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Volume 36, Number 2, April 2020

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Volume 36, Number 2, April 2020

Table of Contents

 

Survey Papers

Electroadhesion Technologies For Robotics: A Comprehensive Review    

Jianglong Guo, Jinsong Leng, Jonathan Rossiter 

A survey on policy search algorithms for learning robot controllers in a handful of trials     

Konstantinos Chatzilygeroudis, Vassilis Vassiliades, Freek Stulp, Sylvain Calinon, Jean-Baptiste Mouret 

Regular Papers

Geometric Robot Dynamic Identification: A Convex Programming Approach    

Taeyoon Lee, Patrick M. Wensing, Frank Park 

Adaptation and Robust Learning of Probabilistic Movement Primitives  

Sebastian Gomez-Gonzalez, Gerhard Neumann, Bernhard Schölkopf, Jan Peters    

Distributed Environmental Monitoring with Finite Element Robots 

Matthew Elwin, Randy Freeman, Kevin Lynch  

Stable Parking Control of a Robot Astronaut in a Space Station Based on Human Dynamics     

Zhihong Jiang, Jiafeng Xu, Hui Li, Qiang Huang  

Approximate Optimal Motion Planning to Avoid Unknown Moving Avoidance Regions   

Patryk Deptula, Hsi-Yuan Chen, Ryan Licitra, Joel Rosenfeld, Warren Dixon

Communication-Aware Energy Efficient Trajectory Planning with Limited Channel Knowledge

Daniel Bonilla Licea, Moises Bonilla Estrada, Mounir Ghogho, Samson Lasaulce, Vineeth S. Varma

STANCE: Locomotion Adaptation over Soft Terrain   

Shamel Fahmi, Michele Focchi, Andreea Radulescu, Geoff Fink, Victor Barasuol, Claudio Semini

Universal Flying Objects (UFOs): Modular Multirotor System for Flight of Rigid Objects 

Bingguo MU, Pakpong Chirarattananon

Online State Estimation of a Fin-Actuated Underwater Robot Using Artificial Lateral Line System 

Xingwen Zheng, Wei Wang, Minglei Xiong, Guangming Xie 

TWISTER Hand: Underactuated Robotic Gripper inspired by Origami Twisted Tower 

Kiju Lee, Yanzhou Wang, Chuanqi Zheng

Trajectory Optimization of Robots with Regenerative Drive Systems: Numerical and Experimental Results  

Poya Khalaf, Hanz Richter 

Capturability-based Pattern Generation for Walking with Variable Height

Stephane Caron, Adrien Escande, Leonardo Lanari, Bastien Mallein 

Short Papers

Navigation for Legged Mobility: Dynamic Climbing  

Max Austin, Mario Harper, Jason Brown, Emmanuel Collins, Jonathan Clark 

Novel Optimization-Based Design and Surgical Evaluation of a Treaded Robotic Capsule Colonoscope  

Gregory Formosa, Joseph Micah Prendergast, Steven Edmundowicz, Mark Rentschler 

Persistently-Excited Adaptive Relative Localization and Time-Varying Formation of Robot Swarms 

Thien-Minh Nguyen, Zhirong Qiu, Thien Hoang Nguyen, Muqing Cao, Lihua Xie 

A Holistic Visual Place Recognition Approach using Lightweight CNNs for Significant ViewPoint and Appearance Changes 

Ahmad Khaliq, Shoaib Ehsan, Zetao Chen, Michael J Milford, Klaus McDonald-Maier 

Force Control of SEA-based Exoskeletons for Multimode Human-Robot Interactions 

Weiguang Huo, Mohamed Amine Alouane, Yacine Amirat, Samer Mohammed  

 

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