vision Tracking System for Mobile Robots
      Muhammad Latif Anjum, Omar Ahmad, Basilio Bona, Dong-il “Dan” Cho
      Pages 103-113
    3. Visual Homing of an Upper Torso Humanoid Robot Using a Depth Camera
      Alan Broun, Chris Beck, Tony Pipe, Majid Mirmehdi, Chris Melhuish
      Pages 114-126
    4. Efficient Construction of SIFT Multi-scale Image Pyramids for Embedded Robot Vision
      Peter Andreas Entschev, Hugo Vieira Neto
      Pages 127-134
    5. An Evaluation of Image-Based Robot Orientation Estimation
      Juan Cao, Frédéric Labrosse, Hannah Dee
      Pages 135-147
    6. A Heuristic-Based Approach for Flattening Wrinkled Clothes
      Li Sun, Gerarado Aragon-Camarasa, Paul Cockshott, Simon Rogers, J. Paul Siebert
      Pages 148-160
    7. Vision-Based Cooperative Localization for Small Networked Robot Teams
      James Milligan, M. Ani Hsieh, Luiz Chaimowicz
      Pages 161-172
    8. Active Vision Speed Estimation from Optical Flow
      Sotirios Ch. Diamantas, Prithviraj Dasgupta
      Pages 173-184
    9. Mechanical Weeding Using a Paddy Field Mobile Robot for Paddy Quality Improvement
      Yasuhiro Yamada, Keisuke Iwakabe, Guanzuo Liu, Toshiyoshi Uejima
      Pages 185-189
    10. Multi-modal People Detection from Aerial Video Footage
      Helen Flynn, Stephen Cameron
      Pages 190-191

  5. Control

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 193-193
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    2. Design of a Modular Knee-Ankle-Foot-Orthosis Using Soft Actuator for Gait Rehabilitation
      S. M. Mizanoor Rahman
      Pages 195-209
    3. Evaluation of Laser Range-Finder Mapping for Agricultural Spraying Vehicles
      Francisco-Angel Moreno, Grzegorz Cielniak, Tom Duckett
      Pages 210-221
    4. Autonomous Coverage Expansion of Mobile Agents via Cooperative Control and Cooperative Communication
      Said Al-Abri, Zhihua Qu
      Pages 222-234
    5. Estimation of Contact Forces in a Backdrivable Linkage for Cognitive Robot Research
      Richard Thomas, William Harwin
      Pages 235-246
    6. A Simple Drive Load-Balancing Technique for Multi-wheeled Planetary Rovers
      James C. Finnis, Mark Neal
      Pages 247-258
    7. Control-Oriented Nonlinear Dynamic Modelling of Dielectric Electro-Active Polymers
      Will Jacobs, Emma D. Wilson, Tareq Assaf, Jonathan M. Rossiter, Tony J. Dodd, John Porrill et al.
      Pages 259-260
    8. Emotionally Driven Robot Control Architecture for Human-Robot Interaction
      Jekaterina Novikova, Swen Gaudl, Joanna Bryson
      Pages 261-263
    9. Adaptive Control of Robot System of up to a Half Passive Joints
      Chenguang Yang, Jing Li, Zhijun Li, Weisheng Chen, Rongxin Cui
      Pages 264-275
    10. Realtime Simulation-in-the-Loop Control for Agile Ground Vehicles
      Nima Keivan, Gabe Sibley
      Pages 276-287

  6. Humanoid and Robotic Arm

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 289-289
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    2. Development of a Highly Dexterous Robotic Hand with Independent Finger Movements for Amputee Training
      Ali H. Al-Timemy, Alexandre Brochard, Guido Bugmann, Javier Escudero
      Pages 291-293
    3. A Robotic Suit Controlled by the Human Brain for People Suffering from Quadriplegia
      Alicia Casals, Pasquale Fedele, Tadeusz Marek, Rezia Molfino, Giovanni Gerardo Muscolo, Carmine Tommaso Recchiuto
      Pages 294-295
    4. A Novel Acoustic Interface for Bionic Hand Control
      Richard Woodward, Marcus Gardner, Paolo Angeles, Sandra Shefelbine, Ravi Vaidyanathan
      Pages 296-297
    5. An Approach to Navigation for the Humanoid Robot Nao in Domestic Environments
      Changyun Wei, Junchao Xu, Chang Wang, Pascal Wiggers, Koen Hindriks
      Pages 298-310
    6. An Embodied-Simplexity Approach to Design Humanoid Robots Bioinspired by Taekwondo Athletes
      Rezia Molfino, Giovanni Gerardo Muscolo, Domenec Puig, Carmine Tommaso Recchiuto, Agusti Solanas, A. Mark Williams
      Pages 311-312

  7. Navigation

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 313-313
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    2. A Robotic Geospacial Surveyor
      Sam Wane
      Pages 315-327
    3. Motion Planning and Decision Making for Underwater Vehicles Operating in Constrained Environments in the Littoral
      Erion Plaku, James McMahon
      Pages 328-339
    4. Using Range and Bearing Observation in Stereo-Based EKF SLAM
      Yao-Chang Chen, Tsung-Han Lin, Ta-Ming Shih
      Pages 340-352
    5. On New Algorithms for Path Planning and Control of Micro-rover Swarms
      H. D. Ibrahim, C. M. Saaj
      Pages 353-362
    6. Expecting the Unexpected: Measure the Uncertainties for Mobile Robot Path Planning in Dynamic Environment
      Yan Li, Brian Mac Namee, John Kelleher
      Pages 363-374

  8. Swarm Robotics

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 375-375
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    2. Novel Method of Communication in Swarm Robotics Based on the NFC Technology
      Ulf Witkowski, Reza Zandian
      Pages 377-389
    3. Gesturing at Subswarms: Towards Direct Human Control of Robot Swarms
      Gaëtan Podevijn, Rehan O’Grady, Youssef S. G. Nashed, Marco Dorigo
      Pages 390-403
    4. Profiling Underwater Swarm Robotic Shoaling Performance Using Simulation
      Mark Read, Christoph Möslinger, Tobias Dipper, Daniela Kengyel, James Hilder, Ronald Thenius et al.
      Pages 404-416

About these proceedings

Introduction

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th Conference on Advances in Autonomous Robotics, TAROS 2013, held in Oxford, UK, in August 2013. The 36 revised full papers presented together with 25 extended abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected from 89 submissions. The papers cover various topics such as artificial intelligence, bio-inspired and aerial robotics, computer vision, control, humanoid and robotic arm, swarm robotics, verification and ethics.

Keywords

reinforcement learning self-organizing autonomic computing sensors and actuators vision for robotics wireless access networks

Editors and affiliations

  • Ashutosh Natraj
    • 1
  • Stephen Cameron
    • 2
  • Chris Melhuish
    • 3
  • Mark Witkowski
    • 4
  1. 1.Department of Computer ScienceUniversity of OxfordOxfordUnited Kingdom
  2. 2.Department of Computer ScienceUniversity of OxfordOxfordUnited Kingdom
  3. 3.University of Bristol and the West of EnBristolUnited Kingdom
  4. 4.Imperial College London Department of Electrical and ElectronicLondonUnited Kingdom

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43645-5
  • Copyright Information Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
  • Publisher Name Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
  • eBook Packages Computer Science
  • Print ISBN 978-3-662-43644-8
  • Online ISBN 978-3-662-43645-5
  • Series Print ISSN 0302-9743
  • Series Online ISSN 1611-3349
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