Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots First In
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots, SIMPAR 2008, held in Venice, Italy, in November 2008. The 29 revised full papers and 21 revised poster pap
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Stefano Carpin Itsuki Noda Enrico Pagello Monica Reggiani Oskar von Stryk (Eds.)
Simulation, Modeling, and Programming forAutonomous Robots First International Conference, SIMPAR 2008 Venice, Italy, November 3-6, 2008 Proceedings
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Series Editors Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI and University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Stefano Carpin University of California–Merced, Merced, CA, USA E-mail: [email protected] Itsuki Noda AIST, Information Technology Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan E-mail: [email protected] Enrico Pagello University of Padua, Padova, Italy E-mail: [email protected] Monica Reggiani University of Padua, Vicenza, Italy E-mail: [email protected] Oskar von Stryk Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany E-mail: [email protected]
Library of Congress Control Number: 2008937919 CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2.9-11, I.2.6, I.6, F.1.1-2, K.4.3, H.5 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13
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Preface
The First International Conference on Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR 2008) was held during November 3-6, 2008, in Venice, at Telecom Future Center, with a special session held in Padua, in the Archivio Antico of the university. The SIMPAR Conference was promoted to offer to a selected number of researchers the possibility to discuss, in a highly stimulating atmosphere, how to identify and solve the key issues necessary to ease the development of robot software, and boost a smooth shifting of results from simulation to real applications. Novel robotics applications driven by society and industry call for the development of systems of ever-increasing complexity. Systems with sliding autonomy, humanoid robots, distributed robots, and mobile sensor networks are just a few examples of this exciting area. But unfortunately, steady improvements in robot hardware have not bee
