Dear Sir or Madam, I would like to inform you about the Heinz Nixdorf Symposium "Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment" - AMiRE 2001 which will be held in Paderborn, Germany, from 22 to 25 October 2001. Minirobots are an ideal plattform for embedding neural network chips, hence we are organizing at least two sessions on single chip neural hardware: analog - digital - mixed signal - FPGA. If you can offer an interesting contribution to this topic, we would be very delighted, if you could provide us with a two-page description by 15 April 2001. We will need a full version of your paper by 30 April 2001. Additional information about the scope of the conference can be found in the lower part of this email or at the conference web site: http://wwwhni.upb.de/sct/symposium/ Yours sincerely Ulf Witkowski ------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers =============== 1st International Conference on Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment (AMiRE 2001) 22 - 25 October 2001 Heinz Nixdorf Institute, Paderborn, Germany http://www.amire.org Scope: ------ Mini robotics may well be considered to be one of the prospective key technologies of the 21st century. Minirobots are preferable to conventional mobile robots not only because of their small size but also because they are capable of acting independently without dedicated control by a supervisor. Minirobots are cheaper, easier to handle and, in regard to space and power consumption, require less resources. Therefore, minirobots are used in various research areas and educational contexts. The 1st international conference on Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment aims to bring together experts who work on minirobots from a great variety of fields. Conference topics: ------------------ - Autonomous minirobots - robot navigation - map building - robot control - task planning - robot vision - sensor systems - sensor fusion - robot calibration - multi-robot systems - robot communication - collective behavior - swarm intelligence - robot programming - simulation and modelling - neural networks on robots - robot interfaces - robot kinematics - robot applications - evolutionary robotics - bio-inspired robots - telerobotics Keynote speakers: ----------------- Tucker Balch (Carnegie-Mellon University, USA) Toshio Fukuda (Nagoya University, Japan) Mark Tilden (Los Alamos National laboratory, USA) Important dates: ---------------- Submission of papers: 15 April 2001 Notification of acceptance: 31 May 2001 Camera-ready paper: 31 July 2001 Conference date: 22-25 October 2001 Conference co-chairs: --------------------- Ulrich Rueckert (HNI, Germany) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joaquin Sitte (QUT, Australia) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Miniroboter Contests -------------------- Parallel to the conference, three important practical events will take place: - - Cooperative Cube Clustering - At the First International Khepera Workshop in 1999 a world record at "cube clustering" was established. We intend to break this record! More than 100 minirobots are to simultaneously collect small cubes in order to form a minimum of clusters. All conference participants who posses a Khepera minirobot are encouraged to take part in this world record attempt. - - Third Khepera Contest - At this contest the Khepera minirobots will have to solve a special problem. The best performance will be awarded an attractive price. - - Khepera Soccer Tournament - During the Khepera Soccer Tournament we will honour the best Khepera soccer player. We invite all participants to attend these contests. You will find additional information on the 1st International Conference on Autonomous Minirobots at: http://www.amire.org Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------- HEINZ-NIXDORF-INSTITUTE University of Paderborn System and Circuit Technology Fuerstenallee 11 D-33102 Paderborn Tel. +49 - (0) 5251 - 60 6352 FAX. +49 - (0) 5251 - 60 6351 http://wwwhni.uni-paderborn.de/sct
