Conference on Sensor Fusion and Decentralized Control in Robotic Systems II
                     as part of
      SPIE Photonics East, 19-22 September 1999
      Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Mass. USA
 website: ref: http://www.spie.org/web/meetings/calls/pe99/
 
 Onsite Proceedings. 
 Abstracts for this conference are due by 8 February 1999. 	<==
 Manuscripts are due by 28 June 1999. 
               
 Conference Chairs: 	Paul S. Schenker, Jet Propulsion Lab.; 
 			Gerard T. McKee, Univ. of Reading (UK) 
          
 Program Committee: 
 
 Mongi A. Abidi, Univ. of Tennessee/Knoxville; 
 Eric T. Baumgartner, Jet Propulsion Lab.; 
 George A. Bekey, Univ. of Southern California; 
 Henrik I. Christensen, Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden);
 James L. Crowley, LIFIA-IMAG (France); 
 Steven Dubowsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 
 John T. Feddema, Sandia National Labs.;
 Nicolas H. Franceschini, CNRS (France); 
 Martin Herman, National Institute of Standards and Technology; 
 Terrance L. Huntsberger, Univ. of South Carolina; 
 Seth A. Hutchinson, Univ. of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign;
 Pradeep K. Khosla, Carnegie Mellon Univ.; 
 Maja J. Mataric, Univ. of Southern California; 
 Alexander M. Meystel, Drexel Univ.; 
 Robin R. Murphy, Colorado School of Mines; 
 Arthur G. O. Mutambara, Florida State Univ.;
 Francois G. Pin, Oak Ridge National Lab.; 
 Juergen Rossmann, Univ. of Dortmund (Germany); 
 W. Brent Seales, Univ. of Kentucky; 
 Arthur C. Sanderson, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; 
 Armin Sulzmann, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Switzerland); 
 Tzyh-Jong Tarn, Washington Univ. 
         
 This conference addresses multi-sensor fusion and distributed control 
 in robotic systems. The theme is intelligent automation through enriched 
 perception and action skills, at all levels of robot tasking, including 
 cooperative interactions of multiple robots. We welcome multi-disciplinary 
 submissions based in both technological and biological models. The primary
 focus of the meeting is algorithmic: submissions should clearly state a 
 robotic sensing or control objective, outline a physical or behavioral 
 model, reduce it to computational definition, and present experimental 
 and/or analytical results. Describe what distinguishes your problem as 
 a robotic sensor fusion or distributed control problem; contrast your 
 approach with alternative methods. Papers that report working robotic 
 systems and specific task applications are particularly desirable. In 
 all submissions authors should relate their objectives 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. 
 
 ON-LINE ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS CAN BE MADE AT:
 http://www.spie.org/web/meetings/calls/pe99/pe99_submissions.html
 
 OR, SEND BY EMAIL
 E-Mail each abstract separately to: abstracts@spie.org
 in ASCII text (not encoded) format. To ensure receipt and
 proper processing or your abstract, the SUBJECT line must
 include only the conference code (RB07 for this meeting)
 
 [Format for email submission]
 1.SUBMIT TO:  RB07
 2.SUBMIT TO ONE CONFERENCE ONLY:
   "Sensor Fusion/Decentralized Control," Schenker and McKee
    _________________________________________   
    (Conference Title) (Conference Chair) 
 3.ABSTRACT TITLE 
 4.AUTHOR LISTING (principal author first)     
   First (given) name, Last (family) name, Affiliation.
   Mailing address, telephone, fax, and e-mail address. 
                                    
 5.PRESENTATION 
   Indicate your preference for "Oral Presentation" or
   "Poster Presentation." Placement is subject to chairs'
   discretion. 
 6.ABSTRACT TEXT: Approximately 250 words. 
 7.KEY WORDS:     List a maximum of five key words. 
 8.BRIEF BIOGRAPHY (of principal author)                          
   Approximately 50 words. 
 
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