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First Announcement and Call for Papers
IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles (IAV2007)
Toulouse, France, 3-5 September 2007
Background and Scope
This Symposium is the sixth of a series of IFAC-sponsored meetings in the field of Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles held on a triennial basis. The last two editions took place in Portugal (IAV2004) and Japan (IAV2001). The 6th IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles (IAV2007) will provide an excellent opportunity for the presentation and discussion of research and development work in the general area of intelligent autonomous vehicles. Researchers working on indoor, land, air, and marine robotics will be brought together to discuss common theoretical and practical problems, describe scientific and commercial applications, and explore avenues for future research.
Research Topics
- Architectures for intelligent autonomous systems;
- Navigation of autonomous vehicles (indoor, land, space, marine):
- modelling and control ;
- guidance, trajectory tracking and path following ;
- motion planning ;
- recognition, localization, visual tracking, map building, SLAM;
- Sensors, smart sensors and sensor integration in robotics;
- Mechanical design of mobile robots:
- redundant, flexible, modular, wheeled, legged robots,
- humanoids;
- Multiple Vehicle Systems and Networks of Autonomous Vehicles:
- cooperative navigation;
- control of homogeneous and heterogeneous teams ;
- cooperative control under communication bandwidth constraints ;
- cooperative perception
- architectures for teams of autonomous vehicles;
- Human and robot interaction;
- Applications of Autonomous Intelligent Vehicles:
- Intelligent transportation systems;
- Underwater robotics: marine biology and geology, ocean exploration robots.
- Aerial robotics : BLIMP, helicopters, UAVs, environmental monitoring, mapping and surveillance ;
- Space : spacecraft vehicles, planetary surface exploration ;
- Field robotics : search and rescue, agriculture, humanitarian demining ;
- Indoor robotics : entertainment, service robots, domestic robots, rehabilitation and biomedical robotics.
Call for papers
Paper submissions will be handled electronically. Papers will be reviewed by the international program committee : best papers will be selected and published in a special issue of the Robotics and Autonomous Systems journal.
ONLINE SUBMISSION OF PAPERS will be open on the symposium web site from October 15th 2006 to January 5th 2007.
The Program Committees also solicits proposals for invited sessions within the technical scope of the conference. The deadline for proposal of invited sessions is December 1st.
International Program Committee (IPC)
General chair : Michel Devy, Toulouse, France
Co-chair :
- Hajime Asama, University Tokyo, Japan
- Serge Boverie, Siemens VDO, Toulouse, France
- Miguel Salichs, University Madrid, Spain
Members :
- Jean-Marc Blosseville
- Philippe Bonnifait
- Alberto Broggi
- Samuel Bueno
- Wolfram Burgard
- Riccardo Cassinis
- Roland Chapuis
- Jorge Dias
- Rudiger Dillmann
- Gregory Dudek
- Patrick Fabiani
- Paolo Fiorini
- Gerard Gissinger
- John Gray
- Aarne Halme
- Samad Hayati
- Tony Healey
- Giovanni Indiveri
- Petros Ioannou
- Ray Jarvis
- Kostas Kryiakopoulos
- Rogelio Lozano
- Daniele Nardi
- Eduardo Nebot
- John Newman
- Klas Nordberg
- Anibal Ollero
- Michel Parent
- Antonio Pascoal
- Isabel Ribeiro
- Pere Ridao
- Vincent Rigaud
- Patrick Rives
- Jonathan Roberts
- José Santos-Victor
- Jurek Sasiadek
- Klaus Schilling
- Carla Seatzu
- Roland Siegwart
- Robert Sutton
- Juan Tardos
- Giovanni Ulivi
- Gurvinder Virk
- Shin'ichi Yuta
Location
Toulouse is a city of 650 000 inhabitants located in the South of France, capital of the Midi-Pyrénées region. It is located on the banks of the Garonne, close to the Pyrénées and halfway between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. It is well known for some remarkable monuments and some worldwide famous products and companies ( Concorde, Airbus, Spot, Aerospatiale, etc.) The warm glow of red bricks and tiles gives Toulouse its nickname, "La ville rose" (the rose red city). Toulouse is a major city in Europe for Aerospace industry with several important companies (Airbus, Astrium, Alcatel Space, CNES...). High tech companies, involved in the design of electronic devices for automotive industry have also important units in this city, especially Siemens VDO Automotive S.A and FreeScale. The symposium will take place downtown in the Conference Center Pierre Baudis. A wide range of hotels will be available near the conference site in the historical center of Toulouse.
Important dates (provisional)
- Papers submission: January 5, 2007
- Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2006
- Final paper submission: April 30, 2006
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