ISSN 1744 – 8050

Technical Report Series

Department of Computer Science

University of Essex

Report Number CSM-415

Proceedings of TAROS 2004
“Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems”
University of Essex, 6.-8.9.2004

U. Nehmzow and C. Melhuish (Editors)

September 2004

Table of Contents
 

• Mart Anton, Andres Punning, Alvo Aabloo, Madis Listak and Maarja Kruusmaa, Towards a biomimetic EAP robot

• Immanuel Ashokaraj, Antonios Tsourdos, Peter Silson and Brian White, Mobile robot localisation and navigation using multi-sensor fusion via interval analysis and UKF

• A. Chella, M. Gentile, F. P. Ponente and R. Sorbello, E-MIP: A New Economic Approach for Multi-robot Dynamic Coalition Regeneration in the Metaphor of Italian Politics

• U. Esnaola, I. Rano and T. Smithers, A Behavior-Based Navigation System

• Roberto Iglesias, Theocharis Kyriacou, Ulrich Nehmzow and Steve Billings, Task Identification and Characterisation in Mobile Robotics

• Pejman Iravani, Behaviour-Based Architecture for Abstract Learning and Control

• David Jacob, Daniel Polani and Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Improving Learning for Embodied Agents in Dynamic Environments by State Factorisation

• Suresh Jeyaraman, Antonios Tsourdos, Rafal Zbikowski and Brian White, A Review of Formal Modelling Approaches and its Application to a Cooperative, Decentralised Robot Scenario with Minimalist Communication

• Matthew Johnson and Yiannis Demiris, Abstraction in Recognition to Solve the Correspondence Problem for Robot Imitation

• K. L. Koay and G. Bugmann, Compensating Intermittent Delayed Visual Feedback in Robot Navigation

• Masao Kubo and Chris Melhuish, Robot Trophallaxis: Managing Energy Autonomy in Multiple Robots

• Frederic Labrosse, Visual compass

• E. Lazkano, A. Astigarraga, J. M. Martinez-Otzeta and B. Sierra, Postrob: a behaviour-based post deliverer

• Tristan Mitchell and Frederic Labrosse, Visual homing: a purely appearance-based approach

• David L. Moreno, Carlos V. Regueiro, Roberto Iglesias and Senen Barro, Using Prior Knowledge to Improve Reinforcement Learning in Mobile Robotics

• Ulrich Nehmzow, Theocharis Kyriacou, Roberto Iglesias and Steve Billings, RobotMODIC: Modelling, Identification and Characterisation of Mobile Robots

• Ulrich Nehmzow and Hugo Vieira Neto, Novelty-Based Visual Inspection Using Mobile Robots

• Nildeep Patel and Alex Ellery, Performance Evaluation of Autonomous Mars Mini-Rovers

• Jacques Penders, Lyuba Alboul and Marcos Rodrigues, Modelling Interaction Patterns and Group Behaviour in a Three-Robot Team

• Georgios Sakellariou, Murray Shanahan and Benjamin Kuipers, Skeletonisation as mobile robot navigation

• Gregory P. Scott and Alex Ellery, Biomimicry as Applied to Space Robotics with Specific Reference to the Martian Environment

• Libor Spacek, Omni Flow

• Jose Vazquez and Chris Malcolm, Distributed Multirobot Exploration Maintaining a Mobile Network

• Koren Ward, Controlling a Mobile Robotic Hand by Learning Trajectory Velocities