November 3rd, 2008
Venice, Italy

Contributions to Standards and Common Platforms in Robotics; Prerequisites for Quantitative Cognitics
Jean-Daniel Dessimoz

A Unified Framework for Mobile Robot Systems
James Goodwin

Scripting the swarm: event-based control of microcontroller-based robots
Stephane Magnenat, Philippe Retornaz, Basilio Noris, Francesco Mondada

An Experimental Set-up For Multi-Robot Applications
Andac T. Samiloglu, Omer Cayirpunar, Veysel Gazi, and A. Bugra Koku

The Volksbot
Hartmut Surmann, Ansgar Bredenfeld, Thomas Christaller, Reiner Frings, Thomas Wisspeintner

A new robotic system based on reusable robotic modules and a robotic middleware
Daniele Caltabiano, Roberto Sannino, Davide Ghezzi, Luca Spelgatti

New autonomous, four-legged and humanoid robots for research and education
Oskar von Stryk

The Urbi Universal Platform for Robotics
Jean-Christophe Baillie, Akim Demaille, Quentin Hocquet, Matthieu Nottale, Samuel Tardieu

An Introduction to Robot Component Model for OPRoS
Byoungyoul Song, Seungwoog Jung, Choulsoo Jang, Sunghoon Kim

Standard for Robotic Localization
Shuichi Nishio

Common Platform Technology for Next Generation Robots
Tomomasa Sato, Nobuto Matsuhira, Eimei Oyama