Autonomous Robots and Agents

Toward Hierarchical Multi-Robot Urban Search and Rescue: Development of a 'Mother' Agent.- Multi-Robot Search and Rescue: A Potential Field Based Approach.- Probabilistic Target Search Strategy.- Localisation and Mapping With a Mobile Robot Using Sparse Range Data.- Applying High-Level Understanding to Visual Localisation for Mapping.- Development of an Optical Three-Axis Tactile Sensor for Object Handing Tasks in Humanoid Robot Navigation System.- Clustering Methods in Flock Traffic Navigation Based on Negotiation.- Using Learned Features from 3D Data for Robot Navigation.- A Centre-of-Mass Tracker Integrated Circuit Design in Nanometric CMOS for Robotic Visual Object Position Tracking.- Non-Iterative Vision-Based Interpolation of 3D Laser Scans.- RoboSim: A Multimode 3D Simulator for Studying Mobile Robot Co-Operation.- A Mobile Robot for Autonomous Book Retrieval.- Trajectory Planning for Surveillance Missions of Mobile Robots.- An Evolutionary Approach to Crowd Simulation.- Application of a Particle Swarm Algorithm to the Capacitated Open Pit Mining Problem.- Automatic Adjustment for Optical Axes in Laser Systems Using Stochastic Binary Search Algorithm for Noisy Environments.- An Analysis of the Chromosome Generated by a Genetic Algorithm Used to Create a Controller for a Mobile Inverted Pendulum.- Robust Flight Stability and Control for Micro Air Vehicles.- An Ecological Interface Design Approach to Human Supervision of a Robot Team.- Embedded RTOS: Performance Analysis With High Precision Counters.- Simple Biped Walking Robot for University Education Considering Fabrication Experiences.- Autonomous Stride-Frequency and Step-Length Adjustment for Bipedal Walking Control.- Application of Extended Kalman Filter Towards UAV Identification.- A Novel Strategy for Multiagent Coalitions in a Dynamic Hostile World.- Emotion Recognition Using Voice Based on Emotion-Sensitive Frequency Ranges.- FPGA-Based Implementation of Graph Colouring Algorithms.- Balancing Sociality in Meta-agent Approach.- Complex Stability Radius for Automatic Design of Gain-Scheduled Control Part I: Theoretical Developm.- Complex Stability Radius for Automatic Design of Gain-Scheduled Control Part II: Example on Autopilot Design.- Synthesis of Reconfigurable Hierarchical Finite State Machines.