ACRA 2006
Event Details
Dec 2006
Auckland, New Zealand
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Individual application Organisation applicationACRA 2006
Australasian Conference on Robotics & Automation
Bruce MacDonald (ed)
December 6 – 8, 2006
Auckland, New Zealand
ISBN 978-0-9587583-8-3
Photograph by Navid Nourani-Vatani
All full papers submitted to ACRA 2006 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 2006
ACRA, the Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, is the annual conference for the Australian Robotics and Automation Association, and Australia and New Zealand’s leading forum for work in all areas of robotics and automation. ACRA attracts researchers and practitioners from around Australia and New Zealand, and an increasing number of roboticists from overseas. The work presented at ACRA 2006 is highly relevant to current interests in international robotics research, including hot topics such as localisation, navigation and human-robot interaction. ACRA 2006 also has a definite Australasian robotics flavour, with an emphasis on outdoor robotics and applications in the primary industries that continue to form the basis of the Australian and New Zealand economies in the 21st century.
We have endeavoured to ensure a balanced programme: maintaining a high standard of quality, while being inclusive of the up and coming students and junior researchers in the Australasian robotics community. The Programme Committee accepted 44 full papers for presentation and publication after a review process in which full manuscripts were reviewed by at least three committee members. The accepted papers were drawn from 50 papers submitted in total. In keeping with recent trends, the primary medium for the proceedings is CD-ROM, and we will be maintaining the proceedings online at the ARAA website. In addition to the technical paper programme, the programme includes a number of interesting live robotics demonstrations, the Annual General Meeting for the ARAA, and plenty of social opportunities for Australasian and international robotics researchers to network and develop cross-institutional links.
We hope you enjoy your time at the conference and that you come away knowing a little bit more, having met and discussed robotics issues with a colleague, having attended a paper session, or having had a quite technical debate over dinner. To all, we warmly welcome you to ACRA 2006, and to Auckland.
Bruce MacDonald
ACRA Chair
Auckland, December 2006
on behalf of the Programme Committee.
Organisation
Sponsoring Organisations
Australian Robotics and Automation Association Inc.
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Auckland
Chair
Bruce MacDonald
Programme Committee
| Nick Barnes National ICT Austalia |
John Billingsly University of Southern Queensland |
Glen Bright Massey University |
| Gamini Dissanayake University of Technology Sydney |
Matthew Dunbabin CSIRO |
Werner Friedrich Industrial Research Ltd |
| Ray Jarvis Monash University |
Waleed Kadous University of New South Wales |
Andrew Lintott Industrial Research Ltd |
| Bruce MacDonald University of Auckland |
Robert Mahony Australian National University |
Phillip McKerrow University of Wollongong |
| Chris Messom Massey University |
Jaime Valls Miro University of Technology Sydney |
Eduardo Nebot University of Sydney |
| Maurice Pagnucco University of New South Wales |
Peter Ridley Queensland University of Technology |
Jonathan Roberts CSIRO |
| Andy Russell Monash University |
Claude Sammut University of New South Wales |
Pavan Sikka CSIRO |
| David Stirling University of Wollongong |
Karl Stol University of Auckland |
Salah Sukkarieh University of Sydney |
| James Trevelyan University of Western Australia |
Koren Ward University of Wollongong |
Stefan Williams University of Sydney |
| Gordon Wyeth University of Queensland |
Albert Yeap Auckland University of Technology |