2016 International Symposium on Experimental Robotics

1. Learning Transferable Policies for Monocular Reactive MAV Control
Shreyansh Daftry, J. Andrew Bagnell, Martial Hebert

2. A micro-UAS to Start Prescribed Fires
Evan Beachly, James Higgins, Christian Laney, Sebastian Elbaum, Carrick Detweiler, Craig Allen, Dirac Twidwell

3. Research on Hammering Test System by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Infrastructure Surveillance
Masahiko Mizui, Ikuo Yamamoto, Shunsuke Kimura, Masato Maeda

4. Uncertainty Quantification for Small Robots Using Principal Orthogonal Decomposition
Konstantinos Karydis, M. Ani Hsieh

5. Collaborative 3D Reconstruction Using Heterogeneous UAVs: System and Experiments
Timo Hinzmann, Thomas Stastny, Gianpaolo Conte, Patrick Doherty, Piotr Rudol, Marius Wzorek, Enric Galceran, Roland Siegwart, Igor Gilitschenski

6. A Modular Folded Laminate Robot Capable of Multi Modal Locomotion
Je-sung Koh, Daniel M. Aukes, Brandon Araki, Sarah Pohorecky, Yash Mulgaonkar, Michael T. Tolley, Vijay Kumar, Daniela Rus, Robert J. Wood

7. Combined Energy Harvesting and Control of Moball: A Barycentric Spherical Robot
Joseph Bowkett, Matt Burkhardt, Joel W. Burdick

8. Control of Pneumatic Actuators with Long Transmission Lines for Rehabilitation in MRI
Melih Turkseven, Jun Ueda

9. Terrain-Dependant Control of Hexapod Robots Using Vision
Timon Homberger, Marko Bjelonic, Navinda Kottege, Paulo V. K. Borges

10. Untethered One-Legged Hopping in 3D Using Linear Elastic Actuator in Parallel (LEAP)
Zachary Batts, Joohyung Kim, Katsu Yamane

11. Discrete Foot Shape Changes Improve Dynamics of a Hopping Robot
Fabio Giardina, Fumiya Iida

12. Learning Grasps in a Synergy-based Framework
Fanny Ficuciello, Damiano Zaccara, Bruno Siciliano

13. Experimental Evaluation of a Perceptual Pipeline for Hierarchical Affordance Extraction
Peter Kaiser, Eren E. Aksoy, Markus Grotz, Dimitrios Kanoulas, Nikos G. Tsagarakis, Tamim Asfour

14. Core Actuation Promotes Self-manipulability on a Direct-Drive Quadrupedal Robot
Jeffrey Duperret, Benjamin Kramer, Daniel E. Koditschek

15. Experiments with Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning of Multiple Grasping Policies
Takayuki Osa, Jan Peters, Gerhard Neumann

16. Learning Hand-Eye Coordination for Robotic Grasping with Large-Scale Data Collection
Sergey Levine, Peter Pastor, Alex Krizhevsky, Deirdre Quillen

17. Improving Grasp Performance Using In-Hand Proximity and Dynamic Tactile Sensing
Radhen Patel, Jorge Cañardo Alastuey, Nikolaus Correll

18. Learning Object Orientation Constraints and Guiding Constraints for Narrow Passages from One Demonstration
Changshuo Li, Dmitry Berenson

19. Meta-level Priors for Learning Manipulation Skills with Sparse Features
Oliver Kroemer, Gaurav Sukhatme

20. Automatic Object Modeling Through Integrating Perception and Robotic Manipulation
Zhou Teng, Huitan Mao, Jing Xiao

21. ZMP Features for Touch Driven Robot Control via Tactile Servo
Zhanat Kappassov, Juan-Antonio Corrales Ramon, Véronique Perdereau

22. Data-Driven Classification of Screwdriving Operations
Reuben M. Aronson, Ankit Bhatia, Zhenzhong Jia, Mathieu Guillame-Bert, David Bourne, Artur Dubrawski, Matthew T. Mason

23. A System for Multi-step Mobile Manipulation: Architecture, Algorithms, and Experiments
Siddhartha S. Srinivasa, Aaron M. Johnson, Gilwoo Lee, Michael C. Koval, Shushman Choudhury, Jennifer E. King, Christopher M. Dellin, Matthew Harding, David T. Butterworth, Prasanna Velagapudi, Allison Thackston

24. Application of Robot Manipulator for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
Jaesug Jung, Jeeseop Kim, Sanghyun Kim, Woon Yong Kwon, Sang Hoon Na, Kyoung Su Kim, Gil Joon Suh, Byeong Wook Yoo, Jin Woo Choi, Jung Chan Lee, Jaeheung Park

25. Experimental Analysis of Human Control Strategies in Contact Manipulation Tasks
Ellen Klingbeil, Samir Menon, Oussama Khatib

26. Hybrid Human Motion Prediction for Action Selection Within Human-Robot Collaboration
Ozgur S. Oguz, Volker Gabler, Gerold Huber, Zhehua Zhou, Dirk Wollherr

27. Design and Control of Lightweight Supernumerary Robotic Limbs for Sitting/Standing Assistance
Laura Treers, Roger Lo, Michael Cheung, Aymeric Guy, Jacob Guggenheim, Federico Parietti, Harry Asada

28. Integrated Intelligence for Human-Robot Teams
Jean Oh, Thomas M. Howard, Matthew R. Walter, Daniel Barber, Menglong Zhu, Sangdon Park, Arne Suppe, Luis Navarro-Serment, Felix Duvallet, Abdeslam Boularias, Oscar Romero, Jerry Vinokurov, Terence Keegan, Robert Dean, Craig Lennon, Barry Bodt, Marshal Childers, Jianbo Shi, Kostas Daniilidis, Nicholas Roy, Christian Lebiere, Martial Hebert, Anthony Stentz

29. EUROPtus: A Mixed-Initiative Controller for Multi-vehicle Oceanographic Field Experiments
Frédéric Py, José Pinto, Mónica A. Silva, Tor Arne Johansen, João Sousa, Kanna Rajan

30. Implicitly Assisting Humans to Choose Good Grasps in Robot to Human Handovers
Aaron Bestick, Ruzena Bajcsy, Anca D. Dragan

31. Initial Data and Theory for a High Specific-Power Ankle Exoskeleton Device
Sebastian Sovero, Nihar Talele, Collin Smith, Nicholas Cox, Tim Swift, Katie Byl

32. High-Speed Wall-Contacting Drive for Underground Automatic Transport Vehicle
Hiroyuki Karasawa, Takuro Okubo, Rui Fukui, Masayuki Nakao, Yuichi Kodama

33. Realizing Robust Control of Autonomous Vehicles
You Hong Eng, Hans Andersen, Scott Drew Pendleton, Marcelo H. Ang, Daniela Rus

34. Learning to Plan for Visibility in Navigation of Unknown Environments
Charles Richter, Nicholas Roy

35. Parallel Manipulation of Millirobot Swarms Using Projected Light Fields
Christopher Lawler, Ivan Penskiy, Aaron Sirken, Sarah Bergbreiter

36. Improving the Accuracy of Stereo Visual Odometry Using Visual Illumination Estimation
Lee Clement, Valentin Peretroukhin, Jonathan Kelly

37. Experimental Validation of a Template for Navigation of Miniature Legged Robots
Konstantinos Karydis, Adam Stager, Herbert G. Tanner, Ioannis Poulakakis

38. Fruit Pose Estimation and Stem Touch Detection for Green Pepper Automatic Harvesting
Peteris Eizentals, Koichi Oka, Akinori Harada

39. From Localized Shearing to Localized Slippage Perception
Van Anh Ho, Shinichi Hirai

40. Fit for Purpose? Predicting Perception Performance Based on Past Experience
Corina Gurău, Chi Hay Tong, Ingmar Posner

41. Deep Multispectral Semantic Scene Understanding of Forested Environments Using Multimodal Fusion
Abhinav Valada, Gabriel L. Oliveira, Thomas Brox, Wolfram Burgard

42. Vision-Based Apple Counting and Yield Estimation
Pravakar Roy, Volkan Isler

43. Towards Learning to Perceive and Reason About Liquids
Connor Schenck, Dieter Fox

44. Vision-Based Obstacle Avoidance for Micro Air Vehicles Using an Egocylindrical Depth Map
Roland Brockers, Anthony Fragoso, Brandon Rothrock, Connor Lee, Larry Matthies

45. Transformable Multirotor with Two-Dimensional Multilinks: Modeling, Control, and Whole-Body Aerial Manipulation
Moju Zhao, Koji Kawasaki, Xiangyu Chen, Yohei Kakiuchi, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba

46. Localization of a Ground Robot by Aerial Robots for GPS-Deprived Control with Temporal Logic Constraints
Eric Cristofalo, Kevin Leahy, Cristian-Ioan Vasile, Eduardo Montijano, Mac Schwager, Calin Belta

47. On the VINS Resource-Allocation Problem for a Dual-Camera, Small-Size Quadrotor
Kejian J. Wu, Tien Do, Luis C. Carrillo-Arce, Stergios I. Roumeliotis

48. Catching a Flying Ball with a Vision-Based Quadrotor
Kunyue Su, Shaojie Shen

49. Experience-Based Models of Surface Proximal Aerial Robot Flight Performance in Wind
John W. Yao, Vishnu R. Desaraju, Nathan Michael

50. “On-the-Spot Training” for Terrain Classification in Autonomous Air-Ground Collaborative Teams
Jeffrey Delmerico, Alessandro Giusti, Elias Mueggler, Luca Maria Gambardella, Davide Scaramuzza

51. Safe Navigation of Quadrotor Teams to Labeled Goals in Limited Workspaces
Sarah Tang, Justin Thomas, Vijay Kumar

52. Using Vision for Pre- and Post-grasping Object Localization for Soft Hands
Changhyun Choi, Joseph Preto, Daniela Rus

53. Grasping and Manipulation by Underactuated Hand with Multi-Joint Fingers
Takumi Tamamoto, Soichiro Nomura, Koichi Koganesawa

54. Generalizing Regrasping with Supervised Policy Learning
Yevgen Chebotar, Karol Hausman, Oliver Kroemer, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Stefan Schaal

55. Experimental Validation of Contact Dynamics for In-Hand Manipulation
Roman Kolbert, Nikhil Chavan-Dafle, Alberto Rodriguez

56. Iterative Visual Recognition for Learning Based Randomized Bin-Picking
Kensuke Harada, Weiwei Wan, Tokuo Tsuji, Kohei Kikuchi, Kazuyuki Nagata, Hiromu Onda

57. Mechanism and Control of Whole-Body Electro-Hydrostatic Actuator Driven Humanoid Robot Hydra
Hiroshi Kaminaga, Tianyi Ko, Ryo Masumura, Mitsuo Komagata, Shunsuke Sato, Satoshi Yorita, Yoshihiko Nakamura

58. Gait Synthesis for Modular Soft Robots
Scott Hamill, Bryan Peele, Peter Ferenz, Max Westwater, Robert F. Shepherd, Hadas Kress-Gazit

59. Discovering and Manipulating Affordances
R. Omar Chavez-Garcia, Mihai Andries, Pierre Luce-Vayrac, Raja Chatila

60. Experimental Evaluation of Hybrid Conditional Planning for Service Robotics
Ahmed Nouman, Ibrahim Faruk Yalciner, Esra Erdem, Volkan Patoglu

61. Improved Learning of Dynamics Models for Control
Arun Venkatraman, Roberto Capobianco, Lerrel Pinto, Martial Hebert, Daniele Nardi, J. Andrew Bagnell

62. Data Correlation and Comparison from Multiple Sensors Over a Coral Reef with a Team of Heterogeneous Aquatic Robots
Alberto Quattrini Li, Ioannis Rekleitis, Sandeep Manjanna, Nikhil Kakodkar, Johanna Hansen, Gregory Dudek, Leonardo Bobadilla, Jacob Anderson, Ryan N. Smith

63. Multi Robot Object-Based SLAM
Siddharth Choudhary, Luca Carlone, Carlos Nieto, John Rogers, Zhen Liu, Henrik I. Christensen, Frank Dellaert

64. Particle Filter Localization on Continuous Occupancy Maps
Alberto Yukinobu Hata, Denis Fernando Wolf, Fabio Tozeto Ramos

65. Experimental Methods for Mobility and Surface Operations of Microgravity Robots
Benjamin Hockman, Robert G. Reid, Issa A. D. Nesnas, Marco Pavone

66. Multi-Sensor SLAM with Online Self-Calibration and Change Detection
Fernando Nobre, Christoffer R. Heckman, Gabe T. Sibley

67. Experimental Comparison of Open Source Vision-Based State Estimation Algorithms
Alberto Quattrini Li, A. Coskun, S. M. Doherty, S. Ghasemlou, A. S. Jagtap, M. Modasshir, S. Rahman, A. Singh, M. Xanthidis, J. M. O’Kane, I. Rekleitis

68. Human Pose Estimation from Imperfect Sensor Data via the Extended Kalman Filter
Vlad Joukov, Rollen D’Souza, Dana Kulić

69. Influence of Emotional Motions in Human-Robot Interactions
Magda Dubois, Josep-Arnau Claret, Luis Basañez, Gentiane Venture

70. Energy Based Control for Safe Human-Robot Physical Interaction
Anis Meguenani, Vincent Padois, Jimmy Silva, Antoine Hoarau, Philippe Bidaud

71. Psychological Evaluation on Influence of Appearance and Synchronizing Operation of Android Robot
Kaori Tanaka, Masahiro Yoshikawa, Yujin Wakita, Yoshio Matsumoto, Kazuhito Yokoi

72. Collective Cognition and Sensing in Robotic Swarms via an Emergent Group-Mind
Michael Otte

73. Recognizing Unfamiliar Gestures for Human-Robot Interaction Through Zero-Shot Learning
Wil Thomason, Ross A. Knepper

Keywords: Engineering, Robotics and Automation, Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)