Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems 17th Annual Conference, TAROS 2016, Sheffield, UK, June 26--July 1, 2016, Proceedings

Active Compliance Control of the RED Hand: A PID Control Approach.- A Wearable Automated System to Quantify Parkinsonian Symptoms Enabling Closed Loop Deep Brain Stimulation.- Systematic and Realistic Testing in Simulation of Control Code for Robots in Collaborative Human-Robot Interactions.- Congratulations, it's a boy! Bench-marking children's perceptions of the Robokind Zeno-R25.- A Bioinspired Approach to Vision.- An Overview of the Ongoing Humanoid Robot Project LARMbot.- Force and Topography Reconstruction using GP and MOR for the TACTIP Soft Sensor System.- Agent-based Autonomous Systems and Abstraction Engines: Theory meets Practice.- Experimental evaluation of a multi-modal user interface for a robotic Service.- Enhancing Autonomy in VTOL Aircraft Based on Symbolic Computation Algorithms.- Development of an Intelligent Robotic Rein for Haptic Control and Interaction with Mobile Machines.- Infrastructure Mapping in Well-Structured Environments Using MAV.- Probabilistic ModelChecking of Ant-Based Positionless Swarming.- Testing, Verification and Improvements of Timeliness in ROS Processes.- The Psi Swarm: A low-cost robotics platform and its use in an education setting.- Multi Robot Cooperative Area Coverage, Case Study: Spraying.- A Step Toward Mobile Robots Autonomy: Energy Estimation Models.- Toward Performance Guarantee for Autonomous Mobile Robotic Mission: An Approach for Hardware and Software Resources Management.- Using Google Glass in Human-Robot Swarm Interaction.- A virtual viscoelastic based aggregation model for self-organization of swarm robots system.- A Portable Active Binocular Robot Vision Architecture for Scene Exploration.- Kinematic Analysis of the Human Thumb with Foldable Palm.- Private Cloud Deployment Model in Open-Source Mobile Robots Ecosystem.- Efficient People-Searching Robot.- Accurate and Versatile Automation of Industrial Kitting Operations with SkiROS.- Introducing a 3D Physics Simulator Plugin for the ARGoS Robot Simulator.- Co-operative use of Marine Autonomous Systems to enhance navigational accuracy of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles.- Human Management of a Robotic Swarm.- Texture Recognition Using Force Sensitive Resistors.- First Experiences towards Potential Impact of an Outdoor Shopping Assistant.- Evaluating Multi-Robot Teamwork in Parameterised Environments.- How to build and customize a high-resolution 3D laserscanner using off-the-shelf components.- Effects of residual charge on the performance of Electro-adhesive grippers.- A Data Set for Fault Detection Research on Component-Based Robotic Systems.