PhD opportunities..
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Muhammad Habib Mahmood
Graduate Researcher
Department of Computer Architecture and Technology
VICOROB (Computer Vision and Robotics) Lab
EPS-P4, Montilivi Campus
Universitat de Girona
Girona 17071, Spain
Spain
Email: mhabib@eia.udg.edu
Web: http://vicorob.udg.es/
Mobile: +34-632-754-831
Skype ID: Muhammad Habib Mahmood
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> From: robotics-worldwide-request@duerer.usc.edu
> Subject: robotics-worldwide Digest, Vol 93, Issue 4
> To: robotics-worldwide@duerer.usc.edu
> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:00:04 -0700
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> Today's Topics:
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> 1. Planning Algorithms Software Engineer (Brooke Layton)
> 2. Ph.D. Student Openings in Robot Vision (Cang Ye)
> 3. Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Engineer Positions
> (Foong Shaohui)
> 4. Last Call: EU FP7 Robot Competition EURATHLON 2013
> (Frank E. Schneider)
> 5. ACC Tutorial: Stochastic Models, Information Theory, and Lie
> Groups (Gregory S Chirikjian)
> 6. Robotica 31(5) August 2013 (Gregory S Chirikjian)
> 7. Full-time Lecturer Position at Johns Hopkins in Mechanical
> Engineering (Gregory S Chirikjian)
> 8. ECMR13 deadline extended to 30.04.13 (Juan Andrade Cetto)
> 9. 2nd CFP: 5th Intl Workshop on Affective Interaction in
> Natural Environments (AFFINE) @ ACII 2013 (Ginevra Castellano)
> 10. ** April 2013 issue of IEEE T-ASE available (Ken Goldberg)
> 11. Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Intelligent Workspace
> Acquisition, Comprehension and Exploitation, Oxford Mobile
> Robotics Group (Ingmar Posner)
> 12. Posting request for [CFP: URAI 2013 conference] (KROS)
> 13. CFP: ICRA 2013 Workshop Networked Multi-Agent Systems: From
> Theory to Practice (Nora Ayanian)
> 14. Funded positions for MSc, PhD, and postdoctoral studies in
> medical robotics at the University of Alberta (M. Tavakoli)
> 15. Special Issue on "Advances in Domestic Service Robots in the
> Real World" - JINT (Springer) (Javier Ruiz-del-Solar)
> 16. [job advertisement] Research Assistant in Computer Science
> (Intelligent Long-term Behaviour in Mobile Robotics) (Tom Duckett)
> 17. 8 faculty posts at The University of Sheffield (Roderich Gross)
> 18. Deadline Reminder: 2013 New England Manipulation Symposium
> (Tenzer, Yaroslav)
> 19. Deadline extension: JRTIP Special Issue on Robot Vision
> (Udo Frese)
> 20. Intuitive Surgical announcement of the 2014 Clinical and
> Technology Research Grant Programs (Simon DiMaio)
> 21. Participation to Barcelona Cognition, Brain and Technology
> Summer School 2013 (BCBT)
>
>
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 14:42:25 -0500
> From: Brooke Layton <bLayton@ihmc.us>
> To: robotics-worldwide@duerer.usc.edu
> Subject: [robotics-worldwide] Planning Algorithms Software Engineer
> Message-ID: <70ACED3F-BCDD-4461-83F6-D1C5A1639E97@ihmc.us>
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> Planning Algorithms Software Engineer
> We are seeking a Java software developer who is knowledgeable about planning algorithms and interested in semi-autonomous rotorcraft and humanoid robotics. The position will involve implementing, testing, and evaluating various planning algorithms, as well as integrating them into various projects which involve both semi-autonomous rotorcraft and humanoid robotics. Strong Java skills are required.
>
> Ideal candidate should have the ability write clean code in Java to the highest standards; have an understanding of advanced level object-oriented programming concepts; have excellent analytical, problem solving and organizational skills. Applicants should have knowledge of planning algorithms. Applicants must have excellent communication and documentation skills, thriving in both a team and individual environment.
>
> Minimum requirements for the successful candidate:
>
> Currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
> Authorized to work in the United States
> Knowledge of planning algorithms
> Proficient in Java
>
> To Apply:
> Complete the intensive, timed, Java challenge at Interview Street here:
> http://istest.co/internship2013ihmc
>
> ***Note that you MUST follow the instructions here, or you will be given an automatic zero.***
>
> Please note that the Java programming challenge is difficult and you will be given up to 16 hours to complete it. The test cannot be paused, so only begin the test when you are ready and have allotted adequate time and brainpower to complete the challenge.
>
> Your score on the Java programming challenge will be factored into your application and is required to apply for this position.
> Immediate openings. Salary Negotiable.
> Questions: robotjobs@ihmc.us
>
> This job posting will be active until April 19, 2013.
>
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>
> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:45:42 -0500
> From: "Cang Ye" <cxye@ualr.edu>
> To: <robotics-worldwide@duerer.usc.edu>
> Subject: [robotics-worldwide] Ph.D. Student Openings in Robot Vision
> Message-ID: <000901ce3602$76c835b0$6458a110$@ualr.edu>
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> The Intelligent Autonomous Systems Lab (http://ualr.edu/cxye/laboratory.htm)
> of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock has two Ph.D. student openings
> for Fall 2013. The successful candidate will develop 3D robot vision methods
> based on a 3D Flash LIDAR Camera. The research team will work on a wide
> range of research problems on robot vision, including 6-DOF pose estimation
> by computer vision, terrain mapping, 3D data segmentation, and autonomous
> navigation. General guideline of admission to graduate study is referred to
> http://ualr.edu/enss/. The lab currently hosts research funded by the
> National Science Foundation and NASA and supports 4 Ph.D. students.
>
> The University of Arkansas at Little Rock is a dynamic metropolitan
> university locating at the state's capital city, Little Rock
> (http://www.littlerock.com). Applicants should hold a degree in electrical
> engineering, computer science, or related fields. Desired skills include
> programming in C/C++ and Matlab, image processing, 3D computer vision. To
> apply, contact Dr. Cang Ye (cxye@ualr.edu) with detailed CV and copies of
> transcript(s), TOEFL and GRE.
>
> -------------------------------------------
> Cang Ye, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor
> Department of Systems Engineering
> University of Arkansas at Little Rock
> 2801 S. University Ave, EIT 536
> Little Rock, AR 72204
> Phone: (501) 683-7284 Fax: (501) 569-8698 Google Voice: (501) 237-1818
> Email: cxye@ualr.edu
> http://www.ualr.edu/cxye
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 02:53:40 +0000
> From: Foong Shaohui <foongshaohui@sutd.edu.sg>
> To: "robotics-worldwide@duerer.usc.edu"
> <robotics-worldwide@duerer.usc.edu>
> Subject: [robotics-worldwide] Postdoctoral Fellow and Research
> Engineer Positions
> Message-ID:
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> The Magneto-Mechatronics Lab at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) invites applications for immediate openings for postdoctoral fellow and research engineer positions in the area of biomedical-centric multi-axis robot control and/or tracking & filtering instrumentation. Researchers will work on a multi-disciplinary team consisting of engineers, scientists and neuroscientists in developing a novel automated medical device for innovative neuroscience clinical applications. As this research is pursued jointly by SUTD and Zhejiang University (ZJU) in China, there will be ample opportunities for close interaction with researchers and clinicians in ZJU as well.
>
> This project involves:
> * Modeling, collision-free trajectory planning and control of multi-axis articulated robotic arms
> * Devising, simulating and implementing a robust and contact-free localization system with advanced filtering techniques
> * Design and fabrication of wearable and embedded electronics for bio-instrumentation and localization
>
> Applications, assembled as a single PDF file, should contain a complete resume, cover letter describing their background, research interests and goals, full list of publications, copies of up to three relevant scientific papers, as well as the names and contact information of up to three references. These positions are guaranteed for a year with a possible second year extension and come with a competitive salary which is determined based on the applicants' research achievements, experience and qualifications. Please send applications to shao@sutd.edu.sg<mailto:shao@sutd.edu.sg> and uxuan_tan@sutd.edu.sg<mailto:uxuan_tan@sutd.edu.sg> .
>
> About SUTD: (http://www.sutd.edu.sg)
>
> The Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) aims to become the center and stronghold of global research and breakthroughs through creative technical research and education anchored in design within a multi-disciplinary approach. This focus on design is called Big 'D', where the aim is not just produce graduates well-versed in technical functionality, but a new breed of the brightest technical minds that understands form to design the new innovations of tomorrow. SUTD seeks to inspire all that goes through our doors in the art and science of design to ensure that architectural, systems and engineering inventions of tomorrow are both a technical breakthrough and a resonating lifestyle appeal.
>
> Shaohui Foong
> shao@sutd.edu.sg<mailto:shao@sutd.edu.sg>
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 09:33:14 +0200
> From: "Frank E. Schneider" <frank.schneider@fkie.fraunhofer.de>
> To: euron-dist@iais.fraunhofer.de, "robotics-worldwide@usc.edu"
> <robotics-worldwide@usc.edu>
> Subject: [robotics-worldwide] Last Call: EU FP7 Robot Competition
> EURATHLON 2013
> Message-ID: <516515BA.5040107@fkie.fraunhofer.de>
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>
> Dear roboticists,
>
> this is the last CALL FOR PARTICIPATION in the EURATHLON 2013.
> Your expression of interest has to be received by 14.Apr.2013 latest!
> See
> http://www.eurathlon2013.eu/information/competition/how_to.html
> for details
>
> EURATHLON is a new robot competition supported by the European Commission
> in the FP7.
>
> The basic concept evolved from the C-ELROB events, however there will be
> major changes:
>
> - Price money
> - Student travel support
> - Common Shared Data Sets (ROS bags)
> - Free hardware loans (incl. ROS driver)
> - Workshops and static/dynamic display
>
> The scenarios are
>
> - Reconnaissance and surveillance in urban structures (USAR)
> - Mobile manipulation for handling hazardous material
> - Search and rescue in a smoke filled underground structure
> - Autonomous navigation using GPS, GLONASS and GALILEO
> - EOR/EOD/IEDD/CIED
>
> We would be happy to welcome you and your team to the EURATHLON tournament
> on the 23.-27. September in Berchtesgaden!
>
> For more information please follow the link: http://www.EURATHLON2013.eu/.
>
>
> Kind regards
> Frank E. Schneider
>
> EU FP7 Robot Competition EURATHLON 2013
> 23.-27. September 2013
> Berchtesgaden, Germany
> http://www.EURATHLON2013.eu/
>
>
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>
> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:42:01 -0400
> From: Gregory S Chirikjian <gchirik1@jhu.edu>
> To: robotics-worldwide@usc.edu
> Subject: [robotics-worldwide] ACC Tutorial: Stochastic Models,
> Information Theory, and Lie Groups
> Message-ID: <6fe0a74225462.5163e269@johnshopkins.edu>
> Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII
>
> ACC Tutorial Sunday, June 16, 2013, Washington DC
> http://a2c2.org/conferences/acc2013/workshops.html
>
>
> Tutorial: Stochastic Models, Information Theory, and Lie Groups
> Organizer: Gregory Chirikjian, Johns Hopkins University
>
> This tutorial reviews stochastic models in robot motion planning, state estimation, and control, and explains how concepts from both information theory and the theory of Lie groups are naturally intertwined with these models. Unlike most treatments of continuous time stochastic processes, which are either highly formalized or focusing on one-dimensional problems, the review provided here will cover physically motivated multi-dimensional problems in an accessible way.
>
> Topics such as the relationship between nonholonomic constraints, white noise forcing, and the parametric distributions that result, will be discussed. The inter-conversion of Ito and Stratonovich stochastic differential equations will be explained. Some elementary Lie group theory will be used.
>
> Application areas will include orientation and pose estimation, simultaneous localization and mapping, and steering flexible needles for minimally invasive surgical applications. As time permits other topics will be discusses including stochastic modeling of biological macromolecules from a systems-theoretic perspective.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:41:37 -0400
> From: Gregory S Chirikjian <gchirik1@jhu.edu>
> To: robotics-worldwide@usc.edu
> Subject: [robotics-worldwide] Robotica 31(5) August 2013
> Message-ID: <6d708cf726c1b.5163e251@johnshopkins.edu>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252
>
> Volume 31 Part 5 August 2013
>
> Effects of distance and direction on tangential tactile perception of the index finger pad,
> Greg Placencia, Mansour Rahimi and Behrokh Khoshnevis 679
>
> A robust, multi-hypothesis approach to matching occupancy grid maps,
> Jose-Luis Blanco, Javier Gonz?lez-Jim?nez and Juan-Antonio Fern?ndez-Madrigal 687
>
> An experimental setup for autonomous operation of surface vessels in rough seas,
> Farshad Mahini, Leonard DiWilliams, Kevin Burke and Hashem Ashrafiuon 703
>
> Gait generation via unified learning optimal control of Hamiltonian systems,
> Satoshi Satoh, Kenji Fujimoto and Sang-Ho Hyon 717
>
> Conditional Density Growth (CDG) model: a simplified model of RRT coverage for kinematic systems,
> Joel M. Esposito 733
>
> A flexible method combining camera calibration and hand?eye calibration,
> Zijian Zhao and Ying Weng 747
>
> Hierarchical safety supervisory control strategy for robot-assisted rehabilitation exercise,
> Lizheng Pan, Aiguo Song, Guozheng Xu, Huijun Li, Baoguo Xu and Pengwen Xiong 757
>
> Navigation of non-communicating autonomous mobile robots with guaranteed connectivity,
> Ahmet Cezayirli and Feza Kerestecio?lu 767
>
> A coordination-based CPG structure for 3D walking control,
> Weiwei Huang, Chee-Meng Chew and Geok-Soon Hong 777
>
> Bio-inspired backlash reduction of a low-cost robotic joint using closed-loop-commutated stepper motors,
> J?zsef Veres, Gy?rgy Cserey and G?bor Szederk?nyi 789
>
> Manipulability analysis of human thumb, index and middle fingers in cooperative 3D rotational movements of a small object,
> M. Felix Orlando, Ashish Dutta, Anupam Saxena, Laxmidhar Behera, Tomoya Tamei and Tomohiro Shibata 797
>
> Sinusoidal input-based visual control for nonholonomic vehicles,
> M. Aranda, G. L?pez-Nicol?s and C. Sag??s 811
>
> Tip-contact force control of a single-link flexible arm using feedback and parallel compensation approach,
> Liang-Yih Liu and Hsiung-Cheng Lin 825
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:41:44 -0400
> From: Gregory S Chirikjian <gchirik1@jhu.edu>
> To: robotics-worldwide@usc.edu
> Subject: [robotics-worldwide] Full-time Lecturer Position at Johns
> Hopkins in Mechanical Engineering
> Message-ID: <6fe0fb4b214b7.5163e258@johnshopkins.edu>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252
>
> Full-time Lecturer Position at Johns Hopkins in Mechanical Engineering
>
> The Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University invites applications for a full-time lecturer position. The individual selected for this position will be expected to contribute to the department?s educational mission through teaching, course development, and advising and mentoring students. They may also engage in mechanical engineering scholarship. Johns Hopkins is a private university well known for its commitment to academic excellence and research. The mechanical engineering department is among the top in the country in terms of research activities and educational programs. See our web page at http://www.me.jhu.edu for additional information.
>
> The ideal candidate will have a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related field and demonstrated excellence in teaching. It is desired that the candidate has experience and interest in teaching courses in robotics, dynamical systems, and mechanics. The successful candidate will work closely with faculty colleagues. Applications should include a cover letter, a curriculum vita, a statement of teaching philosophy and interests, and should be submitted electronically as a **single PDF** document to me-search@jhu.edu with?Lecturer Search? in the subject line. Applicants should arrange for three reference letters to be sent directly to me-search@jhu.edu. Applications will be considered beginning April 2, 2013.
>
> The Department is committed to a diverse environment; women and minorities are strongly encouraged to apply. The Johns Hopkins University is an EEO/AA Employer.
>
> Contact Information
> Lecturer Search Committee
> me-search@jhu.edu
> Department of Mechanical Engineering
> The Johns Hopkins University
> 223 Latrobe Hall
> 3400 N. Charles St.
> Baltimore, MD 21218
>
>
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>
> Message: 8
> Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 14:22:36 +0200
> From: Juan Andrade Cetto <cetto@iri.upc.edu>
> To: robotics-worldwide@usc.edu, euron-dist@iais.fraunhofer.de,
> automatica@dit.upm.es
> Subject: [robotics-worldwide] ECMR13 deadline extended to 30.04.13
> Message-ID: <15026D59-26DD-4E4D-B2C1-AB740006099D@iri.upc.edu>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> Dear roboticists,
>
> The deadline for paper submission to ECMR13 has been extended to 30.04.13.
> We look forward to your contributions!
>
> ----------------------------------
> EXTENDED DEADLINE!
> ---------------------------------
>
> 6th European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR13)
>
> Date: Sep 25-27, 2013
> Location: Barcelona, Spain
> http://www.iri.upc.edu/ecmr13/
>
> ECMR is an internationally open biennial European forum, allowing researchers to learn and discuss the latest accomplishments and innovations in mobile robotics and mobile human-robot systems. ECMR 2013 is the 6th edition of the conference, and will be held in Barcelona, Spain.
>
> * Guest speakers
>
> - Paul Newman, Oxford Mobile Robotics Group, University of Oxford
> - Jamie Paik, Reconfigurable Robotics Lab, EPFL.
>
> * Important Dates
>
> April 30, 2013: Paper submission deadline
> June 22, 2013: Notification of acceptance
> July 8, 2013: Final paper submission and early registration
> September 25-27, 2013: Conference
>
>
>
> * Scope
>
> Most aspects of robotics research and machine intelligence are relevant topics, including, but not limited to: localization, mapping, navigation, robot vision, 3D sensing, multi-sensor fusion, active perception, behavior-based robotics, task and path planning, learning and adaptation, human-robot interaction, experimental evaluation and benchmarking, and new applications of mobile robot systems. Particularly welcome are papers reporting on real-world applications if they provide insights beyond a single project.
>
> * Paper Submission
>
> Authors are invited to submit original contributions 6-8 pages long, in English, in two column IEEE conference style in electronic form using the conference website. Papers presented at the conference will be published in IEEE Explore.
>
> * Submission site
> https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ECMR2013/
>
> * Technical sponsor
>
> IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
>
> * Organizers
>
> - General Chair
> Juan Andrade-Cetto
> Institut de Rob?tica i Inform?tica Industrial, UPC-CSIC, Spain
>
> - Program chair
> Udo Frese
> Universitaet Bremen, Germany
>
> - Exhibitions chair
> Andreu Corominas-Murtra
> Beta Robots, Spain
>
> - Conference board:
> Adam Borkowski
> Wolfram Burgard
> Achim Lilienthal
> Ivan Petrovic
> Primo Zingaretti
>
> - Contact:
> ecmr13@iri.upc.edu
>
>
>
>
> Juan Andrade Cetto
> Institut de Rob?tica i Inform?tica Industrial, CSIC-UPC
> Llorens i Artigas 4-6, 2a pl., 08028 Barcelona, Spain
> Tel. +34 934010775, Fax. +34 934015750
>
>
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>
> Message: 9
> Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2013 12:35:31 +0100
> From: Ginevra Castellano <g.castellano@bham.ac.uk>
> To: robotics-worldwide@usc.edu
> Subject: [robotics-worldwide] 2nd CFP: 5th Intl Workshop on Affective
> Interaction in Natural Environments (AFFINE) @ ACII 2013
> Message-ID: <5163FD03.3080201@bham.ac.uk>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed"
>
> *5^th International Workshop on Affective Interaction in Natural
> Environments (AFFINE):**
> Interacting with Affective Artefacts in the Wild*
>
> http://www.image.ntua.gr/affine/
>
> Geneva, 2 September 2013
>
> Satellite event of ACII 2013 (http://www.acii2013.org/)
>
> A vital requirement for social robots is the ability to infer the
> affective and mental states of humans and provide appropriate output
> during sustained social interactions, and to do so in a timely manner.
> Examples include ensuring that the user is interested in maintaining the
> interaction or providing suitable empathic responses through the display
> of facial expressions, gestures or generation of speech. This workshop
> will cover real-time computational techniques for the recognition and
> interpretation of human affective and social behaviour, models of
> "mentalising" and "empathising" for affective human-robot interaction in
> naturalistic settings, and techniques for synthesis of believable social
> behaviour supporting real-time adaptive human-robot interaction in
> real-world environments.
>
> This year AFFINE especially welcomes studies that provide new insights
> into the use of multimodal techniques for enabling interaction between
> humans and robots "in the wild", i.e., in natural, everyday,
> non-laboratory settings. We anticipate the main outcome of this workshop
> to be the identification and investigation of important open issues in
> real-time, affect-aware human-robot interactions applications in natural
> environments. Issues such as natural and multimodal interaction,
> estimation and adaption to context, context dependent processing and
> related databases and best practices for application to real
> environments will be discussed in the context of interacting with other
> humans and social artefacts.
>
> Topics include (but are not limited to) the following:
>
> Multimodal human affect and social behaviour recognition
>
> Multimodal expression generation in robots and virtual agents
>
> Perception-action loops in agents/robots
>
> Cognitive and affective 'mentalising'
>
> Visual attention / user engagement with robots and embodied
> conversational agents (ECAs)
>
> Emotion and cognitive state representation
>
> Social context awareness and adaptation
>
> Natural Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) / Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
>
> Frameworks for adaptive, real-time HCI and HRI
>
> Multimodal and emotional corpora (naturally evoked or induced emotion)
>
> Techniques for handling noisy data in real world scenarios
>
> Affective mobile computing
>
> Recognition of human behaviour for implicit tagging
>
> Crowdsourcing affective behaviour
>
> Exertion games/physical interaction
>
> Real-world interactive/affective artefacts
>
> Applications to interactive games, robots and virtual agents
>
> *Program committee*
>
> Albert Ali Salah (Bogazici University, Turkey)
>
> Sandra Baldassarri (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
>
> Christian Becker-Asano (University of Freiburg, Germany)
>
> Tony Belpaeme (University of Plymouth, UK)
>
> Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze (University College London, UK)
>
> Timothy Bickmore (Norteastern University, USA)
>
> Carlos Busso (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
>
> Marc Cavazza (University of Teesside, UK)
>
> Matthieu Courgeon (CERV, France)
> Kerstin Dautenhahn (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
>
> Laurence Devillers (LIMSI-CNRS, France)
>
> Sidney D'Mello (University of Notre Dame, USA)
>
> Faiyaz Doctor (Coventry University, UK)
>
> Hatice Gunes (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
>
> Zakia Hammal (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
>
> Dirk Heylen (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
>
> Isabelle Hupont Torres (Aragon Institute of Technology, Spain)
>
> Stefanos Kollias (ICCS-NTUA, Greece)
>
> Iolanda Leite (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal)
>
> Maurizio Mancini (University of Genova, Italy)
>
> Rachel McDonnell (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
>
> Peter William McOwan (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
>
> Radoslaw Niewiadomski (Telecom ParisTech, France)
>
> Fotios Papadopoulos (University of Birmingham, UK)
>
> Peter Robinson (University of Cambridge, UK)
> Mario Romero (KTH, Sweden)
>
> Bjoern Schuller (Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany)
>
> Bill Smart (Oregon State University, USA)
>
> Giovanna Varni (University of Genova, Italy)
>
> Gualtiero Volpe (University of Genova, Italy)
>
> Michael Walters (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
>
> Nigel Ward (UT El Paso, USA)
>
> *Important dates*
>
> Deadline for paper submission: 26 April 2013
>
> Notification of acceptance: 3 June 2013
>
> Camera ready paper: 17 June 2013
>
>
>
> *Paper format*
>
> Papers should be 6 pages long and follow the standard IEEE double column
> format, in accordance with the guidelines of the ACII conference. For
> more information about the format, see the workshop's website:
> http://www.image.ntua.gr/affine/
>
>
> *Submission instructions*
>
> Authors should submit their manuscripts using the EasyChair system
> (instructions and link are available on the workshop's website:
> http://www.image.ntua.gr/affine/)
>
>
> *Publication information*
>
> Accepted workshop papers will be published in the ACII conference
> proceedings and indexed in IEEExplore.
>
> *Workshop chairs*
>
> Ginevra Castellano (University of Birmingham, UK)
>
> Kostas Karpouzis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
>
> Jean-Claude Martin (Paris South University, France)
>
> Louis-Philippe Morency (University of Southern California, USA)
>
> Christopher Peters (KTH, Sweden)
>
> Laurel Riek (University of Notre Dame, USA)
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> --
> Dr. Ginevra Castellano
> School of Electronic, Electrical and Computer Engineering
> University of Birmingham
> Edgbaston
> Birmingham
> B15 2TT
> United Kingdom
>
> Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 7118
> Email: g.castellano@bham.ac.uk
> http://www.eee.bham.ac.uk/castellg/
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 10
> Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 09:27:44 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Ken Goldberg <goldberg@berkeley.edu>
> To: robotics-worldwide@usc.edu
> Cc: Ken Goldberg <goldberg@berkeley.edu>
> Subject: [robotics-worldwide] ** April 2013 issue of IEEE T-ASE
> available
> Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1304080927060.30572@localhost>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed"
>
> As noted in the Table of Contents below, the April 2013 issue of the IEEE
> Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE) features a
> Guest Editorial by Vijay Kumar and SK Gupta on Exciting Trends in
> Manufacturing, new results from Efi Fogel and Danny Halperin on the
> open-source Computational Geometry Algorithms Library (CGAL) which offers
> guarantees of correctness, and papers on innovative topics such as using
> mobile phones as seismologic sensors, new sensors and actuators for micro-
> and nano-scale automation, and applications in steelmaking, trains, and
> power generation:
>
> http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=6493467&punumber=8856
>
> This links to the Table of Contents, which allows free access to
> Editorials, Abstracts of all papers, and to the full text of "Open Access"
> papers (via the .pdf links).
>
> Details on T-ASE, info for authors, and upcoming Special Issues on our
> newly re-designed website:
> http://www.ieee-ras.org/publications/t-ase
>
> The IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering deadline for
> "Presentation Only" 2-page Abstracts (intended primarily for
> non-academics) is May 1: http://www.case2013.org/
>
> ****************************************
> Table of Contents
> ****************************************
>
> GUEST EDITORIAL
>
> Exciting Trends for Automation in Manufacturing
> Gupta, S.K. ; Kumar, V.
>
> REGULAR PAPERS
>
> Polyhedral Assembly Partitioning With Infinite Translations or The Importance
> of
> Being Exact
> Fogel, E. ; Halperin, D.
>
> Mobile Phones as Seismologic Sensors: Automating Data Extraction for the iShake
> System
> Reilly, J. ; Dashti, S. ; Ervasti, M. ; Bray, J. D. ; Glaser, S. D. ; Bayen, A.
> M.
>
> Design, Simulation, and Fabrication of Microneedles and a Blood Filter for Use
> in a Hemofiltration System
> Tayyaba, S. ; Ashraf, M. W. ; Afzulpurkar, N.
>
> Experimental Analysis of Laser Interferometry-Based Robust Motion Tracking
> Control of a Flexure-Based Mechanism
> Bhagat, U. ; Shirinzadeh, B. ; Tian, Y. ; Zhang, D.
>
>
> AFAM: An Articulated Four Axes Microrobot for Nanoscale Applications
> Murthy, R. ; Stephanou, H. E. ; Popa, D. O.
>
> AFM-Based Robotic Nano-Hand for Stable Manipulation at Nanoscale
> Hou, J. ; Liu, L. ; Wang, Z. ; Wang, Z. ; Xi, N. ; Wang, Y. ; Wu, C. ; Dong, Z.
> ; Yuan, S.
>
> A Geometric Distribution Reader Anti-Collision Protocol for RFID Dense Reader
> Environments
> Bueno-Delgado, M. V. ; Ferrero, R. ; Gandino, F. ; Pavon-Marino, P. ;
> Rebaudengo, M.
>
> An Effective Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm for a Real-World Hybrid Flowshop
> Problem in Steelmaking Process
> Pan, Q.-K. ; Wang, L. ; Mao, K. ; Zhao, J.-H. ; Zhang, M.
>
> Coordinated Iterative Learning Control Schemes for Train Trajectory Tracking
> With Overspeed Protection
> Sun, H. ; Hou, Z. ; Li, D.
>
> Energy Saving Opportunity Analysis of Automotive Serial Production Systems
> Chang, Q. ; Xiao, G. ; Biller, S. ; Li, L.
>
> Swarm Intelligence Approaches to Optimal Power Flow Problem With Distributed
> Generator Failures in Power Networks
> Kang, Q. ; Zhou, M. ; An, J. ; Wu, Q.
>
> Adaptive Dispatching Rule for Semiconductor Wafer Fabrication Facility
> Li, L. ; Sun, Z. ; Zhou, M. ; Qiao, F.
>
> Development and Evaluation of Object-Based Visual Attention for Automatic
> Perception of Robots
> Yu, Y. ; Gu, J. ; Mann, G. K. I. ; Gosine, R. G.
>
> An Integrated Two-Level Self-Calibration Method for a Cable-Driven Humanoid Arm
> Chen, Q. ; Chen, W. ; Yang, G. ; Liu, R.
>
> Fault Detection by Labeled Petri Nets in Centralized and Distributed Approaches
> Fanti, M. P. ; Mangini, A. M. ; Ukovich, W.
>
> Performance Metrics of Speed and Separation Monitoring in Shared Workspaces
> Marvel, J. A.
>
> Hybrid Analysis in the Latent Nestling Method Applied to Fault Diagnosis
> Rodriguez Urrego, L. ; Garcia Moreno, E. ; Morant Anglada, F. ; Correcher
> Salvador, A. ; Quiles Cucarella, E.
>
> Functional and Behavior Models for the Supervision of an Intelligent and
> Autonomous System
> Chatti, N. ; Gehin, A.-L. ; Ould-Bouamama, B. ; Merzouki, R.
>
> SHORT PAPERS
>
> Optimal Alarm Signal Processing: Filter Design and Performance Analysis
> Cheng, Y. ; Izadi, I. ; Chen, T.
>
> Similarity Analysis of Industrial Alarm Flood Data
> Ahmed, K. ; Izadi, I. ; Chen, T. ; Joe, D. ; Burton, T.
>
> Online Sensor Activation for Detectability of Discrete Event Systems
> Shu, S. ; Huang, Z. ; Lin, F.
>
> A Semi-Automated Positioning System for Contact-Mode Atomic Force Microscopy
> (AFM)
> Roy, R. ; Chen, W. ; Cong, L. ; Goodell, L. A. ; Foran, D. J. ; Desai, J. P.
>
> An Assembly-Skill-Transferring Method for Cellular Manufacturing System?Part I:
> Verification of the Proposed Method for Motor Skill
> Duan, F. ; Gao, Q. ; Zhu, C. ; Kato, R. ; Arai, T.
>
> Self-Configuration of Waypoints for Docking Maneuvers of Flexible Automated
> Guided Vehicles
> Herrero, D. ; Villagra, J. ; Martinez, H.
>
> Thin Layer SOI-FETs Used for Stress-Sensing and Its Application in
> Accelerometers
> Wang, H. ; Yang, J. ; Yan, S. ; Jin, Z.
>
> *****************************************
>
> ** Early Access articles are made available well in advance of their
> appearance in the publication cycle:
> http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=4358066
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 11
> Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 12:34:09 +0100
> From: Ingmar Posner <ingmar@robots.ox.ac.uk>
> To: robotics-worldwide@duerer.usc.edu
> Subject: [robotics-worldwide] Postdoctoral Research Assistant in
> Intelligent Workspace Acquisition, Comprehension and Exploitation,
> Oxford Mobile Robotics Group
> Message-ID: <48877BDF-5180-4643-BACA-E9B4C80F500E@robots.ox.ac.uk>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> we are seeking a full-time postdoctoral researcher to become part of the Mobile Robotics Group at the Department of Engineering Science in central Oxford and Begbroke Science Park. The post is funded by EPSRC and is fixed-term for 2 years with a possibility of continuation after that.
>
> The project focuses on interweaving the state of the art in navigation, planning and communications management. Our desire is to enable truly vast scale long-term autonomy for fleets of cars and mobile robots in general. You will be responsible for furthering this core research agenda and take a technical lead in the group?s large scale, long-term autonomy portfolio.
>
> You should possess a doctorate (or be near completion) in robotics, machine learning or computer vision; you should have experience in C++ (additional knowledge of Python, Matlab and/or Java is an advantage) as well as in mobile robotics and you should also have the energy and enthusiasm to both further the state of the art in large scale, long term navigation and deploy and validate it on multiple vehicles. A background in non-parametric modeling and/or optimisation methods is essential. Experience in the planning domain is desirable. It is essential that you can demonstrate experience in developing computer vision and laser driven techniques for outdoor field use. Our focus is very much on outdoor exploitation.
>
> More information can be found at http://www.eng.ox.ac.uk/about-us/jobs under vacancy id 107450. Informal enquiries may be addressed to ingmar@robots.ox.ac.uk.
>
> Only applications received before 12.00 midday on 10 May 2013 can be considered. You will be required to upload a covering letter, a brief statement of research interests (describing how past experience and future plans fit with the advertised position), CV and the details of two referees as part of your online application.
>
> Best Regards,
> Ingmar
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Dr Ingmar Posner
>
> University Lecturer in Information Engineering
> and Fellow of Pembroke College
> Department Of Engineering Science
> Oxford University
> Parks Road
> Oxford
> OX1 3PJ
>
> Tel: (+44) 01865 273148 (IEB)
> (+44) 01865 283778 (Begbroke Lab)
> Fax: (+44) 01865 283145
> http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~posnerhi/
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 12
> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:17:53 +0900
> From: "KROS" <kros@kros.org>
> To: <robotics-worldwide@duerer.usc.edu>
> Cc: 'KROS' <kros@kros.org>
> Subject: [robotics-worldwide] Posting request for [CFP: URAI 2013
> conference]
> Message-ID: <096701ce35bb$8456ca80$8d045f80$@org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>
> Dear Robotics Worldwide,
>
>
>
> I would like to post the following CFP of URAI 2013 conference.
>
> Thanks for your kind effort.
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
>
>
> Mira
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Ms Mira Yoon
>
> Korea Robotics Society (KROS)
>
> #506, The Korea Science and Technology Center, (635-4,Yeoksam-dong)22,7Gil,
>
> Teheran-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea (ZIP 135-703)
>
> Tel : 82-2-783-0306, 5 / Fax : 82-22-783-0307 / <http://www.kros.org> http://www.kros.org
>
>
>
>
>
> ==========================================================================
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS ==========================================================================
>
> Int'l Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence (URAI) 2013
>
> http://www.kros.org/urai2013
>
> Ramada Plaza Jeju Hotel, Jeju, Republic of Korea
>
> Oct. 30 - Nov. 2, 2013
>
> ==========================================================================
>
>
>
> The 10th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence (URAI 2013) will be held in Jeju, Korea Oct. 30 to Nov. 2, 2013. The conference is organized by Korea Robotics Society (KROS).
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Important Dates
>
> ? Deadline for special session proposals: May 15, 2013
>
> ? Deadline for workshop and tutorials: May 15, 2013
>
> ? Deadline for paper submission: May 30, 2013
>
> ? Acceptance Notification: July 31, 2013
>
> ? Deadline for final camera-ready paper submission: September 15, 2013
>
> (Korea Standard Time, UTC+09:00)
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Topics of interest include, but not limited to
>
> Ubiquitous robots, Ambient intelligence, Network-based robotics, Human-robot interaction, Robot vision and audition, Sensor networks and sensor fusion, Robotic agents, Robot intelligence and learning, Intelligent space/ environment technologies, Distributed robotics, Navigation and localization, Robot kinematics and dynamics, Robot control, Robotic mechanism and design, Control architecture and middleware, Haptics and teleoperation, Sensors and actuators, Medical/rehabilitation robotics, Humanoid robots, Field robots, Service robots, Industrial robots, Biorobotics and biomimetics, etc.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Submission of Papers
>
> All papers must be written in English and submitted electronically via the online conference submission system at <http://www.kros.org/urai2013> http://www.kros.org/urai2013 in one of the following three submission categories.
>
>
>
> ? Regular papers (3 to 8 pages)
>
> ? Work-in-progress papers (2 pages)
>
> ? Video papers (video file and 1 page extended abstract)
>
>
>
> After the doubly blind review process, all the accepted papers will be published in the URAI 2013 proceedings, will be included in the IEEE Xplore and EI Compendex. If authors have problems in submission through the website, please feel free to contact the secretariat, via email (kros@kros.org), fax (+82-2-783-0307), or phone (+82-2-783-0306).
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 13
> Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 15:49:44 +0000
> From: Nora Ayanian <nayanian@MIT.EDU>
> To: "robotics-worldwide@duerer.usc.edu"
> <robotics-worldwide@duerer.usc.edu>
> Subject: [robotics-worldwide] CFP: ICRA 2013 Workshop Networked
> Multi-Agent Systems: From Theory to Practice
> Message-ID:
> <F193E644C94BEF40AF45F16344BA242E30715554@OC11EXPO25.exchange.mit.edu>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> Apologies for multiple postings.
>
> ICRA 2013 Workshop Networked Multi-Agent Systems: From Theory to Practice
>
> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION:
> We seek 1 page abstracts for poster/short presentations as part of a half day workshop.
>
> IMPORTANT DATES:
> - Abstract submission deadline: April 10, 2013
> - Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2013
> - Workshop: Monday, May 6, 2013, 14:00 - 18:15
> - Conference and Workshop Registration: Now Open (see http://www.icra2013.org/)
>
> GENERAL SCOPE:
>
> Development of new capabilities and theoretical performance guarantees for multi-agent systems has been a topic of primary interest both in the literature and in practical applications. Coordination control allows multi-agent systems to tackle complex tasks, often times with applicability over multiple problem scopes from underwater to aerial to biological arenas. However, the capabilities of these systems inherently depend on communication infrastructures and hinge on the assumption of adequate inter-agent communication.
>
> Networking and communication stands as a roadblock in transitioning theory to application for multi-agent systems. Finding solutions to this problem that are satisfactory both in allowing development of theoretical performance guarantees and that are robust to common challenges in practical implementations such as intermittent connectivity, noise, and interference requires a melding of expertise in both areas.
>
> The goal of this workshop is to discuss recent and targeted advances in networked multi-agent system capabilities, identify the major needs and challenges in translating these capabilities to practical arenas, and encourage an exchanging of ideas from robotics and communication experts to tackle these challenges towards development of high performing and reliable networked multi-agent systems for the real-world.
>
> LIST OF TOPICS:
>
> - Real-time communication in multi-hop networks
> - Prioritized communication over multi-agent networks
> - Communication-aware multi-robot planning
> - Network optimization in realistic communication environments
> - Provably correct control in uncertain environments
> - Tradeoffs in performance quality, correctness and convergence
> - Cooperation and communication in heterogeneous teams
> - Coordination with intermittent communication
> - Theoretical solutions applicable across air, sea, ground, and biological applications
> - Design of experimentation for challenging and supporting theoretical claims
> - Anomaly detection in multi-agent systems
> - Formal models and methods for real-time systems
> - Tradeoffs between guarantees and computational efficiency
> - Developing theory to accommodate events inconsistent with assumptions, i.e. loss of global positioning data
>
> WEBSITE:
> http://groups.csail.mit.edu/drl/wiki/index.php?title=ICRA_2013_Workshop
>
> SUBMISSION:
> Submissions for the session must be made in the PDF format and follow standard ICRA style for the layout (https://ras.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/start.pl). Abstracts are limited to one (1) letter size paper. Abstracts should be sent to networkedagents@googlegroups.com<mailto:networkedagents@googlegroups.com> by April 10, 2013. All contributions will be refereed.
>
> REGISTRATION:
> Please refer to the conference web-page: http://www.icra2013.org/
>
> ORGANIZERS:
> Nora Ayanian, Stephanie Gil, Daniela Rus
> MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 14
> Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2013 10:49:29 -0600
> From: "M. Tavakoli" <mahdi.tavakoli@gmail.com>
> To: robotics-worldwide@duerer.usc.edu
> Subject: [robotics-worldwide] Funded positions for MSc, PhD, and
> postdoctoral studies in medical robotics at the University of Alberta
> Message-ID:
> <CAKiRP6ZFkOxaJkY3rW1j14RcSQZYgr7M4qUhW_c8pffa1Ht_Aw@mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252
>
> Motivated graduate students and postdoctoral fellows preferably with
> past experience in medical robotics and especially robot-assisted
> percutaneous therapy are invited to study at the University of
> Alberta. The research projects are highly multidisciplinary and aim to
> develop robotics technologies that allow brachytherapists to place
> implants with high accuracy, repeatability and reliability during
> prostate brachytherapy. All research will be carried out in a
> collaboration setting between the Department of Electrical and
> Computer Engineering (Telerobotic and Biorobotic Systems Group;
> http://www.ece.ualberta.ca/~tbs), the Department of Oncology, and the
> Alberta Health Services? Cross Cancer Institute. You will work in a
> multidisciplinary environment involving engineers, clinicians,
> scientists, hospitals, and healthcare companies. For MSc and PhD
> students, the degree-granting department will be Electrical and
> Computer Engineering and the start date will be September 2013 (or
> January 2014 under exceptional circumstances). For postdoctoral
> fellows, the start date is negotiable.
>
>
>
> The research will require a strong theoretical background as well as
> hands-on experience in as many of the following areas as possible:
> robotics especially dynamics and motion planning, electromechanical
> systems, system modeling and control, (medical) image processing,
> C/C++ programming, statistical data analysis, human-machine
> interaction, and mechanical design especially medical device
> design/construction.
>
>
>
> If you are interested in being considered, please email the following
> documents as soon as possible and no later than May 15, 2013 to
> <mahdi.tavakoli@ualberta.ca>: (1) a CV, including a brief (300-500
> word) research statement, (2) transcripts of previous university
> degrees, (3) representative publications in electronic format, and (4)
> the contact information of three individuals who can serve as
> references. You will be contacted if there is sufficient interest in
> your application. Scholarship decisions will follow an interview
> during which detailed information regarding the research project will
> be provided. Successful candidates will have degrees in
> electrical/computer/mechanical engineering, computer science, or
> physics, good time management and writing skills, and the ability to
> work effectively with other researchers. Competitive salaries will be
> offered to the successful candidates.
>
>
> Regards,
> Mahdi Tavakoli
>
>
> Mahdi Tavakoli, PhD, PEng | Office: W6-007 ECERF Building
> Assistant Professor | Phone: 780-492-8935
> Electrical & Computer Engineering | Fax: 780-492-1811
> University of Alberta | Email:
> mahdi.tavakoli@ualberta.ca
> Edmonton, Alberta |
> http://www.ece.ualberta.ca/~mtavakol
> Canada T6G 2V4 |
> http://www.ece.ualberta.ca/~TBS (lab)
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 15
> Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2013 18:39:04 -0300
> From: Javier Ruiz-del-Solar <jruizd@ing.uchile.cl>
> To: robotics-worldwide@usc.edu
> Cc: Tijn van der Zant <robotijn@gmail.com>, Luca Iocchi
> <iocchi@dis.uniroma1.it>, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar <jruizd@ing.uchile.cl>
> Subject: [robotics-worldwide] Special Issue on "Advances in Domestic
> Service Robots in the Real World" - JINT (Springer)
> Message-ID: <57D718A7-7DD7-48F6-8C7E-B117B98F6B8C@ing.uchile.cl>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed";
> DelSp="yes"
>
> Third Call for Papers
>
> Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems
>
> Special Issue on "Advances in Domestic Service Robots in the Real World"
>
> This special issue focuses on a broad spectrum of domestic service
> robots that operate in the real-world in home environments. The robots
> are fully autonomous and use intuitive interfaces such as language,
> gestures and visual displays to communicate with people. The home
> environment is defined as 'any place where people live in their daily
> lives', which can include, for example, a living room, a kitchen or a
> garden. Special attention is being paid to submissions where the robot
> capabilities are validated in a real-world setting such as the
> RoboCup@Home benchmark or during long lasting experiments in the real-
> world. The focus will also be on different modes of natural
> interaction with humans, semantic perception and mapping in domestic
> environments, recognition and manipulation of domestic objects, cost-
> effectiveness of the solution (computational and financial resources
> used by the robot), modeling and search in unknown daily life
> environments, such as homes, restaurants, and shopping centers, the
> effect of appearance on acceptance and more.
>
> The topics are related, but not limited, to all the aspects required
> for a robot to operate in daily life environments with a long-term
> focus on applicability, such as:
> - cooperative human-robot interaction and task solving,
>
> - semantic perception and mapping in domestic environments,
>
> - manipulation of domestic objects such as doors, kitchen utensils,
> glasses, etc.,
>
> - modeling and search in unknown daily life environments, such as
> homes, restaurants, and shopping centers,
>
> - high-level cognition for robots in domestic environments,
>
> - benchmarking domestic service robots,
>
> - long lasting robotic experiments in domestic environments,
>
> - acceptance of robots in households.
>
> Submissions addressing practical applications using international
> benchmarks and/or in-field experimental testing are strongly encouraged.
>
>
> Guest Editors:
> Luca Iocchi, Universit? di Roma ''La Sapienza'', Luca.Iocchi@dis.uniroma1.it
>
> Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Universidad de Chile, jruizd@ing.uchile.cl
>
> Tijn van der Zant, University of Groningen, tijn@ieee.org
>
>
> Important dates:
> 1 April 2013: Opening paper submission
>
> 20 May 2013: Closing Paper Submission
>
> 1 August 2013: Paper Acceptance Announcements
>
> 31 August 2013: Camera-ready Paper Submission
>
> 2014: Expected Publication
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 16
> Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 13:23:42 +0100
> From: "Tom Duckett" <tduckett@lincoln.ac.uk>
> To: <robotics-worldwide@duerer.usc.edu>
> Subject: [robotics-worldwide] [job advertisement] Research Assistant
> in Computer Science (Intelligent Long-term Behaviour in Mobile
> Robotics)
> Message-ID:
> <08EC78E748D4534BB97FFAD4136097B008CB8753@AEXCMS03.network.uni>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
>
> [job advertisement] Research Assistant in Computer Science (Intelligent Long-term Behaviour in Mobile Robotics)
>
> The University of Lincoln is seeking to appoint a new Research Assistant (fixed term for 3 years) to join the Centre for Autonomous Systems (L-CAS). The centre is internationally recognised for its research in sensing, mapping, and control for autonomous robotic systems, and currently comprises 6 faculty staff and 14 post-graduate researchers. The successful candidate will be employed as part of the European collaborative Integrated Project ?STRANDS?, involving six academic institutes and two industrial partners across four European countries.
>
> The project aims to enable robots to achieve robust and intelligent behaviour in human environments through adaptation to, and the exploitation of, long-term experience. The approach is based on understanding 3D space and how it changes over time, from milliseconds to months. The project will develop novel approaches to extract quantitative and qualitative spatio-temporal structure from sensor data gathered during months of autonomous operation. The project will also develop novel algorithms to manage the vast amount of data gathered and to optimise the robot behaviour to exploit these structures to yield adaptive autonomy in highly demanding, real-world security and care scenarios.
>
> This RA post is focussed in the area of behaviour generation, planning, and control to facilitate life-long learning of activities and dynamic scenes by autonomous mobile robots. The primary tasks related to this fellowship include the development of novel approaches for proactive exploration in order to complete and verify knowledge in task- and curiosity-driven ways, including the integration of multiple abilities and information sources into the autonomous robotic system. Additional tasks include the development of software framework extensions for the management, access and retrieval of acquired information during long-term operation.
>
> For more information and online application form :
>
> https://jobs.lincoln.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?id=413
>
> --
> Professor Tom Duckett
> School of Computer Science
> University of Lincoln
> Brayford Pool
> Lincoln
> LN6 7TS
> Phone: +44 1522 837113
> Fax: +44 1522 886974
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 17
> Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:20:22 +0100
> From: Roderich Gross <r.gross@sheffield.ac.uk>
> To: robotics-worldwide@usc.edu, euron-dist@iais.fraunhofer.de
> Subject: [robotics-worldwide] 8 faculty posts at The University of
> Sheffield
> Message-ID: <51641596.3010605@sheffield.ac.uk>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed"
>
> **
> Dear colleagues,
>
> there are 8 faculty posts available at the University of Sheffield and
> robotics is among the key areas.
>
> Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Chair in Control and Systems Engineering
> Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering
> University of Sheffield - Faculty of Engineering
> Contract Type: Permanent
> Closing Date: 22 April 2013
>
> Automatic Control and Systems Engineering (ACSE) is one of the largest
> departments devoted to the subject in Europe, with 23 academic staff, 30
> research staff, 20 professional and support staff and nearly 400 taught
> and research students. We are an internationally leading research
> department with a vibrant culture spanning all aspects of Systems and
> Control Engineering. Our research addresses many of the complex issues
> of modern life including problems in the life-sciences and healthcare,
> aerospace and transport, energy and the environment, manufacturing and
> robotics and, more recently, social policy. Our approach to these
> challenges focuses on generic theoretical developments in complex
> systems with an overarching emphasis on autonomy and decision-making.
> Our underpinning research themes are: modelling and simulation, control
> and optimisation, sensing and actuation, signal processing and decision
> support, and, of course, systems engineering. Together, these provide a
> fertile environment for strategic, multi-disciplinary collaborations
> with leading academic groups and major industrial partners.
>
> The post offers you the opportunity to join our vibrant and expanding
> department where you will carry out your research at the highest levels
> in one or more areas of Systems and Control Engineering to either
> consolidate or expand our current portfolio. Research plans involving
> grand challenges and UK strategic priorities and having strong potential
> for funding and impact (academic or industrial) are of particular interest.
>
> As a Professor in ACSE you will be expected to attract substantial
> research funding, supervise research students and staff, publish your
> work in the highest quality journals, teach to the highest standards and
> contribute to the leadership and smooth running of the department and
> university. Your international reputation and professional standing will
> reflect our values and strengths, here and abroad. We will provide an
> environment conducive to all aspects of your work and appropriate
> professional and technical support.
>
> You should have a PHD (or equivalent experience) in a relevant area.
>
> More information:
>
> http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AGF112/lecturer-in-control-and-systems-engineering/
> http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AGF121/senior-lecturer-in-control-and-systems-engineering/
> http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AGF101/chair-in-control-and-systems-engineering/
>
> Five more faculty posts - also related to robotics - available in the
> Department of Mechanical Engineering:
>
> Department of Mechanical Engineering
> University of Sheffield - Faculty of Engineering
> Contract Type: Permanent
> Closing Date: 22 April 2013
>
> Engineering has always been at the very heart of Sheffield and the
> Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Sheffield is
> one of the UK's leaders in the field. We are committed to maintaining
> that position at the forefront in both teaching and research. We have
> ambitious plans to grow the Department both in student numbers and
> academic staff. Recruiting the very best people is central to our strategy.
>
> Our internationally recognised success affords us the opportunity to
> invite applications for 5 unique academic positions. These academic
> posts are open to outstanding individuals in any area of Mechanical
> Engineering for appointment at Lecturer or Senior Lecturer level. We
> can consider any area of mechanical engineering, but have a preference
> Manufacturing/Robotics/Solid Mechanics/Composites/ Aerospace Structures/
> Aerospace Engineering. The post holder will have the personal capacity
> to make a significant contribution to the Department, the Faculty, and
> the University, as a research-led academic.
>
> We will also favourably consider research groups wishing to
> relocate, and can provide a balance of posts at the right level,
> support and facilities necessary to assist with this move.
>
> The key criterion for selection is your personal capacity to make an
> outstanding contribution to the Department, Faculty, and the University,
> as a research-led academic.
>
> Establishing your research quickly will be a priority. To support you in
> achieving this, each post will receive an attractive package, including:
>
> * an open-ended appointment at an attractive salary.
> * an allocation of funded PhD places to support your research.
> * a generous research start-up grant (negotiable depending on
> appointment level)
> * reduced teaching and administrative duties for the first 2 years.
> * access to a mentoring scheme tailored to suit your individual needs.
> * priority access to new laboratory space that is being commissioned.
>
> We would also favourably consider research groups wishing to relocate,
> and we can tailor packages to suit the circumstances.
>
> More information:
> http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AGF162/senior-lecturer-lecturer-5-positions/
>
> --
> Roderich GROSS, PhD SMIEEE
> Lecturer and Head of the Natural Robotics Lab
> Department of Automatic Control & Systems Engineering
> The University of Sheffield
> Mappin Street
> Sheffield S1 3JD, UK
> http://www.shef.ac.uk/acse/staff/roderich-gross
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 18
> Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 20:52:23 +0000
> From: "Tenzer, Yaroslav" <ytenzer@seas.harvard.edu>
> To: "robotics-worldwide@duerer.usc.edu"
> <robotics-worldwide@duerer.usc.edu>
> Subject: [robotics-worldwide] Deadline Reminder: 2013 New England
> Manipulation Symposium
> Message-ID:
> <700880E0B5E3C648B063B8370DE1EC130E261CDB@MBX01.seas.harvard.edu>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> Deadline reminder for the:
>
> 2013 New England Manipulation Symposium
>
> The 9th Annual New England Manipulation Symposium (NEMS) will take place at Harvard University on Friday, May 17th, 2013.
>
> The manipulation community combines researchers who are working on computational algorithms, sensing, mechanics, and practical design associated with grasping and manipulation.
>
> The main goals of this event are to take advantage of our geographic proximity to explore common research interests, to establish and strengthen collaborations, and to give students the opportunity to network and present their work.
>
> Previous symposia brought together robotics researchers in New England and the Northeastern United States. NEMS 2012 was held at iRobot and was attended by approximately 57 participants from 17 institutions.
>
> Oral presentations on manipulation-related research are invited, as are poster presentations on other research of interest to the NEMS audience.
>
> The deadline for registration for oral and poster presentations is Monday, April 15, 2013. The deadline for registration for demo presentation or attendance is Wednesday, May 1st, 2013.
>
> For registration details please visit http://biorobotics.harvard.edu/NEMS2013/
>
> Please address questions to ytenzer@seas.harvard.edu
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 19
> Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 18:49:00 +0200
> From: Udo Frese <Udo.Frese@dfki.de>
> To: euron-dist@iais.fraunhofer.de, robocup-worldwide@cc.gatech.edu,
> robotics-worldwide@duerer.usc.edu
> Cc: Udo Frese <Udo.Frese@dfki.de>, Heiko Hirschmueller
> <heiko.hirschmueller@dlr.de>
> Subject: [robotics-worldwide] Deadline extension: JRTIP Special Issue
> on Robot Vision
> Message-ID: <FCC12C86-8B5D-40C2-B87E-DA6F2BF1AA19@dfki.de>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> Hello everyone,
> due to popular demand the submission deadline for the JRTIP SI on Robot Vision has been extended:
>
> DEADLINE EXTENSION
>
> Journal of Real-Time Image Processing
>
> Special Issue on Robot Vision
>
> Guest Editors:
> Udo Frese (University of Bremen)
> Heiko Hirschmueller (German Aerospace Center, DLR)
>
> Dates
> Papers submission 13 May 2013
> First review by 1 October 2013
> Second review by 31 December 2013
> Camera ready papers by 28 February, 2014
> (note: papers are reviewed as soon as they are submitted and
> appear online soon after they are accepted).
>
>
> More information at
>
> http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/cfp_Robot_Vision_UF_revised2.pdf?SGWID=0-0-45-1387509-0
>
> Contact
> ufrese@informatik.uni-bremen.de , heiko.hirschmueller@dlr.de
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 20
> Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 19:19:01 +0000
> From: Simon DiMaio <Simon.DiMaio@intusurg.com>
> To: "robotics-worldwide@duerer.usc.edu"
> <robotics-worldwide@duerer.usc.edu>
> Subject: [robotics-worldwide] Intuitive Surgical announcement of the
> 2014 Clinical and Technology Research Grant Programs
> Message-ID:
> <46D38AFC20D58E4286C63264C0DF926903C335CF@SV950-MBX2.corp.intusurg.com>
>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
>
>
> Dear Science & Engineering Researchers:
>
> Intuitive Surgical is pleased to announce its 2014 grant programs for both clinical and technology research. You can find more information about these grants on our company website:
> http://www.intuitivesurgical.com/company/educational-grants/
> http://www.intuitivesurgical.com/company/educational-grants/technology_grants.html
>
> In particular, I'd like to draw your attention to the technology research grants. The purpose of these grants is to support technology research in the area of surgical robotics, or related fields. The program is open to researchers at non-profit academic institutions worldwide and successful proposals will ideally address clinically-relevant technology development.
>
> To start the grant proposal process, we are inviting letters of intent (up to 2-pages, as described on our website). Please send these to us by June 1st, 2013. Invitations to submit full grant proposals will be sent on July 1st, with a submission deadline of September 1st, 2013. Details of the selection criteria, grant conditions, and other guidelines, are available on our website.
>
> A brief FAQ is included below based on some of the common questions that we have been asked in previous years.
>
> Frequently Asked Questions:
>
> 1) What kinds of research projects has Intuitive funded in the past?
> Prior projects have included the following topics:
>
> * Fluorescence and other novel imaging methods for guiding surgery.
>
> * Tissue characterization using electrical impedance measurements.
>
> * Tissue bonding without sutures.
>
> * High force micro-manipulation mechanisms.
>
> * Compact, yet dexterous mechanisms for minimally-invasive surgery.
>
> * Robotic mechanisms for intravenous injection.
>
> * Skills assessment and training technologies.
>
> * Image-guided robotics.
>
> * Novel tissue cutting and manipulation methods.
>
> * Use of intra-operative ultrasound for surgical navigation and monitoring.
>
> * Methods for fabricating micromanipulation mechanisms.
>
> * Novel actuation and sensing methods for medical robots.
>
> 2) Does the project have to involve the da Vinci?
> Not at all - in fact this grant program is intended to support the exploration of novel future ideas for addressing compelling clinical problems. These need not be relevant to today's da Vinci Surgical System.
>
> 3) Can I use the grant funds to pay a student stipend or postdoc salary?
> Yes, the funds can be used to pay salaries for students, postdocs, research engineers, faculty, or other staff that are directly involved in performing the research work. Funds may also be used for purchasing materials, supplies, and equipment, as well as for any prototyping costs associated with the project.
>
> 3) Does Intuitive pay overhead costs?
> Yes, we will pay overhead; however, due to the limited size of these grants, we require that you limit indirect costs to no more than 20%. The total costs, including both direct and indirect costs, as well as any applicable taxes, should not exceed $50,000 USD.
>
> 4) The guidelines indicate that grantees will be invited to present their project work and results in California. When will this happen and will Intuitive cover the cost of travel and accommodations?
> This year, we invited all of our clinical and technology grant awardees to Sunnyvale for a Research Grant Symposium day in January. This was a great event for interacting with other grant recipients, as well as with researchers and engineers at Intuitive. We hope to repeat this symposium event annually and will cover travel costs for the principal investigator and one student/postdoc/associate to attend the symposium.
>
> 5) The guidelines say that IP terms and conditions may apply. What does this mean?
> Most university sponsored research departments will require that a Sponsored Research Agreement be put in place prior to any sponsored project work. Intuitive uses a fairly standard sponsored research agreement for this purpose and we try to use this consistently for all grant projects. The agreement includes confidentiality and liability terms to protect both the research institution, as well as Intuitive. In most cases, all intellectual property generated by the investigators during the course of the sponsored research work belongs to the institution. Intuitive does not typically request or claim ownership to this IP; however, in cases where projects require closer collaboration and joint research work with Intuitive, IP-sharing terms may need to be negotiated prior to the grant award.
>
> Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or queries regarding the program. Otherwise, we look forward to receiving your pre-proposals (letters of intent).
>
> Regards,
>
> Dale
>
>
> Dale Bergman
> Research Coordinator | Intuitive Surgical, Inc. |
> 1266 Kifer Road, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 | tel 408.523.2234 | www.intusurg.com<http://www.intusurg.com/>
> email: Dale.Bergman@intusurg.com
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 21
> Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 18:16:40 +0200
> From: BCBT, B?stia Compartida <bcbt@upf.edu>
> To: B?stia Compartida BCBT <bcbt@upf.edu>
> Subject: [robotics-worldwide] Participation to Barcelona Cognition,
> Brain and Technology Summer School 2013
> Message-ID:
> <CAOT3R5bp3T5yy6gK5UJWipVJbiYchWOGdJDsY14Pbay4tnMzBw@mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"
>
> *Letter for participation to BCBT 2013*
>
> BCBT is an annual international summer school that promotes a shared
> systems-level understanding of the functional architecture of the brain and
> its possible emulation in artificial systems.
>
> BCBT addresses students and researchers involved in research at the
> interface between brain and technology such as in the ambit of ?Bio-ICT
> convergence? "Brain Inspired ICT" and ?cognitive systems and robotics?.
>
> The 2013 edition of BCBT is co-organized and supported by the European
> projects Convergent Science Network of Biomimetic and NeuroTechnology
> http<http://www.csnetwork.eu/>
> ://www.csnetwork.eu <http://www.csnetwork.eu/>/ <http://www.csnetwork.eu/> and
> Goal-Leaders http
> <http://www.goal-leaders.eu/>://www.goal-leaders.eu/<http://www.goal-leaders.eu/>
>
> Students will have the opportunity to attend lectures from prominent
> scientists in the field of brain research, neuroscience, artificial
> intelligence and related fields. Students will also attend tutorials and
> work on projects that will be presented at the end of the 2 weeks of the
> summer school.
>
> BCBT can accommodate about 75 participants. Students are required to
> attend the school for the full duration and participate in collaborative
> projects.
>
> To Apply please check our web page http <http://bcbt.upf.edu/bcbt13/>
> ://bcbt.upf.edu/bcbt13
> <http://bcbt.upf.edu/bcbt13/>/<http://bcbt.upf.edu/bcbt13/> or
> write to bcbt@ <bcbt@upf.edu>upf.edu <bcbt@upf.edu>
>
> Kind Regards,
>
>
> the BCBT organization team
> http://bcbt.upf.edu/bcbt13/ <http://bcbt.upf.edu/bcbt11/>
>
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> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:00:04 -0700
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> Today's Topics:
>
> 1. Planning Algorithms Software Engineer (Brooke Layton)
> 2. Ph.D. Student Openings in Robot Vision (Cang Ye)
> 3. Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Engineer Positions
> (Foong Shaohui)
> 4. Last Call: EU FP7 Robot Competition EURATHLON 2013
> (Frank E. Schneider)
> 5. ACC Tutorial: Stochastic Models, Information Theory, and Lie
> Groups (Gregory S Chirikjian)
> 6. Robotica 31(5) August 2013 (Gregory S Chirikjian)
> 7. Full-time Lecturer Position at Johns Hopkins in Mechanical
> Engineering (Gregory S Chirikjian)
> 8. ECMR13 deadline extended to 30.04.13 (Juan Andrade Cetto)
> 9. 2nd CFP: 5th Intl Workshop on Affective Interaction in
> Natural Environments (AFFINE) @ ACII 2013 (Ginevra Castellano)
> 10. ** April 2013 issue of IEEE T-ASE available (Ken Goldberg)
> 11. Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Intelligent Workspace
> Acquisition, Comprehension and Exploitation, Oxford Mobile
> Robotics Group (Ingmar Posner)
> 12. Posting request for [CFP: URAI 2013 conference] (KROS)
> 13. CFP: ICRA 2013 Workshop Networked Multi-Agent Systems: From
> Theory to Practice (Nora Ayanian)
> 14. Funded positions for MSc, PhD, and postdoctoral studies in
> medical robotics at the University of Alberta (M. Tavakoli)
> 15. Special Issue on "Advances in Domestic Service Robots in the
> Real World" - JINT (Springer) (Javier Ruiz-del-Solar)
> 16. [job advertisement] Research Assistant in Computer Science
> (Intelligent Long-term Behaviour in Mobile Robotics) (Tom Duckett)
> 17. 8 faculty posts at The University of Sheffield (Roderich Gross)
> 18. Deadline Reminder: 2013 New England Manipulation Symposium
> (Tenzer, Yaroslav)
> 19. Deadline extension: JRTIP Special Issue on Robot Vision
> (Udo Frese)
> 20. Intuitive Surgical announcement of the 2014 Clinical and
> Technology Research Grant Programs (Simon DiMaio)
> 21. Participation to Barcelona Cognition, Brain and Technology
> Summer School 2013 (BCBT)
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 14:42:25 -0500
> From: Brooke Layton <bLayton@ihmc.us>
> To: robotics-worldwide@duerer.usc.edu
> Subject: [robotics-worldwide] Planning Algorithms Software Engineer
> Message-ID: <70ACED3F-BCDD-4461-83F6-D1C5A1639E97@ihmc.us>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> Planning Algorithms Software Engineer
> We are seeking a Java software developer who is knowledgeable about planning algorithms and interested in semi-autonomous rotorcraft and humanoid robotics. The position will involve implementing, testing, and evaluating various planning algorithms, as well as integrating them into various projects which involve both semi-autonomous rotorcraft and humanoid robotics. Strong Java skills are required.
>
> Ideal candidate should have the ability write clean code in Java to the highest standards; have an understanding of advanced level object-oriented programming concepts; have excellent analytical, problem solving and organizational skills. Applicants should have knowledge of planning algorithms. Applicants must have excellent communication and documentation skills, thriving in both a team and individual environment.
>
> Minimum requirements for the successful candidate:
>
> Currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
> Authorized to work in the United States
> Knowledge of planning algorithms
> Proficient in Java
>
> To Apply:
> Complete the intensive, timed, Java challenge at Interview Street here:
> http://istest.co/internship2013ihmc
>
> ***Note that you MUST follow the instructions here, or you will be given an automatic zero.***
>
> Please note that the Java programming challenge is difficult and you will be given up to 16 hours to complete it. The test cannot be paused, so only begin the test when you are ready and have allotted adequate time and brainpower to complete the challenge.
>
> Your score on the Java programming challenge will be factored into your application and is required to apply for this position.
> Immediate openings. Salary Negotiable.
> Questions: robotjobs@ihmc.us
>
> This job posting will be active until April 19, 2013.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:45:42 -0500
> From: "Cang Ye" <cxye@ualr.edu>
> To: <robotics-worldwide@duerer.usc.edu>
> Subject: [robotics-worldwide] Ph.D. Student Openings in Robot Vision
> Message-ID: <000901ce3602$76c835b0$6458a110$@ualr.edu>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> The Intelligent Autonomous Systems Lab (http://ualr.edu/cxye/laboratory.htm)
> of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock has two Ph.D. student openings
> for Fall 2013. The successful candidate will develop 3D robot vision methods
> based on a 3D Flash LIDAR Camera. The research team will work on a wide
> range of research problems on robot vision, including 6-DOF pose estimation
> by computer vision, terrain mapping, 3D data segmentation, and autonomous
> navigation. General guideline of admission to graduate study is referred to
> http://ualr.edu/enss/. The lab currently hosts research funded by the
> National Science Foundation and NASA and supports 4 Ph.D. students.
>
> The University of Arkansas at Little Rock is a dynamic metropolitan
> university locating at the state's capital city, Little Rock
> (http://www.littlerock.com). Applicants should hold a degree in electrical
> engineering, computer science, or related fields. Desired skills include
> programming in C/C++ and Matlab, image processing, 3D computer vision. To
> apply, contact Dr. Cang Ye (cxye@ualr.edu) with detailed CV and copies of
> transcript(s), TOEFL and GRE.
>
> -------------------------------------------
> Cang Ye, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor
> Department of Systems Engineering
> University of Arkansas at Little Rock
> 2801 S. University Ave, EIT 536
> Little Rock, AR 72204
> Phone: (501) 683-7284 Fax: (501) 569-8698 Google Voice: (501) 237-1818
> Email: cxye@ualr.edu
> http://www.ualr.edu/cxye
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 02:53:40 +0000
> From: Foong Shaohui <foongshaohui@sutd.edu.sg>
> To: "robotics-worldwide@duerer.usc.edu"
> <robotics-worldwide@duerer.usc.edu>
> Subject: [robotics-worldwide] Postdoctoral Fellow and Research
> Engineer Positions
> Message-ID:
> <721885779F65CA4CA4CCAA5A6F73490227E89E34@HKXPRD0310MB352.apcprd03.prod.outlook.com>
>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> The Magneto-Mechatronics Lab at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) invites applications for immediate openings for postdoctoral fellow and research engineer positions in the area of biomedical-centric multi-axis robot control and/or tracking & filtering instrumentation. Researchers will work on a multi-disciplinary team consisting of engineers, scientists and neuroscientists in developing a novel automated medical device for innovative neuroscience clinical applications. As this research is pursued jointly by SUTD and Zhejiang University (ZJU) in China, there will be ample opportunities for close interaction with researchers and clinicians in ZJU as well.
>
> This project involves:
> * Modeling, collision-free trajectory planning and control of multi-axis articulated robotic arms
> * Devising, simulating and implementing a robust and contact-free localization system with advanced filtering techniques
> * Design and fabrication of wearable and embedded electronics for bio-instrumentation and localization
>
> Applications, assembled as a single PDF file, should contain a complete resume, cover letter describing their background, research interests and goals, full list of publications, copies of up to three relevant scientific papers, as well as the names and contact information of up to three references. These positions are guaranteed for a year with a possible second year extension and come with a competitive salary which is determined based on the applicants' research achievements, experience and qualifications. Please send applications to shao@sutd.edu.sg<mailto:shao@sutd.edu.sg> and uxuan_tan@sutd.edu.sg<mailto:uxuan_tan@sutd.edu.sg> .
>
> About SUTD: (http://www.sutd.edu.sg)
>
> The Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) aims to become the center and stronghold of global research and breakthroughs through creative technical research and education anchored in design within a multi-disciplinary approach. This focus on design is called Big 'D', where the aim is not just produce graduates well-versed in technical functionality, but a new breed of the brightest technical minds that understands form to design the new innovations of tomorrow. SUTD seeks to inspire all that goes through our doors in the art and science of design to ensure that architectural, systems and engineering inventions of tomorrow are both a technical breakthrough and a resonating lifestyle appeal.
>
> Shaohui Foong
> shao@sutd.edu.sg<mailto:shao@sutd.edu.sg>
>
>
> This email may contain confidential and/or proprietary information that is exempt from disclosure under applicable law and is intended for receipt and use solely by the addressee(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this email, or any attachment, is strictly prohibited. Please delete the email immediately and inform the sender. Thank You
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 09:33:14 +0200
> From: "Frank E. Schneider" <frank.schneider@fkie.fraunhofer.de>
> To: euron-dist@iais.fraunhofer.de, "robotics-worldwide@usc.edu"
> <robotics-worldwide@usc.edu>
> Subject: [robotics-worldwide] Last Call: EU FP7 Robot Competition
> EURATHLON 2013
> Message-ID: <516515BA.5040107@fkie.fraunhofer.de>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
>
> Dear roboticists,
>
> this is the last CALL FOR PARTICIPATION in the EURATHLON 2013.
> Your expression of interest has to be received by 14.Apr.2013 latest!
> See
> http://www.eurathlon2013.eu/information/competition/how_to.html
> for details
>
> EURATHLON is a new robot competition supported by the European Commission
> in the FP7.
>
> The basic concept evolved from the C-ELROB events, however there will be
> major changes:
>
> - Price money
> - Student travel support
> - Common Shared Data Sets (ROS bags)
> - Free hardware loans (incl. ROS driver)
> - Workshops and static/dynamic display
>
> The scenarios are
>
> - Reconnaissance and surveillance in urban structures (USAR)
> - Mobile manipulation for handling hazardous material
> - Search and rescue in a smoke filled underground structure
> - Autonomous navigation using GPS, GLONASS and GALILEO
> - EOR/EOD/IEDD/CIED
>
> We would be happy to welcome you and your team to the EURATHLON tournament
> on the 23.-27. September in Berchtesgaden!
>
> For more information please follow the link: http://www.EURATHLON2013.eu/.
>
>
> Kind regards
> Frank E. Schneider
>
> EU FP7 Robot Competition EURATHLON 2013
> 23.-27. September 2013
> Berchtesgaden, Germany
> http://www.EURATHLON2013.eu/
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:42:01 -0400
> From: Gregory S Chirikjian <gchirik1@jhu.edu>
> To: robotics-worldwide@usc.edu
> Subject: [robotics-worldwide] ACC Tutorial: Stochastic Models,
> Information Theory, and Lie Groups
> Message-ID: <6fe0a74225462.5163e269@johnshopkins.edu>
> Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII
>
> ACC Tutorial Sunday, June 16, 2013, Washington DC
> http://a2c2.org/conferences/acc2013/workshops.html
>
>
> Tutorial: Stochastic Models, Information Theory, and Lie Groups
> Organizer: Gregory Chirikjian, Johns Hopkins University
>
> This tutorial reviews stochastic models in robot motion planning, state estimation, and control, and explains how concepts from both information theory and the theory of Lie groups are naturally intertwined with these models. Unlike most treatments of continuous time stochastic processes, which are either highly formalized or focusing on one-dimensional problems, the review provided here will cover physically motivated multi-dimensional problems in an accessible way.
>
> Topics such as the relationship between nonholonomic constraints, white noise forcing, and the parametric distributions that result, will be discussed. The inter-conversion of Ito and Stratonovich stochastic differential equations will be explained. Some elementary Lie group theory will be used.
>
> Application areas will include orientation and pose estimation, simultaneous localization and mapping, and steering flexible needles for minimally invasive surgical applications. As time permits other topics will be discusses including stochastic modeling of biological macromolecules from a systems-theoretic perspective.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:41:37 -0400
> From: Gregory S Chirikjian <gchirik1@jhu.edu>
> To: robotics-worldwide@usc.edu
> Subject: [robotics-worldwide] Robotica 31(5) August 2013
> Message-ID: <6d708cf726c1b.5163e251@johnshopkins.edu>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252
>
> Volume 31 Part 5 August 2013
>
> Effects of distance and direction on tangential tactile perception of the index finger pad,
> Greg Placencia, Mansour Rahimi and Behrokh Khoshnevis 679
>
> A robust, multi-hypothesis approach to matching occupancy grid maps,
> Jose-Luis Blanco, Javier Gonz?lez-Jim?nez and Juan-Antonio Fern?ndez-Madrigal 687
>
> An experimental setup for autonomous operation of surface vessels in rough seas,
> Farshad Mahini, Leonard DiWilliams, Kevin Burke and Hashem Ashrafiuon 703
>
> Gait generation via unified learning optimal control of Hamiltonian systems,
> Satoshi Satoh, Kenji Fujimoto and Sang-Ho Hyon 717
>
> Conditional Density Growth (CDG) model: a simplified model of RRT coverage for kinematic systems,
> Joel M. Esposito 733
>
> A flexible method combining camera calibration and hand?eye calibration,
> Zijian Zhao and Ying Weng 747
>
> Hierarchical safety supervisory control strategy for robot-assisted rehabilitation exercise,
> Lizheng Pan, Aiguo Song, Guozheng Xu, Huijun Li, Baoguo Xu and Pengwen Xiong 757
>
> Navigation of non-communicating autonomous mobile robots with guaranteed connectivity,
> Ahmet Cezayirli and Feza Kerestecio?lu 767
>
> A coordination-based CPG structure for 3D walking control,
> Weiwei Huang, Chee-Meng Chew and Geok-Soon Hong 777
>
> Bio-inspired backlash reduction of a low-cost robotic joint using closed-loop-commutated stepper motors,
> J?zsef Veres, Gy?rgy Cserey and G?bor Szederk?nyi 789
>
> Manipulability analysis of human thumb, index and middle fingers in cooperative 3D rotational movements of a small object,
> M. Felix Orlando, Ashish Dutta, Anupam Saxena, Laxmidhar Behera, Tomoya Tamei and Tomohiro Shibata 797
>
> Sinusoidal input-based visual control for nonholonomic vehicles,
> M. Aranda, G. L?pez-Nicol?s and C. Sag??s 811
>
> Tip-contact force control of a single-link flexible arm using feedback and parallel compensation approach,
> Liang-Yih Liu and Hsiung-Cheng Lin 825
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:41:44 -0400
> From: Gregory S Chirikjian <gchirik1@jhu.edu>
> To: robotics-worldwide@usc.edu
> Subject: [robotics-worldwide] Full-time Lecturer Position at Johns
> Hopkins in Mechanical Engineering
> Message-ID: <6fe0fb4b214b7.5163e258@johnshopkins.edu>
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>
> Full-time Lecturer Position at Johns Hopkins in Mechanical Engineering
>
> The Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University invites applications for a full-time lecturer position. The individual selected for this position will be expected to contribute to the department?s educational mission through teaching, course development, and advising and mentoring students. They may also engage in mechanical engineering scholarship. Johns Hopkins is a private university well known for its commitment to academic excellence and research. The mechanical engineering department is among the top in the country in terms of research activities and educational programs. See our web page at http://www.me.jhu.edu for additional information.
>
> The ideal candidate will have a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related field and demonstrated excellence in teaching. It is desired that the candidate has experience and interest in teaching courses in robotics, dynamical systems, and mechanics. The successful candidate will work closely with faculty colleagues. Applications should include a cover letter, a curriculum vita, a statement of teaching philosophy and interests, and should be submitted electronically as a **single PDF** document to me-search@jhu.edu with?Lecturer Search? in the subject line. Applicants should arrange for three reference letters to be sent directly to me-search@jhu.edu. Applications will be considered beginning April 2, 2013.
>
> The Department is committed to a diverse environment; women and minorities are strongly encouraged to apply. The Johns Hopkins University is an EEO/AA Employer.
>
> Contact Information
> Lecturer Search Committee
> me-search@jhu.edu
> Department of Mechanical Engineering
> The Johns Hopkins University
> 223 Latrobe Hall
> 3400 N. Charles St.
> Baltimore, MD 21218
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 14:22:36 +0200
> From: Juan Andrade Cetto <cetto@iri.upc.edu>
> To: robotics-worldwide@usc.edu, euron-dist@iais.fraunhofer.de,
> automatica@dit.upm.es
> Subject: [robotics-worldwide] ECMR13 deadline extended to 30.04.13
> Message-ID: <15026D59-26DD-4E4D-B2C1-AB740006099D@iri.upc.edu>
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>
> Dear roboticists,
>
> The deadline for paper submission to ECMR13 has been extended to 30.04.13.
> We look forward to your contributions!
>
> ----------------------------------
> EXTENDED DEADLINE!
> ---------------------------------
>
> 6th European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR13)
>
> Date: Sep 25-27, 2013
> Location: Barcelona, Spain
> http://www.iri.upc.edu/ecmr13/
>
> ECMR is an internationally open biennial European forum, allowing researchers to learn and discuss the latest accomplishments and innovations in mobile robotics and mobile human-robot systems. ECMR 2013 is the 6th edition of the conference, and will be held in Barcelona, Spain.
>
> * Guest speakers
>
> - Paul Newman, Oxford Mobile Robotics Group, University of Oxford
> - Jamie Paik, Reconfigurable Robotics Lab, EPFL.
>
> * Important Dates
>
> April 30, 2013: Paper submission deadline
> June 22, 2013: Notification of acceptance
> July 8, 2013: Final paper submission and early registration
> September 25-27, 2013: Conference
>
>
>
> * Scope
>
> Most aspects of robotics research and machine intelligence are relevant topics, including, but not limited to: localization, mapping, navigation, robot vision, 3D sensing, multi-sensor fusion, active perception, behavior-based robotics, task and path planning, learning and adaptation, human-robot interaction, experimental evaluation and benchmarking, and new applications of mobile robot systems. Particularly welcome are papers reporting on real-world applications if they provide insights beyond a single project.
>
> * Paper Submission
>
> Authors are invited to submit original contributions 6-8 pages long, in English, in two column IEEE conference style in electronic form using the conference website. Papers presented at the conference will be published in IEEE Explore.
>
> * Submission site
> https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ECMR2013/
>
> * Technical sponsor
>
> IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
>
> * Organizers
>
> - General Chair
> Juan Andrade-Cetto
> Institut de Rob?tica i Inform?tica Industrial, UPC-CSIC, Spain
>
> - Program chair
> Udo Frese
> Universitaet Bremen, Germany
>
> - Exhibitions chair
> Andreu Corominas-Murtra
> Beta Robots, Spain
>
> - Conference board:
> Adam Borkowski
> Wolfram Burgard
> Achim Lilienthal
> Ivan Petrovic
> Primo Zingaretti
>
> - Contact:
> ecmr13@iri.upc.edu
>
>
>
>
> Juan Andrade Cetto
> Institut de Rob?tica i Inform?tica Industrial, CSIC-UPC
> Llorens i Artigas 4-6, 2a pl., 08028 Barcelona, Spain
> Tel. +34 934010775, Fax. +34 934015750
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 9
> Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2013 12:35:31 +0100
> From: Ginevra Castellano <g.castellano@bham.ac.uk>
> To: robotics-worldwide@usc.edu
> Subject: [robotics-worldwide] 2nd CFP: 5th Intl Workshop on Affective
> Interaction in Natural Environments (AFFINE) @ ACII 2013
> Message-ID: <5163FD03.3080201@bham.ac.uk>
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>
> *5^th International Workshop on Affective Interaction in Natural
> Environments (AFFINE):**
> Interacting with Affective Artefacts in the Wild*
>
> http://www.image.ntua.gr/affine/
>
> Geneva, 2 September 2013
>
> Satellite event of ACII 2013 (http://www.acii2013.org/)
>
> A vital requirement for social robots is the ability to infer the
> affective and mental states of humans and provide appropriate output
> during sustained social interactions, and to do so in a timely manner.
> Examples include ensuring that the user is interested in maintaining the
> interaction or providing suitable empathic responses through the display
> of facial expressions, gestures or generation of speech. This workshop
> will cover real-time computational techniques for the recognition and
> interpretation of human affective and social behaviour, models of
> "mentalising" and "empathising" for affective human-robot interaction in
> naturalistic settings, and techniques for synthesis of believable social
> behaviour supporting real-time adaptive human-robot interaction in
> real-world environments.
>
> This year AFFINE especially welcomes studies that provide new insights
> into the use of multimodal techniques for enabling interaction between
> humans and robots "in the wild", i.e., in natural, everyday,
> non-laboratory settings. We anticipate the main outcome of this workshop
> to be the identification and investigation of important open issues in
> real-time, affect-aware human-robot interactions applications in natural
> environments. Issues such as natural and multimodal interaction,
> estimation and adaption to context, context dependent processing and
> related databases and best practices for application to real
> environments will be discussed in the context of interacting with other
> humans and social artefacts.
>
> Topics include (but are not limited to) the following:
>
> Multimodal human affect and social behaviour recognition
>
> Multimodal expression generation in robots and virtual agents
>
> Perception-action loops in agents/robots
>
> Cognitive and affective 'mentalising'
>
> Visual attention / user engagement with robots and embodied
> conversational agents (ECAs)
>
> Emotion and cognitive state representation
>
> Social context awareness and adaptation
>
> Natural Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) / Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
>
> Frameworks for adaptive, real-time HCI and HRI
>
> Multimodal and emotional corpora (naturally evoked or induced emotion)
>
> Techniques for handling noisy data in real world scenarios
>
> Affective mobile computing
>
> Recognition of human behaviour for implicit tagging
>
> Crowdsourcing affective behaviour
>
> Exertion games/physical interaction
>
> Real-world interactive/affective artefacts
>
> Applications to interactive games, robots and virtual agents
>
> *Program committee*
>
> Albert Ali Salah (Bogazici University, Turkey)
>
> Sandra Baldassarri (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
>
> Christian Becker-Asano (University of Freiburg, Germany)
>
> Tony Belpaeme (University of Plymouth, UK)
>
> Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze (University College London, UK)
>
> Timothy Bickmore (Norteastern University, USA)
>
> Carlos Busso (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
>
> Marc Cavazza (University of Teesside, UK)
>
> Matthieu Courgeon (CERV, France)
> Kerstin Dautenhahn (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
>
> Laurence Devillers (LIMSI-CNRS, France)
>
> Sidney D'Mello (University of Notre Dame, USA)
>
> Faiyaz Doctor (Coventry University, UK)
>
> Hatice Gunes (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
>
> Zakia Hammal (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
>
> Dirk Heylen (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
>
> Isabelle Hupont Torres (Aragon Institute of Technology, Spain)
>
> Stefanos Kollias (ICCS-NTUA, Greece)
>
> Iolanda Leite (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal)
>
> Maurizio Mancini (University of Genova, Italy)
>
> Rachel McDonnell (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
>
> Peter William McOwan (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
>
> Radoslaw Niewiadomski (Telecom ParisTech, France)
>
> Fotios Papadopoulos (University of Birmingham, UK)
>
> Peter Robinson (University of Cambridge, UK)
> Mario Romero (KTH, Sweden)
>
> Bjoern Schuller (Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany)
>
> Bill Smart (Oregon State University, USA)
>
> Giovanna Varni (University of Genova, Italy)
>
> Gualtiero Volpe (University of Genova, Italy)
>
> Michael Walters (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
>
> Nigel Ward (UT El Paso, USA)
>
> *Important dates*
>
> Deadline for paper submission: 26 April 2013
>
> Notification of acceptance: 3 June 2013
>
> Camera ready paper: 17 June 2013
>
>
>
> *Paper format*
>
> Papers should be 6 pages long and follow the standard IEEE double column
> format, in accordance with the guidelines of the ACII conference. For
> more information about the format, see the workshop's website:
> http://www.image.ntua.gr/affine/
>
>
> *Submission instructions*
>
> Authors should submit their manuscripts using the EasyChair system
> (instructions and link are available on the workshop's website:
> http://www.image.ntua.gr/affine/)
>
>
> *Publication information*
>
> Accepted workshop papers will be published in the ACII conference
> proceedings and indexed in IEEExplore.
>
> *Workshop chairs*
>
> Ginevra Castellano (University of Birmingham, UK)
>
> Kostas Karpouzis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
>
> Jean-Claude Martin (Paris South University, France)
>
> Louis-Philippe Morency (University of Southern California, USA)
>
> Christopher Peters (KTH, Sweden)
>
> Laurel Riek (University of Notre Dame, USA)
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> --
> Dr. Ginevra Castellano
> School of Electronic, Electrical and Computer Engineering
> University of Birmingham
> Edgbaston
> Birmingham
> B15 2TT
> United Kingdom
>
> Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 7118
> Email: g.castellano@bham.ac.uk
> http://www.eee.bham.ac.uk/castellg/
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 10
> Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 09:27:44 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Ken Goldberg <goldberg@berkeley.edu>
> To: robotics-worldwide@usc.edu
> Cc: Ken Goldberg <goldberg@berkeley.edu>
> Subject: [robotics-worldwide] ** April 2013 issue of IEEE T-ASE
> available
> Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1304080927060.30572@localhost>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed"
>
> As noted in the Table of Contents below, the April 2013 issue of the IEEE
> Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE) features a
> Guest Editorial by Vijay Kumar and SK Gupta on Exciting Trends in
> Manufacturing, new results from Efi Fogel and Danny Halperin on the
> open-source Computational Geometry Algorithms Library (CGAL) which offers
> guarantees of correctness, and papers on innovative topics such as using
> mobile phones as seismologic sensors, new sensors and actuators for micro-
> and nano-scale automation, and applications in steelmaking, trains, and
> power generation:
>
> http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=6493467&punumber=8856
>
> This links to the Table of Contents, which allows free access to
> Editorials, Abstracts of all papers, and to the full text of "Open Access"
> papers (via the .pdf links).
>
> Details on T-ASE, info for authors, and upcoming Special Issues on our
> newly re-designed website:
> http://www.ieee-ras.org/publications/t-ase
>
> The IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering deadline for
> "Presentation Only" 2-page Abstracts (intended primarily for
> non-academics) is May 1: http://www.case2013.org/
>
> ****************************************
> Table of Contents
> ****************************************
>
> GUEST EDITORIAL
>
> Exciting Trends for Automation in Manufacturing
> Gupta, S.K. ; Kumar, V.
>
> REGULAR PAPERS
>
> Polyhedral Assembly Partitioning With Infinite Translations or The Importance
> of
> Being Exact
> Fogel, E. ; Halperin, D.
>
> Mobile Phones as Seismologic Sensors: Automating Data Extraction for the iShake
> System
> Reilly, J. ; Dashti, S. ; Ervasti, M. ; Bray, J. D. ; Glaser, S. D. ; Bayen, A.
> M.
>
> Design, Simulation, and Fabrication of Microneedles and a Blood Filter for Use
> in a Hemofiltration System
> Tayyaba, S. ; Ashraf, M. W. ; Afzulpurkar, N.
>
> Experimental Analysis of Laser Interferometry-Based Robust Motion Tracking
> Control of a Flexure-Based Mechanism
> Bhagat, U. ; Shirinzadeh, B. ; Tian, Y. ; Zhang, D.
>
>
> AFAM: An Articulated Four Axes Microrobot for Nanoscale Applications
> Murthy, R. ; Stephanou, H. E. ; Popa, D. O.
>
> AFM-Based Robotic Nano-Hand for Stable Manipulation at Nanoscale
> Hou, J. ; Liu, L. ; Wang, Z. ; Wang, Z. ; Xi, N. ; Wang, Y. ; Wu, C. ; Dong, Z.
> ; Yuan, S.
>
> A Geometric Distribution Reader Anti-Collision Protocol for RFID Dense Reader
> Environments
> Bueno-Delgado, M. V. ; Ferrero, R. ; Gandino, F. ; Pavon-Marino, P. ;
> Rebaudengo, M.
>
> An Effective Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm for a Real-World Hybrid Flowshop
> Problem in Steelmaking Process
> Pan, Q.-K. ; Wang, L. ; Mao, K. ; Zhao, J.-H. ; Zhang, M.
>
> Coordinated Iterative Learning Control Schemes for Train Trajectory Tracking
> With Overspeed Protection
> Sun, H. ; Hou, Z. ; Li, D.
>
> Energy Saving Opportunity Analysis of Automotive Serial Production Systems
> Chang, Q. ; Xiao, G. ; Biller, S. ; Li, L.
>
> Swarm Intelligence Approaches to Optimal Power Flow Problem With Distributed
> Generator Failures in Power Networks
> Kang, Q. ; Zhou, M. ; An, J. ; Wu, Q.
>
> Adaptive Dispatching Rule for Semiconductor Wafer Fabrication Facility
> Li, L. ; Sun, Z. ; Zhou, M. ; Qiao, F.
>
> Development and Evaluation of Object-Based Visual Attention for Automatic
> Perception of Robots
> Yu, Y. ; Gu, J. ; Mann, G. K. I. ; Gosine, R. G.
>
> An Integrated Two-Level Self-Calibration Method for a Cable-Driven Humanoid Arm
> Chen, Q. ; Chen, W. ; Yang, G. ; Liu, R.
>
> Fault Detection by Labeled Petri Nets in Centralized and Distributed Approaches
> Fanti, M. P. ; Mangini, A. M. ; Ukovich, W.
>
> Performance Metrics of Speed and Separation Monitoring in Shared Workspaces
> Marvel, J. A.
>
> Hybrid Analysis in the Latent Nestling Method Applied to Fault Diagnosis
> Rodriguez Urrego, L. ; Garcia Moreno, E. ; Morant Anglada, F. ; Correcher
> Salvador, A. ; Quiles Cucarella, E.
>
> Functional and Behavior Models for the Supervision of an Intelligent and
> Autonomous System
> Chatti, N. ; Gehin, A.-L. ; Ould-Bouamama, B. ; Merzouki, R.
>
> SHORT PAPERS
>
> Optimal Alarm Signal Processing: Filter Design and Performance Analysis
> Cheng, Y. ; Izadi, I. ; Chen, T.
>
> Similarity Analysis of Industrial Alarm Flood Data
> Ahmed, K. ; Izadi, I. ; Chen, T. ; Joe, D. ; Burton, T.
>
> Online Sensor Activation for Detectability of Discrete Event Systems
> Shu, S. ; Huang, Z. ; Lin, F.
>
> A Semi-Automated Positioning System for Contact-Mode Atomic Force Microscopy
> (AFM)
> Roy, R. ; Chen, W. ; Cong, L. ; Goodell, L. A. ; Foran, D. J. ; Desai, J. P.
>
> An Assembly-Skill-Transferring Method for Cellular Manufacturing System?Part I:
> Verification of the Proposed Method for Motor Skill
> Duan, F. ; Gao, Q. ; Zhu, C. ; Kato, R. ; Arai, T.
>
> Self-Configuration of Waypoints for Docking Maneuvers of Flexible Automated
> Guided Vehicles
> Herrero, D. ; Villagra, J. ; Martinez, H.
>
> Thin Layer SOI-FETs Used for Stress-Sensing and Its Application in
> Accelerometers
> Wang, H. ; Yang, J. ; Yan, S. ; Jin, Z.
>
> *****************************************
>
> ** Early Access articles are made available well in advance of their
> appearance in the publication cycle:
> http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=4358066
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 11
> Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 12:34:09 +0100
> From: Ingmar Posner <ingmar@robots.ox.ac.uk>
> To: robotics-worldwide@duerer.usc.edu
> Subject: [robotics-worldwide] Postdoctoral Research Assistant in
> Intelligent Workspace Acquisition, Comprehension and Exploitation,
> Oxford Mobile Robotics Group
> Message-ID: <48877BDF-5180-4643-BACA-E9B4C80F500E@robots.ox.ac.uk>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> we are seeking a full-time postdoctoral researcher to become part of the Mobile Robotics Group at the Department of Engineering Science in central Oxford and Begbroke Science Park. The post is funded by EPSRC and is fixed-term for 2 years with a possibility of continuation after that.
>
> The project focuses on interweaving the state of the art in navigation, planning and communications management. Our desire is to enable truly vast scale long-term autonomy for fleets of cars and mobile robots in general. You will be responsible for furthering this core research agenda and take a technical lead in the group?s large scale, long-term autonomy portfolio.
>
> You should possess a doctorate (or be near completion) in robotics, machine learning or computer vision; you should have experience in C++ (additional knowledge of Python, Matlab and/or Java is an advantage) as well as in mobile robotics and you should also have the energy and enthusiasm to both further the state of the art in large scale, long term navigation and deploy and validate it on multiple vehicles. A background in non-parametric modeling and/or optimisation methods is essential. Experience in the planning domain is desirable. It is essential that you can demonstrate experience in developing computer vision and laser driven techniques for outdoor field use. Our focus is very much on outdoor exploitation.
>
> More information can be found at http://www.eng.ox.ac.uk/about-us/jobs under vacancy id 107450. Informal enquiries may be addressed to ingmar@robots.ox.ac.uk.
>
> Only applications received before 12.00 midday on 10 May 2013 can be considered. You will be required to upload a covering letter, a brief statement of research interests (describing how past experience and future plans fit with the advertised position), CV and the details of two referees as part of your online application.
>
> Best Regards,
> Ingmar
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Dr Ingmar Posner
>
> University Lecturer in Information Engineering
> and Fellow of Pembroke College
> Department Of Engineering Science
> Oxford University
> Parks Road
> Oxford
> OX1 3PJ
>
> Tel: (+44) 01865 273148 (IEB)
> (+44) 01865 283778 (Begbroke Lab)
> Fax: (+44) 01865 283145
> http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~posnerhi/
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 12
> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:17:53 +0900
> From: "KROS" <kros@kros.org>
> To: <robotics-worldwide@duerer.usc.edu>
> Cc: 'KROS' <kros@kros.org>
> Subject: [robotics-worldwide] Posting request for [CFP: URAI 2013
> conference]
> Message-ID: <096701ce35bb$8456ca80$8d045f80$@org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>
> Dear Robotics Worldwide,
>
>
>
> I would like to post the following CFP of URAI 2013 conference.
>
> Thanks for your kind effort.
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
>
>
> Mira
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Ms Mira Yoon
>
> Korea Robotics Society (KROS)
>
> #506, The Korea Science and Technology Center, (635-4,Yeoksam-dong)22,7Gil,
>
> Teheran-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea (ZIP 135-703)
>
> Tel : 82-2-783-0306, 5 / Fax : 82-22-783-0307 / <http://www.kros.org> http://www.kros.org
>
>
>
>
>
> ==========================================================================
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS ==========================================================================
>
> Int'l Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence (URAI) 2013
>
> http://www.kros.org/urai2013
>
> Ramada Plaza Jeju Hotel, Jeju, Republic of Korea
>
> Oct. 30 - Nov. 2, 2013
>
> ==========================================================================
>
>
>
> The 10th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence (URAI 2013) will be held in Jeju, Korea Oct. 30 to Nov. 2, 2013. The conference is organized by Korea Robotics Society (KROS).
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Important Dates
>
> ? Deadline for special session proposals: May 15, 2013
>
> ? Deadline for workshop and tutorials: May 15, 2013
>
> ? Deadline for paper submission: May 30, 2013
>
> ? Acceptance Notification: July 31, 2013
>
> ? Deadline for final camera-ready paper submission: September 15, 2013
>
> (Korea Standard Time, UTC+09:00)
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Topics of interest include, but not limited to
>
> Ubiquitous robots, Ambient intelligence, Network-based robotics, Human-robot interaction, Robot vision and audition, Sensor networks and sensor fusion, Robotic agents, Robot intelligence and learning, Intelligent space/ environment technologies, Distributed robotics, Navigation and localization, Robot kinematics and dynamics, Robot control, Robotic mechanism and design, Control architecture and middleware, Haptics and teleoperation, Sensors and actuators, Medical/rehabilitation robotics, Humanoid robots, Field robots, Service robots, Industrial robots, Biorobotics and biomimetics, etc.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Submission of Papers
>
> All papers must be written in English and submitted electronically via the online conference submission system at <http://www.kros.org/urai2013> http://www.kros.org/urai2013 in one of the following three submission categories.
>
>
>
> ? Regular papers (3 to 8 pages)
>
> ? Work-in-progress papers (2 pages)
>
> ? Video papers (video file and 1 page extended abstract)
>
>
>
> After the doubly blind review process, all the accepted papers will be published in the URAI 2013 proceedings, will be included in the IEEE Xplore and EI Compendex. If authors have problems in submission through the website, please feel free to contact the secretariat, via email (kros@kros.org), fax (+82-2-783-0307), or phone (+82-2-783-0306).
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 13
> Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 15:49:44 +0000
> From: Nora Ayanian <nayanian@MIT.EDU>
> To: "robotics-worldwide@duerer.usc.edu"
> <robotics-worldwide@duerer.usc.edu>
> Subject: [robotics-worldwide] CFP: ICRA 2013 Workshop Networked
> Multi-Agent Systems: From Theory to Practice
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> Apologies for multiple postings.
>
> ICRA 2013 Workshop Networked Multi-Agent Systems: From Theory to Practice
>
> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION:
> We seek 1 page abstracts for poster/short presentations as part of a half day workshop.
>
> IMPORTANT DATES:
> - Abstract submission deadline: April 10, 2013
> - Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2013
> - Workshop: Monday, May 6, 2013, 14:00 - 18:15
> - Conference and Workshop Registration: Now Open (see http://www.icra2013.org/)
>
> GENERAL SCOPE:
>
> Development of new capabilities and theoretical performance guarantees for multi-agent systems has been a topic of primary interest both in the literature and in practical applications. Coordination control allows multi-agent systems to tackle complex tasks, often times with applicability over multiple problem scopes from underwater to aerial to biological arenas. However, the capabilities of these systems inherently depend on communication infrastructures and hinge on the assumption of adequate inter-agent communication.
>
> Networking and communication stands as a roadblock in transitioning theory to application for multi-agent systems. Finding solutions to this problem that are satisfactory both in allowing development of theoretical performance guarantees and that are robust to common challenges in practical implementations such as intermittent connectivity, noise, and interference requires a melding of expertise in both areas.
>
> The goal of this workshop is to discuss recent and targeted advances in networked multi-agent system capabilities, identify the major needs and challenges in translating these capabilities to practical arenas, and encourage an exchanging of ideas from robotics and communication experts to tackle these challenges towards development of high performing and reliable networked multi-agent systems for the real-world.
>
> LIST OF TOPICS:
>
> - Real-time communication in multi-hop networks
> - Prioritized communication over multi-agent networks
> - Communication-aware multi-robot planning
> - Network optimization in realistic communication environments
> - Provably correct control in uncertain environments
> - Tradeoffs in performance quality, correctness and convergence
> - Cooperation and communication in heterogeneous teams
> - Coordination with intermittent communication
> - Theoretical solutions applicable across air, sea, ground, and biological applications
> - Design of experimentation for challenging and supporting theoretical claims
> - Anomaly detection in multi-agent systems
> - Formal models and methods for real-time systems
> - Tradeoffs between guarantees and computational efficiency
> - Developing theory to accommodate events inconsistent with assumptions, i.e. loss of global positioning data
>
> WEBSITE:
> http://groups.csail.mit.edu/drl/wiki/index.php?title=ICRA_2013_Workshop
>
> SUBMISSION:
> Submissions for the session must be made in the PDF format and follow standard ICRA style for the layout (https://ras.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/start.pl). Abstracts are limited to one (1) letter size paper. Abstracts should be sent to networkedagents@googlegroups.com<mailto:networkedagents@googlegroups.com> by April 10, 2013. All contributions will be refereed.
>
> REGISTRATION:
> Please refer to the conference web-page: http://www.icra2013.org/
>
> ORGANIZERS:
> Nora Ayanian, Stephanie Gil, Daniela Rus
> MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
>
>
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>
> Message: 14
> Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2013 10:49:29 -0600
> From: "M. Tavakoli" <mahdi.tavakoli@gmail.com>
> To: robotics-worldwide@duerer.usc.edu
> Subject: [robotics-worldwide] Funded positions for MSc, PhD, and
> postdoctoral studies in medical robotics at the University of Alberta
> Message-ID:
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> Motivated graduate students and postdoctoral fellows preferably with
> past experience in medical robotics and especially robot-assisted
> percutaneous therapy are invited to study at the University of
> Alberta. The research projects are highly multidisciplinary and aim to
> develop robotics technologies that allow brachytherapists to place
> implants with high accuracy, repeatability and reliability during
> prostate brachytherapy. All research will be carried out in a
> collaboration setting between the Department of Electrical and
> Computer Engineering (Telerobotic and Biorobotic Systems Group;
> http://www.ece.ualberta.ca/~tbs), the Department of Oncology, and the
> Alberta Health Services? Cross Cancer Institute. You will work in a
> multidisciplinary environment involving engineers, clinicians,
> scientists, hospitals, and healthcare companies. For MSc and PhD
> students, the degree-granting department will be Electrical and
> Computer Engineering and the start date will be September 2013 (or
> January 2014 under exceptional circumstances). For postdoctoral
> fellows, the start date is negotiable.
>
>
>
> The research will require a strong theoretical background as well as
> hands-on experience in as many of the following areas as possible:
> robotics especially dynamics and motion planning, electromechanical
> systems, system modeling and control, (medical) image processing,
> C/C++ programming, statistical data analysis, human-machine
> interaction, and mechanical design especially medical device
> design/construction.
>
>
>
> If you are interested in being considered, please email the following
> documents as soon as possible and no later than May 15, 2013 to
> <mahdi.tavakoli@ualberta.ca>: (1) a CV, including a brief (300-500
> word) research statement, (2) transcripts of previous university
> degrees, (3) representative publications in electronic format, and (4)
> the contact information of three individuals who can serve as
> references. You will be contacted if there is sufficient interest in
> your application. Scholarship decisions will follow an interview
> during which detailed information regarding the research project will
> be provided. Successful candidates will have degrees in
> electrical/computer/mechanical engineering, computer science, or
> physics, good time management and writing skills, and the ability to
> work effectively with other researchers. Competitive salaries will be
> offered to the successful candidates.
>
>
> Regards,
> Mahdi Tavakoli
>
>
> Mahdi Tavakoli, PhD, PEng | Office: W6-007 ECERF Building
> Assistant Professor | Phone: 780-492-8935
> Electrical & Computer Engineering | Fax: 780-492-1811
> University of Alberta | Email:
> mahdi.tavakoli@ualberta.ca
> Edmonton, Alberta |
> http://www.ece.ualberta.ca/~mtavakol
> Canada T6G 2V4 |
> http://www.ece.ualberta.ca/~TBS (lab)
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 15
> Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2013 18:39:04 -0300
> From: Javier Ruiz-del-Solar <jruizd@ing.uchile.cl>
> To: robotics-worldwide@usc.edu
> Cc: Tijn van der Zant <robotijn@gmail.com>, Luca Iocchi
> <iocchi@dis.uniroma1.it>, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar <jruizd@ing.uchile.cl>
> Subject: [robotics-worldwide] Special Issue on "Advances in Domestic
> Service Robots in the Real World" - JINT (Springer)
> Message-ID: <57D718A7-7DD7-48F6-8C7E-B117B98F6B8C@ing.uchile.cl>
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> Third Call for Papers
>
> Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems
>
> Special Issue on "Advances in Domestic Service Robots in the Real World"
>
> This special issue focuses on a broad spectrum of domestic service
> robots that operate in the real-world in home environments. The robots
> are fully autonomous and use intuitive interfaces such as language,
> gestures and visual displays to communicate with people. The home
> environment is defined as 'any place where people live in their daily
> lives', which can include, for example, a living room, a kitchen or a
> garden. Special attention is being paid to submissions where the robot
> capabilities are validated in a real-world setting such as the
> RoboCup@Home benchmark or during long lasting experiments in the real-
> world. The focus will also be on different modes of natural
> interaction with humans, semantic perception and mapping in domestic
> environments, recognition and manipulation of domestic objects, cost-
> effectiveness of the solution (computational and financial resources
> used by the robot), modeling and search in unknown daily life
> environments, such as homes, restaurants, and shopping centers, the
> effect of appearance on acceptance and more.
>
> The topics are related, but not limited, to all the aspects required
> for a robot to operate in daily life environments with a long-term
> focus on applicability, such as:
> - cooperative human-robot interaction and task solving,
>
> - semantic perception and mapping in domestic environments,
>
> - manipulation of domestic objects such as doors, kitchen utensils,
> glasses, etc.,
>
> - modeling and search in unknown daily life environments, such as
> homes, restaurants, and shopping centers,
>
> - high-level cognition for robots in domestic environments,
>
> - benchmarking domestic service robots,
>
> - long lasting robotic experiments in domestic environments,
>
> - acceptance of robots in households.
>
> Submissions addressing practical applications using international
> benchmarks and/or in-field experimental testing are strongly encouraged.
>
>
> Guest Editors:
> Luca Iocchi, Universit? di Roma ''La Sapienza'', Luca.Iocchi@dis.uniroma1.it
>
> Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Universidad de Chile, jruizd@ing.uchile.cl
>
> Tijn van der Zant, University of Groningen, tijn@ieee.org
>
>
> Important dates:
> 1 April 2013: Opening paper submission
>
> 20 May 2013: Closing Paper Submission
>
> 1 August 2013: Paper Acceptance Announcements
>
> 31 August 2013: Camera-ready Paper Submission
>
> 2014: Expected Publication
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 16
> Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 13:23:42 +0100
> From: "Tom Duckett" <tduckett@lincoln.ac.uk>
> To: <robotics-worldwide@duerer.usc.edu>
> Subject: [robotics-worldwide] [job advertisement] Research Assistant
> in Computer Science (Intelligent Long-term Behaviour in Mobile
> Robotics)
> Message-ID:
> <08EC78E748D4534BB97FFAD4136097B008CB8753@AEXCMS03.network.uni>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
>
> [job advertisement] Research Assistant in Computer Science (Intelligent Long-term Behaviour in Mobile Robotics)
>
> The University of Lincoln is seeking to appoint a new Research Assistant (fixed term for 3 years) to join the Centre for Autonomous Systems (L-CAS). The centre is internationally recognised for its research in sensing, mapping, and control for autonomous robotic systems, and currently comprises 6 faculty staff and 14 post-graduate researchers. The successful candidate will be employed as part of the European collaborative Integrated Project ?STRANDS?, involving six academic institutes and two industrial partners across four European countries.
>
> The project aims to enable robots to achieve robust and intelligent behaviour in human environments through adaptation to, and the exploitation of, long-term experience. The approach is based on understanding 3D space and how it changes over time, from milliseconds to months. The project will develop novel approaches to extract quantitative and qualitative spatio-temporal structure from sensor data gathered during months of autonomous operation. The project will also develop novel algorithms to manage the vast amount of data gathered and to optimise the robot behaviour to exploit these structures to yield adaptive autonomy in highly demanding, real-world security and care scenarios.
>
> This RA post is focussed in the area of behaviour generation, planning, and control to facilitate life-long learning of activities and dynamic scenes by autonomous mobile robots. The primary tasks related to this fellowship include the development of novel approaches for proactive exploration in order to complete and verify knowledge in task- and curiosity-driven ways, including the integration of multiple abilities and information sources into the autonomous robotic system. Additional tasks include the development of software framework extensions for the management, access and retrieval of acquired information during long-term operation.
>
> For more information and online application form :
>
> https://jobs.lincoln.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?id=413
>
> --
> Professor Tom Duckett
> School of Computer Science
> University of Lincoln
> Brayford Pool
> Lincoln
> LN6 7TS
> Phone: +44 1522 837113
> Fax: +44 1522 886974
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 17
> Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:20:22 +0100
> From: Roderich Gross <r.gross@sheffield.ac.uk>
> To: robotics-worldwide@usc.edu, euron-dist@iais.fraunhofer.de
> Subject: [robotics-worldwide] 8 faculty posts at The University of
> Sheffield
> Message-ID: <51641596.3010605@sheffield.ac.uk>
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>
> **
> Dear colleagues,
>
> there are 8 faculty posts available at the University of Sheffield and
> robotics is among the key areas.
>
> Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Chair in Control and Systems Engineering
> Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering
> University of Sheffield - Faculty of Engineering
> Contract Type: Permanent
> Closing Date: 22 April 2013
>
> Automatic Control and Systems Engineering (ACSE) is one of the largest
> departments devoted to the subject in Europe, with 23 academic staff, 30
> research staff, 20 professional and support staff and nearly 400 taught
> and research students. We are an internationally leading research
> department with a vibrant culture spanning all aspects of Systems and
> Control Engineering. Our research addresses many of the complex issues
> of modern life including problems in the life-sciences and healthcare,
> aerospace and transport, energy and the environment, manufacturing and
> robotics and, more recently, social policy. Our approach to these
> challenges focuses on generic theoretical developments in complex
> systems with an overarching emphasis on autonomy and decision-making.
> Our underpinning research themes are: modelling and simulation, control
> and optimisation, sensing and actuation, signal processing and decision
> support, and, of course, systems engineering. Together, these provide a
> fertile environment for strategic, multi-disciplinary collaborations
> with leading academic groups and major industrial partners.
>
> The post offers you the opportunity to join our vibrant and expanding
> department where you will carry out your research at the highest levels
> in one or more areas of Systems and Control Engineering to either
> consolidate or expand our current portfolio. Research plans involving
> grand challenges and UK strategic priorities and having strong potential
> for funding and impact (academic or industrial) are of particular interest.
>
> As a Professor in ACSE you will be expected to attract substantial
> research funding, supervise research students and staff, publish your
> work in the highest quality journals, teach to the highest standards and
> contribute to the leadership and smooth running of the department and
> university. Your international reputation and professional standing will
> reflect our values and strengths, here and abroad. We will provide an
> environment conducive to all aspects of your work and appropriate
> professional and technical support.
>
> You should have a PHD (or equivalent experience) in a relevant area.
>
> More information:
>
> http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AGF112/lecturer-in-control-and-systems-engineering/
> http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AGF121/senior-lecturer-in-control-and-systems-engineering/
> http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AGF101/chair-in-control-and-systems-engineering/
>
> Five more faculty posts - also related to robotics - available in the
> Department of Mechanical Engineering:
>
> Department of Mechanical Engineering
> University of Sheffield - Faculty of Engineering
> Contract Type: Permanent
> Closing Date: 22 April 2013
>
> Engineering has always been at the very heart of Sheffield and the
> Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Sheffield is
> one of the UK's leaders in the field. We are committed to maintaining
> that position at the forefront in both teaching and research. We have
> ambitious plans to grow the Department both in student numbers and
> academic staff. Recruiting the very best people is central to our strategy.
>
> Our internationally recognised success affords us the opportunity to
> invite applications for 5 unique academic positions. These academic
> posts are open to outstanding individuals in any area of Mechanical
> Engineering for appointment at Lecturer or Senior Lecturer level. We
> can consider any area of mechanical engineering, but have a preference
> Manufacturing/Robotics/Solid Mechanics/Composites/ Aerospace Structures/
> Aerospace Engineering. The post holder will have the personal capacity
> to make a significant contribution to the Department, the Faculty, and
> the University, as a research-led academic.
>
> We will also favourably consider research groups wishing to
> relocate, and can provide a balance of posts at the right level,
> support and facilities necessary to assist with this move.
>
> The key criterion for selection is your personal capacity to make an
> outstanding contribution to the Department, Faculty, and the University,
> as a research-led academic.
>
> Establishing your research quickly will be a priority. To support you in
> achieving this, each post will receive an attractive package, including:
>
> * an open-ended appointment at an attractive salary.
> * an allocation of funded PhD places to support your research.
> * a generous research start-up grant (negotiable depending on
> appointment level)
> * reduced teaching and administrative duties for the first 2 years.
> * access to a mentoring scheme tailored to suit your individual needs.
> * priority access to new laboratory space that is being commissioned.
>
> We would also favourably consider research groups wishing to relocate,
> and we can tailor packages to suit the circumstances.
>
> More information:
> http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AGF162/senior-lecturer-lecturer-5-positions/
>
> --
> Roderich GROSS, PhD SMIEEE
> Lecturer and Head of the Natural Robotics Lab
> Department of Automatic Control & Systems Engineering
> The University of Sheffield
> Mappin Street
> Sheffield S1 3JD, UK
> http://www.shef.ac.uk/acse/staff/roderich-gross
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 18
> Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 20:52:23 +0000
> From: "Tenzer, Yaroslav" <ytenzer@seas.harvard.edu>
> To: "robotics-worldwide@duerer.usc.edu"
> <robotics-worldwide@duerer.usc.edu>
> Subject: [robotics-worldwide] Deadline Reminder: 2013 New England
> Manipulation Symposium
> Message-ID:
> <700880E0B5E3C648B063B8370DE1EC130E261CDB@MBX01.seas.harvard.edu>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> Deadline reminder for the:
>
> 2013 New England Manipulation Symposium
>
> The 9th Annual New England Manipulation Symposium (NEMS) will take place at Harvard University on Friday, May 17th, 2013.
>
> The manipulation community combines researchers who are working on computational algorithms, sensing, mechanics, and practical design associated with grasping and manipulation.
>
> The main goals of this event are to take advantage of our geographic proximity to explore common research interests, to establish and strengthen collaborations, and to give students the opportunity to network and present their work.
>
> Previous symposia brought together robotics researchers in New England and the Northeastern United States. NEMS 2012 was held at iRobot and was attended by approximately 57 participants from 17 institutions.
>
> Oral presentations on manipulation-related research are invited, as are poster presentations on other research of interest to the NEMS audience.
>
> The deadline for registration for oral and poster presentations is Monday, April 15, 2013. The deadline for registration for demo presentation or attendance is Wednesday, May 1st, 2013.
>
> For registration details please visit http://biorobotics.harvard.edu/NEMS2013/
>
> Please address questions to ytenzer@seas.harvard.edu
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 19
> Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 18:49:00 +0200
> From: Udo Frese <Udo.Frese@dfki.de>
> To: euron-dist@iais.fraunhofer.de, robocup-worldwide@cc.gatech.edu,
> robotics-worldwide@duerer.usc.edu
> Cc: Udo Frese <Udo.Frese@dfki.de>, Heiko Hirschmueller
> <heiko.hirschmueller@dlr.de>
> Subject: [robotics-worldwide] Deadline extension: JRTIP Special Issue
> on Robot Vision
> Message-ID: <FCC12C86-8B5D-40C2-B87E-DA6F2BF1AA19@dfki.de>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> Hello everyone,
> due to popular demand the submission deadline for the JRTIP SI on Robot Vision has been extended:
>
> DEADLINE EXTENSION
>
> Journal of Real-Time Image Processing
>
> Special Issue on Robot Vision
>
> Guest Editors:
> Udo Frese (University of Bremen)
> Heiko Hirschmueller (German Aerospace Center, DLR)
>
> Dates
> Papers submission 13 May 2013
> First review by 1 October 2013
> Second review by 31 December 2013
> Camera ready papers by 28 February, 2014
> (note: papers are reviewed as soon as they are submitted and
> appear online soon after they are accepted).
>
>
> More information at
>
> http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/cfp_Robot_Vision_UF_revised2.pdf?SGWID=0-0-45-1387509-0
>
> Contact
> ufrese@informatik.uni-bremen.de , heiko.hirschmueller@dlr.de
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 20
> Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 19:19:01 +0000
> From: Simon DiMaio <Simon.DiMaio@intusurg.com>
> To: "robotics-worldwide@duerer.usc.edu"
> <robotics-worldwide@duerer.usc.edu>
> Subject: [robotics-worldwide] Intuitive Surgical announcement of the
> 2014 Clinical and Technology Research Grant Programs
> Message-ID:
> <46D38AFC20D58E4286C63264C0DF926903C335CF@SV950-MBX2.corp.intusurg.com>
>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
>
>
> Dear Science & Engineering Researchers:
>
> Intuitive Surgical is pleased to announce its 2014 grant programs for both clinical and technology research. You can find more information about these grants on our company website:
> http://www.intuitivesurgical.com/company/educational-grants/
> http://www.intuitivesurgical.com/company/educational-grants/technology_grants.html
>
> In particular, I'd like to draw your attention to the technology research grants. The purpose of these grants is to support technology research in the area of surgical robotics, or related fields. The program is open to researchers at non-profit academic institutions worldwide and successful proposals will ideally address clinically-relevant technology development.
>
> To start the grant proposal process, we are inviting letters of intent (up to 2-pages, as described on our website). Please send these to us by June 1st, 2013. Invitations to submit full grant proposals will be sent on July 1st, with a submission deadline of September 1st, 2013. Details of the selection criteria, grant conditions, and other guidelines, are available on our website.
>
> A brief FAQ is included below based on some of the common questions that we have been asked in previous years.
>
> Frequently Asked Questions:
>
> 1) What kinds of research projects has Intuitive funded in the past?
> Prior projects have included the following topics:
>
> * Fluorescence and other novel imaging methods for guiding surgery.
>
> * Tissue characterization using electrical impedance measurements.
>
> * Tissue bonding without sutures.
>
> * High force micro-manipulation mechanisms.
>
> * Compact, yet dexterous mechanisms for minimally-invasive surgery.
>
> * Robotic mechanisms for intravenous injection.
>
> * Skills assessment and training technologies.
>
> * Image-guided robotics.
>
> * Novel tissue cutting and manipulation methods.
>
> * Use of intra-operative ultrasound for surgical navigation and monitoring.
>
> * Methods for fabricating micromanipulation mechanisms.
>
> * Novel actuation and sensing methods for medical robots.
>
> 2) Does the project have to involve the da Vinci?
> Not at all - in fact this grant program is intended to support the exploration of novel future ideas for addressing compelling clinical problems. These need not be relevant to today's da Vinci Surgical System.
>
> 3) Can I use the grant funds to pay a student stipend or postdoc salary?
> Yes, the funds can be used to pay salaries for students, postdocs, research engineers, faculty, or other staff that are directly involved in performing the research work. Funds may also be used for purchasing materials, supplies, and equipment, as well as for any prototyping costs associated with the project.
>
> 3) Does Intuitive pay overhead costs?
> Yes, we will pay overhead; however, due to the limited size of these grants, we require that you limit indirect costs to no more than 20%. The total costs, including both direct and indirect costs, as well as any applicable taxes, should not exceed $50,000 USD.
>
> 4) The guidelines indicate that grantees will be invited to present their project work and results in California. When will this happen and will Intuitive cover the cost of travel and accommodations?
> This year, we invited all of our clinical and technology grant awardees to Sunnyvale for a Research Grant Symposium day in January. This was a great event for interacting with other grant recipients, as well as with researchers and engineers at Intuitive. We hope to repeat this symposium event annually and will cover travel costs for the principal investigator and one student/postdoc/associate to attend the symposium.
>
> 5) The guidelines say that IP terms and conditions may apply. What does this mean?
> Most university sponsored research departments will require that a Sponsored Research Agreement be put in place prior to any sponsored project work. Intuitive uses a fairly standard sponsored research agreement for this purpose and we try to use this consistently for all grant projects. The agreement includes confidentiality and liability terms to protect both the research institution, as well as Intuitive. In most cases, all intellectual property generated by the investigators during the course of the sponsored research work belongs to the institution. Intuitive does not typically request or claim ownership to this IP; however, in cases where projects require closer collaboration and joint research work with Intuitive, IP-sharing terms may need to be negotiated prior to the grant award.
>
> Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or queries regarding the program. Otherwise, we look forward to receiving your pre-proposals (letters of intent).
>
> Regards,
>
> Dale
>
>
> Dale Bergman
> Research Coordinator | Intuitive Surgical, Inc. |
> 1266 Kifer Road, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 | tel 408.523.2234 | www.intusurg.com<http://www.intusurg.com/>
> email: Dale.Bergman@intusurg.com
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 21
> Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 18:16:40 +0200
> From: BCBT, B?stia Compartida <bcbt@upf.edu>
> To: B?stia Compartida BCBT <bcbt@upf.edu>
> Subject: [robotics-worldwide] Participation to Barcelona Cognition,
> Brain and Technology Summer School 2013
> Message-ID:
> <CAOT3R5bp3T5yy6gK5UJWipVJbiYchWOGdJDsY14Pbay4tnMzBw@mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"
>
> *Letter for participation to BCBT 2013*
>
> BCBT is an annual international summer school that promotes a shared
> systems-level understanding of the functional architecture of the brain and
> its possible emulation in artificial systems.
>
> BCBT addresses students and researchers involved in research at the
> interface between brain and technology such as in the ambit of ?Bio-ICT
> convergence? "Brain Inspired ICT" and ?cognitive systems and robotics?.
>
> The 2013 edition of BCBT is co-organized and supported by the European
> projects Convergent Science Network of Biomimetic and NeuroTechnology
> http<http://www.csnetwork.eu/>
> ://www.csnetwork.eu <http://www.csnetwork.eu/>/ <http://www.csnetwork.eu/> and
> Goal-Leaders http
> <http://www.goal-leaders.eu/>://www.goal-leaders.eu/<http://www.goal-leaders.eu/>
>
> Students will have the opportunity to attend lectures from prominent
> scientists in the field of brain research, neuroscience, artificial
> intelligence and related fields. Students will also attend tutorials and
> work on projects that will be presented at the end of the 2 weeks of the
> summer school.
>
> BCBT can accommodate about 75 participants. Students are required to
> attend the school for the full duration and participate in collaborative
> projects.
>
> To Apply please check our web page http <http://bcbt.upf.edu/bcbt13/>
> ://bcbt.upf.edu/bcbt13
> <http://bcbt.upf.edu/bcbt13/>/<http://bcbt.upf.edu/bcbt13/> or
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