robotics August 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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NI's proprietary WeDo software...now available for OLPC
by Jef Spaleta 15 Aug '08

15 Aug '08

Okay this makes me really sort of mad at a deep level. http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-0… Labview based Lego Mindstorms for the OLPC... that really burns me. I wish we had something that could compete with the proprietary software they are giving away. But everytime I talk to anyone locally about an open framework, they just say its easier to use the gratis Labview tools and aren't at all interested in the idea. -jef

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Arindam Ghosh got an IQ of 136, which qualified him for the high IQ society GaoShiZhang.
by UberMens 14 Aug '08

14 Aug '08

I think you can also be part of UberMens. It is a network for highly intelligent people. Arindam Ghosh got a very high IQ of 136 and placed in the top of intelligent people of India. Arindam Ghosh thinks that you might get a similar high score and be able to be accepted by UberMens. UberMens is an association of intelligent people form many provinces all over Latin America. Its purpose is to increase the networking among intelligent people, be it for professional purpose, making intelligent friends or finding intelligent life partners. Thanks, Arindam Ghosh P.S Here's the link: http://www.ubermens.com/account/invite?key=049f0df0fef5fdf9ba80c6dbd447ff29

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anyone with experience with peekabot?
by Jef Spaleta 07 Aug '08

07 Aug '08

Saw it on freshmeat daily summary. http://www.peekabot.org/ -jef

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Meeting reminder 2008-08-06 16:00 UTC
by Tim Niemueller 07 Aug '08

07 Aug '08

Hi Fedora Robotics SIG, just a quicj reminder that the next meeting will be held in about an hour 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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playerv and stage
by John McLean 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

Just a quick bit: if you want to try out playerv, the easiest way to do so is this (you'll need both player and stage installed): $ player /usr/share/stage/worlds/everything.cfg & $ playerv -h localhost -p 6665 --laser:0 --position2d:0 The first command should start up a stage simulation window. The second starts up playerv in a small window with it subscribed to the laser and position2d device proxies. To command the robot, go to Devices->position2d:0 (stage) in the playerv window and check command. Then, just click on the robot in the playerv window, and drag the mouse around to move. Enjoy :)

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p/s/g demo client program
by John McLean 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

I've been asked to write up a demo client program for player/stage/gazebo that we might could use in a robotics livecd to show off the capabilities of player. I'm still not 100% sure what exactly we're looking for, but here's a rough description on what I'm thinking about now: I'll design a small gui interface similar to that of playerv. Users will be able to control the robot through this interface, using either the keyboard or mouse (don't know which yet). If I have time/the ability to, I'll add in support for a gripper and things like that. I'll also write up a few small client programs that autonomously navigate the robot based on sensor data. In the gui, the user can have to option to use one of those programs to control the robot. I realize the above sounds pretty similar to playerv, but I can't think of what else to do that would meet our needs as I understand them. Any suggestions/comments/critiques would be greatly appreciated. --John

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The road ahead
by Tim Niemueller 04 Aug '08

04 Aug '08

Hi Fedora robotics enthusiasts. Many review requests are open and we have big plans. I will block some time in the coming weeks to really get this going, and with John working on a demo I think it can work out in a not-so-long time. I'm back from China for a little more than a week now. It was pretty exhausting and a pretty exciting event. We finished second in the RoboCup@Home league and are pleased with the result, I'll blog some more about it later. On the Fedora side I can tell that I've talked to a member of the executive committee of the league and he was quite interested in our Fedora efforts. I think if we get that LiveCD rolling we can really spawn some interest! Hedayat and me met in person. Although both pretty busy we had a short chat. It's always good to meet the people you work with in real life. Hopefully we can make this happen for this SIG at some point in time. For the next days I plan to get the Player blocker things out of the way and package the current 2.1.1 stable release. So with the input of Jef I hope we can get this rolling real soon now. In September I'll be in South Africa meeting colleagues in Cape Town and then at the INSITE 2008 exhibition in Johannesburg (http://www.insitex.co.za/). I've been on the INSITE in 2006 and one of the interesting things they showed was the Freedom Toaster (http://www.freedomtoaster.org/). Open Source software has quite some impact there so if we would have a demo of that LiveCD by then... John, I'm really curious about your findings. Arindam, did you start looking into Gazebo packaging? Hedayat, just saw that the 3D server got approved, awesome! Congratulations again to your success in China! Jeff, did you look into that Geos 3 patch? So it's probably time for a new meeting and some wiki updates. What about next Wednesday, August 6th 2008 at 16:00 UTC? 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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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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