Field and Service Robotics

Mobile Robots and Smart Cars. - Mobile Manipulators: Expanding the Frontiers of Robot Applications. - Robot Navigation Inspired by Principles of Insect Vision. - Behaviour-Based Robots for Dangerous and Difficult Environments. - Towards Useful Autonomous Robotic Systems for Field and Service Applications. - Intelligent Robotics Where Are We At and Where Are We Going. - Behaviour Programmable Machines for Field Construction Operations. - Map Building and Terrain-Aided Localisation in an Underground Mine. - 3D Perception for Mining Robotics. - The Numbat: A Remotely Controlled Mine Emergency Response Vehicle. - Motion Planning and Sensor-Guided Manoeuvre Generation for an Autonomous Vehicle. - Fault Detection in the Frequency Domain: Designing Reliable Navigation Systems. - Lessons from the Development and Deployment of Dante II. - Operating Nomad During the Atacama Desert Trek. - Some Details of the Development of Mobile Robot Platforms. - Field Experiments with the Ames Marsokhod Rover. - A Case Study in Machine Intelligence: Adaptive Autonomous Space Rovers. - Navigation Data Acquisition with an Experimental Test-Bed of Planetary Exploration Rover. - Town Robot: Toward Social Interaction Technologies of Robot Systems. - Towards Autonomous Excavation. - A Mobile Robot for Training Horses. - User-Friendly Interface of Service Robot: Knowledge Projection on Robot Task Environment. - Web Telerobotics Results and Issues. - Teleoperation of Autonomous Mobile Robot Under Limited Feedback Information. - Smart Man-Machine Interfaces by Means of Projective Virtual Reality. - Using Telerobots for Recreation. - Applying Telepresence and Augmented Reality Techniques in Teleoperation of Mobile Field Robots. - Memory-Based Navigation using Omni-View Sequence. - Automation of an Industrial Fork LiftTruck Guided by Artificial Vision Ultrasonic and Infrared Sensors in Open Environments. - Robot Cleaning: An Application of Distributed Planning and Real-Time Vision. - Autonomous Mobile Robot Navigation Including Door Opening Behaviour System Integration of Mobile Manipulator to Adapt Real Environment. - Coverage Path Planning: The Boustrophedon Cellular Decomposition. - Cooperation Between Intelligent Space and Mobile Robot: Physical Agent for Intelligent Space and Extended Sensor for Mobile Robot. - Map Learning of an Office Conversant Mobile Robot JIJO-2 by Dialogue-Guided Navigation. - Robotic Sensing for the Guidance of the Visually Impaired. - Towards Terrain Aided Navigation of a Subsea Vehicle. - A Multiple-Hypothesis Approach to Concurrent Mapping and Localization for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles. - Design and Control of Underwater Wall Ranging Robot for Inspection of Nuclear Reactor. - Real Robots in an Artificial World. - An Adaptive Fuzzy-Potential Field Approach to Navigation in Dynamically Changing Environments for Practical Applications. - The GPS Aiding of INS for Land Vehicle Navigation. - The Use of Quaternions in a Low Cost Strapdown INS Unit. - The Design of a High Performance MMW Radar System for Autonomous Land Vehicle Navigation. - An Autonomous Shadow Vehicle. - Optimal Data Fusion in Decentralised Systems with Flexible Observation Rates: Estimation for a Land Vehicle. - A Gopher Robot. - Mobile Robotic Hand-Eye Co-ordination Platform: Designing and Modelling. - Monocular Vision Applied to Accurate Rov Localization. - Hunt and Gather Robotics. - Design and Implementation of Distributed Controller and its Operating System for Autonomous Mobile Robot Platform. - Vision-Based Navigation using Natural Landmarks. - On Continuous Path Tasks for a 6-DOFManipulator Mounted on a Nonholonomic Mobile Platform. - Discrete Event Control for Mobile Robots. - Hierarchical Adaptive Fuzzy Control of Mobile Robot in Dynamic Environment. - Electric Field Based Obstacle Avoidance. - Shared Discrete Event Control of a Robotic Aid for the Blind. - Evaluation of Real-Time Robot Control Systems. - Identification of Load Sway in Quay-Cranes. - Path Design and Control Algorithms for Articulated Mobile Robots. - A Practical Trajectory Following of an Articulated Steering Type Vehicle. - An Autonomous Wheelchair with a Lonworks Network Based Distribution Control System. - Utility Fusion: Map-Based Planning in a Behaviour-Based System. - A New Collision Avoidance Methodology for Multi-Robot Systems Based on the Robots' Dynamics. - Exploitation of Kinematic Redundancy in Torque-Controllable Manipulators via Multiple-Jacobian Superposition. - Toward Blind Groping: An Approach to Manipulation in Unknown Sensor-Hostile Environments. - Dynamic Simulation of Free-Flying Space Robots for Service and Exploration. - Smart End-Effector Sensing for Variable Object Handling. - Recruiting Swarm Robots Using Coded Odour Trails. - An Exploratory Robot Controller which Adapts to Unknown Environments and Damaged Sensors. - An Autonomous Blimp. - Omnidirectional Robots: New Challenges in Mobility Vision and Tactics for Robot Soccer. - Versatili