Call for papers: JFR Special Issue: Safety, Security and Rescue Robots

The Journal of Field Robotics (JFR) announces a special issue on robotic aspects of safety, security, and rescue to examine issues related to the fielding of robots to respond to or prevent emergencies of either natural or man-made origins. Such emergencies provide many challenges for mechanisms, navigation, sensing, networking, collaboration, human/machine interaction, and decision making.

We invite papers that exhibit state-of-the-art theory and methods applied to fielded studies including:

* novel locomotion mechanisms for rough terrain
* robotic sensors and sensing techniques for unstructured or semi-structured terrain
* novel human/robot interaction devices and paradigms for emergency response
* collaborative systems of land/sea/air vehicles for search/rescue/assessment
* lessons learned from robotic land/sea/air deployments in mines, collapsed structures, and wide area disasters

The complete call for papers for this special issue can be found at:
http://journalfieldrobotics.org/si.html

Please note that the deadline for submissions is November 1, 2006.

We look forward to your submission.

-Richard Voyles and Howie Choset