IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine - September 2017 - 1

Vol. 24, No. 3 SEPTEMBER 2017
ISSN 1070-9932
http://www.ieee-ras.org/publications/ram

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Robird

A Robotic Bird of Prey

By Gerrit Adriaan Folkertsma, Wessel Straatman, Nico Nijenhuis,
Cornelis Henricus Venner, and Stefano Stramigioli

Robot Choreography

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The Use of the Kinetography Laban System to Notate Robot Action and Motion
By Paolo Salaris, Naoko Abe, and Jean-Paul Laumond

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MoveIt!

Autonomous Underwater Free-Floating Manipulation

By Dina Youakim, Pere Ridao, Narcis Palomeras,
Francesco Spadafora, David Ribas, and Maurizio Muzzupappa

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Autonomous Surveillance Robots

A Decision-Making Framework for Networked Multiagent Systems

By Stefan Witwicki, José Carlos Castillo, João Messias, Jesús Capitán, Francisco S. Melo,
Pedro U. Lima, and Manuela Veloso

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Real-Time Multisensor Vehicle Localization

A Geographical Information System-Based Approach

By Claude Aynaud, Coralie Bernay-Angeletti, Romuald Aufrère, Laurent Lequièvre,
Christophe Debain, and Roland Chapuis

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Controlling Soft Robots

Balancing Feedback and Feedforward Elements

By Cosimo Della Santina, Matteo Bianchi, Giorgio Grioli, Franco Angelini,
Manuel Catalano, Manolo Garabini, and Antonio Bicchi

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Grasping Objects

The Relationship Between the Cage and the Form-Closure Grasp
By Jianhua Su, Hong Qiao, Chuankai Liu, Yongbo Song, and Ailong Yang

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ON THE COVER
Robird is a flapping-wing aerial
robot, mimicking the method
of flight and appearance of the
real falcon.
BIRDS COURTESY OF CLEAR FLIGHT SOLUTIONS.
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Farm Workers of the Future

Vision-Based Robotics for Broad-Acre Agriculture

By David Ball, Patrick Ross, Andrew English, Peter Milani, Daniel Richards,
Andrew Bate, Ben Upcroft, Gordon Wyeth, and Peter Corke

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Cognition-Enabled Robot Manipulation in Human Environments
Requirements, Recent Work, and Open Problems
By Mustafa Ersen, Erhan Oztop, and Sanem Sariel

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Object Detection and Recognition for Assistive Robots
Experimentation and Implementation

By Ester Martinez-Martin and Angel P. del Pobil

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Ethics in Robotics Research
CERNA Mission and Context

By Alexei Grinbaum, Raja Chatila, Laurence Devillers,
Jean-Gabriel Ganascia, Catherine Tessier, and Max Dauchet

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The STRANDS Project

Long-Term Autonomy in Everyday Environments

By Nick Hawes, Chris Burbridge, Ferdian Jovan, Lars Kunze, Bruno Lacerda, Lenka Mudrová,
Jay Young, Jeremy Wyatt, Denise Hebesberger, Tobias Körtner, Rares Ambrus, Nils Bore, John
Folkesson, Patric Jensfelt, Lucas Beyer, Alexander Hermans, Bastian Leibe, Aitor Aldoma,
Thomas Fäulhammer, Michael Zillich, Markus Vincze, Eris Chinellato, Muhannad Al-Omari,
Paul Duckworth, Yiannis Gatsoulis, David C. Hogg, Anthony G. Cohn, Christian Dondrup,
Jaime Pulido Fentanes, Tomáš Krajník, João M. Santos, Tom Duckett, and Marc Hanheide

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