PDF document of CFP is available

Scope

Topics for papers and demonstrations, include:

  • Robot performance requirements and technical solutions for applications of SSRR (urban search and rescue, CBRN hazard detection/mitigation, explosive ordinance disposal, physical security, surveillance, ...)
  • Locomotion for ground, aerial, aquatic, indoor, and collapsed structures
  • Perception for navigation, hazard detection, and victim identification
  • Mapping of complex environments (2-D, 3-D, GIS integration, ...)
  • Manipulation capabilities (hazards, payloads, obstacles, doors, ...)
  • Communications for reliable data transfer (tether management, radio, ...)
  • Intelligent behaviors to improve robot performance and survivability
  • Human-robot interfaces for improved remote situational awareness
  • Autonomous search and exploration
  • Multi-robot teams and mixed human-robot teams
  • Training methods and other personnel issues
  • Safety standards of robots and systems
  • Evaluation and performance metric of robotic systems
  • Emerging technologies (sensors, power sources, micro robots, ...)
  • Untethered power supplies for endurance
  • Emergency management issues related to robotics
  • Disaster simulator, Decision support system
  • Risk management, Risk assessment, Risk communication
  • Crisis management, Disaster resilience

Authors

Please go to the submissions page for detailed instructions.

Outrageous Visions for Computing in Rescue Robotics Track

co-sponsored by the Computing Community Consortium
Safety Security Rescue Robotics 2011

As robots become more agile, the software to guide and support SSRR missions becomes more critical. SSRR 2011 is soliciting short papers (no more that 4 pages, same formatting as regular papers) that present long-term challenges or new ideas outside of the mainstream in computing for rescue robots. Papers are encouraged to be speculative and push the envelope of the state of the art in robots for disasters. All accepted papers will be posted to the CCC and the IEEE TC on SSRR websites as well as appear in the proceedings and IEEE Xplore database.

The IEEE Technical Committee on SSRR co-chairs will review the submissions and serve as judges for two types of awards. The top three papers overall will receive trophies. The top three papers from the United States will receive travel grants ($1000, $750, and $500) from the Computing Community Consortium. Papers will be judged by how well they identify and justify computing challenges and the quality of the presentation at the conference.

Papers should be sent directly to Dr. Itsuki Noda <I.Noda@aist.go.jp> by midnight July 10, 2011.