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Call For Papers and Participants

First Australian Workshop on Robotics: Real World Artificial Intelligence
in conjunction with Eighth Australian Joint Conference on 
Artificial Intelligence (AI'95)

14 November 1995 
Canberra, Australia

Scope

The theme of the workshop will be "Robotics: Real World AI". Quite often the
results of AI research can't be applied to real world problems because of the
strong assumptions and simplifications that have been made. The validity and
robustness of AI algorithms can be verified if they can be successfully
implemented to produce intelligent behaviours in a robot. A framework for
building and programming intelligent robots will be presented. The workshop
will focus on the results of experimental work conducted in research
laboratories in Japan and Australia in the area of intelligent robots.
Particular emphasis will be given to the research results from the Japanese
research laboratories (ETL and Tsukuba University). This workshop will also
describe how Japan's AI research is organised both in government and
industry funded enterprises, such as MITI's Real World Computing Partnership
(RWCP) program. Experiences in setting up co-operative research programs 
between Australia and Japan will also be presented.

The main purpose of the workshop is to broaden the Australian AI community's
understanding of the robotics field and its relevance to AI. To achieve this
objective a number of invited talks have been organised from key researchers in
Australia and Japan. These talks will be general and will assume no prior
knowledge. In addition, papers are sought from researchers who are 
working in the any area of intelligent robotics.

Invited Speakers

Ray Jarvis (Australia, Monash Univ)
Prof. Jarvis who has been researching for over 20 years in the robotics field
is widely regarded as one of founders of Australian Robotics research. 
Prof. Jarvis has an international reputation in Computer Vision and Intelligent
Robotics. This talk will review the application of computer vision to 
navigate mobile robots. Particular emphasis will be given to outdoor mobile
robots which are the current focus of Prof. Jarvis's research.

Toshihiro Matsui (Japan, ETL)
Dr. Matsui is the author of EusLisp an object oriented version of Lisp.
Euslisp is widely used in Japanese  research institutions (and 
increasingly in western institutions) for robotics research. This talk
will address the following issues: the design motivation, purposes and 
history of EusLisp. Geometric modeling with an object oriented Lisp. The internal
structure of the language and  multi-thread programming will also be discussed.
Robotic applications that have been developed using EusLisp will be presented.

Brenan J. McCarragher (Australian National University)
Dr. McCarragher was the receipient of the Best Paper Award at the 1993 IEEE 
Robotics and Automation Conference, where he laid the foundations of discrete
event control applied to robotic manipulation.  The system entails a process
monitor based on force and position sensing, a event-trajectory planner and 
a discrete event controller.  This talk will review the basics, as well as 
detailed significant progress since that time.  In particular, the talk will 
discuss an industrial implementation of discrete event control for the 
assembly of a starter motor applied on site at a auto-parts manufacturer in 
Japan.

Phillip McKerrow (Australia, Univ of Wollongong)
Dr. McKerrow is the author of the best selling robotics text book "An
Introduction to Robotics". He is also an active researcher in the areas of
ultrasonic sensing and fuzzy logic control. In nature there are
numerous examples of animals that rely on sound to navigate e.g. bats
and dolphins. Dr. McKerrow will describe how ultrasonic sensing can be
coupled with robots to produce intelligent behaviour. Intelligent robotic
systems can be constructed by using rules. However, rule-based systems provide
discrete outputs which is unsatisfactory when continuous feed-back is 
necessary e.g. controlling a robot arm's trajectory. For this reason fuzzy
rules are applied to robotic control. 

Alex Zelinsky (Australia, Univ. of Wollongong)
Dr. Zelinsky has been researching in the area of intelligent robotics for
over 10 years. He has spent most of the last 3 years working in Japan at
Tsukuba University and the Electrotechnical Laboratory (ETL). At Tsukuba
University Dr. Zelinsky worked with Prof. Shin'ichi Yuta on the Yamabico Mobile
Robotics Research Project (see picture shown below). At ETL Dr. Zelinsky
worked with Dr. Yasuo Kuniyoshi on a biologically-inspired robotics research 
project. This talk will concentrate on the design and construction of
intelligent mobile robots for operation in indoor environments. Experimental 
results using real-time computer vision systems to control multiple robot 
systems will be presented.

Live demonstrations of the Yamabico robots that were built as part of a 
collaborative grant between Wollongong University (Australia) and Tsukuba
University (Japan) will be provided  at this AI'95 Workshop.

Workshop Outline

This workshop will be a full-day workshop on 14th November 1995 at
AI'95. The cost of workshops is set at $75 for conference attendees and
$150 for others.

Submissions

Authors are invited to submit an electronic post-script copy of their paper 
describing work in areas of intelligent robotics. Previously accepted papers,
or papers under review are not acceptable. 

Submitted papers should be printed on A4 paper, using
12 point times, with the left and right margin being 25mm each, and the top
and bottom margin being 35mm each. A separate title page should also be
included containing a title, the name(s), address(es), and email(s) of the
author(s), and an abstract of approximately 300 words. Submitted papers
should be no longer than 12 pages (not including the title page).

Accepted papers will be available in the workshop proceedings and
distributed at the workshop. No copyright claims will be made therefore
accepted papers may be submitted elsewhere after the Workshop reviewing 
period.

Submission Address

Dr Alex Zelinsky
Department of Computer Science
University of Wollongong 
email:  alex@cs.uow.edu.au

Important Dates

Submission    : September 7, 1995
Notification  : October 6,   1995
Final Version : October 19,  1995
Workshop      : November 14, 1995