The International Advanced Robotics Programme (IARP) RISE-ER’2013, the 7th international workshop on robotics for risky environments, will take place within the framework of the 6th St.-Petersburg International Innovation Forum in Saint-Petersburg, Russian Fed. on 1-3 October 2013.
The general objective of the IARP is to encourage development of advanced robotic systems that can dispense with human work for difficult activities in harsh, demanding, or dangerous environments, and to contribute to the revitalization and growth of the world economy. Robotics solutions properly sized with suitable modularized mechanized structures and well adapted to local conditions of unstructured, sometimes unknown terrain can greatly improve the safety and the security of personnel, as well as work efficiency, and increase productivity and flexibility. Solving this problem presents challenges in robotic mechanics and mobility, sensors and sensor fusion, autonomous or semi-autonomous navigation and machine intelligence.
Through the workshop, the IARP working group RISE (Risky Intervention and Surveillance /Maintenance of the Environment), the Belgian Royal Military Academy, the RTC, and the Institute for Problems in Mechanics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, with support the Ministry of Education and Science, the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the Ministry of Defence, and the Federal Space Agency of the Russian Fed., as well as the Russian Academy of Sciences, are organizing dedicated sessions on the following topics:
• Inspection of fire or crisis/disaster’s areas
• CBRN-E threats
• Demining actions
• Search and rescue (SAR) operations
• Space and aerial monitoring
• Map building and reconstruction
• Remote controlled, semi-autonomous, autonomous vehicles
• Robot (UGV, RPAS/UAS, USV) navigation
• Networked multi-robot cooperation
Proposals for papers to be presented at this event should focus on theories, principles and developments which have been explicitly developed for (terrestrial, underwater, aerial and space) robots, and carried sensor systems for environmental surveillance, risky interventions in unstructured environments and/or in extreme environmental conditions. An abstract (approximately 300 words in English) should be received not later than 30 April 2013.
– Deadline for abstracts: 30 April 2013
– Selection of abstracts: 31 Mayl 2013
– Receipt of full papers: 30 June 2013
The abstracts should be submitted electronically to: yvan.baudoin@rma.ac.be & geert.de.cubber@rma.ac.be
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