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

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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