11. ISRR 2003: Siena, Italy

Motion Planning

• Gerd Hirzinger:
  Session Summary. 3-5
  
• Timothy Bretl, Jean-Claude Latombe, Stephen M. Rock:
  Toward Autonomous Free-Climbing Robots. 6-15
  
• Toru Omata:
  Whole Quadruped/Hexapod Manipulation. 16-25
  
• Masaru Uchiyama, Daisuke Sato:
  Dexterous Motion Design for a DD Parallel Robot. 26-35
  
• Stephen R. Lindemann, Steven M. LaValle:
  Current Issues in Sampling-Based Motion Planning. 36-54
  

Path Planning

• Henrik I. Christensen:
  Session Summary. 57-59
  
• Dieter Fox, Jonathan Ko, Kurt Konolige, Benjamin Stewart:
  A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach to the Revisiting Problem in Mobile Robot Map Building. 60-69
  
• Alonzo Kelly, Ranjith Unnikrishnan:
  Efficient Construction of Globally Consistent Ladar Maps Using Pose Network Topology and Nonlinear Programming. 70-79
  
• Mert Akinc, Kostas E. Bekris, Brian Y. Chen, Andrew M. Ladd, Erion Plaku, Lydia E. Kavraki:
  Probabilistic Roadmaps of Trees for Parallel Computation of Multiple Query Roadmaps. 80-89
  
• Howie Choset, Alfred A. Rizzi:
  Topology in Motion Planning. 90-99
  
• Fabien Gravot, Stéphane Cambon, Rachid Alami:
  aSyMov: A Planner That Deals with Intricate Symbolic and Geometric Problems. 100-110
  

Medical Robotics

• Tomomasa Sato:
  Session Summary. 113-114
  
• Bradley J. Nelson, Yu Sun, Michael A. Greminger:
  Microrobotics for Molecular Biology: Manipulating Deformable Objects at the Microscale. 115-124
  
• Karol Miller, Wieslaw Lucjan Nowinski:
  Modeling of Brain Mechanical Properties for Computer-Integrated Medicine. 125-134
  
• Alicia Casals:
  Assisted Teleoperation Through the Merging of Real and Virtual Images. 135-144
  
• Jocelyne Troccaz, Philippe Cinquin, Peter J. Berkelman, Adriana Vilchis Gonzales, Eric Boidard:
  Surgical Robots at TIMC: Where We Are and Where We Go. 145-156
  

Human-Robot Interaction

• Yoshiaki Shirai:
  Session Summary. 159-161
  
• Danica Kragic, Panadda Marayong, Ming Li, Allison M. Okamura, Gregory D. Hager:
  Human-Machine Collaborative Systems for Microsurgical Applications. 162-171
  
• Rowel Atienza, Alexander Zelinsky:
  Intuitive Human-Robot Interaction Through Active 3D Gaze Tracking. 172-181
  
• Yasuyoshi Yokokohji, Nobuhiko Muramori, Yuji Sato, Tsuneo Yoshikawa:
  Designing an Encountered-Type Haptic Display for Multiple Fingertip Contacts based on the Observation of Human Grasping Behavior. 182-191
  
• Kazuhiro Fukui, Osamu Yamaguchi:
  Face Recognition Using Multi-viewpoint Patterns for Robot Vision. 192-201
  
• Ralf Koeppe, D. Engelhardt, A. Hagenauer, P. Heiligensetzer, B. Kneifel, A. Knipfer, K. Stoddard:
  Robot-Robot and Human-Robot Cooperation in Commercial Robotics Applications. 202-216
  

Multiple Robots

• John M. Hollerbach:
  Session Summary. 219-223
  
• Calin Belta, Guilherme A. S. Pereira, Vijay Kumar:
  Abstraction and Control for Swarms of Robots. 224-233
  
• Peter I. Corke, Ronald A. Peterson, Daniela Rus:
  Networked Robots: Flying Robot Navigation using a Sensor Net. 234-243
  
• Vivek A. Sujan, Steven Dubowsky, Terry Huntsberger, Hrand Aghazarian, Yang Cheng, Paul S. Schenker:
  A Multi Agent Distributed Sensing Architecture with Application to Planetary Cliff Exploration. 244-253
  
• Sebastian Thrun, Yufeng Liu:
  Multi-robot SLAM with Sparse Extended Information Filers. 254-266
  

Robot Navigation

• Ray Jarvis:
  Session Summary. 269-270
  
• Chuck Thorpe, Justin Carlson, Dave Duggins, Jay Gowdy, Rob MacLachlan, Christoph Mertz, Arne Suppe, Bob Wang:
  Safe Robot Driving in Cluttered Environments. 271-280
  
• George Kantor, Alfred A. Rizzi:
  Feedback Control of Underactuated Systems via Sequential Composition: Visually Guided Control of a Unicycle. 281-290
  
• Larry Matthies, Chuck Bergh, Andres Castano, Jose Macedo, Roberto Manduchi:
  Obstacle Detection in Foliage with Ladar and Radar. 291-300
  

Vision

• Takeo Kanade:
  Session Summary. 303-304
  
• Fabrizio Caccavale, Vincenzo Lippiello, Bruno Siciliano, Luigi Villani:
  Visual Tracking of Multiple Objects Using Binary Space Partitioning Trees. 305-314
  
• Il-Kyun Jung, Simon Lacroix:
  Simultaneous Localization and Mapping with Stereovision. 315-324
  
• Walterio W. Mayol-Cuevas, Andrew J. Davison, Ben Tordoff, David W. Murray:
  Applying Active Vision and SLAM to Wearables. 325-334
  
• Shree K. Nayar, Srinivasa G. Narasimhan:
  Seeing Through Bad Weather. 335-350
  

Humanoids

• Hirochika Inoue:
  Session Summary. 353-354
  
• Masahiro Fujita, Kohtaro Sabe, Yoshihiro Kuroki, Tatsuzo Ishida, Toshi T. Doi:
  SDR-4X II: A Small Humanoid as an Entertainer in Home Environment. 355-364
  
• James J. Kuffner, Koichi Nishiwaki, Satoshi Kagami, Masayuki Inaba, Hirochika Inoue:
  Motion Planning for Humanoid Robots. 365-374
  
• Hirohisa Hirukawa, Shuuji Kajita, Fumio Kanehiro, Kenji Kaneko, Takakatsu Isozumi:
  The Human-Size Humanoid Robot That Can Walk, Lie Down and Get Up. 375-384
  
• Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Yoshiyuki Ohmura, Koji Terada, Tomoyuki Yamamoto, Akihiko Nagakubo:
  Exploiting the Global Dynamics Structure of Whole-Body Humanoid Motion - Getting the "Knack" of Roll-and-Rise Motion. 385-394
  

SLAM

• Robert C. Bolles:
  Session Summary. 397-398
  
• Jong-Hyuk Kim, Salah Sukkarieh:
  Recasting SLAM - Towards Improving Efficiency and Platform Independency. 399-408
  
• Paul M. Newman, John J. Leonard, Richard J. Rikoski:
  Towards Constant-Time SLAM on an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Using Synthetic Aperture Sonar. 409-420
  
• Dirk Hähnel, Sebastian Thrun, Ben Wegbreit, Wolfram Burgard:
  Towards Lazy Data Association in SLAM. 421-431
  
• Herman Bruyninckx, Joris De Schutter, Tine Lefebvre, Klaas Gadeyne, Peter Soetens, Johan Rutgeerts, Peter Slaets, Wim Meeussen:
  Building Blocks for SLAM in Autonomous Compliant Motion. 432-441
  
• Agostino Martinelli, Adriana Tapus, Kai Oliver Arras, Roland Siegwart:
  Multi-resolution SLAM for Real World Navigation. 442-452
  

Robot Perception

• Ruzena Bajcsy:
  Session Summary. 455
  
• William R. Provancher, Katherine J. Kuchenbecker, Günter Niemeyer, Mark R. Cutkosky:
  Perception of Curvature and Object Motion Via Contact Location Feedback. 456-465
  
• Federico Barbagli, Domenico Prattichizzo, Kenneth Salisbury:
  Multi-contact Haptic Interaction with Deformable Objects: A Multi-rate Approach. 466-478
  
• Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte, Suresh Kumar, José E. Guivant, Steve Scheding:
  A Model for Machine Perception in Natural Environments. 479-488
  
• Dinesh K. Pai:
  Multisensory Interaction: Real and Virtual. 489-498
  

Design

• Bernard Roth:
  Session Summary. 501
  
• Bruce Randall Donald, Christopher G. Levey, Craig D. McGray, Daniela Rus, Mike Sinclair:
  UntetheredMicro-Actuators for Autonomous Micro-robot Locomotion: Design, Fabrication, Control, and Performance. 502-516
  
• Makoto Kaneko, Mitsuru Higashimori, Akio Namiki, Masatoshi Ishikawa:
  The 100G Capturing Robot - Too Fast to See. 517-526
  
• Antonio Bicchi, Giovanni Tonietti, Michele Bavaro, Marco Piccigallo:
  Variable Stiffness Actuators for Fast and Safe Motion Control. 527-536
  

Bio-robotics

• Shigeo Hirose:
  Session Summary. 539-540
  
• Noah J. Cowan, Emily J. Ma, Mark R. Cutkosky, Robert J. Full:
  A Biologically Inspired Passive Antenna for Steering Control of a Running Robot. 541-550
  
• Darrin C. Bentivegna, Gordon Cheng, Christopher G. Atkeson:
  Learning from Observation and from Practice Using Behavioral Primitives. 551-560
  
• Stefan Schaal, Jan Peters, Jun Nakanishi, Auke Jan Ijspeert:
  Learning Movement Primitives. 561-572
  
• Yoshihiko Nakamura, Tetsunari Inamura, Hiroaki Tanie:
  A Statistic Model of Embodied Symbol Emergence. 573-584
  

Forum Sessions

• Bernard Roth:
  Lessons from the Past 50 Years of Robotics. 587-592
  
• Raja Chatila:
  Open Forum. 595