Robotics : Science and Systems VIII.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Organizing Committee -- Program Committee -- Workshop Evaluation Committee -- Sponsors -- Estimating Human Dynamics On-the-Fly Using Monocular Video For Pose Estimation -- Fast Weighted Exponential Product Rules for Robust General Multi-Robot Data Fusion -- State Estimation for Legged Robots: ConsistentFusion of Leg Kinematics and IMU -- Extrinsic Calibration from Per-Sensor Egomotion -- Colour-Consistent Structure-from-Motion Models Using Underwater Imagery -- M-Width: Stability and Accuracy of Haptic Rendering of Virtual Mass -- Contextual Sequence Prediction with Application to Control Library Optimization -- Physics-Based Grasp Planning Through Clutter -- FFT-Based Terrain Segmentation for Underwater Mapping -- Formalizing Assistive Teleoperation -- Reducing Conservativeness in Safety Guaranteesby Learning Disturbances Online -- What's in the Bag: A Distributed Approach to 3D Shape Duplication with Modular Robots -- An Object-Based Approach to Map Human Hand Synergies onto Robotic Hands with Dissimilar Kinematics -- What Types of Interactions Do Bio-Inspired Robot Swarms and Flocks Afford a Human? -- Real-Time Inverse Dynamics Learning for Musculoskeletal Robots Based on Echo State Gaussian Process Regression -- Recognition, Prediction, and Planning for Assisted Teleoperation of Freeform Tasks -- Hybrid Operational Space Control for Compliant Legged Systems -- Modeling and Prediction of Pedestrian Behavior Based on the Sub-Goal Concept -- Asymptotically-Optimal Path Planning on Manifolds -- Minimal Coordinate Formulation of Contact Dynamics in Operational Space -- Nonparametric Bayesian Models for Unsupervised Scene Analysis and Reconstruction -- Distributed Approximation of Joint Measurement Distributions Using Mixtures of Gaussians -- Robust Object Grasping Using Force Compliant Motion Primitives.

Multi-Stage Micro Rockets for Robotic Insects -- Feature-Based Prediction of Trajectories for Socially Compliant Navigation -- Variational Bayesian Optimization for Runtime Risk-Sensitive Control -- Time-Optimal Trajectory Generation for Path Following with Bounded Acceleration and Velocity -- Towards A Swarm of Agile Micro Quadrotors -- CompAct™ Arm: a Compliant Manipulator with Intrinsic Variable Physical Damping -- Robust Loop Closing Over Time -- Optimization-Based Estimator Design for Vision-Aided Inertial Navigation -- Practical Route Planning Under Delay Uncertainty: Stochastic Shortest Path Queries -- A Distributable and Computation-Flexible Assignment Algorithm: From Local Task Swapping to Global Optimality -- The Banana Distribution Is Gaussian: A Localization Study with Exponential Coordinates -- Recognition and Pose Estimation of Rigid Transparent Objects with a Kinect Sensor -- Towards Persistent Localization and Mapping with a Continuous Appearance-Based Topology -- Robust Navigation Execution by Planning in Belief Space -- Visual Route Recognition with a Handful of Bits -- Exploiting Passive Dynamics with Variable Stiffness Actuation in Robot Brachiation -- Inference on Networks of Mixtures for Robust Robot Mapping -- Turning-Rate Selective Control: A New Method for Independent Control of Stress-Engineered MEMS Microrobots -- Affine Trajectory Deformation for Redundant Manipulators -- E-Graphs: Bootstrapping Planningwith Experience Graphs -- Walking and Running on Yielding and Fluidizing Ground -- On Stochastic Optimal Control and Reinforcement Learning by Approximate Inference -- Failure Anticipation in Pursuit-Evasion -- Tendon-Driven Variable Impedance Control Using Reinforcement Learning -- Guaranteeing High-Level Behaviors While Exploring Partially Known Maps -- Development of a Testbed for Robotic Neuromuscular Controllers.

Experiments with Balancing on Irregular Terrains Using the Dreamer Mobile Humanoid Robot -- Parsing Indoor Scenes Using RGB-D Imagery -- Toward Information Theoretic Human-Robot Dialog -- Efficiently Finding Optimal Winding-Constrained Loops in the Plane -- On the Structure of Nonlinearities in Pose Graph SLAM -- Probabilistic Modeling of Human Movements for Intention Inference -- Optimization of Temporal Dynamics for Adaptive Human-Robot Interaction in Assembly Manufacturing -- Optimal Control with Weighted Average Costs and Temporal Logic Specifications -- Probabilistic Temporal Logic for Motion Planning with Resource Threshold Constraints -- Hierarchical Motion Planning in Topological Representations -- Rigidity Maintenance Control for Multi-Robot Systems.

Papers from a flagship conference reflect the latest developments in the field, including work in such rapidly advancing areas as human-robot interaction and formal methods.

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