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SPECIAL ISSUE ON NETWORK ROBOT SYSTEMS (NRS)
(ROBOTICS AND AUTONOUMOUS SYSTEMS JOURNAL)
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The last decade has witnessed unprecedented interaction between technological developments in computing and communications, which have led to the design and implementation of robotic and automation systems consisting of networked vehicles, sensors and actuators systems. These developments enable researchers and engineers not only to design new robotics systems but also to develop systems that could have not been imagined before. Now, there is a need for a unifying paradigm within the robotics community to address the design of these networked automation systems.
The name Networked Robots (NR) was created in May 2004 within the IEEE RAS Technical Committee, as a consequence of the preliminary work on Internet-based tele-operated robots initiated in 2001, and its expansion to reflect a broader set of problems and applications. There are several definitions of NRS, coming from US and Japan, but a simple and comprehensive definition of NRS is:
“A Network Robot System is a group of artificial autonomous systems that are mobile and that make important use of wireless communications among them or with the environment and living systems in order to fulfil their tasks”.
Network Robot Systems (NRS) call for the integration of several fields: robotics, perception (sensor systems), ubiquitous computing, and network communications. Some of the key issues that must be addressed in the design of Network Robot Systems are cooperative localization and navigation, cooperative environment perception, cooperative map building, cooperative planning and planning for cooperation, human-robot interaction, network tele-operation, and communications.
The topic Network Robot Systems transcends “conventional” robotics, in the sense that there exists for these type of distributed heterogeneous systems, an interrelation among a community of robots, environment sensors and humans. Applications include network robot teams (for example for space applications), human-robot networked teams (for example a community of robots that assist people), robots networked with the environment (for example for tasks on urban settings or rescue) or geminoid robots (a replication of a human with own autonomy and being partially tele-operated through the network).
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- human robot symbiosis
- networked environing sensing/actuation
- distributed environing system
- interaction between human and environing components
- networked human-robot interaction
- coordination and cooperation among multiple types of robots
- self-configuration of a network robot system
- monitoring and self-repair of a network robot system
- network robot platform
- security for network robot systems
- socially situated network robots
- applications of network robot systems
IMPORTANT DATES
First Call for papers: 15 February 2007
Paper submission deadline: 15 May 2007
Revised notification: 10 September 2007
Final paper submission: 22 October 2007
Final decision notification: 16 November 2007
REVIEWING PROCESS
Expected contributions should be around 12 pages long. Submissions have to be sent to the Guest Editors (sanfeliu@iri.upc.es; hagita@atr.jp, asaffio@aass.oru.se) in electronic form (PDF files). The Guest Editors will first evaluate all manuscripts. Manuscripts meeting the minimum criteria are passed on for peer review, to be accomplished by two external experts. The method of review in this special issue will employ single blind review, where the referee remains anonymous throughout the process. The Guest Editors board is responsible for the final decision to accept
or reject the articles, based on the recommendations of the reviewers. Accepted papers will have to be sent to the Guest Editors electronically, both as source files (LaTex, MS Word, including all original Figures/Tables and References) and in printable version (PDF). Please follows the instructions in http://ees.elsevier.com/robot/.
GUEST EDITORS
• Alberto Sanfeliú, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain, sanfeliu@iri.ups.es
• Norihiro Hagita, ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories, Japan, hagita@atr.jp
• Alessandro Saffiotti, Örebro University, Sweden, asaffio@aass.oru.se
RELATED LINKS:
- Research Atelier on Network Robot Systems, http://turina.upc.es/nrs
- Japan Network Robot Forum, http://www.scat.or.jp/nrf/English/
- IEEE RAS Technical Committee, http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~burgard/tc/
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