CFP: ACM SAC 09 - ROBOTICS Track
by Denis Wolf
ACM SAC 2009 - CALL FOR PAPERS
Track: Intelligent Robotic Systems (ROBOT)
http://www.icmc.usp.br/~lrm/sac09/
The 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SIGAPP)
March 8 - 12, 2009, Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort & Spa
Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
(http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2009/)
Call for papers:
For the past twenty-three years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists,
computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from
around the world. For the second year, the ACM SAC will have a specific
track on robotics. It aims to be a forum for researchers to share
experiences, expose issues, and discuss about this exciting research field.
Robotics is a multidisciplinary area of study that presents an enormous
commercial and research potential. While industrial robotics covers the
study, design, and use of robot systems for manufacturing, mobile
robotics concerns about developing systems that are capable of making
decisions and acting autonomously in real and unpredictable environments
to accomplish determined tasks. In the last decade, technological
advances made possible the development of very efficient sensors and
electronic devices at affordable prices. This fact has great impact on
robotics research, allowing the development of efficient and relatively
cheap sensors and computing devices. It also allows robots to accomplish
more complex tasks, posing new challenges to scientists and engineers.
This track focuses on all aspects of robotics, including related areas
and applications.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Rehabilitation Robotics
Humanoid Robotics
Underwater Robots
Search and Rescue Robots
Entertainment Robots
Multi-robot Coordination
Active Perception and Vision
Coverage and Deployment
Learning
Autonomous systems
Navigation
Localization and Mapping
Evolutionary Robotics
Grasping
Control Architectures and Programming
Bio-Inspired Robots
Aerial Robotics
Contact Modeling and Touching
Educational Robotics
Smart Actuators
Micro/nano robotics
Embedded Systems architectures
Reconfigurable robotic platforms
Vision-based Systems
Multi-robot systems
Simulation
Important Dates
* Aug. 16, 2008: Paper submissions
* Oct. 11, 2008: Author notification
* Oct. 25, 2008: Camera-Ready Copy
13 years, 8 months
Meeting Wednesday, Oct 1st 2008 16:00 UTC
by Tim Niemueller
Hi Robotics SIG.
I'm back and catching up with things I didn't manage to do while away.
What do you think about having a Robotics SIG meeting next week, on
Wednesday Oct 1st at 16:00 UTC?
We have several packages in Fedora now, and a few milestones are yet
unreached, but we are getting closer. We should discuss how to focus on
what's left to create a first LiveCD and we should discuss what features
we want to specifically advertise.
Regards from Aachen,
Tim
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Tim Niemueller <tim(a)niemueller.de> www.niemueller.de
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Imagination is more important than knowledge. (Albert Einstein)
14 years, 6 months
Introduction & Phidgets
by Egon Kastelijn
Hello all,
I recently joined your robotics-list.
Let me introduce myself:
I am Egon Kastelijn and I live in The Netherlands.
I have been working on my personal robot for many years now, but I do not
have any physical result yet. ;)
This is mainly caused by the fact that my robot does not have a clear
Mission yet, and that most of my time has gone into the Java brain that I
am programming. (environment-modelling and path-planning)
Some time ago I discovered Phidgets.
http://www.phidgets.com/
Phidgets are easy to use USB devices (sensors-kits/motor-controllers/etc)
that work very well under Linux. They can even be accessed using Java.
The LGPL code that they provide compiles very well, but there are no RPMs
(yet).
So I decided to create them.
I have a .spec file, and the rpmbuild produces a nice SRPM, i686 and
x86_64 RPMs. (and debuginfo)
My questions:
* Is this (phidget hardware support) something that belongs within this SIG?
And:
I am planning on putting the RPMs in my own yum repository soon.
* Is there a way that I can contribute to get this software in the Fedora
distribution?
kind regards,
Egon Kastelijn
14 years, 6 months
Todays meeting postponed
by Tim Niemueller
Hi everbody.
Since two out of four of the most active members can't make it today we
should postpone our meeting. I'll be on tour for the next two weeks, so
my preferred date is Wednesday, September 24th 2008, 16:00 UTC. Is that
ok for everybody? If not please suggest another date/time. It doesn't
have to be a Wednesday, we just did it on Wednesdays and they seem to
fit for everybody.
If you have to discuss stuff please use the mailing list or call people
to the IRC server at any time. The meetings are just a focal point, not
the only means of communication...
We have several new members on this mailing list. Please don't hesistate
to step forward and ask questions or propose topics that you would like
to discuss or work on under the Fedora Robotics SIG umbrella!
Regards from Aachen,
Tim
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Tim Niemueller <tim(a)niemueller.de> www.niemueller.de
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Imagination is more important than knowledge. (Albert Einstein)
14 years, 6 months
What's going on?!!
by Hedayat Vatankhah
Hi all!
What's going on here? It seems that everybody is really busy, but it's
not nice to feel that this SIG is dead!
About myself: I'm busy too :) But I hope to update the wiki soon!! Now,
I've 3 approved packages(rcssserver3d, rcssbase
and rcssmonitor) from which 2 of them are in Fedora repositories and
another one is in the pending list of Fedora 8 and 9.
Hopefully, I'll start to package the server package of 2D simulation soon.
What about others? And when is the next meeting?!
Good luck,
Hedayat
14 years, 6 months