European Robotics Symposium 2006

John Hallam, Herman Bruyninckx (auth.), Henrik I. Christensen (eds.)9783540326885, 3-540-32688-X

This unique reference represents a cross-section of forefront robotics research, ranging from robotics and systems to learning, autonomy and failure detection, from vision and navigation to localization and mapping, which are based on the papers presented at the 1st European Robotics Symposium (EUROS-06) held in Palermo, Italy from 16-18 March, 2006. The European Robotics Symposium (EUROS) is a brand-new International scientific event promoted by EURON, the European Robotics Network. Since its inception in 2000, EURON links most of the European robotics research teams and today (2006) involves more than 165 universities and companies across all of its member states. The EUROS meeting will be held in Europe every other year, but international participation at all levels is strongly encouraged making it a meeting place for high-quality presentation of interesting international research on robotics.

Table of contents :
An Ontology of Robotics Science….Pages 1-14
A Multi-agent System Architecture for Modular Robotic Mobility Aids….Pages 15-26
How to Construct Dense Objects with Self-Recondfigurable Robots….Pages 27-37
In Situ Autonomous Biomechanical Characterization….Pages 39-50
Incremental Learning of Task Sequences with Information-Theoretic Metrics….Pages 51-63
Representation, Recognition and Generation of Actions in the Context of Imitation Learning….Pages 65-77
Reduction of Learning Time for Robots Using Automatic State Abstraction….Pages 79-92
Efficient Failure Detection for Mobile Robots Using Mixed-Abstraction Particle Filters….Pages 93-107
Optimization and Fail-Safety Analysis of Antagonistic Actuation for pHRI….Pages 109-118
Bilateral Control of Different Order Teleoperators….Pages 119-127
Navigation and Planning in an Unknown Environment Using Vision and a Cognitive Map….Pages 129-142
Exploiting Distinguishable Image Features in Robotic Mapping and Localization….Pages 143-157
Image-Based Visual Servoing for Mobile Robots with Catadioptric Camera….Pages 159-170
Multi-knowledge Approach for Mobile Robot Identification of a Changing Environment….Pages 171-180
Robust Monte-Carlo Localization Using Adaptive Likelihood Models….Pages 181-194
Metric Localization with Scale-Invariant Visual Features Using a Single Perspective Camera….Pages 195-209