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IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
October 30 - November 5, 2000
Kagawa University, Takamatsu, Japan

Final Program


Wednesday, November 1, 2000



9:30-10:20 Room 5 (3301)
Plenary Speech I
Chair: Kazuo Tanie (MEL, Japan)

"Robotics with LEGO MINDSTORMS"
Henrik Hautop Lund (The Maersk Inst. at Univ. of Southern Denmark, Denmark)



10:30-11:50 Room 1 (3101)
Session W-MI-1: Personal Robotics (OS)
Organizers: Paolo Dario (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy), George A. Bekey (USC, USA), Atsuo Takanishi (Waseda Univ., Japan)
Chairs: Paolo Dario (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy), Atsuo Takanishi (Waseda Univ., Japan)

W-MI-1-1
"An Intergrated Approach for the Design and Development of a Grasping and Manipulation System in Humanoid Robotics"
Paolo Dario (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy)
C. Laschi (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy)
M. C. Carrozza (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy)
E. Guglielmelli (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy)
G. Teti (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy)
B. Massa (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy)
M. Zecca (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy)
D. Taddeucci (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy)
F. Leoni (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy)

W-MI-1-2
"Robot Personalization based on the Mental Dynamics"
Hiroyasu Miwa (Waseda Univ., Japan)
Tomohiko Umetsu (Waseda Univ., Japan)
Atsuo Takanishi (Waseda Univ., Japan)
Hideaki Takanobu (Waseda Univ., Japan)

W-MI-1-3
"Path Planning for the Cye Personal Robot"
Parag H. Batavia (CMU, USA)
Illah Nourbakhsh (CMU, USA)

W-MI-1-4
"Diligent: Towards a Human-friendly Navigation System"
Rachid Alami (LAAS/CNRS, France)
Igor Belousov (Keldysh Institute)
Sara Fleury (LAAS/CNRS, France)
Matthieu Herrb (LAAS/CNRS, France)


10:30-11:50 Room 2 (3102)
Session W-MI-2: Manipulator Control
Chairs: Jong Hyeon Park (Hanyang Univ., Korea), Anthony A. Maciejewski (Purdue Univ., USA)

W-MI-2-1
"Minimum Time Path-tracking Control of Redundant Manipulators"
Shugen MA (Ibaraki Univ., Japan)
Mitsuru Watanabe (Ibaraki Univ., Japan)

W-MI-2-2
"Robust Control of Cascaded Nonlinear Systems"
Park, Jong Hyeon (Hanyang Univ., Korea)
Yim, Jongguk (Hanyang Univ., Korea)

W-MI-2-3
"Controllers with Desired Dynamic Compensation and their Implementation on a 6DOF Parallel Manipulator"
Etienne Burdet (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore)
Marcel Honegger (ETH-Zurich, Switzerland)
Alain Codourey (Helbling A. G., Switzerland)

W-MI-2-4
"Dynamic Singular Configuration of Flexible Manipulators"
Katsuya Kanaoka (Kyoto Univ., Japan)
Tuneo Yoshikawa (Kyoto Univ., Japan)


10:30-11:50 Room 3 (3201)
Session W-MI-3: Soft-Computing Robotics (OS)
Organizer: C. S. George Lee (Purdue Univ., USA)
Chair: C. S. George Lee (Purdue Univ., USA)

W-MI-3-1
"Self-Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Systems: Learning, Classification, and Control"
C. S. George Lee (Purdue Univ., USA)
Jeen-Shing Wang (Purdue Univ., USA)

W-MI-3-2
"Real-Time Assessment of Terrain Traversability for Autonomous Rover Navigation"
Ayanna Howard (JPL, USA)
Homayoun Seraji (JPL, USA)

W-MI-3-3
"Neurobiology Suggests the Design of Modular Architectures for Neural Control"
J.L. Buessler (Univ. of Mulhouse, France)
J.P. Urban (Univ. of Mulhouse, France)

W-MI-3-4
"Neural Mechanisms for Learning of Attention Control and Pattern Categorization as Basis for Robot Cognition."
Luiz M. G. Goncalves (LAAS/RIA, France)
Cosimo Distante (Univ. of Lecce, Italy)
Antonio A. F. Oliveira (Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Brasil)
Roderic A. Grupen (Univ. of Massachusetts, USA)


10:30-11:50 Room 4 (3202)
Session W-MI-4: 3D Ranging
Chairs: Takashi Tsubouchi (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan), Andrew K. C. Wong (Univ. of Waterloo, Canada)

W-MI-4-1
"Stereo Vision-Based Object Classification"
Minh-Chinh Nguyen (Bundeswehr Univ. Munich, Germany)
Volker Graefe (Bundeswehr Univ. Munich, Germany)

W-MI-4-2
"A Straight Pipe Observation from the Inside by Laser Spots Array and a TV Camera"
Takashi Tsubouchi (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan)
Shigekazu Takagi (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan)
Yoshifumi Kawaguchi (Osaka Gas, Co., Ltd., Japan)
Shin'ichi Yuta (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan)

W-MI-4-3
"Incremental Mesh Modeling and Hierarchical Object Recognition using Multiple Range Images"
Ryusuke SAGAWA (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Kei OKADA (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Satoshi KAGAMI (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Masayuki INABA (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Hirochika INOUE (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)

W-MI-4-4
"2D Vision Directing Laser Device for 3D Measurement and Modeling"
Andrew K.C. Wong (Univ. of Waterloo, Canada)
Tong Xu (Univ. of Waterloo, Canada)


10:30-11:50 Room 6(3302)
Session W-MI-6: Map Building on Mobile Robot
Chairs: Hiroshi Noborio (Osaka Electro Communication Univ., Japan), Joo-Ho Lee (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)

W-MI-6-1
"Local Mapping from On-line Laser Voronoi Extraction"
D. Blanco (Carlos III Univ., Spain)
B.L. Boada (Carlos III Univ., Spain)
L. Moreno (Carlos III Univ., Spain)
M.A. Salichs (Carlos III Univ., Spain)

W-MI-6-2
"Sonar-based Feature Recognition and Robot Navigation Using a Neural Network"
Puneet Goel (USC, USA)
Gaurav Sukhatme (USC, USA)

W-MI-6-3
"Geometric Feature Based 2 1/2D Map Building and Planning with Laser, Ultrasonic and Tactile Sensors"
Li Zhang (Washington Univ. in St. Louis, USA)
Bijoy K. Ghosh (Washington Univ. in St. Louis, USA)


10:30-11:50 Room 7 (3303)
Session W-MI-7: Nonholonomy on Purpose and Minimalism in Robot Design - I (OS)
Organizers: Antonio Bicchi (Univ. Pisa, Italy), Hirohiko Arai (MEL, Japan)
Chairs: Antonio Bicchi (Univ. Pisa, Italy), Tsuneo Yoshikawa (Kyoto Univ., Japan)

W-MI-7-1
"Classification of Nonholonomic Systems from Mechanical and Control Theoretical Viewpoints"
Masato Ishikawa (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Mitsuji Sampei (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)

W-MI-7-2
"Control of Nonholonomic Free-Joint Manipulators with One Actuator"
Takahiro Suzuki (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Yoshihiko Nakamura (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)

W-MI-7-3
"Controllability of Under-actuated Planar Manipulators with One Unactuated Joint"
Keigo Kobayashi (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Tsuneo Yoshikawa (Kyoto Univ., Japan)

W-MI-7-4
"Motion planning under gravity for underactuated three-link robots"
Alessandro De Luca (Univ. Roma, Italy)
Giuseppe Oriolo (Univ. Roma, Italy)


10:30-11:50 Room 8 (3304)
Session W-MI-8: Virtual Reality and Simulation
Chairs: Antal K. Bejczy (JPL, USA), Yasuyuki Yanagida (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)

W-MI-8-1
"I-GMS: An Object-Oriented Interactive Generalized Motion Simulator"
Wookho Son (Texas A&M Univ., USA)
Kyunghwan Kim (KIST, Korea)
Nancy Amato (Texas A&M Univ., USA)
Jeffrey C. Trinkle (Sandia National Lab., USA)

W-MI-8-2
"Human Sensation Modeling in Virtual Environments"
Ka Keung Lee (Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Yangsheng Xu (Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

W-MI-8-3
"A New Method of 3-D Movie Based on 2-D Photo Images for the Virtual Playing Catch System"
Masayuki Kitazawa (Yamaguchi Univ., Japan)
Jing-Long Wu (Kagawa Univ., Japan)
Yoshiro Sakai (Yamaguchi Univ., Japan)

W-MI-8-4
"Animating Characters in Virtual Dynamic Environments by usingPath planning, Control and Sensing Technics"
David Raulo (INRIA Rhes-Alpes, France)
Juan-Manuel Ahuactzin (INRIA Rhes-Alpes, France)
Christian Laugier (INRIA Rhes-Alpes, France)


13:00-14:20 Room 1 (3101)
Session W-AI-1: Entertainment and Mental Commitment Robotics (OS)
Organizers: John M. Hollerbach (Univ. of Utah, USA), Takanori Shibata (MEL, Japan)
Chairs: John M. Hollerbach (Univ. of Utah, USA), Takanori Shibata (MEL, Japan)
 

W-AI-1-1
"Influence of A Priori Knowledge in Subjective Interpretation and Evaluation by Short-term Interaction with Mental Commit Robot"
Takanori Shibata (MEL, Japan)
Kazuo Tanie (MEL, Japan)

W-AI-1-2
"Development of Emotional Communication Robot: WAMOEBA-2R -Experimental Evaluation of the Emotional Communication between Robots and Humans -"
Tetsuya Ogata (Waseda Univ., Japan)
Yoshihiro Matsuyama (Waseda Univ., Japan)
Takaaki Komiya (Waseda Univ., Japan)
Masataka Ida (Waseda Univ., Japan)
Kuniaki Noda (Waseda Univ., Japan)
Shigeki Sugano (Waseda Univ., Japan)

W-AI-1-3
"Design and Architecture of SIG the Humanoid: An Experimental Platform for Integrated Perception in RoboCup Humanoid Challenge"
Hiroaki Kitano (ERATO Kitano Symbiotic Systems Project, JST, Japan)
Hiroshi G. Okuno (ERATO Kitano Symbiotic Systems Project, JST, Japan)
Kazuhiro Nakadai (ERATO Kitano Symbiotic Systems Project, JST, Japan)
Theo Sabisch (ERATO Kitano Symbiotic Systems Project, JST, Japan)
Tatsuya Matsui (ERATO Kitano Symbiotic Systems Project, JST, Japan)

W-AI-1-4
"Emotion Expression of a Biped Personal Robot"
Hun-ok Lim (Kanagawa Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Akinori Ishii (Waseda Univ., Japan)
Atsuo Takanishi (Waseda Univ., Japan)


13:00-14:20 Room 2 (3102)
Session W-AI-2: Mechatronics Elements
Chairs: Koichi Koganezawa (Tokai Univ., Japan), Shin'ichi Hirai (Ritsumeikan Univ., Japan)

W-AI-2-1
"Qualitative Synthesis of Deformable Cylindrical Actuators through Constraint Topology"
Shinichi Hirai (Ritsumeikan Univ., Japan)
Hiroki Tanigawa (Ritsumeikan Univ., Japan)
Pierre Cusin (Ritsumeikan Univ., Japan)
Tomohiro Masui (Ritsumeikan Univ., Japan)
Satoshi Konishi (Ritsumeikan Univ., Japan)
Sadao Kawamura (Ritsumeikan Univ., Japan)

W-AI-2-2
"Modeling of Hysteresis in Deformation of Rodlike Objects Toward Their Manipulations"
Takahiro Wada (Kagawa Univ., Japan)
Brenan J. McCarragher (Australian National Univ., Australia)
Hidefumi Wakamatsu (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Shinichi Hirai (Ritsumeikan Univ., Japan)
Takeshi Yonezawa (Ritsumeikan Univ., Japan)
Shinichi Tokumoto (Ritsumeikan Univ., Japan)

W-AI-2-3
"Control of a Hybrid Pneumatic/Electric Motor"
Fumiaki Takemura (Ritsumeikan Univ., Japan)
Shunmugham R. Pandian (Ritsumeikan Univ., Japan)
Yasunobu Nagase (Ritsumeikan Univ., Japan)
Hajime Mizutani (Ritsumeikan Univ., Japan)
Yasuhiro Hayakawa (Nara National College of Tech., Japan)
Sadao Kawamura (Ritsumeikan Univ., Japan)

W-AI-2-4
"Minimum-time Control of Coupled Tendon-driven Manipulators"
Shugen Ma (Ibaraki Univ., Japan)
Mitsuru Watanabe (Ibaraki Univ., Japan)


13:00-14:20 Room 3 (3201)
Session W-AI-3: Robotics and Neuroscience (OS)
Organizer: Angel P. del Pobil (Univ. Jaume I Castellon, Spain)
Chairs: Angel P. del Pobil (Univ. Jaume I Castellon, Spain), Minoru Asada (Osaka Univ., Japan)

W-AI-3-1
"Estimating Doppler Shift with a Coarse Cochlear Filterbank"
Jose M. Carmena (Univ. of Edinburgh, UK)
John C.T. Hallam (Univ. of Edinburgh, UK)

W-AI-3-2
"Visual Landmark Learning"
Giovanni Bianco (Univ. of Verona, Italy)
Miriam Lehrer (Univ. of Zurich, Switzerland)
Alexander Zelinsky (The Australian National Univ., Australia)

W-AI-3-3
"Fast and Accurate Mobile Robot Control Using a Cerebellar Model in a Sensory Delayed Environment"
David Collins (Univ. of Queensland, Australia)
Gordon Wyeth (Univ. of Queensland, Australia)

W-AI-3-4
"A Biological Inspired Neural Network Approach to Real-time Collision-free Motion Planning of a Nonholonomic Car-like Robot"
Simon X. Yang (Univ. of Guelph, Canada)
Max Meng (Univ. of Alberta, Canada)
Xiaobu Yuan (Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland, Canada)


13:00-14:20 Room 4 (3202)
Session W-AI-4: Visual Servoing - I
Chairs: InSo Kweon (KAIST, Korea), Yoshinori Kuno (Saitama Univ., Japan)

W-AI-4-1
"Visual Servoing based on Object Motion Estimation"
Keiro Nagahama (Okayama Univ., Japan)
Kouichi Hashimoto (Okayama Univ., Japan)
Toshiro Noritsugu (Okayama Univ., Japan)
Masahiro Takaiwa (Okayama Univ., Japan)

W-AI-4-2--CANCEL!!
"What Stereo Can Do for Visual Servoing"
Bart Lamiroy (MOVI - GRAVIR INRIA Rhe-Alpes, France)
Cyrille Puget (MOVI - GRAVIR INRIA Rhe-Alpes, France)
Radu Horaud (MOVI - GRAVIR CNRS / INRIA Rhe-Alpes, France)

W-AI-4-3
"Turning around a Unknown Object Using Visual Servoing"
Francois BERRY (Lab. des Sciences et Materiaux pour l'Electronique et d'Automatique, France)
Philippe MARTINET (Lab. des Sciences et Materiaux pour l'Electronique et d'Automatique, France)
Jean GALLICE (Lab. des Sciences et Materiaux pour l'Electronique et d'Automatique, France)

W-AI-4-4
"A Novel Image-based Control-law for the Visual Servoing System under Large Pose Error"
HoWon Kim (KAIST, Korea)
JaeSeung Cho (KAIST, Korea)
InSo Kweon (KAIST, Korea)


13:00-14:20 Room 6 (3302)
Session W-AI-6: Mobile Robot Localization - I
Chairs: Yasushi Yagi (Osaka Univ., Japan), Evangelos Papadopoulos (National Tech. Univ. of Athens, Greece)

W-AI-6-1
"Mobile Robot Localization Using Circular Correlations of Panoramic Images"
Toshihiro Matsui (ETL, Japan)
Simon Thompson (Australian National Univ., Australia)

W-AI-6-2
"Visual Localization of a Mobile Robot in Indoor Environments using planar landmarks"
V.Ayala (LAAS-CNRS, France)
J.B.Hayet (LAAS-CNRS, France)
F.Lerasle (LAAS-CNRS, France)
M.Devy (LAAS-CNRS, France)

W-AI-6-3
"Active Exploration for Feature Based Global Localization"
Marco Seiz (EPFL, Switzerland)
Patric Jensfelt (Centre for Autonomous Systems/KTH, Sweden)
Henrik I. Christensen (Centre for Autonomous Systems/KTH, Sweden)

W-AI-6-4
"Autonomous Global Localisation Using Markov Chains and Optimised Sonar Landmarks"
Antonio Bandera (Univ. of Malaga, Spain)
Cristina Urdiales (Univ. of Malaga, Spain)
Francisco Sandoval (Univ. of Malaga, Spain)


13:00-14:20 Room 7 (3303)
Session W-AI-7: Nonholonomy on Purpose and Minimalism in Robot Design - II (OS)
Organizers: Antonio Bicchi (Univ. Pisa, Italy), Hirohiko Arai (MEL, Japan)
Chairs: James P. Ostrowaski (Univ. Pennsylvenia, USA), Hirohiko Arai (MEL, Japan)
 

W-AI-7-1
"Controlling More with Less Using Nonholonomic Gears"
James P. Ostrowski (Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA)

W-AI-7-2
"Virtual Nonholonomic Constraint for Human-Robot Cooperation in 3-D space"
Tomohito Takubo (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan)
Hirohiko ARAI (MEL, Japan)
Kazuo TANIE (MEL, Japan)

W-AI-7-3
"Experiments in Ergonomic Robot-Guided Manipulation"
Allan Sorensen (Northwestern Univ., USA)
Caizhen Liu (Northwestern Univ., USA)
Songho M. Kim (Northwestern Univ., USA)
Kevin M. Lynch (Northwestern Univ., USA)
Michael A. Peshkin (Northwestern Univ., USA)

W-AI-7-4
"The Cycab Robot : a Differentially Flat System"
S. Sekhavat (INRIA, France)
J. Hermosillo (INRIA, France)


13:00-14:20 Room 8 (3304)
Session W-AI-8: Biologically Inspired Grasping and Manipulations - I (OS)
Organizers: Miriam Zacksenhouse (Israel Inst. of Tech., Israel) Aydan M. Erkmen (Ortadogu Teknik Univ., Turkey)
Chairs: Miriam Zacksenhouse (Israel Inst. of Tech., Israel) Aydan M. Erkmen (Ortadogu Teknik Univ., Turkey)

W-AI-8-1
"Inherent Structure of Manipulative Hand Movements and its discriminative power"
Miriam Zacksenhouse (Technion-Israel Inst. of Tech., Israel)
Paul Marcovici (Technion-Israel Inst. of Tech., Israel)

W-AI-8-2
"Dynamic Control of Soft-finger Hands for Pivoting an Object in Contact with the Environment"
Tsuneo Yoshikawa (Kyoto Univ., Japan)
Tetsuyo Watanabe (Kyoto Univ., Japan)

W-AI-8-3
"Analysis and Initial Experiments for a Novel Elephant's Trunk Robot"
Michael W. Hannan (Clemson Univ., USA)
Ian D. Walker (Clemson Univ., USA)

W-AI-8-4
"Kinematic Algorithm of Multi-fingered Manipulation with rolling contact"
Jianfeng Li (Beijing Univ. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China)
Yuru Zhang (Beijing Univ. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China)
Qixian Zhang (Beijing Univ. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China)


14:30-15:50 Room 1 (3101)
Session W-AII-1: Human-Robot Cooperation - I
Chairs: Takashi Suehiro (ETL, Japan), Martin Buss (Tech. Univ. Munchen, Germany)

W-AII-1-1
"One-Room-Type Sensing System for Recognition and Accumulation of Human Behavior"
Taketoshi Mori (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Tomomasa Sato (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Katsutoshi ASAKI (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Yasuki Kishimoto (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Yuji Yoshimoto (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)

W-AII-1-2
"Monitoring Respiration and Body Movement in Sleep"
Tatsuya Harada (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Akiko Sakata (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Taketoshi Mori (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Tomomasa Sato (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)

W-AII-1-3
"A Social Robot that Stands in Line"
Yasushi Nakauchi (National Defense Academy, Japan)
Reid Simmons (CMU, USA)

W-AII-1-4
"An Animal Psychological Approach for Personal Robot Design - Interaction between a Rat and a Rat-Robot -"
Tomohide Aoki (Waseda Univ., Japan)
Takahiro Watanabe (Waseda Univ., Japan)
Hiroyasu Miwa (Waseda Univ., Japan)
Atsuo Takanishi (Waseda Univ., Japan)


14:30-15:50 Room 2 (3102)
Session W-AII-2: Rehabilitation Robots
Chairs: Toshio Tsuji (Hiroshima Univ., Japan), Dong-Soo Kwon (KAIST, Korea)

W-AII-2-1
"Sensors and Actuators of Wearable Haptic Master Device for the Disabled"
Kyoobin Lee (KAIST, Korea)
Dong-Soo Kwon (KAIST, Korea)

W-AII-2-2
"Bio-mimetic Impedance Control of an EMG-Controlled Prosthetic Hand"
Toshio Tsuji (Hiroshima Univ., Japan)
Osamu Fukuda (MEL, Japan)
Hiroki Shigeyoshi (Hiroshima Univ., Japan)
Makoto Kaneko (Hiroshima Univ., Japan)

W-AII-2-3
"Design of an Exoskeletal Robot for Human Elbow Motion Support"
Kazuo Kiguchi (Saga Univ., Japan)
Shingo Kariya (Saga Univ., Japan)
Tomohiko Niwa (Saga Univ., Japan)
Keigo Watanabe (Saga Univ., Japan)
Kiyotaka Izumi (Saga Univ., Japan)
Toshio Fukuda (Nagoya Univ., Japan)

W-AII-2-4
"Prosthetic Hand Control based on Torque Estimation from EMG Signals"
Satoshi Morita (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Katsunari Shibata (Oita Univ., Japan)
Xin-Zhi Zheng (ASTEM RI, Japan)
Koji Ito (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)


14:30-15:50 Room 3 (3201)
Session W-AII-3: Reinforcement Learning
Chairs: Minoru Asada (Osaka Univ., Japan) Kei Senda (Osaka Prefecture Univ., Japan)

W-AII-3-1
"Vision-Guided Behavior Acquisition of a Mobile Robot by Multi-Layered Reinforcement Learning"
Yasutake Takahashi (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Minoru Asada (Osaka Univ., Japan)

W-AII-3-2
"Reinforcement Learning for a Vision Based Mobile Robot"
Chris Gaskett (Australian National Univ., Australia)
Luke Fletcher (Australian National Univ., Australia)
Alexander Zelinsky (Australian National Univ., Australia)

W-AII-3-3
"Truss Assembly by Space Robot and Task Error Recovery via Reinforcement Learning"
Kei Senda (Osaka Prefecture Univ., Japan)
Tsutomu Mtsumoto (Osaka Prefecture Univ., Japan)

W-AII-3-4
"Initial Experiments on Reinforcement Learning Control of Cooperative Manipulations"
M. Svinin (Kobe Univ., Japan)
F. Kojima (Kobe Univ., Japan)
Y. Katada (Kobe Univ., Japan)
K. Ueda (Kobe Univ., Japan)


14:30-15:50 Room 4 (3202)
Session W-AII-4: Visual Servoing - II
Chairs: Koichi Hashimoto (Okayama Univ., Japan), Yun-Hui Liu (The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

W-AII-4-1
"Potential Problems and Switching Control for Visual Servoing"
Koichi Hashimoto (Okayama Univ., Japan)
Toshiro Noritsugu (Okayama Univ., Japan)

W-AII-4-2
"Selection of an Optimal Camera Position Using Visibility and Manipulability Measures for an Active Camera Systems"
Gil Whoan Chu (KAIST, Korea)
Myung Jin Chung (KAIST, Korea)

W-AII-4-3
"Asymptotic Position Control of Robot Manipulators Using Uncalibrated Visual Feedback"
Yantao Shen (The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Yun-Hui Liu (The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Kejie Li (Beijing Inst. of Tech., China)

W-AII-4-4
"Distributed Visual Servoing with a Roving Eye"
David Hershberger (CMU, USA)
Robert Burridge (S&K Electronics, USA)
David Kortenkamp (Metrica, Inc., USA)
Reid Simmons (CMU, USA)


14:30-15:50 Room 6 (3302)
Session W-AII-6: Mobile Robot Localization - II
Chairs: Sang-Rok Oh (KIST, Korea), Akihisa Ohya (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan)

W-AII-6-1
"Optimized Landmark Arrangement for Absolute Localization - A Practical Approach"
Torsten Rupp (FZI, Germany)
Paul Levi (FZI, Germany)

W-AII-6-2
"SEGMENTS: A Layered, Dual-Kalman filter Algorithm for Indoor Feature Extraction"
Stergios I. Roumeliotis (USC, USA)
George A. Bekey (USC, USA)

W-AII-6-3
"Multisensor On-the-Fly Localization Using Laser and Vision"
Kai O. Arras (EPFL, Switzerland)
Nicola Tomatis (EPFL, Switzerland)
Roland Siegwart (EPFL, Switzerland)

W-AII-6-4
"Improvement of Odometry for Omnidirectional Vehicle using Optical Flow Information"
Keiji Nagatani (Okayama Univ., Japan)
Satoshi Tachibana (Okayama Univ., Japan)
Makoto Sofue (Okayama Univ., Japan)
Yutaka Tanaka (Okayama Univ., Japan)


14:30-15:50 Room 7 (3303)
Session W-AII-7: Micro Robotics
Chairs: Toshio Fukuda (Nagoya Univ., Japan), Roland Siegwart (EPFL, Switzerland)

W-AII-7-1
"Compliant Beam Networks Optimization for Microsystems"
Christophe Haug (LRP-CNRS, France)
S. Regnier (LRP-CNRS, France)
Philippe Bidaud (LRP-CNRS, France)

W-AII-7-2
"Micro Robots Dedicated to Small Diameter Canalization Exploration"
Cedric Anthierens (INSA de Lyon, France)
Christine Libersa (Univ. of Poitiers, Farnce)
Mohamed Touaibia (Lab. d'Automatique de Besancon, France)
Maurice Betemps (INSA de Lyon, France)
Marc Arsicault (Univ. of Poitiers, Farnce)
Nicolas Chaillet (Lab. d'Automatique de Besancon, France)

W-AII-7-3
"Closed-loop Control of Rigid and Flexible Objects on a Pneumatic Active Surface Device"
Riko Safaric (Univ. of Maribor, Slovenia)
Suzana Uran (Univ. of Maribor, Slovenia)
Tobias Winther (Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., Center for Automation Techn., USA)

W-AII-7-4
"Piezoactuators for Motion Control from Centimeter to Nanometer"
Jean-Marc Breguet (EPFL, Switzerland )
Ricardo Perez (EPFL, Switzerland )
Arvid Bergander (EPFL, Switzerland )
Carl Schmitt (EPFL, Switzerland )
Reymond Clavel (EPFL, Switzerland )
Hannes Bleuler (EPFL, Switzerland )


14:30-15:50 Room 8 (3304)
Session W-AII-8: Parallel Mechanism - I (OS)
Organizers: Tatsuo Arai (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Chairs: Tatsuo Arai (Osaka Univ., Japan) Sungbok Kim (Hankuk Univ., Korea)

W-AII-8-1
"Development of a Manipulator Suspended by Parallel Wire Structure"
Hisashi OSUMI (Chuo Univ., Japan)
Yasushi UTSUGI (Chuo Univ., Japan)
Masahiro KOSHIKAWA (Chuo Univ., Japan)

W-AII-8-2
"Inverse Kinematics Analysis for Incompletely Restrained Parallel Wire Mechanisms"
Motoji Yamamoto (Kyushu Univ., Japan)
Akira Mohri (Kyushu Univ., Japan)

W-AII-8-3
"Specific Kinematic Changes in a Linear-Actuated Parallel Mechanism According to Differences in Actuator Arrangement"
Takanori Masuda (Mie Pref. Industrial Research Inst., Japan)
Motoyoshi Fujiwara (Mie Pref. Industrial Research Inst., Japan)
Tatsuo Arai (Osaka Univ., Japan)

W-AII-8-4
"Hybrid Drive Parallel Arm and Its Motion Control"
Tatsuo Arai (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Kei Yuasa (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Yasushi Mae (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Kenji Inoue (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Hirofumi Kamishima (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Kunio Miyawaki (Hitachi Zosen Co., Ltd, Japan)


16:00-17:20 Room 1 (3101)
Session W-AIII-1: Human-Robot Cooperation - II
Chairs: Yasushi Nakauchi (National Defence Academy, Japan) Taketoshi Mori (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)

W-AIII-1-1
"Human-Humanoid Physical Interaction Realizing Force Following and Task Fulfillment"
Hiroyasu Iwata (Waseda Univ., Japan)
Hayato Hoshino (Waseda Univ., Japan)
Toshio Morita (Waseda Univ., Japan)
Shigeki Sugano (Waseda Univ., Japan)

W-AIII-1-2
"Human-Robot Interaction through Spoken Language Dialogue"
L. Seabra Lopes (Univ. of Aveiro, Portugal)
Antio Teixeira (Univ. of Aveiro, Portugal)

W-AIII-1-3
"Human-Robot Interactive Control Sharing Same Workspace "
Jae Y. Lew (Ohio Univ., USA)
Yung-Tsan Jou (Ohio Univ., USA)
Hajrudin Pasic (Ohio Univ., USA)

W-AIII-1-4
"Handling of Object by Mobile Manipulator in Cooperationwith Human using Object Trajectory Following Method"
Manabu Sato (Tohoku Univ., Japan)
Kazuhiro Kosuge (Tohoku Univ., Japan)


16:00-17:20 Room 2 (3102)
Session W-AIII-2: Medical and Rehabilitation
Chairs: Atsuo Takanishi (Waseda Univ., Japan), Kazuo Kiguchi (Saga Univ., Japan)

W-AIII-2-1
"Operation Planning of Robot Supported Surgical Interventions"
J. Munchenberg (Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany)
J. Brief (Univ. of Heidelberg, Germany)
J. Raczkowsky (Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany)
H. Worn (Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany)
S. Hassfeld (Univ. of Heidelberg, Germany)
J. Muhling (Univ. of Heidelberg, Germany)

W-AIII-2-2
"Remote Treatment with 6-DOF Mouth Opening and Closing Training Robot"
Hideaki Takanobu (Waseda Univ., Japan)
Ryoji Soyama (Waseda Univ., Japan)
Atsuo Takanishi (Waseda Univ., Japan)
Kayoko Ohtsuki (Yamanashi Medical Univ., Japan)
Daisaku Ozawa (Yamanashi Medical Univ., Japan)
Masatoshi Ohnishi (Yamanashi Medical Univ., Japan)

W-AIII-2-3
"Development of an Intelligent Electrical Rehabilitation System for Rehabilitation Automation"
Ren C. Luo (National Chung Cheng Univ., Taiwan)
Zu Hung Hsiao (National Chung Cheng Univ., Taiwan)
Tse Min Chen (National Chung Cheng Univ., Taiwan)

W-AIII-2-4
"Cartesian Control Issues for Minimally Invasive Robot Surgery"
Tobias Ortmaier (DLR, Germany)
Gerd Hirzinger (DLR, Germany)


16:00-17:20 Room 3 (3201)
Session W-AIII-3: Skill Learning and Task Learning
Chairs: Tamio Arai (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan), Jean-Philippe Urban (Univ. of Mulhouse, France)

W-AIII-3-1
"Learning using multidimensional internal rewards"
Yuichi Kobayashi (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Hideo Yuasa (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Tamio Arai (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)

W-AIII-3-2
"Learning Manipulative Skills with ART"
I. Lopez-Juarez (The Nottingham Trent Univ., Mexico)
M. Howarth (Sheffield Hallam Univ., UK)

W-AIII-3-3
"Extracting Manipulation Skills from Observation"
Jun Takamatsu (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Hirohisa Tominaga (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Koichi Ogawara (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Hiroshi Kimura (Univ. of Electro-Communications, Japan)
Katsushi Ikeuchi (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)

W-AIII-3-4
"Towards Automatically Learning an Implicit Model from 2D-Images Based on a Local Similarity Analysis of Contours"
D. Pechtel (University of Siegen, Germany)
K.-D. Kuhnert (University of Siegen, Germany)


16:00-17:20 Room 4 (3202)
Session W-AIII-4: Visual Sevoing - III
Chairs: Koichiro Deguchi (Tohoku Univ., Japan), Myung Jin Chung (KAIST, Korea)

W-AIII-4-1
"Real-Time 3D Shape Recognition of High Speed Moving Object Real-Time 3D Shape Recognition of High Speed Moving Object "
Koichiro Deguchi (Tohoku Univ., Japan)
Kosuke Yonaiyama (Tohoku Univ., Japan)

W-AIII-4-2
"Visual Servoing Based on Epipolar Geometry"
Patrick Rives (ICARE, France)

W-AIII-4-3
"Improved control of visually observed robotic agents based on autoregressive model prediction"
Guilherme Augusto Silva Pereira (Univ. Federal de Minas Gerais)
Mario Fernando Montenegro Campos (Univ. Federal de Minas Gerais)
Luis A. Aguirre (Univ. Federal de Minas Gerais)

W-AIII-4-4
"Vision Based Station Keeping and Docking for an Aerial Blimp"
Sjoerd van der Zwaan (Inst. Superior Tecnico, Portugal)
Alexandre Bernardino (Inst. Superior Tecnico, Portugal)
JosSantos-Victor (Inst. Superior Tecnico, Portugal)


16:00-17:20 Room 6 (3202)
Session W-AIII-6: Mobile Robot Navigation
Chairs: Keiji Nagatani (Okayama Univ., Japan), Christof Eberst (Tech. Univ. Muenchen, Germany)

W-AIII-6-1
"Vision-Based Door-Traversal for Autonomous Mobile Robots"
C. Eberst (Tech. Univ. Muenchen, Germany)
Magnus Andersson (Royal Inst. of Tech., Sweden)
Henrik I. Christensen (Royal Inst. of Tech., Sweden)

W-AIII-6-2
"A Framework for Indoor Navigation based on a Partially Quantitative Map"
Masahiro Tomono (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan)
Shin'ich Yuta (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan)

W-AIII-6-3
"Braille Block Detection for Autonomous Mobile Robot Navigation"
Tomoaki Yoshida (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan)
Akihisa Ohya (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan)
Shin'ichi Yuta (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan)

W-AIII-6-4
"A Gradient Method for Realtime Robot Control "
Kurt Konolige (SRI Int., USA)


16:00-17:20 Room 7 (3303)
Session W-AIII-7: Advances in Micromanipulation - I (OS)
Organizer: Nadine Le Fort-Piat (Laboratorie d'Automatique de Basantin, Farance)
Chairs: Nadine Le Fort-Piat (Laboratorie d'Automatique de Basantin, Farance), Hideki Hashimoto (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)

W-AIII-7-1
"Real-Time Micro Observation Technique for Tele-Micro-Operation"
Kohtaro Ohba (MEL, Japan)
Carlos Ortega (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan)
Kazuo Tanie (MEL, Japan)
Gakuyoshi Rin (DHT Co., Japan)
R. Dangi (KTEC, Japan)
Y. Takei (Nagaoka U. T., Japan)
T. Kaneko (Denso, Japan)
N. Kawahara (Denso, Japan)

W-AIII-7-2
"Experimentation of Micromanipulation Using Adhesion Forces in Unconstrained Environment"
Y. Rollot (LRP-CNRS, France)
S. Haliyo (LRP-CNRS, France)
S. Regnier (LRP-CNRS, France)
L. Buchaillot (IEMN, France)
J. C. Guinot (LRP-CNRS, France)
P. Bidaud (LRP-CNRS, France)

W-AIII-7-3
"A Microgripper Using Smart Piezoelectric Actuators"
Yassine Haddab (LAB, UMR CNRS, France)
Nicolas Chaillet (LAB, UMR CNRS, France)
Alain Bourjault (LAB, UMR CNRS, France)

W-AIII-7-4
"Indirect Manipulation and Bilateral Control of the Microbe"
Fumihito Arai (Nagoya Univ., Japan)
Masanobu Ogawa (Nagoya Univ., Japan)
Toshio Fukuda (Nagoya Univ., Japan)


16:00-17:20 Room 8 (3304)
Session W-AIII-8: Parallel Mechanism - II (OS)
Organizer: Tatsuo Arai (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Chairs: Satoshi Tadokoro (Kobe Univ., Japan), Masaru Uchiyama (Tohoku Univ., Japan)

W-AIII-8-1
"Parallel Mechanisms with Adjustable Link Parameters "
Tatsuo Arai (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Kazunari Takayama (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Kenji Inoue (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Yasushi Mae (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Yoshihiko Koseki (MEL, Japan)

W-AIII-8-2
"Micro Teleoperation with Parallel Manipulator"
Noriaki Ando (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Masahito Ohta (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Hideki Hashimoto (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)

W-AIII-8-3
"Optimal Redundant Actuation of Closed-Chain Mechanisms for High Operational Stiffness"
Sungbok Kim (Hankuk Univ. of Foreign Studies, Korea)

W-AIII-8-4
"Design of a Parallel-Type Gripper Powered by Pneumatic Actuators"
B.-J. Yi (Hanyang Univ., Korea)
H.-Y. Ra (Hanyang Univ., Korea)
J.H. Lee (Hanyang Univ., Korea)
Y.S. Hong (KIST, Korea)
J.S. Park (KIST, Korea)
S.R Oh (KIST, Korea)


17:30-18:30 Room 1 (3101)
Session W-AIV+0: Human-Robot Cooperation - III
Chairs: Shigeki Sugano (Waseda Univ., Japan), Isao Hara (ETL, Japan)

W-AIV-1-1
"Making Service Robots Human-Safe"
V. Javier Traver (Jaume-I Univ., Spain)
Angel P. del Pobil (Jaume-I Univ., Spain)
M. Perez-Francisco (Jaume-I Univ., Spain)

W-AIV-1-2
"Benefits of Combined Active Stereo Visual and Haptic Telepresence"
Hubert Baier (Tech. Univ. Muenchen, Germany)
Martin Buss (Tech. Univ. Muenchen, Germany)
Franz Freyberger (Tech. Univ. Muenchen, Germany)
Guenther Schmidt (Tech. Univ. Muenchen, Germany)

W-AIV-1-3
"Measurement and Analysis of Human Characteristics on Distance Perception for Man-Machine Interface of Teleoperation Systems"
Jing-Long Wu (Kagawa Univ., Japan)
Kazuyoshi Tsukamoto (Kagawa Univ., Japan)
Masayuki KITAZAWA (Yamaguchi Univ., Japan)


17:30-18:30 Room 2 (3102)
Session W-AIV-2: Medical Robotics (OS)
Organizers: Koji Ikuta (Nagoya Univ., Japan), Ichiro Sakuma (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan), Russell H. Taylor (Johns Hopkins Univ., USA)
Chairs: Koji Ikuta (Nagoya Univ., Japan) Russell H. Taylor (Johns Hopkins Univ., USA)

W-AIV-2-1
"GENIE-An Haptic Interface for Simulation of laparoscopic Surgery"
Ranjan Kumar Mishra (Inst. for Robotics and Intelligent Systems, India)
Saripalli Srikanth (Inst. for Robotics and Intelligent Systems, India)

W-AIV-2-2
"Portable Virtual Endoscope System with Force and Visual Display for Insertion Training"
Koji Ikuta (Nagoya Univ., Japan)
Koji Iritani (Nagoya Univ., Japan)
Junya Fukuyama (Nagoya Univ., Japan)

W-AIV-2-3
"Surgical Assist Robot for the Active Navigation in the Intraoperative MRI: Hardware Design Issues"
Kiyoyuki Chinzei (MEL, Japan)
Nobuhiko Hata (Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA)
Ferenc A. Jolesz (Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA)
Ron Kikinis (Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA)


17:30-18:30 Room 3 (3201)
Session W-AIV-3: Collision Detection - I
Chairs: Enrico Pagello (Univ. of Padua, Italy), Hiroshi Noborio (Osaka Electro Communication Univ., Japan)

W-AIV-3-1
"A Study on Functional Characteristics of Robotic System with Morphology and Intelligence"
Kohki Kikuchi (Science Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Hiroshi Kobayashi (Science Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)

W-AIV-3-2
"Estimate of Minimum Distance between Convex Polyhedra Based on Enclosed Ellipsoids"
Sheng-Po Shiang (Inst. of Info. Science, Taiwan)
Jing-Sin Liu (Inst. of Info. Science, Taiwan)
Yu-Ren Chien (Inst. of Info. Science, Taiwan)

W-AIV-3-3
"A Hierarchy of Detail for Fast Collision Detection"
B. Martinez-Salvador (University Jaume I, Spain)
Angel P. del Pobil (University Jaume I, Spain)
Miguel Perez-Francisco (University Jaume I, Spain)

W-AIV-3-4 <-- F-AII-8-2
"Accelerated Proximity Queries Between Convex Polyhedra By Multi-Level Marching"
Stephen Ehmann (Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
Ming C. Lin (Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)


17:30-18:30 Room 4 (3202)
Session W-AIV-4: Advanced Control Method
Chairs: Kazuhiro Kosuge (Tohoku Univ., Japan), Masaki Yamakita (Tokyo Inst. Tech., Japan)

W-AIV-4-1
"A contour approach for image-based control of objects with complex shape"
Christophe Collewet (Cemagref Rennes, France)
Francois Chaumette (IRISA/INRIA Rennes, France)

W-AIV-4-2
"Instantaneous Model Impedance Control for Robots"
Valency Tomer (Technion-Israel Inst. of Tech., Israel)
Zacksenhouse Miriam (Technion-Israel Inst. of Tech., Israel)

W-AIV-4-3
"The Robust PID Robot Controller Design by Using the Parameter Multiplier"
Inhyuk Cha (Hanyang Univ., Korea)
Changsoo Han (Hanyang Univ., Korea)


17:30-18:30 Room 6 (3302)
Session W-AIV-6: Robotics-Based Demining Technologies (OS)
Organizers: Kenzo Nonami (Chiba Univ., Japan)
Chairs: Kenzo Nonami (Chiba Univ., Japan), Raja Chatila (LAAS-CNRS, France)

W-AIV-6-1
"Proposition of the Humanitarian Demining System by the Quadruped Walking Robot -Adaptability for Varions tasks using the Foot-end-effector Changing Mechanism-"
Keisuke Kato (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Shigeo Hirose (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)

W-AIV-6-2
"Development of Teleoperated Six-legged Walking Robot for Mine Detection and Mapping of Mine Field"
Kenzo Nonami (Chiba Univ., Japan)
N. Shimoi (Chiba Univ., Japan)
Q. J. Huang (Chiba Univ., Japan)
D. Komizo (Chiba Univ., Japan)
H. Uchida (Kisarazu College of Tech., Japan)

W-AIV-6-3
"Force/Attitude Control of Mine Detecting Six-legged Locomotion Robot"
Hiroaki Uchida (Kisarazu National College of Tech., Japan)
Nobuhiro Shimoi (Tokyo National College of Tech., Japan)
Huang Qing Jiu (Chiba Univ. Japan)
Daisuke Komizo (Chiba Univ. Japan)
Kenzo Nonami (Chiba Univ. Japan)


17:30-18:30 Room 7 (3303)
Session W-AIV-7: Advances in Micromanipulation - II (OS)
Organizer: Nadine Le Fort-Piat (Lab. d'Automatique de Besantin, France)
Chairs: Nadine Le Fort-Piat (Lab. d'Automatique de Besantin, France), Fumihito Arai (Nagoya Univ., Japan)

W-AIV-7-1
"Kinematic Analysis of Translational 3-DOF Micro Parallel Mechanism Using Matrix Method"
Yoshihiko Koseki (MEL, Japan)
Tamio Tanikawa (MEL, Japan)
Noriho KOYACHI (MEL, Japan)
Tatsuo ARAI (Osaka Univ., Japan)

W-AIV-7-2
"The Autonomous Miniature Robot Alice: from Prototypes to Applications."
G. Caprari (EPFL, Switzerland)
K. O. Arras (EPFL, Switzerland)
R. Siegwart (EPFL, Switzerland)

W-AIV-7-3--CANCEL!!
"Laser Measuring System for a Flexible Microrobot-Based Micromanipulation Station"
Axel Buerkle (Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany)
Sergej Fatikow (Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany)


17:30-18:30 Room 8 (3304)
Session W-AIV-8: Nonholonomy on Purpose and Minimalism in Robot Design - III (OS)
Organizers: Antonio Bicchi (Univ. Pisa, Italy) Hirohiko Arai (MEL, Japan)
Chairs: Kevin M. Lynch (Northwestern Univ., USA), Yangsheng Xu (The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

W-AIV-8-1
"Nonholonomic Dynamics and Longitudinal Control of the Sphericle"
Carlo Camicia (Univ. of Pisa, Italy)
Fabio Conticelli (Univ. of Pisa, Italy)
Antonio Bicchi (Univ. of Pisa, Italy)

W-AIV-8-2
"Dynamics of a Rolling Disk and a Single Wheel Robot on an Inclined Plane"
Yangsheng Xu (Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong / CMU, USA)
Loi Wah Sun (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

W-AIV-8-3
"Quasi--Static Legged Locomotors as Nonholonomic Systems"
Joel Burdick (California Inst. of Tech., USA)
Bill Goodwine (Notre Dame, USA)


Thursday, November 2, 2000


9:30-10:20 Room 5 (3301)
Plenary Speech II
Chair: Hideki Hashimoto (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)

"Robotics as a Computational Neuroscience"
Mitsuo Kawato (ATR HIP Dept. 3, ATR Int. CyberHuman Project, ERATO JST, Japan )



10:30-11:50 Room 1 (3101)
Session T-MI-1: E-service Robotics (OS)
Organizer: Ning Xi (Michigan State Univ., USA)
Chairs: Ning Xi (Michigan State Univ., USA), Toshio Morita (Waseda Univ., Japan)

T-MI-1-1
"Multi-Site Internet-Based Cooperative Control of Robotic Operations"
Imad Elhajj (Michigan State Univ., USA)
Ning Xi (Michigan State Univ., USA)
WaiKeung Fung (Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Yun Hui Liu (Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Tomoyuki Kaga (Nagoya Univ., Japan)
Toshio Fukuda (Nagoya Univ., Japan)

T-MI-1-2
"E-service robot in home health care"
Max Meng (Univ. of Alberta, Canada)
Cheng Chen (Univ. of Alberta, Canada)
Peter X. Liu (Univ. of Alberta, Canada)
Ming Rao (Univ. of Alberta, Canada)

T-MI-1-3
"e-Maintenance Robotics in Hazardous Environments"
Professor William R. Hamel (The Univ. of Tennessee, USA)

T-MI-1-4
"Internet Based Manufacturing Technology: Intelligent Remote Teleoperation"
Kevin Brady (Lincoln Labs, USA)
Tzyh-Jong Tarn (Washington Univ., USA)


10:30-11:50 Room 2 (3102)
Session T-MI-2: Underwater Robot (OS)
Organizers: Junku Yuh (Univ. of Hawai, USA), C. S. George Lee (Purdue Univ., USA)
Chairs: Junku Yuh (Univ. of Hawai, USA), Tamaki Ura (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)

T-MI-2-1
"Autonomous Target Tracking by Twin-Burger 2"
Arjuna P. Balasuriya (Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore)
Tamaki Ura (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)

T-MI-2-2
"On AUV Control Architecture"
Pere Ridao (Univ. of Girona, Spain)
Junku Yuh. (Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, USA)
Joan Batlle (Univ. of Girona, Spain)
Kazuo Sugihara (Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, USA)

T-MI-2-3
"Distributed Virtual Environment Collabortaive Simulator for Underwater Robots"
Song K. Choi (Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, USA)
Scott A. Menor (Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, USA)
Junku Yuh (Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, USA)

T-MI-2-4
"A New Type of Underwater Microrobot"
Shuxiang GUO (Kagawa Univ., Japan)
Koichi SUGIMOTO (Kagawa Univ., Japan)
Jianliang SU (Shanghai Univ., China)
Keisuke OGURO (Osaka National Research Inst., Japan)


10:30-11:50 Room 3 (3201)
Session T-MI-3: Robot Learning
Chairs: Toshio Fukuda (Nagoya Univ., Japan), Jin Xiao (NSF, USA)

T-MI-3-1
"Extracting Logical Perceptual Space for Robot Learning using Factor Analysis"
Wai-keung, Fung (Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Yun-hui, Liu (Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

T-MI-3-2
"Autonomous Recovery of Global Efficiency Based Local Interaction for Flexible Transfer System (FTS)"
Toshio Fukuda (Nagoya Univ., Japan)
Isao Takagawa (Nagoya Univ., Japan)
Kosuke Sekiyama (The Science of Univ. of Tokyo, Suwa Colleage, Japan)

T-MI-3-3
"Acceleration of Reinforcement Learning by a Mobile Robot using Generalized Rules"
Kousuke Inoue (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Jun Ota (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Tomohiko Katayama (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Tamio Arai (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)

T-MI-3-4
"Autonomous Reconstruction of State Space for Learning of Robot Behavior"
Takehisa Yairi (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Koichi Hori (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Shinichi Nakasuka (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)


10:30-11:50 Room 4 (3202)
Session T-MI-4: Sensor-Based Path Planning
Chairs: Masayoshi Kakikura (Tokyo Denki Univ., Japan), Vladimir Lumelsky (Wisconsin Univ., USA)

T-MI-4-1
"Incremental Topological Modeling using Local Voronoi-like Graphs"
D. Van Zwynsvoorde (LAAS-CNRS, France)
T. Simeon (LAAS-CNRS, France)
R. Alami (LAAS-CNRS, France)

T-MI-4-2
"A Basic Algorithm and data structures for sensor-based path planning in unknow environments"
Juan-Manuel Ahuactzin (INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France)
Alberto Portilla (CENTIA Univ. de las Americas, Mexico)

T-MI-4-3
"A Comparative Study of Sensor-Based Path-Planning Algorithms in an Unknown Maze"
Hiroshi Noborio (Osaka Electro-Communication Univ., Japan)
Keiichi Fujimura (Osaka Electro-Communication Univ., Japan)
Youhei Horiuchi (Osaka Electro-Communication Univ., Japan)

T-MI-4-4
"Sensor-Based Path-Planning Algorithm NH-I for a Nonholonomic Mobile Robot"
Hiroshi Noborio (Osaka Electro-Communication Univ., Japan)
Iku Yamamoto (Osaka Electro-Communication Univ., Japan)
Toshihiro Komaki (Osaka Electro-Communication Univ., Japan)


10:30-11:50 Room 6 (3302)
Session T-MI-6: Mobile Robot (OS)
Organizers: Raja Chatila (LAAS-CNRS, France), Shin'ichi Yuta (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan)
Chair: Raja Chatila (LAAS-CNRS, France)

T-MI-6-1
"Real-time Obstacle Avoidance Algorithm for Visual Navigation"
Joe Mari Maja (Tohoku Univ., Japan)
Dr. Takayuki Takahashi (Tohoku Univ., Japan)
Dr. Zhi Dong Wang (Tohoku Univ., Japan)
Dr. Eiji Nakano (Tohoku Univ., Japan)

T-MI-6-2
"Concept Design of Remote Diagnosis System for Autonomous Mobile Robots"
Tao Yan (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Jun Ota (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Akio Nakamura (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Tamio Arai (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)

T-MI-6-3
"Localization and Map Building using a Sensor-Based Control Strategy"
Alessandro C. Victorino (INRIA - Sophia Antipolis, France)
Patrick Rives (INRIA - Sophia Antipolis, France)
Jean-Jacques Borrelly (INRIA - Sophia Antipolis, France)

T-MI-6-4
"View Planning for the 3D Modelling of Real World Scenes"
Konrad Klein (Fraunhofer Inst. for Computer Graphics, Germany)
Vitor Sequeira (European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Italy)


10:30-11:50 Room 7 (3303)
Session T-MI-7: Haptic Interface - I
Chairs: Il Hong Suh (Hanyang Univ., Korea), Haruhisa Kawasaki (Gifu Univ., Japan)

T-MI-7-1
"Design and Analysis of a New Haptic Device Using a Parallel Mechanism "
Jungwon Yoon (KwangJu Inst. of Science and Tech., Korea)
Jeha Ryu (KwangJu Inst. of Science and Tech., Korea)

T-MI-7-2
"Control of the haptic Interface with Friction and Its Performance Evaluation"
Dong-Soo Kwon (KAIST, Korea)
Ki Young Woo (KAIST, Korea)

T-MI-7-3
"A Design Method of Haptic Interface Controller Considering Transparency and Robust Stability"
Kwang Sik, Eom (Hanyang Univ., Korea)
Il Hong, Suh (Hanyang Univ., Korea)
Byung Ju, Yi (Hanyang Univ., Korea)

T-MI-7-4
"Simple Haptic Display and Object Data Design"
Toru Niki (Ibaraki Univ., Japan)
Makoto Shimojo (Ibaraki Univ., Japan)


10:30-11:50 Room 8 (3304)
Session T-MI-8: Walking Robots
Chairs: Shigeo Hirose (Tokyo Inst. Tech., Japan), Pierre Blazevic (LRP-CNRS, France)

T-MI-8-1
"Three-Legged Walking for Fault Tolerant Locomotion of a Quadruped Robot with Demining Mission"
Yun-Jung Lee (Kyungpook National Univ., Korea)
Shigeo Hirose (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)

T-MI-8-2
"Adaptive Dynamic Walking of a Quadruped Robot on Irregular Terrain by Using Neural System Model"
Hiroshi Kimura (Univ. of Electro-Communications, Japan)
Yasuhiro Fukuoka (Univ. of Electro-Communications, Japan)

T-MI-8-3
"Speed Control for Quadruped using Duty Factor"
Vincent Hugel (LRP-CNRS, France)
Patrick Bonnin (LRP-CNRS, France)
Pierre Blazevic (LRP-CNRS, France)

T-MI-8-4
"Development and Control of New Legged Robot QUARTET III---From Active Walking to Passive Walking---"
Koichi Osuka (Kyoto Univ., Japan)
Yoshihide Saruta (Kyoto Univ., Japan)


13:00-14:20 Room 1 (3101)
Session T-AI-1: Teleoperation - I -- Giga-bit/High-speed Network and Robotics -- (OS)
Organizer: Makoto Mizukawa (Shibaura Inst. Tech., Japan)
Chair: Ralf Koeppe (DLR, Germany)

T-AI-1-1
""Toy Problem" as the Benchmark Test for Teleoperation Systems"
Yasuyoshi Yokokohji (Kyoto Univ., Japan)
Yukihiro Iida (Kyoto Univ., Japan)
Tsuneo Yoshikawa (Kyoto Univ., Japan)

T-AI-1-2
"Development of a Multi-telerobot System for Remote Collaboration"
Nak Young Chong (MEL, Japan)
Tetsuo Kotoku (MEL, Japan)
Kohtaro Ohba (MEL, Japan)
Kiyoshi Komoriya (MEL, Japan)
Fumio Ozaki (Toshiba Co., Japan)
Hideaki Hashimoto (Toshiba Co., Japan)

T-AI-1-3
"Experiments on a Remote Appreciation Robot in an Art Museum"
Shoichi Maeyama (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan)
Shin'ichi YUTA (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan)
Akira HARADA (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan)

T-AI-1-4
"Development of a Mobile Robot Which Embodies a Remote Instructor"
Shin'ya Oyama (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan)
Hideaki Kuzuoka (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan)
Keiichi Yamazaki (Saitama Univ., Japan)
Mamoru Mitsuishi (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Kenji Suzuki (Communication Research Lab., Japan)


13:00-14:20 Room 2 (3102)
Session T-AI-2: Small Quadruped Robots on Robot Soccer - Architecture and System Design (OS)
Organizer: Minoru Asada (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Chairs: Masahiro Fujita (SONY Co., Japan), Pierre Blazevic (LRP-CNRS, France)

T-AI-2-1
"A Hierarchical Structure for Hybrid Control of Autonomous Robots"
Kenneth A. McIsaac (Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA)
Aveek K. Das (Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA)
Joel M. Esposito (Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA)
James P. Ostrowski (Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA)

T-AI-2-2
"A Quadruped Robot Platform with Basic Software for RoboCup Legged Robot League"
Takashi Yamamoto (Sony Co., Japan)
Masahiro Fujita (Sony Co., Japan)

T-AI-2-3
"Reactive Control Architecture Designed for the SONY Legged Robots League in RoboCup 1999"
Vincent Hugel (LRP-CNRS, France)
Patrick Bonnin (LRP-CNRS, France)
Pierre Blazevic (LRP-CNRS, France)

T-AI-2-4
"Observation strategy for decision making based on information criterion"
Noriaki Mitsunaga (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Minoru Asada (Osaka Univ., Japan)


13:00-14:20 Room 3 (3201)
Session T-AI-3: Fuzzy and Neural Networks
Chairs: Kenichi Abe (Tohoku Univ., Japan), Toru Yamaguchi (TMIT, Japan)

T-AI-3-1
"Design of stable fuzzy controllers for an AGV"
W Sardha Wijesoma (Nanyang Tech. Univ., Singapore.)
K R S Kodagoda (Nanyang Tech. Univ., Singapore.)

T-AI-3-2
"A Behavior Learning Method of a Mobile Robot using View Information"
Kuniaki Kawabata (RIKEN, Japan)
Tatsuya Ishikawa (Fujisoft ABC Inc., Japan)
Teruo Fujii (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Hajime Asama (RIKEN, Japan)
Isao Endo (RIKEN, Japan)

T-AI-3-3
"The Open Fuzzy Force Controller of Manipulators with Unknown Environment Parameters "
Peitao Shi (Inst. of Automation, Academia Sinica, China)
Min Tan (Inst. of Automation, Academia Sinica, China)
Xiaojun Ma (Inst. of Automation, Academia Sinica, China)

T-AI-3-4
"Switching Q-Learning in Partially Observable Markovian Environments"
Hiroyuki Kamaya (Hachinohe National College of Tech., Japan)
Hae Yeon Lee (Tohoku Univ., Japan)
Kenichi Abe (Tohoku Univ., Japan)


13:00-14:20 Room 4 (3202)
Session T-AI-4: Sensor-Based Control
Chairs: Tsuneo Yoshikawa (Kyoto Univ., Japan) Koji Ito (Tokyo Inst. Tech., Japan)

T-AI-4-1
"Acceleration Feedback Control for Direct-Drive Motor System"
Han Jianda (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Wang Yuechao (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Xu Weiliang (Massey Univ., New Zealand)

T-AI-4-2
"Explicit Force Control for Manipulators With Active Observers"
Rui Cortesao (Univ. of Coimbra, Portugal)
Ralf Koeppe (DLR, Germany)
Urbano Nunes (Univ. of Coimbra, Portugal)
Gerd Hirzinger (DLR, Germany)

T-AI-4-3
"Mixed camera-laser based control for mobile robot navigation"
Dominique Dedieu (LAAS/CNRS, France)
Viviane Cadenat (LAAS/CNRS, France)
Philippe Soueres (LAAS/CNRS, France)

T-AI-4-4
"State feedback controller for flexible joint robots: A globally stable approach implemented on the DLR-Robots"
Alin Albu-Schaeffer (DLR, Germany)
Gerd Hirzinger (DLR, Germany)


13:00-14:20 Room 5 (3301)
Session T-AII-5: INDUSTRY FORUM
International Industry Liason Committee Co-chairs: Makoto Mizukawa (Shibaura Inst. of Tech., Japan) Prassad N. Akella (CommerceOne, USA) Sang-Rock Oh (KIST, Korea) Raymond Fournier (CEREM, Farance)

T-AI-5-1
"Development and application of robot technology in Korea"
Kyung Chul Shin (Yujin Robotics Co. Ltd., Korea)

T-AI-5-2
"IT and Industrial Robot"
Masato Tanaka (Yasukawa Electric Co., Japan)


13:00-14:20 Room 6 (3302)
Session T-AI-6: Mobile Robot - Architecture and Intelligence
Chair: Alexander Zelinsky (Australian National Univ., Australia), Hideaki Takeda (Nara Inst. of Science and Tech., Japan)

T-AI-6-1
"Self-Adaptive Control Software for Mobile Robots"
Theodore Q. Pham (CMU, USA)
Kevin R. Dixon (CMU, USA)
Pradeep K. Khosla (CMU, USA)

T-AI-6-2
"A Benchmark Suite for Mobile Robots"
Jacky Baltes (Univ. of Auckland, New Zealand)

T-AI-6-3
"A Robot Recognizing Everyday Objects -- Towards Robot as Autonomous Knowledge Media -- "
Hideaki Takeda (The National Inst. of Info. / Nara Inst. of Science and Tech., Japan)
Atsushi Ueno (Nara Inst. of Science and Tech., Japan)
Motoki Saji (Nara Inst. of Science and Tech., Japan)
Tsuyoshi Nakano (Nara Inst. of Science and Tech., Japan)
Kei Miyamoto (Nara Inst. of Science and Tech., Japan)

T-AI-6-4
"A Mode-Based Sensor Fusion Approach to Robotic Stair-Climbing"
Solomon Steplight (Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA)
Geoffrey Egnal (Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA)
Sang-Hack Jung (Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA)
Daniel B. Walker (Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA)
Camillo J. Taylor (Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA)
James P. Ostrowski (Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA)


13:00-14:20 Room 7 (3303)
Session T-AI-7: Haptic Interface - II
Chairs: Yuru Zhang (Beiging Univ. of Aeronautics and Astronutics, China), Yasuyuki Yanagida (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)

T-AI-7-1
"Dynamic Display of Distributed Tactile Shape Information by a Prototypical Actuator Array"
Peter Kammermeier (Tech. Univ. Muenchen, Germany)
Martin Buss (Tech. Univ. Muenchen, Germany)
Guenther Schmidt (Tech. Univ. Muenchen, Germany)

T-AI-7-2
"Control and Evaluation of A New 6-DOF Haptic Device Using a Parallel Mechanism"
Jungwon Yoon (KwangJu Inst. of Science and Tech., Korea)
Jeha Ryu (KwangJu Inst. of Science and Tech., Korea)

T-AI-7-3
"SKK Hand Master -Hand Exoskeleton Semi-directly Driven by Ultrasonic Motors"
B. H. Choi (SungKyunKwan Univ., Korea)
H. R. Choi (SungKyunKwan Univ., Korea)

T-AI-7-4
"Presentation of Push Button Switches with Manipulators for Virtual Operating Environment"
Kenji Inoue (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Yusuke Takao (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Tatsuo Arai (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Yasushi Mae (Osaka Univ., Japan)


13:00-14:20 Room 8 (3304)
Session T-AI-8: Biped Robots - I
Chairs: Koichi Osuka (Kyoto Univ., Japan), Kyosuke Ono (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)

T-AI-8-1
"Self-Excitation Control for Biped Walking Mechanism"
Kyosuke Ono (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Ryutaro Takahashi (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Atsushi Imadu (Yasukawa Electric Co., Japan)
Toru Shimada (Fujitsu Ltd., Japan)

T-AI-8-2
"Virtual Passive Dynamic Walking and Energy-Based Control Laws"
Fumihiko Asano (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Masaki Yamakita (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Katsuhisa Furuta (Tokyo Denki Univ., Japan)

T-AI-8-3
"Design of 4 Joints 3 Links Biped Robot and Its Gaits"
Sung-Hoon Kim (KAIST, Korea)
Jun-Ho Oh (KAIST, Korea)
Ki-Hoon Lee (KAIST, Korea)

T-AI-8-4
"Synthesis of Turning Pattern Trajectories for a Biped Robot in a Scene with Obstacles"
Vladimir Lumelsky (Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, USA)
M. Yagi (Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, USA)


14:30-15:50 Room 1 (3101)
Session T-AII-1: Teleoperation - II
Chairs: Yasuyoshi Yokokoji (Kyoto Univ., Japan), Antel K. Bejczy (JPL, USA)

T-AII-1-1
"Verification of an Advanced Space Teleoperation System Using Internet"
Yuichi Tsumaki (Tohoku Univ., Japan)
Toshihiko Goshozono (Tohoku Univ., Japan)
Koyu Abe (Tohoku Univ., Japan)
Masaru Uchiyama (Tohoku Univ., Japan)
Ralf Koeppe (DLR, Germany)
Gerd Hirzinger (DLR, Germany)

T-AII-1-2
"A Novel Adaptive Bilateral Control Scheme using Dual Closed-loop Dynamic Characteristics of Master/Slave Manipulators"
Jee-Hwan Ryu (KAIST, Korea)
Dong-Soo Kwon (KAIST, Korea)

T-AII-1-3
"A Tele-Operation System Based on Generation of Artificial Forces and Sensor-Based Motion-Planning"
Taisuke Hirai (Osaka Electro-Communication Univ., Japan)
Tatsuya Ikuta (Osaka Electro-Communication Univ., Japan)
Hiroshi Noborio (Osaka Electro-Communication Univ., Japan)

T-AII-1-4
"Sliding Mode Control of Bilateral Teleoperation Systems with Force-Reflection on the Internet"
Park, Jong Hyeon (Hanyang Univ., Korea)
Cho, Hyun Chul (Hanyang Univ., Korea)


14:30-15:50 Room 2 (3102)
Session T-AII-2: Self-localization on Robot Soccer (OS)
Organizer: Minoru Asada (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Chairs: Tamio Arai (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan), Thorsten Schmitt (Muenchen Univ. of Tech., Germany)

T-AII-2-1
"Vision-Based Self-Localization for Soccer Robots"
Carlos F. Marques (Inst. Superior Tecnico, Portugal)
Pedro U. Lima (Inst. Superior Tecnico, Portugal)

T-AII-2-2
"Vision-Based Localization and Data Fusion in a System of Cooperating Mobile Robots"
Robert Hanek (Muenchen Univ. of Tech., Germany)
Thorsten Schmitt (Muenchen Univ. of Tech., Germany)

T-AII-2-3
"Fuzzy Landmark-Based Localization on the Sony Legged Robot"
P. Buschka (Orebro Univ., Sweden)
A. Saffiotti (Orebro Univ., Sweden)
Z. Wasik (Orebro Univ., Sweden)

T-AII-2-4
"Learning Self-Localization with Teaching System"
Masahiro Yokoi (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Yuichi Kobayashi (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Takeshi Fukase (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Hideo Yuasa (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Tamio Arai (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)


14:30-15:50 Room 3 (3201)
Session T-AII-3: Grasping and Stiffness Analysis
Chairs: Kazuo Kiguchi (Saga Univ., Japan), Imin Kao (State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook, USA)
 

T-AII-3-1
"Geometrical Methods for Modeling the Asymmetric 6x6 Cartesian Stiffness MAtrix"
Shih-Feng Chen (Lunghwa Inst. of Tech., Taiwan)
Imin Kao (SUNY at Stony Brook, USA)

T-AII-3-2
"An Efficient Algorithm for Computing a 3D Form-Closure Grasp"
Dan Ding (The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Yun-Hui Liu (The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Yan-Tao Shen (The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Guo-Liang Xiang (The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

T-AII-3-3
"Stiffness Analysis for Effective Peg-In/Out-Hole Tasks Using Multi-fingered Robot Hands"
Byoung-Ho Kim (Hanyang Univ. / KIST, Korea)
Byung-Ju Yi (Hanyang Univ., Korea)
Il Hong Suh (Hanyang Univ., Korea)
Sang-Rok Oh (KIST, Korea)

T-AII-3-4
"On the existence of form-closure configurations on a lattice"
A. Frank van der Stappen (Utrecht Univ., Netherlands)


14:30-15:50 Room 4 (3202)
Session T-AII-4: Sensor Systems
Chairs: Ryosuke Masuda (Tokai Univ., Japan), Kazunori Umeda (Chuo Univ., Japan)

T-AII-4-1
"Compound-eye-type Micro Vision Sensor with Simple Structure"
Michiaki Sekine (Chuo Univ., Japan)
Kazunori Umeda (Chuo Univ., Japan)

T-AII-4-2
"Improved Performance of Built-in Torque Sensing for Harmonic Drives"
Ivan Godler (Kyushu Univ., Japan)
Tamotsu Ninomiya (Kyushu Univ., Japan)
Masashi Horiuchi (Harmonic Drive Systems, Inc., Japan)
Minoru Hashimoto (Shinshu Univ., Japan)

T-AII-4-3
"Development of a Biomimetic Position Sensor for Robotic Kinesthesia"
Kristen N. Jaax (Univ. of Washington, USA)
Pierre-Henry Marbot (Univ. of Washington, USA)
Blake Hannaford (Univ. of Washington, USA)

T-AII-4-4 --> T-AII-6-4


14:30-15:50 Room 5 (3301)
Session T-AII-5: Applications
Chairs: Axel Remde (Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany), Henning Tolle (Darmstadt Univ. of Tech., Germany)

T-AII-5-1
"Object Turning for Barcode Search"
Derk Rembold (Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany)
Vladislav Belogroudov (Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany)
Heinz Woern (Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany)

T-AII-5-2
"Robot Assisted Disassembly of Electronic Devices"
K. Hohm (Darmstadt Univ. of Tech., Germany)
H. Mueller Hofstede (Darmstadt Univ. of Tech., Germany)
H. Tolle (Darmstadt Univ. of Tech., Germany)

T-AII-5-3
"Intelligent System for Automated Fish Sorting and Counting"
Sebastien Cadieux (IREQ, Canada)
Francois Michaud (Univ. of Sherbrooke, Canada)
Francois Lalonde (IREQ, Canada)

T-AII-5-4
"Influence of Material Properties and Fingertip Size on the Power-Law Equation for Soft Fingers"
Nicholas Xydas (State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook, USA)
Imin Kao (State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook, USA)


14:30-15:50 Room 6 (3302)
Session T-AII-6: Ultrasonic Sensing for Mobile Robot
Chairs: Teruko Yata (CMU, USA) Lindsey Kleeman (Mnonash Univ., Australia)

T-AII-6-1
"Research on Estimating the Smoothed Value and the Differential Value of the Distance Measured by an Ultrasonic Wave Sensor"
Takanori Emura (Hokkaido Univ., Japan)
Takeshi Tsuchiya (Hokkaido Univ., Japan)
 

T-AII-6-2
"Use of Amplitude of Echo for Environment Recognition by Mobile Robots"
Teruko Yata (CMU, USA)
Akihisa Ohya (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan)
Shin'ichi Yuta (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan)

T-AII-6-3
"Context-Based Feature Extraction With Wide-Angle Sonars"
Gregor Pavlin (Graz Univ. of Tech., Austria)
Reinhard Braunstingl (Graz Univ. of Tech., Austria)

T-AII-6-4 <-- T-AII-4-4
"A Real Time DSP Sonar Echo Processor"
Andrew Heale (Monash Univ., Australia)
Lindsay Kleeman (Monash Univ., Australia)


14:30-15:50 Room 7 (3303)
Session T-AII-7: Haptic Interaction and Dynamic Simulation (OS)
Organizers: Christian Laugier (INRIA, France), Remis Balaniuk (Stanford Univ., USA)
Chairs: Christian Laugier (INRIA, France), Martin Buss (Tech. Univ. Muenchen, Germany)

T-AII-7-1
"Haptic Interfaces in Generic Virtual Reality Systems"
Remis Balaniuk (Stanford Univ., USA)
Christian Laugier (INRIA Rhone Alpes, France)

T-AII-7-2
"Stable Haptic Display of 1-DOF Grasping with Coupling Impedance for Internal and External Force"
Masayuki Kawai (Kyoto Univ., Japan)
Tsuneo Yoshikawa (Kyoto Univ., Japan)

T-AII-7-3
"A Framework for Multi-Contact Multi-Body Dynamic Simulation and Haptic Display"
Diego Ruspini (Stanford Univ., USA)
Oussama Khatib (Stanford Univ., USA)

T-AII-7-4
"Exploration and Manipulation of Virtual Environments using a Combined Hand- and Finger Force Feedback System"
Alexander Kron (Tech. Univ. Munchen)
Martin Buss (Tech. Univ. Munchen)
Guenther Schmidt (Tech. Univ. Munchen)


14:30-15:50 Room 8 (3304)
Session T-AII-8: Biped Robots - II
Chairs: Shuji Kajita (MEL, Japan) Giorgio Figliolini (DiMSTA-Univ., Italy)

T-AII-8-1
"Follow-walking Motions of a Biped Humanoid Robot"
Hun-ok Lim (Kanagawa Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Yousuke Yamamoto (Waseda Univ., Japan)
Atsuo Takanishi (Waseda Univ., Japan)

T-AII-8-2
"A standing posture control based on ground reaction force"
Satoshi ITO (Gifu Univ., Japan)
Haruhisa KAWASAKI (Gifu Univ., Japan)

T-AII-8-3
"Logical sensors and PLC programming for autonomous biped walking robot"
Giorgio Figliolini (Univ. of Cassino, Italy)
Marco Ceccarelli (Univ. of Cassino, Italy)
Maria Teresa Llorens Aymerich (Univ. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)

T-AII-8-4
"Vision Based Walking of Human Type Biped Robot on Undulating Ground"
Masaaki Kumagai (Tohoku Univ., Japan)
Takashi Emura (Tohoku Univ., Japan)


16:00-17:20 Room 1 (3101)
Session T-AIII-1: Intelligent Environment and Physical Agents (OS)
Organizers: Joo-Ho Lee (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan), Hideki Hashimoto (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan), Toru Yamaguchi (Utsunomiya Univ., Japan)
Chairs: Joo-Ho Lee (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan), Max Meng (Univ. of Alberta, Canada)

T-AIII-1-1
"Intelligent Space"
Joo-Ho Lee (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Hideki Hashimoto (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)

T-AIII-1-2
"Sensorized Environment for Self-communication Based on Observation of Daily Human Behavior"
(ETL, Japan)
Toshio Hori (ETL, Japan)
Takashi Suehiro (ETL, Japan)
Shigeoki Hirai (ETL, Japan)

T-AIII-1-3
"SELF-Network : Design and Implementation of Network for Distributed Embedded Sensors"
Toshio Hori (ETL, Japan)
Yoshifumi Nishida (ETL, Japan)
Takashi Suehiro (ETL, Japan)
Shigeoki Hirai (ETL, Japan)

T-AIII-1-4
"Robust Face Detection Against Brightness Fluctuation and Size Variation"
Ken-ichi Hidai (Saitama Univ., Japan)
Hiroshi Mizoguchi (Saitama Univ., Japan)
Kazuyuki Hiraoka (Saitama Univ., Japan)
Masaru Tanaka (Saitama Univ., Japan)
Takaomi Shigehara (Saitama Univ., Japan)
Taketoshi Mishima (Saitama Univ., Japan)


16:00-17:20 Room 2 (3102)
Session T-AIII-2: Soccer Robotics - Coordination and Cooperation
Chairs: Sho'ji Suzuki (Hakodate Mirai Univ., Japan), Vincent Hugel (LRP-CNRS, France)

T-AIII-2-1
"Coordination among heterogeneous robotic soccer players"
Claudio Castelpietra (Univ. La Sapienza, Italy)
Luca Iocchi (Univ. La Sapienza, Italy)
Daniele Nardi (Univ. La Sapienza, Italy)
Maurizio Piaggio (Univ. Genova, Italy)
Antonio Sgorbissa (Univ. Genova, Italy)
Alessandro Scalzo (Univ. Genova, Italy)

T-AIII-2-2
"Thinking as One: Coordination of Multiple Mobile Robots by Shared Representations "
Ashley Tews (Univ. of Queensland, Australia)
Gordon Wyeth (Univ. of Queensland, Australia)

T-AIII-2-3
"Cooperative Behavior Acquisition in Multi Robots Environment by Reinforcement Learning Based on Action Selection Level"
Hai-Tao Chu (Harbin Inst. of Tech., China)
Bing-Rong Hong (Harbin Inst. of Tech., China)

T-AIII-2-4
"Using Collision Avoidance Algorithms for Designing Multi-robot Emergent Behaviors "
Roberto Polesel (Univ. of Padua, Italy)
Robert Rosati (Univ. of Padua, Italy)
Alberto Speranzon (Univ. of Padua, Italy)
Carlo Ferrari (Univ. of Padua, Italy)
Enrico Pagello (Univ. of Padua, Italy)


16:00-17:20 Room 3 (3201)
Session T-AIII-3: Robot Programming / Architecture
Chairs: Reid Simmons (CMU, USA) Shin'ich Yuta (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan)

T-AIII-3-1
"Towards Automatic Verification of Autonomous Systems"
Reid Simmons (CMU, USA)
Charles Pecheur (RIACS/NASA Ames Research Center, USA)

T-AIII-3-2
"EME - Low-Cost Embedded Multiprocessing Environment"
Jean-Marc Ranger (Univ. of Sherbrooke, Canada)
Francois Michaud (Univ. of Sherbrooke, Canada)

T-AIII-3-3
"The Need for Autonomy and Real-Time in Mobile Robotics: A Case Study of XO/2 and Pygmalion"
Roberto Brega (ETHZ, Switzerland)
Nicola Tomatis (ETHZ, Switzerland)
Kai O. Arras (ETHZ, Switzerland)

T-AIII-3-4
"Using LabVIEW to prototype an idustrial-quality real-time solution for the Titan 4WD outdoor mobile robot controller"
Danny Ratner (Univ. of Wollongong, Australia)
Phillip McKerrow (Univ. of Wollongong, Australia)


16:00-17:20 Room 4 (3202)
Session T-AIII-4: Sensor Fusion
Chairs: Ren C. Luo (Chung Cheng Univ., Taiwan), Minoru Asada (Osaka Univ., Japan)

T-AIII-4-1
"Adaptable Sensor Fusion Using Multiple Kalman Filters"
Louis Drolet (IREQ, Canada)
Francois Michaud (Univ. of Sherbrooke, Canada)
Jean Cote (IREQ, Canada)

T-AIII-4-2
"Multiple Hypothesis Testing Strategy for Distributed Multisensor Systems"
Xiao-Gang Wang (Shanghai Univ., China)
Helen C. Shen (Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Tech., Hong Kong)

T-AIII-4-3
"Learning Fusion Strategies for Visual Object Detection"
Lucas PALETTA (GMD, Germany)
Erich ROME (GMD, Germany)

T-AIII-4-4
"Active Audition System and Humanoid Exterior Design"
Kauhiro Nakdai (JST, Japan)
Tatsuya Matsui (JST, Japan)
Hiroshi G. Okuno (JST, Japan)
Hiroaki Kitano (JST, Japan)


16:00-17:20 Room 5 (3301)
Session T-AIII-5: Assembly
Chairs: Tamio Arai (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan), Katsushi Ikeuchi (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)

T-AIII-5-1
"Interactive Assembly Planning in Virtual Environments"
Xiaobu Yuan (Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland, Canada)

T-AIII-5-2
"Part Assembly Using Static and Dynamic Force Fields "
Jiangchun Luo (Rice Univ., USA)
Lydia Kavraki (Rice Univ., USA)

T-AIII-5-3
"Reducing the Complexity of Geometric Selective Disassembly"
Miguel A. Garcia (Rovira i Virgili Univ., Spain)
Albert Larr (Rovira i Virgili Univ., Spain)
Beatriz Lez (Rovira i Virgili Univ., Spain)
Albert Oller (Rovira i Virgili Univ., Spain)

T-AIII-5-4
"Manipulating deformable linear objects: Force based detection of contact state transitions"
Axel Remde (Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany)
Heinz W n (Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany)


16:00-17:20 Room 6 (3302)
Session T-AIII-6: Omnidirectional Sensor and the Mobile Robot Navigation (OS)
Organizer: Eric Brassart (CREA, France)
Chairs: Eric Brassart (CREA, France), Hiroshi Ishiguro (Wakayama Univ., Japan)

T-AIII-6-1
"Generation of Stationary Environmental Map under Unknown Robot Motion"
Yasushi Yagi (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Hiroaki Hamada (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Nels Benson (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Masahiko Yachida (Osaka Univ., Japan)

T-AIII-6-2
"Reconstruction with the calibrated SYCLOP sensor."
Cyril Cauchois (CREA, France)
Eric Brassart (CREA, Farance)
Laurent Delahoche (CREA, France)
Thierry Delhommelle (CREA, France)

T-AIII-6-3
"Cooperation between Two Omnidirectional Perception Systems for Mobile Robot Localization"
Arnaud Clerentin (CREA, Farnce)
Laurent Delahoche (CREA, Farnce)
Eric Brassart (CREA, Farnce)

T-AIII-6-4
"Exploration and Navigation in Corridor Environment Based on Omni-View Sequence"
Yoshio Matsumoto (Nara Inst. of Science and Tech., Japan)
Kazunori Ikeda (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Masayuki Inaba (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Hirochika Inoue (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)


16:00-17:20 Room 7 (3303)
Session T-AIII-7: Sensitive Skin (OS)
Organizers: Vladimir Lumelsky (Wisconsin Univ., USA), Hiroyuki Shinoda (Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Tech., Japan)
Chairs: Vladimir Lumelsky (Wisconsin Univ., USA), Hiroyuki Shinoda (Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Tech., Japan)

T-AIII-7-1
"Flexible Semiconductor Films for Sensitive Skin"
J. Sinius (Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., USA)
R. Gaska (Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., USA)
M. S. Shur (Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., USA)

T-AIII-7-2
"Passive Wireless Sensing Element for Sensitive Skin"
Hiroyuki Shinoda (Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Tech., Japan)
Hideki OASA (Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Tech., Japan)

T-AIII-7-3
"Principal Curvature Estimation by Acoustical Tactile Sensing System"
Kenbu Teramoto (Saga Univ., Japan)
Keigo Watanabe (Saga Univ., Japan)

T-AIII-7-4
"On Hard Contact Force Control "
Nakju Doh (Pohang Univ. of Science and Tech., Korea)
Wankyun Chung (Pohang Univ. of Science and Tech., Korea)
Youngil Youm (Pohang Univ. of Science and Tech., Korea)


16:00-17:20 Room 8 (3304)
Session T-AIII-8: Adaptive Control
Chairs: Artur M. Arsenio (MIT, USA), Etienne Burdet (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore)

T-AIII-8-1
"Experimental Verification for Robust Adaptive Control of an Underactuated Robot Manipulator with Sencond-Order Nonholonomic Constraints"
Jin-Ho Shin (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Ju-Jang Lee (KAIST, Korea)

T-AIII-8-2
"A Comparison of Control Algorithms for Serial Manipulators in Terms of Quasi-Velocities"
Krzysztof Kozlowski (Poznan Univ. of Tech., Poland)
Przemysław Herman (Poznan Univ. of Tech., Poland)

T-AIII-8-3
"On Stability and Error Bounds of Describing Functions for Oscillatory Control of Movements"
Artur M. Arsenio (MIT, USA)

T-AIII-8-4
"Digital Adaptive Control of Space Robot Manipulators Using Transpose of Generalized Jacobian Matrix"
Yuichiro Taira (Kyushu Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Shinichi Sagara (Kyushu Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Ryozo Katoh (Kyushu Inst. of Tech., Japan)



18:30-21:00 Marugame Okura Hotel
Banquet Speech

"Modeling from Reality"
Katsushi Ikeuchi (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)


Friday, November 3, 2000


9:30-10:20 Room 5 (3301)
Plenary Speech III
Chair: Guenther Schmidt (Tech. Univ. Muenchen, Germany)

"Medical Robotics and Computer-Integrated Therapy Delivery: Coupling Information to Action in 21'st Century Surgery"
Russell H. Taylor (John Hopkins Univ., USA)



10:30-11:50 Room 1 (3101)
Session F-MI-1: Humanoid Robotics - I - Hardware Design (OS)
Organizers: Ray Jarvis (Monash Univ., Australia)
Chairs: Kenji Kaneko (MEL, Japan), Ray Jarvis (Monash Univ., Australia)

F-MI-1-1
"Design and Development of Research Platform for Perception-Action Integration in Humanoid Robot : H6"
Koichi Nishiwaki (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Tomomichi Sugihara (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Satoshi Kagami (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Fumio Kanehiro (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Masayuki Inaba (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Hirochika Inoue (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)

F-MI-1-2
"Development of a Light-Weight Biped Humanoid Robot"
Atsushi Konno (Tohoku Univ., Japan)
Noriyoshi Kato (Tohoku Univ., Japan)
Satoshi Shirata (Tohoku Univ., Japan)
Tomoyuki Furuta (Tohoku Univ., Japan)
Masaru Uchiyama (Tohoku Univ., Japan)

F-MI-1-3
"A Lightweight Plastic Robotic Humanoid "
Andrew R. Price (Monash Univ., Australia)
Ray Jarvis (Monash Univ., Australia)
Lindsay Kleeman (Monash Univ., Australia)
R. Andy Russell (Monash Univ., Australia)

F-MI-1-4
"Development of a High-Performance Upper Body Humanoid System"
Akihiko Nagakubo (ETL, Japan)
Yasuo Kuniyoshi (ETL, Japan)
Gordon Cheng (ETL, Japan)


10:30-11:50 Room 2 (3102)
Session F-MI-2: Robot Simulation
Chairs: Emmanuel Mazer (INRIA, France), Hirohisa Hirukawa (ETL, Japan)

F-MI-2-1
"Motion Simulation Using a High-Speed Parallel Link Mechanism"
Susumu Tarao (Ichinoseki National College of Tech., Japan)
Eiichi Inohira (Tohoku Univ., Japan)
Masaru Uchiyama (Tohoku Univ., Japan)

F-MI-2-2
"Hardware-in-the-Loop Simmulation of Robots Interacting with Environment via Algebraic Differential Equation "
Farhad Aghili (Canadian Space Agency, Canada)
Jean-Claude Piedboeuf (Canadain Space Agency, Canda)

F-MI-2-3
"A Robotic CAD system using a Bayesian framework"
Kamel Mekhnacha (LEIBNIZ/IMAG, France)
Emmanuel Mazer (GRAVIR/IMAG, France)
Pierre Bessiere (LEIBNIZ/IMAG, France)

F-MI-2-4
"Fast Convex Minimization to detect Collisions between Polyhedra"
Claudio Mirolo (Univ. of Udine, Italy)
Enrico Pagello (Padua Univ., Italy)


10:30-11:50 Room 3 (3201)
Session F-MI-3: Biologically-Based Robotics
Chairs: Robin R. Murphy (Univ. of South Florida, USA), Hiroshi Kimura (Univ. Electro-Communications, Japan)

F-MI-3-1
"Sensor Allocation for Behavioral Sensor Fusion using Min-Conflict with Happiness"
Aaron Gage (Univ. of South Florida, USA)

F-MI-3-2
"Proto-Symbol Emergence"
Karl F. MacDorman (Osaka Univ. Japan)
Koji Tatani (Osaka Univ., Japan)

F-MI-3-3
"On the Performance of a Biologically Motivated Visual Control Strategy for Robotic Hand-Eye Coordination"
Alexa Hauck (TU Muenchen, Germany)
Georg Passig (TU Muenchen, Germany)
Thomas Schenk (LMU Muenchen, Germany)
Michael Sorg (TU Muenchen, Germany)
Georg Farber (TU Muenchen, Germany)

F-MI-3-4
"Constraints in Human Visuomotor Systems"
Yaoping Hu (National Research Council, Canada)
Melvyn A. Goodale (Univ. of Western Onatrio, Canada)


10:30-11:50 Room 4 (3202)
Session F-MI-4: Control of Mobile Robot
Chairs: Yasuo Suga (Keio univ., Japan), Sang-Rok Oh (KIST, Korea)

F-MI-4-1
"Mobility of a Microgravity Rover using Internal Electro-Magnetic Levitation"
Shingo Shimoda (Tokyo Univ., Japan)
Yoshihiko NAKAMURA (Tokyo Univ., Japan)
Sanefumi SHOJI (Tokyo Univ., Japan)

F-MI-4-2
"Force Tracking in Multiple Impedance Control of Space Free-Flyers"
S. Ali A. Moosavian (K. N. Toosi Univ. of Tech., Iran)
Rambod Rastegari (K. N. Toosi Univ. of Tech., Iran)

F-MI-4-3
"Inpipe Inspection Robot System with Active Steering Mechanism"
S.M. Ryew (Sungkyunkwan Univ., Korea)
S.H. Baik (Sungkyunkwan Univ., Korea)
S.W. Ryu (Sungkyunkwan Univ., Korea)
K.M. Jung (Sungkyunkwan Univ., Korea)
S.G. Roh (Sungkyunkwan Univ., Korea)
H.R. Choi (Sungkyunkwan Univ., Korea)

F-MI-4-4
"Neural Network Control of Mobile Manipulators"
Sheng LIN (Univ. of Toronto, Canada)
A.A.Goldenberg (Univ. of Toronto, Canada)


10:30-11:50 Room 5 (3301)
Session F-MI-5: Super Mechano Systems - I : New Function Creation by Fusion of Control and Mechanism (OS)
Organizer: Fumitoshi Matsuno (Tokyo Inst. Tech., Japan)
Chairs: Fumitoshi Matsuno (Tokyo Inst. Tech., Japan), Michael Jenkin (York Univ., Canada)

F-MI-5-1
"Study of Super-Mechano-Colony (Concept and basic experimental setup) "
Shigeo Hirose (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Riichiro Damoto (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Atsushi Kawakami (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)

F-MI-5-2
"Fundamental Mechanism of Dinosaur-like Robot TITRUS-II Utilizing Coupled Drive"
Kensuke Takita (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Ryuichi Hodoshima (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Shigeo Hirose (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)

F-MI-5-3
"Control of Giant Swing Motion of a Two-Link Underactuated Horizontal Bar Robot"
Kyosuke Ono (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Koji Yamamoto (Kawasaki Heavy Industry Ltd., Japan)
Atsushi Imadu (Yaskawa Electric Co., Japan)

F-MI-5-4
"Underactuated Crawling Robot"
Kazuyuki Ito (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Fumitoshi Matsuno (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Rie Takahashi (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)


10:30-11:50 Room 6 (3302)
Session F-MI-6: Vision-Based Navigation - I
Chair: Yoshio Matsumoto (Nara Inst. of Science and Tech., Japan), Alexander Zelinsky (Australian National Univ., Australia)

F-MI-6-1
"Campus Walkway Following of an Autonomous Mobile Robot based on Color Image"
Kazunori Ohno (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan)
Takasi Tsubouchi (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan)
Shoichi Maeyama (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan)
Shin'ichi Yuta (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan)

F-MI-6-2
"Image-based Positioning with Respect to a Non-structured Scene Using 2D Image Motion"
Armel Cretual (IRISA/INRIA Rennes, France and Univ. Genova, Italy)
Francois CHAUMETTE (IRISA/INRIA Rennes, France)
Giulio SANDINI (Univ. of Genova, Italy)

F-MI-6-3
"View-Based Approach to Robot Navigation"
Yoshio Matsumoto (Nara Inst. of Science and Tech., Japan)
Katsuhiro Sakai (Toyota Motor Co., Japan)
Masayuki Inaba (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Hirochika Inoue (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)

F-MI-6-4
"Active Visual Localisation for Cooperating Inspection Robots"
Andrew J. Davison (ETL, Japan)
Nobuyuki Kita (ETL, Japan)


10:30-11:50 Room 7 (3303)
Session F-MI-7: Educatio Forum
Organizers: IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, Education Committee
Chairs: Aydan M. Erkmen (Middle East Tech. Univ., Turky), Takashi Tsubouchi (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan), Marjorie Skubic (Univ. of Missouri-Columbia, USA)
F-MI-7-1
"A Mechatronics Minor Program Imbeddeing Design via a Multidisciplinary International Virtual Design Studio"
Aydan M. Erkmen (Middle East Tech. Univ., Turky)

F-MI-7-2
"A Proposal for Enhancing Professional Education and Research"
Suguru Arimoto (Ritsumeikan Univ., Japan)


10:30-11:50 Room 8 (3304)
Session F-MI-8: Motion Planning - I
Chairs: Lydia Kavraki (Rice Univ. USA) Kosei Kitagaki (ETL, Japan)

F-MI-8-1
"A Two Level Fuzzy PRM for Manipulation Planning"
Christian L. Nielsen (Odense Univ., Denmark)
Lydia Kavraki (Rice University, USA)

F-MI-8-2
"An Adaptive Framework for `Single Shot' Motion Planning"
Daniel R. Vallejo (Texas A&M Univ., USA)
Christopher Jones (Sandia National Lab., USA)
Nancy M. Amato (Texas A&M Univ., USA)

F-MI-8-3
"On Optimal Nonholonomic Paths in a Limited Space"
Andrei M. Shkel (Univ. of California at Irvine, USA)
Vladimir Lumelsky (Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison, USA)

F-MI-8-4
"A Gradient-Based Approach to Collision-Free Quasi-Optimal Trajectory Planning of Nonholonomic Systems"
Makoto Iwamura (Kyushu Univ., Japan)
Motoji Yamamoto (Kyushu Univ., Japan)
Akira Mohri (Kyushu Univ., Japan)


13:00-14:20 Room 1 (3101)
Session F-AI-1: Humanoid Robotics - II - Sensor and Functional Component Design (OS)
Organizer: Ray Jarvis (Monash Univ., Australia)
Chairs: Yasuo Kuniyoshi (ETL, Japan), Rudiger Dillmann (Univ. Karlsruhe, Germany)

F-AI-1-1
"Interactive Hand/Eye Coordination between a Human and a Humanoid - A Proposal."
R.A. Jarvis (Monash Univ., Australia)

F-AI-1-2
"A Framework for Integrating Sensory Information in a Humanoid Robot"
Iris fermin (ERATO Kitano Symbiotic Systems Project, JST, Japan)
Hiroshi Ishiguro (Kyoto Univ., Japan)
Hiroshi Okuno (ERATO Kitano Symbiotic Systems Project, JST, Japan)
Hiroaki Kitano (ERATO Kitano Symbiotic Systems Project)

F-AI-1-3
"Design of the TUAT/Karlsruhe Humanoid Hand"
Naoki Fukaya (Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Techn., Japan)
Shigeki Toyama (Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Techn., Japan)
Tamim Asfour (Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany)
Rudiger Dillmann (Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany)

F-AI-1-4
"Development of a Talking Robot"
Kazufumi Nishikawa (Waseda Univ., Japan)
Kouichirou Asama (Waseda Univ., Japan)
Kouki Hayashi (Waseda Univ., Japan)
Hideaki Takanobu (Waseda Univ., Japan)
Atsuo Takanishi (Waseda Univ., Japan)


13:00-14:20 Room 2 (3102)
Session F-AI-2: Kinematics
Chairs: Oliver Rogalla (Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany), Hitomi Mochiyama (National Defence Academy, Japan)

F-AI-2-1
"Epsilon-Stabilization of Multiple Chained Form Control Systems with Input Constraints and Its Application in Mobile Robots"
Chaoli Wang (Shenyang Inst. of Automation, CAS, China)
Wei Huo (Beijing Univ. of Aero. and Astro., China)

F-AI-2-2
"Task Space Control for the Whole Arm"
Hiromi Mochiyama (National Defense Academy, Japan)


13:00-14:20 Room 3 (3201)
Session F-AI-3: Biologically-Based Systems
Chairs: Il Hong Suh (Hanyang Univ., Korea), Kazuhito Yokoi (MEL, Japan)

F-AI-3-1
"Biomimetic Trajectory Planning Via Redundant Actuation"
J.H. Lee (Hanyang Univ., KOREA)
B.-J. Yi (Hanyang Univ., KOREA)
I.H. Suh (Hanyang Univ., KOREA)

F-AI-3-2
"Quadrupedal Mammal Locomotion Dynamics 2D Model"
Jerome Villanova (LRP-CNRS, France)
Pauline Neveu (Lab. d'Anatomie Comparee, France)
Jean-Pierre Gasc (Lab. d'Anatomie Comparee, France)
Jean-Claude Guinot (LRP-CNRS, France)

F-AI-3-3
"Biomimetic Design of Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Spring Mechanisms "
Byung-Ju Yi (Hanyang Univ., Korea)
Jae Hoon Lee (Hanyang Univ., Korea)
Whee Kuk Kim (Korea Univ., Korea)
Il Hong Suh (Hanyang Univ., Korea)

F-AI-3-4
"Evolving Cooperative Homogeneous Multi-Robot Teams"
Matt Quinn (Univ. of Sussex, U.K.)


13:00-14:20 Room 4 (3202)
Session F-AI-4: Vehicle Control
Chairs: Kevin M. Lynch (Northwestern Univ., USA), Kunikatsu Takase (Univ. of Electro-Communication, Japan)

F-AI-4-1
"Lateral Control of a Skid-Steering Mining Vehicle"
Plamen Petrov (Ecole de technologie superieure, Canada)
Jean de Lafontaine (Univ. of Sherbrooke, Canada)
Pascal Bigras (Ecole de technologie superieure, Canada)
Mario Tétreault (Ecole de technologie superieure, Canada)

F-AI-4-2
"Planning and Model-Based Control for Mobile Manipulators"
Evangelos Papadopoulos (National Tech. Univ. of Athens, Greece)
John Poulakakis (National Tech. Univ., Greece)

F-AI-4-3
"Design of a Robust Adaptive Controller for a Mobile Robot"
Min-Soeng Kim (KAIST, Korea)
Jin-Ho Shin (KAIST, Korea)
Ju-Jang Lee (KAIST, Korea)

F-AI-4-4
"A Stable Target-Tracking Control for Unicycle Mobile Robots"
Sung-On Lee (KIST, Korea)
Young-Jo Cho (KIST, Korea)
Myung Hwang-Bo (KIST, Korea)
Bum-Jae You (KIST, Korea)
Sang-Rok Oh (KIST, Korea)


13:00-14:20 Room 5 (3301)
Session F-AI-5: Super Mechano Systems - II : New Function Creation by Fusion of Control and Mechanism (OS)
Organizers: Fumitoshi Matsuno (Tokyo Inst. Tech., Japan)
Chairs: Joel Burdick (California Inst. of Tech., USA), Fumitoshi Matsuno (Tokyo Inst. TEch., Japan)

F-AI-5-1
"Numerical Computation of Reconfigurable Multibody Dynamics"
Takashi TAKAHASHI (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Saburo MATUNAGA (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)

F-AI-5-2
"Research and Development of Tethered Satellite Cluster Systems"
Osamu Mori (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Saburo Matunaga (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Naohide Maeda (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)

F-AI-5-3
"Adaptive Generation of Desired Velocity Field for Cooperative Mobile Robots with Decentralized PVFC"
J. H. Suh (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)
M. Yamakita (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)

F-AI-5-4
"Ground Experiment System for Dual-Manipulator-based Capture of Damaged Satellites"
Saburo Matunaga (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Keisuke Yoshihara (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Takashi Takahashi (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Shingo Tsurumi (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Kyoichi Ui (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)


13:00-14:20 Room 6 (3302)
Session F-AI-6: Vision-Based Navigation - II
Chair: Nobuyuki Kita (ETL, Japan)

F-AI-6-1
"Docking to Pallets with Feedback from Sheet-of-Light Range Camera"
J. Nygards (Linkoping Univ., Sweden)
Tomas Hogstrom (Linkoping Univ., Sweden)
A. Wernersson (Lulea Univ. of Tech. Sweden)

F-AI-6-2
"Load Balancing Algorithm of Parallel Vision Processing System for Real-Time Navigation"
Young-Jip Kim (KAIST, Korea)
Byung-Kook Kim (KAIST, Korea)

F-AI-6-3
"Uncalibrated Hybrid Force-Vision Manipulation"
Andreas Pichler (Johns Hopkins Univ., USA)
Martin Jagersand (Johns Hopkins Univ., USA)

F-AI-6-4
"Position and Pose Detection of Active Camera-head in a Nuclear Power Plant"
Yasuyo Kita (ETL, Japan)
Nobuyuki Kita (ETL, Japan)


13:00-14:20 Room 7 (3302)
Session F-AI-7: Rescue Robotics - I (OS)
Organizers: Satoshi Tadokoro (Kobe Univ., Japan), Koichi Osuka (Kyoto Univ., Japan), Hiroaki Kitano (Sony, Japan)
Chairs: Koichi Osuka (Kyoto Univ., Japan), Robin R. Murphy (Univ. od South Florida, USA)

F-AI-7-1
"The Need for Rescue Robotics"
Ren Luo (National Chung Cheng Univ., Taiwan)
Aydan Erkmen (Middle East Tech. Univ., Turkey)

F-AI-7-2
"Investigation Report of the Rescue Problem at Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in Kobe"
Satoshi Tadokoro (Kobe Univ., Japan)
Toshi Takamori (Kobe Univ., Japan)
Koichi Osuka (Kyoto Univ., Japan)
Saburo Tsurutani (Kobe Steel, Japan)

F-AI-7-3
"RoboCup-Rescue Project: challenges and Benchmark"
Hiroaki Kitano (Sony CSL, Japan)
Satoshi Tadokoro (Kobe Univ., Japan)
Koichi Osuka (Kyoto Univ., Japan)

F-AI-7-4
"Rescue Simulation Project and Comprehensive Disaster Simulator Architecture"
Tomoichi Takahashi (Chubu Univ., Japan)
Ikuo Takeuchi (Univ. of Electro Communication, Japan)
Fumitoshi Matsuno (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Satoshi Tadokoro (Kobe Univ., Japan)


13:00-14:20 Room 8 (3304)
Session F-AI-8: Motion Planning - II
Chairs: Ning Xi (Michigan State Univ., USA), Keigo Watanabe (Saga Univ., Japan)

F-AI-8-1
"Dynamic Workspace Analysis and Motion Planning for a Micro Biped Walking Robot"
Meng Yue (Michigan State Univ., USA)
Ning Xi (Michigan State Univ., USA)
Mark Minor (Michigan State Univ., USA)
Ranjan Mukherjee (Michigan State Univ., USA)

F-AI-8-2
"Computation of Optimal and Collisionfree Movements for Mobile Robots"
Konstantin Kondak (Tech. Univ. Berlin, Germany)
Guenter Hommel (Tech. Univ. Berlin, Germany)
Sven Horstmann (DaimlerChrysler Co., Germany)
Steen Kristensen (DaimlerChrysler Co., Germany)

F-AI-8-3
"Fuzzy Behavior-Based Motion Planning for the PUMA robot"
Palitha Dassanayake (Saga Univ., Japan)
Keigo Watanabe (Saga Univ., Japan)
Kazuo Kiguchi (Saga Univ., Japan)
Kiyotaka Izumi (Saga Univ., Japan)

F-AI-8-4
"Automated CAD-Guided Robot Path Planning for Spray Painting of Compound Surfaces"
Weihua Sheng (Michigan State Univ., USA)
Ning Xi (Michigan State Univ., USA)
Mumin Song (Ford Motor Company, USA)
Yifan Chen (Ford Motor Company, USA)
Perry MacNeille (Ford Motor Company, USA)


14:30-15:50 Room 1 (3101)
Session F-AII-1: Humanoid Robotics - III - Simulation and Control (OS)
Organizers: Ray Jarvis (Monash Univ., Australia)
Chairs: Qiang Huang (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan), Atsushi Konno (Tohoku Univ., Japan)

F-AII-1-1
"Mobile Manipulation of Humanoid Robots: Analysis of Manipulability and Stability in Mobile Manipulation"
Haruyuki Yoshida (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Kenji Inoue (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Tatsuo Arai (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Yasushi Mae (Osaka Univ., Japan)

F-AII-1-2
"Design of Central Pattern Generator for Humanoid Robot Walking based on Multi-objective GA"
Jiang shan (Shanghai Jiaotong Univ., China)
Cheng Junshi (Shanghai Jiaotong Univ., China)

F-AII-1-3
"Development of a Biped Humanoid Simulator"
Qiang Huang (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Yoshihiko Nakamura (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Hirohiko Arai (MEL, Japan)
Kazuo Tanie (MEL, Japan)

F-AII-1-4
"Graphical Simulation and High-Level Control of Humanoid Robots"
James Kuffner, Jr. (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Satoshi Kagami (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Masayuki Inaba (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Hirochika Inoue (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)


14:30-15:50 Room 2 (3102)
Session F-AII-2: Kinematics and Mechanism
Chairs: Chaoli Wang (Shenyang Inst. of Tech, China), Koichi Sugimoto (Kagawa Univ., Japan)

F-AII-2-1
"Versatile Water Hydraulic Motor Driven by Tap Water"
H.Tsukagoshi (Tokyo Inst. of Tech. Japan)
S.Nozaki (Tokyo Inst. of Tech. Japan)
A.Kitagawa (Tokyo Inst. of Tech. Japan)

F-AII-2-2
"Modeling and Analysis of Internal Impact for General Classes of Robotic Mechanisms"
S.H. Lee (KAIST, Korea)
B-J. Yi (Hanyang Univ., Korea)
S.H. Kim (KAIST, Korea)
W.K. Kwak (KAIST, Korea)

F-AII-2-3
"A General Approach for Modelling Robots"
Oliver Rogalla (Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany)
Kilian Pohl (Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany)
Riger Dillmann (Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany)

F-AII-2-4
"Motion Characteristics in Releasing Manipulation"
Chi Zhu (Yokohama National Univ., Japan)
Yasumichi Aiyama (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan)
Tamio Arai (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Atsuo Kawamura (Yokohama National Univ., Japan)


14:30-15:50 Room 3 (3201)
Session F-AII-3: Biologically Inspired Grasping and Manipulations - II (OS)
Organizers: Miriam Zacksenhouse (Israel Inst. of Tech., Israel), Aydan M. Erkmen (Ortadogu Teknik Univ., Turkey)
Chairs: Miriam Zacksenhouse (Israel Inst. of Tech., Israel), Aydan M. Erkmen (Ortadogu Teknik Univ., Turkey)

F-AII-3-1
"Planning of Rapid Grasps in Unstructured Scenes"
Markus Muller (Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany)
Heinz W n (Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany)

F-AII-3-2
"Regrasp Planner Using Look-up Table"
Kyoungrae Cho (KIST, Korea)
Munsang Kim (KIST, Korea)
Chongwon Lee (KIST, Korea)
Jae-Bok Song (KIST, Korea)

F-AII-3-3
"Structure and Growth: A Model of Development for Grasping with Robot Hands"
Rod Grupen (Univ. of Massachusetts, USA)
Jefferson Coelho (Univ. of Massachusetts, USA)

F-AII-3-4
"The Self-Reconfiguration of a Holonic Hand: The Holonic Regrasp"
Mehmet Durna (Middle East Technical Univ., Turkey)
Aydan M. Erkmen (Middle East Technical Univ., Turkey)
Ismet Erkmen (Middle East Technical Univ., Turkey)


14:30-15:50 Room 4 (3202)
Session F-AII-4: Wall-Climbing and Legged Robot
Chairs: Hyoukryeol Choi (Sungkyunkwan Univ., Korea), Krzysitof R. Kozkowski (Poznan Univ. of Tech., Poland)

F-AII-4-1
"Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of an Under-Actuated Miniature Biped Climbing Robot"
Mark Minor (Michigan State Univ., USA)
Hans Dulimarta (Michigan State Univ., USA)
Girish Danghi (Michigan State Univ., USA)
Ranjan Mukherjee (Michigan State Univ., USA)
R.Lal Tummala (Michigan State Univ., USA)
Dean Aslam (Michigan State Univ., USA)

F-AII-4-2
"A Wall Climbing Robot with Closed Link Mechanism"
H. R. Choi (Sungkyunkwan Univ., Korea)
S. M. Ryew (Sungkyunkwan Univ., Korea)
T. H. Kang (Sungkyunkwan Univ., Korea)
J. H. Lee (Sungkyunkwan Univ., Korea)

F-AII-4-3
"Development of Multi-Limb Robot with Omnidirectional manipulability and mobility"
Yuuya Takahashi (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Tatsuo Arai (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Yasushi Mae (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Kenji INOUE (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Noriho Koyachi (MEL, Japan)

F-AII-4-4
"Development of MEL HORSE"
Hiroki Takeuchi (MEL, Japan)


14:30-15:50 Room 5 (3301)
Session F-AII-5: Multi-Robot Control
Chairs: Kazuhiro Kosuge (Tohoku Univ., Japan), Oussama Khatib (Stanford Univ., USA)

F-AII-5-1
"Coordinated Transportation of a Single Object by Multiple Mobile Robots without Position Information of Each Robot"
Yasuhisa Hirata (Tohoku Univ., Japan)
Kazuhiro Kosuge (Tohoku Univ., Japan)
Hajime Asama (RIKEN, Japan)
Hayato Kaetsu (RIKEN, Japan)
Kuniaki Kawabata (RIKEN, Japan)

F-AII-5-2
"A Constrain-Move Based Distributed Cooperation Strategy for Four Object Lifting Robots"
Majid Nili Ahmadabadi (Tehran Univ., Iran)
Shaahin Mehdinezhad Rushan (Tehran Univ., Iran)
Z.D. Wang (Tehran Univ., Iran)
Eiji Nakano (Tohoku Univ., Japan)

F-AII-5-3
"Capturing a Spinning Object by Two Flexible Manipulators"
Mitsuhiro Yamano (Tohoku Univ., Japan)
Atsushi Konno (Tohoku Univ., Japan)
Masaru Uchiyama (Tohoku Univ., Japan)
Tomohiro Miyabe (Tohoku Univ., Japan)

F-AII-5-4
"The Paparazzi Problem"
Michael Jenkin (York Univ., Canada)
Gregory Dudek (McGill Univ., Canada)


14:30-15:50 Room 6 (3302)
Session F-AII-6: Robot Vision - I
Chairs: Tsukasa Ogasawara (Nara Inst. of Science and Tech., Japan), Yoshiaki Shirai (Osaka Univ., Japan)

F-AII-6-1
"Real-time Estimating Spatial Configuration between Multiple Robots by Triangle and Enumeration Constraints"
Takayuki Nakamura (Nara Inst. of Science and Tech., Japan)
Akihiro Ebina (Nara Inst. of Science and Tech., Japan)
Masakazu Imai (Nara Inst. of Science and Tech., Japan)
Tsukasa Ogasawara (Nara Inst. of Science and Tech., Japan)
Hiroshi Ishiguro (Wakayama Univ., Japan)

F-AII-6-2
"Hierarchical Part Decomposition Method of Articulated Body Contour, and its Application to Human Body Motion Measurement"
Kengo Koara (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Atsushi Nishikawa (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Fumio Miyazaki (Osaka Univ., Japan)

F-AII-6-3
"Fast and Inexpensive Color Image Segmentation for Interactive Robots"
James Bruce (CMU, USA)
Tucker Balch (CMU, USA)
Manuela Veloso (CMU, USA)

F-AII-6-4
"Towards Cognitive Agents: Embodiment based Object Recognition for Vision-Based Mobile Agents"
Kazunori Terada (Nara Inst. of Science and Tech., Japan)
Takayuki Nakamura (Nara Inst. of Science and Tech., Japan)
Hideaki Takeda (Nara Inst. of Science and Tech., Japan)
Tsukasa Ogasawara (Nara Inst. of Science and Tech., Japan)


14:30-15:50 Room 7 (3303)
Session F-AII-7: Rescue Robotics - II (OS)
Organizers: Satoshi Tadokoro (Kobe Univ., Japan), Koichi Osuka (Kyoto Univ., Japan), Hiroaki Kitano (Sony, Japan)
Chairs: Satoshi Tadokoro (Kobe Univ., Japan), Hiroaki Kitano (Sony, Japan)

F-AII-7-1
"Biomimetic Search for Urban Search and Rescue"
Robin R. Murphy (Univ. of South Florida, USA)

F-AII-7-2
"A Robot Snake to Inspect Broken Buildings"
Karl L. Paap (GMD, Germany)
Thomas Christaller (GMD, Germany)
Frank Kirchner (GMD, Germany)

F-AII-7-3
"Application of Locomotive Robot to Rescue Tasks"
Yasushi Mae (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Atsushi Yoshida (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Tatsuo Arai (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Kenji Inoue (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Kunio Miyawaki (Hitachi Zosen Co., Japan)
Hironori Adachi (MEL, Japan)

F-AII-7-4
"Proposal of New Engineering Field: Rescue Engineering"
Koichi Osuka (Kyoto Univ., Japan)


14:30-15:50 Room 8 (3304)
Session F-AII-8: Collision Detection - II
Chairs: Emmanuel Mazer (INRIA, France) Hiroyuki Ogata (NTT, Japan)

F-AII-8-1
"Nearness Diagram Navigation (ND): A New Real Time Collision Avoidance Appoach"
Javier Minguez (Univ. de Zaragoza, Spain)
Luis Montano (Univ. de Zaragoza, Spain)

F-AII-8-2 ---> W-AIV-3-4
"Accelerated Proximity Queries Between Convex Polyhedra By Multi-Level Marching"
Stephen Ehmann (Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
Ming C. Lin (Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)

F-AII-8-3
"A Fast Collision Check Algorithm EDGE for Moving 3-D Objects"
Nobuhiro Kimura (Osaka Electro-Communication Univ., Japan)
Naoyuki Mori (Osaka Electro-Communication Univ., Japan)
Hiroshi Noborio (Osaka Electro-Communication Univ., Japan)

F-AII-8-4
"A New Approach to Solving the Minimum Distance Problem between Convex Polyhedra"
K. Sundaraj (INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France)
D. d'Aulignac (INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France)
Dr. E. Mazer (INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France)


16:00-17:40 Room 1 (3101)
Session F-AIII-1: Human-Robot Interaction
Chairs: Yoshio Matsumoto (Nara Inst. Science and Tech., Japan), Tetsuya Ogata (Waseda Univ., Japan)

F-AIII-1-1
"Recognition of Human Behaviour with Attention Point Analysis"
Koichi Ogawara (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Soshi Iba (CMU, USA)
Tomikazu Tanuki (Komatsu Ltd., Japan)
Hiroshi Kimura (Univ. of Electro-Communications, Japan)
Katsushi Ikeuchi (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)

F-AIII-1-2
"Behavior Recognition Based on Head Pose and Gaze Direction Measurement"
Yoshio Matsumoto (Nara Inst. of Science and Tech., Japan)
Tsukasa Ogasawara (Nara Inst. of Science and Tech., Japan)
Alexander Zelinsky (The Australian National Univ., Australia)

F-AIII-1-3
"Understanding and Learning of Gestures through Human-Robot Interaction"
Yoshinori Kuno (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Teruhisa Murashima (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Nobutaka Shimada (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Yoshiaki Shirai (Osaka Univ., Japan)

F-AIII-1-4
"User Adaptation of Human-Robot Interaction Model based on Bayesian Network and Introspection of Interaction Experience"
Tetsunari Inamura (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Masayuki Inaba (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Hirochika Inoue (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)

F-AIII-1-5
"A Gripper for Grasping Non-Rigid Material Pieces out of a Bundle"
N. Fahantidis (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Z. Doulgeri (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece)


16:00-17:20 Room 2 (3102)
Session F-AIII-2: Industrial Applications
Chairs: John M. Hollerbach (Univ. of Utah, USA), Makoto Mizukawa (Shibaura Inst. Tech., Japan)

F-AIII-2-1
"Development of a High Performance Direct-Drive Joint"
Farhad Aghili (Canadain Space Agency, Canada)
Martin Buehler (McGill Univ., Canada)
John M. Hollerbach (Univ. of Utah, USA)

F-AIII-2-2
"A Visual Sensing System for Environmental Recognition in Intelligent Shipyard Welding Robot"
Min Young Kim (KAIST, Korea)
Kuk-won Ko (KAIST, Korea)
Hyung Suck Cho (KAIST, Korea)
Jae-hoon Kim (Samsung Heavy Industries Co., Ltd., Korea)

F-AIII-2-3
"Autonomous Mobile Robot in Pipe for Piping Operations"
Masahiro Muramatsu (Keio Univ., Japan)
Yasuo Suga (Keio Univ., Japan)
Nohiro Namiki (Keio Univ., Japan)
Ritsuo Koyama (Keio Univ., Japan)

F-AIII-2-4
"Spray Painting of a General Three Dimensional Surface "
Aziza Zaki (Electronics Research Inst., Egypt)
Dr. Mona Eskander (Electronics Research Inst., Egypt)


16:00-17:40 Room 3 (3201)
Session F-AIII-3: Reconfigurable and Modular Robotics (OS)
Organizer: Arthur C. Sanderson (Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., USA)
Chairs: Arthur C. Sanderson (Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., USA), Satoshi Murata (MEL, Japan)

F-AIII-3-1
"Dynamic Rolling, Locomotion Planning, and Control of an Icosahedral Modular Robot"
Woo Ho Lee (Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., USA)
Arthur C. Sanderson (Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., USA)

F-AIII-3-2
"Algorithms for Self-reconfiguring Molecule Motion Planning"
Keith Kotay (Dartmouth College, USA)
Daniela Rus (Dartmouth College, USA)

F-AIII-3-3
"A Basis for Self-reconfiguring Robots using Crystal Modules"
Daniela Rus (Dartmouth College, USA)
Marsette Vona (MIT, USA)

F-AIII-3-4
"Mechanical desing of a Module for Autonomous Reconfigurable Robots"
Andres Castano (Univ. of Southern California, USA)
Peter Will (Univ. of Southern California, USA)

F-AIII-3-5
"Hardware Design of Modular Robotic System"
Satoshi Murata (Mechanical Engineering Laboratory(MEL), AIST, MITI)
Eiichi Yoshida (MEL, Japan)
Kohji Tomita (MEL, Japan)
Haruhisa Kurokawa (MEL, Japan)
Akiya Kamimura (MEL, Japan)
Shigeru Kokaji (MEL, Japan)


16:00-17:40 Room 4 (3202)
Session F-AIII-4: Snake-Like Robot with Novel Mobile Mechanism
Chairs: Shugen Ma (Ibaraki Univ., Japan) James P. Ostrowski (Univ. Pennsylvania, USA)

F-AIII-4-1
"Study on Slime Robot (Proposal of Slime Robot and Design of Slim Slime Robot)"
Hidetaka Ohno (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Shigeo Hirose (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)

F-AIII-4-2
"A Novel Mobile Robot with a Backbone for Self Up-righting Capability"
Jinwu Qian (Shanghai Univ., China)
Weiming Cheng (Shanghai Univ., China)
Yongyi He (Shanghai Univ., China)
Jianliang Su (Shanghai Univ., China)
Yanan Zhang (Shanghai Univ., China)

F-AIII-4-3
"A Geometric Approach to Gait Generation for Anguilliform Locomotion"
Kenneth A. McIsaac (Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA)
James P. Ostrowski (Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA)

F-AIII-4-4
"Locomotion Control of A Snake-Like Robot based on Dynamic Manipulability"
Hisashi Date (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Yoshikatsu Hoshi (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Mitsuji Sampei (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)

F-AIII-4-5
"Study on Three-dimensional Active Cord Mechanism :Development of ACM-R2"
Keiji Togawa (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Atsusi Mori (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Shigeo Hirose (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)


16:00-17:40 Room 5 (3301)
Session F-AIII-5: Multi-Robot Systems (OS)
Organizers: Manuela Veloso (CMU, USA)
Chairs: Manuela Veloso (CMU, USA), Hajime Asama (RIKEN, Japan)

F-AIII-5-1
"Collective Grounded Representations for Robots "
L. Hugues (Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, France)

F-AIII-5-2
"Coordinated Deployment of Multiple Heterogeneous Robots"
Reid Simmons (CMU, USA)
David Apfelbaum (CMU, USA)
Dieter Fox (CMU, USA)
Robert P. Goldman (Honeywell Tech. Center, USA)
Karen Zita Haigh (Honeywell Techn. Center, USA)
David J. Musliner (Honeywell Tech. Center, USA)

F-AIII-5-3
"Expertness measuring in cooperative learning"
Majid Nili Ahmadabadi (Tehran Univ., Iran)
Masoud Asadpur (Tehran Univ., Iran)
S. H. Khodabakash (Tehran Univ., Iran)
Eiji Nakano (Tohoku Univ., Japan)

F-AIII-5-4
"Improved Information Sharing Method for Multiple Autonomous Mobile RobotSystems Using One to One Bidirectional Proximity Communication"
Hiroyuki Kobayashi (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Yoshiki Matsuno (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)

F-AIII-5-5
"Traffic Signal Networks Simulator Using Learning Emotional Algorithm"
Hidenori Ishihara (Kagawa Univ., Japan)
Toshio Fukuda (Nagoya Univ., Japan)


16:00-17:40 Room 6 (3302)
Session F-AIII-6: Robot Vision - II
Chairs: Fumio Miyazaki (Osaka Univ., Japan), Guenter Schmidt (Tech. Univ. Muenchen, Germany)

F-AIII-6-1
"Developing Rigid Motion Constraints for the Registration of Free-form Shapes"
Yonghuai Liu (Univ. of Hull, UK)
Marcos Rodrigues (Sheffield Hallam Univ., UK)
Yiang Wang (Xian Univ. of Science and Tech., China)

F-AIII-6-2
"Chromatic adaptation pre-filtering effect on visual based motion strategies"
Giovanni Bianco (Univ. of Verona, Italy)
Alessandro Rizzi (Univ. of Brescia, Italy)

F-AIII-6-3
"Flexible Hand-Eye Calibration for Multi-Camera Systems"
Tapio Heikkila (VTT Automation, Finland)
Mikko Sallinen (VTT Automation, Finland)
Toshio Matsushita (ETL, Japan)
Fumiaki Tomita (ETL, Japan)

F-AIII-6-4
"Similarity Based Linear N>=5 Point Structure and Pose Estimation from a Single IMage"
Yonghuai Liu (Univ. of Hull, UK)
Marcos Rodrigues (Sheffield Hallam Univ., UK)

F-AIII-6-5
"A New Memory Model for Selective Perception Systems"
C.Soyer (Bogazici Univ., Turkey)
H. I. Bozma (Bogazici Univ., Turkey)
Y. Istefanopulos (Bogazici Univ., Turkey)


16:00-17:20 Room 7 (3303)
Session F-AIII-7: Autonomous Compliant Motion (OS)
Organizers: Joris De Schutter (Katholieke Univ. Leuven, Belgium), Kazuhiro Kosuge (Tohoku Univ., Japan)
Chairs: Joris De Schutter (Katholieke Univ. Leuven, Belgium), Kazuhiro Kosuge (Tohoku Univ., Japan)

F-AIII-7-1
"Autonomous Compliant Motion: the Bayesian approach"
Herman Bruyninckx (Katholieke Univ. Leuven, Belgium)
Joris De Schutter (Katholieke Univ. Leuven, Belgium)
Tine Lefebvre (Katholieke Univ. Leuven, Belgium)

F-AIII-7-2
"A Signal-Based Approach to Localization and Navigation of Autonomous Compliant Motion"
Ralf Koeppe (DLR, Germany)
Gerd Hirzinger (DLR, Germany)

F-AIII-7-3
"Analysis of Rigid Body Interactions for Compliant Motion Tasks Using the Grassmann-Cayley Algebra"
Ernesto Staffetti (UPC-CSIC, Spain)
Federico Thomas (UPC-CSIC, Spain)

F-AIII-7-5
"High-level Control of a Mobile Manipulator for Door Opening"
Lars Petersson (Royal Inst. of Tech., Sweden)
David Austin (Royal Inst. of Tech., Sweden)
Danica Kragic (Royal Inst. of Tech., Sweden)


16:00-17:40 Room 8 (3304)
Session F-AIII-8: Trajectory Planning
Chairs: Kiyoshi Komoriya (MEL, Japan), Lydia Kavraki (Rice Univ., USA)

F-AIII-8-1
"Trajectory Planning for Cooperative Multiple Manipulators with Passive Joints"
Go Hirano (Kyushu Univ., Japan)
Motoji Yamamoto (Kyushu Univ., Japan)
Akira Mohri (Kyushu Univ., Japan)

F-AIII-8-2
"A Simplified Criterion for Testing the Repeatability of Control Strategies for Redundant Manipulators"
Dipl.-Ing. Ralf Schaufler (Univ. of Siegen, Germany)
Dr.-Ing. Christian H. Fedrowitz (Univ. of Siegen, Germany)
Prof. Dr. Rainer Kammler (Univ. of Siegen, Germany)

F-AIII-8-3
"Catching Motion of Casting Manipulation"
Hitoshi Arisumi (MEL, Japan)
Kiyoshi Komoriya (MEl, Japan)

F-AIII-8-4
"A Symbolic-Numeric Silhouette Algorithm"
Hirohisa Hirukawa (ETL, Japan)
Bernard Mourrain (INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France)
Yves Papegay (INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France)

F-AIII-8-5
"Self-Reconfiguration in Task Space of a Holonic Structure"
Mehmet Durna (Middle East Tech. Univ., Turkey)
Ismet Erkmen (Middle East Tech. Univ., Turkey)
Aydan M. Erkmen (Middle East Tech. Univ., Turkey)