Table of Contents

• Emanuele Menegatti, Sven Behnke, Changjiu Zhou:
  Editorial: Humanoid soccer robots, pp. 759-760
• Sami Haddadin, Tim Laue, Udo Frese, Sebastian Wolf, Alin Albu-Schäffer, Gerd Hirzinger:
  Kick it with elasticity: Safety and performance in human–robot soccer, pp. 761-775
• Prahlad Vadakkepat, Ng Buck Sin, Dip Goswami, Rui Xiang Zhang, Li Yu Tan:
  Soccer playing humanoid robots: Processing architecture, gait generation and vision system, pp. 776-785
• Martin Friedmann, Karen Petersen, Oskar von Stryk:
  Adequate motion simulation and collision detection for soccer playing humanoid robots, pp. 786-795
• J. Ruiz-del-Solar, R. Palma-Amestoy, R. Marchant, I. Parra-Tsunekawa, P. Zegers:
  Learning to fall: Designing low damage fall sequences for humanoid soccer robots, pp. 796-807
• A. Cherubini, F. Giannone, L. Iocchi, M. Lombardo, G. Oriolo:
  Policy gradient learning for a humanoid soccer robot, pp. 808-818
• Juan Cristóbal Zagal, José Delpiano, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar:
  Self-modeling in humanoid soccer robots, pp. 819-827
• H. Dong, M.G. Zhao, J. Zhang, N.Y. Zhang:
  Hardware design and gait generation of humanoid soccer robot Stepper-3D, pp. 828-838
• Stefan Czarnetzki, Sören Kerner, Oliver Urbann:
  Observer-based dynamic walking control for biped robots, pp. 839-845
• Fabio Dalla Libera, Takashi Minato, Ian Fasel, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Enrico Pagello, Emanuele Menegatti:
  A new paradigm of humanoid robot motion programming based on touch interpretation, pp. 846-859
• Carlos A. Acosta Calderon, Rajesh E. Mohan, Lingyun Hu, Changjiu Zhou, Huosheng Hu:
  Generating human-like soccer primitives from human data, pp. 860-869
• Norbert Michael Mayer, Joschka Boedecker, Minoru Asada:
  Robot motion description and real-time management with the Harmonic Motion Description Protocol, pp. 870-876