Self-Organization and Swarm Robotics
CALL FOR PAPERS
in conjunction with
3rd International Conference on Nano-Networks
Boston, USA, Sept 15-17, 2008
http://www.nanonets.org
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Position papers: July 15, 2008
Workshop: Sept 14, 2008
Nanosensors are slated to revolutionize several fields including medicine,
harsh environment sensing, and chip fabrication. This is an important field
that assimilates technologies and concepts from multiple domains such as
physics, chemistry, and engineering. Nanosensors are small, weak,fragile, and lack the power to work independently due to limited power and communication range. However, by self-assembling into larger nano-structures or complex systems, they have the ability to exhibit sophisticated behavior.
Currently, such robots are limited due to size constraints; however, it will soon be possible to develop nano-robots that have a size in the millimeter and sub-millimeter range. The difficulty in achieving this miniaturization is primarily due to the integration capabilities of power sources, communication, motion, and actuation. Over time, these miniature robots will have several advantages: increased flexibility, functionality, robustness, and decreased cost. These advances will lead to realization of the concept of distributed self-organized colonies (swarms) of robots that can perform complex tasks. Examples of such tasks include, monitoring in harsh conditions such as exhaust of turbines, and environmental conditions in toxic environments.
This year's workshop brings together expertise of researchers from the fields of nano-robotics and swarm intelligence for the purposes of sharing and generating ideas that can bring together advances in these fields to improve nanosensor network research. The workshop will have specific deliverables. An individual will be designated to take notes at the workshop and results from the workshop will be collected and integrated into a document for publication.
The workshop will address several pointed issues, including:
· The reason swarm simulation software (e.g., Swarm and RePast) has failed to provide significant insight into emergent behavior of such systems
· The merits and demerits of existing hardware platforms for automated swarm inspection
· Standards that are needed to move small-scale swarm inspection into mainstream use
· The role of communication in swarm behavior
Submission Guidelines:
If you are interested in participating in the workshop, please submit papers to Sanjay Goel (goel@albany.edu) by July 15. The papers should be 5-10 pages long in the areas described above. Please format the papers to the IEEE double column format.
Workshop Chairs:
Sanjay Goel: School of Business, University at Albany, SUNY
email: goel@albany.edu, phone: 518 442 4925
Stephen F. Bush: GE Global Research Center, email: bushsf@research.ge.com
Invited Speakers:
Jessica Flak (Santa Fe Institute)
Jonathan Bachrach (Massachusetts Institute of Tech.)
Dinos Mavroidis (North Eastern University)
Aristides Requicha (Univ. of Southern California)
Nikolaus Correll (Massachusetts Institute of Tech.)
John Barker (University of Glasgow)
Metin Sitti (Carnegie Mellon University)
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