3rd Call for Papers --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON AUTONOMOUS MINIROBOTS FOR RESEARCH AND EDUTAINMENT October 2-5, 2007 Buenos Aires, Argentina --------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.amire2007.fit.qut.edu.au/ Deadline approaching!! Submit your paper and join us in exciting Buenos Aires *** Submission deadline: 1 May 2007 *** Autonomous Minirobots Purposeful Autonomous Behaviours --------------------- -------------------------------- Design and construction Design and implementation Sensors and actuators Learning and artificial evolution Information processing architectures Cooperation and collective behaviours Simulation tools Applications ------------ Scope and aims of the Symposium ------------------------------- With the beginning of the 21st century the primary applications for robotics have shifted from industrial robots to entertainment, educational and service robots. Correspondingly research is gaining a broader base by spreading from a few well resourced laboratories into many small university laboratories and even the hobbyist work bench. Primary and secondary school students are participating in robot competitions in increasing numbers, indicating the high educational and entertainment value of low cost autonomous mobile robots. Small robots are also becoming increasingly useful as a test bed for animal behavioural cognitive research and for small scale prototyping of larger systems. All this has been made possible by the exponential increase of computing power per unit cost and the shrinking sizes delivered by the microelectronics industry. Small and inexpensive entertainment and educational robots have overtaken industrial robots as the main driving force for advancing autonomous robot technology, reminiscent of how desktop computers, and now gaming computers, replaced the big mainframe computers as the drivers for the advancement of computer technology. The fourth International Symposium on Autonomous Minirobots builds on the success of its predecessors to provide a unique forum for autonomous robotics research and development focused on applications in research, education and entertainment. Technical program ----------------- The technical and scientific program will include invited keynote addresses from leading researchers in the field, presentation of peer reviewed papers and posters. Participants are encouraged to present live or video demonstrations of the capabilities of their minirobots. Exhibition ---------- An exhibition, open to the general public, of research prototypes and commercial minirobots that will be held in conjunction with the symposium. Conference participants, universities and non-profit institutions that wish to exhibit their creations will receive local assistance from the conference organisers for preparing their stall. Various robot competitions will be staged as part of the exhibition. Topics ------ Authors are invited to submit papers on the following and related topics Minirobot construction Computing architectures for robotics Robot safety Robot programming Robot control Robot navigation Map building Task planning Robot vision Sensor systems Sensor fusion Multi-robot systems Robot communication Collective behaviour Simulation and modeling Robot interfaces Robot kinematics Robot applications Real time learning Evolutionary robotics Bio-inspired robots Telerobotics Important dates: ---------------- Submission of papers 1 May 2007 Notification of acceptance 22 June 2007 Final camera-ready paper 23 July 2007 Symposium 2-5 October 2007 Registration Category until 27/07/07 after 27/07/07 Full EUR 380 EUR 460 Student (includes lunches but excludes proceedings and dinner) EUR 150 EUR 200 Authors must have registered by 27 July 2007 Conference Co-chairs Ulrich Rueckert (DE) Joaquin Sitte (AU) Jong-Hwan Kim (KR) Technical Co-chairs Naoyuki Kubota (JP) Ulf Witkowski (DE) Keynote speakers ---------------- Barbara Webb (UK) Illah Nourbahksh (US) International Program Committee ------------------------------- David Ahlgren (US) Jacky Baltes (CA) Thomas Braeunl (AU) Ansgar Bredenfeld (DE) Elmer Dadios (PH) Marco Dorigo (BE) Toshio Fukuda (JP) Frederic Maire (AU) Henrik Hautop Lund (DK) Francesco Mondada (CH) Stefano Nolfi (IT) Kazuyuki Murase (JP) Fernando Ramos (MX) Gerhard Schweitzer (CH) Zachary Dodds (US) Adrian Thompson (UK) Igor Verner (IL) Paul Verschure (CH) Peter Kopacek (AT) Prahlad Vadakkepat (SG) Giacomo Indiveri (CH) Mattias Wahde (SE) Gordon Wyeth (AU) Gonzalo Zabala (AR) Andrew Howard (US) Local organising Committee ------------------------- Juan M. Santos, Chair Emilio Oca Javier Barra Diego Bendersky Information for authors ----------------------- Authors are invited to submit a full paper with a maximum length of 8 pages. Style sheets are available at: http://www.amire2007.fit.qut.ed.au All papers will be peer reviewed by three members of the International Program Committee and published by Springer Verlag in a conference proceedings volume. Conference Secretariat ---------------------- Smart Devices Lab Faculty of Information Technology Queensland University of Technology GPO Box 2434 Ph: +61 7 3138 2755 Fax: +61 7 3138 1214 Email: amire2007@qut.edu.au Home page: http://www.amire2007.fit.qut.edu.au/