1. ROBOCOMM 2007: Athens, Greece

Mobility for communication

• Cory Dixon, Eric W. Frew:
  Maintaining optimal communication chains in robotic sensor networks using mobility control. 1
  
• Chia-Ching Ooi, Christian Schindelhauer:
  Minimal energy path planning for wireless robots. 2
  
• Christian Reinl, Oskar von Stryk:
  Optimal control of multi-vehicle-systems under communication constraints using mixed-integer linear programming. 3
  
• Sameera Poduri, Gaurav S. Sukhatme:
  Achieving connectivity through coalescence in mobile robot networks. 4
  

Localizing and tracking

• Sarah Bergbreiter, Ankur Mehta, Kristofer S. J. Pister:
  PhotoBeacon: design of an optical system for localization and communication in multi-robot systems. 5
  
• Byungkon Sohn, Jaeyeong Lee, Heesung Chae, Wonpil Yu:
  Localization system for mobile robot using wireless communication with IR landmark. 6
  
• Antonio Franchi, Luigi Freda, Giuseppe Oriolo, Marilena Vendittelli:
  A decentralized strategy for cooperative robot exploration. 7
  

Decentralized coordination

• Dimos V. Dimarogonas, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos:
  Decentralized swarm aggregation with static communication links. 8
  
• Kostas E. Bekris, Konstantinos I. Tsianos, Lydia E. Kavraki:
  A distributed protocol for safe real-time planning of communicating vehicles with second-order dynamics. 9
  
• I. Mir, Bala P. Amavasai:
  A fully decentralized approach for incremental perception. 10
  
• João Certo, Nuno Lau, Luís Paulo Reis:
  A generic multi-robot coordination strategic layer. 11
  
• Christopher M. Cianci, Thomas Lochmatter, Jim Pugh, Alcherio Martinoli:
  Toward multi-level modeling of robotic sensor networks: a case study in acoustic event monitoring. 12
  

Control architectures

• Luís Mota, Luís Paulo Reis:
  Setplays: achieving coordination by the appropriate use of arbitrary pre-defined flexible plans and inter-robot communication. 13
  
• Brian Stephen Smith, Magnus Egerstedt, Ayanna M. Howard:
  Automatic generation of persistent formations for multi-agent networks under range constraints. 14
  
• Ulrik Pagh Schultz:
  Distributed control diffusion: towards a flexible programming paradigm for modular robots. 15
  

Networked sensing

• Hiroyuki Sakai, Tobias Cincarek, Hiromichi Kawanami, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano, Akinobu Lee:
  Voice activity detection applied to hands-free spoken dialogue robot based on decoding using acoustic and language model. 16
  
• M. W. de Graaf, Ronald G. K. M. Aarts, J. Meijer, Ben J. B. Jonker:
  Ethernet-based communication framework for sensor integration on industrial robots. 17
  
• Eric W. Frew:
  Information-theoretic integration of sensing and communication for active robot networks. 18
  
• Oscar Alonso, A. Diéguez, Raimon Casanova, Andreu Sanuy, Oliver Scholz, Paolo Corradi, Josep Samitier:
  An optical interface for inter-robot communication in a swarm of microrobots. 19
  
• Ganesh Sankaranarayanan, Lauren Potter, Blake Hannaford:
  Measurement and emulation of time varying packet delay with applications to networked haptic virtual environments. 20
  

Reconfigurable networks

• Haruhisa Kurokawa, Kohji Tomita, Akiya Kamimura, Shigeru Kokaji, Takashi Hasuo, Satoshi Murata:
  Self-reconfigurable modular robot M-TRAN: distributed control and communication. 21
  
• Florian Zeiger, Christian Selbach, Benjamin Ruderisch, Klaus Schilling:
  An application protocol to integrate a small size helicopter into an IP based ad-hoc network. 22
  
• Ricardo Franco Mendoza Garcia, Kasper Støy, David Johan Christensen, Andreas Lyder:
  A self-reconfigurable communication network for modular robots. 23
  

Decentralized decision making

• Marco Pavone, Nabhendra Bisnik, Emilio Frazzoli, Volkan Isler:
  Decentralized vehicle routing in a stochastic and dynamic environment with customer impatience. 24
  
• Alfredo Garcia, Chenyang Li, Fernan Pedraza:
  Rational swarms for distributed on-line Bayesian search. 25
  
• David Johan Christensen, David Brandt, Ulrik Pagh Schultz, Kasper Støy:
  Neighbor detection and crosstalk elimination in self-reconfigurable robots. 26
  
• Xiaofeng Han, Louis F. Rossi, Chien-Chung Shen:
  Autonomous navigation of wireless robot swarms with covert leaders. 27
  

Application and devices

• Ganesh Sankaranarayanan, Hawkeye H. I. King, Seong-Young Ko, Mitchell J. H. Lum, Diana C. W. Friedman, Jacob Rosen, Blake Hannaford:
  Portable surgery master station for mobile robotic telesurgery. 28
  
• Peter Hinterseer, Julius Kammerl, Eckehard G. Steinbach, Subhasis Chaudhuri:
  The Weber quantizer: perceptual coding for networked telepresence and teleaction. 29
  
• Mathias Broxvall:
  A middleware for ecologies of robotic devices. 30
  
• Ganesh Sankaranarayanan, Blake Hannaford:
  Comparison of performance of virtual coupling schemes for haptic collaboration using real and emulated internet connections. 31
  

Tools and simulators

• Tzi-cker Chiueh, Rupa Krishnan, Pradipta De, Jui-Hao Chiang:
  A networked robot system for wireless network emulation. 32
  
• Phoebus Chen, Shankar Sastry:
  Latency and connectivity analysis tools for wireless mesh networks. 33
  
• Alexander Tiderko, Thomas Bachran:
  A service oriented framework for wireless communication in mobile multi robot systems. 34
  
• George Roussos, Dikaios Papadogkonas, J. Taylor, D. Airantzis, Mark Levene, Michael Zoumboulakis:
  Shared memories: a trail-based coordination server for robot teams. 35
  
• Shinsuke Hara, Tatsuya Ishimoto:
  A common coordinates/heading direction generation method for wirelessly networked robots with only ranging capability. 36
  

Poster session 1

• Ming Li, Anthony Alvarez, Francesco De Pellegrini, B. Prabhakaran, Imrich Chlamtac:
  ROBOTRAK: a centralized real-time monitoring, control, and coordination system for robot swarms. 37
  
• Maria Rita Laganà, Marco Righi:
  Romeo and Juliet: an infrared search system. 38
  
• Robert H. Bledsoe, Ravi Vaidyanathan, Jayson Durham, Xiaoping Yun:
  Semi-autonomous micro robot control and video relay through internet and iridium networks. 39
  
• Randeep Singh, Nagaraju Bussa:
  Path planning using Shi and Karl level sets. 40
  
• Muneyuki Shimokura, Shuichi Nakanishi, Tadashi Ohta:
  Networks for a symbiotic human life with robots. 41
  
• Kevin LeBlanc, Alessandro Saffiotti:
  Cooperative information fusion in a network robot system. 42
  
• Yongsoon Yoon, H. Jin Kim, J. H. Shin, Tokson Choe, Yongwoon Park:
  Communication in distributed model predictive collision avoidance. 43
  
• Hisayuki Narahara, Takashi Maeno:
  Factors of gestures of robots for smooth communication with humans. 44
  

Poster session 2

• Mirko Bordignon, Enrico Pagello, Alessandro Saffiotti:
  An inexpensive, off-the-shelf platform for networked embedded robotics. 45
  
• Christos Christodoulopoulos, Christos Kyriakopoulos, Athanasios G. Kanatas:
  A realistic approach to source localization using a wireless robotic network. 46
  
• Jongho Shin, H. Jin Kim, Seungkeun Kim, Yongsoon Yoon:
  Formation flight control under communication failure. 47
  
• Masafumi Yamashita, Samia Souissi, Xavier Défago:
  Gathering two stateless mobile robots using very inaccurate compasses in finite time. 48
  
• Yoshiyuki Miyamoto, Takashi Maeno:
  How humans evaluate the impression when interacting haptically with a robot. 49
  
• John P. Murphy, Luke M. Wachter, Laura E. Ray:
  Issues in computational resource allocation in cooperative control. 50
  
• Hisayoshi Sugiyama, Tetsuo Tsujioka, Masashi Murata:
  Reconnaissance into distant spaces by multi-robot rescue system with ad hoc networking. 51
  
• Soko Aoki, Yukihiko Kirihara, Jin Nakazawa, Hideyuki Tokuda:
  Spinning sensors: middleware for robotic sensor network. 52
  
• Cheonshu Park, Joung Woo Ryu, Sangseung Kang, Jaehong Kim, Joo-Chan Sohn, Hyunkyu Cho:
  The emotion expression robot through the affective interaction: KOBIE. 53
  
• Kévin Huguenin, Maria-João Rendas:
  Distributed adaptive sampling using bounded-errors. 54