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Robotics Chapter Announces Factory Automation Competition
by Dr. Raj Madhavan, Chair, Robotics Society Washington Chapter
A grant has been received under the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society’s New Initiatives Competition for the proposal Advancing Robotic Research through an Open Source High-Fidelity Simulation Framework and Competition (PIs: Stephen Balakirsky, Raj Madhavan, and Chris Scrapper).
Student involvement will be encouraged through the creation of a factory automation regional competition and tutorial. Under this effort, we are soliciting faculty members and their interested students from universities in the Greater Washington Area (Washington, D.C., Northern Virginia and Baltimore) working in the areas of multi-agent cooperation, robotic mapping, communications networks, and sensory processing.
The participants will be provided with the necessary equipment and knowledge needed to join the robotics and automation research community in the area of Automated Guided Vehicles. A two-day tutorial will be provided, during which the participants will be loaned a simulation platform with all relevant software installed.
If interested, please contact us by August 17, 2007 with a succinct statement of how you expect to benefit from your participation and why you should be selected (emphasize skills and experience with respect to the requirements of the competition). If selected, you are expected to attend a two-day tutorial to be held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on September 13-14, 2007.
The proposed effort is being administered under the auspices of the recently formed IEEE Washington Section Robotics and Automation Society Chapter. For more information, contact Dr. Stephen Balakirsky at robosim@nist.gov or 301-975-4791.
Update: Download the
Call for Participation (PDF file, 462k). If you cannot provide your statement by August 17, please contact one of the PI's at the above email address as soon as possible.
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Updated 8/8/07
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