TAROS 2005

Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems
Incorporating the Autumn Biro-Net Symposium

12th-14th September, 2005
Imperial College, London, UK

Table of Contents
Mark Ayre, Dario Izzo and Lorenzo Pettazzi Self Assembly in Space Using Behaviour Based Intelligent Components 1
R. Barzamini and A. Afshar Dynamic Adaptive Tracking Control for Wheeled Mobile Robot 9
Graeme Bell and Mike Livesey The Existence of Local Minima in Local-Minimum-Free Potential Surfaces 15
Michele Bongiovanni An experimental framework for rapid prototyping of mobile robot controllers 21
Riccardo Cassinis, Fabio Tampalini and Roberto Fedrigotti Active markers for outdoor and indoor robot localization 27
Theodoros Damouolas, Ignasi Cos-Aguilera and Gillian M. Hayes Valency as a Mechanism for Agent Adaptation 35*
Frédéric Davesne

A proposal for a tool that helps handling variability and remains compliant with falsifiability

43
Yang Gao, Alex Ellery, Mustafa Jaddou, Julian Vincent and Steven Eckersley

A Biologically-Inspired Penetration/Drilling/Sampling System for in situ Astrobiological Studies

51*
Rachel Gartshore and Phil Palmer Exploration of an Unknown 2D Environment using a View Improvement Strategy 57
Arturo Gil-Pinto, Philippe Fraisse and René Zapata A Decentralized Adaptive Trajectory Planning Approach for a Group of Mobile Robots 65
Richard E. Gunstone and Mark. H. Lee A Lens-Calibrated Active Marker Metrology System 73
Thomas Hellström and Ola Ringdahl Autonomous Path Tracking Using Recorded Orientation and Steering Commands 81
Ioannis Ieropoulos, Chris Melhuish, John Greenman and Ian Horsfield Artificial symbiosis: Towards a robot-microbe partnership 89
Pejman Iravani and Jeffrey Johnson The Emergence of a Visual Communication Language in Robotic Football 95
David Jacob, Daniel Polani, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv Inferring dependencies in Embodiment-based modular reinforcement learning 103
Bart Jansen

Imitation of actions between differently embodied agents, without kinematics models and without feedback

111
Matthew Johnson and Yiannis Demiris Perspective Taking Through Simulation 119*
Thomas D. Jorgensen and Charlotte C. F. Norlund The use of mechanical accumulators in robot herrings 127
Shahab Kalantar and Uwe R. Zimmer Contour Shaped Robotic Formations for Isocline Adaptation 135
Theocharis Kyriacou, Ulrich Nehmzow, Roberto Iglesias and Steve Billings Cross-Platform Programming Through System Identification 143
Stanislao Lauria

Human-Robot interactions: an investigation on the use of robots’ perceptive abilities to improve its speech recognition performance

151
Mark H. Lee and Q. Meng Psychologically Inspired Sensory-Motor Development in Early Robot Learning 157*
Christian Mandel, Kai Huebner, Tilman Vierhuff Towards an Autonomous Wheelchair: Cognitive Aspects in Service Robotics 165
Carlo Menon and Dario Izzo Satellite Pointing System based on EAP actuators 173
Eduardo R.  Miranda and Vadim Tikhanoff Musical Composition by Autonomous Robot: A Case Study with AIBO 181

Martin J. Pearson, Ian Gilhespy, Chris Melhuish, Ben Mitchinson, Mokhtar Nibouche, Anthony G. Pipe and Tony J. Prescott

A Biologically Inspired Haptic Sensor Array for use in Mobile Robotic Vehicles 189
Felix Schill, Uwe R. Zimmer and Jochen Trumpf Towards Optimal TDMA Scheduling for Robotic Swarm Communication 197
Frank E. Schneider, Dennis Wildermuth, Andreas Kräußling Discussion of Exemplary Metrics for Multi-Robot Systems for Formation Navigation 205
Gregory P. Scott and Alex Ellery

Design of a Biomimetic Walking Mars Explorer for the ESA Bionics & Space Systems Design Contract (AO/1-4469/03/NL/Sfe)

213
Matthew Szenher Visual Homing in Natural Environments 221
Hugo Vieira Neto and Ulrich Nehmzow Incremental PCA: An Alternative Approach for Novelty Detection 227
Christfried Webers and Uwe R. Zimmer Real-time Modelling of Complex Dynamical Systems RTDSM 235
Alan F. T.  Winfield, Jin Sa, Mari-Carmen Fernández-Gago, Clare Dixon and Michael Fisher Using Temporal Logic to Specify Emergent Behaviours in Swarm Robotic Systems 243
Joerg C. Wolf and Guido Bugmann Multimodal Corpus Collection for the Design of User-Programmable Robots 351
Klaus Schilling The Huygens Descent Control to Land on the Saturnian Moon Titan (keynote abstract) 256
Dario Floreano Evolution of Cooperation and Communication in Robot Colonies (keynote abstract) 257
Mike Rose Challenges and opportunities for robotics and autonomous systems in Antarctica (invited abstract) 257
Author Index 258

* Indicates a Biro-Net paper