Oral Presentations

Explorations In Engagement For Humans And Robots
Candace Sidner, Christopher Lee, Cory D. Kidd,and Neal Lesh

Reaching through Learned Forward Model
Ganghua Sun and Brian Scassellati

Three additions to passive dynamic walking; actuation, an upper body, and 3D stability
M. Wisse

A Mobile Autonomous Humanoid Assistant
M. A. Diftler, R. O. Ambrose, K. S. Tyree, S. M. Goza, E.L. Huber

A Way Out of Dead End Situations in Dialogue Systems for Human-Robot Interaction
Hartwig Holzapfel, Petra Gieselmann

Working Collaboratively With Humanoid Robots
Cynthia Breazeal, Andrew Brooks, David Chilongo, Jesse Gray, Guy Hoffman, Cory Kidd, Hans Lee, Jeff Lieberman, and Andrea Lockerd

Development of Humanoid Robot Platform KHR-2 (KAIST Humanoid Robot - 2)
Ill-Woo Park, Jung-Yup Kim, Seo-Wook Park, Jun-Ho Oh

Navigation Among Movable Obstacles: Real-Time Reasoning in Complex Environments
Mike Stilman and James Kuffner

An Experimental Investigation of Robotic Spacewalking
Fredrik Rehnmark William Bluethmann Ivan Spain Ken Alder Michael Goza Robert O. Ambrose

Building an Autonomous Humanoid Tool User
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

A Tiered Planning Strategy for Biped Navigation
Joel Chestnutt and James Kuffner

Object Recognition from Multiple Percepts
Artur M. Arsenio

Series Damper Actuator: A Novel Force/Torque Control Actuator
Chee-Meng Chew; Geok-Soon Hong; Wei Zhou

Humanoid Trajectory Generation: An Iterative Approach Based On Movement And Angular Momentum Criteria
Nirut Naksuk, Yongguo Mei and C. S. George Lee

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

A Framework for Remote Execution of Whole Body Motions for Humanoid Robots
Neo Ee Sian, Kazuhito Yokoi, Shuuji Kajita and Kazuo Tanie

Sensor-based Biped Gait Generation Scheme For Humanoid -Implementation And Evaluation-
Kengo Toda, Mizuki Sagara and Ken Tomiyama

Whole-body Cooperative Balanced Motion Generation for Reaching
Koichi Nishiwaki, Mamoru Kuga, Satoshi Kagami, Masayuki Inaba, and Hirochika Inoue

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

Prioritized Multi-Objective Dynamics And Control Of Robots In Human Environments
Luis Sentis and Oussama Khatib

Passive Dynamic Autonomous Control of Bipedal Walking
Masahiro Doi, Yasuhisa Hasegawa, Toshio Fukuda

Human-Humanoid Interaction:Is A Humanoid Robot Perceived As A Human?
Erhan Oztop, Thierry Chaminade, David W. Franklin

Posters

Encounters with Kismet and Cog
Sherry Turkle, Olivia Daste, Brian Scasselatti, Cynthia Breazeal

Positioning Control of the Leg of the Humanoid Robot by Linear Visual Servoing
Yoshiyuki Yamamura and Noriaki Maru

Review of a Dynamic Neural Network Scheme for Synthesizing Cognition of Robots and Humanoids
Jun Tani, Masato Ito and Yuuya Sugita

RobotCub: An Open Framework for Research in Embodied Cognition
Giulio Sandini, Giorgio Metta, David Vernon

URBI: Towards A Universal Robotic Body Interface
Jean-Christophe Baillie

Dedicated Mechanisms for the Attention System in Humanoid Robots
Markus S. Schlosser and Kristian Kroschel

Development Of A Modular Anthropomorphic Robot Hand Using Servohydraulic Actuators
Karsten Weiss, Heinz Woern

Design And Development Process Of A Humanoid Robot Upper Body Through Experimenation
Prof. Albers, Dipl.-Ing. Brudniok, Dr. Burger

Emotion-Sensitive Robots- A New Paradigm for Human-Robot Interaction
Pramila Rani, Nilanjan Sarkar

Building an Adaptive Spoken Language Interface for Perceptually Grounded Human-Robot Interaction
Peter Ford Dominey, Jean-David Boucher, Toshio Inui

Advanced Steps In Biped Robotics: Innovative Design And Intuitive Control Through Spring-Damper Actuator
Umberto Scarfogliero, Michele Folgheraiter, Giuseppina Gini

Imitation of Human Demonstration Using A Biologically Inspired Modular Optimal Control Scheme
Gavin Simmons Yiannis Demiris

On the development of the Emotion Expression Humanoid Robot WE-4RII with RCH-1
Massimiliano Zecca, Stefano Roccella, Maria Chiara Carrozza, Hiroyasu Miwa, Kazuko Itoh, Giovanni Cappiello, John-John Cabibihan, Munemichi Matsumoto, Hideaki Takanobu, Paolo Dario, Atsuo Takanishi

Domo: A Force Sensing Humanoid Robot for Manipulation Research
Aaron Edsinger-Gonzales and Jeff Weber

Similarities And Varieties In Human Motion Trajectories Of Predefined Grasping And Disposing Movements
V. Wank, A. Fischer, K. Bos, I. Boesnach, J. Moldenhauer, T. Beth

Improvements on Action Parsing and Action Interpolation for Learning through Demonstration
Jeff Lieberman and Cynthia Breazeal

Biologically Inspired Joint Control for a Humanoid Robot
D. Kee, G. Wyeth, J. Roberts

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

Learning Behavior Selection Through Interaction Based On Emotionally Grounded Symbol Concept
Tsutomu Sawada, Tsuyoshi Takagi, Yukiko Hoshino, Masahiro Fujita

A Humanoid in Company with Children
Hideki Kozima, Cocoro Nakagawa, Nobuyuki Kawai, Daisuke Kosugi, Yoshio Yano

Zero Spin Angular Momentum Control: Definition and Applicability
Marko Popovic, Andreas Hofmann and Hugh Herr

Quantitative Evaluation Method for Pose and Motion Similarity based on Human Perception
Tatsuya Harada, Sou Taoka, Taketoshi Mori and Tomomasa Sato

Teaching Humanoid Robots like Children: Explorations into the World of Toys and Learning Activities
Artur M. Arsenio

MERTZ: A Quest for a Robust and Scalable Active Vision Humanoid Head Robot
Lijin Aryananda, Jeff Weber

Motion Capture from Inertial Sensing for Untethered Humanoid Teleoperation
Nathan Miller, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, Marcelo Kallmann, Maja J Mataric

Progress In The Development Of Anthropomorphic Fluidic Hands For A Humanoid Robot
Stefan Schulz, Christian Pylatiuk, Artem Kargov, Reinhold Oberle, Georg Bretthauer

Stabilization of Quasi-Passive Pneumatic Muscle Walker
Takashi Takuma, Koh Hosoda, Masaki Ogino, and Minoru Asada

An Analytical Method on Real-time Gait Planning for a Humanoid Robot
Kensuke Harada, Shuuji Kajita, Kenji Kaneko, and Hirohisa Hirukawa

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

Walking Pattern Generation For A Biped Robot Using Optimized Polynomial Approximation
Yun-Seok Kang, Jung-Hun Park, Hong-Jae Yim, Ji-Oh Song

Haptic Coupling of Dexterous Manipulation and Dynamic Mobility
Michael Rosenstein, Robert Platt, Patrick Deegan, John Sweeney, Oliver Brock, Andrew Fagg, and Roderic Grupen

Detecting and Segmenting Sound Sources by using Microphone Array
Satoshi Kagami, Yuuki Tamai, Hiroshi Mizoguchi, Koichi Nishiwaki, Hirochika Inoue

Towards Single-Arm Reaching for Humanoids in Dynamic Environments
Evan Drumwright, Marcelo Kallmann, Maja Mataric

Biologically Valid Jaw Movements for Talking Humanoid Robots
Sabri Gurbuz, Keisuke Kinoshita, Marcia Riley and Sumio Yano

Multisensor-based Human Tracking Behaviors with Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods
Takahiro Miyashita, Masahiro Shiomi, and Hiroshi Ishiguro

Stability of a 6 DOF Biped in the Double Support Phase using Fuzzy Control
Cedric Cocaud, Amor Jnifene

Toward Intelligent System Health Monitoring for NASA Robonaut
Juyi Park, Steven Ferguson, Nilanjan Sarkar, Kazuhiko Kawamura, Rob Ambrose, Bill Bluethmann, Ken Alder

Constructivist Approach to Human-Robot Emoitonal Communication - Design of Evolutionary Function for WAMOEBA-3 -
Yuki Suga, Hiroaki Arie, Tetsuya Ogata, and Shigeki Sugano

Object Recognition on a Humanoid with Foveated Vision
Ales Ude, Gordon Cheng

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

Roboka: programming contest with simulated wreslting humanoid robots
Olivier Michel

Acquisition Of A Biped Walking Pattern Using A Poincare Map
Jun Morimoto, Jun Nakanishi, Gen Endo, Gordon Cheng, Christopher G. Atkeson, and Garth Zeglin

A Framework for Learning Biped Locomotion with Dynamical Movement Primitives
Jun Nakanishi, Jun Morimoto, Gen Endo, Gordon Cheng, Stefan Schaal and Mitsuo Kawato

A Full Body Human Motion Capture System using Particle Filtering and on-the-fly Edge Detection
Pedram Azad, Ales Ude, Gordon Cheng, Rudiger Dillmann