Progress 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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Humanoid Robotics -- Time-Varying Affective Response for Humanoid Robots -- The Co-simulation of Humanoid Robot Based on Solidworks, ADAMS and Simulink -- From RoboNova to HUBO: Platforms for Robot Dance -- BunnyBot: Humanoid Platform for Research and Teaching -- Teen Sized Humanoid Robot: Archie -- Interdisciplinary Construction and Implementation of a Human Sized Humanoid Robot by Master Students -- Human Robot Interaction -- Safety Aspects in a Human-Robot Interaction Scenario: A Human Worker Is Co-operating with an Industrial Robot -- Integration of a RFID System in a Social Robot -- A Practical Study on the Design of a User-Interface Robot Application -- Infrared Remote Control with a Social Robot -- BlogRobot: Mobile Terminal for Blog Browse Using Physical Representation -- An Exploratory Investigation into the Effects of Adaptation in Child-Robot Interaction -- Devious Chatbots - Interactive Malware with a Plot -- Towards Better Human Robot Interaction: Understand Human Computer Interaction in Social Gaming Using a Video-Enhanced Diary Method -- Promotion of Efficient Cooperation by Sharing Environment with an Agent Having a Body in Real World -- Interaction Design for a Pet-Like Remote Control -- Experiences with a Barista Robot, FusionBot -- Mutually Augmented Cognition -- How Humans Optimize Their Interaction with the Environment: The Impact of Action Context on Human Perception -- Development of a Virtual Presence Sharing System Using a Telework Chair -- PLEXIL-DL: Language and Runtime for Context-Aware Robot Behaviour -- Ambient Intelligence in a Smart Home for Energy Efficiency and Eldercare -- Education and Entertainment -- Intelligent Technologies for Edutainment Using Multiple Robots -- Remote Education Based on Robot Edutainment -- Not Just “Teaching Robotics” but “Teaching through Robotics” -- A Proposal of Autonomous Robotic Systems Educative Environment -- Mechatronics Education: From Paper Design to Product Prototype Using LEGO NXT Parts -- Fostering Development of Students’ Collective and Self-efficacy in Robotics Projects -- From an Idea to a Working Robot Prototype: Distributing Knowledge of Robotics through Science Museum Workshops -- Teaching Electronics through Constructing Sensors and Operating Robots -- Learning from Analogies between Robotic World and Natural Phenomena -- Integrating Robot Design Competitions into the Curriculum and K-12 Outreach Activities -- Teamwork and Robot Competitions in the Undergraduate Program at the Copenhagen University College of Engineering -- Cooperative Robotics -- Multiagents System with Dynamic Box Change for MiroSot -- Multi Block Localization of Multiple Robots -- Soty-Segment: Robust Color Patch Design to Lighting Condition Variation -- Task-Based Flocking Algorithm for Mobile Robot Cooperation -- Analysis of Spatially Limited Local Communication for Multi-Robot Foraging -- AMiRESot – A New Robot Soccer League with Autonomous Miniature Robots -- Robotic System Design -- BeBot: A Modular Mobile Miniature Robot Platform Supporting Hardware Reconfiguration and Multi-standard Communication -- System Design for Semi-automatic AndroSot -- Learning, Optimization, Communication -- Extended TA Algorithm for Adapting a Situation Ontology -- An Integer-Coded Chaotic Particle Swarm Optimization for Traveling Salesman Problem -- USAR Robot Communication Using ZigBee Technology.

This volume is a selection of papers of six international conferences that are held under the umbrella of the 12th FIRA RoboWorld congress, in Incheon, Korea, August 16-18, 2009. From the 115 contributed papers 44 papers are included in the volume, which is organized into 6 sections: humanoid robotics, human robot interaction, education and entertainment, cooperative robotics, robotic system design, and learning, optimization, communication. 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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