Third International Workshop on
Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics
March 5-7, 1998
Rice University, Houston, Texas
Organized by:
Pankaj K. Agarwal, pankaj@cs.duke.edu
Lydia Kavraki, kavraki@cs.rice.edu
Matt Mason, matt_mason@cs.cmu.edu
Posted 5/22/97
Scope
Algorithms play a fundamental role in many aspects of robotics. WAFR aims at bringing
together a group of about sixty researchers to discuss recent trends and important future
directions of research on the algorithmic foundations of robotics. The format of the workshop
consists of seven talks by key researchers in the field and about 20 contributed
presentations in a single track. Topics to be covered include but are not limited to:
- Holonomic motion planning
- Nonholonomic motion planning
- Sensor based planning
- Task level planning
- Controllability & planning
- Grasping & fixturing
- Manipulation
- Assembly planning
- Physically based simulation and animation
Submissions
Authors are invited to submit 4 copies of a full paper by
December 1, 1997 to:
Pankaj K. Agarwal
Department of Computer Science
D207, LSRC Building
Durham, NC 27706, USA
Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by January 15, 1998.
Camera-ready copies of the accepted papers are required by February 15, 1998.
These will be printed and distributed to the workshop participants. A selected
subset of the papers will be published as a book after the workshop.
Chairing Committee
Pankaj K. Agarwal, Duke
Lydia Kavraki, Rice
Matt Mason, Carnegie Mellon
Invited Speakers include:
John Craig, Adept
Bruce Donald, Dartmouth
Herbert Edelsbrunner, UIUC
Leo Guibas, Stanford
Richard Murray, Caltech
Jocelyne Troccaz, Grenoble
Joe Warren, Rice
Program Committee
Pankaj K. Agarwal, Duke
Jean-Daniel Boissonnat, INRIA
Karl-Friedrich Bohringer, Berkeley
John Canny, Berkeley
Greg Chirikjian, Johns Hopkins
Lydia Kavraki, Rice
Daniel Koditschek, Michigan
Jean-Claude Latombe, Stanford
Jean-Paul Laumond, LAAS
Matt Mason, Carnegie Mellon
Rajeev Motwani, Stanford
Mark Overmars, Utrecht
Jean Ponce, UIUC
Daniela Rus, Dartmouth
Russell Taylor, Johns Hopkins
Jeff Trinkle, Texas A&M
For more information, contact:
Pankaj K. Agarwal
Lydia Kavraki
Matt Mason
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