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Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems

19th Annual Conference, TAROS 2018, Bristol, UK July 25-27, 2018, Proceedings

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 10965)

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

Conference series link(s): TAROS: Annual Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems

Conference proceedings info: TAROS 2018.

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Table of contents (37 papers)

  1. Robotics Vision and Teleoperation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 195-195
    2. Colias IV: The Affordable Micro Robot Platform with Bio-inspired Vision

      • Cheng Hu, Qinbing Fu, Shigang Yue
      Pages 197-208
  2. HRI, Assistive and Medical Robotics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 245-245
    2. Piloting Scenarios for Children with Autism to Learn About Visual Perspective Taking

      • Luke Jai Wood, Ben Robins, Gabriella Lakatos, Dag Sverre Syrdal, Abolfazl Zaraki, Kerstin Dautenhahn
      Pages 260-270
    3. User Detection, Tracking and Recognition in Robot Assistive Care Scenarios

      • Åžtefania Alexandra Ghiţă, Miruna-Åžtafania Barbu, Alexandru Gavril, Mihai Trăscău, Alexandru Sorici, Adina Magda Florea
      Pages 271-283
    4. A Conceptual Exoskeleton Shoulder Design for the Assistance of Upper Limb Movement

      • Carlos Navarro Perez, Ioannis Georgilas, Appolinaire C. Etoundi, Jj Chong, Aghil Jafari
      Pages 291-302
  3. Swarm Robotics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 303-303
    2. A Hormone Arbitration System for Energy Efficient Foraging in Robot Swarms

      • James Wilson, Jon Timmis, Andy Tyrrell
      Pages 305-316
    3. A Bio-inspired Aggregation with Robot Swarm Using Real and Simulated Mobile Robots

      • Sarika Ramroop, Farshad Arvin, Simon Watson, Joaquin Carrasco-Gomez, Barry Lennox
      Pages 317-329
    4. SO-MRS: A Multi-robot System Architecture Based on the SOA Paradigm and Ontology

      • Kamil Skarzynski, Marcin Stepniak, Waldemar Bartyna, Stanislaw Ambroszkiewicz
      Pages 330-342
  4. Robotics Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 343-343
    2. ROS Integration for Miniature Mobile Robots

      • Andrew West, Farshad Arvin, Horatio Martin, Simon Watson, Barry Lennox
      Pages 345-356
    3. Feature and Performance Comparison of the V-REP, Gazebo and ARGoS Robot Simulators

      • Lenka Pitonakova, Manuel Giuliani, Anthony Pipe, Alan Winfield
      Pages 357-368
    4. A Hybrid Underwater Acoustic and RF Localisation System for Enclosed Environments Using Sensor Fusion

      • Jose Espinosa, Mihalis Tsiakkas, Dehao Wu, Simon Watson, Joaquin Carrasco, Peter R. Green et al.
      Pages 369-380
    5. Towards a Comprehensive Taxonomy for Characterizing Robots

      • Manal Linjawi, Roger K. Moore
      Pages 381-392

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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference on Towards Autonomous Robotics, TAROS 2018, held in Bristol, UK, in July 2018.


The 38 full papers presented together with 14 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 68 submissions. The papers focus on presentation and discussion of the latest results and methods in autonomous robotics research and applications. The conference offers a friendly environment for robotics researchers and industry to take stock and plan future progress.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom

    Manuel Giuliani

  • University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom

    Tareq Assaf

  • University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

    Maria Elena Giannaccini

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