ACRA 1999
Event Details
Mar 1999
Brisbane, Australia
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Australian Conference on Robotics and Automation 1999
Gordon Wyeth & Jonathan Roberts (Conference Chairs)
March 20 – April 1, 1999
Brisbane, Australia
ISBN 0 9587583 3 6
All full papers submitted to ACRA 1999 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.
All papers are reviewed using a single-blind review process: authors declare their names and affiliations in the manuscript for the reviewers to see, but reviewers do not know each other’s identities, nor do the authors receive information about who has reviewed their manuscript.
Welcome to ACRA 1999
The 1999 Australian Conference on Robotics and Automation is an inclusive venue for the discussion and promulgation of issues in robotics and automation that are relevant to research and application in Australia. This conference, the seventh national conference to be organised by the Australian Robotics & Automation Association (ARAA), plays an important role in the cultivation of local research culture. Young new researchers value the opportunity to present their work to a sympathetic but critical audience before being thrown into the international arena. It is an excellent venue for research students to see the wider aspects of robotics and automation in Australia and to learn from established researchers. Established researchers are able to maintain the national contacts that enable cross-institutional collaboration, and guide the development of Australian robotics and automation research.
It must be recognised that this conference is competing with a crowded market of international conferences that operate with similar programme guidelines. Despite this, the conference has attracted many high quality papers forcing the organisers to reject some papers due to time constraints. The number and quality of student papers speaks well or the future of robotics in Australia.
Given the quality of the response to this conference, and the benefits to Australian robotics and automation research, the organisers feel that the Australian Conference on Robotics and Automation should become an annual event.
Gordon Wyeth & Jonathan Roberts
ACRA Co-Chairs
Brisbane, March 1999
on behalf of the Programme Committee.
Sponsoring Organisations
Australian Robotics and Automation Association Inc.
CSIRO Manufacturing Science & Technolog
The University of Queensland
Queensland Centre for Advanced Technologies
Griffith University
Co-Chairs
Jonathan Roberts
Gordon Wyeth
Programme Committee
| John Billingsly University of Southern Queensland |
Thomas Braeunl The University of Western Australia |
Chris Cook The University of Wollongong |
| Peter Corke CSIRO |
Saman Halgamuge The University of Melbourne |
Ray Jarvis Monash University |
| Fazel Naghdy The Universty of Wollongong |
Eduardo Nebot The University of Sydney |
Andy Russel Monash University |
| Ljubisa Vlacic Griffith University |
Richard Willgoss The University of New South Wales |
Graeme Winstanley CSIRO |
| Alex Zilensky The Australian National University |