The plenary presentations for CLAWAR 2015 discuss infrastructure robotics: opportunities and challenges, cognition-inspired robot learning and control, biologically inspired miniature jumping robots from design to control, and understanding animal locomotion using biologically inspired robotics and soft robotics. The rest of the 89 technical papers cover assistive robots; autonomous robots; biologically inspired systems and solutions; innovative design; inspection and innovative sensing; locomotion; manipulation, intelligence, and learning; medical and rehabilitation robotics; modeling and simulation; perception, localization, and rescue operations; planning and control; and underwater and sea robotics. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Plenary Presentations: Infrastructure Robotics: Opportunities and
Challenges (Gamini Dissanayake); Understanding Animal Locomotion Using
Bio-Inspired Robotics and Soft Robotics (Tianmiao Wang); Assistive Robots: A
Behavior Adaptation Method Based on Hierarchical POMDPs (Y Tao, Y Chen, D Xu
and J Zheng); Design and Control of Exoskeleton for Elderly Mobility (G Al
Rezage, M O Tokhi and S K Ali); Assessing Human Robot Interaction: The Role
of Long-Run Experiments (I Ferreira and J S Sequeira); Autonomous
Robots: Wall Climbing Robot Motion Simulation in Non-Deterministic Area with
Existing Moving Objects (V G Gradetsky, M M Knyazkov, A M Nunuparov, E A
Semyonov and A N Sukhanov); Design and Implementation of a Scansorial Robot
(M A H Hassan and M O Tokhi); Biologically-Inspired Systems and Solutions: A
Bio-Inspired Behavior Based Bipedal Locomotion Control - B4LC Method for
Bipedal Upslope Walking (J Zhao, Q Liu, S Schuetz and K Berns); Design and
Implementation of a Smart Robotic Shark with Multi-Sensors (S Chen, J Yu, X
Li and J Yuan); Control Algorithm for Walking Robot with Mosaic Body (A V
Panchenko, I A Orlov and V E Pavlovsky); Innovative Design of Clawar: A Novel
Inspection Robot Moving on High-Voltage Power Transmission Line (T Guanghong
and F Lijin); Rise-Rover: A Wall-Climbing Robot with High Reliability and
Load-Carrying Capacity (J Xiao, B Li, K Ushiroda and Q Song); Inspection and
Innovative Sensing: An Innovative Torque Sensor Design for the Lightest
Hydraulic Quadruped Robot (H Khan, F Cannella, D Caldwell and C Semini);
Mapping Repetitive Structural Tunnel Environments for a Biologically Inspired
Climbing Robot (G Paul, S Mao, L Liu and R Xiong); Locomotion: Application of
Local Slopes in the Study of Metastable Walking (A T Safa, M Naraghi and A
Alasty); A Mechanism of Particle Swarm Optimization on Motor Patterns in the
B4LC System (Q Liu, J Zhao, S Schuetz and K Berns); Dynamical Analysis of
Large Deflection Compliant Leg During Terrestrial Locomotion (T Fang, X Wang,
Z Chen, M Xu and S Zhang); Manipulation, Intelligence and Learning for
CLAWAR: Radiation Dosing Software Control of a Robot System for the Atlas
Scanning Facility (H Marin-Reyes and R French); Acquisition Slope Surface
Walking for Humanoids via Transfer Learning (Y Wang, X Han, Z Liu, D Luo and
X Wu); Medical and Rehabilitation Robotics: A Real-Time Gait Phase Detection
Method for Prosthesis Control (J Li, X Zhou, C Li, W Li, H Zhang and H Gu);
Powered Knee Orthosis for Performance of Assistance and Rehabilitation
Purposes (M Shysh, A Safonov, A Telesh and U Schmucker); Modelling and
Simulation of CLAWAR: Wall Climbing Robot Motion with Adaptive Vacuum Contact
Devices (V G Gradetsky, M M Knyazkov, A A Kryukova, E A Semyonov and A N
Sukhanov); Combination of Affine Deformation and Dynamic Movement Primitive
in Learning Human Motion for Redundant Manipulator (J Hu and R Xiong);
Perception, Localization and Rescue Operations: Multi-Session Slam Over Low
Dynamic Workspace Using RGBD Sensor (Y Wang, R Xiong, S Huang and J Wu);
Mechanism and Anti-Explosion Design of an Omnitread Serpentine Robot for
Searching in Coal Mines (G Liu, J Yan, C Li, Z Han, L Zhu, J Zhao and L Li);
Planning and Control: Lidar-Based Navigation-Level Path Planning for
Field-Capable Legged Robots (I Havoutis, D G Caldwell and C Semini); A Simple
Modeling Method and Trajectory Planning for a Car-Like Climbing Robot Used to
Strip Coating from the Outer Surface of Pipes Underwater (H Wang, C Yang, X
Deng and J Fan); Underwater and Sea Robotics: Towards Deep-Sea Monitoring
with SMIS - Experimental Trials of Deep-Sea Acoustic Localization (S Neumann,
D Oertel, H Worn, M Kurowski, D Dewitz, J J Waniek, D Kaiser and R Mars);
Mechanical Design of a Two-Joint Robotic Fish (C Zhang, J Yu and M Tan); A
Novel Hydraulic Mechanism for Bio-Inspired Undulating Robot: Modeling and
Morphological Analysis (H Xu, T Hu, X Zhang and L Zhang); and other papers;