CALL FOR PAPERS
                          Autonomous Robots

         Special Issue on Perception-Based Intelligent Robots

Sensing, perception and autonomous decision making are key ingredients
for  intelligent automation where the machine is faced with unexpected
challenges and  makes  useful  decisions.   Example  applications  are
perception-based  navigation  on  land,  in air and under water, space
exploration, robot assistants for frail or handicapped people, service
robots  to  automate  hazardous  tasks, etc.  For the success of these
applications  vision   plays   an   extremely   important   role   for
obstacle/hazard  detection  and  avoidance,  landmark  acquisition and
identification, object recognition, situation assessment, etc.  One of
the  challenges  has  been  to  develop  robust  and  reliable  vision
algorithms that can perform effectively under  real-world  application
constraints.   The  focus of the special issue is to address a variety
of research issues that are involved in developing vision-based robots
and  how  some of these problems are mitigated by using sensor fusion,
auxiliary and contextual information, motion  cues,  adaptation,  etc.
Contributions  that  combine  a  theoretical  approach  with intensive
experimental evaluation  are  ideal,  however,  theoretical/conceptual
papers  are also invited.  Possible topics for papers submitted to the
special issue include, but are not limited to:
- Sensor design, calibration, and stabilization
- Sensor fusion for intelligent robots, including INS/GPS, digital map
- Representation of visual information for robotic tasks
- Generation and utilization of 3-D environment models
- Sensor-based adaptive behavior and learning
- Real-time sensing, distributed processing, cognition and control
- Object recognition from a moving platform, model acquisition/update
- Obstacle detection and avoidance, landmark recognition

                     INSTRUCTIONS FOR MANUSCRIPTS

Authors are encouraged to submit five  copies  of  manuscript  to  the
Guest  Editor  at  the address given below.  Papers must NOT have been
published previously or submitted for publication to other journals.

                           IMPORTANT DATES

Oct. 1997               Call for papers published
Feb. 1, 1998            Papers are due
June 1, 1998            Completion of first review
Oct. 1, 1998            Completion of final review
Nov. 1998               Final acceptance/Papers due for publication
1st Quarter 1999        Publication of the issue

                             GUEST EDITOR

                              Bir Bhanu
                        College of Engineering
                       University of California
                       Riverside, CA 92521, USA
            e-mail: bhanu@engr.ucr.edu, FAX: 909-787-3188

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