Robotics Research: The Tenth International Symposium

Simultaneous Localization And Mapping.- Towards Robust Data Association and Feature Modeling for Concurrent Mapping and Localization.- A Real-time Algorithm for Acquiring Multi-Planar Volumetric Models with Mobile Robots.- Implementation of Simultaneous Navigation and Mapping in Large Outdoor Environments.- A Bayesian Algorithm for Simultaneous Localisation and Map Building.- Humanoid Robotics I.- ETL-Humanoid: A Research Vehicle for Open-Ended Action Imitation.- Low-level Autonomy of the Humanoid Robots H6 & H7.- OpenHRP: Open Architecture Humanoid Robotics Platform.- Building Spined Muscle-Tendon Humanoid.- Dynamics and Control.- Stride Period Adaptation for a Biomimetic Running Hexapod.- Adaptive Dynamic Walking of a Quadruped Robot on Irregular Terrain Using a Neural System Model.- Design and Applications of Parallel Robots.- Humanoid Robotics II.- Development of an Interactive Humanoid Robot "Robovie" - An interdisciplinary approach.- The German Collaborative Research Centre on Humanoid Robots.- A New Generation of Compliance Controlled Manipulators with Human Arm Like Properties.- Human Centred Robotics.- Uniting Haptic Exploration and Display.- Human-Centered Robotics and Interactive Haptic Simulation.- Collaboration, Dialogue, Human-Robot Interaction.- Applications.- Vertebrate-type Perception and Gaze Control for Road Vehicles.- Towards a Realistic Medical Simulator using Virtual Environments and Haptic Interaction.- Spoken Language Interface of the Jijo-2 Office Robot.- Intelligent Home Appliances.- Field Robots.- Field Robots.- Vision-Based Navigation.- Vision-based Navigation, Environmental Representations and Imaging Geometries.- Mobile Robot Navigation As A Planar Visual Servoing Problem.- Landing Strategies in Honeybees, and Applications to UAVs.- Visual navigation in a plane using the conformal point.- Planning and Modeling.- A Single-Query Bi-Directional Probabilistic Roadmap Planner with Lazy Collision Checking.- Geometrical Interpretation of the CCT Stiffness Mapping for Serial Manipulators.- A Dynamic Model of Contact Between a Robot and an Environment with Unknown Dynamics.- Robot Technology I.- AURORA - Minimalist Design for Tracked Locomotion.- Analysis of Robotic Locomotion Devices for the Gastrointestinal Tract.- Advanced Sonar Sensing.- Mechano-Media that Transmit Kinesthetic Knowledge from a Human to Other Humans.- Robot Technology II.- The Evolution of a Robot Soccer Team.- A New Class of Hybrid Motion Simulation Using a Very Fast Parallel Robot.- General Solution for Linearized Error Propagation in Vehicle Odometry.- Probabilistic Adaptive Agent Based System for Dynamic State Estimation using Multiple Visual Cues.