Special Session on
Intelligent Robotics
at
The 2nd Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(IICAI-05)
December 20-22 2005, Pune, India
A Special Session on Intelligent Robotics will be held during the 2nd Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-05). The session focuses on all areas related to Intelligent Robotics.
The advent of agents on the web has unleashed a plethora
of both intelligent and mundane applications. While the concept of embedding
intelligence into soft bots has been tackled to a great deal, applying
them to the world of real robots still remains a far cry. Processing a
string of characters in the soft world to mimic intelligence has always
been a relatively easy task when compared to dealing with a similar problem
in the real physical world of robotic agents. The field of robotics remains
the ultimate test bed for assessing real world real time intelligence.
In recent years there has been a definite paradigm shift in the manner
in which intelligence is embedded into robots. The age-old hierarchical
control strategies are now being replaced by novel hybrid techniques inspired
by nature's own simple and complex behaviors. Behavior based robotics
assimilates a set of naïve behaviors exhibited by animals to culminate
in complex learning mechanisms.
Artificial Immune Systems, yet another less treaded emerging field, use
the principles of the biological immune theory to arbitrate robot behavior.
Interaction with bots - both soft and hard ones - is another hot and challenging
area. Apart from merely deploying such agents, issues into providing interfaces
to communicate with them are of vital importance in the realization of
the much sought after concept of human-robot communities. In addition
to the hardware and software aspects, it entails both speech and natural
language processing. Extending such interfaces to cater to the physically
challenged will greatly help enhance their lives and facilitate greater
flexibility in the use of such agents.
The topics covered by the session include but certainly not limited to:
Robotics:
Adaptive and Robust Mechanisms of Control
Artificial Immune Systems
Autonomous Navigation
Behaviour Based Bio-inspired Robotic Systems
Game Playing Robots
Multi-sensor Fusion
Multi-robot Systems
Networked Robots
Novel Learning Methodologies
Path and Trajectory Planning
Real-time Reactivity
Real-world Applications of Robots
Robot Colonies and Swarm Intelligence
Tele-robotics
Human-Computer (robot) Interface
Intelligent Rooms and Buildings
Natural Language Processing (including Speech and gesture recognition and generation systems)
Robotic Interfaces for the Physically Challenged
The session will give priority to papers that describe work carried out using real robots. Authors are encouraged to include video material of experimental systems in their presentations.
Paper Submission and
Publication:
Prospective authors may send
electronic (PDF, PS, or MS-Word) versions of
their papers in the above (or closely related)
areas to iicai@iitg.ernet.in
& iicai@sify.com
with "IICAI-IR" as the Subject in
the email. Authors should use the style files
or MS-Word templates as provided by the Springer
Lecture Notes to format their papers. The
paper should not exceed 20 pages. Short
papers may also be considered. The first page
of the paper should contain: Title, Name(s)
of Authors, affiliations, postal and email addresses
along with at least 3 keywords appropriate to
the content. Authors should mention in their
email whether they would be presenting any video
material on their work. For further queries
on the formats for submission, registration,
etc. please contact the Conference
Chair or access the Conference
website.
Each paper will be peer reviewed by at least two experts in the topical area. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under the title of the session.
Deadlines:
| Last dtae for submission
of papers (Electronically/by Post) |
June 1st 2005 |
| Notification of acceptance | 15th July 2005 |
| Camera ready copies of accepted papers due on | August 15th, 2005 |
Electronic submissions are encouraged. Authors not in a position to do so may send four copies of their paper by post to either the Session Chair or the Session Coordinator.
Session
Chair |
Session
Coordinator |
Dr.
Shivashankar B. Nair |
|
Department
of Computer Science & Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati Guwahati - 781039 Assam, INDIA |
|
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