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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