<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;">Please note: Due to a technical glitch in the submission system, we are extending the deadline to <b>Feb 21st 2014</b> 11:59:59 EST. <br><br><div>====================================================================<br></div><div>Call for Papers: The 1st Int. Workshop on Robotic Sensor Networks <br> - part of CPSWEEK -<br>====================================================================<br><br> 14 April 2014<br> Berlin (Germany)<br> <a href="http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/faculty/kdantu/rsn14/">http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/faculty/kdantu/rsn14/</a><br><br> -* Keynote information announced! *-<br> <br>Recent developments in sensing and actuation technology, along with<br>the miniaturization of computing and communication, have led to the<br>development of commodity robot technology such as hobby drones and<br>robot toolkits. These platforms are bringing sensing and actuation at<br>places where traditional technology does not reach; for example, for<br>aerial pollution monitoring or for disaster management in remote<br>areas.<br> <br>This novel class of cyber-physical systems (CPS) take many of the<br>design, implementation, and validation issues of traditional CPSs to<br>an extreme. Control, sensing, estimation, and algorithms for<br>localization, mapping, navigation, and exploration of individual<br>robots are needed to govern their movements. The timing aspects of<br>vehicle operation are key to provide run-time guarantees about<br>performance. The software design and implementation must lead to<br>provably correct execution. Noisy or inaccurate information sensed by<br>the robots must be properly handled to ensure an accurate<br>understanding of the environment.<br><br>Research efforts to address the issues above, while related, have<br>previously progressed independently with little cross-fertilization<br>across diverse disciplines such as robotics, real time systems, signal<br>processing, and software development. The goal of this workshop is to<br>create a platform where researchers from different communities can get<br>together to better understand the latest developments in these related<br>fields as well as to establish connections for future<br>interdisciplinary work. The workshop intends to provide a platform to<br>enable such cross fertilization, to ultimately speed up the<br>development of the field and to foster rich interdisciplinary work in<br>the future. Particularly, co-location with the Cyber-Physical Systems<br>week will be an asset in this regard. CPSWEEK is the premiere CPS<br>event that brings together five top conferences from complementary<br>areas such as Embedded Systems, Real-time Systems, Sensor Networks,<br>Hybrid Systems, and Networked Systems.<br><br>To build the needed interdisciplinary work ultimately necessary to the<br>development of the field, the workshop seeks technical contributions<br>describing original, previously unpublished results in all topics<br>related to the design of robotic sensor networks, including works<br>across two or more of the following topic areas:<br><br>* Low-power communication in robot networks<br>* Programming of robot swarms<br>* Sensing coverage using robotic swarms<br>* Task allocation<br>* Distributed sensing<br>* Coordination in robot swarms<br>* Verification and validation<br>* Distributed planning and navigation<br>* Novel applications<br>* Experience reports<br><br>Important dates:<br>Submission deadline: Feb 21, 2014. <br>Notifications : March 7, 2014.<br>Camera ready : March 15, 2014.<br>Workshop : Apr 14, 2014, at 2pm.<br><br>Workshop keynote: <br>Prof. Davide Scaramuzza from the University of Zurich, Robotics and <br>Perception Group, will give the opening keynote about “Vision-<br>Controlled Micro Aerial Vehicles: From Calm Navigation to Aggressive <br>Maneuvers”<br><br>Submission Guidelines: <br>We invite to submit short papers in PDF format, of at most 4 pages in<br>length including figures, tables, and references, in two-column<br>format, and using a minimum of 10-pt font. Suitable templates<br>are available at the workshop website.<br><br>Workshop Organizers:<br>Karthik Dantu, University at Buffalo, USA<br>Luca Mottola, Politecnico di Milano and SICS Swedish ICT<br>Pei Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA<br><br>Program Committee:<br>Filippo Arrichiello (UNICAS, Italy)<br>Peter Corke (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)<br>Marco Dorigo (Universite Libre Bruxelles, Belgium)<br>Andrea Gasparri (Universita degli Studi "Roma Tre", Italy)<br>Ramiro Martinez (University of Seville, Spain)<br>Anthony Rowe (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)<br>Michael Rubenstein (Harvard, USA)<br>Brian Sadler (ARL, USA)</div></body></html>