Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems 12th Annual Conference, TAROS 201
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference Towards Autonomous Robotics Systems, TAROS 2011, held in Sheffield, UK, in August/September 2011. The 32 revised full papers presented together with 29 two-page abstracts were ca
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LNAI Founding Series Editor Joerg Siekmann DFKI and Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
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Roderich Groß Lyuba Alboul Chris Melhuish Mark Witkowski Tony J. Prescott Jacques Penders (Eds.)
Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems 12th Annual Conference, TAROS 2011 Sheffield, UK, August 31 – September 2, 2011 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 Roderich Groß The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, E-mail: [email protected] Lyuba Alboul Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK, E-mail: [email protected] Chris Melhuish University of Bristol and University of the West of England, Bristol, UK E-mail: [email protected] Mark Witkowski Imperial College London, London, UK, E-mail: [email protected] Tony J. Prescott The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, E-mail: [email protected] Jacques Penders Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK, E-mail: [email protected]
ISSN 0302-9743 e-ISSN 1611-3349 ISBN 978-3-642-23231-2 e-ISBN 978-3-642-23232-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-23232-9 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011934359 CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2.9, I.2, I.4, H.5 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Typesetting: Camera-ready by author, data conversion by Scientific Publishing Services, Chennai, India Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
These proceedings contain the papers presented at TAROS 2011, the 12th edition of the conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, held in Sheffield, UK, from August 31 to September 2, 2011. The TAROS series was initiated by Ulrich Nehmzow in 1997 in Manchester, when the conference was known as “Towards Intelligent Mobile Robots” (TIMR). In 1999, Chris Melhuish joined Ulrich to form a conference Steering Committee, which was also joined by Mark Witkowski in 2003; at that time the name of the conference was also changed to “Towards Au
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