Archive-name: robotics-faq/part1
Last-modified: Tue Dec 13 12:10:57 1994

This is part 1 of 5 of the comp.robotics Frequently Asked Questions
(FAQ) list. This FAQ addresses commonly asked questions relating to
robotics.
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This FAQ may be referenced as:
Dowling, Kevin (1994) "Robotics: comp.robotics Frequently Asked
Questions" Usenet news.answers.  Available via anonymous ftp from
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/robotics-faq/
part1 through part5. 70+ pages.

If the Last-modified date above is more than two months old you
should obtain a new copy.  See Section [0.1] Where to Find This FAQ .
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Part 1/5

Part 1
	[0] Errata
		[0.1] Where to find this FAQ and comp.robotics archives
		[0.2] Related FAQ's and Mailing Lists

	[1] What is Robotics?
		[1.1] What is the definition of a 'robot'?
		[1.2] Where did the word 'robot' come from?
	[2] Where can I find robotics resources on the net?

	[3] Organizations
		[3.1] Robotics Related Organizations
		[3.2] Robotics Associations of Many Countries
		[3.3] Robotics Clubs

	[4] What Periodicals and Publications are there?
		[4.1] Magazines, Journals, Newsletters
			[4.1.1] Robotics Publications
			[4.1.2] Trade magazines
			[4.1.3] Other sources

		[4.2] Books, Online Information and Videos
			[4.2.1] Books
			[4.2.2] CDROMS
			[4.2.3] Magazine Articles
			[4.2.4] Online Technical Reports

Part 2
	[5] Conferences and Competitions
		[5.1] Conferences
		[5.2] Competitions

Part 3
        [6] What University Programs are there?
                [6.1] Graduate Programs in Robotics
		[6.2] Student Who's Who

        [7] What is the State of the Robot Industry?

        [8] What companies sell or build robots?
                [8.1] Mobile robot companies
			[8.1.1] AGV Companies
			[8.1.2] Underwater robots
                [8.2] Manipulator companies
                [8.3] Other Organizations doing robotics
                [8.4] Small Inexpensive Robots

        [9] What is a Robot Architecture?

Part 4 
	[10] What Robotics related products are there?
		[10.1] Sensors
			[10.1.1] Cameras
			[10.1.2] Inertial measurement devices and gyros
			[10.1.3] Rangefinding devices
			[10.1.4] Force/torque, accelerometers, tactile
			[10.1.5] Sonar sensors
			[10.1.6] Pan/tilt mechanisms
			[10.1.7] Measuring robot position
			[10.1.8] Measuring linear motion
			[10.1.9] Interfacing sensors
		[10.2] Actuators
			[10.2.1] RC-Servos
			[10.2.2] Shape memory materials
			[10.2.3] Stepper Motor Controller
		[10.3] Imaging for Robotics
                [10.4] Wireless Communication
			[10.4.1] RF Modems
			[10.4.1] RF Video
			[10.4.2] RF Ethernet
                [10.5] Robot Parts: Suppliers and Sources

Part 5
	[11] Whatever happened to Heathkit Hero Robots?
	[12] What's available for Puma Manipulators?
	[13] What kinds of Robotics Simulators are there?
		[13.1] Commercial Simulators
		[13.2] Shareware and Freeware Simulators
	[14] What Real-Time Operating System should I use?
	[15] What is NuTank?
	[16] Survey of Mobile Robot Development Environments
	[17] Small development platforms
		[17.1] What is the Miniboard?
		[17.2] What is the F1 Board?
		[17.3] What is the Bot Board?
	[18] What is the XXX Microcontroller?
		[18.1] Motorola 68XX
		[18.2] Motorola 683xx
		[18.3] Intel 80C186
		[18.4] Intel 8051
		[18.5] Intel 8096
		[18.6] Microchip PIC16/17
		[18.7] Parallax BASIC Stamp
		[18.8] National Semiconductor LM628/629
		[18.9] Hewlett-Packard HCTL 1000, 2000
		[18.10] Motor Drivers

	[19] Acknowledgements

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[0] Errata
	
This section provides details on finding the comp.robotics FAQ and
gives pointers to other FAQs related to robotics.

[0.1]  Where to find this FAQ and comp.robotics archives

[0.1.1] Information for New Users of the Internet.

If you haven't done so, new users on the net should read
news:news.announce.newusers. In particular, the following posts are a good
idea:
	-A Primer on How to Work With The Usenet Community
	-Answers to Frequently Asked Questions About Usenet
	-Hints on Writing Style for Usenet

This FAQ is currently posted to comp.answers, news.answers and
comp.robotics.  All posts to news.answers are archived and are
available via anonymous FTP and e-mail from the following locations:

The World Wide Web:

WorldWideWeb (W3 or WWW) is the universe of network-accessible
information, an initiative started at CERN, now with many
participants. It has a body of software, and a set of protocols and
conventions. W3 uses hypertext and multimedia techniques to make the
web easy for anyone to roam, browse, and contribute to. Future
evolution of W3 is coordinated by the W3 Organization. The W3 has
grown into an extraordinary means of finding information about
organizations, people, companies, products and many, many other
things. Many browsers have been developed to search the net. Some of 
the most popular are Mosaic, MacWeb and Netscape.

If you are not using the Web or browsers: Learn! The WWW is already a
main source of information on the net and it is very easy to use with
the browsing and surfing tools now available. Within the robotics
community it is already providing robotic tools, images, videos,
teleoperation and observation.

The following is a general introduction to the WWW:
	http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

If you have electronic mail, then it possible (though slow!) to get W3
information by mail. try sending a mail to listserv@info.cern.ch with
a line in it saying just HELP to get back instructions. Your mail
system must have a mail gateway onto internet mail, but that is quite
likely. You might have to take the internet address above and ask your
friendly system manager how to convert it into the equivalent mail
address on the system you are using.

Ways to get the FAQ:

HTML:
	Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is a description language for
	the Webpages on the net. It provides links and pointers to
	other Web pages as well as formatting the documents.

	Jason Almeter at Indiana Univ has converted the c.r. FAQ
	to html format. Go to the Table of Contents at:
	http://www.cs.indiana.edu/robotics/FAQ/copy.html 

	OSU has a very useful site for all the usenet FAQs:
	http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/FAQ-List.html

FTP:
	FTP is a way of copying file between networked computers. If
	you need help in using or getting started with FTP, send
	e-mail to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with
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	as the body of the message.

	ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/robotics-faq
	part1, part2, part3, part4, part5
	Internet address: 18.181.0.24

	ftp://ftp.uu.net/archive/usenet/news.answers/robotics-faq
        part1.Z, part2.Z [use uncompress]
        Internet address: 137.39.1.9

	ftp://nic.switch.ch/info_service/Usenet/periodic-postings
	[Check info_service/Usenet/00index for filenames]
	Internet address: 130.59.1.40

	ftp://ftp.cs.cmu.edu/user/nivek/ftp/robotics-faq
	part1, part2, part3, part4, part5
	128.2.206.173

E-mail:
	Send email to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu containing these lines:
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	send usenet/news.answers/robotics-faq/part4
	send usenet/news.answers/robotics-faq/part5

Archives:
	There are a number of sites in the US, Europe and Japan
	that store the FAQ and archives for comp.robotics. You can
	find these by using the Internet search programs, Archie,
	Gopher or Wais.

	Archives of comp.robotics and many AI-related newsgroups
	can now be found in appropriate subdirectories of
		ftp://ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/user/ai/pubs/news/
	or more directly for comp.robotics at:
		ftp://ftp.cs.cmu.edu/user/ai/pubs/news/comp.robotics/0.html
	Each of these newsgroups is being automatically archived on a
	weekly basis.  For example, the gzipped tar file 94_10_08.tgz
	in the comp.lang.lisp/ subdirectory contains all articles that
	appeared in the comp.lang.lisp newsgroup during the previous
	week. Links to these archives also exist in many of the
	topical directories of the CMU AI Repository (e.g.,
	/user/ai/lang/lisp/news/ contains links to Lisp-related
	newsgroups). The archives for most of the newsgroups start
	with articles appearing on 23-JUL-94. Comments and suggestions
	should be sent to ai+news-archives@cs.cmu.edu.

	The following site,
  ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/pub/users/claird/news.lists/newsgroup_archives.html
	indexes not only the CMU AI archives of newsgroups, but over a
	hundred other publicly-accessible sites.

	Another location is:
		ftp://wilma.cs.brown.edu/pub/comp.robotics/

	In addition to the FTP archive maintained at
	wilma.cs.brown.edu, there are a couple of other mechanisms
	available:
	- The comp.robotics archive at wilma is also available as a WAIS
	source (called "comp.robotics.src"), and hence it is also
	available to WWW browsers, via the appropriate WAIS gateway.
	- Moises Lejter maintains a mailing list of individuals who
	would rather receive comp.robotics via Email as a daily digest
	of all messages posted to comp.robotics in each 24-hour
	period.  Anyone interested should send email directly to
	.  It's a LOT of mail though...

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[0.2] Related FAQ's and Mailing Lists

	There are a number of newsgroups with topics related to
robotics.  These include:

	comp.ai.*
	comp.realtime
	sci.electronics
	sci.virtual worlds,
	rec.metalworking	(fabrication)

In a number of the sections of this faq are locations of related
materials on the net.

Most regularly posted FAQ's can be found at rtfm.mit.edu (rtfm is an
acronym for Read The #$%*! Manual)

        ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/
        where  is the name of a given newsgroup.

Or on the www:
	http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/FAQ-List.html


See the Microcontroller section for several other FAQs related to a 
variety of microcontrollers.

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[1] What is robotics?
	In this section we define the words 'robot' and 'robotics' and
look a little at the history of robots.

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[1.1] What is the definition of a 'robot'?
	A reprogrammable, multifunctional manipulator designed to move
material, parts, tools, or specialized devices through various
programmed motions for the performance of a variety of tasks"

				Robot Institute of America, 1979

Obviously, this was a committee-written definition. It's rather dry and
uninspiring. Better ones for 'robotics' might include:

	Force through intelligence.
	Where AI meet the real world.

Webster says:
	An automatic device that performs functions normally ascribed
	to humans or a machine in the form of a human.

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[1.2] Where did the word 'robot' come from?

The word 'robot' was coined by the Czech playwright Karel Capek
(pronounced "chop'ek") from the Czech word for forced labor or serf.
Capek was reportedly several times a candidate for the Nobel prize for
his works and very influential and prolific as a writer and
playwright.  Mercifully, he died before the Gestapo got to him for his
anti-Nazi sympathies in 1938.

The use of the word Robot was introduced into his play R.U.R.
(Rossum's Universal Robots) which opened in Prague in January 1921.
The play was an enormous success and productions soon opened
throughout Europe and the US. R.U.R's theme, in part, was the
dehumanization of man in a technological civilization. You may find it
surprising that the robots were not mechanical in nature but were
created through chemical means. In fact, in an essay written in 1935,
Capek strongly fought that this idea was at all possible and, writing
in the third person, said:

	"It is with horror, frankly, that he rejects all
	responsibility for the idea that metal contraptions could ever
	replace human beings, and that by means of wires they could
	awaken something like life, love, or rebellion. He would deem
	this dark prospect to be either an overestimation of machines,
	or a grave offence against life."

	[The Author of Robots Defends Himself - Karl Capek, Lidove
	noviny, June 9, 1935, translation: Bean Comrada]

There is some evidence that the word robot was actually coined by
Karl's brother Josef, a writer in his own right. In a short letter,
Capek writes that he asked Josef what he should call the artifical
workers in his new play. Karel suggests Labori, which he thinks too
'bookish' and his brother mutters "then call them Robots" and turns
back to his work, and so from a curt response we have the word robot.

R.U.R is found in most libraries. The most common English translation
is that of P. Selver from the 1920's which is not completely faithful
to the original. A more recent and accurate translation is in a
collection of Capek's writings called Towards the Radical Center
published by Catbird Press in North Haven, CT. tel: 203.230.2391

The term 'robotics' refers to the study and use of robots. The term
was coined and first used by the Russian-born American scientist and
writer Isaac Asimov (born Jan. 2, 1920, died Apr. 6, 1992). Asimov
wrote prodigiously on a wide variety of subjects. He was best known
for his many works of science fiction.  The most famous include I
Robot (1950), The Foundation Trilogy (1951-52), Foundation's Edge
(1982), and The Gods Themselves (1972), which won both the Hugo and
Nebula awards. 

The word 'robotics' was first used in Runaround, a short story published in
1942. I, Robot, a collection of several of these stories, was
published in 1950.

Asimov also proposed his three "Laws of Robotics", and he later added
a 'zeroth law'.

	-Law Zero: A robot may not injure humanity, or, through inaction,
		allow humanity to come to harm.

	-Law One: A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction,
		allow a human being to come to harm, unless this would
		violate a higher order law.

	-Law Two: (a) A robot must obey orders given it by human beings,
		except where such orders would conflict with a higher order
		law.

	-Law Three: A robot mus protect its own existence
		as long as such protection does not conflict with a higher
		order law.

An interesting article on this subject:

	Clarke, Roger, "Asimov's Laws for Robotics: Implications for
	Information Technology", Part 1 and Part 2, Computer, December
	1993, pp. 53-61 and Computer, January 1994, pp.57-65.

The article is an interesting discussion of his Laws and how they came
to be in his books, and the implications for technology today and in
the future.

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[1.3] When did robots, as we know them today, come into existence?

The first industrial modern robots were the Unimates developed by
George Devol and Joe Engleberger in the late 50's and early 60's. The
first patents were by Devol for parts transfer machines. Engleberger
formed Unimation and was the first to market robots.  As a result,
Engleberger has been called the 'father of robotics.'

Modern industrial arms have increased in capability and performance
through controller and language development, improved mechanisms,
sensing, and drive systems. In the early to mid 80's the robot
industry grew very fast primarily due to large investments by the
automotive industry. The quick leap into the factory of the future
turned into a plunge when the integration and economic viability of
these efforts proved disastrous. The robot industry has only recently
recovered to mid-80's revenue levels. In the mean time there has been
an enormous shakeout in the robot industry. In the US, for example,
only one US company, Adept, remains in the production industrial robot
arm business. Most of the rest went under, consolidated, or were sold
to European and Japanese companies.

In the research community the first automata were probably Grey
Walter's machina (1940's) and the John's Hopkins beast. Teleoperated
or remote controlled devices had been built even earlier with at least
the first radio controlled vehicles built by Nikola Tesla in the
1890's. Tesla is better known as the inventor of the induction motor,
AC power transmission, and numerous other electrical devices. Tesla
had also envisioned smart mechanisms that were as capable as humans.
An excellent biography of Tesla is Margaret Cheney's Tesla, man out of
time, Published by Prentice-Hall, c1981.

SRI's Shakey navigated highly structured indoor environments in the
late 60's and Moravec's Stanford Cart was the first to attempt natural
outdoor scenes in the late 70's. From that time there has been a
proliferation of work in autonomous driving machines that cruise at
highway speeds and navigate outdoor terrains in commercial
applications.


Articles on the history of personal robots:

What ever happened to ... Personal Robots? by Stan Veit
The Computer Shopper, Nov 1992 v12 n11 p794(2) 

What ever happened to ... Personal Robots? (part 2) by Stan Veit
Computer Shopper, April 1993 v13 n4 p702(2) 

I have the text to these online but am trying to find out if I can
include these as part of the FAQ or as separate files that are
ftpable.

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[2] Where can I find robotics resources on the net?

Within this FAQ are a wide variety of URL's and pointers to ftp sites
for robotics resources. There are a few URL's that go beyond this and
some of those are presented here:

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Robotics Internet Resource Page:

This is an excellent source of pointers to a wide variety of Robotics
related work on the Internet. This includes files, video, images,
teleoperation etc etc. - Use your favorite browser (Mosaic, Netscape,
MacWeb etc. to check it out)
	http://piglet.cs.umass.edu:4321/robotics.html

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European Robotics Archive:

Eurobots is an archive dedicated to storage of robotics related  
information. It can be accessed via WWW at  
	http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/Eurobots 
or	ftp://ftp.essex.ac.uk/pub/robots. 

In addition to holding a collection of general information, the WWW
version has "Hot Links" to useful documents (such as this FAQ!) and
pointers to other mobile robot sites. There is also a dedicated
section for those working in Europe.  This archive is intended to
provide a service to all mobile robot developers, so check it out and
send us material that others might find useful, or give us your
suggestions for improvement.

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Virtual Reality (VR) related:

For sci.virtual-worlds:
        ftp://milton.u.washington.edu/public/virtual-worlds
        cheap-vr

Also see: ftp://ftp.ipa.fhg.de//pub/VIRTUAL_REALITY/WWW/hmepage.html
There are papers, productsheets, publications and information.

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Tutorial and Overview of Estimation and Navigation work at Notre-Dame
[I highly recommend this - it is an excellent use of the www and a
well-done overview of the work. - nivek]

http://www.nd.edu/NDInfo/Research/sskaar/Home.html

Part I: Camera Space Manipulation
Part I relates to the positioning of a rigid body in three-dimensional
space relative to a specific, second body accomplished with either a
holonomic system, such as a typical industrial robot, or a
nonholonomic system, such as a forklift.

Part II: Estimation Based Navigation
Relates to the navigation of a vehicle relative to a known environment
such as a home, office, or warehouse.

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[3] Robotics Organizations
	There are a number of organizations and societies related to
robotics. Some are related specifically to industry, several to
academia and a number of hobbyist groups. In addition, a number of the
groups, such as the ASME or IEEE, (see below) are very large
organizations and robotics is one of many sub-disciplines in their
respective fields. Many of these organizations also have periodicals
associated with robotics.

		[3.1] Robotics Related Organizations
		[3.2] Robotics Associations of Many Countries
		[3.3] Robotics Clubs

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[3.1] Robotics Related Organizations

Advanced Robot Technology Research Association (Japan)
Kikai-shinko Bldg
3-5-8 Shiba-Kohen, Minato-ku, Tokyo
tel: (03) 434-0532
fax: (03) 434-0217
Has joint research programs with member companies.
Members are 20 or so Japanese companies including:
Ishikawajima-Harima, Oki Electric, Kawasaki Heavy Industry, Kobe
Steel, Komatsu, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Toshiba, JGC, NEC,
Hitachi, Fanuc, Fujitsu, Fuji, Matshushita Research Institute, Mitsui,
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Mitsubishi Electric, Yaskawa

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, (ASME)
345 E. 47th Street
New York, NY 10017
Mechanical Engineering magazine, like the IEEE's Spectrum, is
an excellent general publication on aspects of mechanical engineering.
There are often publications on robotics and the ASME sponsors a
number of other publications and conferences that are relevant to
robotics. The ASME also has a BBS service, MechEng, with an email
server. send email to  with 'send info' in
the body.

Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems (AUVS)
1735 North Lynn Street
Suite 950
Arlington, VA 22209-2022
tel: 703.524.6646
fax: 703.524.2303
Promoting worldwide advancement of unmanned vehicle systems.
Membership includes subscription to Unmanned Systems magazine, AUVS
News Bulletin, regional seminars, annual symposium and trade show, and
other opportunities. AUVS also sponsors an annual aerial Robotics
Competition. See Conference announcements for more details.
or see:
http://cwis.usc.edu/dept/robotics/other/auvsarc/auvsarc.html
and ftp://usc.edu/pub/nn_robotics/other/auvsarc/

Also auvsarc-request@robotics.usc.edu

Student membership: $15/year
Educational Institutions/Libraries $100/year
Individual: $40/year
Corporate memberships also available.

Center for Autonomous and Man-controlled Robotic and Sensing Systems
Charles Jacobus, CAMRSS director
ERIM
PO Box 8618
Ann Arbor, MI 48107
tel: 313.994.1200 X2457
Member companies include: Ball Aerospace, Coulter Electronics, ERIM,
Fairchild, Ford Aerospace, Geospectra, Grumman, Industrial Technology
Institute, KMS Fusion, Michigan State, UofM.

American Insitute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
370 L'Enfant Promenade, SW
Washington, DC 20024
tel: 202.646.7400
tel: 212.247.6500 (Technical Information Service)
Conferences and publications, several cover automation technologies
for servicing on the ground and in space as well as exploration.

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Service Center
445 Hoes Lane
Piscataway, NJ 08854-4150
tel: 201.981.0060
tel: 800.678.IEEE
net: ftp://ftp.ieee.org/
A large organization with hundreds of publications including journals, 
transactions, Spectrum, sponsoring conferences, workshops and meetings.
   IEEE membership is $95 regular ($23 students)
   For membership in the IEEE Computer Society, add $22.
   $20 for IEEE Expert (Intelligent Systems and their Applications)
   $12 for Transactions on Neural Networks
   $12 for Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
   $15 for Transactions on Robotics and Automation
   $19 for Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
   $24 for Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine IntelligenceIEEE 

The International Society for Optical Engineering, (SPIE)
P.O.Box 10
Bellingham, Washington 98227-0010.
tel: 206.676.3290 (PST)
fax: 206.647.1445
tlx: 46-7053
net: spie@mom.spie.org
ftp://mom.spie.org/
	SPIE has publications, meetings and conferences in the field
of intelligent robots, mobile robots, teleoperation, machine vision,
etc.
	SPIE is a nonprofit society dedicated to advancing engineering
and scientific applications of optical, electro-optical, and
optoelectronic instrumentation, systems and technology. Its members
are scientists, engineers, and users interested in the reduction to
practice of these technologies. SPIE provides the means for
communicating new developments and applications to the scientific,
engineering, and user communities through its publications, symposia,
and short courses.

SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering, has started
up four new listservers, covering robotics, fiber optics, optical
computing and processing, and optomechanical engineering/instrument
design. This brings the total to eight (see list below).

SPIE maintains several e-mail Listserver Groups dedicated to various
technical specialties. These groups are a way for colleagues to share
information, solve problems, and discuss issues related to their
interests. While the topics are tied to the various International
Technical Working Groups of SPIE, membership is not required to join a
listserver group.

Currently available e-mail listservers maintained by SPIE:
Listname        Group
--------        -----
info-bios       BiOS (Biomedical Optics Society)
info-ei         Electronic Imaging
info-holo       Holography
info-adopt      Adaptive Optics
info-fibers     Fiber Optics
info-opcom      Optical Computing and Processing
info-robo       Robotics
info-optomech   Optomechanical and Instrument Design

To subscribe to one of these groups, send an e-mail message to
   info-optolink-request@mom.spie.org
and include the words:   subscribe info-listname
in the message body area, where listname matches one of the names
listed above. For a complete set of instructions, send a message to
info-optolink-request@mom.spie.org with the word HELP in the message
body. For an up-to-date list of SPIE listserver groups at any time,
send the word LISTS to the same address.

The Material Handling Institute
8720 Red Oak Blvd, Suite 201
Charlotte, NC 28217
  Primary robotics focus is on AGV's.

National Service Robots Association (NSRA)
900 Victors Way
PO Box 3724
Ann Arbor, MI 48106
tel: 313.994.6088
An organization devoted to robots other than on the factory floor.

Robotics Industry Association (RIA)
(same address as NSRA)

Society of Manufacturing Engineers, (SME)
One SME Drive
PO Box 930
Dearborn, MI  48121
tel: 313.271.1500

Utility/Manufacturer Robot Users group (UMRUG)
Contact: Harry T. Roman
MC: 16-H
Public Service Electric and Gas Company
80 Park Plaza
PO Box 570
Newark, NJ 07101
tel: 201.430.6646

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[3.2] Robotics Associations of Many Countries

Compilied from a list provided by the British Robot Association.
Alphabatized by English spelling of country.

Australian Robot Association Inc
G.P.O. Box 1527
SYDNEY 2001
New South Wales
Australia
Contact: Mr Michael Kassler
tel: +61-2-959-32-39
fax: +61-2-959-46-32

Osterreichisches Forschungszentrum
Seibersdorf GmbH
Hauptabteilung Fertigungstechnik und Automation
A-2444 SEIBERSDORF
Austria
Contact: Mr Erwin Fugger
tel: +43-2254-80-22-13
fax: +43-2254-80-21-18

SOBRACON - Sociedade Brasileira de Comando
Numerico, Automazacao e Computacao Grafica
Rua General Jardim, 645-7 andar, cjto.72
01223 011 - Sao Paulo, SP
Brazil
Contact: Mr. Arnaldo Pereira Ribeiro
tel: +55-11-256-1192 / 258 3320
fax: +55-11-256-94-96

British Robot Association (BRA)
BRA Aston Science Park
Love Lane
Birmingham B7 4BJ
England
tel: +44 (0)21-628 1745
fax: +44 (0)21-628 1746
  Meetings, newsletters, information, contacts, sponsor of several
  events in the UK.  Individual and Student rate is 60 pounds UK.

"Robot" Interindustry Research and Production Association
(MNTK "Robot")
Izmailovskaya sq.,7
MOSCOW - Russia
CIS
Contact: Mr. Vladimir P Stepanov
tel: +7-095-367-85-36
fax: +7-095-367-88-81

China Society of Industrial 
Automation & Automated Industries
8, 7F, Tun Hwa N. Rd.
TAIPEI - China
Contact: Mr. Chen, Chen-Chang
tel: +886-2-751-34-68
fax: +886-2-781-77-90

Danish Industrial Robot Association (DIRA)
Teknologiparken
DK-8000 AARHUS C
Denmark
Contact: Mr. John Nielsen
tel: +45-86-14-24-00
fax: +45-86-14-43-55

Robotics Society in Finland
c/o Suomen Automaation Tuki Oy
Asemapaallikonk. 12 C
FIN-00520 HELSINKI
Finland
tel: +358-0-146-1644
fax: +358-0-146-1650
Contact: Mr. Hannu Lehtinen
e-mail: Hannu.Lehtinen@vtt.fi

Fachgemeinschaft MHI im VDMA
P.O. Box 71 08 64
D-6000 FRANKFURT (MAIN) 71
Germany
Contact: Mr. Berndt Knoerr
tel: +49-69-66-03-466
fax: +49-69-66-03-459

IPA 
Nobelstrasse 12
D-7000 STUTTGART 80
Germany
Contact: Mr Rolf D Schraft
tel:+49-711-970-12-00
fax: +49-711-970-13-99

Association Francaise de Robotique
Industrielle (AFRI)
Tour 66
4, Place Jussieu
F-75252 PARIS CEDEX 05
France
Contact: Mr. Arnauld Laffaille
tel: +33-1-44-27-62-12
fax: +33-1-44-27-62-14

Hungarian Robotics Association
c/o Tungsram T.H. Co.Ltd.
Centre of Robotics and Automation
H-1340 Budapest
IV., Vaci ut 77
Hungary
Contact: Dr. Jozsef K. Tar
tel: +36-1-169-6144
fax: +36-1-169-6144

Government of India
Ministry of Science & Technology
Dept. of Science & Technology
Technology Bhavan
New Mehrauli Road
New Delhi-110 016
India
Contact: Mr. A.N.N. Murthy, Director
tel: +91-11-662-260, 654-793
fax: +91-11-616-2418

SIRI - Associazione Italiana di Robotica
c/o ETAS Periodici
Via Mecenate 91
I-20138 MILANO
Italy
Contact: Mr Daniele Fabrizi
tel: +39-2-580-842-24
fax: +39-2-554-003-88

Japan Industrial Robot Association
c/o Kikaishinko Bldg
3-5-8, Shibakoen, Minato-Ku
TOKYO
Japan
Contact: Mr Kanji Yonemoto
tel: +81-3-3434-2919
fax: +81-3-3578-1404

KIST - Korea Institute of Science and Technology
P.O. Box 131, Cheongryang
Seoul
Korea
Contact: Mr. Chun Sik-lee
tel: +82-2-967-3505, 963-4497
fax: +82-2-969-1763

Meininger Automation bv
P.O. Box 743 
NL-2280 AS RIJSWIJK
Netherlands
Contact: Mr Jack B Eijlers
tel: +31-70-340-17-80
fax: +31-70-340-1602

Federation of Norwegian Engineering Industries (TBL)
Box 7072 - H
N-0306 OSLO 3
Norway
Contact: Mr Johan Ulleland
tel: +47-2-46-58-20
fax: +47-2-46-18-38

Polish Federation of Engineering Associations (NOT)
Czackiego Str 3/5
PL-00950 WARSZAWA
Poland
Contact: Mr. Kazimierz Wawrzyniak
tel: +48-22-26-87-31
fax: +48-22-27-29-49

Singapore Industrial Automation Association (SIAA)
151 Chin Swee Road
#03-13 Manhattan House
SINGAPORE 0316
Singapore
Contact: Mr Stephen Teng
tel: +65-734-69-11
fax: +65-235-57-21

MVVZ Robot
Nam. Legionarov 3
CZ-080 01 PRESOV
Slovakia
Contact: Mr Vladimir Cop
tel: +42-91-235-77
fax: +42-91-231-95

"J. Stefan" Institute
Jamova 39
61000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
Contact: Mr Jadran Lenarcic
tel: +38-61-159-199
fax: +38-61-161-029, 273-677

Asociacion Espanola de Robotica
Rambla de Catalunya 70, 3r 2a
E-08007 BARCELONA
Spain
Contact: Mr Luis Basanez
tel: +34-3-215-57-60
fax: +34-3-215-23-07

Swedish Industrial Robot Association (SWIRA)
Box 5506
S-114 85 STOCKHOLM
Sweden
Contact: Mr Thomas Hardenby
tel: +46-8-783-80-00
fax: +46-8-660-33-78

Schweizerische Gesellschaft fur
Automatik, Arbeitsgruppe Robotik
Postgasse 17
CH-3011 BERN
Switzerland
Contact: Mr Charles Giroud
tel: +41-31-21-22-51
fax: +41-31-21-12-50

British Robot Association (BRA)
Aston Science Park, Love Lane
Aston Triangle
BIRMINGHAM B7 4BJ
United Kingdom
Contact: Mr. Donald Pitt
tel: +44-21-628-17-45
fax: +44-21-628-17-46

Robotic Industries Assoc (RIA)
P.O. Box 3724
ANN ARBOR, MI 48106
USA
Contact: Mr. Donald A. Vincent
tel: 1-313-994-6088
fax: 1-313-994-3338

Secretariat of IFR
c/o Sveriges Verkstadsindustrier
Box 5506
S-114 85 STOCKHOLM
Swden
Contact: Mr Lennart Djupmark
	 Mrs Kerstin Teglof Delgado
tel: +46-8-783-80-00 or
	 +46-8-783-82-08
fax: +46-8-660-33-78

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[3.3] Robotics Clubs

The original computer club in Silicon Valley was the Homebrew computer
club, out of which evolved a major portion of the personal computer
industry. In that spirit, if not the hope for history repeating
itself, a number of robotics societies and clubs have sprung up.

Maintainer of this list:

Ed Severinghaus 
listserver: send message "get society" to info@sfrsa.com listserver
            or "help" for list of other options

Atlanta Hobby Robotics Association
P.O. Box 2050
Stone Mountain, GA 30086
tel: 404.972.7082
fax: 404.979.3660,,,11
net: 
bbs: Robots R4U 404.978.7300 - 300-14400 - 8N1 - 24hrs - 7days
Supporting Hobby Robot activity in Atlanta and more. Source of "Robot
Hobby; The Complete Manual, for Individuals and Clubs" See Books Section.

The Robot Group
PO Box 164334
Austin, TX 78716
tel: 512.794.9105
net: 
     gopher://gopher.cs.utexas.edu/Other Interesting Gophers/Robogopher

Connecticut Robotics Society
c/o Jake Mendelssohn   Jake.Mendelssohn@circellar.com 
190 Mohegan Drive
West Hartford, CT 06117 
tel: 203.233.2379

The Dallas Personal Robotics Group
Dallas Personal Robotics Group 
c/o Eric Yundt - President 
5112 Hardaway Circle 
The Colony, TX  75056 
Voice #: 214-625-4454 
Fax #: 214-612-2035 
Email:  eric@sssi.com    garap@utdallas.edu    srainwater@ncc.com 
BBS:  The Interociter BBS  214-258-1832 

LA Area Robotics and Automation Group

Los Angeles, CA
	If you wish to subscribe to the  mailing list,
please send a message to:
        listproc@cad.ucla.edu
with a blank Subject: line and the body of the message reading:
        subscribe la-ragroup  
[David Lee                              e-mail: dlee@cs.ucla.edu]

Palo Alto Homebrew Robotics Club
c/o Richard Prather
91 Roosevelt Circle
Palo Alto, CA 94306

Portland Area Robotics Society (PARTS)
821 SW 14th
Troutdale, OR 97060
tel: 503.666.5907.
net: marvin@agora.rdrop.com 
contact: Marvin Green
	The purpose of the Portland Area Robotics Society is to
support and promote the development of personal robotics, and to
facilitate the exchange of information between robot enthusiasts.
P.A.R.T.S will help provide practical and technical assistance to its
members, by promoting experimentation, construction, discussions,
seminars, exhibitions, and contests, in the field of hobby robotics.
	Membership to P.A.R.T.S shall be open to all persons, who are
interested in learning more about robotics, and furthering the
objectives of the club.  To get the most from P.A.R.T.S, active
participation is wholeheartedly encouraged.  After all, you only get
out of it what you put into it. Membership is $20 a year and includes
the PARTS newsletter.
	PARTS also has a newsletter that focuses on robotics for the
hobbyist. Each issue contains valuable information on electronics,
microcontrollers, sensors, hardware construction and software for
robotics.  You can obtain a set of twelve newsletters for only $9.95.
This includes shipping and handling.

The Robot Group - Alex Iles, President
POB 164334
Austin, TX 78716
tel: 512.288.9135  
net: robot-group@cs.utexas.edu
net: gopher://gopher.cs.utexas.edu/Other Interesting Gophers/Robogopher 

Robotics Society of Southern California
c/o Jerry Burton, President 
10471 S. Brookhurst
Anaheim, CA 92804
714-535-8161
Robotics Society BBS at (714) 538-0614 
jbpir2@aol.com 

Robotics Club of Maryland
Computer Science Dept.
A.V. Williams Bldg. (115)
University of Maryland
College Park, Md.  20742-3255
contact: Stephen Klueter, President
net: 

robotics group
President/founder: Franco Arteseros 
13702 East Lehigh Ave, unit E. 
Aurora, CO 80014 
tel: 303.680.9324 

The Robotics Society of America
PO Box 1205 
Danville, CA 94526-1205
tel:415.550.0588
fax: 415.550.0411
bbs: 415.648.6427 (supports 14.4Kb)
net: 
	Subscription to SFRSA "Magazine" The normal subscription rate
will be $25 for 12 monthly issues.

Rochester Institue of Technology
Brace Peters, President       robotics@ritvax.isc.rit.edu       
RIT Robotics Club                  An RIT recognized club. 
1502 Grace Watson Hall
Rochester, New York 14623 
meetings are held every Sunday,
7:00 pm in building 09, room 2139 (Gleason building)

San Francisco Robotics Society of America
Brad Smallridge, Director   bsmall@sfrsa.com
P.O.Box 1205
Danvile, CA 94526-1205
415-550-0588
BBS 415-648-6427, 14.4K N81

Seattle Robotics Society
c/o Jeff Sandys
P.O.Box 30668
Seattle, WA 98103-0668
206-782-5989 (8AM-9PM PST, ask for Bob)

Triangle Amateur Robotics Club
P.O. Box 17523
Raleigh, NC 27619
tel: 919.782.8703
net: sasrer@unx.sas.com (Rodney Radford)
tel: 919.677.8001 x7703
hme: 919.469.9359
Meets first Monday of every month at 7:30pm on NCSU campus (110 Clark Lab) 

Twin Cities Robotics/AI Group 
St Paul, Minnesota 
Contact:  Alan Kilian, (612)683-5499  
tcrobots@cray.com 
kilian@cray.com 
via Mosaic:  http://lenti.med.umn.edu/~mwd/robot.html  

University of North Carolina Asheville Robotics Club 
contact: Paul Schuh    
Home phone: (704) 645-6165          schuh@phys.unca.edu 

A related group:
MicroMechanics Information Clearinghouse
Requests to join list are sent to: 
FTP site:
ftp://mems.isi.edu/
directories: /pub/prm, /pub/prospero, /pub/mems, /pub/papers
WWW-URL:	http://mems.isi.edu/mems

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Robot related performance art:

Survival Research Laboratories
1458-C San Bruno Ave.
San Francisco, CA  94110
tel/fax: 415.641.8065
contact: SRL director Mark Pauline
net: 
	Survival Research Laboratories is a not-for-profit machine-
performance art group conceived of and founded by Mark Pauline in
November 1978.  Since its inception SRL has operated as an
organization of creative technicians dedicated to re-directing the
techniques, tools, and tenets of industry, science, and the military
away from their typical manifestations in practicality, product or
warfare.  Since 1979, SRL has staged over 45 mechanized presentations
in the United States and Europe.  Each performance consists of a
unique set of ritualized interactions between machines, robots, and
special effects devices, employed in developing themes of
socio-political satire.  Humans are present only as audience or
operators.

	Survival Research Laboratories is now available for email and
time-restricted Gopher and anonymous FTP access from 0000-0600 PST
daily. [NOTE TIME RESTRICTION!]: ftp://srl.org/pub/SRLImageBank and
ftp://srl.org/pub/SRLInfo The directory holds scanned-in photographs
and video images of SRL shows in GIF format; SRLInfo has news. Image
file sizes range from 70 to 250 Kbytes, but our link speed is only
9600 baud; please be patient. Always select BINARY mode before FTP
file transfers.  Filenames can be specified in upper or lower case.
Comments or questions to support@srl.org.

 Joel Plutchak has a WWW mirror site for SRL at:
 http://lager.geo.brown.edu:8080/pub/srl/
 ftp://lager.geo.brown.edu

There are two SRL tapes carried by Media Magic - a company that has all
sorts of great books, programs, CD-ROMs, laser disks, videos, etc dealing
with computers in science and art.  The tapes are:

	#v112a The Pleasures Of Unihibited Excess ($30) and
	#v112b The Will To Provoke ($25)

Media Magic
P.O. Box 598
Nicasio, CA   94946  
tel: 415.662.2426 or orders
tel: 800.882.8284

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[4] What Robotics Related Periodicals and Publications are there?

		[4.1] Magazines, Journals, Newsletters
			[4.1.1] Robotics Publications
			[4.1.2] Trade magazines
			[4.1.3] Other sources

		[4.2] Books, Online Information and Videos
			[4.2.1] Books
			[4.2.2] CDROMS
			[4.2.3] Magazine Articles
			[4.2.4] Online Technical Reports

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[4.1] Magazines, Journals, Newsletters
	There are a number of academic journals and trade magazines
devoted to robotics.  There are no magazines currently devoted to the
hobbyist or designer of robotic mechanisms. In the 1980's Robotics
Engineering (nee Robotics Age) lasted for 7-8 years but folded. The
one difficulty I noted as a subscriber was that the magazine attempted
to address the hobbyist, the curious and those whose work was devoted
to robotics without successfully catering to all groups.

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[4.1.1] Robotics Publications

This list of periodical covers the academic journals, the trade
magazines devoted to both robotics and relevant sub-areas, and the
lone newsletter for hobbyists.

Advanced Robotics (in English)
	The International Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan.
	ISSN 0169-1864
	Editor-in-Chief, Robotics Society of Japan, 6FL. Bunkyo-Shogaku Bldg.,
	1-15-4, Hongu, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan.
	Subscriptions and orders:
	VSP, PO. Box 346, 3700 AH Zeist, The Netherlands.
	Bimonthly, DM525 (1993 price).

Automation in Construction
	Publisher: Elsevier Science Publisher B. V., Amsterdam.
	Desk Editor: Erik de Vries
	The Editor of the journal is
	Dr. T. Michael Knasel
	10324 Lake Avenue
	Cleveland, OH 441102-1239.
	fax: 216.651.5136.

Autonomous Robots
	ISSN 0929-5593
	Kluwer Academic Publishers
	Journal Dept
	PO Box 358, Accord Station
	Hingham, MA 02018-0358
	tel: 617.871.6600
	fax: 617.871.6528
	subscription: $50/individual
	Vol 1, 1994 (2 issues)
	Editor-in-chief
	George Bekey 

Industrial Robot
	ISSN 0143-991X
	Quarterly, $145/year
	MCB University Press Ltd.
	62 Toller Lane
	Bradford, West Yorkshire
	England, BD8 9BY
	tel: (44) 274 499821,
	fax: (44) 274 547143
	--in the US
	MCB University Press Ltd.
	PO Box 10812
	Birmingham, AL 35201-0812
	tel: 1-800-633-4931 (1-205-995-1567),
	fax: 1-205-995-1588

Institute of  Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
	The IEEE has a formidable array of journals, transactions and
	magazines. Here are a few that are relevant to robotics work:
	IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation
	IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
	IEEE Control Systems Magazine
	IEEE Computer Magazine
	IEEN Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
	IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
	Cost: Have to join IEEE and then subscribe. Student rates are
	much less expensive than non-student rates.

International Journal of Robotics and Automation
	Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0826-8185
	ACTA Press, PO Box 354, CH-8053, Zurich, Switzerland or ACTA
	Press, PO Box 2481, Anaheim, CA 92814.
	Subscriptions: $165 US or 313.50 SFr. ($12 US or 22.80 SFr postage and
	handling). A special rate is available to members of IASTED.

International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR)
	MIT Press
	28 Carleton Street
	Cambridge, MA 02142
	Cost: $50/year to individuals

Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems
	Three issues per volume, $58.50 per volume (individual)
	Kluwer Academic Publishers Group
	PO Box 322,
	3300 AH Dordrecht,
	The Netherlands
	--in the US:
	PO Box 358
	Accord Station,
	Hingham, MA 02018-0358

Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan
	Robotics Society of Japan
	6Fl. Bunkyo Shogaku Bldg.,
	1-15-4 Hongo Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan
	tel: (03)3812-7594
	fax: (03)3812-4628.
 	The table of contents (TOC) are posted to comp.research.japan
	and comp.robotics as they are available, although there is
	some delay. All of the TOC for this and other
	Japanese CS journals are archived for anonymous FTP at
	ftp://cs.arizona.edu/japan/table.contents/robotics.TOC/jrsj.TOC

Journal of Robotic Systems
	G. Beni and S. Hackwood, editors
	College of Engineering
	University of California, Riverside
	Riverside, CA 92521-0425
	Publisher:
	Interscience Division
	Professional, Reference, and Trade Group
	John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
	605 Third Ave.
	New York, NY 10158

Mechatronics (Mechanics, Electronics, Control)
	Editors-in-Chief: 
	Dr. R. W. Daniel
	Department of Engineering Science,
	University of Oxford,
	Parks Road, 
	Oxford, OX1-3PJ 
	United Kingdom:
	tel: +44-865-273153
	fax: +44-865-273153

	Professor J. R. Hewit
	Engineering Design Institute
	Department of Mechanical Engineering,
	University of Technology, Loughborough
	Leicestershire, LE11 3TU
	UNITED KINGDOM
	tel: +44-509-222936
	fax: +44-509-268103)
	
	Published by Pergamon Press Ltd, Headington Hill Hall, Oxford
	OX3 0BW UK.  1993 subscription rates: 193 pounds Sterling (US
	$312) Personal subscription rates for those whose library
	subscribes at a regular rate are available on request.
	Subscription rates for Japan are available on request.

Robot (Japanese)
	Industrial Robots and Application Systems
	published bimonthly
	Japan Industrial Robot Association (JIRA)
	Kikai-Shinko Building
	3-5-8, Shiba-Kohen,
	Mina To-ku
	Tokyo, Japan
	tel: (03) 3434-2919
	fax: (03) 3578-1404

Robot Explorer
	'The newsletter of motile systems'
	ISSN: 1060-4375
	Appropriate Solutions
	145 Grove Street
	PO Box 458
	Peterborough, NH 03458-0458
	tel: 603.924.6079
	fax: 603.924.9441
	net: apsol@world.std.com
	$14.95/year in the US, $29.95 to the rest of the world.

Robotica 
	International Journal of Information, Education and Research
	in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
	Quarterly publication, US $179 per year!
	Cambridge University Press
	The Edinburgh Building
	Shaftesbury Road,
	Cambridge CB2 2RU (UK)
	in the US:
	Cambridge University Press
	Journals Department
	40 West 20th Street
	New York, NY 10011-4211

Robotics and Autonomous Systems
	-- In Europe -- 
	Elsevier Science Publishers B.V.
	Journals Department
	PO Box 211, 100 AE Amsterdam
	The Netherlands
	Editors in Chief:
	Prof. F.C.A. Groen
	University of Amsterdam
	Faculty of Mathematics and CS
	Dept. of Computer Systems
	Kruislaan 403
	1098 SJ Amsterdam
	The Netherlands
	net: 

	-- In the US and Canada --
	Elsevier Science Publishing Co., Inc.
	Journal Information Center
	655 Avenue of the Americas
	New York, NY 10010
	Editor in Chief
	Prof. T.C. Henderson
	University of Utah
	Dept. of Computer Science
	3160 Merrill Engineering Bldg.
	Salt Lake City, UT 84112 USA
	net: 

Robotics and Computer Integrated Manufacturing
	Pergamon Press, ISSN 0736-5845
	Editorial Office: Dr. Andre Sharon, Associate Editor, damien@mit.edu
	Subscriptions and orders:
	Elsevier Science Inc, 660 White Plains Road, Tarrytown, 
        NY 10591-5153, USA
        or Elsevier Science Ltd, The Boulevard, Langford Lane, 
        Kidlington, Oxford, OX5 1GB, UK.

Robotics Today
	Published by:
	Society of Manufacturing Engineers
	One SME Drive
	PO Box 930
	Dearborn, MI 48121
	tel: 313.271.1500

Robotics World
	"The end-user's magazine of flexible automation"
	Published quarterly
	Communication Channels
	6255 Barfield Road
	Atlanta, GA 30328
	tel: 404.256.9800
	They also publish the Robotics World Directory $49.95

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T-O-Cs of Japanese publications in the computer/electronics cateogry
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[4.1.2] Trade Magazines

	Usually free, mostly ads or industry news. Many articles
written by advertisers. Great sources of product information. Our lab
at CMU receives 50-60 trade magazines and journals per month and while
no one reads all of the articles, pointers are passed on to people
around the lab. This keeps the group abreast of new products and
developments.

Advanced Imaging
	445 Broad Hollow Rd.
	Melville, NY 11747
	tel: 516.845.2700
	fax: 516.845.2797
	Subscription free to qualified professionals, $50/yr otherwise.

ComputerCraft
	CQ Communications
	76 N. Broadway
	Hicksville, NY 11801
	tel: 516.681.2922
	fax: 516.681.2926
	cost: $18.97/yr
	ISSN: 1055-5072

Computer Applications Journal
	Circuit Cellar Inc.
	4 Park St. Suite 20
	Vernon, CT 06066
	Subscriptions: P.O. Box 7694
	Riverton, NJ 08077
	tel: 203.875.2751
	cost: $21.95/yr
	ISSN: 0896-8985
	Excellent for those building hardware, programming
	microcontrollers, etc. Also a very good source for companies
	who have products in these areas.

Design News
	Cahners Publishing Co.
	275 Washington Street
	Newton, MA. 02158
	News and Applications for design engineers.
	Cost: Free to qualified recipients; otherwise - ?

EE Times
	CMP Publications, Inc.
	600 Community Drive
	Manhasset, NY  11030
	Cost: Free to qualified recipients (in the U.S.); otherwise -
	$159/yr	(U.S. & Foreign)

Electronic Design
	Penton Publishing Inc
	1100 Superior Ave
	Cleveland, OH 44114-2543
	611 Route #46 West
	Hasbrouck Heights, NJ 07604
	tel: 201.393.6060
	fax: 201.393.0204
	cost: $95.00/yr (free if qualified)
	ISSN: 0013-4872

Electronics Now (formerly Radio Electronics)
	Gernsback Publications Inc
	Subscription Dept
	Box 55115
	Boulder, CO 80321-5115
	500-B Bi-County Boulevard
	Farmingdale, NY 11735
	tel: 516.293.3000
	cost: $19.97/yr
	ISSN: 0033-7862

Embedded Systems Programming
	Miller Freeman
	600 Harrison St.
	San Francisco, CA 94107
	tel: 800.829.5537 (customer service)
	tel: 415.905.2200
	bbs: 415.905.2689.
	$49.95 for 12 issues

Laser Focus World
        10 Tara Blvd., Fifth Floor (Editorial Office)
        Nashua, NH  03062
        tel: 603.891.0123
        fax: 603.891.0574
        internet: lfworld@pinet.aip.org
        Subscription Inquiries: 918.831.9424

Machine Design
	Penton Publishing Inc.
	1100 Superior Ave.
	Cleveland, OH 44114-2543
	tel: 216.696.7000
	fax: 216.621.8469
	Cost: Free to qualified recipients in the U.S.; otherwise -
	$100.00/yr in U.S.; $140/yr in Canada; $160/yr - all other
	Foreign

Midnight Engineering 'Journal of Personal Product Development'
	Published by William E Gates, [No, not him...]
	111 E. Drake Road
	Suite 7041
	Fort Collins, CO 80525
	tel: 303.225.1410
	fax: 303.225.1075
	One-year (6 issues) $24, canada and mexico $29, other foreign
	$49 (airmail) Perhaps marginal for this list but focus is on
	"resources and insight for the entrepreneurial engineer"
	Issues and articles on developing hardware, software,
	micro-controllers, product development, marketing, patenting
	issues, startups, etc etc. Excellent if you need this info.

Modern Materials Handling
	44 Cook Street
	Denver, CO  80206-5800
	tel: 303.388.4511
	Trade magazine covering productivity solutions for
	manufacturing, warehousing and distribution.  Typically
	includes articles on factory automation, etc.  Cost: Free to
	qualified recipients; otherwise - $75 for US subscribers.

Motion Control
	Tower Media Corp.
	800 Roosevelt Rd.
	Bldg. C, Suite 206
	Glen Ellyn, IL  60137
	Trade magazine for Motion Control applications and Technology.
	Cost: Free to qualified recipients in the U.S.; otherwise -
	$50/yr in U.S. $90/yr foreign subscriptions.

NASA Tech Briefs
	Associated Business Publications Co., Ltd.
	41 E. 42nd St.
	New York, NY  10017-5391
	Contains useful technology transfer information which very
	often includes robotics research performed at various NASA
	centers.  Cost: Free to qualified recipients; otherwise -
	$75.00/yr in the U.S., $150.00/yr for Foreign subscriptions

Nuts and Volts
	430 Princeland Court
	Corona, CA 91719
	tel: 800.783.4624
	net: 74262.3664@compuserve.com
	Electronics classifieds and ads. Lots of devices and products
	relevant for robot builders. Often features articles on robot
	building as well by Karl Lunt. 

Sensors
	Helmers Publishing
	174 Concord Street
	PO Box 874
	Peterborough, NH 03458-0874
	tel: 603.924.9631
	Trade magazine devoted to sensing devices. Publishes directory.
	Cost: Free to qualified subscribers, $55/yr otherwise
	
	[To add]
GPS World (Global Positioning System related)
RF Design
Sea Technology
Laser Focus
POB (surveying profession)
Broadcast Engineering (TV and radio engineering)

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[4.1.3] Other sources:

Thomas Register
	Thomas Publishing Company
	One Penn Plaza
	New York, NY 10117-0139
	tel: 212.695.0500
	fax: 212.290.7362
	About $250 for a 20-odd volume encyclopedia of US industry.
Concentration on heavier industries - but still an amazing source for
information. No company or lab building products should be without
one. Available on CD-ROM for about $300.

EEM - The 'Thomas Register' for Electrical engineers.
[Address to add]

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[4.2] Books, Online Information and Videos

	[4.2.1] Books
	[4.2.2] CDROMS
	[4.2.3] Magazine Articles
	[4.2.4] Online Technical Reports

The readership of this group ranges from the beginner to experienced
robot designers and users. Accordingly, this list covers the gamut as
well. I would like to include net resources as well such as papers or
tech reports so send me your sites!

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[4.2.1] Books
	Some of these books may be out of print. Check with your local
bookseller or try a used bookstore that provides a search service.

Advanced Robot Systems
Mark J. Robillard
Howard Sams & Co. 1984

Autonomous Robot Vehicles
I.J. Cox and G.T. Wilfong (eds) 
New York, Springer-Verlag, 1990
Collection of seminal papers on autonmous robot vehicles.

Build Your Own Universal Computer Interface
Bruce Chubb
TAB Books

Control System Design Guide
George Ellis
ISBN 0-12-237470-3
Covers hardware,software and theory of ordinary PID control.

Directed Sonar Sensing for Mobile Robot Navigation
by John J. Leonard & Hugh F. Durant-Whyte
Kluwer Academic Press
Boston (1992) ISBN 0-7923-9242-6
  An expansion on John's thesis work, which he did at Oxford.

Industrial Robots:  Computer Interfacing and Control, Wesley E. Snyder
Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1985.
LOC # TS191.8.S67
Fair amount of detail on inductrial robot controllers and connecting
to them.

Inside the Robot Kingdom: Japan, Mechatronics and the Coming Robotopia
Frederik L. Schodt
Kodansha International
New York, NY 1988
Lots of interesting views of robots in Japan and Japan's fascination
with robots.

Interfacing Test Circuits With Single-Board Computers
Robert H. Luetzow
TAB Books

Machines That Walk
Shin-Min Song and Kenneth J Waldron
ISBN 0-262-19274-8
Like it says: legged locomotion. Focus is on the OSU Adaptive
Suspension Vehicle.

A Mathematical Introduction to Robotic Manipulation
R. M. Murray, Z. Li, and S. S. Sastry
CRC Press, 1994
For more information, see http://avalon.caltech.edu/~murray/mls

Microprocessor Based Robotics
Mark J. Robillard
Howard Sams & Co. 1983

Microcontroller Technology: The 68HC11
Peter Spasov
Regents/Prentice Hall, 1993, ISBN 0-13-583568-2
Aimed at the 68HC11 family, good reference.

Minimalist Mobile Robotics
Jonathan H Connel
ISBN 0-12-185230-X
Brooks subsumption architecture robots. Shows complex behaviors are
possible with little of the massive architectures done in other
programs.

Mobile Robots: Inspiration to Implementation.
 Joseph L. Jones and Anita Flynn, 
 This book grew out of the Mobot Lab at MIT and covers many aspects
 of mobile robots including design and the mechanics and electronics of
 construction as well as robot programming. Good for the beginner and
 experienced robot builder. A Mobile Robot kit is also available. See
the Rug Warrior in the section on Small, Inexpensive Robots.
 Klaus Peters
 President and Publisher
 AK PETERS, LTD.
 289 Linden Street
 Wellesley, MA 02181
 tel: 617.235.2210
 fax: 617.235.2404
 net: 

The Robot Book
Richard Pawson
Windward, 1985, 192 pages.
Utilizes Lego kits.

The Robot Builder's Bonanza: 99 Inexpensive Robotics Projects
Gordon McComb
TAB Books

Robot Evolution: the Development of Anthropomorphics
Rosheim, Mark E.
1994, John Wiley & Sons
ISBN  0-471-02622-0

Robot Hobby: The Complete Manual, for Individuals and Clubs
John W. Gutmann, Foreword by Joe Engelberger
ISBN 0-9634272-4-5
Soft cover $29.95    
Hard Cover $36.95
Machine Press Publishing
P.O. Box 870210
Stone Mountain, GA 30087-0006

Robotic Technology: Principles and Practice.
Werner G. Holzbock
Van Nostrand Reinhold Co, 1986, ISBN 0-442-23154-7

Robotics
edited by Marvin Minsky
Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1985
ISBN: 0385194145, LCCN: 84024390

Robot Motion: Planning and Control 
Brady, Hollerbach, Johnson, Lozano-Perez, and Mason.
Cambridge, MA, MIT Press 1982)
        Collection of excellent papers on the topic of robot motion.

Robots
Peter Marsh
Crescent (Crown) Publishers, NY 1985
        Marsh edited the volume and the book is made up of several
contributions from robotics researchers. A very well illustrated book
that covers the general topic of robots. Excellent source materials
and graphics.

Safety, Reliability, and Human Factors in Robotic Systems.
Edited by James H. Graham.
Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1991.
ISBN 0-442-00280-7
  Laws/rules/regulations are governing industrial robot installations
in the U.S.

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[4.2.2] CDROMS

Isaac Asimov's The Ultimate Robot.
        It is an excellent intro and retrospective on robotics.
Includes movie clips from several cinema robots, robotic terminology
defined and illustrated (linkages, kinmatics, arm types etc),
vignettes of many historically important robots including Moshers work
>from the 60's, many teleoperated devices, several mobile machines
including the ASV and many others.  There is also a fun part where you
get to select parts, build a robot and animate it. (Design by Ralph
MacQuarrie who was production designer on Star Wars)
        There are video interviews with Asimov and all of his robot
stories and essays as well Published by Microsoft. Available from a
number of CDROM vendors.

AICDROM

        Network Cybernetics Corporation is now shipping the second
annual revision of their popular AI CD-ROM, an ISO-9660 format CD-ROM
containing a wide assortment of information on AI, Robotics, and other
advanced machine technologies. The AI CD-ROM contains thousands of
programs, source code collections, tutorials, research papers,
Internet journals, and other resources. The topics covered include
artificial intelligence, artificial life, robotics, virtual reality,
and many related fields. Programs for OS/2, DOS, Macintosh, UNIX,
Amiga, and other platforms can be found on the disc.  The files have
been collected from civilian and government research centers,
universities, Internet archive sites, BBS systems and other
sources. The CD-ROM is updated annually to keep it current with the
latest trends and developments in advanced machine technologies such
as AI. The AI CD-ROM Rev. 1 was a CD-ROM PROFESSIONAL CONSUMER DISK
PRODUCT OF THE YEAR AWARD finalist and has received good reviews in
many magazines including Byte (Jerry Pournelle, March '93) and IEEE
Computer (J. Zalewski, July '93), CD-ROM Professional and others.
        The new revision of the AI CD-ROM is now shipping. The price
of Revision 2 will remain the same as the Revision 1 CD: $129 + $5
(US) / $10 (foreign) for shipping & processing. If you currently own
the revision 1 AI CD-ROM, you can "upgrade" to the Rev.2 CD for $79 +
shipping. Email or fax us to get an upgrade form.

~From:   Network Cybernetics Corporation
        4201 Wingren Road, Suite 202
        Irving, Texas 75062-2763
        tel: 214.650.2002
        fax: 214.650.1929

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[4.2.3] Magazine Articles

Initial List Provided by Dave Hrynkiw]

        Best source for most general articles and journal articles is
your library - check online sources too!

Discover Magazine, March 1991, Pg 43
An excellent 6 page article of the goings-on in the MIT Artificial-
Intelligence lab.

"Mathematical Recreations - Insectoids Invade a Field of Robots"
Scientific American Magazine, July 1991
Another excellent 4 page article about MIT's work in the field of mobile
robotics.
 
"Gearing Down"
Science News, Vol. 139 No. 2, January 12 1991, Pg 26-27
I haven't seen a copy of this article yet.  If you find it, PLEASE
fax/send me a copy.  Referenced from Scientific American Magazine,
July 1991 ("Mathematical Recreations" column)
 
"Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control"
Research News, May 1990, Pg 959-961
One of the better MIT Lab articles.  Worth hunting down.
 
"Working the bugs out of a new breed of 'insect' robots"
Smithsonian Magazine, June 1991, pgs 63-73.
Another excellent & more technical article on MIT's robot research.
 
"The Iconoclast - Life in the Anthropomorphic Lane"
Macworld magazine, May 1991, Pg 43-47
Another basic, but decent review of MIT's AI Robot labs.
 
"People - A Mind of Their Own"
Connoisseur Magazine, May 1991, Pg 42-46
A more personal look at Rodney Brook.
 
"Robot Insects"
Popular Science, March 1991, Pg 52-55,86
Popular Science does it's regular quality article.  Some detail, but not
to technical. Good, basic read.
 
"New Approaches to Robotics"
Science Magazine, Vol.253, September 1991, Pg 1227-1232
Very complete & technical document by Rodney Brooks.  Has a very
complete reference & notes section.

"Artificial Intelligence - Building a Better Mouse"
Omni Magazine, ??, Pg 22,126
Interesting Article about Dave Otten, the micro-mouse champ.  Short,
but interesting read.
 
"Tech Update - Transformer Robots Crawl Up Stairs"
Popular Mechanics, March 1993, Pg 17
Not much to say, but look at the pictures - what innovation!
 
"Mighty Mouse"
MIT Reporter, July 1991, Pg 12
A short piece about Dave Otten's micromice.
 
"The OMNI Photovore - How to build a robot that thinks like a roach"
Omni Magazine, October 1988, Pg 201-210,212
MIT developed this basic robot for the magazine.  A really interesting
read, with good technical.  Haven't built mine yet, but I have all the
parts... (Excellent article)
 
"Annual Report of Microbot Technology, Inc."
Omni Magazine, ??? Pg 68,70,76
Omni's interesting futuristic look of the possibilities with micro robots.
 
"Tech Update - Mechanical Caterpillar"
Popular Mechanics, June 1992, Pg 24
Another neat idea to look at.

"Tech Update - Silicon Ants Could Prove Tireless Workers"
Popular Mechanics, May 1992, Pg 21
Interesting little bit on the future of solar powered microbots.  Neat
graphic.
 
"Trends - Let's Get Small"
Technology Review, Aug/Sept 1992, pg 18-19
Article on JPL/IS Robotics small robots.  Decent article
 
"Go Robots, Go!"
Popular Science, December 1992, Pg 97-102,138,140
Interesting overview of the AAAI Mobile Robotics Competition held in
San Jose.
 
"New Trends - Legs win over wheels for moon work"
Machine Design Magazine, February 11 1988
A dated article on Georgia Tech's "Skitter".  Short, but has
photograph.
 
"Light Elements - RoboHockey"
Discover magazine, May 1990, pg 82
Interesting bit about MIT's Mech Eng 2.70 competition.
 
"Society - Technology - For the Love of Robotics"
Newsweek magazine, March 9 1992, Pg 68-69
Public-robot fodder.  Nothing new here but some interesting pictures. 
Covers the Austin area Robot Group
 
"Robots Go Buggy"
Science News Magazine, Vol 140, November 30 1991, Pg 361-3
Very good article about the comparison between "simple" robotics and
biologics (bugs)
 
"Build This Robot Bug"
Radio-Electronics Magazine, June 1992, Pg 33-38
_Very_ basic robot.  Not a bad place to start tho...
 
Science Digest, April 1983 p68
"The Rise of the Robot" by Tom Parrett. Article includes photos of the
"Atlanta Robotics Special Interest Group" founded by John W. Gutmann
with the support of Bill Dodd, owner of Hobby Robot CO.  The first
meeting was held on April 21st of 1981.

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[4.2.4] Online Technical Reports

 There are emerging sources on the net for tech reports and papers. If
 you know of additional ones please send me email. Thanks.

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The Kahaner Reports

This directory archives reports written about computing in Japan by
Dr. David Kahaner, a numerical analyst current on assignment with the
Office of Naval Research Asia (ONR Asia).  The file INDEX contains a
short description of each report in alphabetical order.  The file
INDEX.bydate contains the same descriptions ordered by the date the
report was written.
 
ftp://cs.arizona.edu/japan/www/japan.html

ftp://cs.arizona.edu/japan/table.contents/robotics.TOC

Some relevant files:
 
robots  (Feb 28, 1991)
    Overview of trends in robot manufacturing, use, and sales in Japan.
	ftp://cs.arizona.edu/japan/kahaner.reports/robots

robots.93  (Dec 10, 1993)
     Summary of the 24th International Symposium on Industrial
     Robots (ISIR), the 1993 International Conference on Advanced Robotics
     (ICAR), and the 1993 International Industrial Robot Exhibition, all held
     in Tokyo 1-5 Nov 1993.
	ftp://cs.arizona.edu/japan/kahaner.reports/robots.93

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The 6.270 Robot Builder's Guide (See also the Miniboard section in this FAQ)
by  Fred Martin
ftp://cherupakha.media.mit.edu/pub/6270/docs/
         filenames:     *.PS.Z
   This directory contains "The 6.270 Robot Builder's Guide", the
   course notes to the 1992 MIT LEGO Robot Design Competition.
   Hardcopy also available for $15 from:
         E&L Memo Requests
         MIT Media Laboratory
         20 Ames Street Room E15-309
         Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
         Check made out to 'MIT Epistemology and Learning'
   Contact: Fred Martin at fredm@media-lab.media.mit.edu

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Cambridge University
        Tech report on 3D object model acquisition and recognition:
        ftp://svr-ftp.eng.cam.ac.uk/reports/

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Carnegie Mellon University SCS Technical Reports
1) The machine reports@cs.cmu.edu is the offical SCS machine for
   ftping SCS technical reports. Directories containing .ps files
   (compressed and uncompressed, dependent on size) are stored for
   ease of access. You can use the instructions below to browse the
   directories.

2) The reports appearing in our ftpable directories are also automatically
   transferred into MOSAIC. Authors retain the right to decide whether
   their report(s) should or should not appear in the public ftp
   directories/MOSAIC.  

3) A third mechanism for storing and making reports available is
   MERCURY--the scanned image, full text, online database (part of the
   LIS system). Whether the report is scanned into the system is again
   left up to invidivual author choice.  The CMU community is able to
   view text for the reports, as they appear, at their desks using
   Mercury.  This system, supported by ARPA and CNRI, will open soon
   to MIT, Stanford, Cornell, and Berkeley...so we can all share online
   text of reports.  Down the road, it is anticipated that more and
   more universities will become a part of this service.  We scan 
   original copies of reports into the system,

   DIRECTIONS FOR ANONYMOUS FTP:
        URL: ftp://reports.adm.cs.cmu.edu/ or

   The reports are in postscript format (.ps).  The index file
   is called README.mss.  The reports are listed in the directory
   by their NUMBER.ps...for example, CMU-CS-92-100.ps, CMU-CS-92-101.ps
   and so on.  The majority of the files are not compressed, although
   any compressed files will be listed as NUMBER.ps.Z .  A very few
   reports have been broken down into multiple postscript files.  They
   will appear as NUMBERA.ps, NUMBERB.ps, etc.  The README.mss will
   indicate the reports that have multiple .ps files.

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MIT AI Laboratory
net: publications@ai.mit.edu
tel: 617.253.6773
fax: 617.253.5060
        MIT bibliography, general info about the lab and most recent
research publications is choice of ascii or .ps files
	ftp://publications.ai.mit.edu/bibliography
	ftp://publications/ai-publications/general-pubs

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NASA Jet Propulsion Labs (JPL)
ftp://robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/gat/
        filenames:      bc4pe.rtf, aaai92.rtf, nats.rtf
        Note that all files are in Microsoft Word RTF format.
        Contact  if you don't have access
        to a Mac.

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New York University
	file://cs.nyu.edu/pub/tech-reports/tr669.ps.Z
 
Abstract:
Recent experimental and analytical evidence indicates that direct drive
robots become very practical and economical at miniature and
microscopic scales, so it is interesting to understand quantitatively
the properties of direct drive robots under scaling transformations.  This
leads to a study of  how screws and their dual co-screws behave under the group
of similarity transforms.  This group is the group of isometries
together with dilations.  Several different representations are found
on the space of screws and complementary representations are found on 
the dual space of co-screws.  From the electromagnetic theory
of the force and torque on a magnet in a magnetic field, we derive the
scaling properties of the electromagnetic wrench.  Hence, these
results can be directly applied to the scaling of direct drive motors.
We conclude by proposing a scale-invariant measure for direct drive 
actuator performance.

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LIFIA/INRIA
        ftp://imag.fr/pub/LIFIA (129.88.32.1)
        filenames:      [several compressed PS files]
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University of Massachusetts:
        ftp://rabbit.cs.umass.edu/pub/papers
        filenames:      [The files are compressed postscript, topics include
                        path planning, neuroscience, and control.]
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University of Kaiserslautern FTP-Server is : 
ftp://ftp.uni-kl.de/reports_uni-kl/computer_science/mobile_robots/
        subdirectories: 1993/papers, 1994/papers, etc

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SPIE abstracts: 
ftp://mom.spie.org/abstracts/1800/
        filenames: 1831.txt [From Mobile Robots VII 1992]
        SPIE bookorders can be made through bookorders@mom.spie.org

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JTEC report on Japanese Space Robotics
Available from NTIS (see below)
        A summary of the Japanese Technology Evaluation Center (JTEC)
panel's report on the state of the art of Japanese robot technology.
Lots of pictures of wierd and wonderful robots -- elephant trunk,
caterpillar, space tentacle, wall builder, Komatsu's walking undersea
rubble-leveler, humanoid two-armed assembly robot, 4-legged stair
climber.  Also tells where to write for videotapes of these machines
in action.  Here's the info (two years old, remember) ...  Tape with
narration by William "Red" Whittaker:
 cost: $37.50
 University Video Communications
 Box 20006
 Stanford, CA USA 94309
 tel: 415.327.0131
Shorter tape of highlights from many Japanese labs:
 National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
 5285 Port Royal Road
 Springfield, VA USA 22161
 tel: 703.457.4650
Article: "Japan robotics aim for unmanned space exploration"
William L. Whittaker, Takeo Kanade. IEEE Spectrum, December 1990

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[4.2.4] Videos
	(new section - looking for additional material)

MIT Press has a number of companion videos - Legged Robots That
Balance and others. See Publications for address etc.

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Video Proceedings from the 8th International Symposium on Unmanned
Untethered Submersible Technology (UUST 93) September 27-29, 1993
Marine Systems Engineering Lab, University of New Hampshire, Durham,
New Hampshire USA
     The video proceedings are now available for $35 US for VHS (NTSC)
format and $50 US for PAL format.  The video is being made publicly
available on a non-profit basis.  Printed abstracts and points of
contacts are included in a pamphlet with each video.  The program is
available eclectronically via anonymous ftp to
file://taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil/pub/auv/uust93_video_proceedings.ps.Z
After AUgust 1 1994, you may order this video (or printed conference
proceedings) by sending a check or money order to:
     Autonomous Undersea Systems Institute (AUSI)
     8 Earle Drive
     Lee, New Hampshire  03824  USA
     (603) 862-4600
postscript copy:  ftp://taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil/pub/auv/uust93.ps.Z
Video Contents:
   01:20 AUVs for Scientific Research 
         in Hazardous Conditions
   07:15 A Versatile Testbed:  The "Twin-Burger"
   13:55 ARPA/Navy Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV)
   31:30 Summary of MBARI/Stanford ARL Joint Underwater Robotics
         Research Program
   43:05 Development of an Aquatic Walking Robot for Underwater
         Inspection:  "AQUAROBOT"
   47:30 Naval Postgraduate School Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
   50:15 The Rational Behavior Model (RBM) Software Architecture
   57:25 Mobile Undersea Systems Test (MUST) Laboratory
1:02:10  The Advanced Unmanned Search System (AUSS)
1:11:20  credits


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	[5] Conference and Competitions
		[5.1] Conferences
		[5.2] Competitions

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[5] Conferences and Competitions
	There are dozens of international conferences in the areas of
robotics, artificial intelligence, control and related areas. This is
a compilation of many of these.

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[5.1] Conferences 

There are a wide variety and number of conferences related to robotics
and automation. Some are focused on industrial applications, many are
researchy in nature and most are a mixture of both. Proceedings should
be available in most good libraries or by interlibrary loan. The
conference announcements are listed chronologically. Most conferences
now also have ftp: and web locations from more information. Also see
news:news.announce.conferences for many postings on conferences.

A WWW page for Robotics, AI and Control related conferences,
is also at http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/~acc/conf-list.html.

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Summary list of conferences:

MVA'94: IAPR Workshop on Machine Vision Applications
	Kawasaki, Japan
	December 13-15, 1994
ANS 6th Topical Meeting on Robotics and Remote Systems
	Monterey, California
	February 5-10, 1995
AAAI Spring Symposium
	Stanford, Ca
	March 27-29, 1995
CVRMed'95 First International Conference on
        Computer Vision, Virtual Reality and Robotics in Medicine,
	Nice, FRANCE
	April 3-5, 1995
Symposium on Autonomous Systems in Mine Countermeasures
        U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California 
        April 4-7, 1995
1995 Florida Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics
	University of Central Florida
	Arpil 26-27, 1995
IASTED International Conferencem, MODELLING AND SIMULATION
	Pittsburgh, PA, USA
        April 27-29, 1995
RTAS'94 IEEE Real-Time Technology and Application Symposium
        Chicago, Illinois
        May 15-17, 1995
ICRA 1995 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION
	Nagoya, Japan
	May 21-27, 1995
6th  International  Scientific  and  Technical  Conference
        ROBOTICS  FOR  EXTRAORDINARY  CONDITIONS
	St.Petersburg.
	June  6-8, 1995
Third IASTED International Conference on ROBOTICS AND MANUFACTURING
	Sheraton Hotel, Cancun, Mexico
	June 14-17, 1995
ML95 Twelfth International Conference on Machine Learning
	Tahoe City, California
	July 9-12, 1995
SIRS'95, Third International Symposium on Intelligent Robotics Systems
        Pisa,  Italy
	10-14  July  1995
ISATP'95, 1995 IEEE International Symposium on Assembly and Task Planning
        To be held in conjunction with IROS'95
	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
        August 10-11, 1995, 
AI-ED 95, 7TH World Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education
        Washington DC, USA      
	August 16-19, 1995
IJCAI-95 
	Palais de Congres, Montreal
	August 20-25 1995.
10th IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON INTELLIGENT CONTROL
	Monterey Marriot Hotel, Monterey, CA
	August 27 - 29, 1995
Workshop on Computational Kinematics
        INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France
        September 4-6, 1995
DARS '95 Human-Oriented Design of Advanced Robotics Systems 
	Vienna, Austria
	September 19-20, 1995
ASI-AA-95 Practice and Future of Autonomous Agents
	ASI-AA-95, Centro Stefano Franscini Monte Verita, Ticino,
	Switzerland
	September 23 - October 1, 1995
EPIA'95 Applications of AI to Robotics and Vision Systems Workshop
	Seventh Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence
        Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal
        October 3-6, 1995
ISIR, 26th International Symposium on Industrial Robots
	Singapore International Convention & Exhibition Center
	4-6 October 1995
ICRA 1996 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
	Minneapolis Hilton and Towers, Minneapolis, Minnesota
	April 22-28, 1996 
MFI'96: 1996 IEEE/SICE/RSJ International Conference on Multisensor
	Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems
        October 1996


Conference Descriptions
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         MVA'94: IAPR Workshop on Machine Vision Applications
                         December 13-15, 1994
                           Kawasaki, Japan

The International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) announces
the 4th IAPR International Workshop on Machine Vision Applications to
be held in Kawasaki on December 13-15, 1994.

The workshop is sponsored by the IAPR Technical Committees 6, 8, and
10.  The purpose of the workshop is to bring together researchers and
practitioners from both academia and industry, and to exchange their
knowledge and stimulate each other through intensive discussions on
the following research topics:

Main Topic: Machine Vision and its Applications
     Machine Vision Algorithms
          Feature extraction,  Range data / 3D shapes,  Motion / Image
          sequence analysis, Neural  network applications, Color image
          analysis,  AI-based vision,   Human  interface,  and related
          technologies.

     Special Purpose Architectures
          Intelligent  sensors,  VLSI image processor chips, Massively
          parallel  processing,  Architectures  for  3D  and/or motion
          processing,  Image  processing systems, Software environment
          for image processor, and related technologies.

     Industrial Applications
          Factory automation, Disaster prevention and rescue, Security
          control,  Navigation,  Mobile robots, Civil and construction
          engineering,       Agriculture/Forestry/Fishery,       Other
          applications, and related technologies.

     Document, Map and Line Drawing Processing
          Document  image  processing, Drawing recognition, Multimedia
          database,   Map   and   engineering  drawing  database,  Map
          processing  and  map-based  systems,  3D reconstruction from
          maps or drawings, and related technologies.

	The workshop will include several invited talks and about 100
papers for oral and poster presentations on the above topics.  All
presentations will be in English.  Those who wish to present a paper
are requested to submit four copies of a 500-1000 word extended
abstract with at least one main figure by June 15, 1994 to:
           Prof. Mikio Takagi
           Institute of Industrial Science
           University of Tokyo
           7-22-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106, Japan
           FAX: +81-3-3402-6226

	The abstract should contain the following in its first page.
           1) Title of the paper
           2) Author name(s) and his/her(their) affiliation(s)
           3) A person's name and address to be contacted,
              also, phone and fax numbers, Email address if available
           4) Answers to the following questions:
              a) What is the original contribution of this work?
              b) Why should this contribution be considered important?

Authors of papers that are accepted will be notified by August 1,
1994. Final camera-ready papers are due by October 1, 1994.

Notice: International Technical Exhibition on Image Technology and
Equipment will be held in Tokyo, near the workshop site, on December
7-9, 1994. All participants for the workshop are encouraged to visit
the exhibition.

For further information, please contact:
    Prof. Mikio Takagi
    Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo
    7-22-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106, JAPAN
    PHONE: +81-3-3479-0289  FAX: +81-3-3402-6226
    EMAIL: takagi@tkl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

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Call for Abstracts & Call for Exhibitors
ANS 6th Topical Meeting on Robotics and 
Remote Systems

February 5-10, 1995
Monterey, California USA

Sponsored by:
AMERICAN NUCLEAR SOCIETY
Robotics and Remote Systems Division
and the Northern California Section

Cosponsored by
o Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	
o Electric Power Research Institute
o The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers	
o British Nuclear Energy Society

You are invited to submit extended abstracts for review and
consideration for the ANS Sixth Topical Meeting on Robots and Remote
Systems.  The theme of this Topical is "Robots in the Environment,"
and emphasis will be placed on robot technology and applications in a
variety of remote environments, including nuclear, environmental
remediation, underwater and space.  Sessions are arranged in four
primary interest areas or "tracks" so that no two papers in a track
are presented concurrently.  The tracks and topics of interest for
this abstract solicitation are listed below.

APPLICATIONS	
	Nuclear power and fuel cycle	
	Environmental Restoration	
	Waste Management	
	Remote Manufacturing and Processing	
	Laboratory Automation	
	Manipulator Applications	
	Medical Application	

HOSTILE ENVIRONMENTS
	Hardening and Survivability Technologies
	Undersea 
	Space 
	Law Enforcement
	Emergency Response and HazMat Handling
	Military

CONTROL SYSTEMS
	Control Systems and Architectures
	Virtual Reality Application to Remote Systems
	Sensors and Machine Vision
	Human Factors and the Human/Machine Interface
	Artificial Intelligence and Smart Systems
	Remote Viewing and Telepresence

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT	
	Autonomous Systems and Mobility	
	Mechanical Design and Special Tooling	
	Manipulator R&D	
	Remote Engineering	

The ANS 6th Topical Meeting on Robotics and Remote Systems Symposium,
sponsored by the American Nuclear Society, will be held at the Hyatt
Regency Monterey in Monterey, California, just minutes from the
beautiful California central coast.
 Updates in the various technology areas will be featured as well as
several new special interest sessions which have proven popular in
recent years.  Both oral and poster papers will be presented, and
submissions of your original work are requested.  We encourage
papers/presentations from European and Pacific Rim countries.

Technical Sessions
Both oral presentations and poster sessions will be featured for the four-day
conference

Send Abstracts on new and innovative work to:

Program Chairman
Scott A. Couture
ANS 6th Topical on Robotics and 
Remote Systems
P.O. Box 10333
Pleasanton, CA  94588
Phone: (510) 423-7970/FAX (510) 423-4606

INSTRUCTIONS FOR ABSTRACT PREPARATION AND MAILING 
Abstracts of new and innovative work are solicited.  Submission format is an
extended typed abstract of at least 500-900 words.  Please send the original
and three copies to the program chairman.

ABSTRACT DEADLINE - APRIL 1, 1993 - SEND TO:
6th Topical Meeting on Robotics and Remote Systems
Attn:  Scott Couture, Technical Program Chair
P.O. Box 10333     Pleasanton, CA  94588

Acceptance Categories:
Papers may be accepted for:
1.	Oral presentations for a specified time (20-35 minutes, nominal)
2.	Poster presentation with the author expected to be in attendance to explain
his or her paper and to answer questions.
All papers accepted for the ANS 6th Topical Meeting on Robotics and Remote
Systems are eligible for publication in the ANS Transactions issue for the
Symposium subject to formal review and acceptance procedures.


Return this information sheet 

Sixth Topical Meeting on Robotics and Remote Systems
February 5-10, 1995, Monterey, California
___  I am interest edin attending this Topical Meeting.  Please send additional
information as it becomes available.
___  I am interested in presenting a paper at this Topical Meeting.

Tentative title of paper:
___  I am interested in presenting a poster session	            
___  I am interested in Exhibit Space for this Topical Meeting.

Name:		
Affiliation:			
Address:	
City/State/Zip

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1995 AAAI Spring Symposium
~Date: March 27-29, 1995
Place: Stanford, CA
Deadline for submission: October 28, 1994
URL: http://tommy.jsc.nasa.gov/er/er6/mrl/symposium.html

Lessons Learned from Implemented Software Architectures for Physical Agents
===========================================================================

We are interested in organizational concepts for artificial agents
that function in the everyday world of manufacturing floors, office
buildings, and houses or in the specialized worlds of space or nuclear
reactors. 

In recent years, a sufficient number of researchers have put forth
software frameworks for organizing intelligence in agents beyond the
original first few who began such investigations [e.g., SOAR and
NASREM] that a symposium to discuss the issues outlined below is
warranted. We are seeing architectures with as few as three and as 
many as five layers of cognition or control, for single agents or
multiple agents, designed to accommodate hard real-time constraints or
involved user interfaces, handling purely reactive or a combination of
deliberate and reactive control, which are subsumptive or
supervenient, and most of which are designed to function as part of a
physical agent. 

The goal of this workshop is to shed light into reasons for
architectural decisions in building artificial agents. Many important
questions affect architectural decisions. For this workshop, we ask
the following questions only with respect to architectural decisions.

Coordination-- How should the agent arbitrate/coordinate/cooperate its
behaviors and actions?  Is there a need for central behavior
coordination?

Interfaces-- How can human expertise be easily brought into an agent's
decisions?  Will the agent need to translate natural language
internally before it can interact with the world?  How should an agent
capture mission intentions or integrate various levels of autonomy or
shared control?  Can restricted vocabularies be learned and shared by
agents operating in the same environment?

Representation-- How much internal representation of knowledge and
skills is needed?  How should the agent organize and represent its
internal knowledge and skills?  Is more than one representational
formalism needed?

Structural-- How should the computational capabilities of an agent be
divided, structured, and interconnected?  What is the best
decomposition/granularity of architectural components?  What is gained
by using a monolithic architecture versus a multi-level, distributed,
or massively parallel architecture?  Are embodied semantics important
and how should they be implemented?  How much does each level/component
of an agent architecture have to know about the other
levels/components?

Performance-- What types of performance goals and metrics can
realistically be used for agents operating in dynamic, uncertain, and
even actively hostile environments?  How can an architecture make
guarantees about its performance with respect to the time-critical
aspect of the agent's physical environment?  What are the performance
criteria for deciding what activities take place in each
level/component of the architecture?

Psychology-- Why should we build agents that mimic anthropomorphic
functionalities?  How far can/should we draw metaphoric similarities
to human/animal psychology?  How much should memory organization
depend on human/animal psychology?

Simulation-- What, if any, role can advanced simulation technology
play in developing and verifying modules and/or systems?  Can we have
standard virtual components/test environments that everybody trusts
and can play a role in comparing systems to each other?  How far can
development of modules profitably proceed before they should be
grounded in a working system?  How is the architecture affected by its
expected environment and its actual embodiment?

Learning-- How can a given architecture support learning?  How can
knowledge and skills be moved between different layers of an agent
architecture?

We invite researchers in intelligent mobile robots, robot
manipulators, autonomous creatures (animats), and neuroscience as
applied to autonomous agents to join us in discussing these questions.

To allow for a more practical discussion of the issues, all
submissions should focus on an agent or agents performing a specific
task, such as keeping a house clean, maintaining the space station, or
delivering parts on a factory floor. Be very specific about how your
agent(s) organize(s) its knowledge and skills in order to perform this
task and what mechanisms your agent(s) use(s) to invoke the correct
knowledge or skill at the appropriate time. Please include the design
decisions you made in organizing your agent's architecture for the
task.  Then, through this specific example, show how your agent's
architecture addresses some of the questions listed above.

The symposium will consist of presentations, invited talks, and task
groups. Based on submissions, we will divide the workshop into
specific task groups and, after discussions, come together for
synthesis.  We are tentatively proposing that the group produce as a
minimum a set of answers for a portion of the discussion areas listed
above.

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Potential attendees should submit either an extended abstract or a
full paper, neither of which should exceed 20 pages.  If you are
submitting a paper, we prefer that it not have been published
elsewhere.  If you are sending a paper that has already been
published, tell us where it appeared.  

We encourage everyone to submit their papers or abstracts
electronically, PostScript or ASCII only.  Submission can be made by
e-mailing the entire document, e-mailing an anonymous ftp address, or
placing the document in the ftp site we give below.  

E-mail submissions should be sent to:
	hexmoor@cs.buffalo.edu
Anonymous FTP submission: 
	ftp ftp.cs.buffalo.edu
        and put your submission in users/hexmoor directory

If e-mail submission is not possible, please send three copies of
the paper or abstract to:

	Henry Hexmoor             
	Co-chair, AAAI Spring Symposium
	226 Bell Hall
	Dept of Computer Science
	SUNY at Buffalo
	Buffalo, NY 14260

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Ron Arkin 		
Peter Bonasso 		
Henry Hexmoor (co-chair)
David Kortenkamp (co-chair)
David Musliner 			

GUEST SPEAKERS
James Albus	
George Bekey	
Mike Brady	

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1995 FLORIDA CONFERENCE ON
RECENT ADVANCES IN ROBOTICS

APRIL 26-27, 1995
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL  FLORIDA
CALL FOR PAPERS
CONFERENCE TOPICS

The Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering will host the 1995 Florida Conference
on Recent Advances in Robotics.  This conference will provide a forum for
State of Florida researchers and practitioners in robotics,  intelligent
machines, manufacturing and automation to present and exchange new ideas,
recommend research directions while enhancing their professional network
and helping them to establish collaborative ventures within the Sunshine
State.

Topics will include, but not be limited to:

 Intelligent Machines:  
   Autonomous vehicles, swarm robots,  robot learning.
 Robotic Applications:  
   In industry,  medicine, agriculture, construction, and hazardous
environments.
 Robot Sensing:  
   Vision, touch,  ranging,  multiple sensory perception, sensor fusion.
 Multi-chain Robot Structures:  
   Hands, legs, arms,  parallel manipulators.
 Automation and Manufacturing:  
   Scheduling, workcell design and control.
 Robot Theory:  Kinematics, dynamics, calibration, design.
 Telerobotics
 Micro-Mechanics
CONFERENCE FEES

There will be no conference registration fee for attendees, however, a $30
filing fee must accompany each submitted abstract.  Make checks payable to
University of Central Florida. The co-authors of each accepted paper will
receive one group copy of the proceedings. Additional copies of the
Proceedings may be purchased in advance for $30 or at the conference for
$50.

ABSTRACT

Acceptance to this conference will be based on a submitted abstract. The
abstract is limited to one page and only one copy is required. Abstracts
are due by January 27, 1995 and must be accompanied by the $30 filing fee
for consideration.  You will be notified of your acceptance by February
11, 1995.  The filing fee will be returned for abstracts not accepted.

All authors should furnish their name, paper title, address, phone and FAX
numbers, E-Mail address, and research interests, on a separate sheet of
paper. We plan to communicate mostly by E-Mail, so it is important that
you provide an E-Mail address.

SUBMISSIONS

All submissions should be sent to

Dr. Robert M. Byers
Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
University of Central Florida
Box 162450
Orlando,  FL  32816-2450
Phone:(407) 823-0135
Fax:(407) 823-0208
E-Mail: rmbyers@wizard.engr.ucf.edu
PAPER FORMAT

This flyer is in proper format, except for title fonts.  Two copies of
each paper should be submitted in final form with a 2-column format on 8.5
by 11 inch sheets.  Each column is limited to 3 1/4 inch in width and 8
7/8 inch in length with a 3/8 inch gutter between columns. The margins are
13/16 inch on the sides, 1 1/16 inch on the top and bottom. Text is to be
typed single-space in 10 point Times-Roman (or a face closely resembling
this type), with minimum 12 point interline spacing. The first page of the
paper, centered on the top below the top margin, should include the paper
title, the authors and the authors' affiliation. Eight pages are allowed
for each paper. Illustrations, photographs, appendices, references, in
short, all page occupancies are counted in the page count. Additional
pages will be permitted for a page charge of $10 for each additional page.

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract Due Date:   January 27, 1995
Acceptance Date:     February 10, 1995
Paper Due Date:      March 17, 1995

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

For more information contact

Dr. Robert M. Byers,  Co-Chair
Phone: (407) 823-0135
Fax:(407) 823-0135
email:rmbyers@wizard.engr.ucf.edu

Dr. Harley R. Myler, Co-Chair
Phone:(407) 823-5098
Fax:(407) 823-5835
email: hrm@engr.ucf.edu

Formatted versions of this announcement are
available at ftp://ftp.engr.ucf.edu/pub/RAR95

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                    IASTED International Conference
                       MODELLING AND SIMULATION
                          April 27-29, 1995

LOCATION: Sheraton Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

SPONSORS: The International Association of Science and Technology for
          Development (IASTED)
                - Technical Committee on Modelling and Simulation
          The International Society for Mini and Microcomputers (ISMM)

SCOPE:
* Modelling             * Animation             * Simulation
* Visualization         * Hardware              * Multimedia
* Languages             * Bond graphs           * Numerical methods
* Petri nets            * Analysis              * Stochastic processes
* Neural networks       * Parallel processing   * Design
* Distributed processing

APPLICATIONS:
* Aerospace             * Economics             * Biotechnology
* Control               * Reliability           * Nuclear reactors
* Computers             * Quality control       * VLSI
* Networks              * Robotics              * Heat transfer
* Biomedical systems    * Manufacturing         * Biomechanics
* Healthcare            * Circuits and systems  * Fluid flow
* Chemical engineering  * Signal processing     * Flight simulators
* Civil engineering     * Transportation        * Airports
* Energy systems        * Education             * Harbours
* Power systems         * Risk and decision     * Others
* Environmental systems * Operations research

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
M. Alam                 USA             C. Doumanidis           USA
R.W. Eyerly             USA             M.H. Hamza              Canada
C. Hou                  USA             J. Ishii                Japan
D.O. Koval              Canada          M. Lotfalian            USA
M.H. Mickle             USA             L.C. Monticone          USA
N.M. Namazi             USA             S. Popovich             Canada
K.R. Sliwa              Mexico          A. Sloley               USA
S. Szpakowicz           Canada          S. Vemuru               USA
D. Wang                 USA             T. Wu                   P.R. China
D. Yoon                 USA

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:
Three copies of the full manuscripts, having a maximum of 12 pages, are to be
received by the IASTED Secretary Anaheim not later than November 15, 1994.
The papers that may be submitted should not have been previously published,
nor should they be presently under review for publication in a journal or for
a conference. Papers accepted by the International Program Committee will be
categorized as regular or short papers.

Please supply four keywords to indicate the area of the paper and provide
the name, address, affiliation, telephone and fax numbers of the main author
and of the author expected to present the paper.

Persons wishing to organize a session or to present half-day tutorials should
submit a proposal to the Secretary by November 15, 1994.

The preregistration fee is expected to be approximately $US 400. This covers
the registration, dinner on April 28, 1995, refreshments and one volume of
the proceedings.

Authors will be requested to preregister.

                ****** IMPORTANT DEADLINES ******

November 15, 1994 - Submission of papers
February 1, 1995  - Notification of acceptance
March 15, 1995    - Camera ready manuscripts due

ADDRESS:
        IASTED Secretariat - MS'95
        1811 West Katella Avenue, Suite 101
        Anaheim, California 92804
        USA
        Tel: 1-800-995-2161
        Fax: (714) 778-5463
        Email: iasted@orion.oac.uci.edu

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1995 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION

Co-sponsored by 
The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
Science Council of Japan 
The Robotics Society of Japan
The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers 
The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers       

May 21-27, 1995
Nagoya Congress Center
Nagoya, Japan


Advisory Chair: Fumio Harashima, University of Tokyo, Japan
Organizing Chair: Fumio Harashima, University of Tokyo, Japan
General Chair: Toshio Fukuda, Nagoya University, Japan
Program Chair: Suguru Arimoto, University of Tokyo, Japan                  
Program Vice Co-chairs: Shin'ichi Yuta, University of Tsukuba, Japan 
                                       Gerhard Hirzinger, German Aerospace
                                      Research Establishment,  Germany
                                        Thomas C. Henderson, University of
                                                             Utah, U.S.A 
                                                       
Local Arrangements Chair: Yoshikazu Suematsu, Nagoya University, Japan 
Treasurer  and Coordinator: Steve Hsia, University of California, Davis, U.S.A
                                             Koji Ito, Toyohashi University of
                                                       Technology, Japan 
     
CALL FOR PAPERS

The theme of the 1995 Conference is "Robotics and Automation in Exploring
New Engineering Disciplines."  This year, the Conference celebrates its
12th anniversary and  for the first time takes place in  the Orient.
Therefore, it will be a good time to look into the future with a  renewed
sense of purpose, enterpreunership, and dedication to the advancement of
science and technology.  A paradigm shift is emerging  in factories, from
mass production to customized manufacturing which is based firmly on using
flexible automation to manufacture a high variety of items.  It inevitably
generates a wide range of  challenging research problems that impact
productivity and quality control in manufacturing sectors.  Robotics
research is needed to Jprovide greater intelligence and higher versatility f
or robotic tasks under the ever-changing constraints of the environment. 
Applications of advanced robotics research and automation technology have
become a key competitive factor in the global economy.  The 1995 Conference
will bring together researchers and practitioners to present the latest
accomplishments, and explore future directions.  Special emphasis will be
placed on industrial case studies and their scientific background to help
identify new "driving forces" for research in the 21st century.  Technical
papers presented in oral and poster sessions will appear in the bound
proceedings.  Topics include but are not limited to:

      Robot sensing and sensor data fusion
       Reasoning and planning
      Multirobot coordination
      Dexterous and redundant manipulation
       Robot dynamics and control
       Telerobotics and shared control
       Autonomous systems
       Micro electromechanical and micro robotic systems
       Advanced actuators
       Mechatronic design issues
       Learning and adaptive systems
       Distributed intelligence and self-organizing systems
       Robot systems in unstructured and hazardous environments
       Dynamic vision
       Virtual reality and environments
       Industrial inspection
      Design automation and rapid prototyping
      Computer integrated and agile manufacturing
      Modeling and performance evaluation of discrete event systems
      Automated materials processing

For any general information about the conference, please contact to the
General Chair:

Prof. Toshio Fukuda
c/o Inter Group Corp.
4-2-7, Sakae, Naka-ku
Nagoya  460, Japan
Phone: +81-52-263-6261
Fax: +81-52-263-6298
E-mail: ra95@mein.nagoya-u.ac.jp

ORGANIZED SESSIONS
Organized sessions are intended to provide a cohesive focus for the
introduction of new research topics, or for the discussion of successful
applications and case studies.  Proposals for organized sessions should be
submitted by October 1, 1994 to the Program Chair.  Each organized session
consists of four papers, which will be reviewed through the normal process.
 The proposal should be submitted by the session organizer, and include a
brief statement of the purpose in addition to six copies of each paper. In
case  paper is not accepted, it will be replaced by a relevant contributed
paper.

POSTER SESSIONS
We are going to introduce poster sessions in this conference. The posters
of the selected papers should be prepared by their authors.  Papers will be
presented with posters prepared by their authors. In the poster sessions, 
(1)  the authors will be notified about the type of their presentation by
the Program Committee,
(2)  the authors and attendees may actively  exchange their ideas at the
session.

PANEL DISCUSSIONS
Panel discussions are intended to promote an active and informal discussion
of current issues that are of interest to the Robotics and Automation
community. Proposals should include a brief statement of purpose, the
general topic of discussion, specific issues to be addressed, and a list of
participants.  They should be sent to the ICRA'95 Secretary Office no later
than September 15, 1994.

TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS
Half day and full day tutorials and workshops will be held on  Monday, May
22, 1995.  Proposals should include:  (1) statement of objectives and
background expected of intended audience, (2) a complete list of speakers
and their affiliations, (3) a detailed list of topics. Two copies of each
proposal should be submitted by September 15, 1994 to the ICRA'95 Secretary
Office.
Organizers are strongly encouraged to write or send e-mail to the Secretary
office to obtain the exact proposal format. Proposals not in the proper
format may not be evaluated.

INDUSTRY FORUM
Industry forum will be held on Tuesday, May 23, 1995. Speakers will include
representatives from industry, government, and academia.  The aim of the
forum is to allow attendees to understand more fully possible industrial
applications of robotics and automation, discuss problems that have arisen
in industrial applications, and to delineate new areas of research and
development of robotics and automation applications.

PUBLIC LECTURE
Public lectures will be held on Saturday, May 27, 1995.  The aim of the
lectures is to help the public to understand the latest technologies in
robotics and automation. The topics of the lectures include Robotics
General, Brains for Robotics and Automation, Real World Robotics and
Automation, Human Friendly Interface etc. Simultaneous translation both in
English and Japanese is available.  

ANTON PHILIPS BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD
A $1,000 Prize will be awarded for the best student paper. The student must
(1) be a member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, (2) be the
first author and primary developer of the ideas, and (3) have done the work
as part of an academic degree program. The paper must be submitted no later
than one year after the award of the degree for which the work was done. 
Nine copies of the paper along with a nominating letter from the faculty
advisor should be sent by October 1, 1994 to the ICRA'95 Secretary Office.

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES FELLOWSHIPS
Travel assistance of up to $500 and a waiver of the registration fees will
be granted to a limited number of student applicants from developing
countries. Preference will be given to university students. Applications
should include:  (1) the name, postal address, telephone and fax numbers,
and e-mail address (if applicable), (2)professional affiliation, position
and nature of work, and (3)a brief statement about how attendance at the
conference will enhance the applicant's career. Applications should be
submitted by October 1, 1994 toJthe ICRA'95 Secretary Office.

BEST CONFERENCE PAPER AWARD
A $1,000 prize will be awarded to the best conference paper.

EXHIBITS
There will be exhibits of state-of-the-art hardware and software products
at the conference.  Reservations for the space and further information may
be obtained from the ICRA'95 Secretary Office.

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS
The climate in Nagoya in late May is usually agreeable and stable, with 
average temperature of 16-23C (60-74 F). 
	With an abundance of urban sightseeing attractions such as
excellent urban planning and sightseeing routes, and industrial tours,
you can find many of the nation's outstanding sightseeing spots in the
city's environs. Nagoya castle, famed for its golden "dolphins", Ise
Shima, Mikawa Bay, the Hida region, the Kiso River, and the Chubu
mountain range are just a few examples.JAlso, Kyoto, the old capital
in Japan, is within one hour away by bullet train.  In addition, large
number of Karakuri dolls, created during the Edo period, can still be
found in Nagoya.  It was the technology of wooden automated puppets
which laid the foundation for the development of the clock industry,
the automated weaving machine, the automobile and robot industries in
Naogya.

Additional information may be obtained from the ICRA'95 Secretary Office.

GENERAL INFORMATION
For other general information about the conference, contact the ICRA'95
Secretary Office.

ICRA'95 Secretary Office
c/o Inter Group Corp.
4-2-7, Sakae, Naka-ku
Nagoya  460, Japan
Phone: +81-52-263-6261
Fax: +81-52-263-6298
E-mail: ra95@mein.nagoya-u.ac.jp

CALL FOR VIDEOS

As a  conference tradition , a video tape session on new and significant
experimental results and demonstrations including industrial case studies,
will be organized.  Accepted contributions will be included in the
conference video proceedings, which will be shown during the conference,
and also made available to the attendees. This program is intended to
enhance and complement the results presented in the regular proceedings. A
$1,000 prize will be awarded for the best video. 

REQUIREMENTS FOR VIDEOS

 A good video should be dynamic and contain information that cannot be easi
ly conveyed in  a paper.

 Length should not exceed 2 to 3 minutes.  Showing flow charts, block diagr
ams, circuit boards, computers, or motors is discouraged.  Operators are
fine if they are central element to the concept being illustrated (e.g. in
teleoperated systems).

 Narration is important.  Ideas should be expressed without jargon.  Music 
and background noise generally interfere with the presentation.  Music
should be avoided unless it is generated professionally.

 The purpose of the video proceedings is to disseminate technical informati
on, not for commercial promotion.  For example, the obvious display of
company logos must be avoided.

SUBMISSION
Submissions consist of a 2 to 3 minute video segment (preferred formats are
3/4", Betacam or super VHS) and an information sheet including: the title
of the presentation, the names, affiliations, and authors (please identify
the corresponding author), and a 200 word abstract.  They should be
submitted by October 1, 1994. Submit to Program Vice Co-chair:

Prof. Shin'ichi Yuta
Institute of Information Science and Electronics
University of Tsukuba
Tsukuba, Ibaraki  305, Japan
Phone: +81-298-53-5509
Fax: +81-298-53-5206
E-mail: yuta@is.tsukuba.ac.jp

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	IEEE Real-Time Technology and Application Symposium
	===================================================

			May 15-17, 1995
		       Chicago, Illinois


RTAS'94 is the successor to the 11th Workshop on Real-Time
Operating Systems and Software.

Since the early 80's, we have witnessed an increased interest in
real-time technology because of the need for scientific solutions
for time-constrained information processing in various
applications such as avionics, multimedia, robotics, automated
process control, and manufacturing.  Founded in 1983, the IEEE
Workshop on Real-Time Operating Systems and Software (RTOSS) has
been an important annual forum for exchanging information of
emerging principles and practices underlying real-time technology.
Consequently, we are seeing a substantial number of new
researchers tackling the many challenging problems that
remain. Due to the interest shown in, and the success of, the
RTOSS, the IEEE technical committee on real-time systems has
decided to convert RTOSS into a full symposium, the real-Time
Technology and Applications Symposium.

The purpose of this symposium is to bring together developers and
researchers from universities, industry, and government to advance
real-time technology and its applications. Papers on all aspects
of real-time computing are sought, including operating systems and
scheduling, fault-tolerance, databases, programming languages,
tools, communication networks, architectures, performance
modeling, formal methods, case studies, and applications. Of
particular interest are papers detailing experiments and
implementations. This year we are planning special sessions in the
areas such as Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems and
Multimedia. Papers on these topics are especially encouraged.

Manuscripts should be limited to 20 double spaced pages. Papers
submitted to the Symposium should not be submitted elsewhere. Six
copies of the paper should reach the program chair no later than
January 7, 1995. Authors will be notified of acceptance by Feb 28,
1995. Final camera-ready manuscripts will be due by March 31,
1995. Proposals for two-hour tutorials in technical areas of the
conference are also solicited.  Tutorial proposals should be
submitted to the program chair by January 7, 1995.

Important Dates
===============
Paper submission: 		Jan 7, 1995
Tutorial proposal submission: 	Jan 7, 1995
Acceptance notification:	Feb 28, 1995
Final camera-ready manuscript:	Mar 31, 1995

ORGANIZING AND PROGRAM COMMITTEES

General Chair:
Ted Baker
Department of Computer Science (4019)
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4019
phone: 904 644-5452
email: baker@cs.fsu.edu

Program Chair:
Wei Zhao
Department of Computer Science
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-3112
phone: 409 845-5098
email: zhao@cs.tamu.edu

Treasurer: 
Ted Giering, Florida State University

Publicity Chair:
Raj Rajkumar, Software Engineering Institute, CMU

Local Arrangements Co-Chairs:
Jeffrey Tsai, University of Illinois at Chicago
Chengwen Liu, DePaul University

Ex-Officio: (RTS-TC Chairs)
John Stankovic, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Al Mok, University of Texas at Austin

Program Committee:

Yahya Y. Al-Salqan	West Virginia University
Sadler Bridge		Texas Transportation Institute/TAMU
Alan Burns		University of York
Richard Gerber		University of Maryland
Prabha Gopinath		Honeywell Inc

Steve Howell		Navy Surface Warfare Center
Jiandong Huang		Honeywell Inc
Arkady Kanevsky		Mitre Corporation
Doug Locke		Loral Federal Systems
David Luginbuhl	 	AFOSR

Jane Liu		University of Illinois at Urbana
Steve Liu		Texas A&M University
Al Mok			University of Texas at Austin
Kelvin Nilsen		Iowa State University
Krithi Ramamritham	University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Lui Sha			Software Engineering Institute/CMU
Kang Shin		University of Michigan
John Stankovic		University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Alexander D. Stoyenko	NJ Institute of Technology
Lonnie R. Welch		NJ Institute of Technology

Victor Wolfe		University of Rhode Island
Hui Zhang		Carnegie Mellon University

RTAS'95 is sponsored by the IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time
Systems, in cooperation with the Office of Naval Research.

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     6th  International  Scientific  and  Technical  Conference

            "ROBOTICS  FOR  EXTRAORDINARY  CONDITIONS"

 Ministry  of  Science  and  Technical  Policy  of  Russian  Federation
   State  Committee  of  Russian  Federation  for  Higher  Education
 State  Scientific  Center  of  Russia -   Central  R&D  Institute  of
            Robotics  and  Technical   Cybernetics

                  Information  and  invitation

Dear  colleagues!

Herewith we  inform  you  about  the holding  of  the  International
Scientific  and  Technical  Conference "ROBOTICS  FOR  EXTRAORDINARY
CONDITIONS".

The Conference will take place during June 6-8 ,1995 in St.Petersburg.

The  Conference  subjects  are  as  follows:

  -conceptual   problems  of  robotics  development  for  extraordinary
   conditions;

  -robotic  system  applications  in extraordinary  conditions  in  the
   national  economy, armed  forces,  outer  space,  underwater  and
   emergency  situations;

  -theory,  calculation  and  design  methods  of  robotic systems  for
   extraordinary  conditions;

  -control  of  robotic  systems  for extraordinary  conditions, software;

  -components  of  robots  for   extraordinary  conditions  (sensors,
   drives ,  mechanical  systems  of  manipualtors  and  vehicles).

   Chairman  of  the  Program  Committee  - E. Yurevich,  Professor ,
Doctor  of  Technical  Scieces  .

   Round-table discussions will be held at the Conference, concerning
the questions of coordination of research -and- development activities
preparation of proposals on the formation of projects and
scientific-and-research programs, on the educational questions in this
field.
   Participation at the Conference means establishment and development
of scientific and business contacts, extension of knowledge about the
results of new theoretical achievements and their practical
applications in the advanced foreign and domestic enterprises. It also
means that you will visit St.Petersburg during the best season -
period of White Nights.
   The Conference organizers invite you to take part in the formation
of the Conference program. Please, inform us about your participation
in the Conference and about the title of your paper before January 1,
1995.  Abstrasts up to 3 pages in volume ( A4 format, 1.5 line space )
should be submitted to the Oganizing Committee before March 1 , 1995.

Organizating  Committee  address :
Russia,  194064 , St. Petersburg , Tikhoretsky  pr. ,  21
Central  R&D  Institute  of  Robotics  and  Technical   Cybernetics
A.Kochkarev ,  Deputy  Director
Fax :(812) 552-46-72
E-mail : kocha@rtk.spb.su
Contact telephones : (812) 552-40-73
                     (812) 552-41-62.

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                        CALL FOR PAPERS
              Third IASTED International Conference
                   ROBOTICS AND MANUFACTURING

DATE: June 14-17, 1995

LOCATION: Sheraton Hotel, Cancun, Mexico

SPONSORS: The International Association of Science and Technology for
          Development - IASTED
          In cooperation with: ITESM (Inst. Tech. y de Estudios Sup. de
          Monterrey, Mexico)

SCOPE: Topics to be covered include:
       * Adaptive Control               * Modelling
       * AI Techniques                  * Motion Planning
       * Architecture                   * Multirobot Systems
       * Autonomous Systems             * Neural Networks
       * Bionics/Biomechanics           * Process Control
       * Design Automation              * Reliability/Safety/Stability
       * Expert Systems                 * Robot Dynamics
       * Flexible Manufacturing Systems * Robot Control
       * Fuzzy Control                  * Robot Kinematics
       * Human/Machine Interface        * Robot Mechanisms
       * Industrial Automation          * Robust Control
       * Industrial Robots              * Scheduling
       * Intelligent Systems            * Sensors
       * Knowledge-Based Systems        * Sensor Data Fusion
       * Learning/Reasoning Systems     * Simulation
       * Manufacturing Systems          * Space Robotics
       * Mechatronics                   * Teleoperation
       * Microrobotics                  * Virtual Reality
       * Mobile Robots                  * Applications - All areas

General Chair: T.C. (Steve) Hsia, University of California, Davis, USA
Program Chair: Rene V. Mayorga, University of Waterloo, Canada
Regional Program Chairs: Francisco Cantu-Ortiz, ITESM, Monterrey
                         Juan Frausto-Solis, ITESM, Morelos

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

S. Arimoto      Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
E. Bayo         Univ. of Calif., Santa Barbara, USA
P. Dario        Univ. of Pisa, Italy
C. Doumanidis   Tufts Univ., USA
A. Desrochers   Renselaer Polytechnic, USA
R.V. Dubey      Univ. of Tennessee, USA
W.H. ElMaraghy  Univ. of Windsor, Canada
B. Espiau       INRIA, France
T. Fukuda       Nagoya Univ., Japan
H. Furuta       Japan
A. Goldenberg   Univ. of Toronto, Canada
E. Gomes        EPUSP, Brazil
W.A. Gruver     Simon Fraser Univ., Canada
H. Inoue        Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
S. Kalaycioglu  Canada Space Agency, Canada
O. Khatib       Stanford University, USA
H.N. Koivo      Tampere Univ., Finland
K. Kosuge       Univ. of Nagoya, Japan
F. Lobo-Pereira Porto Univ., Portugal
A. Maciejewski  Purdue Univ., USA
H. Miura        Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
Y. Nakamura     Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
G. Saridis      Rensselaer Polytechnic, USA
H. Seraji       JPL, USA
Y. Shirai       Osaka Univ., Japan
J.E. Slotine    MIT, USA
A.C. Sanderson  Rensselaer Poly., USA
B. Siciliano    Univ. of Naples, Italy
P.M. Taylor     Univ. of Hull, UK
S. Tsuji        Osaka Univ., Japan
A.K.C. Wong     Univ. of Waterloo, Canada

REGIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

J.L.  Gordillo  ITESM, Monterrey        F. Ramos        ITESM, Morelos
R. Kelly        CICESE, Ensenada        G. Rodriguez    IEE, Cuenavaca
J.M. Ibarra     CINESTAV                J.M. Sanchez    ITESM, Monterrey
H. Martinez     ITESM                   R. Soto         ITESM, Monterrey
A. Ramirez      CINESTAV                L.E. Sucar-Succar ITESM, Morelos
A. Pamanes      Laguna Tec., Torreon    M. Valenzuela   ITESM, Monterrey

Three copies of the papers (maximum 12 double-spaced pages, including figures,
for regular papers; and maximum six double spaced pages for short papers)
should be received by FEBRUARY 15, 1995 by Rene V. Mayorga, Dept. of Systems
Design Eng., University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1 Canada.  Please
include four keywords to indicate the area of the paper. Also, include a
statement in your cover letter confirming that if the paper is accepted, one of
the authors will attend the conference to present it.  Please give the full
name, affiliation, full address, telephone, and fax numbers, and email address
if available.

Notification of acceptance and author kits will be mailed by March 15, 1995.
The final manuscripts and registration payment are due prior to May 1, 1995.
Registration fees not received by that date may result in the paper being
excluded from the proceedings.

Expanded papers to be considered for publication in the International Journal
of Robotics and Automation are to be sent directly to the Editor: Dr. Richard
Colbaugh, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Box 30001 - Dept. 3450, New Mexico
State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003-0001 USA.

IMPORTANT DATES

FEBRUARY 15, 1995 - Three copies of the papers due.  Please send the papers
                    to:         Rene V. Mayorga
                                Dept. of Systems Design Eng.
                                Univ. of Waterloo
                                Waterloo, Ontario
                                Canada  N2L 3G1
                                Tel: 519-885-1211 ext: 2604
                                Fax: 519-746-4791
                                email: rmayorga@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca

MARCH 15, 1995 - Paper acceptance letters mailed to authors.

MAY 1, 1995 - Final manuscripts and registration payments due.

To be placed on the mailing list write to:
        IASTED Secretariat RM'95
        1811 W. Katella Avenue #101
        Anaheim, CA
        USA  90804
        Tel: 800-995-2161 or 714-778-3230
        Fax: 714-778-5463
        Email: iasted@orion.oac.uci.edu

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		     PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS
	 Twelfth International Conference on Machine Learning

Tahoe City, California
July 9-12, 1995

    The Twelfth International Conference on Machine Learning (ML95)
will be held at the Granlibakken Resort in Tahoe City, California
during July 9-12, 1995, with informal workshops on July 9. We invite
paper submissions from researchers in all areas of machine learning.
The conference will include presentations of refereed papers and
invited talks.


REVIEW CRITERIA

    Each submitted paper will be reviewed by at least two members of
the program committee and will be judged on significance, originality,
and clarity. Papers submitted simultaneously to other conferences must
clearly state so on the title page.


PAPER FORMAT

    Submissions must be clearly legible, with good quality print.
Papers are limited to a total of twelve (12) pages, EXCLUDING title
page and bibliography, but INCLUDING all tables and figures.  Papers
must be printed on 8-1/2 x 11 inch paper or A4 paper using 12 point
type (10 characters per inch) with no more than 38 lines per page and
75 characters per line (e.g., LaTeX 12 point article style).  The
title page must include an abstract and email and postal addresses of
all authors.  Papers without this format will not be reviewed. To save
paper and postage costs please use DOUBLE-SIDED printing.


REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION

    Send four (4) copies of each submitted paper to one of the
conference co-chairs. Papers must be received by
			  FEBRUARY 7, 1995 .
Electronic or FAX submissions are not acceptable.  Notification of
acceptance or rejection will be mailed to the first (or designated)
author by March 22, 1995. Camera-ready accepted papers are due on
April 25, 1995.

INFORMAL WORKSHOPS
    Proposals for informal workshops are invited in all areas of
machine learning. Send a two (2) page description of the proposed
workshop, its objectives, organizer(s), and expected number of
attendees to the workshop chair. Proposals must be received by
DECEMBER 1, 1994.

Conference Co-Chairs
    Armand Prieditis
    Department of Computer Science
    University of California
    Davis, CA 95616
    priediti@cs.ucdavis.edu

    Stuart Russell
    Computer Science Division
    University of California
    Berkeley, CA 94720
    russell@cs.berkeley.edu

Program Committee
    (To Be Announced).

Workshop Chair
    Sridhar Mahadevan
    Department of Computer Science and Engineering
    University of Southern Florida
    4202 East Fowler Avenue, EBG 118
    Tampa, Florida 33620
    mahadeva@csee.usf.edu

Publicity Chair
    Jeff Schlimmer
    School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
    Washington State University
    Pullman, WA 99164-2752
    schlimme@eecs.wsu.edu
    http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/~schlimme

Local Arrangements
    Debbie Chadwick
    Department of Computer Science
    University of California
    Davis, CA 95616
    chadwick@cs.ucdavis.edu


GENERAL INQUIRIES

    Please send general inquiries to ml95@cs.ucdavis.edu .

    To receive future conference announcements please send a note to
the publicity chair. Current conference information available online
on the World-Wide Web as http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/~schlimme/ml95.html .

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	  THIRD  INTERNATIONAL  SYMPOSIUM
        	        on
	INTELLIGENT  ROBOTIC  SYSTEMS  '95

           Pisa,  Italy,  10-14  July  1995

                CALL   FOR   PAPERS

Advanced  Robotics Technology and Systems Laboratory,  
Scuola  Superiore  Sant'Anna,  Pisa,  Italy

Institute  of  Informatics  and  Applied  Mathematics
of  Grenoble, Grenoble, France

EC-DGXII Euroconferences

THEME   AND   TOPICS

The   theme   for   this   years   symposium   will   be   "architec-
tures   and   technolo