HUMANOIDS'06 - 2006 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots

CONFERENCE PROGRAM
5-6 December 2006

VENUE:
Oral and poster sessions will be held at Magazzini del Cotone in the Scirocco-Libeccio Hall (3rd floor)

DETAILED TIMETABLE December 5 2006 (General timetable)
9h00-10h00:   PLENARY TALK
SPEAKER: Ruediger Dillmann, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
TITLE: Perception and Understanding of Human Activities by Humanoid Robots
10h00-10h30:   COFFEE BREAK + Humanoid Foot Race
10h30-12h30:   ORAL SESSION - I   MULTIMODAL CONTROL
   Chairs: Peter Ford Dominey and Hiroshi Ishiguro
Time ID Title Authors
10h30-10h50 94 Segmentation, Memorization, Recognition and Abstraction of Humanoid Motions based on Correlations and Associative Memory Hideki Kadone and Yoshihiko Nakamura
11h10-11h30 185 Vision based behavior verification system of humanoid robot for daily environment tasks Kei Okada, Mitsuharu Kojima, Yuuichi Sagawa, Toshiyuki Ichino, Kenji Sato and Masayuki Inaba
11h30-11h50 144 Localisation for Autonomous Humanoid Navigation Simon Thompson, Satoshi Kagami and Koichi Nishiwaki
11h50-12h10 49 Detection and Localization of Multiple Objects Stefan Zickler and Manuela Veloso
12h10-12h30 138 Speech Recognition for a Humanoid with Motor Noise Utilizing Missing Feature Theory Yoshitaka Nishimura, Mikio Nakano, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Hiroshi Tsujino and Mitsuru Ishizuka
12h30-14h00:   LUNCH BREAK + Soccer demos and Freestyle
14h00-16h20:   ORAL SESSION - II   HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION
   Chairs: Christopher Atkeson and Odest Jenkins
Time ID Title Authors
14h00-14h20 137 Active Learning of Joint Attention Marek Doniec, Ganghua Sun and Brian Scassellati
14h20-14h40 121 Imitation Learning of Dual-Arm Manipulation Tasks in Humanoid Robots Tamim Asfour, Florian Gyarfas, Pedram Azad and Rüdiger Dillmann
14h40-15h00 17 Biologically motivated visual behaviors for humanoids: Learning to interact and learning in interaction Christian Goerick, Heiko Wersing, Inna Mikhailova and Stephan Kirstein
15h00-15h20 52 Playing a different imitation game: Interaction with an Empathic Android Robot Frank Hegel, Thorsten Spexard, Thurid Vogt, Gernot Horstmann and Britta Wrede
15h20-15h40 163 Learning Causality and Intention in Human Actions Somboon Hongeng and Jeremy Wyatt
15h40-16h00 172 A Sensory-Motor Language for Human Activity Understanding Gutemberg Guerra-Filho and Yiannis Aloimonos
16h00-16h20 176 Gesture Recognition for Humanoids using Proto-symbol Space Naoki Kojo, Tetsunari Inamura, Kei Okada and Masayuki Inaba
16h20-16h50:   COFFEE BREAK + Penalty kicks
16h50-18h10:   ORAL SESSION - III   MANIPULATORY SKILLS
   Chairs: Abderrahmane Kheddar and Koh Hosada
Time ID Title Authors
16h50-17h10 29 Dexterous Skills Transfer by Extending Human Body Schema to a Robotic Hand Erhan Oztop, Mike Lin, Mitsuo Kawato and Gordon Cheng
17h10-17h30 30 Unconstrained Real-time Markerless Hand Tracking for Humanoid Interaction Thomas Gumpp, Pedram Azad, Kai Welke, Erhan Oztop, Rudiger Dillmann and Gordon Cheng
17h30-17h50 128 Humanoid Mobile Manipulation Using Controller Refinement Robert Platt, Robert Burridge, Myron Diftler, Jodi Graf, Michael Goza and Eric Huber
17h50-18h10 136 Manipulation in Human Environments Aaron Edsinger and Charles Kemp
18h10-18h50:   (First Match) 2-on-2 Soccer Robots Match (40 min.)
Whole Day:    POSTER - SESSION - I
ID Title Authors
11 Programming by Cooperation: Perceptual-Motor Sequence Learning via Human-Robot Interaction Jean-David BOUCHER and Peter Ford DOMINEY
14 A Team of Humanoid Game Commentators Manuela Veloso, Nicholas Armstrong-Crews, Sonia Chernova, Elisabeth Crawford, Colin McMillen, Maayan Roth and Douglas Vail
19 Controlled Passive Walker Veronica Powered by Actuators with Independent Control of Equilibrium Position and Compliance Ronald Van Ham, Bram Vanderborght, Björn Verrelst, Michaël Van Damme and Dirk Lefeber
20 Locomotion Control Architecture for the Pneumatic Biped Lucy consisting of a Trajectory Generator and Joint Trajectory Tracking Controller Bram Vanderborght, Björn Verrelst, Michaël Van Damme, Ronald Van Ham, Pieter Beyl and Dirk Lefeber
26 Supervising Remote Humanoids Across Intermediate Time Delay Kimberly Hambuchen, William Bluethmann, S. Michael Goza, Robert Ambrose, Kenneth Rabe and Mark Allan
27 How does a Balancing Motion of a Humanoid Robots Affect a Human Motion and Impression? Masayuki Kakio, Takahiro Miyashita, Noriaki Mitsunaga, Hiroshi Ishiguro and Norihiro Hagita
28 Dynamic Pen Spinning Using a High-speed Multifingered Hand with High-speed Tactile Sensor Tatsuya Ishihara, Akio Namiki, Masatoshi Ishikawa and Makoto Shimojo
36 Fast and Robust Feature-based Recognition of Multiple Objects Kai Welke, Pedram Azad and Rüdiger Dillmann
37 A Walking Pattern Generator around Singularity Akinori Sekiguchi, Yuki Atobe, Koki Kameta, Yuichi Tsumaki and Dragomir Nenchev
38 A Humanoid Two-Arm System for Dexterous Manipulation Christian Ott, Oliver Eiberger, Werner Friedl, Berthold Bäuml, Ulrich Hillenbrand, Christoph Borst, Alin Albu-Schäffer, Bernhard Brunner, Heiko Hirschmüller, Simon Kielhöfer, Rainer Konietschke, Michael Suppa, Thomas Wimböck, Franziska Zacharias and Gerd Hirzinger
40 Design and Control of 2D Biped that can Walk and Run with Pneumatic Artificial Muscles Koh Hosoda, Takashi Takuma and Atsushi Nakamoto
42 Learning feature representations for an object recognition system Kai Welke, Erhan Oztop, Ales Ude, Rüdiger Dillmann and Gordon Cheng
45 A Novel Humanoid Binaural 3D Sound Localization and Separation Algorithm Fakheredine Keyrouz, Werner Maier and Klaus Diepold
46 Information-Based Gaze Direction Planning Algorithm for SLAM Georgios Lidoris, Kolja Kühnlenz, Dirk Wollherr and Martin Buss
48 Upper Body of a new Humanoid Robot - the Design of ARMAR III Albert Albers, Sven Brudniok, Korkiat Sedchaicharn and Christian Sauter
50 Robot learning of upper-body human motion by active imitation Juan Pedro Bandera Rubio, Rebeca Marfil Robles, Luis Molina-Tanco, Juan Antonio Rodríguez Fernández, Antonio Bandera Rubio and Francisco Sandoval Hernández
54 The Task Matrix Framework for Platform-Independent Humanoid Programming Evan Drumwright, Victor Ng-Thow-Hing and Maja Mataric'
58 A Behavior Level Operation System for Humanoid Robots Ee Sian Neo, Ken-ichi Maruyama, Takeshi Sakaguchi, Yoshihiro Kawai and Kazuhito Yokoi
62 The Tele-operation of the Humanoid Robot -Whole Body Operation for Humanoid Robots in Contact with Environment- Hitoshi Hasunuma, Kensuke Harada and Hirohisa Hirukawa
63 Robust speech recognition system for communication robots in real environments Carlos Toshinori Ishi, Shigeki Matsuda, Takayuki Kanda, Takatoshi Jitsuhiro, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Satoshi Nakamura and Norihiro Hagita
65 A Visual Attention Framework for Search Behavior by a Humanoid Robot Francois Saidi, Olivier Stasse and Kazuhito Yokoi
67 Design and Development of Biped Humanoid Robot, AMI2 for Social Interaction with Human Yong-Ho Seo, Yeong-Nam Chae, Il-Woong Jeong, Won-Hyung Kang and Hyun-S Yang
70 Advanced Distributed Architecture for a Small Biped Robot Control miguel albero gil, franciosco blanes nogera, gines benet gilabert, Jose simo and javier coronel
72 Conversation Robot with the Function of Gaze Recognition Shinya Fujie, Toshihiko Yamahata and Tetsunori Kobayashi
77 A Methodological Approach to Design of Soft Fingertips for Humanoid Robot Hands Antonio Sardo, Paolo Tiezzi and Gabriele Vassura
79 A Cognitive Architecture for Flexible Imitative Interaction Using Tools and Objects Ryo Fukano, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Akihiko Nagakubo
80 The Relationship between Contingency and Complexity in a Lifelike Humanoid Robot Fumitaka Yamaoka, Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Norihiro Hagita
81 A closed-form inverse kinematic modelling of a 7R anthropomorphic upper limb based on a joint parametrization Bertrand TONDU
83 Online Biped Walking Pattern Generation for Humanoid Robot KHR-3(KAIST Humanoid Robot - 3: HUBO Ill-Woo Park, Jung-Yup Kim and Jun-Ho Oh
85 A Robot That Can Engage in Both Task-Oriented and Non-Task-Oriented Dialogues Mikio Nakano, Atsushi Hoshino, Johane Takeuchi, Yuji Hasegawa, Toyotaka Torii, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Kazuhiko Kato and Hiroshi Tsujino
87 An Affect-Expression Space Model of the Face in a Mascot-Type Robot Hui Sung Lee, Jeong Woo Park and Myoung Jin Chung
88 Exploring the dynamic walking range of the biped robot "Runbot" with an active upper-body component Poramate Manoonpong, Tao Geng and Florentin Woergoetter