Research and Education in Robotics -- EUROBOT 2008

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Research and Education in Robotics, EUROBOT 2008, held in Heidelberg, Germany, in May 2008. The EUROBOT Conference 2008 was accompanied by the international amateur robotics contest EUROBOTopen final, edition 2008. The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from the 33 papers which had built the main program of the conference. A fundamental aspect of EUROBOT is the promotion of sciences and technology among young students and researchers. The theme for 2008 was "Mission to Mars". This resulted in interesting robots as well as interesting papers for this volume.

Inhalt

Adaptive Robot to Person Encounter by Motion Patterns.- Design of Multi-segment Humanoid Robot Foot.- Software-Hardware Mapping in a Robot Design.- The Huggable Robot Probo, a Multi-disciplinary Research Platform.- Comparison of PID and Fuzzy Logic Controllers in Humanoid Robot Control of Small Disturbances.- A Java-Based Framework for the Programming of Distributed Systems for Mobile Robots.- Wheeeler - Hypermobile Robot.- The qfix Robot Kits.- Pilot Study of Person Robot Interaction in a Public Transit Space.- A Mobile Robot for EUROBOT Mars Challenge.- The Fly Algorithm for Robot Navigation.- Scarabaeus: A Walking Robot Applicable to Sample Return Missions.- Cybertech Robotic Competition.- Robotics Exhibits for Science Centres. Some Prototypes.- Quantitative Cognitics and Agility Requirements in the Design of Cooperating Robots.- Assembly of Fuel Cells and Stacks with Robots.- Grape - Graphical Robot Programming for Beginners.- Robotic Exploration of Planetary Surfaces - Rover Technologies Developed for Space Exploration.