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ROBOCOMM 2007

First International Conference on Robot Communication and Coordination Athens, Greece

http://www.robocomm.org

*************************************************************** In-Cooperation with ACM SIGMOBILE

Paper submission: April 13, 2007 Notification: June 22, 2007 Camera-ready copy: July 20, 2007 Conference: September 10-12, 2007

Description --- ROBOCOMM is the First International Conference on Robot Communication and Coordination. As the name suggests, it aims at the convergence of two fields, acting as a common forum for the Robotics and Communications research communities. The expected outcome of the event is to promote cross-pollination of these two areas leading to growth in the capabilities of both. Robotics is an interdisciplinary field that includes the following key competencies: mechanics, control theory, electronics and communications. Initially the first three areas dominated in their roles. However, in the last two decades we have witnessed the unprecedented growth of wireless communication technologies, with increasing attention given to sensor networks and ad-hoc networks, enlarging the possible configurations of a network. Meanwhile, building more than just one or two robots at a time has become cheaper and more common, thus opening a whole new range of applications for multi-robot systems with networking capabilities. Network robotics offers a framework to study coordination mechanisms for complex systems through communication channels, thus providing the natural common ground for convergence of information processing, communication theory and control theory. Networked robotics poses significant challenges, requiring the integration of communication theory, software engineering, distributed sensing and control into a common framework. Furthermore, robots are unique in that their motion and tasking control systems are co-located with the communications mechanisms. This allows the co-exploitation of individual subsystems to provide completely new kinds of networked or distributed autonomy. Hence, ROBOCOMM will be a leading-edge conference where prominent researchers with different backgrounds will gather and merge different ideas into a common framework that will enable new applications based on large scale networks of mobile robots.

A partial list of conference themes that will be part of the ROBOCOMM technical program is listed below. We encourage discussion of both wired and wireless networking aspects for robots. Although the intended focus is on networked robotics, papers on advanced communications for single robot systems (for tele-operation for instance) will also be welcome.

- Robotic interactions with sensors - Communication protocols for tele-operated and tele-reflexive robots - Intra-sensor communications within individual robots - Communication protocols for flocks and swarms of networked robots - Biologically inspired or biomimetic robot communication - Exploiting the interactions between communications and autonomy - Localization and tracking using robotic communications - Distributed coordination of mobile robot teams - Industrial applications of networked robotics - Real-time software for mobile robots

Submissions --- Authors are invited to submit their paper electronically in PDF format by April 13, 2007. The maximum number of pages is limited to 8 pages (10pt, double column, IEEE format). The proceedings will be published by ACM and will be available through ACM Digital Library.

Organizing Committee ---

General Co-Chairs: Alan Winfield (UWE, England) Jason Redi (BBN, USA)

Vice Chairs: Luca Schenato (University of Padova, Italy) Francesco De Pellegrini (CREATE-NET, Italy)

Technical Program Co-Chairs: P. R. Kumar (University of Illinois,USA) Magnus Egerstedt (GATECH, USA) Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos (NTU Athens, Greece) Minoru Asada (Osaka University, Japan)

Technical Program Committee: Calin Belta (Boston University, USA) Jorge Cortes (University of California at Santa Cruz, USA) Emilio Frazzoli (MIT, USA) Vijay Gupta (Caltech, USA) Saikat Ray (Bridgeport University, USA) Christoforos Hadjicostis (UIUC, USA) Ayanna Howard (Georgia Tech, USA) Chris Kitts (Santa Clara University, USA) Eric Klavins (University of Washington, USA) Naomi Leonard (Princeton, USA) Zhi-Hong Mao (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Sonia Martinez (University of California at San Diego, USA) Mehran Mesbahi (University of Washington, USA) Kristi Morgansen (University of Washington, USA) Abubakr Muhammad (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Todd Murphey (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA) Natasha Neogi (UIUC, USA) Reza Olfati-Saber (Dartmouth, USA) Bruno Sinopoli (University of California at Berkeley, USA) Panagiotis Tsiotras (Georgia Tech, USA) Ming Li (California State University, USA) Karl Henrik Johansson (KTH. Sweden) John Lygeros (ETH, Switzerland) Enrico Pagello (University of Padua, Italy) Dimitris Hristu-Varsakelis (University of Macedonia, Greece) Joao Tasso (Porto University, Portugal) Cyrill Stachniss (Albert-Ludwigs-University, Germany) Francesco Vasca (University of Sannio, Italy) Rolf Johansson (Lund University, Sweden) Benedetto Piccoli (Istituto "Mauro Picone", Italy) Anthony Tzes (University of Patras, Greece) Anders Robertsson (Lund University, Sweden) Mounir Mokhtari (INT/GET, France) Nikos Vlassis (TUC, Greece) Pedro U. Lima (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal) Hajime Asama (University of Tokyo, Japan) Nobuhiko Nishio (Ritsumeikan University, Japan) Nobuto Matsuhira (Coucils for Science and Technology Policy, Japan) Seiji Yamada (NII, Japan) Kohtaro Ohba (AIST, Japan) Kazuhiro Kosuge (Tohoku University, Japan) Hiroshi G Okuno (Kyoyo University, Japan) Tomomasa Sato (University of Tokyo, Japan) Kazuhiro Nakadai (Honda RI, Japan) Takayuki Kanda (ATR, Japan) Kazuya Yoshida (Tohoku University, Japan) Hideki Hashimoto (University of Tokyo, Japan) Hide Tokuda (Keio University, Japan) Hiroshi Ishiguro (Osaka Univesity, Japan) Yuichiro Yoshikawa (JST ERATO Asada Project, Japan) Masahiro Fujita (Sony, Japan) Toshio Fukuda (Nagoya University, Japan) Makoto Kaneko (Osaka Univesity, Japan) Hiroshi Takemura (Tokyo University of Science, Japan) Yunhui Liu (Chinese University of HongKong, China) Zhou Changjiu (Singapore Polytechnic, Singapore)

Steering Committee: Imrich Chlamtac (CREATE-NET, Italy), Alcherio Martinoli (EPFL, Switzerland) Colette Maloney (European Commission: Cognitive Systems and Robotics)

Local Arrangements Chair: Evangelos Papadopoulos (NTU Athens, Greece)

Publicity Co-Chairs: Y. Charlie Hu (Purdue University, USA) H. Jin Kim (Seoul National University, Korea) Francesco Mondada (EPFL, Switzerland)

Publication Chair: Klaus Schilling (University of Wurzburg, Germany)

Industrial Sponsorship Chair: Roberto Sannino (ST Microelectronics)

Panels Chair: Vijay Kumar (UPenn, USA)

Financial Chair: Karen Decker (ICST, USA)

Conference Coordinator: Zsuzsa Lanyi-Kaszab (ICST, Europe)

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