<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><br></div><div> Call for Papers: The 1st Int. Workshop on Robotic Sensor Networks </div><div> - part of CPSWEEK -</div><div>====================================================================</div><div><br></div><div> 14 April 2013</div><div> Berlin (Germany)</div><div> <a href="http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/faculty/kdantu/rsn14/">http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/faculty/kdantu/rsn14/</a></div><div> </div><div>Recent developments in sensing and actuation technology, along with</div><div>the miniaturization of computing and communication, have led to the</div><div>development of commodity robot technology such as hobby drones and</div><div>robot toolkits. These platforms are bringing sensing and actuation at</div><div>places where traditional technology does not reach; for example, for</div><div>aerial pollution monitoring or for disaster management in remote</div><div>areas.</div><div> </div><div>This novel class of cyber-physical systems (CPS) take many of the</div><div>design, implementation, and validation issues of traditional CPSs to</div><div>an extreme. Control, sensing, estimation, and algorithms for</div><div>localization, mapping, navigation, and exploration of individual</div><div>robots are needed to govern their movements. The timing aspects of</div><div>vehicle operation are key to provide run-time guarantees about</div><div>performance. The software design and implementation must lead to</div><div>provably correct execution. Noisy or inaccurate information sensed by</div><div>the robots must be properly handled to ensure an accurate</div><div>understanding of the environment.</div><div><br></div><div>Research efforts to address the issues above, while related, have</div><div>previously progressed independently with little cross-fertilization</div><div>across diverse disciplines such as robotics, real time systems, signal</div><div>processing, and software development. The goal of this workshop is to</div><div>create a platform where researchers from different communities can get</div><div>together to better understand the latest developments in these related</div><div>fields as well as to establish connections for future</div><div>interdisciplinary work. The workshop intends to provide a platform to</div><div>enable such cross fertilization, to ultimately speed up the</div><div>development of the field and to foster rich interdisciplinary work in</div><div>the future. Particularly, co-location with the Cyber-Physical Systems</div><div>week will be an asset in this regard. CPSWEEK is the premiere CPS</div><div>event that brings together five top conferences from complementary</div><div>areas such as Embedded Systems, Real-time Systems, Sensor Networks,</div><div>Hybrid Systems, and Networked Systems.</div><div><br></div><div>To build the needed interdisciplinary work ultimately necessary to the</div><div>development of the field, the workshop seeks technical contributions</div><div>describing original, previously unpublished results in all topics</div><div>related to the design of robotic sensor networks, including works</div><div>across two or more of the following topic areas:</div><div><br></div><div>* Low-power communication in robot networks</div><div>* Programming of robot swarms</div><div>* Sensing coverage using robotic swarms</div><div>* Task allocation</div><div>* Distributed sensing</div><div>* Coordination in robot swarms</div><div>* Verification and validation</div><div>* Distributed planning and navigation</div><div>* Novel applications</div><div>* Experience reports</div><div><br></div><div>Important dates:</div><div>Submission deadline: Feb 14, 2014. </div><div>Notifications : March 7, 2014.</div><div>Camera ready : March 15, 2014.</div><div>Workshop : Apr 14, 2014, at 2pm.</div><div><br></div><div>Workshop keynote: </div><div>Prof. Davide Scaramuzza from the University of Zurich, Robotics and </div><div>Perception Group, will give the opening keynote about “Vision-</div><div>Controlled Micro Aerial Vehicles: From Calm Navigation to Aggressive </div><div>Maneuvers”</div><div><br></div><div>Submission Guidelines: </div><div>We invite to submit short papers in PDF format, of at most 4 pages in</div><div>length including figures, tables, and references, in two-column</div><div>format, and using a minimum of 10-pt font. Suitable templates</div><div>are available at the workshop website.</div><div><br></div><div>Workshop Organizers:</div><div>Karthik Dantu, University at Buffalo, USA</div><div>Luca Mottola, Politecnico di Milano and SICS Swedish ICT</div><div>Pei Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA</div><div><br></div><div>Program Committee:</div><div>Filippo Arrichiello (UNICAS, Italy)</div><div>Peter Corke (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)</div><div>Marco Dorigo (Universite Libre Bruxelles, Belgium)</div><div>Andrea Gasparri (Universita degli Studi "Roma Tre", Italy)</div><div>Ramiro Martinez (University of Seville, Spain)</div><div>Anthony Rowe (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)</div><div>Michael Rubenstein (Harvard, USA)</div><div>Brian Sadler (ARL, USA)</div><div><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;">------------------------------<br>Pei Zhang<br>Associate Research Professor<div>Cylab & ECE & INI & SV<br>Carnegie Mellon University<br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; "><a href="http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~peizhang/">http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~peizhang/</a></span></font></div></span>
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