Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation 2016

5-7 December 2016, University of Queensland

Editors: Surya Singh, Hanna Kurniawati, Paul Pounds
ISBN: 978-0-9807404-7-9 ISSN: 1448-2053

Program

Registration Desk:
8:00 am-11:00 am: Monday and Tuesday

Monday, 5 December 2016
09.00 – 09.30: Breakfast & Welcome
09.30 – 11.00: Session 1: Deformable Robot Strategy
11.00 – 11.30: Morning tea
11.30 – 12.30: Mechatronics/Robotics Teaching Forum
12.30 – 14.00: Lunch
14.00 – 15.30: Session 2: Award(s) Nominee Papers
15.30 – 16.00: Afternoon tea
16.00 – 17.30: Session 3: Robot Energy
18.00 – 20.00: Opening BBQ

Tuesday, 6 December 2016
09.00 – 09.30: Breakfast
09.30 – 11.00: Session 4: Motion Effects
11.00 – 11.30: Morning tea
11.30 – 12.30: Mechatronics/Robotics Research Forum
12.30 – 14.00: Lunch
14.00 – 15.30: Session 5: Toward Using Magnetic
15.30 – 16.00: Afternoon tea
16.00 – 17.00: Session 6: Applications
18.00 – 21.00: Banquet (including AGM)

Wednesday, 7 December 2016
09.00 – 12.00: Tours (Pepsico signup (limited space))
12.00 – 14.00: Lunch
13:30 – 14:00: (Student Expo Setup)
14.00 – 17.00: Student Expo (Show & Tell Workshop, Open to the Public)

Index of Authors

Venue

ACRA 2016 is hosted in sunny Brisbane, at The University of Queensland (St. Lucia, Brisbane).  If coming from the airport, aim for “UQ Lakes Station” (please see note below)

Sessions

Sessions will be held at in the Advanced Engineering Building (AEB) Room 49-200.
Registration and tea/coffee break will utilise the foyer area outside of the theatre.
(detailed in the ACRA AEB Floorplan/Map).

Map

The AEB, local accommodation and public transport are show below.
(Source: Google Maps).

(Also available as a printable PDF Map)

Accommodation

• Womens College (~150 meters from AEB)
  (Note: Guest Rooms are co-ed at this college)
  Location: UQ Campus, College Road, St Lucia 4067
  Website: http://womens.uq.edu.au/
  Phone:  (07) 3377-4500
  Rooms Types:
  (1)  Single Rooms with shared Ensuite (shared with room next door) @ $90 per night including breakfast
  (2)  Single Rooms with their own Ensuite @ $95 per night including breakfast
  (3)  Fully Self Contained Apartments with King Size bedroom, ensuite, kitchen, lounge, dining and study area @ $110 per night single use or $155.00 twin share including breakfast in the college dining hallBooking: To make a booking:  Please download the booking form
  (PDF  or RTF format) and return to Anne Kuskopf (a.kuskopf@womens.uq.edu.au)
• St. Leo’s College  (~300 meters from AEB)
  Location: UQ Campus, College Road, St Lucia 4067
  Website: http://www.stleos.uq.edu.au/
  Phone: (07) 3878-0600 (then press 3)
  Rooms Types:
  (1)  Shared ensuited room – single (@ $100 per night)
  (2)  Ensuited room – 1 person (@ $120 per night)
  (3)  Ensuited room – 2 people (@ $165 per night)
  Booking: To make a booking please complete the St Leo college booking form (PDF or DOC)
  and then mail to Jocelyn Forsyth (stay@stleos.uq.edu.au).

Parking

The closest parking is the Conifer Knoll.  This is $5/day.  Though, registration includes a 3-Day Go Card.  🙂

Getting to ACRA from BNE Airport

• Uber: The fastest way to get from BNE to the UQ campus.  About 30-40 min and will cost about $50
• Public transport: Aim for UQ Lakes station.  The procedure is to take the Gold Coast airport train to Park Road station –then–> transfer to a bus towards UQ (tip: this means crossing the busway, most buses will terminate at UQ Lakes, just ask to be certain).  This 50-60 minutes and will cost about $25.
  (See sample route/schedule here).

Students

Student Volunteers & Grants:

ACRA 2016 Offers Multiple Opportunities for students to engage with the robotics community!

• Student Volunteer Opportunities
• Student Travel Grants

Student Expo:

• Student Expo (Open to Public)

Wednesday Tours:

• Pepsi Co (Smith’s Chips)
  — 10:30-12:00
  — Please complete sign-up form
• UQ Robotics Labs
• ACRV/QUT Robotics Labs

Organisation

GOLD Sponsoring Organisation:

http://marathon-robotics.com/

Silver Sponsoring Organisations:

Tribotix is an ACRA 2016 Sponsor!
http://www.tribotix.com/

Mathworks is an ACRA 2016 Sponsor!
http://mathworks.com.au/robotics

ACRV is an ACRA 2016 sponsor!
https://www.roboticvision.org/

Blue Ocean is an ACRA 2016 Sponsor!
https://www.blue-ocean-robotics.com/en

 Bronze Sponsoring Organisation:

Platypus – Question-based peer review
http://openplatypus.org/

Hosted by:

http://robotics.itee.uq.edu.au/dokuwiki/start

The Robotics Design Lab
in  The Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology (EAIT)

at The University of Queensland (UQ)

https://www.eait.uq.edu.au/

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The Australian Robotics and Automation Association

General Chair:

Surya Singh
The Robotics Design Lab (UQ)

Program Chairs:

Hanna Kurniawati and Paul Pounds
The Robotics Design Lab (UQ)

Programme Committee: