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

this Book Contains The Proceedings Of The 3rd International Symposium On Autonomous Minirobots For Research And Edutainment (amire 2005) Held In Awara-spa, Fukui, Japan, From September 20 To 22, 2005. Autonomous Mobile Robots Are In High Demand For Education And Entertainment, Especially Human-friendly Robots Such As Small Pet Robots And Small Biped Robots. Autonomous Robots Are Also Useful For Research And Higher Education, In Other Fields Than Robotics. The Symposium Theme Has Been Highly Intelligent Technology For Robots, To Realize The Autonomy In Unknown And Dynamic Environments Including Humans. Swarm-bot: A Novel Type of Self-Assembling Robot....Pages 3-4 Self-reconfigurable Robots with ATRON Modules....Pages 5-18 Universal FPGA-Microcontroller Module for Autonomous Minirobots....Pages 21-26 Seeing Empty Space in an Unknown Environment without Silhouettes....Pages 27-32 SubSim: An autonomous underwater vehicle simulation package....Pages 33-38 Toward Micro Wall-Climbing Robots Using Biomimetic Fibrillar Adhesives....Pages 39-46 Teleworkbench: A Teleoperated Platform for Multi-Robot Experiments....Pages 49-54 Teleoperation of a Mobile Autonomous Robot using Web Services....Pages 55-60 Bluetooth for Autonomous Mini-Robots and Scatternet Formation....Pages 61-66 Teleoperation of A Mobile Robot under Office Automation Floors with Visual Assistance....Pages 67-72 Developing a Goal Keeper for Simulated RoboCup Soccer and its Performance Evaluation....Pages 75-80 An Action Rule Discovery Technique from Simulated RoboCup Soccer Logs....Pages 81-86 Adapting Recognition of Shootable Situations by Learning from Experience and Observation in a RoboCup Simulated Soccer Game....Pages 87-92 Getting closer: How Simulation and Humanoid League can benefit from each other....Pages 93-98 Evaluation for Selecting Method Using Reinforcement Learning with Hand-Coded Rules in RoboCup Soccer Agents....Pages 99-104 Yumekobo: An Effective Educational System for RoboCup....Pages 107-112 A Method of Sensing own States for Tele-operating Aibos at Ruined Homes....Pages 113-118 Trajectory Generation for a Mobile Robot by Reinforcement Learning....Pages 119-124 Multi-Layered Fuzzy Behavior Control Method for Autonomous Soccer Robot with MOVIS....Pages 125-132 FPGA-based Object Detection in Robot Soccer Application....Pages 135-140 Robot Soccer KheperaSot League: Challenges and Future Directions....Pages 141-146 What Robot Soccer can Contribute to Education and Research — Some Lessons Learned....Pages 147-153 Coevolutionary Algorithm for Behavior Acquisition of Soccer Robots....Pages 154-159 Relation between Contour Integration and Figure-Ground Separation....Pages 161-166 How the early visual system extract angles and junctions embedded within contour stimuli?....Pages 167-174 Neural Correlate of Depth Cue Integration Studied with MEG....Pages 175-180 Coding of 3D curvature in the parietal cortex (area CIP) of macaque monkey....Pages 181-186 A Study of Orientation Selectivity of TAM Network Incorporated Receptive Field Structure....Pages 187-192 Evolutionary Recognition of Corridor and Branch using Adaptive Model with Layered Structure....Pages 195-200 A Direct Localization Method Using only the Bearings Extracted from Two Panoramic Views Along a Linear Trajectory....Pages 201-206 Early Results in Vision-based Map Building....Pages 207-216 Prediction of Fish Motion by Neural Network....Pages 217-222 Visual Homing with Learned Goal Distance Information....Pages 223-229 A Low Cost Controller Board for Teaching Robotics....Pages 231-236 Robotics and Robotics Education with Smalltalk....Pages 237-242 Education for Creativity by Making Small Line Trace Robot in Department of HAIS, University of Fukui....Pages 243-247 Education Using Small Humanoid Robot....Pages 248-253 Self-Organization of Spiking Neural Network Generating Autonomous Behavior in a Miniature Mobile Robot....Pages 255-260 Behavioral Selection Using the Utility Function Method: A Case Study Involving a Simple Guard Robot....Pages 261-266 Spiking Neural Network for Behavior Learning of A Mobile Robot....Pages 267-272 Safety of Autonomous Evolutionary Robots : Elimination of Certain Behavioral patterns by Complex Systems Analysis....Pages 273-278 Two Steps towards a Mechanically Autonomous Self-replicating System....Pages 281-286 Using mini robots for prototyping intersection management of vehicles....Pages 287-292 Embodied Cognition in Directed Multi-Agent Systems - Empirical Study on Subjective Distance -....Pages 293-298 Crack Detection by Mobile Robot with ECT Sensor....Pages 299-304 Self-organized Path Formation by Ant Robots - An Approach to Understanding Ant’s Acts by Autonomous Distributed Systems -....Pages 307-313 Autonomous Self-assembly in a Swarm-bot....Pages 314-322 Long-term Interaction between Seal Robots and Elderly People — Robot Assisted Activity at a Health Service Facility for the Aged —....Pages 325-330 State Space Self Organization based on Human-Robot Interaction....Pages 331-336 Strategies using Facial Expressions and Gaze Behaviors for Animated Agents....Pages 337-343 Emotion Behavior Learning System Based on Meta-Parameter Control of Q-Learning with plural Q-values....Pages 344-349 Development of a Companion Robot “SELF”....Pages 351-359 An Evaluation of the Methods to Convert Non-segmented “kana” Strings to “kanji-kana” Strings Using Markov Chain Models....Pages 360-367 An Evaluation of the Method to Detect Erroneous Sentences of “kana-to-kanji” conversion....Pages 368-375 Cyclic Gestures Recognition for Interactive Learning of A Partner Robot....Pages 376-381 Traffic-like Movement on a Trail of Interacting Robots with Virtual Pheromone....Pages 383-388 Extending the Temporal Horizon of Autonomous Robots....Pages 389-395 This volume contains a collection of papers presented at the 3rd Interna­ tional Symposium on Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment (AMiRE 2005) that is held at Awara-Spa, Fukui, Japan, September 20-22, 2005. This is a biennial symposium, which started as AMiRE 2001 at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute of the University of Paderborn, Germany, in 2001, and was followed by AMiRE 2003 at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, in 2003. After these successful symposia, AMiRE 2005 is held under the sponsorship of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Fukui and under the co-sponsorship of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. It is funded by the Fukui Convention Bureau and the University of Fukui. Each full-length paper submitted to the symposium was independently reviewed by 3 referees from the world's front-line researchers, and 55 papers were accepted for oral presentation. We acknowledge generous support for those who gave excellent reviews in order to maintain the high standards of the symposium despite a very tight schedule.