| Invited Papers | |
| Service RT Systems | p. 3 |
| A Small Biped Entertainment Robot Creating Attractive Applications | p. 13 |
| Mobile Robots Facing the Real World | p. 21 |
| Breakthroughs in Human Technology Interaction | p. 31 |
| Indoor Navigation | |
| Indoor Navigation for Mobile Robot by Using Environment-Embedded Local Information Management Device and Optical Pointer | p. 41 |
| Wall Following with Constrained Active Contours | p. 51 |
| Landmark-Based Nonholonomic Visual Homing | p. 61 |
| Recursive Probabilistic Velocity Obstacles for Reflective Navigation | p. 71 |
| Rough Terrain Navigation | |
| Learning Predictions of the Load-Bearing Surface for Autonomous Rough-Terrain Navigation in Vegetation | p. 83 |
| A Terrain-Aided Tracking Algorithm for Marine Systems | p. 93 |
| Experimental Results in Using Aerial LADAR Data for Mobile Robot Navigation | p. 103 |
| Autonomous Detection of Untraversability of the Path on Rough Terrain or the Remote Controlled Mobile Robots | p. 113 |
| Localization | |
| Mobile Robot Navigation Based on DGPS and Odometry in Campus Environment | p. 125 |
| Vehicle Localization Using Inertial Sensors and GP | p. 135 |
| An Experimental Study of Localization Using Wireless Ethernet | p. 145 |
| MALOC - Medial Axis Localization in Unstructured Dynamic Environments | p. 155 |
| Mapping and Tracking | |
| Market-Based Multirobot Coordination Using Task Abstraction | p. 167 |
| Recentralised SLAM with Low-Bandwidth Communication for Teams of ehicles | p. 179 |
| Case Studies of a Borehole Deployable Robot for Limestone Mine Profiling and Mapping | p. 189 |
| ayesian Programming for Multi-target Tracking: An Automotive application | p. 99 |
| Rough Terrain Locomotion | |
| Terramechanics-Based Analysis and Traction Control of a Lunar/Planetary Rover | p. 225- |
| Topological Analysis of Robotic N-Wheeled Ground Vehicles | |
| Development of a Control System of an Omni-directional Vehicle with a Step-Climbing Ability | p. 245 |
| Sensor-Based Walking on Rough Terrain for Legged Robots | p. 255 |
| Helicopters and Air Vehicles | |
| Experiments in Learning Helicopter Control from a Pilot | p. 267 . |
| Landing on a Moving Target Using an Autonomous Helicopter | p. 277 |
| Scan Alignment and 3-D Surface Modeling with a Helicopter Platform | p. 287 |
| Real-time Navigation, Guidance, and Control of a UAV Using Low-Cost Sensors | p. 299 |
| A Compact Millimeter Wave Radar Sensor for Unmanned Air Vehicles | p. 311 |
| Mobility and Manipulation Motion Analysis of a Parallel Mobile Robot | p. 323 |
| Teleoperation Svstem for Two Tracked Mobile Robots Transporting a Robots | p. 343 |
| ROBHAZ-DT2: Passive Double-Tracked Mobile Manipulator for Explosive Ordnance Disposal | p. 355 |
| Human-Robot Interaction | |
| Towards Safer Roads by Integration of Road Scene Monitoring and Vehicle Control | p. 367 |
| Performing Skilled Work with an Interactively Operated Service Robot | p. 377 |
| A Multi-purpose Eight-Legged Robot Developed for an Evaluation of a Neural Interface | p. 385 |
| Online Interactive Building of Presence | p. 395 |
| Health Care and Service Tasks | |
| Light Weight Autonomous Climbing Robot for Elderly and Disabled Persons' Services | p. 407 |
| Planning under Uncertainty for Reliable Health Care Robotics | p. 417 |
| Development of a Personal Service Robot with User-Friendly Interfaces | p. 427 |
| An Enhanced Robotic Library System for an Off-Site Shelving Facilityc | p. 437 |
| International Contest for Cleaning Robots: Fun Event or a First Step Towards Benchmarking Service Robots | p. 447 |
| Mining | |
| Dragline Automation: Experimental Evaluation Through Productivity Trial | p. 459 |
| Shearer Guidance: A Major Advance in Longwall Mining | p. 469 |
| Development of an Autonomous Conveyor-Bolting Machine for the Underground Coal Mining Industry | p. 477 |
| Case Study in Robotic Mapping of Abandoned Mines | p. 487 |
| Automatic 3D Underground Mine Mapping | p. 497 |
| Rescue and Agricultural Applications | |
| Development of Pneumatically Controlled Expandable Arm for Search in the Environment with Tight Access | p. 509 |
| Development of Mobile Robots for Search and Rescue Operation System | p. 519 |
| Distributed Search and Rescue with Robot and Sensor Teams | p. 529 |
| Spraying Robot for Grape Production | p. 539 |
| Path Planning for Complete Coverage with Agricultural Machines | |
| Author Index | |
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