Experimental Robotics VI

From insects to robots.- Control and coordination of multiple mobile robots in manipulation and material handling tasks.- Experiments in constrained prehensile manipulation: Distributed manipulation with ropes.- Experiments with desktop mobile manipulators.- Experimental approach on grasping and manipulating multiple objects.- Preliminary results on the use of stereo, color cameras and laser sensors in antarctica.- Sensors for the object detection in environments with high heat radiation and photoresist or diffuse visibility conditions.- New techniques for 3D modeling ... ... and for doing without.- A mobile robot navigation by means of range data from ultra wide angle laser sensor and simple linguistic behavior instructions.- Explicit incorporation of 2D constraints in vision based control of robot manipulators.- Experiments with medium-level intelligent force control.- Coordinated manipulation under distributed impedance control.- Experiments and factory application of force control and contour following over visco-elastic surface.- Coordinated control of a nonholonomic mobile manipulator.- Exploiting redundancy for autonomous calibration of a planar robot.- Models for automated earthmoving.- Robot control in maxillofacial surgery.- Experiments and experiences in developing a large robot mining system.- Slope display on a locomotion interface.- Control of contact forces in wheeled and legged off-road vehicles.- Control of a gyroscopically stabilized robot.- Localization and map building for a mobile robot.- Construction and modelling of a carangiform robotic fish.- Can an underactuated leg with a passive spring at the knee achieve a ballistic step?.- Navigation of a martian rover in very rough terrain.- An experimental and theoretical investigation into simultaneous localisation and map building.- Continuous probabilistic mapping by autonomous robots.- Sensor influence in the performance of simultaneous mobile robot localization and map building.- Experimental