Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Organizing Committee -- Program Committee -- Sponsors -- Biophysically Inspired Development of a Sand-Swimming Robot -- Passive Torque Regulation in an Underactuated Flapping Wing Robotic Insect -- Color-Accurate Underwater Imaging Using Perceptual Adaptive Illumination -- Probabilistic Lane Estimation Using Basis Curves -- Reinforcement Learning to Adjust Robot Movements to New Situations -- Analysis and Control of a Dissipative Spring-Mass Hopper with Torque Actuation -- On Motion and Force Control of Grasping Hands with Postural Synergies -- Back-drivable and Inherently Safe Mechanism for Artificial Finger -- Segmentation and Unsupervised Part-based Discovery of Repetitive Objects -- Scale Drift-Aware Large Scale Monocular SLAM -- Preliminary Results in Decentralized Estimation for Single-Beacon Acoustic Underwater Navigation -- A Non-invasive, Real-Time Method for Measuring Variable Stiffness -- Consistent Data Association in Multi-robot Systems with Limited Communications -- Singularity-invariant Leg Rearrangements in Doubly-planar Stewart-Gough Platforms -- On the Kinematic Design of Exoskeletons and Their Fixations with a Human Member -- Assessing Optimal Assignment under Uncertainty -- LQG-MP -- The Smooth Curvature Flexure Model -- Multi-priority Cartesian Impedance Control -- Variable Impedance Control -- A Fast Traversal Heuristic and Optimal Algorithm for Effective Environmental Coverage -- Stochastic Complementarity for Local Control of Discontinuous Dynamics -- Distributed Optimization with Pairwise Constraints and Its Application to Multi-robot Path Planning -- PLISS -- A Constant-Time Algorithm for Vector Field SLAM Using an Exactly Sparse Extended Information Filter -- Efficient Probabilistic Planar Robot Motion Estimation Given Pairs of Images.

Efficient Non-parametric Surface Representations Using Active Sampling for Push Broom Laser Data -- Sensor Placement for Improved Robotic Navigation -- Task-driven Tactile Exploration -- On the Role of Hand Synergies in the Optimal Choice of Grasping Forces -- Dynamic Constraint-based Optimal Shape Trajectory Planner for Shape-Accelerated Underactuated Balancing Systems -- Design and Optimization Strategies for Muscle-like Direct Drive Linear Permanent Magnet Motors -- Study of Group Food Retrieval by Ants as a Model for Multi-robot Collective Transport Strategies -- Incremental Sampling-based Algorithms for Optimal Motion Planning -- Stochastic Modeling of the Expected Time to Search for an Intermittent Signal Source Under a Limited Sensing Range -- Closing the Learning-Planning Loop with Predictive State Representations -- Belief Space Planning Assuming Maximum Likelihood Observations -- Motion Planning under Bounded Uncertainty Using Ensemble Control -- Remotely Powered Propulsion of Helical Nanobelts -- A Molecular Algorithm for Path Self-Assembly in 3 Dimensions.