From brd@cs.dartmouth.edu Tue Jul 20 18:12:25 1999 Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 09:18:43 PDT From: Bruce Randall Donald To: THEORYNT@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU Subject: WAFR '2000 Call For Papers WAFR 2000 CALL FOR PAPERS The Fourth International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics March 16-18 2000 Dartmouth Hanover, New Hampshire http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wafr Robot algorithms are abstractions of computational processes that control or reason about motion and perception in the physical world. The computation may be implemented in software, hard-wired electronics, biomolecular mechanisms, or purely mechanical devices. Because actions in the physical world are subject to physical laws and geometric constraints, the design and analysis of robot algorithms raises a unique combination of questions in control theory, computational and differential geometry, and computer science. Algorithms serve as a unifying theme in the multi-disciplinary field of robotics. WAFR aims at bringing together a group of about sixty researchers to discuss recent trends and important future directions of research on the algorithmic foundations of robotics. The workshop consists of invited talks by key researchers in the field and twenty contributed presentations in a single track. The proceedings will be published in a hard-cover volume. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, * geometric algorithms * minimalist and underactuated robotics * manufacturing and assembly * holonomic and nonholonomic motion planning * manipulation planning * sensor-based planning * controllability, complexity, and completeness * task-level planning * grasping and fixturing * physically realistic simulation * navigation * computational biology * modular and reconfigurable robots * distributed manipulation VENUE Participants will stay at the historic Hanover Inn on the Appalachian Trail, near the White Mountains of New Hampshire. The workshop will take place on the Dartmouth campus. PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit four (4) copies of a full paper by December 1, 1999 to Prof. Kevin Lynch Mechanical Engineering Department Northwestern University 2145 Sheridan Road Evanston, IL 60208 Authors will be notified of the disposition of their papers by January 20, 2000. Camera-ready copies of the papers are due by February 20. These will be distributed to the workshop participants. Final versions of the papers for publication are due after the workshop. GENERAL CHAIRS Bruce Donald, Dartmouth Kevin Lynch, Northwestern Daniela Rus, Dartmouth PROGRAM COMMITTEE Pankaj Agarwal, Duke Srinivas Akella, UIUC Nancy Amato, Texas A&M Antonio Bicchi, U. Pisa Bruce Donald, Dartmouth Kamal Kant Gupta, Simon Frasier Leslie Kaelbling, Brown Makoto Kaneko, U. Hiroshima David Kriegman, UIUC Steve LaValle, Iowa State Kevin Lynch, Northwestern Dinesh Manocha, UNC Jim Ostrowski, U. Pennsylvania John Reif, Duke Daniela Rus, Dartmouth Elisha Sacks, Purdue