Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XII

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2. Active Compliance Control of the RED Hand: A PID Control Approach

   • Muhamad Faizal Abdul Jamil, Jamaludin Jalani, Afandi Ahmad, Eddy Irwan Shah Saadon

   Pages 1-7

3. A Wearable Automated System to Quantify Parkinsonian Symptoms Enabling Closed Loop Deep Brain Stimulation

   • Paolo Angeles, Michael Mace, Marcel Admiraal, Etienne Burdet, Nicola  Pavese, Ravi Vaidyanathan

   Pages 8-19

4. Systematic and Realistic Testing in Simulation of Control Code for Robots in Collaborative Human-Robot Interactions

   • Dejanira Araiza-Illan, David Western, Anthony G. Pipe, Kerstin Eder

   Pages 20-32

5. Congratulations, It’s a Boy! Bench-Marking Children’s Perceptions of the Robokind Zeno-R25

   • David Cameron, Samuel Fernando, Abigail Millings, Michael Szollosy, Emily Collins, Roger Moore et al.

   Pages 33-39

6. A Bioinspired Approach to Vision

   • Daniel Camilleri, Luke Boorman, Uriel Martinez, Andreas Damianou, Tony Prescott

   Pages 40-52

7. An Overview of the Ongoing Humanoid Robot Project LARMbot

   • Marco Ceccarelli, Daniele Cafolla, Mingfeng Wang, Giuseppe Carbone

   Pages 53-64

8. Force and Topography Reconstruction Using GP and MOR for the TACTIP Soft Sensor System

   • G. de Boer, H. Wang, M. Ghajari, A. Alazmani, R. Hewson, P. Culmer

   Pages 65-74

9. Agent-Based Autonomous Systems and Abstraction Engines: Theory Meets Practice

   • Louise A. Dennis, Jonathan M. Aitken, Joe Collenette, Elisa Cucco, Maryam Kamali, Owen McAree et al.

   Pages 75-86

10. Experimental Evaluation of a Multi-modal User Interface for a Robotic Service

    • Alessandro Di Nuovo, Ning Wang, Frank Broz, Tony Belpaeme, Ray  Jones, Angelo Cangelosi

    Pages 87-98

11. Enhancing Autonomy in VTOL Aircraft Based on Symbolic Computation Algorithms

    • James A. Douthwaite, Lyudmila S. Mihaylova, Sandor M. Veres

    Pages 99-110

12. Development of an Intelligent Robotic Rein for Haptic Control and Interaction with Mobile Machines

    • Musstafa Elyounnss, Alan Holloway, Jacques Penders, Lyuba Alboul

    Pages 111-115

13. Infrastructure Mapping in Well-Structured Environments Using MAV

    • Yuantao Fan, Maytheewat Aramrattana, Saeed Gholami Shahbandi, Hassan Mashad Nemati, Björn Åstrand

    Pages 116-126

14. Probabilistic Model Checking of Ant-Based Positionless Swarming

    • Paul Gainer, Clare Dixon, Ullrich Hustadt

    Pages 127-138

15. A Control Structure for Bilateral Telemanipulation

    • William Harwin

    Pages 139-145

16. Testing, Verification and Improvements of Timeliness in ROS Processes

    • Mohammed Y. Hazim, Hongyang Qu, Sandor M. Veres

    Pages 146-157

17. The Psi Swarm: A Low-Cost Robotics Platform and Its Use in an Education Setting

    • James Hilder, Alexander Horsfield, Alan G. Millard, Jon Timmis

    Pages 158-164

18. Multi Robot Cooperative Area Coverage, Case Study: Spraying

    • Alireza Janani, Lyuba Alboul, Jacques Penders

    Pages 165-176

19. A Step Toward Mobile Robots Autonomy: Energy Estimation Models

    • Lotfi Jaiem, Sebastien Druon, Lionel Lapierre, Didier Crestani

    Pages 177-188

20. Toward Performance Guarantee for Autonomous Mobile Robotic Mission: An Approach for Hardware and Software Resources Management

    • Lotfi Jaiem, Lionel Lapierre, Karen Godary-Dejean, Didier Crestani

    Pages 189-195

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference on Towards Autonomous Robotics, TAROS 2016, held in Sheffield UK, in June/July 2016.
The 23 revised full papers presented together with 15 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 56 submissions. The overall program covers various aspects of robotics, including navigation, planning, sensing and perception, flying and swarm robots, ethics, humanoid robotics, human-robot interaction, and social robotics.

• cognitive robotics
• computer vision
• robotic autonomy
• self-organization
• vision for robotics
• biometrics
• cooperation and coordination
• distributed artificial intelligence
• image segmentation
• intelligent agents
• logic programming and answer set programming
• machine learning
• mobile agents
• multi-agent planning
• multiscale systems
• robotic components
• robotic control
• scene anomaly detection
• scene understanding
• spatial and physical reasoning

• Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom

  Lyuba Alboul

• University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

  Dana Damian, Jonathan M. Aitken

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