RSS 2013 Workshop on Robotics Challenges and Vision RCV2013
RSS Workshop on Robotics Challenges and Vision (RCV2013):
Fundamentally novel research directions and bold approaches to tackle
difficult challenges in robotics
June 27, 2013
Berlin, Germany
http://compbio.cs.wayne.edu/robotics/rcv2013/
* Objectives
With the advent of corobots acting in direct support of individuals and
groups, fostered by the industry and also the National Robotics
Initiative, we are now at the dawn of a new era in which semiautonomous
robots intimately enter our lives. In such a symbiotic human-robot and
bionic world, corobotic systems with critical missions will emerge as
human mates for medical, educational, entertainment, and military
applications. The paradigm shift induced by this change in the range of
deployment of robots necessitates opening a front to discuss new
problems that do not fit into the conventional frameworks as well as
novel directions expected to help solve existing unresolved problems.
The main objective of this workshop is to discuss new fundamental
research directions and their applications for the next generation of
robots. Specific topics include but are not limited to
- Planning and Geometry Algorithms: complexity and completeness of
motion planning, computational geometry and algebra, and simulation,
particularly for flexible objects, high dimensional problems, and
minimalist sensing.
- Kinematics, Dynamics, and Control: nonlinear control and optimization,
visual servoing, and mobile manipulation, particularly for systems with
uncertainty, and nonholonomic systems.
- Manipulation: contact modeling, grasp synthesis, assembly, force
control, manipulation planning.
- Bionics: biomimetic robotics, neurobotics, synthetic biological
systems for computation, communication, control, sensing, and
locomotion, bio-electronics interfaces.
- Human-Robot Interaction: brain-machine interfaces, haptics and
telerobotics, human augmentation, assistive robots, and safety.
- Field Robotics: underwater robotics, aerial/space robotics,
agricultural and mining robotics.
- Distributed Systems: system of robotic systems, networked robots, and
coordination.
- Biomedical Robotics: wireless health, smart surgical tools,
rehabilitation robotics, interventional therapy, surgical simulation,
soft-tissue modeling, telesurgery, prosthetics, and molecular biology.
- Mechanisms: humanoids, hands, legged systems, snakes, novel actuators
and designs, reconfigurable robots, MEMS/NEMS, and micro/nanobots.
- Robot Perception: vision, tactile and force perception, range sensing,
inertial and propreoceptive sensing, and sensor fusion.
- Mobile Systems and Mobility: mapping, localization, navigation, SLAM,
collision avoidance, and exploration.
- Estimation and Learning: reinforcement learning, Bayesian techniques,
graphical models, and diagnostics.
* Program Committee
Nancy Amato, Texas A&M
Hamidreza Chitsaz, Wayne State University
Howie Choset, Carnegie Mellon University
Kamal K. Gupta, Simon Fraser University
Seth Hutchinson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Lydia Kavraki, Rice University
Moslem Kazemi, Carnegie Mellon University
Dinesh Manocha, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
* Organizers
Hamidreza Chitsaz, Wayne State University
Moslem Kazemi, Carnegie Mellon University
* Call for Papers
The RCV2013 submission site is available at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcv13.
In cooperation with the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), we invite
submissions to our special Challenges and Vision workshop. The emphasis
of this workshop will be on visionary ideas, long term challenges, and
opportunities in research that are outside of the current mainstream
topics of the field. Submissions will be judged on the extent to which
they expand the possibilities and horizons of the field or challenge
existing assumptions prevalent in the field.
Submissions to this workshop should follow the same formatting
guidelines as submissions to the research track, but are limited to at
most 4 pages in length for both submission and final publication. A
paper template is available in Latex and Word. Authors should take care
not to reveal their identity in their papers since the reviewing is
double-blind. Accepted papers will be published in the conference
proceedings and on the web only if they are presented at the conference.
Presenters must register for this workshop at the rates announced on the
RSS website. A summary of the topics discussed in the workshop will also
be published alongside regular papers.
* Best Paper Awards
To encourage researchers to present truly visionary concepts, the CCC is
offering prizes for up to 3 top papers in this special workshop: first
prize $1000, second prize $750, and third prize $500 to be awarded in
the form of travel reimbursements subject to the National Science
Foundation travel reimbursement policies. For more detailed information
regarding such policies, contact Kenneth Hines. The CCC awards can be
used for travel to any computing conference, not only RSS 2013.
Selection of award winning papers will be done by the program committee
after the conference, based on the novelty of proposed ideas, written
and oral presentations, and potentially votes from the audience. Awards
will be given in a ceremony after the workshop.
* Important Dates
Announcement of Call for Papers: March 15, 2013
Full Paper Submission Due: May 1, 2013
Acceptance Notification: May 14, 2013
Workshop: June 27, 2013
For all enquires, please email:
chitsaz@wayne.edu or
moslemk@cmu.edu
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Hamidreza Chitsaz, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dept of Computer Science
Wayne State University
Tel: (313) 577 6782
Email:
chitsaz@wayne.edu
http://compbio.cs.wayne.edu/~chitsaz
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