The 6th International Conference on Field and Service Robotics
	July 9-12 2007, Chamonix, France
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Call For Papers Committees Keynotes speakers Submission Accepted papers Registration Accommodation Conference location Pratical information Program Detailed program Social program Visit of INRIA Sponsors Pictures Credits Contact	42 PAPERS ARE ACCEPTED AS AN ORAL PRESENTATION (go to papers accepted as a poster) #6 A Feature Based Navigation System for an Autonomous Underwater Robot (John Folkesson, Jacques Leederkerken, Rob Williams, Andrew Patrikalakis and John Leonard) #8 Autonomous Robotic Inspection for Lunar Surface Operations (Maria Bualat, Laurence Edwards, Terrence Fong, Michael Broxton, Lorenzo Flueckiger, Susan Y Lee, Eric Park, Vinh To, Hans Utz, Vandi Verma, Clayton Kunz and Matt MacMahon) #10 SIFT Based Graphical SLAM on a Packbot (John Folkesson and Henrik Christensen) #15 Design and Validation of a Mobile Robot for Power Line Inspection and Maintenance (Serge Montambault and Nicolas Pouliot) #16 Kinematics and Sensor and Control Systems of the Fully Automated Facade Cleaning Robot SIRIUSc for Fraunhofer Headquarters in Munich(Norbert Elkmann, Mario Lucke, Tino Krüger, Dietmar Kunst and Thomas Stürze) #21 Autonomous Fruit Picking Machine: A Robotic Apple Harvester (Johan Baeten, Kevin Donné, Sven Boedrij, Wim Beckers and Eric Claesen) #22 Recovering the Shape of Objects in 3D Point Clouds with Partial Occlusions (Rudolph Triebel and Wolfram Burgard) #23 Vision-based handling tasks for an autonomous outdoor forklift (Cédric Pradalier) #24 Robust Vision-based Underwater Target Identification & Homing Using Self-Similar Landmarks (Amaury Negre, Cédric Pradalier and Matthew Dunbabin) #30 Look-ahead Proposals for Robust Grid-based SLAM (Slawomir Grzonka, Christian Plagemann, Giorgio Grisetti and Wolfram Burgard) #31 Data-Driven Identification of Group Dynamics for Motion Prediction and Control (Mac Schwager, Dean Anderson and Daniela Rus) #32 Dynamic Obstacle Detection based on Probabilistic Moving Feature Recognition (Roman Katz, Oliver Frank, Juan Nieto and Eduardo Nebot) #34 Coordinated Search in Cluttered Environments Using Range from Multiple Robots (Geoffrey Hollinger, Joseph Djugash and Sanjiv Singh) #35 Implementation of Formation Transition System using Synchronization in a Mobile Robot Group (Takaaki Shimone, Daisuke Kurabayashi, Kunio Okita and Tetsuro Funato) #36 Development of a Networked Robotic System for Disaster Mitigation - System Description of Multi-robot System and Report of Performance Tests (Keiji Nagatani, Kazuya Yoshida, Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, Yasushi Yagi, Tadashi Adachi, Hiroaki Saitoh, Toshiya Suzuki and Osamu Takizawa) #38 Monte Carlo Localization in Outdoor Terrains using Multi-Level Surface Maps (Rainer Kuemmerle, Rudolph Triebel, Patrick Pfaff and Wolfram Burgard) #41 Mobile robot sensing for environmental applications (Amarjeet Singh, Maxim A Batalin, Michael Stealey, Victor Chen, Mark H Hansen, Thomas C Harmon, Gaurav S Sukhatme and William J Kaiser) #45 Roving Faster Farther Cheaper (Matthew Roman, David P Miller and Zack White) #48 Experiments in autonomous reversing of a tractor-trailer system (Cédric Pradalier and Kane Usher) #49 ATRS - A Technology-based Solution to Automobility for Wheelchair Users (Chao Gao, Ira Hoffman, Thomas Panzarella and John Spletzer) #50 Robust Real Time Local Laser Scanner Registration with Uncertainty Estimation (Justin Carlson, Charles Thorpe and David L Duke) #51 Tradeoffs in SLAM with sparse information filters (Zhan Wang, Shoudong Huang and Gamini Dissanayake) #53 Reactive Collision Avoidance for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles using Doppler Radar (Andrew Viquerat, Lachlan Blackhall, Alistair Reid, Salah Sukkarieh and Graham Brooker) #58 Standing assistance system for rehabilitation walker (Daisuke Chugo, Wataru Matsuoka, Songmin Jia, Kunikatsu Takase and Hajime Asama) #59 Outdoor Radar Mapping Using Measurement Likelihood Estimation (John Mullane, Martin D Adams and Wijerupage S Wijesoma) #60 Visually-guided Robot Navigation: from Artificial to Natural Landmarks (Enric Celaya, Jose-Luis Albarral, Pablo Jiménez and Carme Torras) #61 Automated Steam Turbine Rotor Disc Inspection (Roland Moser, Chris Udell and Alistair Montgomery) #62 Robot Position Estimation on a RFID-tagged Smart Floor (Thomas Kaempke, Boris Kluge, Erwin Prassler and Matthias Strobel) #64 Design and Field Testing of an Autonomous Underground Tramming System (Joshua A Marshall and Timothy D Barfoot) #67 Pedestrian Shape Extraction by means of Active Contours (Massimo Bertozzi, Alberto Broggi, Stefano Ghidoni and Michael Del Rose) #71 Robust Feature Extraction and Matching for Omnidirectional Images (Davide Scaramuzza, Nicolas Criblez, Agostino Martinelli and Roland Siegwart) #73 Sensor Registration for Robotic Applications (Alen Alempijevic, Sarath Kodagoda and Gamini Dissanayake) #77 Unsupervised Detection of Artificial Objects in Outdoor Environments (Luciano Spinello and Roland Siegwart) #79 The Small Outdoor Rover MERLIN and its Assistance System for Tele-Operations (Daniel Eck, Manuel Stahl and Klaus Schilling) #81 Estimating Vehicle Position Using Few Range Measurements to a Known Curved Surface (Michael A Kokko and Franz S Hover) #82 Experiments in Navigation and Mapping with a Hovering AUV (George Kantor, Nathaniel Fairfield, Dominic Jonak and David Wettergreen) #83 Combined Visual and Inertial Navigation for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (Jonathan Kelly, Srikanth Saripalli and Gaurav S Sukhatme) #84 An Architecture for Automated Driving in Urban Environments (Gang Chen and Thierry Fraichard) #94 A plan manager for multi-robot systems (Sylvain Joyeux, Rachid Alami and Simon Lacroix) #96 Modelling Smooth Paths Using Gaussian Processes (M K Tay Christopher and Christian Laugier) #97 Dense Mapping for Telemetric Sensors: efficient algorithms and sparse representation (Manuel Yguel, Olivier Aycard and Christian Laugier) #100 An Advanced Teleoperation Testbed (Bill Ross, John Bares, David Stager, Larry Jackel and Mike Perschbacher) 14 PAPERS ARE ACCEPTED AS A POSTER (go to papers accepted as an oral presentation) #4 Tracking Environmental Isoclines using Polygonal Formations of Submersible Autonomous Vehicles (Shahab Kalantar and Uwe Zimmer) #5 Magnetic Wall Climbing Robot for Thin Surfaces with Specific Obstacles (Wolfgang Fischer, Fabien Tâche and Roland Siegwart) #25 A Miniature Biomimetic Robotic Fish and Its Realtime Path Planning (Chao Zhou, Zhiqiang Cao, Shuo Wang, Xiang Dong and Min Tan) #39 A FastSLAM algorithm based on the Unscented Filtering with adaptive selective resampling (Manuel Cugliari and Francesco Martinelli) #43 Cooperative Localization for Multi-Robot Incorporating Proprioceptive/Exteroceptive Position Sensors (Jihong Lee, Kyounghwan Jo, and ChoulSoo Jang) #56 Tree Measurement and Simultaneous Localization and Mapping System for Forest Harvesters (Matti Öhman, Mikko Miettinen, Kosti Kannas, Jaakko Jutila, Arto Visala and Pekka Forsman) #65 Mobile Robot Geometry Initialization from Single Camera (Daniel Pizarro, Manuel Mazo, Enrique Santiso and Hideki Hashimoto) #72State Space Sampling of Feasible Motions for High Performance Mobile Robot Navigation (Thomas Howard, Colin Green and Alonzo Kelly) #75 Assessing Map Quality using Conditional Random Fields (Manjari Chandran-Ramesh and Paul Newman) #78 Characterization and Comparison of Rover Locomotion Performance Based on Kinematic Aspects (Thomas Thueer and Roland Siegwart) #80 Online Learning of Multiple Perceptual Models for Navigation in Unknown Terrain (Jane Mulligan, Gregory Grudic, Michael Otte and Adam Bates) #86 Picking up an Unknown Object Through Autonomous Modeling and Grasp Planning by a Mobile Manipulator (Kimitoshi Yamazaki, Masahiro Tomono and Takashi Tsubouchi) #89 Teleoperation of a Surgical Robot via Airborne Wireless Radio and Transatlantic Internet Links (Mitchell Lum, Diana Friedman, Hawkeye King, Regina Donlin, Ganesh Sankaranarayanan, Timothy Broderick, Mika Sinanan, Jacob Rosen and Blake Hannaford) #99 Development of a 5 degree-of-freedom Towfish and its Control Strategy (Mohammad Khan, Aazir Khan, Matteo Zoppi and Rezia Molfino)