Special Issue on Signal Processing Advances in Robots and Autonomy EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing http://www.hindawi.com/journals/asp/si/spara.html
The capabilities of robots and autonomous systems have increased dramatically over the past years. This success story partly depends on advances in signal processing which provide appropriate and efficient analysis of sensor data and enable autonomy. A key element of the transition of signal processing output to its exploitation inside robots and autonomous systems is the way uncertainty is managed: uncertainty originating from insufficient sensor data, uncertainty about effects of future autonomous actions and, in the case of distributed sensors and actuators (like for a team of robots), uncertainty about communication lines. The aim of this special issue is to focus on recent developments that allow passing this transition path successfully, showing either where signal processing is used in robotics and autonomy or where robotics and autonomy had special demands that had not been fulfilled by signal processing before. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Autonomous navigation: - Outdoor navigation using geo-information and dedicated indoor navigation solutions - Collision avoidance/sense and avoid - Dynamic feature maps, and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) Path planning: - Proactive, based on open-loop optimization - Reactive, based on adaptive control or model predictive control (MPC) - Probabilistic approaches for maximizing the expected future information Exploration: - Networked teams of robots - Sensor networks which mix static sensors with autonomous moving ones - Distributed algorithms and communication aspects The special issue will focus on the one hand on the development and comparison of algorithmic approaches and on the other hand on their currently ever-widening range of applications in any platform: underwater, surface, ground, and airborne. Special interest lies in probabilistic approaches and setups of distributed sensors and actuators. Authors should follow the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing manuscript format described at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/asp/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/, according to the following timetable: Manuscript Due August 1, 2008 First Round of Reviews November 1, 2008 Publication Date February 1, 2009 Guest Editors: Frank Ehlers, NATO Undersea Research Centre (NURC), Italy Fredrik Gustafsson, Linköping University, Sweden Matthijs Spaan, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal -- [ Matthijs Spaan ] [ http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt/~mtjspaan ] _______________________________________________ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
