Table of Contents

• Welcome messageLino Marques, Alexandre Bernardino. [doi]
• Robotics & automation for societal good bridging competitions & challenges and technology & public policyRaj Madhavan. 1-2 [doi]
• Actuation principles for robots with high power and enhance physical interaction capabilitiesNikos G. Tsagarakis. 3 [doi]
• Developing and testing of control software framework for autonomous ground vehicleMaradona Rodrigues, Andrew McGordon, Graham Gest, James Marco. 4-10 [doi]
• Motion control of mobile robots with Particle Filter Model Predictive Equilibrium Point ControlStefano Primatesta, Basilio Bona. 11-16 [doi]
• Hardware-in-the-loop development framework for multi-vehicle autonomous systemsLuigi Pannocchi, Mauro Marinoni, Giorgio C. Buttazzo. 17-22 [doi]
• Macro/micro-positioning control and stability analysis of contactless active robotic joint using active magnetic bearingMohamed Selmy, Mohamed Fanni, Abdelfatah M. Mohamed. 23-29 [doi]
• Forward kinematics of serial manipulator based on permanent magnets for micro-bead propulsionWalid Amokrane, Karim Belharet, Mouna Souissi, Antoine Ferreira. 30-35 [doi]
• Multi-robot in-ice localization using graph optimizationJoachim Clemens. 36-42 [doi]
• A case study on automatic parameter optimization of a mobile robot localization algorithmOscar Lima, Rodrigo Ventura. 43-48 [doi]
• Multidimensional scaling localization with anchorsCarmelo Di Franco, Enrico Bini, Mauro Marinoni, Giorgio C. Buttazzo. 49-54 [doi]
• Efficient localization based on scan matching with a continuous likelihood fieldEurico Pedrosa, Artur Pereira, Nuno Lau. 61-66 [doi]
• Uncertainty-based localization in a topological robot navigation systemC. Gomez, A. C. Hernandez, J. Crespo, R. Barber. 67-72 [doi]
• Estimation of rotational speeds of skid-steered wheeled mobile robots using an improved kinematic modelSedat Dogru, Lino Marques. 73-78 [doi]
• A complete frontier-based exploration method for Pose-SLAMFrancisco M. Campos, Miguel Marques, Fernando Carreira, J. M. F. Calado. 79-84 [doi]
• Dynamics maps for long-term autonomyJonathan Gines, Francisco Martín, Vicente Matellán, Francisco J. Rodríguez Lera, Jesús Balsa. 85-90 [doi]
• Robotic odour search: Evolving a robot's brain with Genetic ProgrammingJoão Macedo, Lino Marques, Ernesto Costa. 91-97 [doi]
• Path planning using Matlab-ROS integration applied to mobile robotsM. Galli, R. Barber, S. Garrido, L. Moreno. 98-103 [doi]
• Literature review of vibrotactile systems addressing freezing of gait in parkinsoniansHelena Goncalves, Graça Minas, Ana Rodrigues, Cristina Santos. 104-109 [doi]
• Electronic design and validation of Powered Knee Orthosis system embedded with wearable sensorsPaulo Félix, Joana Figueiredo, Cristina P. Santos, Juan C. Moreno. 110-115 [doi]
• Instrumented insole system for ambulatory and robotic walking assistance: First advancesJoana Figueiredo, César Ferreira, Luis Costa, João Sepúlveda, Luís Paulo Reis, Juan C. Moreno, Cristina P. Santos. 116-121 [doi]
• A reliable model-based walking engine with push recovery capabilitySeyed Mohammadreza Mohades Kasaei, Nuno Lau, Artur Pereira, Ehsan Shahri. 122-127 [doi]
• Design and dynamic modelling of an ankle-foot prosthesis for humanoid robotJoana Alves, Eurico Seabra, César Ferreira, Cristina P. Santos, Luís Paulo Reis. 128-133 [doi]
• Robotic ironing with a humanoid robot using human toolsDavid Estevez, Raul Fernandez-Fernandez, Juan G. Victores, Carlos Balaguer. 134-139 [doi]
• Wedding robotics: A case studyPedro Vicente, Alexandre Bernardino. 140-145 [doi]
• A software framework for the implementation of Dynamic Neural Field control architectures for human-robot interactionTiago Malheiro, Estela Bicho, Toni Machado, Luis Louro, Sergio Monteiro, Paulo Vicente, Wolfram Erlhagen. 146-152 [doi]
• An intuitive visual interface for a real-time monitoring system for human gait using IMUsNuno Ferrete Ribeiro, Cristina P. Santos. 153-158 [doi]
• Rich and robust human-robot interaction on gesture recognition for assembly tasksGi Hyun Lim, Eurico Pedrosa, Filipe Amaral, Nuno Lau, Artur Pereira, Paulo Dias, José Luís Azevedo, Bernardo Cunha, Luís Paulo Reis. 159-164 [doi]
• A real-time Deep Learning pedestrian detector for robot navigationDavid Ribeiro, André Mateus, Pedro Miraldo, Jacinto C. Nascimento. 165-171 [doi]
• MyRIO based mobile robot for rescue competitionsTiago Caldeira, Hamad Al Remeithi, Ibrahim Al Raeesi. 172-177 [doi]
• Real-time multi-object tracking on highly dynamic environmentsRicardo Dias, Bernardo Cunha, Eduardo Sousa, José Luís Azevedo, João M. Silva, Filipe Amaral, Nuno Lau. 178-183 [doi]
• Sideslip estimation of Formula Student prototype through GPS/INS fusionAndre Antunes, Carlos Cardeira, Paulo Oliveira. 184-191 [doi]
• Development of a prototype robot for transportation within industrial environmentsTiago Ribeiro, Ines Garcia, Dylan Pereira, Joao Ribeiro, Gil Lopes, A. Fernando Ribeiro. 192-197 [doi]
• Skill-based anytime agent architecture for logistics and manipulation tasks: EuRoC Challenge 2, Stage II - Realistic Labs: BenchmarkingFilipe Amaral, Eurico Pedrosa, Gi Hyun Lim, Nima Shafii, Artur Pereira, José Luís Azevedo, Bernardo Cunha, Luís Paulo Reis, Simone Badini, Nuno Lau. 198-203 [doi]
• Reducing false-positives in multi-sensor dataset of landmines via sensor fusion regularizationJosé Prado, Lino Marques. 204-209 [doi]
• Improving and evaluating robotic garment unfolding: A garment-agnostic approachDavid Estevez, Raul Fernandez-Fernandez, Juan G. Victores, Carlos Balaguer. 210-215 [doi]
• Towards a hybrid brain based robotOmar Ibn ElKhatab A. Zahra, Mohamed Fanni, Abdelfatah M. Mohamed. 216-221 [doi]
• Random Normal Matching: A robust probability-based 2D scan matching approach using truncated signed distance functionsDaniel Ammon, Tobias Fink, Stefan May. 222-227 [doi]
• 3D point cloud downsampling for 2D indoor scene modelling in mobile roboticsLuis Garrote, Jose Rosa, Joao Paulo, Cristiano Premebida, Paulo Peixoto, Urbano Jose C. Nunes. 228-233 [doi]
• Robust cylinder detection and pose estimation using 3D point cloud informationRui Figueiredo, Plinio Moreno, Alexandre Bernardino. 234-239 [doi]
• Dynamic thresholding algorithm for robotic apple detectionElie Zemmour, Polina Kurtser, Yael Edan. 240-246 [doi]
• Online context-based object recognition for mobile robotsJ. R. Ruiz-Sarmiento, Martin Günther, Cipriano Galindo, Javier Gonzalez-Jimenez, Joachim Hertzberg. 247-252 [doi]
• PLineD: Vision-based power lines detection for Unmanned Aerial VehiclesT. Santos, M. Moreira, J. Almeida, A. Dias, A. Martins, J. Dinis, J. Formiga, E. Silva. 253-259 [doi]
• A method for determining local coordinate frames attached to objects by a laser profile sensor in industrial robot workspacesKaya Turgut, Helin Dutagaci, Cansu Soyleyici, Sezgin Secil, Metin Ozkan, Osman Parlaktuna, Mustafa Parlaktuna. 260-265 [doi]
• Comparison of mesh generation algorithms for railroad reconstructionJuliano Emir Nunes Masson, Marcelo Roberto Petry. 266-271 [doi]
• Adaptive Non-Maximal Suppression filtering for online exploration learning with Cost-Regularized Kernel RegressionCarlos Cardoso, Alexandre Bernardino. 272-277 [doi]
• Real-time robot path planning around complex obstacle patterns through learning and transferring optionsOlimpiya Saha, Prithviraj Dasgupta. 278-283 [doi]
• Reducing the number of evaluations required for CGDA execution through Particle Swarm Optimization methodsRaul Fernandez-Fernandez, David Estevez, Juan G. Victores, Carlos Balaguer. 284-289 [doi]
• Improving CGDA execution through Genetic Algorithms incorporating Spatial and Velocity constraintsRaul Fernandez-Fernandez, David Estevez, Juan G. Victores, Carlos Balaguer. 290-295 [doi]
• Learning and planning of robot tasks with loopsVahid Mokhtari, Luís Seabra Lopes, Armando J. Pinho. 296-301 [doi]
• Evaluation of Stanford NER for extraction of assembly information from instruction manualsCarlos M. Costa, Germano Veiga, Armando Sousa, Sérgio Nunes. 302-309 [doi]
• A differential evolution-based approach to design all-terrain ground vehicle wheelsAlaa Khamis, Mohammed Ashraf. 310-315 [doi]
• Intelligent robotic system for autonomous crack detection and caracterization in concrete tunnelsRoberto Montero, Elisabeth Menendez, Juan G. Victores, Carlos Balaguer. 316-321 [doi]
• Simulation environment for underground flooded mines robotic explorationR. Pereira, J. Rodrigues, Alfredo Martins, André Dias, José Miguel Almeida, C. Almeida, Eduardo P. da Silva. 322-328 [doi]
• A service-oriented Cloud-based management system for the Internet-of-DronesAnis Koubaa, Basit Qureshi, Mohamed-Foued Sriti, Yasir Javed, Eduardo Tovar. 329-335 [doi]
• Low-cost multi-spectral vegetation classification using an Unmanned Aerial VehicleJoao Natividade, José Prado, Lino Marques. 336-342 [doi]