| Common situation awareness as basis for human-robot interface | p. 3 |
| Gait restoration by functional electrical stimulation | p. 19 |
| Space robotics | p. 27 |
| ASYSTENT - control system of a manipulator for keyhole surgery | p. 41 |
| A biologically inspired model for quadruped locomotion | p. 49 |
| Fuzzy logic control strategy for functional electrical stimulation in bipedal cycling | p. 57 |
| Insect-inspired, actively compliant hexapod capable of object manipulation | p. 65 |
| Modeling and simulation of humanoid stair climbing | p. 73 |
| Design issues of spring brake orthosis : evolutionary algorithm approach | p. 81 |
| Recent developments in implantable and surface based dropped foot functional electrical stimulators | p. 89 |
| Fluidically driven robots with biologically inspired actuators | p. 97 |
| Concept for energy-autarkic, autonomous climbing robots | p. 107 |
| Navigation of walking robots : path planning | p. 115 |
| Study on mobility of connected crawler robotby using GA | p. 123 |
| A robot that climbs walls using micro-structured polymer feet | p. 131 |
| Novel solutions to design problems of industrial climbing robots | p. 139 |
| Fast pointing and tracking system for mobile robot short range control via free space optical laser line of sight communication link | p. 147 |
| 4 legs positioning control of the quadruped robot by linear visual servoing using stereo omnidirectional camera | p. 157 |
| Control of a 3D quadruped trot | p. 165 |
| Research on obstacle-navigation control of a mobile robot for inspection of the power transmission lines based on expert system | p. 173 |
| Measure of the propulsion dynamic capability of a walking system | p. 181 |
| Experimental walking results of LUCY, a biped with pneumatic artificial muscles | p. 189 |
| Hip joint control of a legged robot for walking uniformly and the self-lock mechanism for compensating torque caused by weight | p. 197 |
| Controlling dynamic stability and active compliance to improve quadrupedal walking | p. 205 |
| Complete stability analysis of a control law for walking robots with non-permanent contacts | p. 213 |
| Vision-based stabilization of the IDP flat output | p. 221 |
| Bus communication in robot system control | p. 229 |
| A hybrid locomotion control approach | p. 237 |
| Model and control of joints driven by fluidic muscles with the help of advanced automatic algorithm generation software | p. 245 |
| Modelling and control of a X4 bidirectional rotors | p. 253 |
| Stability measure comparison for the design of a dynamic running robot | p. 261 |
| Control architecture and walking strategy for a pneumatic biped robot | p. 269 |
| Time-scaling control of a compass type biped robot | p. 277 |
| Mechanical design of step-climbing vehicle with passive linkages | p. 287 |
| Integrated structure-control design of dynamically walking robots | p. 295 |
| Intuitive design and gait analysis for a closed loop leg mechanism of a quadruped with single actuator | p. 303 |
| Design of a cockroach-like running robot for the 2004 SAE walking machine challenge | p. 311 |
| Finding adequate optimization criteria to solve inverse kinematics of redundant bird leg mechanism | p. 319 |
| Integrated system of assisted mechatroic design for oriented computer to automatic optimising of structure of service robots (SIDEMAR) | p. 327 |
| The construction of the four legged prototype robot ARAMIES | p. 335 |
| Application of waves displacement algorithms for the generation of gaits in all the terrain hexapod | p. 343 |
| Extensive modeling of a 3 DOF passive dynamic walker | p. 349 |
| Development of biped robots at the national university of Colombia | p. 357 |
| Design of a low cost platform for unmanned aerial vehicle mathematical modeling | p. 365 |
| Observer backstepping for height control of a resonance hopping robot | p. 375 |
| Standing up with motor primitives | p. 383 |
| Multiple terrain adaptation approach using ultrasonic sensors for legged robots | p. 391 |
| Sliding mode observer with no orientation measurement for a walking biped | p. 399 |
| Detection and classification of posture instabilities of bipedal robots | p. 409 |
| Development of a low-cost humanoid robot : components and technological solutions | p. 417 |
| Analysis of humanoid robot lower extremities force distribution in standing position | p. 425 |
| ZMP human measure system | p. 433 |
| Mechanical design and dynamic analysis of the humanoid robot RH-0 | p. 441 |
| Advanced motion control system for the humanoid robot Rh-0 | p. 449 |
| Humanoid vertical jump with compliant contact | p. 457 |
| A 3D galloping quadruped robot | p. 467 |
| Kineto-static analysis of an articulated six-wheel rover | p. 475 |
| Momentum compensation for the dynamic walk of humanoids based on the optimal pelvic rotation | p. 485 |
| Walk calibration in a four-legged robot | p. 493 |
| Peristaltic locomotion : application to a worm-like robot | p. 501 |
| Impact shaping for double support walk : from the rocking block to the biped robot | p. 509 |
| Proposal of 4-leg locomotion by phase change | p. 517 |
| Introducing the hex-a-ball, a hybrid locomotion terrain adaptive walking and rolling robot | p. 525 |
| Stability control of an hybrid wheel-legged robot | p. 533 |
| Hybrid control scheme for tracking performance of a flexible system | p. 543 |
| Predesign of an anthropomorphic lightweight manipulator | p. 551 |
| Design of a "soft" 2-DOF planar pneumatic manipulator | p. 559 |
| Simulation and experimental studies of hybrid learning control with acceleration feedback for flexible manipulators | p. 567 |
| BNN-based fuzzy logic controller for flexible-link manipulator | p. 575 |
| Design constraints in implementing real-time algorithms for a flexible manipulator system | p. 583 |
| Pay-load estimation of a 2-DOF flexible link robot | p. 591 |
| Design of hybrid learning control for flexible manipulators : a multi-objective optimisation approach | p. 599 |
| Intelligent modelling of flexible manipulator systems | p. 607 |
| Wafer handling demo by SERPC | p. 615 |
| Vision control for artificial hand | p. 623 |
| Robotic finger that imitates the human index finger in the number and distribution of its tendons | p. 631 |
| Methods for collective displacement of modular self-reconfigurable robots | |
| Suboptimal system recovery from communication loss in a multi-robot localization scenario using EKF algorithms | p. 649 |
| ORTHO-BOT : a modular reconfigurable space robot concept | p. 659 |
| Motion of minimal configurations of a modular robot : sinusoidal, lateral rolling and lateral shift | p. 667 |
| The modular walking machine, platform for technological equipments | p. 677 |
| YaMoR and Bluemove - an autonomous modular robot with Bluetooth interface for exploring adaptive locomotion | p. 685 |
| On the development of a modular external-pipe crawling omni-directional mobile robot | p. 693 |
| Modularity and component reuse at the shadow robot company | p. 701 |
| CLAWAR design tools to support modular robot design | p. 709 |
| Pneumatic actuators for serpentine robot | p. 719 |
| Nontraditional drives for walking robots | p. 727 |
| Energy efficiency of quadruped gaits | p. 735 |
| Bellows driven, muscle steered caterpillar robot | p. 743 |
| On the application of impedance control to a non-linear actuator | p. 751 |
| MACCEPA : the actuator with adaptable compliance for dynamic walking bipeds | p. 759 |
| A design of a walking robot with hybrid actuation system | p. 767 |
| Manipulators driven by pneumatic muscles | p. 775 |
| New advances on speckle-velocimeter for robotized vehicles | p. 785 |
| Information processing in reactive navigation and fault detection of walking robot | p. 793 |
| Intelligent sensor system and flexible gripper for security robots | p. 801 |
| Search performance of a multi-robot team in odour source localisation | p. 809 |
| A "t-shirt based" image recognition system | p. 817 |
| Object shape characterisation using a haptic probe | |
| Detection of landmines using nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) : signal processing to aid classification | p. 833 |
| Simulator for locomotion control of the Alicia[superscript 3] climbing robot | p. 843 |
| A general platform for robot navigation in natural environments | p. 851 |
| Simulations of the dynamic behavior of a bipedal robot with torso subjected to external disturbances | p. 859 |
| Analysis of the direct and inverse kinematics of ROMA II robot | p. 869 |
| Simulation of a novel snake-like robot | p. 875 |
| An actuated horizontal plane model for insect locomotion | p. 883 |
| Machine vision guidance system for a modular climbing robot used in shipbuilding | p. 893 |
| A locomotion robot for heavy load transportation | p. 901 |
| Using signs for configuring work tasks of service robots | p. 909 |
| A system for monitoring and controlling a climbing and walking robot for landslide consolidation | p. 917 |
| Small inspection vehicles for non-destructive testing applications | p. 927 |
| Automated NDT of floating production storage oil tanks with a swimming and climbing robot | p. 935 |
| 7-axis arm for NDT of surfaces with complex & unknown geometry | p. 943 |
| Elderly people sit to stand transfer experimental analysis | p. 953 |
| A portable light-weight climbing robot for personal assistance applications | p. 961 |
| Modeling and control of upright lifting wheelchair | p. 969 |
| A humanoid head for assistance robots | p. 977 |
| An application of the AIGM algorithm to hand-posture recognition in manipulation | p. 985 |
| AirEOD : a robot for on-board airplanes security | p. 995 |
| AIMEE : a four-legged robot for RoboCup rescue | p. 1003 |
| Modular situational awareness for CLAWAR robots | p. 1011 |
| Design drivers for robotics systems in space | p. 1023 |
| A robotics task scheduler - TAPAS | p. 1031 |
| Mobile mini-robots for space application | p. 1037 |
| Teleagents for space exploration and exploitation in future human planetary missions | p. 1045 |
| An expandable mechanism for deployment and contact surface adaptation of rover wheels | p. 1053 |
| A new traction control architecture for planetary exploration robots | p. 1061 |
| The lemur II-class robots for inspection and maintenance of orbital structures : a system description | p. 1069 |
| Lemur IIb : a robotic system for steep terrain access | p. 1077 |
| Virtual immersion for tele-controlling a hexapod robot | p. 1087 |
| Economic prospects for mobile robotic systems, new modular components | p. 1095 |
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