CfP: Robotic Sensor Networks Workshop Deadline Extended to Feb/2/2015 (RSN2015)
Due to multiple requests, we have extended the RSN2015 workshop deadline to Feb/2/2015.
The 2nd Int. Workshop on Robotic Sensor Networks
part of CPSWEEK
13 April 2015
Seattle Washington, USA
http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/faculty/kdantu/rsn15/
Recent developments in sensing and actuation technology, along with the miniaturization of computing and communication, have led to the development of commodity robot technology such as hobby drones and robot toolkits. These platforms are bringing sensing and actuation at places where traditional technology does not reach; for example, for aerial pollution monitoring or for disaster management in remote areas.
This novel class of cyber-physical systems (CPS) take many of the design, implementation, and validation issues of traditional CPSs to an extreme. Control, sensing, estimation, and algorithms for localization, mapping, navigation, and exploration of individual robots are needed to govern their movements. The timing aspects of vehicle operation are key to provide run-time guarantees about performance. The software design and implementation must lead to provably correct execution. Noisy or inaccurate information sensed by the robots must be properly handled to ensure an accurate understanding of the environment.
Research efforts to address the issues above, while related, have previously progressed independently with little cross-fertilization across diverse disciplines such as robotics, real-time systems, signal processing, and software development. The goal of this workshop is to create a platform where researchers from different communities can get together to better understand the latest developments in these related fields as well as to establish connections for future interdisciplinary work. The workshop intends to provide a platform to enable such cross-fertilization, to ultimately speed up the development of the field and to foster rich interdisciplinary work in the future. Particularly, co-location with the Cyber-Physical Systems week will be an asset in this regard. CPSWEEK is the premiere CPS event that brings together five top conferences from complementary areas such as Embedded Systems, Real-time Systems, Sensor Networks, Hybrid Systems, and Networked Systems.
This will be the second edition of this workshop. The proceedings of the first edition are available at (http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/faculty/kdantu/rsn14/index.html).
To build the needed interdisciplinary work ultimately necessary to the development of the field, the workshop seeks technical contributions describing original, previously unpublished results in all topics related to the design of robotic sensor networks, including works across two or more of the following topic areas:
* Programming of robot swarms
* Low-power communication in robot networks
* Sensing coverage using robotic swarms
* Task allocation
* Distributed sensing
* Distributed control
* Coordination in robotic swarms
* Verification and validation
* Distributed planning and navigation
* Novel applications
* Experience reports
Important dates:
Extended Submission deadline: Feb 2, 2015.
Notifications : Feb 9, 2015.
Camera ready : Feb 16, 2015.
Workshop : Apr 13, 2015.
Submission Guidelines:
We invite to submit papers in PDF format, of at most 6 pages in length including figures, tables, and references, in two-column format, and using a minimum of 10-pt font. Please refer to the webpage for more details. Accepted submissions will be distributed along with the other workshops' proceedings via a USB key to the attendees. The papers will also be digitally archived via the ACM Digital Library.
Workshop Organizers:
Karthik Dantu, University at Buffalo, USA
Luca Mottola, Politecnico di Milano and SICS Swedish ICT
Pei Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Program Committee:
Stefano Carpin (UC-Merced)
Om Gnawali (University of Houston)
Aveek Purohit (Nest Labs)
Pratap Tokekar (U-Penn)
Ryan Williams (USC)