From: mstein@wilkes1.wilkes.edu (Matthew R Stein) Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: CFP: Telemanipulation and Telepresence III Followup-To: sci.virtual-worlds Date: 19 Apr 1996 12:46:19 GMT Organization: Wilkes University Message-Id: =========================================================================== Call for Papers ========================================================================== Conference on Telemanipulator and Telepresence Technologies III Part of SPIE's Photonics East '96, 18-22 November 1996, Boston, Massachusetts USA Conference Chair: Matthew R. Stein, Wilkes University Program Committee: Massimo Bergamasco, PERCRO/Scuola Superiore S. Anna (Italy); Hari Das, Jet Propulsion Lab.; Stephen R. Ellis, NASA Ames Research Ctr.; Subhas Gupta, Univ. of Louisville; Blake Hannaford, Univ. of Washington; William S. Harwin, Univ. of Reading (UK); Emerico Natonek, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Switzerland); Marcos Salganicoff, Univ. of Delaware; J. Kenneth Salisbury Jr., MIT AI Lab. This program will address issues and recent advances in telemanipulator and telepresence technology. Advances in teleoperation systems enhance task performance in remote manipulation by increasing positioning resolution or range, to allow controlled application of extremely large or small forces, improving operator perception of the task, and facilitating manipulation in hazardous or clean environments. Common to all teleoperation systems is a human operator in a manual or supervisory control loop overseeing task performance. Applications areas include operations in radioactive, underwater, space, surgical, disability assistive and "clean room" environments and the manufacturing, maintenance, and construction industries. In teleoperator systems, the remote manipulator system can be augmented with various end effector tools and sensors and by providing semiautonomous functions which can either be preprogrammed, taught by demonstration or self-learned. An operator interface at the local site supports human sensory information processing and decision-making. Augmentation at the operator interface could include graphic displays, text or animation presented in an intuitive manner. Topics include application examples of telemanipulation and telepresence technology, augmented reality, hardware implementation, new developments in teleoperator modeling, analysis, and control, and efficient operator interface designs for both manual teleoperation and supervised autonomy. Also to be included are advanced techniques to cope with communication time delay and enhance human visual and haptic sensory perception. Papers in the following areas and related topics are solicited: * innovative research and applications in telemedicine and telesurgery * applications and research for systems in hazardous environments including space, underwater, construction, security, battlefield, and radioactive environments * telemanipulation application of virtual environments and the internet * techniques and implementations of assistive telerobotic systems for people with disabilities * multimodal user input and interface methods using combinations of speech, vision, kinesthesis, gesture recognition and text * new developments and applications for augmented reality, virtual environments in business, manufacturing, and entertainment * task and user adaptive human-machine interfaces * acquisition of skills and task knowledge via autonomous or supervised learning techniques * reactive planning and subsumption approaches to teleoperation * system experimental results and performance evaluation methodologies * modeling, analysis, and control of teleoperators including sensor-based and manual control * advanced kinesthetic (force/position) and graphical displays * human-machine interface issues, ergonomics and operator aids, including graphics visualization, human sensory perception/information processing and psychometrics Submission of Abstracts and Manuscripts Abstract Due Date: 22 April 1996 Manuscript Due Date: 21 October 1996 Your abstract must include the following: 1.SUBMIT TO: [Name of Symposium] Submit each abstract to one conference only. _____________________________________________ (Conference Title) (Conference Chair) 2.ABSTRACT TITLE 3.AUTHOR LISTING (principal author first) First (given) name, Last (family) name, and affiliations. Mailing address, telephone, fax, and e-mail address. 4.PRESENTATION Indicate your preference for "Oral Presentation" or "Poster Presentation." Placement is subject to chairs' discretion. 5.ABSTRACT TEXT Approximately 250 words. 6.KEY WORDS List a maximum of five key words. 7.BRIEF BIOGRAPHY (of principal author) Approximately 50 words. Manuscript Due Date: 21 October 1996 Manuscript Due Date for On-Site Proceedings: 26 August 1996 To be considered for acceptance, please choose only one of the following options and send by the due date: - SPIE Web: Complete the convenient form found at SPIE's web site-- http://www.spie.org/web/meetings/calls/pe96_submissions.txt - E-MAIL each abstract separately to: abstracts@spie.org in ASCII test (not encoded) format. To ensure receipt and proper processing of your abstract, write on the SUBJECT line: PE96 and Conference Chair Example: PE96 (John Smith) - MAIL three copies of your abstract to: PE96 SPIE P.O. Box 10 Bellingham, WA 98227-0010 USA - FAX one copy to SPIE at 360/647-1445 (send each abstract separately). Conditions of Acceptance Authors are expected to secure registration fees and travel and organizations before submitting abstracts. Only original material should be submitted. Commercial papers, descriptions of papers with no research and development content, and papers for which supporting data or a technical description cannot be given for proprietary reasons will not be accepted for presentation in this symposium. Abstracts should contain enough detail to clearly convey the approach and the results of the research. Government and company clearance to present and publish should be final at the time of submittal. Applicants will be notified of acceptance by 26 August 1996. Paper Review To ensure a high-quality conference, all abstracts and Proceedings papers will be reviewed by the Conference Chairs for technical merit and content. Oral or Poster Presentation Instructions for Oral and Poster presentations will be included in your author kit. All Oral or Poster presentations are included in the conference Proceedings and require a manuscript. Proceedings These conferences will result in published Proceedings that can be ordered through the Advance Technical Program. Camera-ready manuscripts are required of all accepted applicants and must be submitted in English by 21 October 1996 (or 26 August 1996 for on-site proceedings). Copyright to the manuscript is expected to be released for publication in the conference Proceedings. Note: If an author does not attend the meeting and make a presentation, the chair may choose not to publish the author's manuscript in the conference proceedings. Papers published are indexed in leading scientific databases including INSPEC, Compendex Plus, Physics Abstracts, Chemical Abstracts, International Aerospace Abstracts, and Index to Scientific and Technical Proceedings. Participant Registration Fee Authors and coauthors are accorded a reduced symposium registration fee. Publishing Policy Manuscript due dates must be strictly observed. Whether the Proceedings volume will be published before or after the meeting, late manuscripts run the risk of not being published. The objective of this policy is to better serve the conference participants and the technical community at large. Your cooperation in supporting this objective is appreciated by all. MORE INFORMATION on Photonics East '96 is available on the World Wide Web at: http://www.spie.org/web/meetings/calls/pe96_call.html Or send e-mail to PE96@spie.org to request a complete call for papers. -- Matthew R. Stein, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering Wilkes University Wilkes-Barre, P.A. 18766