IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine
Panoramic Robotics
Special Issue Editors: Kostas Daniilidis and Nikos Papanikolopoulos
Artificial visual systems face difficulties in tasks like navigating on uneven terrain or detecting other movements when they are moving themselves. Paradoxically, these are tasks which biological systems like insects with very simple brains can very easily accomplish. It seems that this is not a matter of computational power but also a question of representation and sensor design. It is therefore surprising that most artificial visual systems use only one kind of sensor: a CCD-camera with a lens. Recently, several designs for capturing a hemispherical field of view have been proposed, the most of them based on combinations of mirrors with lenses. Many robotic groups already mounted such cameras on ground or aerial vehicles and showed the superiority of the new designs over conventional cameras. In this special issue, we focus on using panoramic sensors to solve robotic tasks. We invite papers on tele-operation, navigation, locomotion, localization, map building, homing, intruder detection and tracking, visual servoing, formation control, panoramic endoscopy, as well as methodological papers with a comprehensible presentation.
The submitted papers should follow the guidelines of the Robotics and Automation Magazine. Submitted papers should be sent to the special issue editors.
January 2002: Announcement in the web
March and June 2002: Announcement in the magazine
September 9, 2002: Paper submission deadline
December 16, 2002: Completion of the first paper review
February 3, 2003: Revised documents are due
June 2003: Publication of the special issue
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Professor Kostas Daniilidis |
Professor Nikolaos P. Papanikolopoulos |