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Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems

12th Annual Conference, TAROS 2011, Sheffield, UK, August 31 -- September 2, 2011, Proceedings

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Editors:
  1. Roderich Groß

    1. Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

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  2. Lyuba Alboul

    1. Materials and Engineering Research Institute, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK

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  3. Chris Melhuish

    1. Department of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL), University of Bristol and the West of England, Bistol, UK

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  4. Mark Witkowski

    1. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK

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  5. Tony J. Prescott

    1. Department of Psychology, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

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  6. Jacques Penders

    1. Materials and Engineering Research Institute, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 6856)

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Table of contents (62 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. A Cricket-Controlled Robot Orienting towards a Sound Source

    1. A Cricket-Controlled Robot Orienting towards a Sound Source

      • Jan Wessnitzer, Alexandros Asthenidis, Georgios Petrou, Barbara Webb
      Pages 1-12

    2. A General Classifier of Whisker Data Using Stationary Naive Bayes: Application to BIOTACT Robots

      • Nathan F. Lepora, Charles W. Fox, Mat Evans, Ben Mitchinson, Asma Motiwala, J. Charlie Sullivan et al.
      Pages 13-23

    3. A Navigation System for a High-Speed Professional Cleaning Robot

      • Gorka Azkune, Mikel Astiz, Urko Esnaola, Unai Antero, Jose Vicente Sogorb, Antonio Alonso
      Pages 24-35

    4. A Recursive Least Squares Solution for Recovering Robust Planar Homographies

      • Saad Ali Imran, Nabil Aouf
      Pages 36-45

    5. Airborne Ultrasonic Position and Velocity Measurement Using Two Cycles of Linear-Period-Modulated Signal

      • Shinya Saito, Minoru Kuribayashi Kurosawa, Yuichiro Orino, Shinnosuke Hirata
      Pages 46-53

    6. An Eye Detection and Localization System for Natural Human and Robot Interaction without Face Detection

      • Xinguo Yu, Weicheng Han, Liyuan Li, Ji Yu Shi, Gang Wang
      Pages 54-65

    7. An Implementation of a Biologically Inspired Model of Head Direction Cells on a Robot

      • Theocharis Kyriacou
      Pages 66-77

    8. Contextual Recognition of Robot Emotions

      • Jiaming Zhang, Amanda J. C. Sharkey
      Pages 78-89

    9. Costs and Benefits of Behavioral Specialization

      • Arne Brutschy, Nam-Luc Tran, Nadir Baiboun, Marco Frison, Giovanni Pini, Andrea Roli et al.
      Pages 90-101

    10. CrunchBot: A Mobile Whiskered Robot Platform

      • Charles W. Fox, Mathew H. Evans, Nathan F. Lepora, Martin Pearson, Andy Ham, Tony J. Prescott
      Pages 102-113

    11. Deformation-Based Tactile Feedback Using a Biologically-Inspired Sensor and a Modified Display

      • Calum Roke, Chris Melhuish, Tony Pipe, David Drury, Craig Chorley
      Pages 114-124

    12. Design and Control of an Upper Limb Exoskeleton Robot RehabRoby

      • Fatih Ozkul, Duygun Erol Barkana
      Pages 125-136

    13. Distributed Motion Planning for Ground Objects Using a Network of Robotic Ceiling Cameras

      • Andreagiovanni Reina, Gianni A. Di Caro, Frederick Ducatelle, Luca M. Gambardella
      Pages 137-148

    14. Evaluating the Effect of Robot Group Size on Relative Localisation Precision

      • Frank E. Schneider, Dennis Wildermuth
      Pages 149-160

    15. Instance-Based Reinforcement Learning Technique with a Meta-learning Mechanism for Robust Multi-Robot Systems

      • Toshiyuki Yasuda, Motohiro Wada, Kazuhiro Ohkura
      Pages 161-172

    16. Locomotion Selection and Mechanical Design for a Mobile Intra-abdominal Adhesion-Reliant Robot for Minimally Invasive Surgery

      • Alfonso Montellano López, Mojtaba Khazravi, Robert Richardson, Abbas Dehghani, Rupesh Roshan, Tomasz Liskiewicz et al.
      Pages 173-182

    17. Mapping with Sparse Local Sensors and Strong Hierarchical Priors

      • Charles W. Fox, Tony J. Prescott
      Pages 183-194

    18. Multi-rate Visual Servoing Based on Dual-Rate High Order Holds

      • J. Ernesto Solanes, Josep Tornero, Leopoldo Armesto, Vicent Girbés
      Pages 195-206

    19. Optimal Path Planning for Nonholonomic Robotic Systems via Parametric Optimisation

      • James Biggs
      Pages 207-218
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference Towards Autonomous Robotics Systems, TAROS 2011, held in Sheffield, UK, in August/September 2011.
The 32 revised full papers presented together with 29 two-page abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected from 94 submissions. Among the topics addressed are robot navigation, robot learning, human-robot interaction, robot control, mobile robots, reinforcement learning, robot vehicles, swarm robotic systems, etc.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

    Roderich Groß

  • Materials and Engineering Research Institute, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK

    Lyuba Alboul, Jacques Penders

  • Department of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL), University of Bristol and the West of England, Bistol, UK

    Chris Melhuish

  • Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK

    Mark Witkowski

  • Department of Psychology, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

    Tony J. Prescott

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