| ISER 2006 Preliminary Schedule | |||||
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| Thursday, July 6 | |||||
| 17:00-19:00 | Registration | ||||
| 18:00-20:00 | Welcome Cocktail Reception at Hotel Catering | ||||
| Friday, July 7 | |||||
| 8:00-8:30 | Registration | ||||
| 8:30-8:35 | Welcome | ||||
| 8:35-10:15 | Session 1 | Manipulation | |||
| Paper no. | 112 | Contact State Segmentation Using Particle Filters for Programming by Human Demonstration in Compliant Motion Tasks | Wim Meeussen, Johan Rutgeerts, Klaas Gadeyne, Herman Bruyninckx and Joris De Schutter | ||
| Paper no. | 128 | Experimental Investigation of Mechanics in Soft-fingered Grasping and Manipulation | Takaniro Inoue and Shinichi Hirai | ||
| Paper no. | 147 | Motion Planning for Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Linear Objects | Mitul Saha, Pekka Isto and Jean-Claude Latombe | ||
| Paper no. | 148 | Learning to Grasp Novel Objects using Vision | Ashutosh Saxena, Justin Driemeyer, Justin Kearns, Chioma Osondu and Andrew Y. Ng | ||
| Paper no. | 141 | Stable Grasp and Manipulation in 3D Space with 2-Soft-Fingerd Robot Hand | Tsuneo Yoshikawa, Masanao Koeda, Haruki Fukuchi and Atsushi Hirakawa | ||
| 10:15-10:30 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 10:30-11:50 | Session 2 | Vision | |||
| Paper no. | 110 | Combining Object Recognition and SLAM for Extended Map Representations | Fabio Ramos, Juan Nieto and Hugh Duran-Whyte | ||
| Paper no. | 167 | Long-term motion estimation from images | Dennis Strelow and Sanjiv Singh | ||
| Paper no. | 133 | Real-time Time-To-Collision from variation of Intrinsic Scale | Amaury N`egre, Christophe Braillon, James L. Crowley and Christian Laugier | ||
| Paper no. | 164 | Using Scene Similarity for Place Labeling | I. Posner, D. Schroeter, and P. Newman | ||
| 11:50-12:00 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 12:00-13:00 | Session 3 | Navigation | |||
| Paper no. | 119 | Robust GPS/INS-aided localization and mapping via GPS bias estimation | Paul Vernaza and Daniel D. Lee | ||
| Paper no. | 123 | Vision Assisted Laser Scanner Navigation for Autonomous Robots | Jens Christian Andersen, Nils A. Andersen and Ole Ravn | ||
| Paper no. | 170 | Selection and Monitoring of Navigation modes for an Autonomous Rover | Thierry Peynot and Simon Lacroix | ||
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch | ||||
| 14:00-18:00 | Sugar loaf and panoramic city tour | ||||
| 18:30-20:00 | Panel: 20 years of Experimental Robotics (Vila Riso) | ||||
| 20:00-22:00 | Banquet (Vila Riso) | ||||
| Saturday July 8 | |||||
| 8:00-8:30 | Registration | ||||
| 8:30-10:10 | Session 4 | Medical and bio-robotics | |||
| Paper no. | 101 | Automatic Determination of the Actions and Force Feedback Augmentation in the Minimal Invasive Surgical System | Phongsaen Pitakwatchara, Shin-ichi Warisawa, and Mamoru Mitsuishi | ||
| Paper no. | 104 | Control of Muscle Force during Exercise using a Musculoskeletal-Exoskeletal Integrated Human Model | Jun Ueda, Masayuki Matsugashita, Reishi Oya and Tsukasa Ogasawara | ||
| Paper no. | 131 | 3D Robot Assisted Fracture Reduction | Ralf Westphal, Thomas GŠosling, Markus Oszwald, Jan Bredow, Daniel Klepzig, Simon Winkelbach, Tobias HŠufner, Christian Krettek and Friedrich Wahl | ||
| Paper no. | 143 | Micro Robotic Gripper for Cell Manipulation | Anand Pillarisetti, Edward Steager, Maxim Pekarev, Ari D. Brooksand Jaydev P. Desai | ||
| Paper no. | 108 | User Personality Matching with Hands-Off Robot for Post-Stroke Rehabilitation Therapy | Adriana Tapus and Maja J. Matarić | ||
| 10:10-10:25 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 10:25-11:45 | Session 5 | Estimation and mapping | |||
| Paper no. | 152 | Outdoor Mapping and Navigation using Stereo Vision | Kurt Konolige, Motilal Agrawal, Robert C. Bolles, Cregg Cowan, Martin Fischler and Brian Gerkey | ||
| Paper no. | 154 | Control for Localization of Targets Using Range-Only Sensors | Ben Grocholsky, Ethan Stump, Pedro M. Shiroma and Vijay Kumar | ||
| Paper no. | 169 | Experiments with Simultaneous Environment Mapping And Mobile Target Tracking | Abedallatif Baba and Raja Chatila | ||
| Paper no. | 162 | Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filters for Recognizing Activities and Spatial Context from Wearable Sensors | Alvin Raj, Amarnag Subramanya, Dieter Fox, and Jeff Bilmes | ||
| 11:45-12:00 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 12:00-13:00 | Session 6 | Field robotics | |||
| Paper no. | 157 | Development of Teleoperated Landmine Detection Buggy GRYPHON for Practical Humanitarian Demining Tasks | Edwardo F. Fukushima, Paulo Debenest, Marc Freese, Kensuke Takita, Yasuhiro Oishi and Shigeo Hirose | ||
| Paper no. | 115 | Long-Range Autonomous Instrument Placement | John-David Yoder and Michael Seelinger | ||
| Paper no. | 116 | Four Wheel Drive Boom Lift Robot For Bush Fire Fighting | Ray Jarvis | ||
| 13:30-14:30 | Lunch followed by free time at the beach | ||||
| 16:00-18:00 | Special Session | Motion planning and control of multiple autonomous soccer players | |||
| 18:00-19:40 | Session 7 | Estimation and control | |||
| Paper no. | 129 | Mobile Robot Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Using Low Cost Vision Sensors | Vivek A. Sujan, Marco A. Meggiolaro, and Felipe A.W. Belo | ||
| Paper no. | 159 | Sensor-Based Behavior Control for an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle | Gregory Dudek and Philippe Giguere and Junaed Sattar | ||
| Paper no. | 134 | Visual Servoing on Image Maps | Antonio Danesi, Daniele Fontanelli and Antonio Bicchi | ||
| Paper no. | 120 | Context Sensitive Driver Assistance based on Gaze-Road Scene Correlation | Luke Fletcher and Alexander Zelinsky | ||
| Paper no. | 106 | Small-Scale Robot Formation Movement Using a Simple On-Board Relative Positioning System | Jim Pugh and Alcherio Martinoli | ||
| 20:00-24:00 | Dinner (cash) at Rio Scenarium | ||||
| Sunday, July 9 | |||||
| 8:20-8:50 | Registration | ||||
| 8:50-10:10 | Session 8 | Navigation | |||
| Paper no. | 109 | Learning Informative Features for Indoor Traversability | Alex Brooks, Alexei Makarenko, Ben Upcroft and Hugh Durrant-Whyte | ||
| Paper no. | 140 | Activity-based Semantic Mapping of an Urban Environment | Denis F. Wolf and Gaurav S. Sukhatme | ||
| Paper no. | 137 | Robot navigation in multi-terrain outdoor environments | Guilherme A. S. Pereira, Luciano C. A. Pimenta, Luiz Chaimowicz,Alexandre R. Fonseca, Daniel S. | ||
| Paper no. | 145 | Constrained Optimization Path Following of Wheeled Robots in Natural Terrain | Thomas M. Howard, Ross A. Knepper and Alonzo Kelly | ||
| 10:15-10:35 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 10:35-12:15 | Session 9 | Estimation and Localization | |||
| Paper no. | 118 | Multi-level State Estimation in an Outdoor Decentralised Sensor Network | B. Upcroft, M. Ridley, L.L. Ong, B. Douillard, T. Kaupp, S. Kumar, T. Bailey, F. Ramos, A. Makarenko, A. Brooks, S. Sukkarieh and H.F. Durrant-Whyte | ||
| Paper no. | 146 | Occupancy grids from stereo and optical flow data | C. Braillon, C. Pradalier, K. Usher, J.L. Crowley, and C. Laugier | ||
| Paper no. | 121 | MLS-based, Distributed Bearing, Range, and Posture Estimation for Schools of Submersibles | Navinda Kottege and Uwe R. Zimmer | ||
| Paper no. | 172 | Cooperative Localization for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles | Alexander Bahr and John J. Leonard | ||
| Paper no. | 151 | Vision-based Localization Using a Central Catadioptric Vision System | Mana Saedan, Chee Wang Lim, and Marcelo H. Ang, Jr | ||
| 12:20-13:30 | Lunch | ||||
| 15:00-17:15 | Special session | Motion planning and control of multiple autonomous soccer players | |||
| 17:30-19:00 | Session 10 | Design | |||
| Paper no. | 103 | On the Design of a Fast Parallel Robot based on its Dynamic Model | V. Nabat, S. Krut, O. Company, P. Poignet and F. Pierrot | ||
| Paper no. | 160 | Dynamic Rolling for a Modular Loop Robot | Jimmy Sastra, Sachin Chitta, and Mark Yim | ||
| Paper no. | 168 | Shady: Robust Truss Climbing With Mechanical Compliances | Marsette Vona, Carrick Detweiler, and Daniela Rus | ||
| Paper no. | 171 | A New Actuation Approach For Haptic Interface Design | Franois Conti and Oussama Khatib | ||
| Paper no. | 132 | Real-time Microforce Sensors and High Speed Vision System for Insect Flight Control Analysis | Chauncey F. Graetzel, Steven N. Fry, Felix Beyeler, Yu Sun, and Bradley J. Nelson | ||
| Monday, July 10 | |||||
| 8:30-10:10 | Session 11 | Cooperative Control | |||
| Paper no. | 130 | Experiments with Cooperative Networked Control of Underwater Robots | Matthew Dunbabin, Iuliu Vasilescu, Peter Corke and Daniela Rus | ||
| Paper no. | 124 | Comparing Coordination Schemes for Miniature Robotic Swarms: A Case Study in Boundary Coverage of Regular Structures | Nikolaus Correll, Samuel Rutishauser, and Alcherio Martinoli | ||
| Paper no. | 165 | Broadcast Feedback Control of Stochastic Cellular Actuators | Lael Odhner, Jun Ueda, and H. Harry Asada | ||
| Paper no. | 163 | An Optimization-based Approach to Time Critical Cooperative Surveillance and Coverage with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles | Ali Ahmadzadeh, James Keller, George J. Pappas, Ali Jadbabaie and Vijay Kumar | ||
| Paper no. | 117 | The Implementation of a Cooperative Control Architecture for UAV Teams | David T. Cole, Ali Haydar Gšktogan, and Salah Sukkarieh | ||
| 10:15-10:35 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 10:35-12:15 | Session 12 | Humanoids | |||
| Paper no. | 111 | Humanoid Robot HRP-2 with Human Supervision | Kazuhito Yokoi, Neo Ee Sian, Takeshi Sakaguchi, Olivier Stasse, Yoshihiro Kawai and Ken-ichi Maruyama | ||
| Paper no. | 127 | Can a Humanoid Robot be Used as a Guinea Pig of Human? | Hideki Kondo, Yu Ogura, Hiroyuki Aikawa, Kazushi Shimomura, Akitoshi Morishima, Hun-ok Lim and Atsuo Takanishi | ||
| Paper no. | 139 | Task Autonomy for a Teleoperated Humanoid Robot | Kensuke Harada, Hitoshi Hasunuma, Katsumi Nakashima and HirohisaHirukawa | ||
| Paper no. | 156 | Short Cycle Pattern Generation for Online Walking Control Systemof Humanoids | Koichi Nishiwaki and Satoshi Kagami | ||
| Paper no. | 138 | Grasp Recognition and Manipulation with the Tango | Paul G. Kry and Dinesh K. Pai | ||
| 12:20-13:20 | Lunch | ||||
| 13:30-16:30 | Corcovado: Group Photograph | ||||
| 18:00-19:30 | Closing reception (Cocktail: Boemia Carioca) | ||||
| Tuesday, July 11 | |||||
| Morning | Optional tours and check out | ||||
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