Australasian Conference on
Robotics and
Automation 2005
Foreword
Welcome
to ACRA 2005.
The
2005 Australian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA 2005)
was held at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. ACRA 2005
continues a tradition of bringing together the Australian robotics
community in an annual event to discuss and to celebrate progress in
robotics research.
Australia
is home to a vibrant and internationally prominent community
of robotics researchers. As the national conference, ACRA brings
together the best of this community in an informal setting to present
and to discuss new and current work. The conference particularly
encourages the interaction of research students and developing
academics with the more established community. ACRA continues to play
an essential role in introducing and fostering new research talent and
in advancing the future profile of Australia as an international
leader in robotics.
We are
pleased to have, as our invited speaker, Professor Henrik I
Christensen, the director of the Centre for Autonomous Systems at the
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.
We
have endeavoured to ensure a balanced programme: maintaining a high
standard of quality, while being inclusive of the up and coming
students and junior researchers in the Australasian robotics
community. The Programme Committee
accepted 50 full papers for presentation and publication after a
review process in which full manuscripts were reviewed by at least two
committee members. The accepted papers were drawn from 61 papers
submitted in total. In keeping with recent trends, the
primary medium for the proceedings is CD-ROM, and we will be
maintaining the proceedings online at the ARAA website: www.araa.asn.au.
In
addition to the
technical paper programme, the programme includes a number of
interesting live robotics demonstrations, the Annual General Meeting
for the ARAA, and plenty of social opportunities for Australasian and
international robotics researchers to network and develop
cross-institutional links.
We
hope you enjoy your time at the
conference and we thank all authors, reviewers and participants for
their contributions.
Claude
Sammut
ACRA
Chair
Sydney, December 2005
on behalf of the Programme Committee
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