robotics July 2008

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CFP: ACM SAC 09 - ROBOTICS Track
by Denis Wolf 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

ACM SAC 2009 - CALL FOR PAPERS Track: Intelligent Robotic Systems (ROBOT) http://www.icmc.usp.br/~lrm/sac09/ The 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SIGAPP) March 8 - 12, 2009, Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort & Spa Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2009/) Call for papers: For the past twenty-three years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. For the second year, the ACM SAC will have a specific track on robotics. It aims to be a forum for researchers to share experiences, expose issues, and discuss about this exciting research field. Robotics is a multidisciplinary area of study that presents an enormous commercial and research potential. While industrial robotics covers the study, design, and use of robot systems for manufacturing, mobile robotics concerns about developing systems that are capable of making decisions and acting autonomously in real and unpredictable environments to accomplish determined tasks. In the last decade, technological advances made possible the development of very efficient sensors and electronic devices at affordable prices. This fact has great impact on robotics research, allowing the development of efficient and relatively cheap sensors and computing devices. It also allows robots to accomplish more complex tasks, posing new challenges to scientists and engineers. This track focuses on all aspects of robotics, including related areas and applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Rehabilitation Robotics Humanoid Robotics Underwater Robots Search and Rescue Robots Entertainment Robots Multi-robot Coordination Active Perception and Vision Coverage and Deployment Learning Autonomous systems Navigation Localization and Mapping Evolutionary Robotics Grasping Control Architectures and Programming Bio-Inspired Robots Aerial Robotics Contact Modeling and Touching Educational Robotics Smart Actuators Micro/nano robotics Embedded Systems architectures Reconfigurable robotic platforms Vision-based Systems Multi-robot systems Simulation Important Dates * Aug. 16, 2008: Paper submissions * Oct. 11, 2008: Author notification * Oct. 25, 2008: Camera-Ready Copy

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player/stage demo program
by John McLean 01 Aug '08

01 Aug '08

Hello all, I recently returned from my trip, and I'm going to start writing up a demo program for player and stage in the next few days. I'll probably write it in C, since the C library for player is the most documented (I would write it in python --much simpler-- except there is nearly no documentation for the playerc module). What are we looking for in a demo program in terms of functionality? Does it need to be interactive? What interfaces should I include (ie. position, laser, ptz, etc.)? I'm looking for a general idea of what I should start with. --John

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nxt_python
by John McLean 11 Jul '08

11 Jul '08

The past few days I've been spending some time trying to get p/s/g installed on my system, and for various reasons, I'm having trouble doing so. My plan was to get those installed, and then work on writing up a spec file for gazebo. However, knowing that someone else is also working on that, coupled with my limited experience with packaging in general, also coupled that I'm going to be gone for the next two weeks, leads me to believe that (for now) I should work on something simpler. If no one objects, I'll work on packaging nxt_python, since python programs are generally easier to package. I've already started and should have a spec file written in another hour or so, and hopefully can run some tests this afternoon. Barring no problems, I should be able to submit a package to bugzilla in the near future. I realize that nxt_python isn't critical path and p/s/g and a live-cd are, but I don't yet have enough knowledge to work on packaging gazebo. Once I get back from being gone for two weeks, I should have time to delve deeper and learn enough to be useful. If anyone has any suggestings on what else I could do, I'd be more than happy to listen :) --John

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Status of rcssserver3d & me!
by Hedayat Vatankhah 11 Jul '08

11 Jul '08

Hi all, The rcssserver3d package is approved (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450409), but I should have more activity to be sponsored. So, I've decided to start packaging the 2D server. The first package I've created is rcssbase package (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454940). And hopefully I'll be able to create a package for rcssserver (which depends on rcssbase package) soon. Any comments about creating good packages so that I can be sponsored sooner is highly appreciated :). I'll try to participate in your package reviews too. Good reviews will help me become sponsored. Finally, suddenly many things changed for me, and it seems that I'll be in China for the competitions too. Have a nice time, Hedayat

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Heading for China
by Tim Niemueller 10 Jul '08

10 Jul '08

Hi guys. We are going to leave on Saturday for RoboCup 2008 in Suzhou, China. I hope we have Internet so that I can blog a bit about the event. In any case I won't be responding or working on any review requests (as this has already been the case in the last weeks). If there is anything urgent reported please have a look. I should be back on the 23rd. Regards from Aachen, Tim -- Tim Niemueller <tim(a)niemueller.de> www.niemueller.de ================================================================= Imagination is more important than knowledge. (Albert Einstein)

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Greetings
by John McLean 03 Jul '08

03 Jul '08

I introduced myself yesterday at the meeting on irc, but I'll take a moment to reintroduce myself since only two others were on the channel when I introduced myself. My name is John McLean, and I'm a fedora intern at Red Hat working for Greg DeKoenigsberg. I'd like to help out with the robotics SIG, but don't know where to start. I'm starting to learn about the software that's listed on the wiki page, and from what I understand this SIG is mainly just trying to get software packaged and in the fedora repos right now. If there's a project within this SIG that needs working on, just let me know and I'll start working on it. --John

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Meeting reminder 2008/07/02
by Tim Niemueller 02 Jul '08

02 Jul '08

Hi everybody. This is a reminder that we have an IRC meeting today at 16:00 UTC in #fedora-robotics on freenode. Tim -- Tim Niemueller <tim(a)niemueller.de> www.niemueller.de ================================================================= Imagination is more important than knowledge. (Albert Einstein)

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