robotics September 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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Meeting Wednesday, Oct 1st 2008 16:00 UTC
by Tim Niemueller 23 Sep '08

23 Sep '08

Hi Robotics SIG. I'm back and catching up with things I didn't manage to do while away. What do you think about having a Robotics SIG meeting next week, on Wednesday Oct 1st at 16:00 UTC? We have several packages in Fedora now, and a few milestones are yet unreached, but we are getting closer. We should discuss how to focus on what's left to create a first LiveCD and we should discuss what features we want to specifically advertise. 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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Introduction & Phidgets
by Egon Kastelijn 12 Sep '08

12 Sep '08

Hello all, I recently joined your robotics-list. Let me introduce myself: I am Egon Kastelijn and I live in The Netherlands. I have been working on my personal robot for many years now, but I do not have any physical result yet. ;) This is mainly caused by the fact that my robot does not have a clear Mission yet, and that most of my time has gone into the Java brain that I am programming. (environment-modelling and path-planning) Some time ago I discovered Phidgets. http://www.phidgets.com/ Phidgets are easy to use USB devices (sensors-kits/motor-controllers/etc) that work very well under Linux. They can even be accessed using Java. The LGPL code that they provide compiles very well, but there are no RPMs (yet). So I decided to create them. I have a .spec file, and the rpmbuild produces a nice SRPM, i686 and x86_64 RPMs. (and debuginfo) My questions: * Is this (phidget hardware support) something that belongs within this SIG? And: I am planning on putting the RPMs in my own yum repository soon. * Is there a way that I can contribute to get this software in the Fedora distribution? kind regards, Egon Kastelijn

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by Hedayat Vatankhah 03 Sep '08

03 Sep '08

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Todays meeting postponed
by Tim Niemueller 03 Sep '08

03 Sep '08

Hi everbody. Since two out of four of the most active members can't make it today we should postpone our meeting. I'll be on tour for the next two weeks, so my preferred date is Wednesday, September 24th 2008, 16:00 UTC. Is that ok for everybody? If not please suggest another date/time. It doesn't have to be a Wednesday, we just did it on Wednesdays and they seem to fit for everybody. If you have to discuss stuff please use the mailing list or call people to the IRC server at any time. The meetings are just a focal point, not the only means of communication... We have several new members on this mailing list. Please don't hesistate to step forward and ask questions or propose topics that you would like to discuss or work on under the Fedora Robotics SIG umbrella! 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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What's going on?!!
by Hedayat Vatankhah 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

Hi all! What's going on here? It seems that everybody is really busy, but it's not nice to feel that this SIG is dead! About myself: I'm busy too :) But I hope to update the wiki soon!! Now, I've 3 approved packages(rcssserver3d, rcssbase and rcssmonitor) from which 2 of them are in Fedora repositories and another one is in the pending list of Fedora 8 and 9. Hopefully, I'll start to package the server package of 2D simulation soon. What about others? And when is the next meeting?! Good luck, Hedayat

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