About the Book
This book provides state-of-the-art scientific and engineering research findings and developments in the area of mobile robotics and associated support technologies around the theme of cooperative robotics. The book contains peer reviewed articles presented at the CLAWAR 2016 conference. The book contains a strong stream of papers on multi-legged locomotion and cooperative robotics. There is also a strong collection of papers on human assistive devices, notably wearable exoskeletal and prosthetic devices, and personal care robots and mobility assistance devices designed to meet the growing challenges due to the global ageing society. Robot designs based on biological inspirations and ethical concerns and issues related to the design, development and deployment of robots are also strongly featured.
Table of Contents:
Plenary Presentations: Disaster Robotics( Satoshi Tadokoro); Roboethics: Focus on Drones (Gianmarco Veruggio); Assistive Robots: Validation of Gait Events Detector Using Adaptive Thresholds In Humanoid Robot (J Figueiredo, C P Santos And J C Moreno); A Semi-Automatic Step Climbing Assist System for a Wheelchair with an Active-Caster Drive Unit (Y Munakata and M Wada); Biologically-Inspired Systems and Solutions: Bio-Inspired Modelling and Active Control of the Simulation of Human Walking Dynamics (R Vepa); Compound Foot for Increased Millirobot Jumping Ability (J S Lee, R S Fearing and K-J Cho); Decreasing of Negative Work by Elasticity of Trunk Joints of Quadruped Robot (M Ikeda and I Mizuuchi); Co-operative Robot Systems: Designing Modular Series-Elastic Actuators for Safe Human-Robot Collaboration in Industrial Settings (J D G Fernandez, H Sprengel, M Mallwitz, M Zipper, B Yu And V Bargsten); Towards Shop Floor Hardware Reconfiguration for Industrial Collaborative Robots (C Schou and O Madsen); Comparison of Registration Methods for Mobile Manipulators (R Bostelman, R Eastman, T Hong, O A Enein, S Legowik and S Foufou); Field and Underwater Robotics: Toward A Multi-Agent System for Marine Observation (R Polvara, S Sharma, R Sutton, J Wan and A Manning); New Small Buoyancy Control Device with Silicone Rubber for Underwater Vehicles (H Yamamoto and K Shibuya); Innovative Design of CLAWAR: Innovative Design of a Hexapod Scorpion Through Digital Production Techniques (R Terryn, S Flamand, J Saldien, P Deconinck, F Wyffels and S Verstockt); Modular Design of Miniature Mobile Robots for Motion Over Complex Surface (V G Gradetsky, M M Knyazkov, A A Kryukova, L N Kravchuk, A N Sukhanov and E A Semenov); Real-Time SLAM from RGB-D Data on a Legged Robot: An Experimental Study (D Belter, A Kostusiak, M Nowicki and P Skrzypczynski); Innovative Sensing and Actuation Systems: Design and Implementation of a Wireless Prodder for Instructional Purposes in Landmine Detection (H Montes, R Fernandez, D De Lorenzo and M Armada); Radiation Exposure Assessment of A Robot Hand System (E Kourlitis, R French and H Marin-Reyes); Locomotion: Adaptive Swing Leg Retraction Control for Robust Dynamic Locomotion Under Large Terrain Variations (A Gaathon and A Degani); Foot-Eye Calibration of Legged Robot Kinematics (F Bloechliger, M Bloesch, P Fankhauser, M Hutter and R Siegwart); Rate-Dependent Gait Dynamic Stability Analysis for Motor Control Estimation (I Mahmood, U Martinez-Hernandez and A A Dehghani-Sanij); Design of a Compliant Wheel-Legged Robot (A Bouton, F Benamar and C Grand); Manipulation and Gripping: Chaotic Spiral Dynamic Optimization Algorithm (M R Hashim and M O Tokhi); Non-Parametric Modelling of Double-Link Flexible Robot Manipulator Based on NNARX Model Structure (A Jamali, I Z Mat Darus, A Abdulhussain and M O Tokhi); Medical and Rehabilitation Robotics: Active Capsule Endoscope Micro-Robot with Biopsy Tools (H Leon-Rodriguez, V H Le, S-Y Ko, J-O Park and S-H Park); Evolution of Intelligent and Nonlinear Control Approaches for FES Induced Movement Generation of the Lower Limb (M Ahmed, B S K K Ibrahim and M S Huq); Robot Ethics: Robot Ethical Training with Dynamic Ethical Preference Logic (S Wang); Designing a Robotic Interface for Children: The Monarch Robot (M I A Ferreira and J S Sequeira); Robot Modularity: ISO Modularity for Service Robots (G S Virk, H S Park, S Yang and J Wang); ModMan: Self-Reconfigurable Modular Manipulation System for Expansion of Robot Applicability (J-J Kim, S Hong, W Lee, S Kang, S Lee, M Atif, H M Do, T Y Choi, D I Park, Y Son, J Lee and J-H Lee); Service and Application Specific Robots: Design and Kinematic Modeling of a Screw-Propelled Mobile Robot to Perform Remote Explosive Scent Tracing Filter Sampling in Forest During Humanitarian Demining (J H Lugo, M Zoppi and R Molfino); Mobile Microrobotics for Space Exploration: The State-of-the-Art and Prospects (N N Bolotnik, V G Gradetsky, A A Zhukov, D V Kozlov, I P Smirnov and V G Chashchukhin); Soft Robotic Systems: Morphological Computation - A Potential Solution for the Control Problem in Soft Robotics (H Hauser); Steps Towards Energy Efficiency in Elastically Actuated Robots (G Garofalo and C Ott); Wearable Robots: Control System Parameter Optimization for Lower Limb Exoskeleton with Integrated Elastic Elements (S Jatsun, S Savin, A Yatsun and A Postolnyi); Control Architecture of the Atlas 2020 Lower-Limb Active Orthosis (D Sanz-Merodio, J Sancho, M Perez and E Garcia);
