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SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing
23 - 27 April 2012
Baltimore Convention Center
Baltimore, Maryland United States

Conference 8387
Unmanned Systems Technology XIV

Conference Program Track: Unmanned, Robotic, and Layered Systems (View Daily Schedule of Program Track)
Available in print as Proceedings of SPIE Volume 8387
Dates: Wednesday-Friday 25 - 27 April 2012
Conference Chairs
Robert E. Karlsen, U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Ctr.; Douglas W. Gage, XPM Technologies; Charles M. Shoemaker, U.S. Army CERDEC; Grant R. Gerhart, U. S. Army Tank Automotive Research Development and Engineering Ctr. -Retired
Program Committee
Stephen Balakirsky, National Institute of Standards and Technology; Johann Borenstein, Univ. of Michigan; Jonathan A. Bornstein, U.S. Army Research Lab.; Jared Giesbrecht, Defence Research and Development Canada, Suffield (Canada); Rajiv V. Dubey, Univ. of South Florida; Hobart Ray Everett, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Ctr. Pacific; Gene A. Klager, U.S. Army Night Vision & Electronic Sensors Directorate; James H. Lever, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Ctr.; Larry H. Matthies, Jet Propulsion Lab.; Paul L. Muench, U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Ctr.; Hoa G. Nguyen, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command; James L. Overholt, U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Ctr.; Mike Perschbacher, RovnoTech; Marc Raibert, Boston Dynamics; Klaus-Juergen Schilling, Julius-Maximilians-Univ. Würzburg (Germany); Nahid N. Sidki, SAIC; Harpreet Singh, Wayne State Univ.; Anthony Stentz, Carnegie Mellon Univ.; David L. Stone, Mechatron Consulting; Venkataraman Sundareswaran, Teledyne Scientific Co.; Brian H. Wilcox, Jet Propulsion Lab.; Gary Witus, Turing Associates, Inc.; Brian M. Yamauchi, iRobot Corp.
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Wednesday 25 April

Session 1:  Multi-Robot Control: Joint Session with 8403C

Date: Wednesday 25 April
Time: 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Session Chairs: Raja Suresh, General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems; Grant R. Gerhart, U. S. Army Tank Automotive Research Development and Engineering Ctr. -Retired
A layered control architecture for single-operator control of heterogeneous unmanned system teams  
Paper 8387-1
Author(s): Stephen Buerger, Jason Neely, Charles Q. Little, Wendy Amai, Rommy Joyce, Sandia National Labs. (United States)
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Coordinating with humans by adjustable-autonomy for multirobot pursuit (CHAMP)  
Paper 8387-2
Author(s): Danielle Dumond, Jeanine Ayers, Nathan Schurr, Alan Carlin, Dustin Burke, Jeff Rousseau, Aptima, Inc. (United States)
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The reconnaissance and autonomy for small robots (RASR): MAGIC 2010 challenge  
Paper 8387-3
Author(s): Alberto Lacaze, Karl N. Murphy, Robotic Research LLC (United States); Mark Del Giorno, Del Services, LLC (United States); Katrina Corley, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ. (United States)
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Teleoperation control of collaborative multifunctional robotic swarms for multitask, multitarget scenarios  
Paper 8387-4
Author(s): Yushing Cheung, Stevens Institute of Technology (United States); Jae Chung, Ketula Patel, U.S. Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Ctr. (United States)
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A feedback-trained, autonomous control system for heterogeneous search-and-rescue applications  
Paper 8387-5
Author(s): Jeremy Straub, The Univ. of North Dakota (United States)
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Spatial grasp technology and its application to distributed robotized systems  
Paper 8387-6
Author(s): Peter S. Sapaty, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Ukraine)
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Session 2:  Navigation and Mobility I

Date: Wednesday 25 April
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:50 AM
Session Chairs: Robert E. Karlsen, U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Ctr.; Brian M. Yamauchi, iRobot Corp.
Autonomous 3D exploration and mapping with unmanned ground robots  
Paper 8387-7
Author(s): John G. Rogers III, Georgia Institute of Technology (United States); Ethan A. Stump, Stuart H. Young, Laurel C. Sadler, U.S. Army Research Lab. (United States); Henrik I. Christensen, Georgia Institute of Technology (United States)
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Fast online learning of control regime transitions for adaptive robotic mobility  
Paper 8387-8
Author(s): Brian M. Yamauchi, iRobot Corp. (United States)
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Safe operations of unmanned systems for reconnaissance in complex environments (SOURCE): a year later  
Paper 8387-9
Author(s): N. Joseph Kott III, U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Ctr. (United States); Edward Mottern, General Dynamics Robotic Systems (United States); Jeremy P. Gray, U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Ctr. (United States)
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Challenges to autonomous navigation in complex urban terrain  
Paper 8387-10
Author(s): Jeremy P. Gray, U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Ctr. (United States); Edward Mottern, General Dynamics Robotics Systems (United States); N. Joseph Kott III, U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Ctr. (United States)
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Lunch/Exhibition Break 11:50 AM - 1:00 PM

Session 3:  Intelligent Behaviors

Date: Wednesday 25 April
Time: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Session Chairs: Frank L. Lewis, The Univ. of Texas at Arlington; Gregory R. Hudas, U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Ctr.
Comparison of information theoretic functions to moving targets  
Paper 8387-11
Author(s): Wenjie Lu, Silvia Ferrari, Duke Univ. (United States); Tom A. Wettergrn, Naval Undersea Warfare Ctr. (United States); Rafael O. Fierro, Mike Anderson, The Univ. of New Mexico (United States)
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Enabling civilian applications of unmanned teams through intelligent collaboration, cooperation, and sensing  
Paper 8387-12
Author(s): Allistair Moses, Matthew J. Rutherford, Kimon P. Valavanis, Univ. of Denver (United States)
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Trust methods for multi-agent consensus  
Paper 8387-13
Author(s): Dariusz G. Mikulski, U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Ctr. (United States); Frank L. Lewis, The Univ. of Texas at Arlington (United States); Edward Y. Gu, Oakland Univ. (United States); Gregory R. Hudas, U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Ctr. (United States)
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Intelligent behaviors through vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication  
Paper 8387-14
Author(s): Richard D. Garcia, Michael Brown, Purser Sturgeon, Southwest Research Institute (United States)
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Multi-destination UGV navigation planning in coordinate-free and localization-free wireless sensor and actuator networks  
Paper 8387-15
Author(s): Guyu Zhang, Christian Duncan, Jinko Kanno, Rastko R. Selmic, Louisiana Tech Univ. (United States)
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Neural network-based navigation and control of unmanned aerial vehicles for detecting unintended emissions  
Paper 8387-16
Author(s): Hassan Zargarzadeh, Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology (United States)
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Session 4:  Human Robot Interface

Date: Wednesday 25 April
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Session Chair: Jeremy P. Gray, U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Ctr.
Designing the common controller  
Paper 8387-17
Author(s): Darren N. Powell, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Ctr. Pacific (United States)
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A monocular leader-follower system for small mobile robots  
Paper 8387-18
Author(s): Camille Monnier, Stan German, Andrey Ostapchenko, Charles River Analytics, Inc. (United States)
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Seamless human-machine control coordination for semi-autonomous obstacle avoidance in unmanned ground vehicles  
Paper 8387-19
Author(s): Sterling Anderson, Sisir Karumanchi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States); Bryan Johnson, Victor E. Perlin, Mitch Rohde, Quantum Signal LLC (United States); Karl D. Iagnemma, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States)
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Study of high-definition and stereoscopic head-aimed vision for improved teleoperation of an unmanned ground vehicle  
Paper 8387-20
Author(s): Dale R. Tyczka, Robert Wright, Brian Janiszewski, Martha Jane Chatten, Chatten Associates, Inc. (United States); Thomas A. Bowen, Brian K. Skibba, U.S. Air Force Materiel Command (United States)
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Control solutions for robots using android devices  
Paper 8387-21
Author(s): A. William Evans, U.S. Army Research Lab. (United States); Jeremy P. Gray, U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Ctr. (United States); David Rudnick, DCS Corp. (United States); Robert E. Karlsen, U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Ctr. (United States)
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Development and human factors analysis of an augmented reality interface for multirobot, tele-operation, and control  
Paper 8387-22
Author(s): Sam Y. Lee, Nathan P. Lucas, Richard D. Ellis, Abhilash K. Pandya, Wayne State Univ. (United States)
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Thursday 26 April

Session 5:  MAST: Small-Scale Autonomous Platforms: Joint Session with Conference 8373

Date: Thursday 26 April
Time: 8:00 AM - 9:40 AM
Session Chair: Christopher M. Kroninger, U.S. Army Research Lab.
Design and development of a revolutionary VTOL micro-air vehicle: the cyclocopter  (Invited Paper)  
Paper 8373-52
Author(s): Moble Benedict, Inderjit Chopra, Univ. of Maryland, College Park (United States)
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Millimeter-scale, piezoMEMS-enabled autonomous systems: system feasibility and mobility  (Invited Paper)  
Paper 8373-53
Author(s): Jeffrey S. Pulskamp, Ronald G. Polcawich, Gabriel L. Smith, Christopher M. Kroninger, U.S. Army Research Lab. (United States)
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Yaw feedback control of a bio-inspired flapping wing vehicle  (Invited Paper)  
Paper 8373-54
Author(s): Gregory Gremillion, James S. Humbert, Univ. of Maryland, College Park (United States); Paul D. Samuel, Daedalus Flight Systems, LLC (United States)
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Maneuverability and mobility in palm-sized, legged robots  (Invited Paper)  
Paper 8373-55
Author(s): Nicholas J. Kohut, Paul Birkmeyer, Kevin C. Peterson, Andrew O. Pullin, Ronald S. Fearing, Univ. of California, Berkeley (United States)
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Challenges for micro-scale, flapping-wing, micro air vehicles  (Invited Paper)  
Paper 8373-56
Author(s): Robert J. Wood, Benjamin Finio, Michael Karpelson, Nestor O. Perez Arancibia, Pratheev Sreetharan, John P. Whitney, Harvard Univ. (United States)
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Session 6:  MAST: Sensors for Small-Scale Autonomous Platforms: Joint Session with Conference 8373

Date: Thursday 26 April
Time: 10:20 AM - 11:50 AM
Session Chair: William D. Nothwang, U.S. Army Research Lab.
Biologically inspired, haltere, angular-rate sensors for micro-autonomous systems  (Invited Paper)  
Paper 8373-57
Author(s): Gabriel L. Smith, William D. Nothwang, Brian E. Schuster, Sarah S. Bedair, Christopher D. Meyer, Jeffrey S. Pulskamp, Ronald G. Polcawich, U.S. Army Research Lab. (United States)
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Hair-based sensors for micro-autonomous systems  (Invited Paper)  
Paper 8373-58
Author(s): Mahdi M. Sadeghi, Rebecca L. Peterson, Khalil Najafi, Univ. of Michigan (United States)
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Gallium nitride micromechanical resonators for IR detection  (Invited Paper)  
Paper 8373-59
Author(s): Mina Rais-Zadeh, Univ. of Michigan (United States)
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Micromachined low-mass RF front-end for beam steering radar  (Invited Paper)  
Paper 8373-60
Author(s): Mehrnoosh Vahidpour, Meysam Moallem, Jack R. East, Kamal Sarabandi, Univ. of Michigan (United States)
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A programmable palm-size gas analyzer for use in micro-autonomous systems  (Invited Paper)  
Paper 8373-61
Author(s): Robert J. M. Gordenker, Kensall D. Wise, Univ. of Michigan (United States)
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Lunch/Exhibition Break 11:50 AM - 1:00 PM

Session 7:  Perception

Date: Thursday 26 April
Time: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Session Chairs: Larry H. Matthies, Jet Propulsion Lab.; Camille Monnier, Charles River Analytics, Inc.
Large-scale experimental design for decentralized SLAM  
Paper 8387-23
Author(s): Alexander G. Cunningham, Frank Dellaert, Georgia Institute of Technology (United States)
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Real-time, lidar-based place recognition using distinctive shape descriptors  
Paper 8387-24
Author(s): Jack A. Collier, Defence Research and Development Canada, Suffield (Canada); Stephen Se, Vinay Kotamraju, MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (Canada)
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Fully self-contained, vision-aided navigation and marker-free landing of a micro-air vehicle independent from external sensor inputs  
Paper 8387-25
Author(s): Roland Brockers, Larry H. Matthies, Jet Propulsion Lab. (United States)
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Field evaluation of a prototype optical instrument for airborne sense-and-avoid applications  
Paper 8387-26
Author(s): Cyrus Minwalla, Hou In Lio, York Univ. (Canada); Paris Ang, National Research Council Canada (Canada); Kyle Watters, York Univ. (Canada); Paul Thomas, Topaz Technology Inc. (Canada); Richard I. Hornsey, York Univ. (Canada); Sion A. Jennings, Kristopher Ellis, National Research Council Canada (Canada)
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Saliency detection and model-based tracking: a two-part vision system for small-robot navigation in forested environment  
Paper 8387-27
Author(s): Richard Roberts, Duy-Nguyen H. Ta, Georgia Institute of Technology (United States); Julian Straub, Technische Univ. München (Germany); Kyel Ok, Frank Dellaert, Georgia Institute of Technology (United States)
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Multiple object detection and tracking on the uneven terrain using multiple lidar for UGV  
Paper 8387-28
Author(s): Kuk Cho, Univ. of Science & Technology (Korea, Republic of); Seung-Ho Baeg, SangDeok Park, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (Korea, Republic of)
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Session 8:  Robotics CTA

Date: Thursday 26 April
Time: 3:30 PM - 5:50 PM
Session Chair: Jonathan A. Bornstein, U.S. Army Research Lab.
Foundations of autonomy for ground robotics  
Paper 8387-29
Author(s): Jonathan A. Bornstein, U.S. Army Research Lab. (United States); Robert R. Mitchell, General Dynamics Robotic Systems (United States)
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High degree-of-freedom dynamic manipulation  
Paper 8387-30
Author(s): Michael P. Murphy, Benjamin Stephens, Marco da Silva, Alfred A. Rizzi, Boston Dynamics (United States)
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X-RHex: a laboratory on legs  
Paper 8387-31
Author(s): Aaron M. Johnson, Univ. of Pennsylvania (United States); G. Clark Haynes, Carnegie Mellon Univ. (United States); Deniz Ilhan, Daniel E. Koditschek, Univ. of Pennsylvania (United States)
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Connecting a cognitive architecture to robotic perception  
Paper 8387-32
Author(s): Unmesh Kurup, Christian Lebiere, Anthony Stentz, Martial Hebert, Carnegie Mellon Univ. (United States)
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Semantic perception for ground robotics  
Paper 8387-33
Author(s): Martial Hebert, Carnegie Mellon Univ. (United States); Max Bajracharya, Jet Propulsion Lab. (United States); Drew Bagnell, Jeffrey Cohn, Carnegie Mellon Univ. (United States); Kostas Daniilidis, Univ. of Pennsylvania (United States); Larry H. Matthies, Jet Propulsion Lab. (United States); Daniel D. Morris, General Dynamics Robotic Systems (United States); Pietro Perona, California Institute of Technology (United States); Jianbo Shi, Ben Taskar, Univ. of Pennsylvania (United States); Susan Thornton, General Dynamics Robotic Systems (United States)
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Robust mobility in human-populated environments  
Paper 8387-34
Author(s): Juan Pablo Gonzalez, General Dynamics Robotic Systems (United States); Mike Phillips, Brad Neuman, Maxim Likhachev, Carnegie Mellon Univ. (United States)
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The importance of shared mental models and shared situation awareness for transforming robots from tools to teammates  
Paper 8387-35
Author(s): Florian G. Jentsch, Scott Ososky, David Schuster, Stephen Fiore, Randall Shumaker, Univ. of Central Florida (United States); Christian Lebiere, Unmesh Kurup, Hyaejin Oh, Anthony Stentz, Carnegie Mellon Univ. (United States)
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Posters-Thursday

Date: Thursday 26 April
Time: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
All symposium attendees are invited to attend the poster sessions. Come view the high-quality papers that are presented in this alternative format, and interact with the poster author who will be available for discussion. Enjoy light refreshments while networking with colleagues in your field. Attendees are required to wear their conference registration badges to the poster sessions.

Authors may set-up their posters between 10:00 am and 5:00 pm the day of their poster. Posters that are not set-up by the 5:00 pm cut-off time will be considered no-shows and their manuscripts may not be published. Poster authors should be at their papers from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm to answer questions from attendees. All posters and other materials must be removed no later than 8:00 pm. Any papers left on the boards at the close of the poster session will be considered unwanted and will be discarded. SPIE assumes no responsibility for posters left up after the end of each poster session.
Spatial learning and temporal measurements in a low-visibility, net-enabled, GPS-denied environment  
Paper 8387-53
Author(s): Theodore B. Terry, Mark L. Axtell, Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. (United States)
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Video analysis for high-speed, autonomous vehicle guidance  
Paper 8387-54
Author(s): Patrick Wang, Peter A. Torrione, Leslie M. Collins, Kenneth D. Morton, Jr., Duke Univ. (United States)
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Enhanced INS pose estimation assisted by visual odometry using lidar  
Paper 8387-55
Author(s): HyungSoon Kim, Korea Univ. (Korea, Republic of); SangDeok Park, Seung-Ho Baeg, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (Korea, Republic of); Kuk Cho, Univ. of Science & Technology (Korea, Republic of)
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A pose estimation method for unmanned ground vehicles in GPS denied environments  
Paper 8387-56
Author(s): Amirhossein Tamjidi, Cang Ye, Univ. of Arkansas at Little Rock (United States)
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Adaptive electronic camouflage  
Paper 8387-57
Author(s): Narek Pezeshkian, Joseph D. Neff, Greg W. Anderson, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Ctr. Pacific (United States)
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Adaptive information interactive mechanism for multi-UAV visual navigation  
Paper 8387-58
Author(s): Hui Liu, Qionghai Dai, Tsinghua Univ. (China)
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Mobile robot mosaic imaging of vehicle undercarriages using catadioptric vision  
Paper 8387-59
Author(s): Robert J. Ross, John C. Devlin, Song Wang, La Trobe Univ. (Australia)
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Fuzzy logic technique for detecting communication loss in unmanned aerial vehicles  
Paper 8387-60
Author(s): Hector I. Reyes, Naima Kaabouch, The Univ. of North Dakota (United States)
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A statistical approach for performance analysis of uncertain systems  
Paper 8387-61
Author(s): Xinjia Chen, Southern Univ. and A&M College (United States)
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Review of multirobot taxonomy, trends, and applications for defense and space  
Paper 8387-62
Author(s): Nathan P. Lucas, Wayne State Univ. (United States) and U.S. Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command (United States); Abhilash K. Pandya, Richard D. Ellis, Wayne State Univ. (United States)
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Videometric terminal guidance method and system for UAV accuracy landing  
Paper 8387-63
Author(s): Xiang Zhou, Zhihui Lei, Qifeng Yu, Hongliang Zhang, Yang Shang, Jing Du, Yang Gui, Pengyu Guo, National Univ. of Defense Technology (China)
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An underwater solar energy harvesting system for monitoring and security sensor applications  
Paper 8387-64
Author(s): Rebecca Torres, Eduardo I. Ortiz-Rivera, Univ. de Puerto Rico Mayagüez (United States)
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Autonomous robotic systems research project: a tool to improve undergraduate engineering education  
Paper 8387-65
Author(s): Carlos I. Gonzalez, Eduardo I. Ortiz-Rivera, Univ. de Puerto Rico Mayagüez (United States)
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Friday 27 April

Session 9:  Articulation and Manipulation

Date: Friday 27 April
Time: 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Session Chairs: Paul L. Muench, U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Ctr.; Mike Perschbacher, RovnoTech
Enhanced operator perception through 3D vision and haptic feedback  
Paper 8387-36
Author(s): Richard Edmondson, Polaris Sensor Technologies, Inc. (United States)
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Autonomous urban reconnaissance ingress system (AURIS): providing a tactically relevant, autonomous door-opening kit for unmanned ground vehicles  
Paper 8387-37
Author(s): David J. Shane, Michael Rufo, Boston Engineering Corp. (United States); Matthew D. Berkemeier, Joel A. Alberts, Autonomous Solutions, Inc. (United States)
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Advanced dual-haptic manipulator system for CIED  
Paper 8387-38
Author(s): David R. Erickson, Defence Research and Development Canada, Suffield (Canada)
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Game theory applied to legged robotics: a variant of the dolichobrachistochrone problem  
Paper 8387-39
Author(s): Paul L. Muench, David B. Bednarz, U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Ctr. (United States)
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Detecting and learning of geometrically relevant features for legged locomotion  
Paper 8387-40
Author(s): Bruce L. Digney, Defence Research and Development Canada, Suffield (Canada)
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Improving UGV teleoperation performance using novel visualization techniques and manual interfaces  
Paper 8387-41
Author(s): Steven Vozar, Dawn Tilbury, Univ. of Michigan (United States)
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Session 10:  Navigation and Mobility II

Date: Friday 27 April
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:50 AM
Session Chairs: Robert E. Karlsen, U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Ctr.; Brian M. Yamauchi, iRobot Corp.
Autonomous exploration and mapping of unknown environments  
Paper 8387-42
Author(s): Jason L. Owens, U.S. Army Research Lab. (United States); Philip R. Osteen, Motile Robotics Inc. (United States); MaryAnne Fields, Ellen Haas, U.S. Army Research Lab. (United States); Kostas Daniilidis, Univ. of Pennsylvania (United States)
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Development and test results of autonomous behaviors for urban environment exploration  
Paper 8387-43
Author(s): Alexander Xydes, Guarav Ahuja, Donald Fellars, Gregory Kogut, Estrellina Pacis Rius, Misha Schoolov, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Ctr. Pacific (United States)
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Development of an info-gap-based path planner to enable non-deterministic, low-observability mobile sensor nodes  
Paper 8387-44
Author(s): David L. Mascareñas, Christopher J. Stull, Charles R. Farrar, Los Alamos National Lab. (United States)
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Energy conservation for UGVs executing coverage tasks  
Paper 8387-45
Author(s): John Broderick, Dawn Tilbury, Ella Atkins, Univ. of Michigan (United States)
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Lunch Break 11:50 AM - 1:00 PM

Session 11:  Special Topics

Date: Friday 27 April
Time: 1:00 PM - 3:20 PM
Session Chairs: Douglas W. Gage, XPM Technologies; Charles M. Shoemaker, General Dynamics Robotic Systems
Enabling unmanned capabilities in the tactical-wheeled vehicle fleet of the future  
Paper 8387-46
Author(s): Noah Zych, Oshkosh Corp. (United States)
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ROBODEXS: multirobot deployment and extraction system  
Paper 8387-47
Author(s): Jeremy P. Gray, James R. Mason, Michael S. Patterson, Matthew W. Skalny, U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Ctr. (United States)
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Dealing with unreliable and long latency communications in tactical and space robotic applications  
Paper 8387-48
Author(s): Douglas W. Gage, XPM Technologies (United States)
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Mesh networking optimized for robotic teleoperation  
Paper 8387-49
Author(s): Abraham Hart, Hoa G. Nguyen, Narek Pezeshkian, Kevin F. Holz, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Ctr. Pacific (United States)
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Getting it right the first time: predicted performance guarantees from the analysis of emergent behavior in autonomous and semi-autonomous systems  
Paper 8387-50
Author(s): Ronald C. Arkin, Georgia Institute of Technology (United States); Damian M. Lyons, Fordham Univ. (United States)
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Characteristics of a maritime-interdiction-operations, unmanned ground vehicle  
Paper 8387-51
Author(s): Hoa G. Nguyen, Mendel Baker, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Ctr. Pacific (United States)
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Design of a transformative spherical mobile robot  
Paper 8387-52
Author(s): Kang Hou, Hanxu Sun, Qingxuan Jia, Beijing Univ. of Posts and Telecommunications (China)
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Abstract Due Date Extended to:
21 October 2011
Late submissions may be accepted at the conference chairs' discretion.

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19 December 2011

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13 February 2012

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26 March 2012


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