Link to past edition of ViCoMoR at IROS 2011
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ViCoMoR 2012
2nd Workshop on Visual Control of Mobile Robots
October 11th, 2012, Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, in conjunction with the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
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Important Dates
9 July, 2012: Paper submissions 6 August, 2012 : Acceptance notification 20 August, 2012: Final submission of accepted papers 11 October, 2012: Workshop date
Instructions for Authors
Papers submissions are due on 9 July. All submissions should be in PDF format using the IROS template. Papers should be 4-6 pages in length, optionally accompanied by a video. All submissions will be reviewed for relevance to the topic of the workshop as well as scientific merit.
Submissions should be emailed to mezouar@univ-bpclermont.fr, gonlopez@unizar.es
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Aims and Scope
The purpose of this workshop is to discuss topics related to the challenging problems of visual control of mobile robots. Visual control refers to the capability of a robot to visually perceive the environment and use this information for autonomous navigation. This task involves solving multidisciplinary problems related with vision and robotics, for example: motion constraints, vision systems, visual perception, safety, real-time constraints, robustness, stability issues, obstacle avoidance… The problem of the vision-based autonomous navigation is also compounded of the different constraints imposed by the particular features of the platform involved (ground platforms, aerial vehicles, underwater robots, humanoids…)
Over the last years, increasing efforts have been made to integrate robotic control and vision. Although there is an important number of works in the area of visual control for manipulation, which is a mature field of research, the use of mobile robots add new challenges in a still open research area. The interest in this subject lies in the many potential robotic applications in industrial as well as in domestic settings that involve visual control of mobile robots (automation industry, material transportation, assistance to disabled people, surveillance, rescue, etc).
This workshop is aimed to promote exchange and sharing of experiences among researchers in the field of visual control of mobile robots. Previously, the first edition of ViCoMoR was held in San Francisco during IROS'11. This new edition of the workshop will consist of invited talks and selected papers for oral presentation and interactive session.
Topics
Topics of interest include: - Autonomous navigation and visual servoing techniques for mobile robots. - Visual perception for visual control, visual sensors and integration of image information in the control loop. - Visual control with constraints: nonholonomic constraints, motion in formation, distributed visual control, obstacle avoidance, etc. - New trends in visual control, innovative solutions or proposals in the framework of computer vision and control theory.
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Organizers
Institut Pascal - GRAVIR/ROSACE Université Clermont-Ferrand II 24 avenue des Landais, 63177 Aubière, France Phone: +33 (0)4 73 40 75 89 Email: mezouar@univ-bpclermont.fr
Instituto de Investigación en Ingeniería de Aragón (I3A) Universidad de Zaragoza, María de Luna 1 E-50018 Zaragoza. Spain Phone: (+34) 976 762344 Email: gonlopez@unizar.es
Invited speakers:
INRIA Sophia Antipolis Mediterranee, 2004 Route des Lucioles BP 93, Sophia Antipolis, France
School of Engineering Systems at the Queensland University of Technology, QLD, 4000, Australia
Program committee
Helder Araujo ISR, University of Coimbra, Portugal Hector M. Becerra CIMAT, Guanajuato, Mexico Enric Cervera Universitat Jaume-I, Spain François Chaumette INRIA Rennes - IRISA, France Peter Corke Queensland Univ. of Technology, Australia Francisco Escolano Universidad de Alicante, Spain Nicholas R. Gans Univ. of Texas at Dallas, USA Jose J. Guerrero Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Koichi Hashimoto Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan Nicolas Mansard LAAS/CNRS, France Patrick Rives INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France Carlos Sagues Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Omar Tahri ISR, University of Coimbra, Portugal Dimitris P. Tsakiris FORTH, Heraklion, Greece Andrew Vardy Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland, Canada Xenophon Zabulis FORTH, Heraklion, Greece
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Contact
To contact the organization chairs, send an email to: mezouar@univ-bpclermont.fr or gonlopez@unizar.es
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