For the past twenty-two years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. This year, the ACM SAC will have a specific track on robotics. It aims to be a forum for researchers to share experiences, expose issues, and discuss about this exciting research field.

Robotics is a multidisciplinary area of study that presents an enormous commercial and research potential. While industrial robotics covers the study, design, and use of robot systems for manufacturing, mobile robotics concerns about developing systems that are capable of making decisions and acting autonomously in real and unpredictable environments to accomplish determined tasks. In the last ten years, technological advances made possible the development of very efficient sensors and electronic devices at affordable prices. This fact has great impact on robotics research, allowing the development of efficient and relatively cheap sensors and computing devices. It also allows robots to accomplish more complex tasks, posing new challenges to scientists and engineers.

This track focuses on all aspects of robotics, including related areas and applications. Particular attention will be given to mobile robotics applications and systems (e.g. localization, navigation, mapping, vision-based systems, autonomous systems, etc.). Embedded systems for robotics is also another topic of interest of this track, including reconfigurable systems and hardware/software co-design.

Topics of Interest

• Rehabilitation Robotics
  Humanoid Robotics
  Underwater Robots
  Search and Rescue Robots
  Entertainment Robots
  Multi-robot Coordination
  Active Perception and Vision
  Coverage and Deployment
  Learning
  Autonomous systems
  Navigation
  Localization and Mapping
  Evolutionary Robotics
  
• Grasping
  Control Architectures and Programming
  Bio-Inspired Robots
  Aerial Robotics
  Contact Modeling and Touching
  Educational Robotics
  Smart Actuators
  Hardware/Software co-design for robotics
  Embedded Systems architectures
  Reconfigurable robotic platforms
  Vision-based Systems
  Multi-robot systems

SAC2008 (RHSES) - Call for Papers
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