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Important Dates

Workshops:

Feb 15, 2009	Proposal submission due date
Mar 01, 2009	Notification of acceptance
May 01, 2009	Final participants list due date
May 01, 2009	Camera-ready workshop paper  submission
Jun 22-23, 2009	Workshop program

Tutorials:

Feb 15, 2009	Proposal submission due date
Mar 01, 2009	Notification of acceptance
May 15, 2009	Camera tutorial material submission
Jun 22-23, 2009	Tutorial program

Tutorial durations can be half-day or full-day.
Workshop durations can be anything from half-day to two days.

Submission of workshop and tutorial proposals

ICAR 2009 is inviting workshop and tutorial proposals for the Workshop and Tutorial Program. We solicit proposals -- particularly, but not exclusively -- addressing or complementing the core scientific and technological issues of the technical conference program:

• cap-able
  motion planning and navigation, reactive and sensor-based planning, visual navigation, mapping and localization, robot control, kinematics and dynamics, behavior-based systems, robot architectures, distributed robot systems, sensing and perception, scene understanding, situation awareness, force and tactile sensing, haptics, sensor fusion, visual servoing, tracking, manipulation, mobile manipulation, grasping, reasoning, learning, interaction, service robotics, domestic robotics, home automation, field and service robotics
• afford-able
  low-cost localization, low-cost sensing and 3D perception, low-cost wide-area navigation, low-cost collision detection and obstacle avoidance, low-cost manipulation and grasping, low-cost actuation, low-cost coverage, low-cost robot design
• measur-able
  performance measures and procedures, benchmarks, experimental robotics, standards
• depend-able
  robust autonomy, error recovery, remote diagnosis and monitoring, self-modeling, self-monitoring, self-repair

Proposals for workshops should include

• the title of the workshop
• a description of the workshop topics, motivations, and objectives
• a brief description of the target audience
• a list of workshop organizers and (if applicable) committee members (all confirmed, with name, affiliation, country for everyone)
• a list of confirmed (invited) speakers and confirmed participants (with name, affiliations, country for everyone)
• a tentative schedule indicating also the format of the workshop, e.g. sessions of invited or contributed talks, panels, workgroups, etc.

Proposals for tutorials should include

• the title of the tutorial
• a brief description of the tutorial content
• a brief description of the target audience
• the names, affiliations, and brief CVs of all speakers
• a tentative schedule for the tutorial
• a description of the material that will be supplied to participants
• a listing of any equipment needed

All proposals should be submitted as PDF documents by email to the workshop and tutorial chair no later than Feb 15, 2009:

Gerhard Kraetzschmar,
Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences
E-Mail: gerhard.kraetzschmar@fh-brs.de

Workshop proceedings and tutorial material

Tutorial and workshop material will be distributed on CDROM or USB stick to registered tutorial and workshop participants.

All material must be supplied by the workshop/tutorial organizers to the Tutorials and Workshop Chair by the dates listed below. It is recommended that workshops use the same formats, instructions and means for preparing tutorial and workshop material as required by the main conference.

Venue

All sessions and activities of the ICAR 2009 will be held at the Munich Marriott Hotel, Berliner Strasse 93, Munich, Germany
For further information please visit the ACCOMMODATION page

Workshop and Tutorial Chair:

Gerhard Kraetzschmar
Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences
E-Mail: gerhard.kraetzschmar(at)fh-brs.de