November 2011-October 2012
Doctoral theses
- Sami Haddadin, “Towards safe robots: Approaching Asimov’s 1st law”, Institute for Man-Machine Interaction, Rheinisch-Westfälisch Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH Aachen), Germany, 2011.
- S. Lemaignan, “Grounding the interaction: Knowledge management for interactive robots”, PhD Thesis, Université de Toulouse, France, 2012.
- Simon Haddadin, “Macro- and microscopic analysis of biological test specimen for evaluation of skin and soft-tissue injuries with application to knowledge-based real-time robot control”, University of Debrecen, Department of Pathology, Hungary, 2012.
- A. Mekki-Mokhtar, "Processus d'identification de propriétés de sécurité-innocuité vérifiables en ligne pour des systèmes autonomes critiques", PhD Thesis, Université de Toulouse, France, 2012.
- A. K. Pandey, “Towards socially intelligent robots in human centered environments”, PhD Thesis, Université de Toulouse, France, 2012.
- M. Warnier, “Gestion des croyances de l’homme et du robot et architecture pour la planification et le contrôle de tâches collaboratives homme-robot”, PhD Thesis, Université de Toulouse, France, 2012.
Journal papers
- S. Haddadin, P. Robuffo Giordano, A. Peer, “Editorial special issue on autonomous physical Human-Robot Interaction”, International Journal of Robotics Research, vol. 31, no. 13, pp. 1529-1530, 2012.
- C. Papazov, S. Haddadin, S. Parusel, K. Krieger, and D. Burschka, “Rigid 3D geometry matching for grasping of known objects in cluttered scenes”, International Journal of Robotics Research, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 538-555, 2012.
- E. A. Sisbot, and R. Alami, “A human-aware manipulation planner”, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 1045-1057, 2012.
Conference papers and book chapters
- Q. A. Do Hoang, J. Guiochet, D. Powell, and M. Kaâniche, “Human-robot interactions: Model-based risk analysis and safety case construction”, 6th European Congress on Embedded Real-Time Software and Systems, Toulouse, France, February 2012.
- A. Ajoudani, N.G. Tsagarakis, A. Bicchi, “Tele-Impedance: Towards Transferring Human Impedance Regulation Skills to Robots”, 2012 IEEE International Conference of Robotics and Automation, St. Paul, MN, pp. 382- 388, May 2012.
- M.G. Catalano, G. Grioli, M. Garabini, F.A.W. Belo, A. Di Basco, N.G. Tsagarakis, A.Bicchi, “A Variable Damping module for Variable Impedance Actuation”, 2012 IEEE International Conference of Robotics and Automation, St. Paul, MN, pp. 2666-2672, May 2012.
- F. Flacco, T. Kröger, A. De Luca, O. Khatib, “A depth space approach to human-robot collision avoidance,” 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, St. Paul, MN, pp. 338-345, May 2012.
- F. Flacco, A. De Luca, O. Khatib, “Motion control of redundant robots under joint constraints: Saturation in the null space,” 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, St. Paul, MN, pp. 285-292, May 2012.
- M. Garabini, A. Passaglia, F. A. W. Belo, P. Salaris, A. Bicchi, “Optimality principles in stiffness control: The VSA kick”, 2012 IEEE International Conference of Robotics and Automation, St. Paul, MN, pp. 3341-3346, May 2012.
- A. Jafari, N.G. Tsagarakis, I. Sardellitti, D. G. Caldwell, “How design can affect the energy required to regulate the stiffness in variable stiffness actuators”, 2012 IEEE International Conference of Robotics and Automation, St. Paul, MN, pp. 2792 - 2797, May 2012.
- N. Jarrassé, G. Ganesh, S. Haddadin, E. Burdet, A. Albu-Schäffer “A versatile biomimetic controller for contact tooling and tactile exploration”, 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, St. Paul, MN, pp. 3329-3334, May 2012.
- S. Haddadin, F. Huber, A. Albu-Schäffer, “Optimal control for exploiting the natural dynamics of variable stiffness robots”, 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, St. Paul, MN, pp. 3347-3354, May 2012.
- M. Mancini, G. Grioli, M. G. Catalano, M. Garabini, F. Bonomo, A. Bicchi, “Passive impedance control of a multi-DOF VSA-CubeBot manipulator,” 2012 IEEE International Conference of Robotics and Automation, St. Paul, MN, pp. 3335-3340, May 2012.
- H. Sadeghian, M. Keshmiri, L. Villani, B. Siciliano, "Priority oriented adaptive control of kinematically redundant manipulators", 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, St. Paul, MN, pp. 293-298, May 2012.
- I. Sardellitti, G. Medrano-Cerda, N.G. Tsagarakis, A. Jafari, D. G. Caldwell, “A position and stiffness control strategy for variable stiffness actuators”, 2012 IEEE International Conference of Robotics and Automation, St. Paul, MN, pp. 2785-2791, May 2012.
- J. Guitton, M. Warnier, R. Alami, “Vers une gestion des croyances pour la planification Homme-Robot”, JFPDA 2012, 7èmes Journées Francophones Planification, Decision, et Apprentissage pour la conduite de systèmes”, Nancy, France, May 2012.
- D. Powell, J. Arlat, H. N. Chu, F. Ingrand, M. Killijian, “Testing the Input Timing Robustness of Real-time Control Software for Autonomous Systems”, Ninth European Dependable Computing Conference (EDCC 2012), Sibiu, Romania, May 2012.
- G. Milighetti, E. Hoffmann, A. Fetzner and H.-B. Kuntze, “Visually and force controlled opening and closing of doors by means of a mobile robot arm”, Proceedings of ROBOTIK 2012, 7th German Conference on Robotics, May 2012.
- J. Petereit, T. Emter, C. W. Frey, T. Kopfstedt, A. Beutel, “Application of Hybrid A* to an Autonomous Mobile Robot for Path Planning in Unstructured Outdoor Environments”, Proceedings of ROBOTIK 2012, 7th German Conference on Robotics, May 2012.
- A. De Luca, F. Flacco, “Integrated control for pHRI: Collision avoidance, detection, reaction and collaboration,” 4th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, Rome, Italy, pp. 288-295, June 2012 (Best Paper Award).
- G. De Maria, C. Natale, S. Pirozzi, “Tactile Sensor for Human-like Manipulation”, The Fourth IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, Rome, Italy, pp. 1686-1691, June 2012.
- F. Ficuciello, L. Villani, "Compliant hand-arm control with soft fingers and force sensing for human-robot interaction”, The Fourth IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, Rome, Italy, pp. 1961-1966, June 2012.
- A.K. Pandey, J. Saut, D. Sidobre, R. Alami, "Towards planning Human-Robot Interactive manipulation tasks: Task dependent and human oriented autonomous selection of grasp and placement," The Fourth IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, Rome, Italy, pp.1371-1376, June 2012.
- S. Pirozzi, A. Cirillo, P. Cirillo, “A Modular and Low-Cost Artificial Skin for Robotic Applications”, The Fourth IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, Rome, Italy, pp. 961-966, June 2012.
- L. Villani, H. Sadeghian, B. Siciliano, "Null-space impedance control for physical human-robot interaction”, 19th CISM-IFToMM Symposium on Robot Design, Dynamics, and Control, Paris, France, June 2012.
- C. Lisha, M. Laffranchi, N. G. Tsagarakis, D. Caldwell, "A novel curve fitting based discrete velocity estimator for high performance motion control”, IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, , Taiwan, pp. 1060-1065, July 2012.
- M. Laffranchi, N. Tsagarakis, D. Caldwell, “CompactTM arm: a compliant manipulator with intrinsic variable physical damping,” in Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Robotics, Science and Systems (RSS), Sydney, July 2012.
- A. K. Pandey and R. Alami, "Visuo-Spatial Ability, Effort and Affordance Analyses: Towards Practical Realization of Building Blocks for Robot's Complex Socio-Cognitive Behaviors", 8th International Cognitive Robotics Workshop (CogRob-2012) , Toronto, Canada, July 2012.
- J. Guitton, M. Warnie, R. Alami, “Belief Management for HRI Planning”, Belief change, Non-monotonic reasoning and Conflict resolution (BNC@ECAI 2012), Montpellier, France, August 2012
- H. Sadeghian, F. Ficuciello, L. Villani, M. Keshmiri, "Global impedance control of dual-arm manipulation for safe interaction", 10th International IFAC Symposium on Robot Control, Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 2012.
- S. Iengo, A. Origlia, M. Staffa and A. Finzi. "Attentional and Emotional Regulation in Human-Robot Interaction", 21st IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Paris, France, pp. 1135-1140, September 2012.
- J. Mainprice, M. Gharbi, T. Simeon, R. Alami, “Sharing effort in planning human-robot handover tasks”, 21st IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Paris, France, pp. 764-770, September 2012.
- K. Pandey and R. Alami, “Taskability graph: Towards analysing effort based agent-agent affordances,” 21st IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Paris, France, pp. 791–796, September 2012.
- M. Warnier, J. Guitton, S. Lemaignan, R. Alami, “When the robot puts itself in your shoes. Managing and exploiting human and robot beliefs”, 21st IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Paris, France, pp. 948-954, September 2012.
- E. Burattini, A. Finzi, S. Rossi, M. Staffa, “Attentional human-robot interaction in simple manipulation tasks,” 7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Boston, MA, pp. 129-130, September 2012.
- S. Lemaignan, M. Gharbi, J. Mainprice, M. Herrb, R. Alami, “Roboscopie: a theatre performance for a human and a robot”, 7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Boston, MA, pp. 427-428, September 2012.
- S. Lemaignan, G. Echeverria, M. Karg, J. Mainprice, A. Kirsch, and R. Alami, ”Human- robot interaction in the MORSE simulator”, 7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Boston, MA, pp. 181-182, September 2012.
- F. Flacco, A. De Luca, I. Sardellitti, N. Tsagarakis “On-line estimation of variable stiffness in flexible robot joints”, Automatica 2012, Benevento, I, September 2012.
- D. J. Braun, F. Petit, F. Huber, S. Haddadin, P. van der Smagt, A. Albu-Schäffer, S. Vijayakumar, “Optimal torque and stiffness control in compliantly actuated robots”, 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vilamoura, P, pp. 2801-2808, October 2012.
- F. Flacco, A. De Luca, O. Khatib, “Prioritized multi-task motion control of redundant robots under hard joint constraints,” 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vilamoura, P, pp. 3970-3977, October 2012.
- J. Guiochet, Q. A. Do Hoang, M. Kaâniche, and D. Powell, “Applying Existing Standards to a Medical Rehabilitation Robot : Limits and Challenges”, 2012 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Workshop FW5: Safety in Human-Robot Coexistence & Interaction: How can Standardization and Research benefit from each other?, Vilamoura, P, October 2012.
- S. Haddadin, S. Haddadin, A. Khoury, T. Rokahr, S. Parusel, R. Burgkart, A. Bicchi, A. Albu-Schäffer, “A truly safely moving robot has to know what injury it may cause”, 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vilamoura, P, pp. 5406-5413, October 2012.
- S. Haddadin, F. Huber, K. Krieger, R. Weitschat, A. Albu-Sch¨affer, S. Wolf, W. Friedl, M. Grebenstein, F. Petit, J. Reinecke, R. Lampariello, “Intrinsically elastic robots: the key to human like performance”, 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vilamoura, P, pp. 4270-4271, October 2012.
- S. Haddadin, K. Krieger, N. Mansfeld, A. Albu-Schäffer, “On impact decoupling properties of elastic robots and time optimal velocity maximization on joint level”, 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vilamoura, P, pp. 5089 – 5096, October 2012.
- S. Haddadin, N. Mansfeld, A. Albu-Schäffer, “Rigid vs. elastic actuation: Requirements and performance”, 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vilamoura, P, pp. 5097-5104, October 2012.
- M. Laffranchi, L. Chen, N. G. Tsagarakis, and D. G. Caldwell, "The role of physical damping in compliant actuation systems”, 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vilamoura, P, pp. 3079-3085, October 2012.
- H. Sadeghian, M. Keshmiri, L. Villani, B. Siciliano, "Null-space impedance control with disturbance observer", 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vilamoura, P, pp. 2795-2800, October 2012.
- A. De Luca, F. Flacco “Integrated control for pHRI: Collision avoidance, detection, reaction and collaboration”, 5th International Workshop on Human-Friendly Robotics (HFR 2012), Brussels, B, October 2012.
- N. Kashiri, M. Laffranchi, N. G. Tsagarakis, and D. G. Caldwell, “Precise and adaptable motion control of a compliant manipulator provided with variable clutch actuation systems”, 5th International Workshop on Human-Friendly Robotics (HFR 2012), Brussels, B, October 2012.
- A. Ajoudani, M. Gabiccini, N. G. Tsagarakis, A. Albu-Schaeffer, A. Bicchi ”Tele-Impedance: Exploring the Role of Common-Mode and Configuration-Dependant Stiffness”, IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Osaka, Japan, November 2012.
- L. Balletti, A. Rocchi, F.A.W. Belo, M.G. Catalano, M. Garabini, G. Grioli, A. Bicchi “Towards variable impedance assembly: the VSA peg-in-hole”, IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Osaka, Japan, November 2012.
- D. Gossow, D. Weikersdorfer, M. Beetz, “Distinctive Texture Features from Perspective-Invariant Keypoints”, 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Tsukuba, Japan, November 2012.
- A. Mekki-Mokhtar, J.-P. Blanquart, J. Guiochet, D. Powell, M. Roy, “Safety Trigger Conditions for Critical Autonomous Systems”, 18th IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC 2012), Niigata, Japan, pp. 61-69, November 2012.
- S. Haddadin, M. C. Özparpucu, A. Albu-Schäffer, “Optimal control for maximizing potential energy in variable stiffness robots”, 2012 IEEE International Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, Hawaii, December 2012.
- D. Di Nocera, A. Finzi, S. Rossi, M. Staffa, "Attentional Action Selection Using Reinforcement Learning", Proc. of 12th International Conference on Adaptive Behaviour (SAB2012), Odense, Denmark, in T. Ziemke, C. Balkenius, and J. Hallam (Eds.): From Animals to Animats 12, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, vol. 7426, pp. 371-380, 2012.
- S. Lemaingan, R. Alami, A. Kumar Pandey, M. Warnier, J. Guitton, “Towards Grounding Human-Robot Interaction,” in Bridges between the Methodological and Practical Work of the Robotics and Cognitive Systems Communities - From Sensors to Concepts, Amirat, T. and Chibani, A. and Zarri, G. P. (Eds.), Springer, in press, 2012.