[robocup-nao] 4th Workshop on Humanoid Soccer Robots

Thomas Röfer Thomas.Roefer at dfki.de
Wed Sep 9 15:53:16 EDT 2009


CALL for PAPERS

4th Workshop on Humanoid Soccer Robots

@ 2009 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots

Paris (France), December 7, 2009

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Year after year humanoid robots are more and more robust and  
autonomous. One of the fields with the most impressive advances is  
Humanoid Soccer Robotics. The ultimate goal of Humanoid Soccer  
Robotics is to develop a team of "humanoid soccer players" – i.e.  
robots with human-like motion, intelligence, communication, and skills  
in playing soccer. This initiative is definitely posing a unique set  
of challenges to the researchers in robotics, AI and many other fields.

This workshop is open to contribution of all researchers interested in  
the subject. We warmly welcome contributions from the RoboCup and FIRA  
communities to foster the exchange of ideas and to promote robotic  
soccer in the IEEE community. This is the forth of a successful series  
of workshops held every year since 2006 at IEEE-RAS International  
Conference on Humanoid Robots. Previous workshops gave rise to special  
issues of international journals (IJHR, RAS) see
http://www.humanoidsoccer.org/

Topics of interest for the workshop are:
• Design and control of humanoid soccer robots
• Biped locomotion
• Complex motion generation for humanoids
• Motion planning for humanoid soccer
• 3D-Simulation for Humanoids
• Perception for Humanoids
• SLAM for Humanoids
• Multi-humanoid systems
• Humanoid team coordination
• Moving from a quadruped robot to a biped robot in the RoboCup Standard
Platform League

All the submissions will undergo a peer review process. All papers  
must be submitted electronically by sending it to the three Program  
Chairs, in PDF format by Octopber 10, 2009. The maximum number of  
pages is limited to eight, including figures. A CD-ROM with the  
accepted paper will be distributed at the Conference. After the  
workshop, the best papers will be selected for a robotics journal  
special issue as in the previous years.

Interested authors should send by e-mail a paper title, abstract and  
keywords to the Program Chairs, as soon as possible, and then they  
must submit the full paper according to the following deadlines.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Notification of Paper Title, Abstract and Keywords by authors due: ASAP
Full paper submission due: October 10, 2009
Notification of acceptance by Workshop Co-Chairs: October 30, 2009
Final paper due: November 21st, 2009

General Co-Chairs
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Enrico Pagello, University of Padua (Italy). E-mail: epv at dei.unipd.it
Changjiu Zhou, Singapore Polytechnic (Singapore). E-mail: zhoucj at sp.edu.sg

Program Co-Chairs:
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Sven Behnke, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (Germany).
E-mail: behnke at cs.uni-bonn.de
Emanuele Menegatti, University of Padua (Italy). E-mail: emg at dei.unipd.it
Thomas Röfer, Universität Bremen (Germany). E-mail: Thomas.Roefer at dfki.de

Steering Committee
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Minoru Asada, Osaka University (Osaka, Japan)
Hans-Dieter Burkhard, Humboldt Universität (Berlin, Germany)
Hiroshi Ishiguro, Osaka University (Osaka, Japan)
Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, USA)

Program Committee
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Heni Ben Amor, Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany
Jacky Baltes, Univ. of Manitoba, Canada
Joschka Boedecker, Univ. of Osaka, Japan
Luca Iocchi, Univerista’ La Sapienza, Italy
Pasan Kulvanit, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi
Tim Laue, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany
Djitt Laowattana, King  Mongkut's  Univ. of Technology, Thailand
Daniel Lee, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Norbert Michael Mayer, Osaka Univ., Japan
Chew Chee Meng, Univ. of  Singapore, Singapore
Oliver Obst,  CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
Masaki Ogino, Osaka University
Michael Quinlan, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Universidad de Chile
Vitor M.F. Santos, Univ. of  Aveiro, Portugal
Ching-Chang Wong, Tamkang  Univ., Taiwan

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Emanuele Menegatti, Ph.D.

Intelligent Autonomous Systems Laboratory (IAS-Lab)
Department of Information Engineering
The University of Padua
via ognissanti 72
I-35129 Padova - ITALY

Skype: emanuele.menegatti
Phone: ++39 049 827 7840
FAX:  ++39 049 827 7826
http://www.dei.unipd.it/~emg
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