8th Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions

Program

 

 

8:30-9:00

Registration

 

9:00-9:20

Opening Session

 

9:20-10:20

Invited Speaker

 

 

 

Making Microrobots Move

 
   

Bradley Nelson

 
   

Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

 

 

10:20-10:35

Coffee-break

 

Session I - Control, Localization and Navigation

Chairs: Francisco Vaz, Pedro Lima

 

10:35-10:55

 
Precise Modeling of a Four Wheeled Omni-directional Robot
 
   

Hélder Oliveira, Armando Sousa, António Paulo Moreira, Paulo Costa

 

  

10:55-11:15

 

Robust Digital Control for Differential Soccer-Player Robot

 
   

João Monteiro, Rui Rocha

 

 

11:15-11:35

 

Room Acoustics Simulator for Ultrasonic Robot Location

 
   

Daniel Albuquerque, José Vieira, Carlos Bastos

 

 

11:35-11:55

 

Direct Creation of Maps for Robot Localisation by Merging Topological Paths

 
   

Filipe Ferreira, Jorge Dias, Vítor Santos

 

 

11:55-12:15

 

Monte Carlo Localization Based on Gyrodometry and Line-Detection

 
   

João Messias, João Santos, João Estilita, Pedro Lima

 

 

12:15-13:30

Lunch

 

13:30-14:00

INFAIMON presentation - Industrial Applications of Artificial Vision

 

Session II - Mobile Robots and Artificial Intelligence

Chairs: Isabel Ribeiro, Luís Paulo Reis

 

14:00-14:20

 

Integrated Capabilities for Knowledge Acquisition through Spoken Language Interaction in a Mobile Robot

 
   

Luís Seabra Lopes, António Teixeira, Marcelo Quinderé, Mário Rodrigues

 

 

14:20-14:40

 

Development of “Prometeu” Autonomous Robot for Ball Handling in Eurobot

 
   

Paulo Braga, Jorge Monteiro, Pedro Silva, Vítor Silva, Fernando Ribeiro

 

 

14:40-15:00

 

CAMBADA: Information Sharing and Team Coordination

 
   

Nuno Lau, Luís Seabra Lopes, Gustavo Corrente

 

 

15:00-15:20

 

Using Flight Simulation Environments with Agent-Controlled UAVs

 
   

Ricardo Gimenes, Daniel Castro Silva, Luís Paulo Reis, Eugénio Oliveira

 

 

15:20-15:40

 

Leader-Following Graph-Based Distributed Formation Control

 
   

José Rodrigues, Dario Figueira, Carlos Neves, Isabel Ribeiro

 

 

15:40-16:40

Poster Session and Coffee Break

 

   

Resolving Inconsistencies using Multi-agent Sensor Systems

 
   

Ruben Benkmann, Uwe-Philipp Käppeler, Oliver Zweigle, Reinhard Lafrenz, Paul Levi

 

 

   

Chauffeur - An NXT Based Autonomous Driver with Vision

 
   

Luís Ferreira, Igor Amado, Marcos Liberal, Alexandre Araújo, Luís Paulo Reis

 

 

   

The 2007 Spanish Humanoids Competition: From the Winners Point of View

 
   

Juan García, Javier Felip, Pedro Sanz

 

 

   

Realistic Behaviour Simulation of a Humanoid Robot

 
   

José Lima, José Gonçalves, Paulo Costa, António Paulo Moreira

 

 

   

Improving Visual Odometry by Removing Outliers in Optic Flow

 

Pedro Santana, Luís Correia

 

   

Biological Inspired Flight Robots

 
   

Manuel Silva, José Tenreiro Machado

 

 

 

Session III - Robot Vision and Image Processing

Chairs: Armando Pinho, Alexandre Bernardino

 

16:40-17:00

 

Visual Self-Calibration of Pan-Tilt Kinematic Structures

 
   

Bartosz Tworek, Alexandre Bernardino, José Santos-Victor

 

 

17:00-17:20

 

Multi-Camera Active Perception System with Variable Image Perspective for Mobile Robot Navigation

 

Miguel Oliveira, Vítor Santos

 

17:20-17:40

 

A Benchmark on Stereo Disparity Estimation for Humanoid Robots

 
   

Jurgen Leitner, Alexandre Bernardino, José Santos-Victor

 

 

17:40-18:00

 

A Hybrid Vision System for Soccer Robots using Radial Search Lines

 
   

António Neves, Daniel Martins, Armando Pinho

 

 

18:00-18:15

Prizes and Closing Session

 

J.L.Azevedo