Algorithmic Foundation of Robotics VIII : Selected Contributions of the Eighth International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics

Networks.- Probabilistic Network Formation through Coverage and Freeze-Tag.- Planning Aims for a Network of Horizontal and Overhead Sensors.- Mobile Wireless Sensor Network Connectivity Repair with K-Redundancy.- Distributed Systems.- On Endogenous Reconfiguration in Mobile Robotic Networks.- Simultaneous Control of Multiple MEMS Microrobots.- Simultaneous Coverage and Tracking (SCAT) of Moving Targets with Robot Networks.- Cooperative Towing with Multiple Robots.- Manipulation.- Two Finger Caging: Squeezing and Stretching.- A State Transition Diagram for Simultaneous Collisions with Application in Billiard Shooting.- A Variational Approach to Strand-Based Modeling of the Human Hand.- A Stopping Algorithm for Mechanical Systems.- Robust Planning.- Perceived CT-Space for Motion Planning in Unknown and Unpredictable Environments.- Bounded Uncertainty Roadmaps for Path Planning.- A Sampling Hyperbelief Optimization Technique for Stochastic Systems.- Computational Minimalism.- On the Value of Ignorance: Balancing Tracking and Privacy Using a Two-Bit Sensor.- On the Existence of Nash Equilibrium for a Two Player Pursuit-Evasion Game with Visibility Constraints.- On the Topology of Plans.- Geometric Sensing.- Mirror-Based Extrinsic Camera Calibration.- On the Analysis of the Depth Error on the Road Plane for Monocular Vision-Based Robot Navigation.- Sensor Beams, Obstacles, and Possible Paths.- A Motion Planner for Maintaining Landmark Visibility with a Differential Drive Robot.- Geometric Computations.- On Approximate Geodesic-Distance Queries amid Deforming Point Clouds.- Constrained Motion Interpolation with Distance Constraints.- Generating Uniform Incremental Grids on SO(3) Using the Hopf Fibration.- A Simple Method for Computing Minkowski Sum Boundary in 3D Using Collision Detection.- Polyhedral Assembly Partitioning with Infinite Translations or The Importance of Being Exact.- Realistic Reconfiguration of Crystalline (and Telecube) Robots.- Kinodynamic Motion Planning by Interior-Exterior Cell Exploration.- Stochastic Methods in Planning.- Control of Probabilistic Diffusion in Motion Planning.- Stochastic Motion Planning and Applications to Traffic.- On Probabilistic Search Decisions under Searcher Motion Constraints.- Planning with Reachable Distances.- Medical Applications.- 3D Motion Planning Algorithms for Steerable Needles Using Inverse Kinematics.- Modeling Structural Heterogeneity in Proteins from X-Ray Data.- Minimum Resource Characterization of Biochemical Analyses for Digital Microfluidic Biochip Design.- Path Planning for Flexible Needles Using Second Order Error Propagation.- Planning.- Path Planning among Movable Obstacles: A Probabilistically Complete Approach.- Multi-modal Motion Planning in Non-expansive Spaces.- Toward SLAM on Graphs.- HybridSLAM: Combining FastSLAM and EKF-SLAM for Reliable Mapping.- Discovering a Point Source in Unknown Environments.