This is the fourth of the biennial Experimental Robotics symposia which are designed to bring together, in a small group setting, researchers from around the world who are at the forefront of experimental robotics research.

Collective and cooperative group behaviours: Biologically inspired experiments in robotics.- Distributed robotic manipulation: Experiments in minimalism.- A general framework for multi-robot cooperation and its implementation on a set of three hilare robots.- Cooperative autonomous low-cost robots for exploring unknown environments.- An object-oriented framework for event-driven dextrous manipulation.- Toward obstacle avoidance in intermittent dynamical environments.- Integrating grasp planning and visual servoing for automatic grasping.- contact and grasp robustness measures: Analysis and experiments.- Performance limits and stiffness control of multifingered hands.- Real-time vision plus remote-brained design opens a new world for experimental robotics.- Experimental validation of an active visual control scheme based on a reduced set of image parameters.- Task oriented model-driven visually servoed agents.- Experiments in hand-eye coordination using active vision.- Visual positioning and docking of non-holonomic vehicles.- An intelligent observer.- The development of a robotic endoscope.- The extender technology: An example of human-machine interaction via the transfer of power and information signals.- Coordinated and force-feedback control of hydraulic excavators.- Experiments with a real-time structure-from-motion system.- Robotic perception of material: Experiments with shape-invariant acoustic measures of material type.- Multi-level 3D-tracking of objects integrating velocity estimation based on optical flow and kalman-filtering.- Experimental approach on artificial active antenna.- Low cost sensor based obstacle detection and description.- Parameter sensitivity analysis for design and control of tendon transmissions.- Stiffness isn't everything.- In pursuit ofdynamic range: Using parallel coupled actuators to overcome hardware limitations.- Total least squares in robot calibration.- Symbolic modelling and experimental determination of physical parameters for complex elastic manipulators.- Learning compliant motions by task-demonstration in virtual environments.- Motion control for a hitting task: A learning approach to inverse mapping.- Experimental verification of progressive learning control for high-speed direct-drive robots with structure flexibility and non-collocated sensors.- Accurate positioning of devices with nonlinear friction using fuzzy logic pulse controller.- Platooning for small public urban vehicles.- Robust vehicle navigation.- Dynamic analysis of off-road vehicles.- An autonomous guided vehicle for cargo handling applications.- Robots that take advice.- Towards principled experimental study of autonomous mobile robots.- Mission programming: Application to underwater robots.- Specification, formal verification and implementation of tasks and missions for an autonomous vehicle.- Experimental study on modeling and control of flexible manipulators using virtual joint model.- Experimental research on impact dynamics of spaceborne manipulator systems.- An operational space formulation for a free-flying, multi-arm space robot.- Experimental research of a nonholonomic manipulator.- Mobile manipulation of a fragile object.- Empirical verification of fine-motion planning theories.- Estimating throughput for a flexible part feeder.- Interest of the dual hybrid control scheme for teleoperation with time delays for proceeding of ISER'95.- Robot force control experiments with an actively damped compliant end effector.- Improved force control for conventional arms using wrist-based torque feedback.- Indoor navigation ofan inverse pendulum type autonomous mobile robot with adaptive stabilization control system.- Motion and perception strategies for outdoor mobile robot navigation in unknown environments.- Programming symmetric platonic beast robots.- An experimental study on motion control of a biped locomotion machine using reaction wheels.- Real-time programming of mobile robot actions using advanced control techniques.

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