Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation 2016

5-7 December 2016, University of Queensland

 
Editors: Surya Singh, Hanna Kurniawati, Paul Pounds
ISBN: 978-0-9807404-7-9 ISSN: 1448-2053

Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation 2016

Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation 2016

December 5-7, 2016 at The University of Queensland

Session 1 — Keywords: Deformable Robot Strategy

Session 2 — Award Nominees

Session 3 — Keywords: Robot Use Energy

Session 4 — Keywords: Motion Effects

Session 5 — Keywords: Toward Using Magnetic

Session 6 — Keywords: Applications

Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation 2016

December 5-7, 2016 at The University of Queensland

Registration Desk:
8:00 am-11:00 am: Monday and Tuesday

Monday, 5 December 2016
09.00 – 09.30: Breakfast & Welcome
09.30 – 11.00: Session 1: Deformable Robot Strategy
11.00 – 11.30: Morning tea
11.30 – 12.30: Mechatronics/Robotics Teaching Forum
12.30 – 14.00: Lunch
14.00 – 15.30: Session 2: Award(s) Nominee Papers
15.30 – 16.00: Afternoon tea
16.00 – 17.30: Session 3: Robot Energy
18.00 – 20.00: Opening BBQ

Tuesday, 6 December 2016
09.00 – 09.30: Breakfast
09.30 – 11.00: Session 4: Motion Effects
11.00 – 11.30: Morning tea
11.30 – 12.30: Mechatronics/Robotics Research Forum
12.30 – 14.00: Lunch
14.00 – 15.30: Session 5: Toward Using Magnetic
15.30 – 16.00: Afternoon tea
16.00 – 17.00: Session 6: Applications
18.00 – 21.00: Banquet (including AGM)

Wednesday, 7 December 2016
09.00 – 12.00: Tours (Pepsico signup (limited space))
12.00 – 14.00: Lunch
13:30 – 14:00: (Student Expo Setup)
14.00 – 17.00: Student Expo (Show & Tell Workshop, Open to the Public)

Session 1: Deformable Robot Strategy
Chair: Hanna Kurniawati

Mechatronics/Robotics Teaching Forum

• Denny Oetomo (Melbourne)
• Francis Valentinis (Engineers Aus. NP Mecha [Skype])
• Michael Milford (QUT)
• Surya Singh (UQ)

Session 2: Award(s) Nominee Papers
Chair: Mandyam Srinivasan

Session 3: Robot Use Energy
Chair: Mark Whitty

Session 4: Motion Effects
Chair: Denny Oetomo

Mechatronics/Robotics Research Forum

• TBA
• Bruce MacDonald (U Auckland)
• Mandyam Srinivasan (UQ)
• Stefan Williams (U.Sydney)

Session 5: Toward Using Magnetic
Chair: Paul Pounds

Session 6: Applications
Chair: Surya Singh

Wednesday Tours:

• Pepsi Co (Smith’s Chips — Space Limited [8] — Please signup early!)
  — 10:30-12:00 (Tingalpa)
  — Please complete sign-up form
• UQ Robotics Labs
• ACRV/QUT Robotics Labs

Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation 2016

December 5-7, 2016 at The University of Queensland

ACRA 2016 is hosted in sunny Brisbane, at The University of Queensland (St. Lucia, Brisbane).  If coming from the airport, aim for “UQ Lakes Station” (please see note below)

Sessions

Sessions will be held at in the Advanced Engineering Building (AEB) Room 49-200.
Registration and tea/coffee break will utilise the foyer area outside of the theatre.
(detailed in the ACRA AEB Floorplan/Map).

Map

The AEB, local accommodation and public transport are show below.
(Source: Google Maps).

(Also available as a printable PDF Map)

Accommodation

• Womens College (~150 meters from AEB)
  (Note: Guest Rooms are co-ed at this college)
  Location: UQ Campus, College Road, St Lucia 4067
  Website: http://womens.uq.edu.au/
  Phone:  (07) 3377-4500
  Rooms Types:
  (1)  Single Rooms with shared Ensuite (shared with room next door) @ $90 per night including breakfast
  (2)  Single Rooms with their own Ensuite @ $95 per night including breakfast
  (3)  Fully Self Contained Apartments with King Size bedroom, ensuite, kitchen, lounge, dining and study area @ $110 per night single use or $155.00 twin share including breakfast in the college dining hallBooking: To make a booking:  Please download the booking form
  (PDF  or RTF format) and return to Anne Kuskopf (a.kuskopf@womens.uq.edu.au)
• St. Leo’s College  (~300 meters from AEB)
  Location: UQ Campus, College Road, St Lucia 4067
  Website: http://www.stleos.uq.edu.au/
  Phone: (07) 3878-0600 (then press 3)
  Rooms Types:
  (1)  Shared ensuited room – single (@ $100 per night)
  (2)  Ensuited room – 1 person (@ $120 per night)
  (3)  Ensuited room – 2 people (@ $165 per night)
  Booking: To make a booking please complete the St Leo college booking form (PDF or DOC)
  and then mail to Jocelyn Forsyth (stay@stleos.uq.edu.au).

Parking

The closest parking is the Conifer Knoll.  This is $5/day.  Though, registration includes a 3-Day Go Card.  🙂

Getting to ACRA from BNE Airport

• Uber: The fastest way to get from BNE to the UQ campus.  About 30-40 min and will cost about $50
• Public transport: Aim for UQ Lakes station.  The procedure is to take the Gold Coast airport train to Park Road station –then–> transfer to a bus towards UQ (tip: this means crossing the busway, most buses will terminate at UQ Lakes, just ask to be certain).  This 50-60 minutes and will cost about $25.
  (See sample route/schedule here).

Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation 2016

December 5-7, 2016 at The University of Queensland

Please register easily online via the ACRA 2016 Eventbright Registration site

Please note that:

• Early Bird Registration: to be paid by 18 November 2016
• Student Registration: Students must be able to provide evidence of full time enrolment in a recognised educational institution on request
• Registration is mandatory for all conference attendees
• “No-shows” or papers accepted but not presented will not be included in the proceedings.
• Both Full and Student Registrations entitle a participant to present a maximum of 2 papers.
• Both Full and Student Registrations include conference attendance and the associated tea/coffee breaks / social gathering, and the conference banquet.
• Student Workshop is run in collaboration with Brisbane Robotics.
  Workshop registration in only valid December 7, 2016 afternoon.

Student Travel Grants

This year ARAA & Marathon Robotics will award two “Marathon Robotics Student Travel Awards” worth $500 + free student registration ($350).  Undergraduate and postgraduate students are welcome to apply.

Application is by sending: an email to ACRA 2016, with subject line: “Application to ACRA 2016 Student Travel Grant”.

1. State in the email:
   • Your name
   • Institution and current study program
   • The paper ID that you authored (if applicable)
   • Brief description of your research / interest in Robotics
2. Please include a letter of support from an academic supervisor.

Application will be open from the November 8  (after the notification of paper acceptance)
and due before the Friday, December 2.

Results of the travel grant will be announced at the conference banquet.

Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation 2016

December 5-7, 2016 at The University of Queensland

Email:

Please contact us via the general ACRA Committee Inbox:

Additional Contacts:

• General Chair: Surya Singh
  (email: spns@uq.edu.au | phone: (07) 3365 8328)
• Program Chairs:
  • Hanna Kurniawati
  • Paul Pounds

Mailing Address:

ACRA 2016
C/O Surya Singh, Building 78 (GP South)
School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
The University of Queensland
Brisbane, QLD 4072
AUSTRALIA

Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation 2016

December 5-7, 2016 at The University of Queensland

IMPORTANT NOTE: This year’s ACRA will be double-blind. Therefore, for review purposes, please remove your name and affiliation from the paper.

Double-Blind Paper Submission:
(Extended to September 21, 2016 at 11:59 pm AEST)
Please submit a paper via https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/acra/

Paper Format:
ACRA papers are six to ten pages in length. This year paper review will be double-blind. Therefore, please remove all name and affiliation information from the paper.  This includes the body text, references, figures and acknowledgements.  Papers that do not follow the guidelines may be rejected without review.

All papers must conform to ACRA’s paper templates. Detailed instructions for format requirements are contained within the templates. Prospective authors should kindly submit their papers electronically in PDF format.

You may want to take a look at our past best papers for exemplars. For example, the ACRA 2014 best paper: Exploiting Parallax in Panoramic Capture to Construct Light Fields by Donald Dansereau, David Wood, Sebastian Montabone and Stefan Williams.

Also, an example of an anonymous submission is the Hand Waving Away Scale submission.  Unlike the final (proceedings) version, author names, affiliations and acknowledgements have been removed.

Paper Templates:

• L^aT_eX: style file: acra.sty, template: acra.tex, bibtex: named.bst
• Microsoft Word | Star/OpenOffice: template: acra.rtf or acra.odt.

Presentation Format:
Each presentation is 15 minutes in length (12 minutes for presentation and 3 minutes for Q&A).  Acceptance of all work at the conference is based on the quality of the submitted paper. Attendance of a presenter at the conference is required for accepted papers to appear in the proceedings.

Thank you kindly for your interest and submission(s)!  🙂

ISBN: 978-0-9807404-8-6 ISSN: 1448-2053

Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation 2016

December 5-7, 2016 at The University of Queensland

GOLD Sponsoring Organisation:

• Marathon Robotics
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Silver Sponsoring Organisations:

• 
• Tribotix
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• 
• Mathworks
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• 
• ACRV (The Australian Centre for Robotic Vision)
• .
• 
• Blue Ocean Robotics

 Bronze Sponsoring Organisation:

• 
• OpenPlatypus.org

Hosted by:

• 
• The Robotics Design Lab
  in  The Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology (EAIT)
  at The University of Queensland (UQ)

  .
  and.

• 
• The Australian Robotics and Automation Association

General Chair:

Surya Singh
The Robotics Design Lab (UQ)

Program Chairs:

Hanna Kurniawati and Paul Pounds
The Robotics Design Lab (UQ)

Programme Committee:

Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation 2016

December 5-7, 2016 at The University of Queensland

ISBN: 978-0-9807404-7-9 ISSN: 1448-2053

The 2016 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA2016) was held on 5-7 December 2016 in Brisbane, Australia at the St. Lucia campus of The University of Queensland and was hosted by The Robotics Design Lab of the Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology.

Call for Papers:

Please note, this year’s ACRA will be double-blind. Therefore, for review purposes, please remove name(s) and affiliation(s) from the paper. Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers in PDF of six  (6) to ten (10) pages in the standard ACRA format.  ACRA 2016 is a single-track, double-blind conference.

All full papers submitted to ACRA 2016 will undergo a peer-review process. Each manuscript will be reviewed by at least two reviewers who will give detailed comments. If the submission is accepted, the authors will submit a revised (“camera-ready”) version that takes into account this feedback. The review process is managed by the program chair of the conference.

ACRA 2016 Call for Papers (PDF)

Important Dates:

Student Grants & Volunteers:

ACRA  2016 Offers Multiple Opportunities for students to engage with the robotics community!

• Student Travel Grants
• Student Volunteer Opportunities
• Student Expo  (Open to Public)

About ACRA:

Since 1999, ACRA has brought together Australian and New Zealand researchers and students in the fields of robotics, automation and mechatronics. It provides a forum to present a breadth of research activities to the wider Australasian community. ACRA is a quality, peer-reviewed conference, and is featured in Scopus, Google Scholar and other ranking engines.