CALL FOR PAPERS: SPIE Symposium
Microrobotics and Micromechanical Systems Conference
(Part of SPIE's Intelligent Systems and Advanced Manufacturing
Symposium, October 22-26, 1995, Philadelphia, PA.)

SPIE Web Page dealing with this Call for Papers

Conference Chair:
Lynne E. Parker, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Program Committee: TBA

Recent advances in micromechanical systems have spurred the development of
microrobots that may some day perform a variety of useful tasks impossible to
achieve with existing robotic technologies. Armies of microrobots offer the
potential advantages of cost effectiveness, improved performance, mass
production, collective intelligence, and speed over existing macrorobotic
technologies. This conference focuses on recent developments in microrobotics
and enabling technologies in microsensors, microactuators, and micro power
supplies for robots ranging in size >from millimeters to centimeters. Emphasis
is placed on new concepts in the design, integration, control, and application
of miniature robots.

Papers are solicited in the following and related areas:

  * Mobility and manipulation mechanisms
  * Miniature sensing technologies
  * Micro power supplies
  * System integration
  * Robot motion control, fine motion, and collective behaviors
  * Multiple robot cooperation and architectures
  * Robot benchmarks in realistic environments and task scenarios
  * Novel applications: e.g. service, medical, science, surveillance,
    agricultural, manufacturing

Paper abstracts should be sent by March 27, 1995 to:

Dr. Lynne E. Parker
Center for Engineering Systems Advanced Research
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
P.O. Box 2008
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6364

Email: ParkerLE@ornl.gov

The full paper will be due September 25, 1995.