Robotica 2009

Robotica 2009 9th Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions 8:30-9:00
Registration
9:00-9:10
Opening Session
Session I – Multi-Robot Systems and
Architectures for Autonomous Robots
Chairs: to be announced
9:10-9:30
9:30-9:50
THREE-STATE MULTIROBOT COLLABORATIVE LOCALIZATION IN
SYMMETRICAL ENVIRONMENTS
Fabrizio Abrate, Basilio Bona, Marina Indri, Stefano Rosa, Federico Tibaldi,
Politecnico di Torino, Italy
NEW TASK ALLOCATION METHODS FOR ROBOTIC SWARMS
Frederick Ducatelle, Alexander Foerster, Gianni Di Caro, Luca Gambardella, IDSIA,
Switzerland
9:50-10:10
HYBRID AND SECURE CONTROL ARCHITECTURE FOR MOBILE ROBOT
NAVIGATION
Lounis ADOUANE, LASMEA - UMR CNRS, France
10:10-10:30
MODULAR SCALABLE ARCHITECTURE FOR THE NAVIGATION OF THE ATLAS
AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS
Miguel Oliveira, Procopio Stein, Jorge Almeida, Vitor Santos, University of Aveiro,
Portugal
Coffee-break
10:30-10:45
Session II – Recognition, Localization and Tacking
Chairs: to be announced
10:45-11:05
PRELIMINARY RESULTS ON ROBUST GLOBAL LOCALIZATION: FAULT
TOLERANCE AND ROBUSTNESS TEST ON PROBABILISTIC SHAPING
Luca Carlone, Basilio Bona, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
11:05-11:25
LINE FOLLOWING AND GROUND VEHICLE TRACKING BY AN AUTONOMOUS
AERIAL BLIMP
David Jerónimo, Ricardo Alcácer, Francisco Alegria, Pedro Lima, IST, Portugal
11:15-11:35
REAL-TIME TEACHING OF INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS USING A SYNCHRONISED
STEREOSCOPIC VISION SYSTEM
Paulo Malheiros, António Moreira, Paulo Costa, José Carlos Lopes, FEUP, Portugal
11:35-11:55
LIGHT 3D MAPPING FOR SEARCH AND RESCUE OPERATIONS
Luís Lemos, Luís Paulo Reis, FEUP, Portugal
12:15-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:00
Invited Speaker
ON HUMAN AND HUMANOID MOTIONS
Jean Paul Laumond
Directeur de Recherche at LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France
Session III – Competitions and Edutainment Robotics
Chairs: to be announced
15:00-15:20
EUROPEAN LAND ROBOTIC TRIAL 2008 (ELROB) - A REALISTIC
BENCHMARK FOR OUTDOOR ROBOTICS
Bernd Brüggemann, Timo Röhling, Hans-Ludwig Wolf, Frank-E. Schneider, FGAN,
Germany
15:20-15:40
THE E-PUCK, A ROBOT DESIGNED FOR EDUCATION IN ENGINEERING
Francesco Mondada, Michael Bonani, Xavier Raemy, James Pugh, Christopher
Cianci, Adam Klaptocz, Stéphane Magnenat, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario
Floreano, Alcherio Martinoli, EPFL, Switzerland
15:40-16:40
Coffee-break and Poster Session
ARTIFICIAL HUMAN LIMBS – A DESIGN APPROACH USING INERTIAL
TRACKING SYSTEM FOR HUMAN MOTION
Karthikeyan Rajagopal, Anitha Karthikeyan, VelTech Technical University, Turkey
CODE MIGRATION FROM A REALISTIC SIMULATOR TO A REAL WHEELED
MOBILE ROBOT
José Gonçalves (ESTiG IPB), José Lima (ESTiG IPB), Paulo Malheiros (FEUP), Paulo
Costa (FEUP), Portugal
THE DYNAMIC MODELING OF A BIRD ROBOT
Micael Couceiro (ISEC), Carlos Figueiredo, Nuno Ferreira (ISEC), J. Tenreiro
Machado (ISEP), Portugal
PARALLEL TASK EXECUTION, MORPHOLOGY CONTROL AND SCALABILITY
IN A SWARM OF SELF-ASSEMBLING ROBOT
Anders Christensen (ISCTE-PT), Rehan O'Grady (IRIDIA), Marco Dorigo (IRIDIA,
CoDE, ULB), Belgium
A SLIPPING CONDITIONS OBSERVER IN WHEELED MOBILE ROBOT
TRACTION
Andre Dias (ISEP), José Miguel Almeida (ISEP), Alfredo Martins (ISEP), João
Sequeira (IST), Eduardo Silva (ISEP), Portugal
A COMPETITIVE DYNAMIC MODEL FOR DECISION MAKING IN
AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS PERFORMING COOPERATIVE TASKS
Flora Ferreira, Estela Bicho, Wolfram Erlhagen, University of Minho, Portugal
MAZE SOLVING WITH ENHANCED MAP REPRESENTATION
João Oliveira, João Certo, Luís Paulo Reis, FEUP, Portugal
REAL-TIME PATH PLANNING USING A MODIFIED A* ALGORITHM
Pedro Costa, António Moreira, Paulo Costa, FEUP, Portugal
SUPERVISED GROUP SIZE REGULATION IN A HETEROGENEOUS ROBOTIC
SWARM
Rehan O'Grady (IRIDIA), Carlo Pinciroli (IRIDIA), Anders Christensen (ISCTE - PT)
Marco Dorigo (IRIDIA, CoDE, ULB), Belgium
AN ARTIFICIAL LOW COST ROBOT ARM SYSTEM PLAYING TIC-TAC-TOE
Mehmet Güzel (Newcastle Unıversity ), Yasin Hınıslıoğlu (Ahmet Yesevi University,
Turkey
Session IV – Mobile Robots and Humanoids
Chairs: to be announced
16:40-17:00
HEXAPOD WALKING AS EMERGENT REACTION TO EXTERNALLY ACTING
FORCES
Adam El Sayed Auf, Nico Dudek, Erik Maehle, University of Lübeck, Germany
17:00-17:20
17:20-17:40
A PASSIVE SYSTEM APPROACH TO INCREASE THE ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN
WALK MOVEMENTS BASED IN A REALISTIC SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT
José Lima (ESTiG IPB), José Gonçalves (ESTiG IPB), Paulo Costa (FEUP), António
Moreira (FEUP), Portugal
ORBITAL OBSTACLE AVOIDANCE ALGORITHM FOR RELIABLE AND ON-LINE
MOBILE ROBOT NAVIGATION
Lounis ADOUANE, LASMEA - UMR CNRS, France
17:40-18:00
ON THE LEARNING OF INTER-FIELD CONNECTIONS IN A DYNAMIC FIELD
ARCHITECTURE FOR HUMAN-ROBOT COLLABORATION
Emanuel Sousa, Estela Bicho, Wolfram Erlhagen, University of Minho, Portugal
18:00-18:10
20:30
Prizes and Closing Session
Gala Dinner