Experimental Robotics

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