Front matter
3-21
Towards a new Robot Generation
G. Hirzinger, K. Arbter, B. Brunner and R. Koeppe
22-32
Towards evolution of experimental robotics
Hirochika Inoue
34-46
Experimental approach on enveloping grasp for column objects
Makoto Kaneko, Nophawit Thaiprasert and Toshio Tsuji
47-55
DLR’s multisensory articulated hand
G. Hirzinger, J. Butterfaß, S. Knoch and H. Liu
56-66
Mechanical design and control of a high-bandwidth shape memory alloy tactile display
Parris S. Wellman, William J. Peine, Gregg Favalora and Robert D. Howe
67-78
Toward dexterous gaits and hands
Susanna Leveroni, Vinay Shah and Kenneth Salisbury
79-90
Dexterous manipulations of humanoid Robot
Saika
Atsushi Konno, Koichi Nishiwaki, Ryo Furukawa, Mitsunori Tada and Koichi Nagashima, et al.
91-104
Experiments of spatial impedance control
F. Caccavale, C. Natale, B. Siciliano and L. Villani
105-115
Optimal control based skill development system for the kip
Darrell Nakawaki, Sangwan Joo and Fumio Miyazaki
116-127
Toward virtual sports with high speed motion
Tetsuya Morizono and Sadao Kawamura
128-139
A general contact model for dynamically-decoupled force/motion control
Roy Featherstone, Stef Sonck and Oussama Khatib
140-151
Control of a rover-mounted manipulator
Gilles Foulon, Jean-Yves Fourquet and Marc Renaud
154-166
Module-based architecture of world model for haptic virtual reality
Tsuneo Yoshikawa and Hitoshi Ueda
167-172
Haptic augmented simulation supporting teaching skill to robots
Monica Bordegoni, Umberto Cugini and Caterina Rizzi
173-182
Interactive visual and force rendering of human-knee dynamics
R. E. Ellis, P. Zion and C. Y. Tso
183-194
Long distance outdoor navigation of an autonomous mobile robot by playback of perceived route map
Shoichi Maeyama, Akihisa Ohya and Shin’ichi Yuta
195-206
Etherbot — An autonomous mobile robot on a local area network radio tether
Ray Jarvis
207-215
Automatic mountain detection and pose estimation for teleoperation of lunar rovers
Fabio Cozman and Eric Krotkov
216-226
A landmark-based motion planner for rough terrain navigation
A. Hait, T. Siméon and M. Taïx
227-240
Evaluation of impedance and teleoperation control of a hydraulic mini-excavator
S. E. Salcudean, S. Tafazoli, K. Hashtrudi-Zaad, P. D. Lawrence and C. Reboulet
241-251
Control of load sway in enhanced container handling cranes
M. W. M. G. Dissanayake, J. W. R. Coates, D. C. Rye, H. F. Durrant-Whyte and M. A. Louda
252-261
The design of ultra-high integrity navigation systems for large autonomous vehicles
Hugh Durrant-Whyte, Eduardo Nebot, Steve Scheding, Sala Sukkarieh and Steve Clark
262-274
Modeling and control of a 3500 tonne mining robot
Peter I. Corke, Graeme J. Winstanley and Jonathan M. Roberts
276-288
Autonomous maneuvers of a nonholonomic vehicle
I. E. Paromtchik, Ph. Garnier and C. Laugier
289-300
How to implement dynamic paths
M. Khatib, H. Jaouni, R. Chatila and J.-P. Laumond
301-309
From paths to trajectories for multi-body mobile robots
F. Lamiraux and J.-P. Laumond
312-324
Preliminary experiments with an actively tuned passive dynamic running robot
M. Ahmadi and M. Buehler
325-334
ROBICEN: A pneumatic climbing robot for inspection of pipes and tanks
M. A. Serna, A. Avello, L. Briones and P. Bustamante
335-346
Control of an eight legged pipe crawling robot
Thomas Roßmann and Friedrich Pfeiffer
347-360
Autonomous vehicle interaction with in-door environments
Lars Henriksen, Ole Ravn and Nils A. Andersen
361-372
An experimental system for automated paper recycling
S. Faibish, H. Bacakoglu and A. A. Goldenberg
373-384
Positioning of the mobile robot LiAS with line segments extracted from 2D range finder data using total least squares
J. Vandorpe, H. Van Brussel, J. De Schutter, H. Xu and R. Moreas
385-396
Mobile robot localization based on efficient processing of sensor data and set-theoretic state estimation
U. D. Hanebeck and G. Schmidt
398-409
i.ARES manipulation subsystem
Fernández Sabin, Mayora Kepa, Basurko Jon, Gómez-Elvira Javier and García Ricardo, et al.
410-422
Modeling of nonlinear friction in complex mechanisms using spectral analysis
M. R. Popović and A. A. Goldenberg
423-434
Development of the carpal robotic wrist
Stephen L. Canfield and Charles F. Reinholtz
435-442
First experiments with MIPS 1 (mini in-parallel positioning system)
J-P. Merlet
443-456
Freedom-7: A high fidelity seven axis haptic device with application to surgical training
V. Hayward, P. Gregorio, O. Astley, S. Greenish and M. Doyon, et al.
457-470
Tele-micro-surgery: analysis and tele-micro-blood-vessel suturing experiment
Mamoru Mitsuishi, Hiroyoshi Watanabe, Hiroyuki Kubota, Yasuhiro Iizuka and Hiroyuki Hashizume
471-480
Active forceps for endoscopic surgery
Yoshihiko Nakamura, Kensuke Onuma, Hiroo Kawakami and Tsutomu Nakamura
481-489
Synergistic robots in surgery-surgeons and robots working co-operatively
Brian Davies
490-499
Control experiments on two SMA based micro-actuators
N. Troisfontaine, Ph. Bidaud and P. Dario
502-514
Optimal nonlinear position tracking control of a two-link flexible-joint robot manipulator
Tarek Lahdhiri and Hoda A. ElMaraghy
515-531
Motion control of tendon driven robotic fingers actuated with DC torque motors: Analisys and experiments
G. M. Prisco, D. Madonna and M. Bergamasco
532-543
Experiments on a high performance hydraulic manipulator joint: Modelling for control
Glen Bilodeau and Evangelos Papadopoulos
546-558
Adaptive visual servoing for various kinds of robot systems
Koh Hosoda and Minoru Asada
559-569
Underwater hidrojet explorer camera controlled by vision
Josep Amat, Joan Aranda and Ricard Villà
570-581
Experiments in real-time vision-based point stabilization of a nonholonomic mobile manipulator
D. P. Tsakiris, K. Kapellos, C. Samson, P. Rives and J.-J. Borrelly
582-593
Distributed control of a free-floating underwater manipulation system
K. Kapellos, D. Simon, S. Granier and V. Rigaud
595-608
Towards a reliable set-up for bio-inspired collective experiments with real robots
A. Martinoli, E. Franzi and O. Matthey
609-620
Experiments in realising cooperation between autonomous mobile robots
David Jung, Gordon Cheng and Alexander Zelinsky
621-632
Self-reconfigurable robots for navigation and manipulation
Keith Kotay and Daniela Rus
633-644
Human-robot interface system with robot group control for multiple mobile robot systems
José Beltrán Escavy, Tamio Arai, Akio Nakamura, Shinjiro Kakita and Jun Ota
645-658
Exploration-based path-learning by a mobile robot on an unknown world
Rui Araújo and A. T. de Almeida
659-674
An anthropomorphic model of sensory-motor co-ordination of manipulation for robots
Cecilia Laschi, Davide Taddeucci and Paolo Dario
675-686
Extracting robotic part-mating programs from operator interaction with a simulated environment
John E. Lloyd and Dinesh K. Pai
687-700
Modeling and learning robot manipulation strategies
Jiming Liu, Y. Y. Tang and Oussama Khatib
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