ACRA 2008
Event Details
Dec 2008
Canberra, Australia
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Individual application Organisation applicationACRA 2008
Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation 2008
Jonghyuk Kim & Robert Mahony (editors)
December 3 – 5, 2008
Canberra, Australia
ISBN 978-0-646-50643-2
Robotics Quiz Evening
Rob Mahony, David Prasser, Michael Jakuba,
Navid Nourani-Vatani and Mike Bosse
(Photograph by Jon Roberts)
All full papers submitted to ACRA 2008 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 2008 – 10th Anniversary of ACRA
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 2008 is highly relevant to current interests in international robotics research. ACRA has an Australasian robotics flavour, with an emphasis on field robotics, autonomous systems, and applications in the primary industries that continue to form the basis of the Australian and New Zealand economies in the 21st century. This year, 2008, marks the tenth anniversary of ACRA.
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 two committee members. The accepted papers were drawn from 64 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 2008, and to Canberra.
Jonghyuk Kim
Robert Mahony
ACRA Co-Chairs
Canberra, December 2008
on behalf of the Programme Committee.
Organisation
Sponsoring Organisations
Australian Robotics and Automation Association Inc.
ANU College of Engineering & Computer Science, Australian National University
Co-Chairs
Jonghyuk Kim, ANU
Robert Mahony, ANU
Programme Committee
| Ali Bab-Hadiashar Swinburne University |
Nick Barnes National ICT Austalia |
John Billingsly University of Southern Queensland |
Mike Bosse CSIRO |
| Glen Bright University of Natal |
Peter Corke CSIRO |
Gamini Dissanayake University of Technology Sydney |
Matthew Dunbabin CSIRO |
| Roy Featherstone Australian National University |
Lindsey Kleeman Monash University |
Tien-Fu Lu University of Adelaide |
Bruce MacDonald University of Auckland |
| 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 |
| Steve Scheding University of Sydney |
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 |
| Stefan Williams University of Sydney |
Gordon Wyeth University of Queensland |
Peter Xu Massey University |
Uwe R. Zimmer Australian National University |