Advanced Robotics, Volume 31

Volume 31, Numbers 1-2, 2017

Embodied-Brain Systems Science and Adaptive Intelligence (1)
Preface

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  Jun Ota, Enrico Pagello, Jun Ueda:
  Preface. 1

Survey paper

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  Kaoru Takakusaki, Mirai Takahashi, Kazuhiro Obara, Ryosuke Chiba:
  Neural substrates involved in the control of posture. 2-23

Full Papers

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  Takashi Sakamoto, Toshiyuki Kondo:
  Awareness of movement does not facilitate robot-assisted passive motor learning. 24-28
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  Jihun Kim, Jongho Lee, Shinji Kakei, Jaehyo Kim:
  Motor control characteristics for circular tracking movements of human wrist. 29-39
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  Ningjia Yang, Qi An, Hiroshi Yamakawa, Yusuke Tamura, Atsushi Yamashita, Hajime Asama:
  Muscle synergy structure using different strategies in human standing-up motion. 40-54
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  Ping Jiang, Ryosuke Chiba, Kaoru Takakusaki, Jun Ota:
  A postural control model incorporating multisensory inputs for maintaining a musculoskeletal model in a stance posture. 55-67
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  Yuki Ishikawa, Qi An, Junki Nakagawa, Hiroyuki Oka, Tetsuro Yasui, Michio Tojima, Haruhi Inokuchi, Nobuhiko Haga, Hiroshi Yamakawa, Yusuke Tamura, Atsushi Yamashita, Hajime Asama:
  Gait analysis of patients with knee osteoarthritis by using elevation angle: confirmation of the planar law and analysis of angular difference in the approximate plane. 68-79

Short Paper

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  Arito Yozu, Masashi Hamada, Takuya Sasaki, Shin-ichi Tokushige, Shoji Tsuji, Nobuhiko Haga:
  Development of a novel system to quantify the spatial-temporal parameters for crutch-assisted quadrupedal gait. 80-87

Full Papers

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  Toshihiro Kawase, Natsue Yoshimura, Hiroyuki Kambara, Yasuharu Koike:
  Controlling an electromyography-based power-assist device for the wrist using electroencephalography cortical currents. 88-96
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  Tetsunari Inamura, Satoshi Unenaka, Satoshi Shibuya, Yukari Ohki, Yutaka Oouchida, Shin-Ichi Izumi:
  Development of VR platform for cloud-based neurorehabilitation and its application to research on sense of agency and ownership. 97-106

Volume 31, Number 3, 2017

Embodied-Brain Systems Science and Adaptive Intelligence (2)
Survey Paper

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  Yuki Ueyama:
  System identification of neural mechanisms from trial-by-trial motor behaviour: modelling of learning, impairment and recovery. 107-117

Full Papers

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  Tomohiro Mimura, Yoshinobu Hagiwara, Tadahiro Taniguchi, Tetsunari Inamura:
  Bayesian body schema estimation using tactile information obtained through coordinated random movements. 118-134
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  Keisuke Shima, R. Sato:
  A novel haptic device design based on somatosensory superimposed stimuli. 135-142
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  Ryosuke Chiba, Sho Shiraishi, Kaoru Takakusaki, Jun Ota:
  A model for the initial diagnosis of cerebellar disease. 143-154

Volume 31, Number 4, 2017

Full Papers

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  Yoshihiro Tanaka, Yuki Goto, Akihito Sano:
  Haptic display of micro surface undulation based on discrete mechanical stimuli to whole fingers. 155-167
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  Chunlei Wang, Ting Zhang, Xiaohui Wei, Yongjun Long, Shigang Wang:
  Dynamic characteristics and stability criterion of rotary galloping gait with an articulated passive spine joint. 168-183
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  Luc Le Tien, Alin Albu-Schäffer:
  Decoupling and tracking control for elastic joint robots with coupled joint structure. 184-203
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  Panfeng Wang, Xinming Huo, Zhe Wang:
  Topology design and kinematic optimization of cyclical 5-DoF parallel manipulator with proper constrained limb. 204-219

Volume 31, Number 5, 2017

Spatial Reasoning and Interaction for Real-World Robotics.
Preface

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  Verena Rieser, Matthew Walter, Dirk Wollherr:
  Special issue on spatial reasoning and interaction for real-world robotics. 221

Survey paper

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  Christian Landsiedel, Verena Rieser, Matthew Walter, Dirk Wollherr:
  A review of spatial reasoning and interaction for real-world robotics. 222-242

Full Paper

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  Niels Schütte, Brian Mac Namee, John D. Kelleher:
  Robot perception errors and human resolution strategies in situated human-robot dialogue. 243-257
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  Elin Anna Topp:
  Interaction patterns in human augmented mapping. 258-267
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  José Carlos Rangel, Jesus Martínez-Gómez, Ismael García-Varea, Miguel Cazorla:
  LexToMap: lexical-based topological mapping. 268-281
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  Christian Landsiedel, Dirk Wollherr:
  Road geometry estimation for urban semantic maps using open data. 282-290

Volume 31, Number 6, 2017

Full Paper

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  Carlos Manuel Lara-Barrios, Andrés Blanco-Ortega, Arturo Abúndez Pliego, Jorge Colín Ocampo, Marco Antonio Oliver-Salazar:
  Real-time myoelectric control for a lower-limb assistive exoskeleton. 291-302
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  Kunihiro Ogata, Tokio Umino, Tsuyoshi Nakayama, Eiichi Ono, Toshiaki Tsuji:
  Dummy humanoid robot simulating several trunk postures and abdominal shapes - Report of element technologies. 303-310
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  Kentaro Wada, Makoto Sugiura, Iori Yanokura, Yuto Inagaki, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba:
  Pick-and-verify: verification-based highly reliable picking system for various target objects in clutter. 311-321
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  Masaki Murooka, Ryohei Ueda, Shunichi Nozawa, Yohei Kakiuchi, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba:
  Global planning of whole-body manipulation by humanoid robot based on transition graph of object motion and contact switching. 322-340

Volume 31, Number 7, 2017

Full Papers

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  Ko Yamamoto:
  Humanoid motion analysis and control based on COG viscoelasticity. 341-354
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  Kosuke Kato, Masayoshi Wada:
  Kinematic analysis and simulation of active-caster robotic drive with ball transmission (ACROBAT-S). 355-367
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  El Houssein Chouaib Harik, François Guerin, Frédéric Guinand, Jean-François Brethé, Hervé Pelvillain, Jean-Yves Parédé:
  Fuzzy logic controller for predictive vision-based target tracking with an unmanned aerial vehicle. 368-381
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  Songpo Li, Jeremy Webb, Xiaoli Zhang, Carl A. Nelson:
  User evaluation of a novel eye-based control modality for robot-assisted object retrieval. 382-393

Volume 31, Number 8, 2017

Full Paper

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  Yunduan Cui, Takamitsu Matsubara, Kenji Sugimoto:
  Pneumatic artificial muscle-driven robot control using local update reinforcement learning. 397-412
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  Atsushi Nakazawa, Hiroaki Kato, Christian Nitschke, Toyoaki Nishida:
  Eye gaze tracking using corneal imaging and active illumination devices. 413-427
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  Ali Taherifar, Gholamreza Vossoughi, Ali Selk Ghafari:
  Optimal target impedance selection of the robot interacting with human. 428-440
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  Yasuhiro Sugimoto, Daisuke Nakanishi, Motoki Nakanishi, Koichi Osuka:
  Stability and joint stiffness analysis of legged robot's periodic motion driven by McKibben pneumatic actuator. 441-452

Volume 31, Number 9, 2017

Full Paper

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  Roland Lenain, Mathieu Deremetz, Jean-Baptiste Braconnier, Benoît Thuilot, Vincent Rousseau:
  Robust sideslip angles observer for accurate off-road path tracking control. 453-467
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  Emiko Uchiyama, Wataru Takano, Yoshihiko Nakamura:
  Multi-class grasping classifiers using EEG data and a common spatial pattern filter. 468-481
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  Yi Ren, Yang Zhou, Yechao Liu, Yikun Gu, Minghe Jin, Hong Liu:
  Robust adaptive multi-task tracking control of redundant manipulators with dynamic and kinematic uncertainties and unknown disturbances. 482-495
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  Mahmood Mazare, Mostafa Taghizadeh, M. Rasool Najafi:
  Contouring control of a 3-[P2(US)] parallel manipulator. 496-508

Volume 31, Number 10, 2017

Full Paper

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  Shogo Miyata, Sho Miyahara, Dragomir N. Nenchev:
  Analytical formula for the pseudoinverse and its application for singular path tracking with a class of redundant robotic limbs. 509-518
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  Md. Shariful Islam, Md. Rabiul Islam, Md. Altab Hossain, Alexander Ferworn, Md. Khademul Islam Molla:
  Subband entropy-based features for clothing invariant human gait recognition. 519-530
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  Kai Liu, Jiaqi Xu, Zhishang Ge, Yangwei Wang, Dongbiao Zhao, Yonghua Lu:
  Robust control of 3-DOF parallel robot driven by PMAs based on nominal stiffness model. 531-543
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  Hiroyuki Yuba, Solvi Arnold, Kimitoshi Yamazaki:
  Unfolding of a rectangular cloth from unarranged starting shapes by a Dual-Armed robot with a mechanism for managing recognition error and uncertainty. 544-556

Volume 31, Number 11, 2017

Full Papers

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  Shan Jiang, Wei Yuan, Yunpeng Yang, Daguang Zhang, Ningbo Liu, Wei Wang:
  Modelling and analysis of a novel CT-guided puncture robot for lung brachytherapy. 557-569
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  Trinh Van Vinh, Tetsuo Tomizawa, Shunsuke Kudoh, Takashi Suehiro:
  Knotting task execution based a hand-rope relation. 570-579
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  Eric M. Young, Thomas J. Withrow, Nilanjan Sarkar:
  Design of intention-based assistive robot for upper limb. 580-594
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  Rui Fukui, Takayoshi Niho, Masayuki Nakao, Masaaki Uetake:
  Imitation-based control of automated ore excavator: improvement of autonomous excavation database quality using clustering and association analysis processes. 595-606

Volume 31, Number 12, 2017

Survey Paper

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  Surbhi Gupta, Amod Kumar:
  A brief review of dynamics and control of underactuated biped robots. 607-623

Full Papers

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  Lana Sinapayen, Keisuke Nakamura, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Hiroki Takahashi, Tetsuo Kinoshita:
  Swarm of micro-quadrocopters for consensus-based sound source localization. 624-633
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  Jianwen Luo, Yili Fu, Shuguo Wang:
  3D stable biped walking control and implementation on real robot. 634-649
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  Muhammad Wasif, Michael W. Spratling:
  A neural model for eye-head-arm coordination. 650-663

Volume 31, Number 13, 2017

Full Papers

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  Yushu Yu, Xilun Ding, J. Jim Zhu:
  Dynamic modeling and control for aerial arm-operating of a multi-propeller multifunction aerial robot. 665-679
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  Xuewei Mao, Yoji Yamada, Yasuhiro Akiyama, Shogo Okamoto, Kengo Yoshida:
  Safety verification method for preventing friction blisters during utilization of physical assistant robots. 680-694
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  Hyoin Bae, Jun-Ho Oh:
  Humanoid state estimation using a moving horizon estimator. 695-705

Short Paper

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  Roberto Ancona:
  Redundancy modelling and resolution for robotic mobile manipulators: a general approach. 706-715

Volume 31, Number 14, 2017

Survey Paper

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  Vigen Arakelian:
  Inertia forces and moments balancing in robot manipulators: a review. 717-726

Full Paper

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  Masahiro Shiomi, Norihiro Hagita:
  Social acceptance toward a childcare support robot system: web-based cultural differences investigation and a field study in Japan. 727-738
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  Yina Wang, Shuoyu Wang, Kenji Ishida, Yo Kobayashi, Masakatsu G. Fujie, Takeshi Ando:
  High path tracking control of an intelligent walking-support robot under time-varying friction and unknown parameters. 739-752
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  Yasutaka Nishioka, Megumi Uesu, Hisae Tsuboi, Sadao Kawamura, Wataru Masuda, Toshihiko Yasuda, Mitsuhiro Yamano:
  Development of a pneumatic soft actuator with pleated inflatable structures. 753-762

Volume 31, Number 15, 2017

Full Paper

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  Mikio Bando, Yukihiko Ono, Yusuke Hieida, Kenjiro Yamamoto:
  GNSS fault detection with unmodeled error. 763-779
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  Tomoyuki Maekawa, Wataru Takano:
  Spatial representation of context-dependent sentences and its application to sentence generation. 780-790
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  Julián Colorado, Manuel Gil Pérez, Iván Fernando Mondragón, Diego Mendez, Carlos Parra, Carlos Andrés Devia, Jesús J. Martinez Molina, L. Neira:
  An integrated aerial system for landmine detection: SDR-based Ground Penetrating Radar onboard an autonomous drone. 791-808
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  Yeoun-Jae Kim, Chang-Kyu Park, Kwang Gi Kim:
  An EMG-based variable impedance control for elbow exercise: preliminary study. 809-820

Volume 31, Number 16, 2017

Survey Paper

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  Harry A. Pierson, Michael S. Gashler:
  Deep learning in robotics: a review of recent research. 821-835

Full Paper

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  Jason A. Kereluk, M. Reza Emami:
  Task-based optimization of reconfigurable robot manipulators. 836-850
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  Hitoshi Kino, Hiroaki Ochi, Yuki Matsutani, Kenji Tahara:
  Sensorless point-to-point control for a musculoskeletal tendon-driven manipulator: analysis of a two-DOF planar system with six tendons. 851-864
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  Özgür Erkent, Hakan Karaoguz, H. Isil Bozma:
  Hierarchically self-organizing visual place memory. 865-879

Volume 31, Number 17, 2017

Full Papers

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  Chen Li, Chad C. Kessens, Ronald S. Fearing, Robert J. Full:
  Mechanical principles of dynamic terrestrial self-righting using wings. 881-900
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  Ahmed Asker, Samy F. M. Assal, Ming Ding, Jun Takamatsu, Tsukasa Ogasawara, Abdelfatah M. Mohamed:
  Modeling of natural sit-to-stand movement based on minimum jerk criterion for natural-like assistance and rehabilitation. 901-917
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  Marco Hutter, Christian Gehring, Andreas Lauber, Fabian Günther, Carmine Dario Bellicoso, Vassilios Tsounis, Peter Fankhauser, Remo Diethelm, Samuel Bachmann, Michael Blösch, Hendrik Kolvenbach, Marko Bjelonic, Linus Isler, Konrad Meyer:
  ANYmal - toward legged robots for harsh environments. 918-931
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  Guoquan Huang:
  Particle filtering with analytically guided sampling. 932-945

Volume 31, Number 18, 2017

Full Papers

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  Khoshnam Shojaei:
  Neural adaptive PID formation control of car-like mobile robots without velocity measurements. 947-964
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  Seok-Hoon Lee, Jung-Yup Kim:
  Walking algorithm for a robotic transfemoral prosthesis capable of walking pattern recognition and posture stabilization. 965-989
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  Shusheng Bi, C. Liu, H. Z. Zhao, Y. L. Wang:
  Design and analysis of a novel variable stiffness actuator based on parallel-assembled-folded serial leaf springs. 990-1001
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  Kuniyuki Takahashi, Tetsuya Ogata, Jun Nakanishi, Gordon Cheng, Shigeki Sugano:
  Dynamic motion learning for multi-DOF flexible-joint robots using active-passive motor babbling through deep learning. 1002-1015
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  Ali Mousavi Mohammadi, Alireza Akbarzadeh:
  A real-time impedance-based singularity and joint-limits avoidance approach for manual guidance of industrial robots. 1016-1028

Volume 31, Numbers 19-20, 2017

Special Issue on Advanced Manipulation- Survey Papers
Preface

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  Kensuke Harada, Máximo A. Roa, Akihiko Yamaguchi:
  Special issue on advanced manipulation. 1029

Survey Paper

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  Ryuta Ozawa, Kenji Tahara:
  Grasp and dexterous manipulation of multi-fingered robotic hands: a review from a control view point. 1030-1050
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  Daniel R. Ramírez Rebollo, Pedro Ponce, Arturo Molina:
  From 3 fingers to 5 fingers dexterous hands. 1051-1070
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  Satoshi Makita, Weiwei Wan:
  A survey of robotic caging and its applications. 1071-1085
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  Natsuki Yamanobe, Weiwei Wan, Ixchel Georgina Ramirez-Alpizar, Damien Petit, Tokuo Tsuji, Shuichi Akizuki, Manabu Hashimoto, Kazuyuki Nagata, Kensuke Harada:
  A brief review of affordance in robotic manipulation research. 1086-1101
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  Valerio Ortenzi, Rustam Stolkin, Jeffrey A. Kuo, Michael N. Mistry:
  Hybrid motion/force control: a review. 1102-1113
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  Tetsuyou Watanabe, Kimitoshi Yamazaki, Yasuyoshi Yokokohji:
  Survey of robotic manipulation studies intending practical applications in real environments -object recognition, soft robot hand, and challenge program and benchmarking-. 1114-1132

Volume 31, Number 21, 2017

Section Focused on Superhuman Technology
Preface

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  Masahiko Inami, Hiroyuki Kajimoto, Kai Kunze, Suranga Nanayakkara, Jean-Marc Seigneur, Minoru Shinohara:
  Preface of the Section Focused on Superhuman Technology. 1133-1134

Full Paper

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  Kazunori Ogawa, Chetan Thakur, Tomohiro Ikeda, Toshio Tsuji, Yuichi Kurita:
  Development of a pneumatic artificial muscle driven by low pressure and its application to the unplugged powered suit. 1135-1143
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  Kosuke Sato, Keita Watanabe, Shuichi Mizuno, Masayoshi Manabe, Hiroaki Yano, Hiroo Iwata:
  Development and assessment of a block machine for volleyball attack training. 1144-1156

Volume 31, Number 22, 2017

Special Issue on Selected and Extended Papers from SIMPAR 2016
Preface

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  Torsten Kröger, Samir Menon, Katja D. Mombaur, Hanna Kurniawati, Marco Pavone:
  Special issue on selected and extended papers from SIMPAR 2016. 1157-1158

Full Paper

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  Mahmoud Abdelgawad, Sterling McLeod, Anneliese Andrews, Jing Xiao:
  Model-based testing of a real-time adaptive motion planning system. 1159-1176
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  Johannes Wienke, Sebastian Wrede:
  Performance regression testing and run-time verification of components in robotics systems. 1177-1192
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  Ernesto Nunes, Mitchell McIntire, Maria L. Gini:
  Decentralized multi-robot allocation of tasks with temporal and precedence constraints. 1193-1207
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  Eulalie Coevoet, Thor Morales Bieze, Frederick Largilliere, Zhongkai Zhang, Maxime Thieffry, Mario Sanz-Lopez, Bruno Carrez, Damien Marchal, Olivier Goury, Jérémie Dequidt, Christian Duriez:
  Software toolkit for modeling, simulation, and control of soft robots. 1208-1224
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  Markus Giftthaler, Michael Neunert, Markus Stäuble, Marco Frigerio, Claudio Semini, Jonas Buchli:
  Automatic differentiation of rigid body dynamics for optimal control and estimation. 1225-1237
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  R. M. Kopitzsch, Debora Clever, Katja D. Mombaur:
  Optimization-based analysis of push recovery during walking motions to support the design of rigid and compliant lower limb exoskeletons. 1238-1252

Volume 31, Numbers 23-24, 2017

Special Issue on Advanced Manipulation - Research Papers
Full Paper

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  Ashlih Dameitry, Hideyuki Tsukagoshi:
  Lightweight pneumatic semi-universal hand with two fingers aimed for a wide range of grasping. 1253-1266
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  Giulia Vezzani, Massimo Regoli, Ugo Pattacini, Lorenzo Natale:
  A novel pipeline for bi-manual handover task. 1267-1280
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  Sharon Temtsin, Amir Degani:
  Decision-making algorithms for safe robotic disassembling of randomly piled objects. 1281-1295
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  Ali Hashemian, Seyed Farhad Hosseini, S. Nader Nabavi:
  Kinematically smoothing trajectories by NURBS reparameterization - an innovative approach. 1296-1312
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  Athanasios Krontiris, Kostas E. Bekris:
  Trade-off in the computation of minimum constraint removal paths for manipulation planning. 1313-1324
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  Vladimír Petrík, Vladimír Smutný, Pavel Krsek, Václav Hlavác:
  Single arm robotic garment folding path generation. 1325-1337
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  Aime Charles Alfred Dione, Shoichi Hasegawa, Hironori Mitake:
  Stable posture control for planar hyper-redundant arms using selective control points. 1338-1348
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  Guangwei Wang, Qingsong Xu:
  Design and development of a piezo-driven microinjection system with force feedback. 1349-1359

Other

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  Editors List.

Corrigendum

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  Corrigendum.