Final Call for Papers RoboCup 2011 Symposium
by Thomas Röfer
[apologies for multiple postings]
********************************************************************
Call for Papers
RoboCup International Symposium 2011
Istanbul, Turkey
July 5-11, 2011
http://www.robocup2011.org/
********************************************************************
OVERVIEW
The 15th annual RoboCup International Symposium will be held in conjunction with RoboCup 2011. The Symposium represents the core meeting for presentation and discussion of scientific contributions to a variety of research areas related to all RoboCup divisions (RoboCupSoccer, RoboCupRescue, RoboCup@Home, and RoboCupJunior). Its scope encompasses, but is not restricted to, research and educational activities within the fields of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.
Due to its interdisciplinary nature, the symposium offers a unique venue for exploring various and intimate connections of theory and practice across a wide spectrum of research fields. The experimental, interactive, and benchmark character of the RoboCup initiative presents the opportunity to disseminate novel ideas and promising technologies, which are rapidly adopted and field-tested by a large (and still growing) community.
SUBMISSION
We solicit submissions of papers reporting on high-quality, original research with relevance to the areas mentioned below. All researchers working in these areas, even if not actively participating in RoboCup teams, are urged to submit their work. Both papers describing real-world research and papers reporting theoretical results, as well as combinations thereof, are welcome. We also encourage the submission of high-quality overview articles for any field related to the general scope of RoboCup.
The proceedings of the RoboCup International Symposium are published and archived within the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. Submitted papers are limited to 12 pages formatted according to the LNAI requirements and must be electronically submitted through the symposium web site. All contributions are peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers using a blind review process.
IMPORTANT DATES
* Submission of full papers: Feb 27, 2011 (hard deadline, midnight GMT - 10)
* Notification to authors: Apr 10, 2011
* Submission of camera-ready copies: May 8, 2011
* RoboCup 2011 Symposium: July 11, 2011
SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS
* Thomas Röfer, DFKI Bremen, Germany
* Uluç Saranlı, Bilkent University, Turkey
* Michael Mayer, Nat'l Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
* Jesus Savage, UNAM, Mexico
AREAS OF INTEREST
* Robot Hardware and Software
- mobile and humanoid robots
- sensors and actuators
- embedded and mobile devices
- robot construction and new materials
- robotic system integration
- robot software architectures
- robot programming environments and languages
- real-time and concurrent programming
- robot simulators
* Perception and Action
- distributed sensor integration
- sensor noise filtering
- real-time image processing and pattern recognition
- motion and sensor models
- sensory-motor control
- robot kinematics and dynamics
- high-dimensional motion control
* Robotic Cognition and Learning
- world modeling
- localization, navigation, and mapping
- planning and reasoning
- decision making under uncertainty
- reinforcement learning
- complex motor skill acquisition
- motion and sensor model learning
* Multi-Robot Systems
- team coordination methods
- communication protocols
- learning and adaptive systems
- teamwork and heterogeneous agents
- dynamic resource allocation
- adjustable autonomy
* Human-Robot Interaction
- human-robot interfaces
- speech synthesis and natural language generation
- visualization
* Education and Edutainment
- Robotics and Artificial Intelligence education
- educational robotics
- robot kits and programming tools
- robotic entertainment
* Applications
- disaster rescue information systems
- search and rescue robots
- robotic surveillance
- service and social robots
- robots at home
********************************************************************
12 years, 3 months
Design Requests for Robotics Suite Logo/Banner
by Hedayat Vatankhah
Hi,
I've created two design requests for a logo and a banner for Fedora
Robotics Suite. For other stuff (e.g. icons for player and stage)
separate tickets should be created for each case. Also, if we want to
request artwork for the spin, we can request them case by case. Either
provide me with the information about each desired artwork or create the
design request yourself. I don't know what else to request right now.
Regards,
Hedayat
12 years, 3 months
Fwd: Re: [Design-team] Need help with artwork for Fedora Robotics Suite
by Hedayat Vatankhah
Hi,
This is the response I received right now from the design team. I'll try
to create design requests one by one and receive your feedback; and then
add a new ticket for it.
Regards,
Hedayat
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Design-team] Need help with artwork for Fedora Robotics
Suite
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:26:49 -0500
From: Emily Dirsh <emily(a)fightingcrane.com>
Reply-To: emily(a)fightingcrane.com, Fedora Design Team
<design-team(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
Organization: Fighting Crane Solutions
To: design-team(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 18:15 +0330, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote:
> Dear design team!
> I'm a member of Fedora Robotics SIG. As you might already know, we are
> going to provide Fedora Robotics Suite[1] as a Fedora 15 feature. The
> goal of this suite is to make Fedora a great platform for people who are
> actively working in Robotics field and also a great platform for
> learning robotics. We are also planning on providing a Robotics LiveDVD.
This sounds like a really cool project. Yay robots! :)
> As a part of this work, we need some artwork for the webpages, some
> icons and at last for Anaconda (the last one is only needed for the
> LiveDVD which follows). And I think you can guess how good is our team
> in arts! ;)
>
> Because of this, we decided to contact you. It would be great if you can
> help us with some needed artwork, so that we can provide a more polished
> look at the end.
> Our current requirements are:
>
> * Logo for the Robotics Suite
> * Banner for Robotics Suite to be used on our webpages
> * Icons for Player utilities and Stage (some robotics
> applications)(They're not essential to the robotics suite effort, but
> would be nice to have)
> * Anaconda and some logo contents, to provide a more customized look for
> the LiveDVD (again, not necessary with Robotics Suite feature effort;
> but appreciated)
We use a ticket tracker (https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/) to keep
track of design requests. You should file a new ticket for each of the
graphics projects you listed above. Provide as much detail as you can.
Include things like where/when/how you plan to use the requested
graphic, and if there are any limitations. This will help us get design
folks assigned to your requests and keep track of progress, etc.
> Any help with the above is highly appreciated. :)
>
> Thanks,
> Hedayat
>
If you have any questions, just post to the list, or hop on irc on
#fedora-design@freenode.
Emily
_______________________________________________
design-team mailing list
design-team(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
12 years, 3 months
Meeting
by Tim Niemueller
Hi all.
We should meet again to discuss our progress. What about Wednesday or
Friday, 17:00 UTC?
Tim
--
Tim Niemueller <tim(a)niemueller.de> www.niemueller.de
=================================================================
Imagination is more important than knowledge. (Albert Einstein)
12 years, 3 months
unified robots udev and policykit rules package
by Martin Langhoff
At OLPC, we are looking at controlling a variety of devices: lego nxt,
lego wedo, gogo boards, arduino boards, scratch boards. These normally
connect via USB and are accessible via a devnode. Some of them can be
controlled by more than one software package.
For starters, you need a udev rule assigning the devnode to a group.
In these modern desktop times, you also want a PolicyKit "ACL" rule so
that the "user currently logged in at the current console" can control
the robot, without further complications.
So for example, the lego NXT robots can be controlled by nbc, or by
nxt_python. Currently nxt_python packs a udev rule, but this is bound
to complicates interaction with nbc if nbc packs the same.
This could be split to a single-robot-type package with a single udev
(and I hope PK) rule. However, I think the best solution is to have a
"robot-control" package that creates a group ("robot-control"?) and
udev and PK rules that match all the supported robot models.
thoughts?
m
--
martin(a)laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC
- ask interesting questions
- don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first
- http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff
12 years, 4 months