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Paper Proceedings

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Paper #1: Encounters with Kismet and Cog Authors: Sherry Turkle, Olivia Dasté, Brian Scasselatti, Cynthia Breazeal    1_paper

Paper #4: Positioning Control of the Leg of the Humanoid Robot by Linear Visual Servoing Authors: Yoshiyuki Yamamura and Noriaki Maru    4_paper

Paper #5: Review of a Dynamic Neural Network Scheme for Synthesizing Cognition of Robots and Humanoids Authors: Jun Tani, Masato Ito and Yuuya Sugita    5_paper

Paper #6: RobotCub: An Open Framework for Research in Embodied Cognition Authors: Giulio Sandini, Giorgio Metta, David Vernon    6_paper

Paper #8: URBI: TOWARDS A UNIVERSAL ROBOTIC BODY INTERFACE Authors: Jean-Christophe Baillie    8_paper

Paper #9: Dedicated Mechanisms for the Attention System in Humanoid Robots Authors: Markus S. Schlosser and Kristian Kroschel    9_paper

Paper #10: DEVELOPMENT OF A MODULAR ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOT HAND USING SERVOHYDRAULIC ACTUATORS Authors: Karsten Weiss, Heinz Woern    10_paper

Paper #11: EXPLORATIONS IN ENGAGEMENT FOR HUMANS AND ROBOTS Authors: CANDACE SIDNER, CHRISTOPHER LEE, CORY D. KIDD,and NEAL LESH    11_paper    11_video

Paper #12: DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT PROCESS OF A HUMANOID ROBOT UPPER BODY THROUGH EXPERIMENTATION Authors: Prof. Albers, Dipl.-Ing. Brudniok, Dr. Burger    12_paper

Paper #14: Reaching through Learned Forward Model Authors: Ganghua Sun and Brian Scassellati    14_paper

Paper #15: Three additions to passive dynamic walking; actuation, an upper body, and 3D stability Authors: M. Wisse    15_paper

Paper #16: A MOBILE AUTONOMOUS HUMANOID ASSISTANT Authors: M. A. Diftler, R. O. Ambrose, K. S. Tyree, S. M. Goza, E.L. Huber    16_paper

Paper #18: Emotion-Sensitive Robots- A New Paradigm for Human-Robot Interaction Authors: Pramila Rani, Nilanjan Sarkar    18_paper

Paper #20: Building an Adaptive Spoken Language Interface for Perceptually Grounded Human-Robot Interaction Authors: Peter Ford Dominey, Jean-David Boucher, Toshio Inui    20_paper

Paper #21: A Way Out of Dead End Situations in Dialogue Systems for Human-Robot Interaction Authors: Hartwig Holzapfel, Petra Gieselmann    21_paper

Paper #22: ADVANCED STEPS IN BIPED ROBOTICS: INNOVATIVE DESIGN AND INTUITIVE CONTROL THROUGH SPRING-DAMPER ACTUATOR Authors: Umberto Scarfogliero, Michele Folgheraiter, Giuseppina Gini    22_paper

Paper #23: Imitation of Human Demonstration Using A Biologically Inspired Modular Optimal Control Scheme Authors: Gavin Simmons Yiannis Demiris    23_paper

Paper #24: On the development of the Emotion Expression Humanoid Robot WE-4RII with RCH-1 Authors: Massimiliano ZECCA, Stefano ROCCELLA, Maria Chiara CARROZZA, Hiroyasu MIWA, Kazuko ITOH, Giovanni CAPPIELLO, John-John CABIBIHAN, Munemichi MATSUMOTO, Hideaki TAKANOBU, Paolo DARIO, Atsuo TAKANISHI    24_paper    24_video

Paper #27: WORKING COLLABORATIVELY WITH HUMANOID ROBOTS Authors: CYNTHIA BREAZEAL, ANDREW BROOKS, DAVID CHILONGO, JESSE GRAY, GUY HOFFMAN, CORY KIDD, HANS LEE, JEFF LIEBERMAN, and ANDREA LOCKERD    27_paper

Paper #28: Domo: A Force Sensing Humanoid Robot for Manipulation Research Authors: Aaron Edsinger-Gonzales and Jeff Weber    28_paper

Paper #29: Development of Humanoid Robot Platform KHR-2 (KAIST Humanoid Robot - 2) Authors: Ill-Woo Park, Jung-Yup Kim, Seo-Wook Park, Jun-Ho Oh    29_paper

Paper #31: SIMILARITIES AND VARIETIES IN HUMAN MOTION TRAJECTORIES OF PREDEFINED GRASPING AND DISPOSING MOVEMENTS Authors: V. Wank, A. Fischer, K. Bös, I. Boesnach, J. Moldenhauer, T. Beth    31_paper

Paper #33: Navigation Among Movable Obstacles: Real-Time Reasoning in Complex Environments Authors: Mike Stilman and James Kuffner    33_paper

Paper #34: Improvements on Action Parsing and Action Interpolation for Learning through Demonstration Authors: Jeff Lieberman and Cynthia Breazeal    34_paper

Paper #35: An Experimental Investigation of Robotic Spacewalking Authors: Fredrik Rehnmark William Bluethmann Ivan Spain Ken Alder Michael Goza Robert O. Ambrose    35_paper

Paper #36: Biologically Inspired Joint Control for a Humanoid Robot Authors: D. Kee, G. Wyeth, J. Roberts    36_paper

Paper #37: Building an Autonomous Humanoid Tool User Authors: William Bluethmann, Robert Ambrose, Myron Diftler, Eric Huber, Andy Fagg, Michael Rosenstein, Robert Platt, Roderic Grupen, Cynthia Breazeal, Andrew Brooks, Andrea Lockerd, R. Alan Peters II, O. Chad Jenkins, Maja Mataric, Magdalena Bugajska    37_paper

Paper #38: A Tiered Planning Strategy for Biped Navigation Authors: Joel Chestnutt and James Kuffner    38_paper

Paper #39: The Power of the Dark Side: Using Cast Shadows for Visually-Guided Touching Authors: Paul M. Fitzpatrick and Eduardo R. Torres-Jara    39_paper    39_video

Paper #40: LEARNING BEHAVIOR SELECTION THROUGH INTERACTION BASED ON EMOTIONALLY GROUNDED SYMBOL CONCEPT Authors: TSUTOMU SAWADA, TSUYOSHI TAKAGI, YUKIKO HOSHINO, MASAHIRO FUJITA    40_paper

Paper #41: A Humanoid in Company with Children Authors: Hideki Kozima, Cocoro Nakagawa, Nobuyuki Kawai, Daisuke Kosugi, Yoshio Yano    41_paper

Paper #42: Zero Spin Angular Momentum Control: Definition and Applicability Authors: Marko Popovic, Andreas Hofmann and Hugh Herr    42_paper

Paper #45: Quantitative Evaluation Method for Pose and Motion Similarity based on Human Perception Authors: Tatsuya Harada, Sou Taoka, Taketoshi Mori and Tomomasa Sato    45_paper

Paper #46: Teaching Humanoid Robots like Children: Explorations into the World of Toys and Learning Activities Authors: Artur M. Arsenio    46_paper

Paper #47: MERTZ: A Quest for a Robust and Scalable Active Vision Humanoid Head Robot Authors: Lijin Aryananda, Jeff Weber    47_paper    47_video

Paper #48: Object Recognition from Multiple Percepts Authors: Artur M. Arsenio    48_paper

Paper #51: SERIES DAMPER ACTUATOR: A NOVEL FORCE/TORQUE CONTROL ACTUATOR Authors: CHEE-MENG CHEW; GEOK-SOON HONG; WEI ZHOU    51_paper

Paper #53: Motion Capture from Inertial Sensing for Untethered Humanoid Teleoperation Authors: Nathan Miller, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, Marcelo Kallmann, Maja J Mataric    53_paper    53_video

Paper #55: PROGRESS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ANTHROPOMORPHIC FLUIDIC HANDS FOR A HUMANOID ROBOT Authors: STEFAN SCHULZ, CHRISTIAN PYLATIUK, ARTEM KARGOV, REINHOLD OBERLE, GEORG BRETTHAUER    55_paper

Paper #56: HUMANOID TRAJECTORY GENERATION: AN ITERATIVE APPROACH BASED ON MOVEMENT AND ANGULAR MOMENTUM CRITERIA Authors: NIRUT NAKSUK, YONGGUO MEI and C. S. GEORGE LEE    56_paper

Paper #57: Momentum Compensation for the Fast Dynamic Walk of Humanoids based on the Pelvic Rotation of Contact Sport Athletes Authors: Jun Ueda, Kenji Shirae, Yoshio Matsumoto, Shingo Oda, Tsukasa Ogasawara    57_paper

Paper #58: A Framework for Remote Execution of Whole Body Motions for Humanoid Robots Authors: Neo Ee Sian, Kazuhito Yokoi, Shuuji Kajita and Kazuo Tanie    58_paper

Paper #59: Stabilization of Quasi-Passive Pneumatic Muscle Walker Authors: Takashi TAKUMA, Koh HOSODA, Masaki OGINO, and Minoru ASADA    59_paper

Paper #60: An Analytical Method on Real-time Gait Planning for a Humanoid Robot Authors: Kensuke Harada, Shuuji Kajita, Kenji Kaneko, and Hirohisa Hirukawa    60_paper    60_video

Paper #61: SENSOR-BASED BIPED GAIT GENERATION SCHEME FOR HUMANOID -IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION- Authors: Kengo TODA, Mizuki SAGARA and Ken TOMIYAMA    61_paper

Paper #62: Whole-body Cooperative Balanced Motion Generation for Reaching Authors: Koichi Nishiwaki, Mamoru Kuga, Satoshi Kagami, Masayuki Inaba, and Hirochika Inoue    62_paper

Paper #63: Affective Communication System with Multimodality for a Humanoid Robot, AMI Authors: Hye-Won Jung, Yong-Ho Seo, M. Sahngwon Ryoo, Hyun S. Yang    63_paper

Paper #64: WALKING PATTERN GENERATION FOR A BIPED ROBOT USING OPTIMIZED POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION Authors: Yun-Seok Kang, Jung-Hun Park, Hong-Jae Yim, Ji-Oh Song    64_paper

Paper #65: Statistical Manipulation Learning of Unknown Objects by a Multi-Fingered Robot Hand Authors: Ryo Fukano, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Takumi Kobayashi, Takuya Otani, Nobuyuki Otsu    65_paper

Paper #66: Haptic Coupling of Dexterous Manipulation and Dynamic Mobility Authors: Michael Rosenstein, Robert Platt, Patrick Deegan, John Sweeney, Oliver Brock, Andrew Fagg, and Roderic Grupen    66_video

Paper #67: Detecting and Segmenting Sound Sources by using Microphone Array Authors: Satoshi Kagami, Yuuki Tamai, Hiroshi Mizoguchi, Koichi Nishiwaki, Hirochika Inoue    67_paper

Paper #68: Towards Single-Arm Reaching for Humanoids in Dynamic Environments Authors: Evan Drumwright Marcelo Kallmann Maja Mataric'    68_paper

Paper #69: PRIORITIZED MULTI-OBJECTIVE DYNAMICS AND CONTROL OF ROBOTS IN HUMAN ENVIRONMENTS Authors: Luis Sentis and Oussama Khatib    69_paper

Paper #70: Biologically Valid Jaw Movements for Talking Humanoid Robots Authors: Sabri Gurbuz, Keisuke Kinoshita, Marcia Riley and Sumio Yano    70_paper    70_video

Paper #71: Multisensor-based Human Tracking Behaviors with Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods Authors: Takahiro Miyashita, Masahiro Shiomi, and Hiroshi Ishiguro    71_paper    71_video

Paper #72: Passive Dynamic Autonomous Control of Bipedal Walking Authors: Masahiro Doi, Yasuhisa Hasegawa, Toshio Fukuda    72_paper

Paper #73: HUMAN-HUMANOID INTERACTION:IS A HUMANOID ROBOT PERCEIVED AS A HUMAN? Authors: ERHAN OZTOP,THIERRY CHAMINADE,DAVID W. FRANKLIN    73_paper

Paper #74: Stability of a 6 DOF Biped in the Double Support Phase using Fuzzy Control Authors: Cedric Cocaud, Amor Jnifene    74_paper

Paper #75: Toward Intelligent System Health Monitoring for NASA Robonaut Authors: Juyi Park, Steven Ferguson, Nilanjan Sarkar, Kazuhiko Kawamura, Rob Ambrose, Bill Bluethmann, Ken Alder    75_paper

Paper #76: Constructivist Approach to Human-Robot Emoitonal Communication - Design of Evolutionary Function for WAMOEBA-3 - Authors: Yuki SUGA, Hiroaki ARIE, Tetsuya OGATA, and Shigeki SUGANO    76_paper

Paper #77: Object Recognition on a Humanoid with Foveated Vision Authors: Ales Ude, Gordon Cheng    77_paper

Paper #78: Developement of a miniature pair of eyes with camera for the humanoid robot Robota Authors: Dimitris Pongas, Florent Guenter, Andre Guignard, Aude G. Billard    78_paper

Paper #79: Roboka: programming contest with simulated wreslting humanoid robots Authors: Olivier Michel    79_video

Paper #80: ACQUISITION OF A BIPED WALKING PATTERN USING A POINCARE MAP Authors: Jun Morimoto, Jun Nakanishi, GAen Endo, Gordon Cheng, Christopher G. Atkeson, and Garth Zeglin    80_paper

Paper #81: A Framework for Learning Biped Locomotion with Dynamical Movement Primitives Authors: Jun Nakanishi, Jun Morimoto, Gen Endo, Gordon Cheng, Stefan Schaal and Mitsuo Kawato    81_paper

Paper #82: A Full Body Human Motion Capture System using Particle Filtering and on-the-fly Edge Detection Authors: Pedram Azad, Ales Ude, Rüdiger Dillmann, Gordon Cheng    82_paper