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Summary

The new Robotics: Science and Systems conference spans all areas of robotics, bringing together researchers working on the algorithmic and mathematical foundations of robotics, robotics applications, and analysis of robotics systems. This volume contains papers presented at the inaugural conference, held at MIT in June, 2005. Additional information can be found at http://roboticsconference.org, or by clicking on the link to the left.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Sebastian Thrun
Organizing Committee xi
Program Committee xiii
Interacting Markov Random Fields for Simultaneous Terrain Modeling and Obstacle Detection
1(8)
Carl Wellington
Aaron Courville
Anthony Stentz
Active Learning For Outdoor Obstacle Detection
9(8)
Cristian Dima
Martial Hebert
Dynamic Maps for Long-Term Operation of Mobile Service Robots
17(8)
Peter Biber
Tom Duckett
Star-shaped Roadmaps---A Deterministic Sampling Approach for Complete Motion Planning
25(8)
Gokul Varadhan
Dinesh Manocha
Complete Path Planning for Planar Closed Chains Among Point Obstacles
33(8)
G.F. Liu
J.C. Trinkle
Vision-based Distributed Coordination and Flocking of Multi-agent Systems
41(8)
Nima Moshtagh
Ali Jadbabaie
Kostas Daniilidis
Formation Stabilization of Multiple Agents Using Decentralized Navigation Functions
49(8)
Herbert G. Tanner
Amit Kumar
Visually Navigating the RMS Titanic with SLAM Information Filters
57(8)
Ryan Eustice
Hanumant Singh
John Leonard
Matthew Walter
Robert Ballard
Information Gain-based Exploration Using Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filters
65(8)
Cyrill Stachniss
Giorgio Grisetti
Wolfram Burgard
Performance Bounds for Cooperative Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (C-SLAM)
73(8)
Anastasios I. Mourikis
Stergios I. Roumeliotis
Efficient Exploration With Latent Structure
81(8)
Bethany R. Leffler
Michael L. Littman
Alexander L. Strehl
Thomas J. Walsh
A Polynomial-time Algorithm to Design Push Plans for Sensorless Parts Sorting
89(8)
Mark de Berg
Xavier Goaoc
A. Frank van der Stappen
Efficient Motion Planning Based on Disassembly
97(8)
Yuandong Yang
Oliver Brock
Toward Optimal Configuration Space Sampling
105(8)
Brendan Burns
Oliver Brock
Natural Gait Generation Techniques for Principally Kinematic Mechanical Systems
113(8)
Elie Shammas
Howie Choset
Alfred Rizzi
A Two-Point Boundary-Value Approach for Planning Manipulation Tasks
121(8)
Peng Song
Vijay Kumar
Jong-Shi Pang
Dynamic Task Assignment in Robot Swarms
129(8)
James McLurkin
Daniel Yamins
Microrobotic Streak Seeding For Protein Crystal Growth
137(8)
Atanas Georgiev
Peter K. Allen
Ting Song
Andrew Laine
William Edstrom
John Hunt
Single Actuator Control Analysis of a Planar 3DOF Hopping Robot
145(8)
Nicholas Cherouvim
Evangelos Papadopoulos
Modeling Complex Contacts Involving Deformable Objects for Haptic and Graphic Rendering
153(8)
Qi Luo
Jing Xiao
Three Dimensional Stochastic Reconfiguration of Modular Robots
161(8)
Paul White
Victor Zykov
Josh Bongard
Hod Lipson
On Correlating Sonar Images
169(8)
Richard J. Rikoski
J. Tory Cobb
Daniel C. Brown
Square Root SAM
177(8)
Frank Dellaert
Topological Mapping with Multiple Visual Manifolds
185(8)
Greg Grudic
Jane Mulligan
Scaling Hard Vertical Surfaces with Compliant Microspine Arrays
193(8)
Alan T. Asbeck
Sangbae Kim
William R. Provancher
Michele Lanzetta
Multi-robot Simultaneous Localization and Mapping using Particle Filters
201(8)
Andrew Howard
Data driven MCMC for Appearance-based Topological Mapping
209(8)
Ananth Ranganathan
Frank Dellaert
Robot Planning in Partially Observable Continuous Domains
217(8)
Josep M. Porta
Matthijs T. J. Spaan
Nikos Vlassis
Path Planning for Deformable Robots in Complex Environments
225(8)
Russell Gayle
Paul Segars
Ming C. Lin
Dinesh Manocha
Motion Planning in the Presence of Drift, Underactuation, and Discrete System Changes
233(8)
Andrew M. Ladd
Lydia E. Kavraki
BioCD: An Efficient Algorithm for Self-collision and Distance Computation between Highly Articulated Molecular Models
241(8)
Vicente Ruiz de Angulo
Juan Cortes
Thierry Simeon
An RRT-Based Algorithm for Testing and Validating Multi-Robot Controllers
249(8)
Jongwoo Kim
Joel M. Esposito
Vijay Kumar
Roadmap Based Pursuit-Evasion and Collision Avoidance
257(8)
Volkan Isler
Dengfeng Sun
Shankar Sastry
Single-Cluster Spectral Graph Partitioning for Robotics Applications
265(8)
Edwin Olson
Matthew Walter
Seth Teller
John Leonard
Adaptive Road Following using Self-Supervised Learning and Reverse Optical Flow
273(8)
David Lieb
Andrew Lookingbill
Sebastian Thrun
Optimal Sensing Strategies for Mobile Robot Formations: Resource-Constrained Localization
281(8)
Anastasios I. Mourikis
Stergios I. Roumeliotis
Discriminative Training of Kalman Filters
289(8)
Pieter Abbeel
Adam Coates
Michael Montemerlo
Andrew Y. Ng
Sebastian Thrun
Time Complexity of Sensor-Based Vehicle Routing
297(8)
Vikrant Sharma
Michael Savchenko
Emilio Frazzoli
Petros G. Voulgaris
The Stability of Point-mass Hoppers with Varying Morphology and Minimal Feedback
305(6)
Justin Seipel
Optimal Design of Robots
311(8)
Jean-Pierre Merlet
Biologically Inspired Miniature Water Strider Robot
319(8)
Steve H. Suhr
Yun Seong Song
Sang Jun Lee
Metin Sitti
Micro and Nanorobotic Assembly Using Dielectrophoresis
327(8)
Arunkumar Subramanian
Barmeshwar Vikramaditya
Lixin Dong
Dominik Bell
Bradley J. Nelson
Blind Swarms for Coverage in 2-D
335(8)
Vin de Silva
Robert Ghrist
Abubakr Muhammad
Auction-Based Multi-Robot Routing
343(8)
Michail G. Lagoudakis
Evangelos Markakis
David Kempe
Pinar Keskinocak
Anton Kleywegt
Sven Koenig
Craig Tovey
Adam Meyerson
Sonal Jain
Shape, Motion, and Parameter Estimation of Flexible Space Structures using Laser Rangefinders
351(8)
Matthew D. Lichter
Steven Dubowsky
Hiroshi Ueno
Shinji Mitani
Model-Based Error Correction for Flexible Robotic Surgical Instruments
359(6)
Ryan A. Beasley
Robert D. Howe
Data Structure for Efficient Processing in 3-D
365(8)
Jean-Francois Lalonde
Nicolas Vandapel
Martial Hebert
σMCL: Monte-Carlo Localization for Mobile Robots with Stereo Vision
373
Pantelis Elinas
James J. Little

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