Advances in Robotics : FIRA RoboWorld Congress 2009, Incheon, Korea, August 16-20, 2009. Proceedings / edited by Jong-Hwan Kim, Shuzhi Sam Ge, Prahlad Vadakkepat, Norbert Jesse, Abdullah Al Manum, Sadasivan Puthusserypady K, Ulrich Rückert, Joaquin Sitte, Ulf Witkowski, Ryohei Nakatsu, Thomas Braunl, Jacky Baltes, John Anderson, Ching-Chang Wong, Igor Verner, David Ahlgren.

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Plenary Session -- Intelligent Systems and Its Applications in Robotics -- Neurodynamic Optimization and Its Applications in Robotics -- Vision-Based Control of Robot Motion -- Korea’s Robotland: Merging Intelligent Robotics Strategic Policy, Business Development, and Fun -- Emotion and Behaviour -- Detecting Underlying Stance Adopted When Human Construe Behavior of Entities -- Motion and Emotional Behavior Design for Pet Robot Dog -- Grounding Robot Autonomy in Emotion and Self-awareness -- Human Robot Interaction -- A New Dynamic Edge Detection toward Better Human-Robot Interaction -- Face Recognition Using ALLE and SIFT for Human Robot Interaction -- The Influence of Social Interaction on the Perception of Emotional Expression: A Case Study with a Robot Head -- Towards Humanlike Social Touch for Prosthetics and Sociable Robotics: Handshake Experiments and Finger Phalange Indentations -- Towards Humanlike Social Touch for Prosthetics and Sociable Robotics: Three-Dimensional Finite Element Simulations of Synthetic Finger Phalanges -- Investigating the Effects of Gain and Loss of Esteem on Human-Robot Interaction -- Biped / Humanoid Robotics -- A Simple Momentum Controller for Humanoid Push Recovery -- Optimal Trajectory Generation for Walking Up and Down a Staircase with a Biped Robot Using Genetic Algorithm (GA) -- A Study on the Motion Energy of Biped Robot Walking on Different Postures -- Footstep Planning Based on Univector Field Method for Humanoid Robot -- Tendon Based Full Size Biped Humanoid Robot Walking Platform Design -- FPGA-Based Vocabulary Recognition Module for Humanoid Robot -- Localization, Path Planning, Obstacle Avoidance -- Motivation and Context-Based Multi-Robot Architecture for Dynamic Task, Role and Behavior Selections -- A Robot Localization Method Based on Laser Scan Matching -- An Algorithm for Sensory Area Coverage by Mobile Robots Operating in Complex Arenas -- Topological SLAM Using Fast Vision Techniques -- Virtual Door-Based Coverage Path Planning for Mobile Robot -- Vision Module for Mini-robots Providing Optical Flow Processing for Obstacle Avoidance -- Ad-Hoc Communication and Localization System for Mobile Robots -- Control, Communication -- Robotic Implementation of Realistic Reaching Motion Using a Sliding Mode/Operational Space Controller -- Topology Control in Large-Scale High Dynamic Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks -- A Gait Generation for an Unlocked Joint Failure of the Quadruped Robot with Balance Weight -- Development of a Micro Quad-Rotor UAV for Monitoring an Indoor Environment -- Terrain Mapping -- An Improved Method for Real-Time 3D Construction of DTM -- Depth Estimation Using Variant of Depth of Field by Horizontal Planes of Sharp Focus -- A Study on Stereo and Motion Data Accuracy for a Moving Platform -- Classification -- Equivalent Relationship of Feedforward Neural Networks and Real-Time Face Detection System -- Determination of Gender and Age Based on Pattern of Human Motion Using AdaBoost Algorithms.

The volume consists of selected quality papers from six international conferences that are held under the umbrella of the 12th FIRA RoboWorld congress, in Incheon, Korea, August 16-18, 2009. 31 papers from 115 contributed papers at the FIRA RoboWorld Congress, held in Incheon, Korea, August 16-18, were included in the volume. It is organized in 7 sections: emotions and behaviour, human robot interaction, biped humanoid robotics, localization, path planning, obstacle avoidance, control, communication, terrain mapping and classification. The volume is intended to provide readers with the recent technical progresses in robotics, human robot interactions, cooperative robotics and the related fields.

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