Final CALL FOR PAPERS SPIE -- the International Society for Optical Engineering "Sensor Fusion and Decentralized Control in Autonomous Systems" 14-17 October 1997, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA Marriott Greentree Hotel Abstract due 03 Mar 1997 Author notification 02 Jun 1997 Manuscript due 21 Jul 1997 Proceedings **on-site** [Submissions, per author information below, can be made by WWW input, email, FAX, or postal mail to SPIE. Late abstracts will be considered subject to available space and Chairs' discretion] Conference Chairs: Paul S. Schenker, Jet Propulsion Lab. Gerard T. McKee, Univ. of Reading (UK) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Mongi A. Abidi, Univ. of Tennessee/Knoxville Rachid Alami, LAAS-CNRS (France) Billur Barshan, Bilkent Univ. (Turkey) Eric. T. Baumgartner, Jet Propulsion Lab. George A. Bekey, Univ. of Southern California Hendrik Van Brussel, Katholieke Univ. Leuven (Belgium) Henrik I. Christensen, Aalborg Univ. (Sweden) James L. Crowley, LIFIA-IMAG (France) Steven Dubowsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Martin Fabian, Chalmers Univ. of Technology (SE) John T. Feddema, Sandia National Labs. Nicolas Franceschini, CNRS (France) Gregory D. Hager, Yale Univ. Martin Herman, National Institute of Standards and Technology Terrance L. Huntsberger, Univ. of. South Carolina Seth A. Hutchinson, Univ. of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign Masatoshi Ishikawa, Univ. of Tokyo (Japan) Ren C. Luo, North Carolina State Univ. Pradeep K. Khosla, Carnegie-Mellon Univ. Maja Mataric, Brandeis Univ. Alex Meystel, National Inst. of Standards and Technology Arthur G. Mutambara, Florida State Univ. Amar Mitiche, INRS-Telecommunications (Canada) Robin R. Murphy, Colorado School of Mines Ulrich Nehmzow, Univ. of Manchester (UK) Randal C. Nelson, Univ. of Rochester Fabarice R. Noreils, Alcatel-Alsthom Research (France) Ryuichi Oka, Tsukuba Research Center/RWCP (Japan) Francois G. Pin, Oak Ridge National Lab. Juergen Rossman, Univ. of Dortmund (Germany) Hirofumi Sakane, Electrotechnical Lab. (Japan) W. Brent Seales, Univ. of Kentucky Arthur C. Sanderson, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. Luc Steels, Brussels Free Universities (Belgium) Armin Sulzmann, Swiss Federal Inst. of Technology Tzyh-Jong Tarn, Washington Univ. Stelios C. A. Thomopoulos, The Pennsylvania State Univ. This conference addresses the complementary issues of multi-sensor fusion and distributed control in robotic systems, including cooperative inter- actions among multiple robots. The theme is advanced automation through enriched perception and motor skills, at all levels of robot tasking. We encourage multi-disciplinary submissions, drawing on both technological and biological models. While we welcome synthesizing overviews of a given methodology or architecture--and its reduction to practice--the primary focus of the meeting is *algorithmic*. Submissions should clearly state a robotic sensing or control objective, outline a physical and/or behavioral model, reduce it to operational definition, and present experimental and analytical results. Be specific as to what distinguishes your problem as a robotic sensor fusion or distributed control problem; contrast your approach with alternative methods. Papers that demonstrate such results as part of coherent robotic systems and specific task applications are particularly desirable. Given the thrust of the symposia in which this conference is held, we ask that authors clearly relate their results to mainstream problems in robot navigation, manipulation, surveillance, planning, assembly, learning, etc. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * modeling, registration, and calibration of multiple sensors * 3D object estimation from multiple features and views * visual integration of structural and motion information * robust fusion of active and passive sensors & databases * estimation, recognition and error models for data fusion * task driven planning and sequencing of robotic sensors * integration of vision and touch in dexterous robotic tasks * sensor based human-machine interaction (voice/gesture/etc.) * learning strategies for multi-sensor object recognition * decentralized control of multiple-armed and legged robots * task planning for reconfigurable & modular robotic systems * motion coordination and control in multiple robot tasks * cooperative, emergent behaviors in multiple agents * task based mapping and learning of sensor-based behaviors [Conference Paper Submission Process] Each ISAM'97 conference is run as a serial session track, and in the case of SFDC97 we anticipate a three day meeting of approximately 48 papers. Oral papers are typically 20 minutes plus questions (with chair's/author's discretion of alternatively placing/submitting a paper as a poster presentation). The process for conference paper submission and acceptance is abstract- based, and requires the following information be sent to SPIE by March 3, 1997 (on-site proceedings). Abstract review is conducted by Conference Chair and selected committee at chair request. [Abstract Submittal Format] 1. SUBMISSION: IS11, SCHENKER/MCKEE 2. CONFERENCE NAME: "Sensor Fusion and Decentralized Control in Autonomous Systems" 3. ABSTRACT TITLE: (First word, first letter cap) 4. AUTHOR LISTING: (principal author first, in format of first name, last name, followed by full mailing address, and phone, FAX, email) 5. PRESENTATION: (preference of ORAL or POSTER, subject to chair's disctretion) 6. ABSTRACT TEXT: (approx. 250 words) 7. KEYWORDS: (limit five) 8. BRIEF BIOGRAPHY: (principal author only, 50-75 words) This material can sent to SPIE in several ways: - WWW-site entry to http://www.spie.org/info/is97_home.html - EMAIL to abstracts@spie.org as ASCII text document. Include the following in subject line -- "IS11, SCHENKER/MCKEE" (send each abstract separately) - FAX to SPIE at 360 647 1445 - MAIL (three copies) to SPIE at ISAM'97, SPIE P.O. Box 10, Bellingham, Washington 98227-0010 Authors will be informed of paper selection by approximately 2 June 1997 and a camera-ready 6-to-8 page manuscript will be due to SPIE by 21 July 1997. [Summary Dates] Abstract due 03 Mar 1997 Author notification 02 Jun 1997 Manuscript due 21 Jul 1997 Meeting 14 Oct 1997 Note that the above meeting is being held as part of a broader 13 conference symposium with technical tracks and short courses in the following areas * Rapid Prototyping & Machine Inspection (3 conferences) * Intelligent Robotics for Factory, Field, & Space (6 conferences) * Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (4 conferences) To access the complete symposium program online, visit: http://www.spie.org/info/is97.html