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Advances in Autonomous Robotics Systems

15th Annual Conference, TAROS 2014, Birmingham, UK, September 1-3, 2014. Proceedings

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  1. Michael Mistry

    1. School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

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  2. Aleš Leonardis

    1. School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

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  3. Mark Witkowski

    1. Circuits and Systems Group, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK

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  4. Chris Melhuish

    1. Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 8717)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th Conference on Advances in Autonomous Robotics, TAROS 2014, held in Birmingham, UK, in September 2014. The 23 revised full papers presented together with 9 extended abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. The overall program covers various aspects of robotics, including navigation, planning, sensing and perception, flying and swarm robots, ethics, humanoid robotics, human-robot interaction, and social robotics.

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Table of contents (24 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Full Papers

    1. Modeling of a Large Structured Environment

      • Saeed Gholami Shahbandi, Björn Åstrand
      Pages 1-12

    2. Monte Carlo Localization for Teach-and-Repeat Feature-Based Navigation

      • Matías Nitsche, Taihú Pire, Tomáš Krajník, Miroslav Kulich, Marta Mejail
      Pages 13-24

    3. An Improved Cellular Automata-Based Model for Robot Path-Planning

      • Giordano B. S. Ferreira, Patricia A. Vargas, Gina M. B. Oliveira
      Pages 25-36

    4. Bioinspired Mechanisms and Sensorimotor Schemes for Flying: A Preliminary Study for a Robotic Bat

      • Carmine Tommaso Recchiuto, Rezia Molfino, Anders Hedenströem, Herbert Peremans, Vittorio Cipolla, Aldo Frediani et al.
      Pages 37-47

    5. Evolutionary Coordination System for Fixed-Wing Communications Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

      • Alexandros Giagkos, Elio Tuci, Myra S. Wilson, Philip B. Charlesworth
      Pages 48-59

    6. Multi-agent Environment Exploration with AR.Drones

      • Richard Williams, Boris Konev, Frans Coenen
      Pages 60-71

    7. H  ∞  Path Tracking Control for Quadrotors Based on Quaternion Representation

      • Wesam Jasim, Dongbing Gu
      Pages 72-84

    8. Towards an Ethical Robot: Internal Models, Consequences and Ethical Action Selection

      • Alan F. T. Winfield, Christian Blum, Wenguo Liu
      Pages 85-96

    9. “The Fridge Door is Open”–Temporal Verification of a Robotic Assistant’s Behaviours

      • Clare Dixon, Matt Webster, Joe Saunders, Michael Fisher, Kerstin Dautenhahn
      Pages 97-108

    10. Implementation and Test of Human-Operated and Human-Like Adaptive Impedance Controls on Baxter Robot

      • Peidong Liang, Chenguang Yang, Ning Wang, Zhijun Li, Ruifeng Li, Etienne Burdet
      Pages 109-119

    11. Hybrid Communication System for Long Range Resource Tracking in Search and Rescue Scenarios

      • Michael Boor, Ulf Witkowski, Reza Zandian
      Pages 120-130

    12. Wearable Self Sufficient MFC Communication System Powered by Urine

      • Majid Taghavi, Andrew Stinchcombe, John Greenman, Virgilio Mattoli, Lucia Beccai, Barbara Mazzolai et al.
      Pages 131-138

    13. Morphogenetic Self-Organization of Collective Movement without Directional Sensing

      • Ataollah Ramezan Shirazi, Hyondong Oh, Yaochu Jin
      Pages 139-150

    14. The Pi Swarm: A Low-Cost Platform for Swarm Robotics Research and Education

      • James Hilder, Rebecca Naylor, Artjoms Rizihs, Daniel Franks, Jon Timmis
      Pages 151-162

    15. Tactile Features: Recognising Touch Sensations with a Novel and Inexpensive Tactile Sensor

      • Tadeo Corradi, Peter Hall, Pejman Iravani
      Pages 163-172

    16. Polygonal Models for Clothing

      • Jan Stria, Daniel Průša, Václav Hlaváč
      Pages 173-184

    17. Design of a Multi-purpose Low-Cost Mobile Robot for Research and Education

      • Sol Pedre, Matías Nitsche, Facundo Pessagc, Javier Caccavelli, Pablo De Cristóforis
      Pages 185-196

    18. Adaptive Swarm Robot Region Coverage Using Gene Regulatory Networks

      • Hyondong Oh, Yaochu Jin
      Pages 197-208

    19. Communicating Unknown Objects to Robots through Pointing Gestures

      • Bjarne Großmann, Mikkel Rath Pedersen, Juris Klonovs, Dennis Herzog, Lazaros Nalpantidis, Volker Krüger
      Pages 209-220
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Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

    Michael Mistry, Aleš Leonardis

  • Circuits and Systems Group, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK

    Mark Witkowski

  • Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

    Chris Melhuish

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