The Workshop of Physical Agents intends to be a forum for information and experience exchange in different areas regarding the concept of agent on physical environments, especially applied to the control and coordination of autonomous systems: robots, mobile robots, industrial processes or complex systems. This special issue is devoted to the selected papers presented at the WAF’08 that took place from September 10th to 13th in the city of Vigo (SPAIN).

Table of Contents

Workshop of Physical Agents 2009 — López Fernández, Joaquín

MSISpIC: a probabilistic scan matching algorithm using a mechanical scanned imaging sonar — Hernández Bes, Emili; Ridao Rodríguez, Pere; Ribas Romagos, David; Batlle Grabulosa, Joan

SLAM and map merging — León García, Ángel; Barea Navarro, Rafael; Bergasa Pascual, Luis Miguel; López Guillén, Elena; Ocaña Miguel, Manuel; Schleicher Gómez, David

Localization through omnivision for a tour-guide robot — Gamallo Solórzano, Cristina; Quintía Vidal, Pablo; Vázquez Regueiro, Carlos; Mucientes Molina, Manuel

Pedestrian tracking using inertial sensors — Feliz Alonso, Raúl; Zalama Casanova, Eduardo; Gómez García-Bermejo, Jaime

Developing a low-cost autonomous indoor blimp — González, P.; Burgard, Wolfram; Sanz Domínguez, Rafael; López Fernández, Joaquín

A cognitive approach to multimodal attention — Arrabales Moreno, Raúl; Ledezma Espino, Agapito; Sanchis de Miguel, Araceli