The International Symposium of Robotics Research (ISRR) continues to be the premiere meeting of the International Foundation of Robotics Research (IFRR). The 12th International Symposium of Robotics Research took place October 12-15, 2005, in San Francisco, near Fisherman's Wharf, and was organized by the three editors of this book.

This volume contains a collection of 50 contributed papers, which were presented at the 12th International Symposium of Robotics Research. These papers are organized in twelve scientific tracks: Physical Human-Robot Interaction and Haptics, Planning, Humanoids, Mechanisms and Design, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping, Field Robots, Robotic Vision, Robot Design and Control, Underwater Robotics, Learning and Adaptive Behavior, Networked Robotics, and Interfaces and Interaction. Further articles in this volume summarize one of the invited overview talks of the scientific panel that took place during the ISRR.

Historically, the proceedings of the ISRR have featured ground-breaking work of the highest caliber, which influenced generations to come. The present volume promises to be no exception. The collection of scientific articles in this volume provides new insights to important problems in robotics, written by some of the leaders in the field.

Klappentext

This volume contains 50 papers presented at the 12th International Symposium of Robotics Research, which took place October 2005 in San Francisco, CA. Coverage includes: physical human-robot interaction, humanoids, mechanisms and design, simultaneous localization and mapping, field robots, robotic vision, robot design and control, underwater robotics, learning and adaptive behavior, networked robotics, and interfaces and interaction.

Inhalt

Physical Human Robot Interaction and Haptics.- Session Overview Physical Human-Robot Integration and Haptics.- A Unified Passivity Based Control Framework for Position, Torque and Impedance Control of Flexible Joint Robots.- Wave Haptics: Encoderless Virtual Stiffnesses.- Reality-Based Estimation of Needle and Soft-Tissue Interaction for Accurate Haptic Feedback in Prostate Brachytherapy Simulation.- Haptic Virtual Fixtures for Robot-Assisted Manipulation.- Planning.- Session Overview Planning.- POMDP Planning for Robust Robot Control.- On the Probabilistic Foundations of Probabilistic Roadmap Planning.- Humanoids.- Session Overview Humanoids.- Humanoid HRP2-DHRC for Autonomous and Interactive Behavior.- Android Science.- Mimetic Communication Theory for Humanoid Robots Interacting with Humans.- Mechanism and Design.- Session Overview Mechanisms and Design.- Design of a Compact 6-DOF Haptic Device to Use Parallel Mechanisms.- Hybrid Nanorobotic Approaches to NEMS.- Jacobian, Manipulability, Condition Number and Accuracy of Parallel Robots.- SLAM.- Session Overview Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping.- Subjective Localization with Action Respecting Embedding.- D-SLAM: Decoupled Localization and Mapping for Autonomous Robots.- A Provably Consistent Method for Imposing Sparsity in Feature-Based SLAM Information Filters.- Field Robots.- Session Overview Field Robotics.- Field D*: An Interpolation-Based Path Planner and Replanner.- Tradeoffs Between Directed and Autonomous Driving on the Mars Exploration Rovers.- Surface Mining: Main Research Issues for Autonomous Operations.- Robotic Vision.- Session Overview Robotic Vision.- Bias Reduction and Filter Convergence for Long Range Stereo.- Fusion of Stereo, Colour and Contrast.- Automatic Single-Image 3d Reconstructions of Indoor Manhattan World Scenes.- Robot Design and Control.- Session Overview Robot Design and Control.- One Is Enough!.- A Steerable, Untethered, 250 × 60 µm MEMS Mobile Micro-Robot.- Some Issues in Humanoid Robot Design.- That Which Does Not Stabilize, Will Only Make Us Stronger.- Underwater Robotics.- Session Overview Underwater Robotics.- Improved Estimation of Target Velocity Using Multiple Model Estimation and a Dynamic Bayesian Network for a Robotic Tracker of Ocean Animals.- Techniques for Deep Sea Near Bottom Survey Using an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle.- Advances in High Resolution Imaging from Underwater Vehicles.- Learning and Adaptive Behavior.- Session Overview Learning and Adaptive Behavior.- Using AdaBoost for Place Labeling and Topological Map Building.- Emergence, Exploration and Learning of Embodied Behavior.- Hierarchical Conditional Random Fields for GPS-Based Activity Recognition.- Networked Robotics.- Session Overview Networked Robotics.- Networked Robotic Cameras for Collaborative Observation of Natural Environments.- Interfaces and Interaction.- Session Overview Interfaces and Interaction.- Haptic Communication Between Humans and Robots.- A Vestibular Interface for Natural Control of Steering in the Locomotion of Robotic Artifacts: Preliminary Experiments.- How Social Robots Will Help Us to Diagnose, Treat, and Understand Autism.- Invited Overview Talk.- Expo 2005 Robotics Project.- Robotics Science (Panel Discussion).- Position Statement: Robotics Science.