| Autonomous navigation results from the Mars exploration rover (MER) mission | p. 3 |
| SVM-based human action recognition and its remarkable motion features discovery algorithm | p. 15 |
| fMRI compatible haptic interfaces to investigate human motor control | p. 25 |
| Nonholonomic modeling of needle steering | p. 35 |
| Microphone array for 2D sound localization and capture | p. 45 |
| Experiments on adaptive control of robots with uncertain kinematics and dynamics | p. 57 |
| Improving the speed of shape memory alloy actuators by faster electrical heating | p. 67 |
| Adaptive friction compensation using a velocity observer | p. 77 |
| Wave-shape pattern control of electroactive polymer gel robots | p. 87 |
| Topological global localization and mapping with fingerprints and uncertainty | p. 99 |
| Terrain aided localisation and mapping for marine environments | p. 111 |
| The SDR experience : experiments with a large scale heterogeneous mobile robot team | p. 121 |
| Centibots : very large scale distributed robotic teams | p. 131 |
| Large-scale robotic 3D mapping of urban structures | p. 141 |
| A force controlled laparoscopic surgical robot without distal force sensing | p. 153 |
| Modeling and experiments on a legged microrobot locomoting in a tubular, compliant and slippery environment | p. 165 |
| Quasi hands free interaction with a robot for online task correction | p. 175 |
| Integration of manipulation and locomotion by a humanoid robot | p. 187 |
| Design and modeling of a selective-actuation XYZ flexure parallel mechanism | p. 197 |
| On contact transition for nonholonomic mobile manipulators | p. 207 |
| Experimental study of dynamic task/posture decoupling in minimally invasive surgery motions | p. 217 |
| A tele-operated humanoid operator | p. 229 |
| Hand position oriented humanoid walking motion control system | p. 239 |
| Body information acquisition system of redundant musculo-skeletal humanoid | p. 249 |
| Coordinated task execution for humanoid robots | p. 259 |
| Imitation learning based on visuo-somatic mapping | p. 269 |
| Crawling and jumping by a deformable robot | p. 281 |
| The Berkeley lower extremity exoskeleton project | p. 291 |
| Toward self-replication of robot control circuitry by self-inspection | p. 303 |
| Optimal mechanical/control design for safe and fast robotics | p. 311 |
| Actuation, sensing, and fabrication for in vivo magnetic microrobots | p. 321 |
| Deployment and connectivity repair of a sensor net with a flying robot | p. 333 |
| Autonomous landing of an unmanned helicopter based on vision and inertial sensing | p. 343 |
| Synergies in feature localization by air-ground robot teams | p. 353 |
| Autonomous inverted helicopter flight via reinforcement learning | p. 363 |
| Collective inspection of regular structures using a swarm of miniature robots | p. 375 |
| Visual coordination of heterogeneous mobile manipulators | p. 387 |
| Implementation of an indoor active sensor network | p. 397 |
| An indoor experiment in decentralized coordinated search | p. 407 |
| Synthesis and analysis of non-reactive controllers for multi-robot sequential task domains | p. 417 |
| Adaptive walking of a quadruped robot in outdoor environment based on biological concepts | p. 429 |
| Legged odometry from body pose in a hexapod robot | p. 439 |
| Free-climbing with a multi-use robot | p. 449 |
| Limbless conforming gaits with modular robots | p. 459 |
| Vision-based navigational competencies for a car-like vehicle | p. 471 |
| Comparison of temporal filters for optical flow estimation in continuous mobile robot navigation | p. 481 |
| Experiments in robot control from uncalibrated overhead imagery | p. 491 |
| Interactive multi-modal robot programming | p. 503 |
| Dynamic virtual fences for controlling cows | p. 513 |
| Design and control of a hyper-redundant haptic interface | p. 523 |
| An experimental study of the limitations of mobile haptic interfaces | p. 533 |
| Robust haptic teleoperation of a mobile manipulation platform | p. 543 |
| Trajectory sonar perception in the Ligurian Sea | p. 557 |
| Construction of a geometric 3-D model from sensor measurements collected during compliant motion | p. 571 |
| Stiffness imager | p. 581 |
| Towards high fidelity onboard attitude estimation for legged locomotion via a hybrid range and inertial approach | p. 589 |
| Toward reliable off road autonomous vehicles operating in challenging environments | p. 599 |
| Driving on a known sensori-motor trajectory with a car-like robot | p. 609 |
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