Purpose and Scope
The LARS 2006 will be held in conjunction and immediately after the V Latin American IEEE Student Robotics Competition (23-26 Oct. 2006). It is the core meeting for the presentation of scientific contributions in areas of relevance to robotics. Its scope encompasses, but is not restricted to the following fields:
- Vision and Image-Processing;
- Omnidirectional Vision;
- Sensor-Motor Control;
- Distributed Sensor Networks;
- Self-Localization and Navigation;
- Mobile Robots and Humanoids;
- Multi-Agent Systems;
- Multi-Robot Systems;
- Planning, Reasoning and Modeling;
- Cooperation and Collaboration;
- Adversarial Planning;
- Heterogeneous Agents;
- Learning and Adaptive Systems;
- Simulation and Visualization;
- Disaster Rescue Information Systems;
- Adjustable Autonomy;
- System Integration and Software Engineering;
- Realtime and Concurrent Programming;
- Speech Synthesis and Natural Language Generation;
- Search and Rescue Robots;
- Biologically-Inspired Robots;
- Embedded and Mobile Hardware;
- Computer and Robotic Entertainment;
- Robot Soccer;
- New Devices and Materials for Robots;
- Education issues in robotics;
- Robots as a motivation tool for children.
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