ACRA 2007
Event Details
Dec 2007
Brisbane, Australia
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Individual application Organisation applicationACRA 2007
Matthew Dunbabin & Mandyam Srinivasan (editors)
December 10 – 12, 2007
Brisbane, Australia
ISBN 978-0-9587583-9-0
All full papers submitted to ACRA 2007 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 2007.
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 2007 is highly relevant to current interests in international robotics research, including hot topics such as localisation, navigation and human-robot interaction. ACRA 2007 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 50 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 62 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 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 2007, and to Brisbane.
Matthew Dunbabin
Mandyam Srinivasan
ACRA Co-Chairs
Brisbane, December 2007
on behalf of the Programme Committee.
Organisation
Sponsoring Organisations
Australian Robotics and Automation Association Inc.
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland
Autonomous Systems Laboratory, CSIRO ICT Centre
Co-Chairs
Mandyam Srinivasan
Programme Committee
John Billingsly University of Southern Queensland |
Glen Bright University of KwaZula-Natal |
Mike Bosse CSIRO |
Peter Corke CSIRO |
Gamini Dissanayake University of Technology Sydney |
Elliot Duff CSIRO |
Matthew Dunbabin CSIRO |
Werner Friedrich Industrial Research Ltd |
Ray Jarvis Monash University |
Waleed Kadous University of New South Wales |
Jonghyuk Kim Australian National University |
Bruce MacDonald University of Auckland |
Phillip McKerrow University of Wollongong |
Eduardo Nebot University of Sydney |
Maurice Pagnucco University of New South Wales |
Jonathan Roberts CSIRO |
Claude Sammut University of New South Wales |
Pavan Sikka CSIRO |
Mandyam Srinivasan University of Queensland |
Steven Scheding University of Sydney |
David Stirling University of Wollongong |
Karl Stol University of Auckland |
Salah Sukkarieh University of Sydney |
Ashley Tews CSIRO |
James Trevelyan University of Western Australia |
Kane Usher CSIRO |
Gordon Wyeth University of Queensland |