| Humanoids and Human-Robot Interaction | |
| Haptically Augmented Teleoperation | p. 1 |
| Bilateral Teleoperation: Towards Fine Manipulation with Large Time Delay | p. 11 |
| Virtual Exoskeleton for Telemanipulation | p. 21 |
| Design of Programmable Passive Compliance for Humanoid Shoulder | p. 31 |
| Design, Implementation, and Remote Operation of the Humanoid H6 | p. 41 |
| Cooperative Human and Machine Perception in Teleoperated Assembly | p. 51 |
| Regulation and Entrainment in Human-Robot Interaction | p. 61 |
| Perception | |
| Advancing Active Vision Systems by Improved Design and Control | p. 71 |
| S-NETS: Smart Sensor Networks | p. 81 |
| Six Degree of Freedom Sensing for Docking Using IR LED Emitters and Receivers | p. 91 |
| Height Estimation for an Autonomous Helicopter | p. 101 |
| Ladar-Based Discrimination of Grass from Obstacles for Autonomous Navigation | p. 111 |
| Reality-Based Modeling with ACME: A Progress Report | p. 121 |
| Assembly and Manipulation | |
| Grasp Strategy Simplified by Detaching Assist Motion (DAM) | p. 131 |
| Force-Based Interaction for Distributed Precision Assembly | p. 141 |
| Design and Implementation of a New Discretely-Actuated Manipulator | p. 151 |
| Design and Experiments on a Novel Biomechatronic Hand | p. 159 |
| Autonomous Injection of Biological Cells Using Visual Servoing | p. 169 |
| Medical, Space, and Field Applications | |
| An Active Tubular Polyarticulated Micro-System for Flexible Endoscope | p. 179 |
| Towards Semi-autonomy in Laparoscopic Surgery through Vision and Force Feedback Control | p. 189 |
| Optimized Port Placement for the Totally Endoscopic Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Using the da Vinci Robotic System | p. 199 |
| ETS-VII Flight Experiments for Space Robot Dynamics and Control; Theories on Laboratory Test Beds Ten Years Ago, Now in Orbit | p. 209 |
| Experimental Demonstrations for a New Design Paradigm in Space Robotics | p. 219 |
| A First-Stage Experiment of Long Term Activity of Autonomous Mobile Robot-Result of Repetitive Base-Docking Over a Week | p. 229 |
| Locomotion | |
| Comparing the Locomotion Dynamics of the Cockroach and a Shape Deposition Manufactured Biomimetic Hexapod | p. 239 |
| Super Mechano-System: New Perspective for Versatile Robotic System | p. 249 |
| Using Modular Self-Reconfiguring Robots for Locomotion | p. 259 |
| Open-Loop Verification of Motion Planning for an Underwater Eel-Like Robot | p. 271 |
| Quadruped Robot Running With a Bounding Gait | p. 281 |
| Evidence for Spring Loaded Inverted Pendulum Running in a Hexapod Robot | p. 291 |
| Multi-robot Systems | |
| A Framework and Architecture for Multirobot Coordination | p. 303 |
| Motion Control of Distributed Robot Helpers Transporting a Single Object in Cooperation with a Human | p. 313 |
| First Results in the Coordination of Heterogeneous Robots for Large-Scale Assembly | p. 323 |
| Towards A Team of Robots with Repair Capabilities: A Visual Docking System | p. 333 |
| Merging Gaussian Distributions for Object Localization in Multi-robot Systems | p. 343 |
| Principled Communication for Dynamic Multi-robot Task Allocation | p. 353 |
| Progress in RoboCup Soccer Research in 2000 | p. 363 |
| Modeling and Motion Planning | |
| View Planning via C-Space Entropy for Efficient Exploration with Eye-in-Hand Systems | p. 373 |
| Motion Planning for a Self-Reconfigurable Modular Robot | p. 385 |
| Experimental Comparison of Techniques for Localization and Mapping Using a Bearing-Only Sensor | p. 395 |
| Robot Navigation for Automatic Model Construction Using Safe Regions | p. 405 |
| Simulation and Experimental Evaluation of Complete Sensor-Based Coverage in Rectilinear Environments | p. 417 |
| An Interactive Model of the Human Liver | p. 427 |
| Control | |
| The Biomechanical Fidelity of Slope Simulation on the Sarcos Treadport Using Whole-Body Force Feedback | p. 437 |
| A New Approach to the Control of a Hydraulic Stewart Platform | p. 447 |
| Design of Life-Size Haptic Environments | p. 461 |
| Micro Nafion Actuators for Cellular Motion Control and Underwater Manipulation | p. 471 |
| Control of an Under Actuated Unstable Nonlinear Object | p. 481 |
| Singularity Handling on Puma in Operational Space Formulation | p. 491 |
| Navigation and Localization | |
| Autonomous Rover Navigation on Unknown Terrains Functions and Integration | p. 501 |
| Map Building and Localization for Underwater Navigation | p. 511 |
| Visually Realistic Mapping of a Planar Environment with Stereo | p. 523 |
| Incorporation of Delayed Decision Making into Stochastic Mapping | p. 533 |
| Tele-Autonomous Watercraft Navigation | p. 543 |
| An Underwater Vehicle Monitoring System and Its Sensors | p. 551 |
| Real Time Obstacle Detection for AGV Navigation sing Multi-baseline Stereo | p. 561 |
| A new Generationacle of Light-Weight Robot Arms and Multifingered Hands | p. 569 |
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