ACRA 2009, Sydney, 2-4 December (Wed-Fri)

Draft Programme

The draft programme is now available here.

Call for Papers

PDF poster version of this CFP for you to print out and place on your notice board.

The 2009 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA 2009) will be held on 2-4 December 2009 in Sydney on the main campus of the University of Sydney. Since 1999, ACRA has brought together Australian and New Zealand researchers and students in the fields of robotics, automation and mechatronics providing a forum to present a breadth of research activities to the wider Australasian community. It has also provided participants the opportunity to network and interact professionally and socially.

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers in PDF format. Six to ten pages in the standard ACRA format (templates available below) are allowed for each paper including figures. ACRA 2009 will be a single tracked conference (no parallel sessions or posters).

Chair

Dr Steve Scheding
University of Sydney

Paper Chair

Thierry Peynot
University of Sydney

Sildomar Takahashi Monteiro
University of Sydney

Programme Committee

Ali Bab-Hadiashar Swinburne	Nick Barnes National ICT Austalia	John Billingsly University of Southern Queensland	Mike Bosse CSIRO
XiaoQi Chen University of Canterbury	Gamini Dissanayake University of Technology Sydney	Matthew Dunbabin CSIRO	Roy Featherstone Australian National University
Matthew Garratt Australian Defence Force Academy	Jonghyuk Kim Australian National University	Lindsey Kleeman Monash University	Sarath Kodagoda University of Technology Sydney
Dikai Liu University of Technology Sydney	Tien-Fu Lu University of Adelaide	Bruce MacDonald University of Auckland	Robert Mahony Australian National University
Karol Miller University of Western Australia	Reza Moheimani University of Newcastle	Eduardo Nebot University of Sydney	Maurice Pagnucco University of New South Wales
Himanshu Pota ADFA	Jonathan Roberts CSIRO	Andy Russell Monash University	Claude Sammut University of New South Wales
Bijan Shirinzadeh Monash University	David Stirling University of Wollongong	Karl Stol University of Auckland	Salah Sukkarieh University of Sydney
James Trevelyan University of Western Australia	Ljubo Vlacic Griffith University	Rodney Walker Queensland University of Technology	Wenhui Wang University of Canterbury
Stefan Williams University of Sydney	Gordon Wyeth University of Queensland	Peter Xu Massey University

Annual General Meeting

The 2009 AGM will be held just prior to lunch on Friday, 4 December during the conference.

Paper Submission and Format

Authors are invited to submit a full paper (PDF file format), which will be fully peer reviewed, to ACRA 2009 no later than the submission date below. The proceedings will be available on CD-ROM only, i.e. there will be no paper proceedings. Papers should be formatted as outlined in the style documents (see below) and should be of 6 to 10 pages in length. Please indicate in the email if the first author of the paper is a student and you would like it to be considered for the best student paper prize.

Style guidelines

All papers should be submitted in PDF format and should be prepared as detailed in the ACRA format instructions for authors document (PDF). The following templates have been prepared to make life easy:

LaTex template, LaTex2e template, paper style file and Bibtex style file.
Open Office/Star Office/MS-Word template (RTF).

Videos

ACRA will be accepting video clips as a standard accompaniment to the PDF papers. Please submit video clips in MPEG format. Please refer to your video clips as you would figures or tables, e.g. "...as the experiment demonstrated (see Video 1)". Keep the clips short and do not include too much irrelevant material. The idea is that each clip should show some particular result.

Paper and Video Submission

Please go to the online submission site to submit your papers.

If you wish to submit a video then please put it on your web site and include a url to the video in your paper so that the reviewers can see it.

Key Dates

Friday, 11 September	Full paper submission due (NEW EXTENSION DATE)
Monday 5 October	Notification of acceptance and invitation to submit CD-ready copy
Friday 6 November	Receipt of CD-ready copy
Wednesday 2 December	ACRA 2009 begins

Registration

Registration forms must be completed and returned to The University of Sydney by 19th November 2009. Payment should be included with all registrations. Advance registrations are strongly encouraged and space cannot be guaranteed for any registration not paid for by the cut off date.

Registration Fees

Status Fee (in AU$ incl GST)

Student (Note: proof of enrolment must be sent with payment) AU$350

Academic/Professional AU$500

Payment may be sent in the form of cheque or credit card (VISA, Mastercard, AMEX or Diners). Cheques must be in AUD and made payable to ACFR, The University of Sydney. The latest date for cheque payments is 19th November 2009.

What's Included

The registration fee includes admission to all technical sessions; a copy of the conference proceedings; lunch and two coffee breaks on each of the conference days; a BBQ dinner & drinks on 2nd December and dinner & drinks at a restaurant at Sydney Harbour on 3rd December.

Additional tickets are available for the dinner functions. Costs include dinner and drinks and the tickets are non-refundable. Space is available on a first-come first-served basis, and must be indicated on the registration form.

BBQ: 2nd December: AU$65
Dinner: 3rd December: AU$120

Cancellations and Refunds

Cancellations must be made to Ruth Olip by email at r.olip@acfr.usyd.edu.au or fax to +612 9351 7474. Cancellations made on or before 19th November are subject to an admin fee of AUD50. No refunds will be allowed for cancellations received after 19th November.

Please click here for a registration form.

2009 ACRA Accommodation Options

The University of Sydney Campus

Women's College (co-ed):

Bathroom facilities are usually shared but a limited number of rooms with an ensuite may be available at the time of booking
Student Rate Single: 3 nights including breakfast $146 - minimum 3 night stay
Standard Rate Single: 3 nights including breakfast $240 - minimum 3 night stay
Twin rooms may be available at time of booking
For booking form please click here

Sancta Sophia College:

Bathroom facilities are usually shared but a limited number of rooms with an ensuite may be available at the time of booking
Academic/postgrad rate Single: $60 per night including breakfast - minimum 2 night stay
Standard Rate: $70 per night including breakfast - minimum 2 night stay
Double or twin rooms may be available at time of booking.
For booking form please click here.

Hotel Accommodation near to The University of Sydney

For further information (including rates) on the hotels listed below please click here.

Please note: no blocks of rooms have been booked with the hotels and sometimes you may be able to get a better internet rate.

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Last updated 13 May, 2009.