Robosphere
2002, a workshop on Self Sustaining Robotic Ecologies, will be held at
NASA Ames Research Center Nov 14-15 2002. This is the first workshop in
this area sponsored by NASA Ames and by the Research Institute for Advanced
Computer Science (RIACS). Its purpose is to explore the notion of self-sustaining
robotic ecologies for long term or continuous robotic presence on planetary
surfaces or in space. Self-sustaining robotic ecologies offer the possibility
of increasing scientific returns, decreasing exploration costs and reducing
chances of mission failures.
The
number of participants will be limited. To request an invitation to the
Robosphere workshop please submit an extended abstract (3 to 5 pages) or
a statement of interest. Deadline for extended abstract submission is September
27, 2002. Abstracts and statements will be submitted by email as plain
text, MS Word or PDF attachments to robosphere-submissions@email.arc.nasa.gov.
Registration fee will be $150 before October 15, $200 afterwards.
Accepted
extended abstracts will be printed in workshop proceedings. At the discretion
of the program committee some authors will be asked to present their work
and a selected number will be invited to prepare full length papers for
inclusion in a volume to be published after the workshop.
POC:
Dr. Silvano Colombano,
NASA Ames Research Center.
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