Robotics Research

1. Front Matter

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2. Robot Grasping for Prosthetic Applications

   • Aggeliki Tsoli, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins

   Pages 1-12

3. Visual Chatter in the Real World

   • Shree K. Nayar, Gurunandan Krishnan, Michael D. Grossberg, Ramesh Raskar

   Pages 13-24

4. HAL: Hybrid Assistive Limb Based on Cybernics

   • Yoshiyuki Sankai

   Pages 25-34

5. The Words of the Human Locomotion

   • J. -P. Laumond, G. Arechavaleta, T. -V. -A. Truong, H. Hicheur, Q. -C. Pham, A. Berthoz

   Pages 35-47

6. Robot Kinematics and Dynamics for Modeling the Human Body

   • Katsu Yamane, Yoshihiko Nakamura

   Pages 49-60

7. Whole Body Haptics for Augmented Humanoid Task Capabilities

   • Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Yoshiyuki Ohmura, Akihiko Nagakubo

   Pages 61-73

8. Incremental Learning of Statistical Motion Patterns with Growing Hidden Markov Models

   • Dizan Vasquez, Christian Laugier, Thierry Fraichard

   Pages 75-86

9. Towards Lifelong Learning and Organization of Whole Body Motion Patterns

   • Dana Kulić, Wataru Takano, Yoshihiko Nakamura

   Pages 87-97

10. Learning Hierarchical Representations of Object Categories for Robot Vision

    • Aleš Leonardis, Sanja Fidler

    Pages 99-110

11. Object Usual Places Extraction in Smart Space: Robotic Room

    • Taketoshi Mori, Naofumi Hosoda, Tomomasa Sato

    Pages 111-122

12. A Spatio-Temporal Probabilistic Model for Multi-Sensor Multi-Class Object Recognition

    • Bertrand Douillard, Dieter Fox, Fabio Ramos

    Pages 123-134

13. Manual Intelligence as a Rosetta Stone for Robot Cognition

    • Helge Ritter, Robert Haschke, Frank Röthling, Jochen J. Steil

    Pages 135-146

14. Interval Analysis and Robotics

    • J. -P. Merlet

    Pages 147-156

15. How Should Microrobots Swim?

    • Jake J. Abbott, Kathrin E. Peyer, Lixin X. Dong, Bradley J. Nelson

    Pages 157-167

16. Optimization Design of a Stewart Platform Type Leg Mechanism for Biped Walking Vehicle

    • Kenji Hashimoto, Yusuke Sugahara, Hun-ok Lim, Atsuo Takanishi

    Pages 169-178

17. Programming Matter with Modular Robots: Two Directions

    • Daniela Rus

    Pages 179-187

18. Visual Object Tracking Using Positive and Negative Examples

    • Toshikazu Wada

    Pages 189-199

19. Large-Scale Visual Odometry for Rough Terrain

    • Kurt Konolige, Motilal Agrawal, Joan Solà

    Pages 201-212

20. A Monte Carlo Update for Parametric POMDPs

    • Alex Brooks, Stefan Williams

    Pages 213-223

The International Symposium of Robotics Research (ISRR) continues to be the premiere meeting of the International Foundation of Robotics Research (IFRR). The 13th International Symposium of Robotics Research took place Novemb3r 26-29, 2007, in Hiroshima, Japan, and was organized by the two editors of this book. This volume brings a collection of a broad range of topics in robotics. The content of these contributions provides a wide coverage of the current state of robotics research: the advances and challenges in its theoretical foundation and technology basis, and the developments in its traditional and novel areas of applications. Historically, the proceedings of the ISRR have featured ground-breaking work of the highest caliber, which influenced generations to come. The present volume promises to be no exception. The collection of scientific articles in this volume provides new insights to important problems in robotics, written by some of the leaders in the field.

• Department of Mechanical Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, Japan

  Makoto Kaneko

• Department of Mechano-Informatics, Faculty of Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan

  Yoshihiko Nakamura

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