Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment (AMiRE 2005) (eBook)

Plenary Talks.- Swarm-bot: A Novel Type of Self-Assembling Robot.- Self-reconfigurable Robots with ATRON Modules.- Technical Sessions Autonomous Agent & Robot.- Universal FPGA-Microcontroller Module for Autonomous Minirobots.- Seeing Empty Space in an Unknown Environment without Silhouettes.- SubSim: An autonomous underwater vehicle simulation package.- Toward Micro Wall-Climbing Robots Using Biomimetic Fibrillar Adhesives.- Teleoperation in Robot.- Teleworkbench: A Teleoperated Platform for Multi-Robot Experiments.- Teleoperation of a Mobile Autonomous Robot using Web Services.- Bluetooth for Autonomous Mini-Robots and Scatternet Formation.- Teleoperation of A Mobile Robot under Office Automation Floors with Visual Assistance.- RoboCup Soccer Simulation.- Developing a Goal Keeper for Simulated RoboCup Soccer and its Performance Evaluation.- An Action Rule Discovery Technique from Simulated RoboCup Soccer Logs.- Adapting Recognition of Shootable Situations by Learning from Experience and Observation in a RoboCup Simulated Soccer Game.- Getting closer: How Simulation and Humanoid League can benefit from each other.- Evaluation for Selecting Method Using Reinforcement Learning with Hand-Coded Rules in RoboCup Soccer Agents.- RoboCup Real Robot.- Yumekobo: An Effective Educational System for RoboCup.- A Method of Sensing own States for Tele-operating Aibos at Ruined Homes.- Trajectory Generation for a Mobile Robot by Reinforcement Learning.- Multi-Layered Fuzzy Behavior Control Method for Autonomous Soccer Robot with MOVIS.- Robot Soccer — Challenges and Future Developments.- FPGA-based Object Detection in Robot Soccer Application.- Robot Soccer KheperaSot League: Challenges and Future Directions.- What Robot Soccer can Contribute to Education and Research — Some Lessons Learned.- Coevolutionary Algorithm for Behavior Acquisition of Soccer Robots.- Visual Information Processing in the Brain.- Relation between Contour Integration and Figure-Ground Separation.- How the early visual system extract angles and junctions embedded within contour stimuli?.- Neural Correlate of Depth Cue Integration Studied with MEG.- Coding of 3D curvature in the parietal cortex (area CIP) of macaque monkey.- A Study of Orientation Selectivity of TAM Network Incorporated Receptive Field Structure.- Vision-based Adaptive Behavior.- Evolutionary Recognition of Corridor and Branch using Adaptive Model with Layered Structure.- A Direct Localization Method Using only the Bearings Extracted from Two Panoramic Views Along a Linear Trajectory.- Early Results in Vision-based Map Building.- Prediction of Fish Motion by Neural Network.- Visual Homing with Learned Goal Distance Information.- Robots for Education.- A Low Cost Controller Board for Teaching Robotics.- Robotics and Robotics Education with Smalltalk.- Education for Creativity by Making Small Line Trace Robot in Department of HAIS, University of Fukui.- Education Using Small Humanoid Robot.- Evolutionary Robots.- Self-Organization of Spiking Neural Network Generating Autonomous Behavior in a Miniature Mobile Robot.- Behavioral Selection Using the Utility Function Method: A Case Study Involving a Simple Guard Robot.- Spiking Neural Network for Behavior Learning of A Mobile Robot.- Safety of Autonomous Evolutionary Robots : Elimination of Certain Behavioral patterns by Complex Systems Analysis.- Swarm Intelligence 1.- Two Steps towards a Mechanically Autonomous Self-replicating System.- Using mini robots for prototyping intersection management of vehicles.- Embodied Cognition in Directed Multi-Agent Systems - Empirical Study on Subjective Distance -.- Crack Detection by Mobile Robot with ECT Sensor.- Swarm Intelligence 2.- Self-organized Path Formation by Ant Robots - An Approach to Understanding Ant’s Acts by Autonomous Distributed Systems -.- Autonomous Self-assembly in a Swarm-bot.- Human-Agent Interaction and Social Robots.- Long-term Interaction between Seal Robots and Elderly People — Robot Assisted Activity at a Health Service Facility for the Aged —.- State Space Self Organization based on Human-Robot Interaction.- Strategies using Facial Expressions and Gaze Behaviors for Animated Agents.- Emotion Behavior Learning System Based on Meta-Parameter Control of Q-Learning with plural Q-values.- System Human in the Loop.- Development of a Companion Robot “SELF”.- An Evaluation of the Methods to Convert Non-segmented “kana” Strings to “kanji-kana” Strings Using Markov Chain Models.- An Evaluation of the Method to Detect Erroneous Sentences of “kana-to-kanji” conversion.- Cyclic Gestures Recognition for Interactive Learning of A Partner Robot.- Late Papers.- Traffic-like Movement on a Trail of Interacting Robots with Virtual Pheromone.- Extending the Temporal Horizon of Autonomous Robots.