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
14 years, 4 months
player/stage demo program
by John McLean
Hello all,
I recently returned from my trip, and I'm going to start writing up a demo
program for player and stage in the next few days. I'll probably write it
in C, since the C library for player is the most documented (I would write it
in python --much simpler-- except there is nearly no documentation
for the playerc module). What are we looking for in a demo program in
terms of functionality? Does it need to be interactive? What interfaces
should I include (ie. position, laser, ptz, etc.)? I'm looking for a
general idea of what I should start with.
--John
15 years, 4 months
nxt_python
by John McLean
The past few days I've been spending some time trying to get p/s/g
installed on my system, and for various reasons, I'm having trouble doing
so. My plan was to get those installed, and then work on writing up a
spec file for gazebo. However, knowing that someone else is also working
on that, coupled with my limited experience with packaging in general,
also coupled that I'm going to be gone for the next two weeks, leads me to
believe that (for now) I should work on something simpler. If no one
objects, I'll work on packaging nxt_python, since python programs are
generally easier to package. I've already started and should have a spec
file written in another hour or so, and hopefully can run some tests this
afternoon. Barring no problems, I should be able to submit a package to
bugzilla in the near future. I realize that nxt_python isn't critical
path and p/s/g and a live-cd are, but I don't yet have enough knowledge to
work on packaging gazebo. Once I get back from being gone for two weeks,
I should have time to delve deeper and learn enough to be useful. If
anyone has any suggestings on what else I could do, I'd be more than happy
to listen :)
--John
15 years, 5 months
Status of rcssserver3d & me!
by Hedayat Vatankhah
Hi all,
The rcssserver3d package is approved
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450409), but I should
have more activity to be sponsored. So, I've decided to start packaging
the 2D server. The first package I've
created is rcssbase package
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454940). And hopefully I'll
be able
to create a package for rcssserver (which depends on rcssbase package) soon.
Any comments about creating good packages so that I can be sponsored
sooner is highly appreciated :). I'll try to
participate in your package reviews too. Good reviews will help me
become sponsored.
Finally, suddenly many things changed for me, and it seems that I'll be
in China for the competitions too.
Have a nice time,
Hedayat
15 years, 5 months
Heading for China
by Tim Niemueller
Hi guys.
We are going to leave on Saturday for RoboCup 2008 in Suzhou, China. I
hope we have Internet so that I can blog a bit about the event.
In any case I won't be responding or working on any review requests (as
this has already been the case in the last weeks). If there is anything
urgent reported please have a look.
I should be back on the 23rd.
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)
15 years, 5 months
Greetings
by John McLean
I introduced myself yesterday at the meeting on irc, but I'll take a moment
to reintroduce myself since only two others were on the channel when I
introduced myself.
My name is John McLean, and I'm a fedora intern at Red Hat working for Greg
DeKoenigsberg. I'd like to help out with the robotics SIG, but don't know
where to start. I'm starting to learn about the software that's listed on
the wiki page, and from what I understand this SIG is mainly just trying to
get software packaged and in the fedora repos right now. If there's a
project within this SIG that needs working on, just let me know and I'll
start working on it.
--John
15 years, 5 months
Meeting reminder 2008/07/02
by Tim Niemueller
Hi everybody.
This is a reminder that we have an IRC meeting today at 16:00 UTC in
#fedora-robotics on freenode.
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)
15 years, 5 months
