Call for Papers : Autonomous Robots -- Special Issue on the AAAI Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition

THE DEADLINE IS PASSED. No more submissions will be accepted at this time.

Update: revised dates for reviews

Guest Editors

William D. Smart, Washington University in St. Louis
Paul Rybski, Carnegie Mellon University
Sheila Tejada, Tulane University

Call for Papers

Since 1992, the AAAI Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition has provided a venue for robotics researchers to showcase their work in a public setting. Over the years, the competition has included a wide variety of events, reflecting current open research problems in the field. Early competitions tended to focus more on navigation and map-building tasks while, more recently, human-robot interaction tasks have become more prevalent.

The competition has been increasingly focused on whole systems that are able to operate in unstructured environments. As a result, it has advanced the state of the art in software integration for robotics as much as it has tested and showcased specific research projects.

We solicit papers from competitors in the AAAI Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition describing their entries, an evaluation of the robot's performance, and a description of the lessons learned at the competition. We especially encourage authors to address the systems integration aspects of their entries, and to discuss how the various software subsystems worked together to create the overall system.

Maximum submission length should be no longer than 10 pages.

Please send email to Bill Smart (email below) if you are planning to submit a paper to this special issue.

Important dates

Submissions due: March 8, 2006
Author notification: July 1, 2006
Revised manuscripts due: August 15, 2006
Publication date: September 2006

Submission Information

http://robotics.usc.edu/auro

For submission details, click on the "Instructions for Authors" link on the right-hand side of the page. The online submission pages can be accessed by the "Submit Online" link. Please read these instructions carefully. It is important to note that pdf versions of the paper are not accepted by the electronic submission process. Instead, you will submit all of your source materials to the web page and a pdf file conforming to the journal's standards for review will be built for you automatically. You can then review this file before officially submitting it for review via the web pages.

IMPORTANT: You can now enter the specific article type: "Special Issue: Mobile Robots/Real World" when you submit your article.

More information

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~prybski/ar2006-cfp.html