ACRA 2019
Event Details
Dec 2019
The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia
Event Links
Joining ARAA
Membership of the Association is available to interested organisations and individuals. Use our membership application form to join. ARAA’s organisational members include leading robot suppliers, users and consultants.
Individual application Organisation applicationACRA 2019
Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation 2019
This event is jointly organised by the Australian Robotics and Automation Association (ARAA) and the School of Mechanical Engineering’s Robotics Research Group at the University of Adelaide. The conference is hosted by The University of Adelaide.
Steven Grainger (General Chair)
David Harvey (Program Chair)
Event details:
9-11 December, 2019
The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia
For event details and registration, TBA
Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea will be provided, as will the informal dinner on the evening of the 9th December and conference banquet on the evening of the 10th December.
Registration costs
Early bird – register by 11th November 2019
Early bird – register by 18th November 2019
General admission $550
Student admission $380
Regular – register by 29th November 2019
General admission $600
Student admission $400
Key dates
Firm Paper Submission Deadline: 23rd September 2019
EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 2nd October 2019Notification of Acceptance: 28th October 2019
Notification of Acceptance: 1st November 2019
Final Manuscript Deadline: 15th November 2019
Submission of papers
All full papers submitted to ACRA 2019 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 be required to submit a revised (“camera-ready”) version that takes into account this feedback.
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.
ACRA is indexed in Scopus.
Conference Awards
Student travel awards:
“Rectangular-shaped object recognition and pose estimation”
Thanh Vu, Liyang Liu, Gavin Paul, Teresa Vidal-Calleja (University of Technology, Sydney)
“Crack Detection Using Enhanced Hierarchical Convolutional Neural Networks”
Qiuchen Zhu, Manh Duong Phung, Quang Ha (University of Technology, Sydney)
Best paper award:
“Crack Detection Using Enhanced Hierarchical Convolutional Neural Networks”
Qiuchen Zhu, Manh Duong Phung, Quang Ha (University of Technology, Sydney)
Submissions
Key dates
Firm Paper Submission Deadline: 23rd September 2019
EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 2nd October 2019
Notification of Acceptance: 28th October 2019
Final Manuscript Deadline: 11th November 2019
Please note: in 2019 there is no ICRA dual submissions process – separate submissions only.
Paper Format:
ACRA papers must be 6-10 pages in length (including text, references, figures and acknowledgements). Papers that do not follow these guidelines may be rejected without review.
Use this example paper as a guide, Exploiting Parallax in Panoramic Capture to Construct Light Fields by Donald Dansereau, David Wood, Sebastian Montabone and Stefan Williams (ACRA 2014).
Paper Templates:
LaTeX: style file: acra.sty, template: acra.tex, bibtex: named.bst
Microsoft Word | Star/OpenOffice: template: acra.rtf or acra.odt.
Presentation Format:
15 min in total (12 min presentation; 3 min question time).
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.
Programme
Detail
Available at this link – Includes details of the papers in each session, including links to abstracts.
Outline
Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation 2019
December 9-11 at The University of Adelaide
All sessions will be held in the Napier building room G03, with breaks to be held in the Napier building foyer unless otherwise indicated.
Monday 9th of December
8.30am – 9.30am | Registration and coffee |
9.30am – 9.45am | Opening and welcome |
9.45am – 10.50am | Session 1 – Machine Vision (Chair: Alen Alempijevic) |
10.50am – 11.25am | Morning Tea |
11.25am – 12.30pm | Session 2 – Manipulators A (Chair: Surya Singh) |
12.30pm – 1.30pm | Lunch |
1.30pm – 2.50pm | Session 3 – Manipulators B (Chair: Rini Akmeliawati) |
2.50pm – 3.30pm | Afternoon Tea |
3.30pm – 4.35pm | Session 4 – Award Nominees (Chair: Hanna Kurniawati) |
5.30pm – 8.30pm | Opening night BBQ (to be held at the Walter Young Gardens, near the Lower Napier building) |
Tuesday 10th of December
8.30am – 9.30am | Registration and coffee |
9.30am – 10.50am | Session 5 – Navigation (Chair: Teresa Vidal Calleja) |
10.50am – 11.25am | Morning Tea |
11.25am – 12.30pm | Session 6 – Human Machine Interfaces (Chair: Jonathan Roberts) |
12.30pm – 1.30pm | Lunch |
1.30pm – 2.50pm | Session 7 – Artificial Intelligence and Biomimetics (Chair: Will Browne) |
2.50pm – 3.30pm | Afternoon Tea |
3.30pm – 4.35pm | Session 8 – Industrial Robotics and Automation (Chair: Lei Chen) |
6.15pm – 10.15pm | Conference Banquet (including AGM and awards, to be held at the Adelaide Convention Centre) |
Wednesday 11th of December
8.30am – 9.45am | Registration and coffee |
9.45am – 10.50am | Session 9 – Autonomous Vehicles (Chair: David Harvey) |
10.50am – 11.25am | Morning Tea |
11.25am – 12.15pm | Session 10 – Sensors, Actuators, Networks & Systems (Chair: Tien-Fu Lu) |
12.30pm – 1.30pm | Lunch and close |
Venue
Best directions to venue
The conference will be held on the University of Adelaide’s North Terrace Campus, just metres from the CBD.
The conference registration, teas, lunches and presentations will be on the ground floor of the Napier Building.
ACRA conference
The conference starts around 9:30am each day, with registration open from 8:30am.
As part of the conference package, all ACRA conference participants receive beverages upon arrival, morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea and dinners.
Accommodation
Organisation
General Chair:
Steven Grainger
The University of Adelaide
Program Chair:
David Harvey
The University of Adelaide
Program Committee:
Rini Akmeliawati | Alen Alempijevic | Fernando Auat Cheein | Will Browne |
Mitch Bryson | Marc Carmichael | Ben S. Cazzolato | Lei Chen |
Matthew Dunbabin | Jaco Fourie | Paul Grimshaw | Jose Guivant |
Mahdi Hassan | Jay Katupitiya | Lindsay Kleeman | Sarath Kodagoda |
Hanna Kurniawati | Patrick Lim | Tien-Fu Lu | Wen Lik D. Lui |
Robert Mahony | Michael Milford | Denny Oetomo | Gavin Paul |
Pauline Pounds | Jonathan Roberts | William S. P. Robertson | Surya P. Singh |
Mandyam Srinivasan | Jaime Valls Miro | Teresa Vidal-Calleja | Chow Yin Lai |
Chanyeol Yoo |
Proceedings
ISBN: 978-0-9587583-0-7 ISSN: 1448-2053
Conference proceedings, are available here – contains links to papers (PDF) and associated videos.