Within the ICNAAM 2010 - 8th International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics (http://www.icnaam.org), to be held in Rhodes, Greece, on 19-25 September 2010, we are organizing the Mini-Symposium on "Dynamical Systems in Robotics".
Due to your research activities in the related fields, we would like to invite you to submit an invited extended abstract to our mini-symposium. Your contribution is mostly welcomed, and we would be honoured if you could accept this invitation.
SHORT DESCRIPTION: Robot locomotion for any type of robots has been an interesting and challenging research issue in the last few years. The increasing use of robots to perform difficult tasks in dynamic and hard environments, sometimes inaccessible to humans, makes this study very important and relevant.
In this symposium, we focus on the use of the dynamical systems theory to address some still open questions regarding locomotion skills in robots. Dynamical systems exhibit some properties which makes them well suited to real-time robotic applications, such as movement generation for legged, modular and wheeled platforms; balance control; grasping; reaching, etc.
The organizers aim to provide a venue where researchers, scientists, engineers and practitioners throughout the world can present and discuss the latest achievements, future challenges and exciting new dynamical systems models that will enable to improve the locomotion skills of future robots
IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for Submission of Extended Abstract: July 22, 2010; Notification of acceptance: July 29, 2010; Deadline for Submission of the source files of the camera ready extended abstracts to American Institute of Physics (AIP Conference Proceedings): August 1, 2010.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Extended abstracts will be published in a Special Volume of the AIP Conference Proceedings. Please, see the Instructions for Authors at: http://www.icnaam.org/abstract.htm, and select the Mini-Symposium on "Dynamical Systems in Robotics" when submitting your contribution.
Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto