Advances in Autonomous Robotics Systems [electronic resource] : 15th Annual Conference, TAROS 2014, Birmingham, UK, September 1-3, 2014. Proceedings / edited by Michael Mistry, Aleš Leonardis, Mark Witkowski, Chris Melhuish.

Modeling of a Large Structured Environment: With a Repetitive Canonical Geometric-Semantic Model -- Monte Carlo Localization for Teach-and-Repeat Feature-Based Navigation -- An Improved Cellular Automata-Based Model for Robot Path-Planning -- Bioinspired Mechanisms and Sensorimotor Schemes for Flying: A Preliminary Study for a Robotic Bat -- Evolutionary Coordination System for Fixed-Wing Communications Unmanned Aerial Vehicles -- Multi-agent Environment Exploration with AR.Drones -- H∞ Path Tracking Control for Quadrotors Based on Quaternion Representation -- Towards an Ethical Robot: Internal Models, Consequences and Ethical Action Selection -- "The Fridge Door is Open"-Temporal Verification of a Robotic Assistant's Behaviours -- Implementation and Test of Human-Operated and Human-Like Adaptive Impedance Controls on Baxter Robot -- Hybrid Communication System for Long Range Resource Tracking in Search and Rescue Scenarios -- Wearable Self Sufficient MFC Communication System Powered by Urine -- Morphogenetic Self-Organization of Collective Movement without Directional Sensing -- The Pi Swarm: A Low-Cost Platform for Swarm Robotics Research and Education -- Tactile Features: Recognising Touch Sensations with a Novel and Inexpensive Tactile Sensor -- Polygonal Models for Clothing -- Design of a Multi-purpose Low-Cost Mobile Robot for Research and Education -- Adaptive Swarm Robot Region Coverage Using Gene Regulatory Networks -- Communicating Unknown Objects to Robots through Pointing Gestures -- A Cost-Effective Automatic 3D Reconstruction Pipeline for Plants Using Multi-view Images -- Improving the Generation of Rapidly Exploring Randomised Trees (RRTs) in Large Scale Virtual Environments Using Trails -- Intelligent Computation of Inverse Kinematics of a 5-dof Manipulator Using MLPNN -- Humanoid Robot Gait Generator: Foot Steps Calculation for Trajectory Following -- A Method for Matching Desired Non-Feature Points to Size Martian Rocks Based upon SIFT -- CogLaboration: Towards Fluent Human-Robot Object Handover Interactions -- euRathlon Outdoor Robotics Challenge: Year 1 Report -- FROctomap: An Efficient Spatio-Temporal Environment Representation -- Combined Force and Position Controller Based on Inverse Dynamics: Application to Cooperative Robotics (Extended Abstract) -- Learning Objects from RGB-D Sensors for Cleaning Tasks Using a Team of Cooperative Humanoid Robots -- Acoustic Based Search and Rescue on a UAV -- Visual Commands for Tracking and Control -- A Novel Saliency Method Based on Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) and Its Application to Planetary Exploration.