Robotica 2009 9th Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions 8:30-9:00 Registration 9:00-9:10 Opening Session Session I – Multi-Robot Systems and Architectures for Autonomous Robots Chairs: to be announced 9:10-9:30 9:30-9:50 THREE-STATE MULTIROBOT COLLABORATIVE LOCALIZATION IN SYMMETRICAL ENVIRONMENTS Fabrizio Abrate, Basilio Bona, Marina Indri, Stefano Rosa, Federico Tibaldi, Politecnico di Torino, Italy NEW TASK ALLOCATION METHODS FOR ROBOTIC SWARMS Frederick Ducatelle, Alexander Foerster, Gianni Di Caro, Luca Gambardella, IDSIA, Switzerland 9:50-10:10 HYBRID AND SECURE CONTROL ARCHITECTURE FOR MOBILE ROBOT NAVIGATION Lounis ADOUANE, LASMEA - UMR CNRS, France 10:10-10:30 MODULAR SCALABLE ARCHITECTURE FOR THE NAVIGATION OF THE ATLAS AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS Miguel Oliveira, Procopio Stein, Jorge Almeida, Vitor Santos, University of Aveiro, Portugal Coffee-break 10:30-10:45 Session II – Recognition, Localization and Tacking Chairs: to be announced 10:45-11:05 PRELIMINARY RESULTS ON ROBUST GLOBAL LOCALIZATION: FAULT TOLERANCE AND ROBUSTNESS TEST ON PROBABILISTIC SHAPING Luca Carlone, Basilio Bona, Politecnico di Torino, Italy 11:05-11:25 LINE FOLLOWING AND GROUND VEHICLE TRACKING BY AN AUTONOMOUS AERIAL BLIMP David Jerónimo, Ricardo Alcácer, Francisco Alegria, Pedro Lima, IST, Portugal 11:15-11:35 REAL-TIME TEACHING OF INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS USING A SYNCHRONISED STEREOSCOPIC VISION SYSTEM Paulo Malheiros, António Moreira, Paulo Costa, José Carlos Lopes, FEUP, Portugal 11:35-11:55 LIGHT 3D MAPPING FOR SEARCH AND RESCUE OPERATIONS Luís Lemos, Luís Paulo Reis, FEUP, Portugal 12:15-14:00 Lunch 14:00-15:00 Invited Speaker ON HUMAN AND HUMANOID MOTIONS Jean Paul Laumond Directeur de Recherche at LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France Session III – Competitions and Edutainment Robotics Chairs: to be announced 15:00-15:20 EUROPEAN LAND ROBOTIC TRIAL 2008 (ELROB) - A REALISTIC BENCHMARK FOR OUTDOOR ROBOTICS Bernd Brüggemann, Timo Röhling, Hans-Ludwig Wolf, Frank-E. Schneider, FGAN, Germany 15:20-15:40 THE E-PUCK, A ROBOT DESIGNED FOR EDUCATION IN ENGINEERING Francesco Mondada, Michael Bonani, Xavier Raemy, James Pugh, Christopher Cianci, Adam Klaptocz, Stéphane Magnenat, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, Alcherio Martinoli, EPFL, Switzerland 15:40-16:40 Coffee-break and Poster Session ARTIFICIAL HUMAN LIMBS – A DESIGN APPROACH USING INERTIAL TRACKING SYSTEM FOR HUMAN MOTION Karthikeyan Rajagopal, Anitha Karthikeyan, VelTech Technical University, Turkey CODE MIGRATION FROM A REALISTIC SIMULATOR TO A REAL WHEELED MOBILE ROBOT José Gonçalves (ESTiG IPB), José Lima (ESTiG IPB), Paulo Malheiros (FEUP), Paulo Costa (FEUP), Portugal THE DYNAMIC MODELING OF A BIRD ROBOT Micael Couceiro (ISEC), Carlos Figueiredo, Nuno Ferreira (ISEC), J. Tenreiro Machado (ISEP), Portugal PARALLEL TASK EXECUTION, MORPHOLOGY CONTROL AND SCALABILITY IN A SWARM OF SELF-ASSEMBLING ROBOT Anders Christensen (ISCTE-PT), Rehan O'Grady (IRIDIA), Marco Dorigo (IRIDIA, CoDE, ULB), Belgium A SLIPPING CONDITIONS OBSERVER IN WHEELED MOBILE ROBOT TRACTION Andre Dias (ISEP), José Miguel Almeida (ISEP), Alfredo Martins (ISEP), João Sequeira (IST), Eduardo Silva (ISEP), Portugal A COMPETITIVE DYNAMIC MODEL FOR DECISION MAKING IN AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS PERFORMING COOPERATIVE TASKS Flora Ferreira, Estela Bicho, Wolfram Erlhagen, University of Minho, Portugal MAZE SOLVING WITH ENHANCED MAP REPRESENTATION João Oliveira, João Certo, Luís Paulo Reis, FEUP, Portugal REAL-TIME PATH PLANNING USING A MODIFIED A* ALGORITHM Pedro Costa, António Moreira, Paulo Costa, FEUP, Portugal SUPERVISED GROUP SIZE REGULATION IN A HETEROGENEOUS ROBOTIC SWARM Rehan O'Grady (IRIDIA), Carlo Pinciroli (IRIDIA), Anders Christensen (ISCTE - PT) Marco Dorigo (IRIDIA, CoDE, ULB), Belgium AN ARTIFICIAL LOW COST ROBOT ARM SYSTEM PLAYING TIC-TAC-TOE Mehmet Güzel (Newcastle Unıversity ), Yasin Hınıslıoğlu (Ahmet Yesevi University, Turkey Session IV – Mobile Robots and Humanoids Chairs: to be announced 16:40-17:00 HEXAPOD WALKING AS EMERGENT REACTION TO EXTERNALLY ACTING FORCES Adam El Sayed Auf, Nico Dudek, Erik Maehle, University of Lübeck, Germany 17:00-17:20 17:20-17:40 A PASSIVE SYSTEM APPROACH TO INCREASE THE ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN WALK MOVEMENTS BASED IN A REALISTIC SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT José Lima (ESTiG IPB), José Gonçalves (ESTiG IPB), Paulo Costa (FEUP), António Moreira (FEUP), Portugal ORBITAL OBSTACLE AVOIDANCE ALGORITHM FOR RELIABLE AND ON-LINE MOBILE ROBOT NAVIGATION Lounis ADOUANE, LASMEA - UMR CNRS, France 17:40-18:00 ON THE LEARNING OF INTER-FIELD CONNECTIONS IN A DYNAMIC FIELD ARCHITECTURE FOR HUMAN-ROBOT COLLABORATION Emanuel Sousa, Estela Bicho, Wolfram Erlhagen, University of Minho, Portugal 18:00-18:10 20:30 Prizes and Closing Session Gala Dinner