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Control Architectures of Robots 2012   

7th National Conference on
“Control Architectures of Robots”

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   May 10-11, 2012 - Nancy, FRANCE

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CAR 2006 was held in Montpellier.
CAR 2007 was held in Paris.
CAR 2008 was held in Bourges.
CAR 2009 was held in Toulouse.
CAR 2010 was held in Douai.
CAR 2011 was held in Grenoble.

CAR2012 : Program is on-line !
PDF file of the Poster and the Program

Dates:

- Conference : 10-11 may 2012

Invited talks:

Dr. Herman Bruyninckx (Prof. KU Leuven, Belgique)
Dr. Dominique Martinez (CR. CNRS, INRIA Cortex team)

Meeting of the GT CAR:

Groupe de Travail Architectures de Contrõle pour la Robotique du GDR Robotique
http://www2.lirmm.fr/gtcar/index.php/forum

Description

This conference is aimed at addressing important aspects of robot control architectures, with a specific emphasis on distribution, verification and validation, languages and modeling, and implementation of control architectures. It brings together researchers and practitioners from universities, institutions and industries, working in this field. It intends to be a meeting to expose and discuss gathered expertise, identified rends and issues, as well as new scientific results and applications around software control architectures related topics, through plenary invited papers.

Theme

Due to their increasing complexity, nowadays intervention robots, that to say those dedicated for instance to exploration, security or defence applications, definitely raise huge scientific and commercial issues. Whatever the considered environment, terrestrial, aerial, marine or even spatial, this complexity mainly derives from the integration of multiple functionalities: advanced perception, planification, navigation, autonomous behaviours, in parallel with teleoperation or robots coordination enable to tackle more and more difficult missions.

But robots can only be equipped with such functions if an appropriate hardware and software structure is embedded: the software architectures will hence be the main concern of this conference.

As quoted above, the control architecture is thus a necessary element for the integration of a multitude of works; it also permits to cope with technological advances that continually offer new devices for communication, localisation, computing, etc. As a matter of fact, it should be modular, reusable, scalable and even readable (ability to analyse and understand it).
Besides, such properties ease the sharing of competencies among the robotics community, but also with computer scientists and automatics specialists as the domain is inherently a multidisciplinary one.

Numerous solutions have been proposed, based on the “classical” three layers architecture or on more “modern” approaches such as object or component oriented programming. Actually, almost every robot integrates its own architecture; the workshop will thus be a real opportunity to share reflections on these solutions but also on related needs, especially standardisation ones, which are of particular importance in military applications for instance.

Hence, this conference on control architectures of robots aims at gathering a large number of robotics actors (researchers, manufacturers as well as state institutions) in order to highlight the multiple issues, key difficulties and potential sources of advances.

 
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