Field and Service Robotics

Mechanism Design.- Terrain Modeling and Following Using a Compliant Manipulator for Humanitarian Demining Applications.- Towards Autonomous Wheelchair Systems in Urban Environments.- Tethered Detachable Hook for the Spiderman Locomotion (Design of the Hook and Its Launching Winch).- New Measurement Concept for Forest Harvester Head.- Expliner - Toward a Practical Robot for Inspection of High-Voltage Lines.- Perception and Control.- Experimental Study of an Optimal-Control- Based Framework for Trajectory Planning, Threat Assessment, and Semi-Autonomous Control of Passenger Vehicles in Hazard Avoidance Scenarios.- Receding Horizon Model-Predictive Control for Mobile Robot Navigation of Intricate Paths.- Posterior Probability Estimation Techniques Embedded in a Bayes Filter for Vibration-Based Terrain Classification.- Towards Visual Arctic Terrain Assessment.- Tracking and Servoing.- Pedestrian Detection and Tracking Using Three-Dimensional LADAR Data.- Passive, Long-Range Detection of Aircraft: Towards a Field Deployable Sense and Avoid System.- Multiclass Multimodal Detection and Tracking in Urban Environments???.- Vision-Based Vehicle Trajectory Following with Constant Time Delay.- Localization.- Radar Scan Matching SLAM Using the Fourier-Mellin Transform.- An Automated Asset Locating System (AALS) with Applications to Inventory Management.- Active SLAM and Loop Prediction with the Segmented Map Using Simplified Models.- Outdoor Downward-Facing Optical Flow Odometry with Commodity Sensors.- Place Recognition Using Regional Point Descriptors for 3D Mapping.- Mapping.- Scan-Point Planning and 3-D Map Building for a 3-D Laser Range Scanner in an Outdoor Environment.- Image and Sparse Laser Fusion for Dense Scene Reconstruction.- Relative Motion Threshold for Rejection in ICP Registration.- Bandit-Based Online Candidate Selection for Adjustable Autonomy.- Applied Imitation Learning for Autonomous Navigation in Complex Natural Terrain.- Underwater Localization and