Walk-Startup of a Two-Legged Walking Mechanism -- Control Methodologies for Endoscope Navigation in Robotized Laparoscopic Surgery -- Fast Object Registration and Robotic Bin Picking -- What Role for Emotions in Cooperating Robots? – The Case of RH3-Y -- A Mobile Robot for Small Object Handling -- Real-Time Door Detection Based on AdaBoost Learning Algorithm -- DC Motor Drive for Small Autonomous Robots with Educational and Research Purpose -- A Multi-axis Control Board Implemented via an FPGA -- Robot Localisation in Known Environment Using Monte Carlo Localisation -- Detecting Scene Elements Using Maximally Stable Colour Regions -- Ultrasonic Localization of Mobile Robot Using Active Beacons and Code Correlation -- Calibration Methods for a 3D Triangulation Based Camera -- Camera-Based Control for Industrial Robots Using OpenCV Libraries -- Generating Complex Movements of Humanoid Robots by Using Primitives.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Conference on Research and Education in Robotics held in La Ferté-Bernard, France, in May 2009.