IRSC 2008 - International Robotic Sailing Conference

IRSC 2008 is the first International Robotic Sailing Conference. IRSC 2008 will be held in Breitenbrunn at Lake Neusiedl in Austria from 23rd to 24th of May 2008 and coincide with the World Robotic Sailing Championship. The conference is being jointly hosted by Austrian Association for Innovative Computer Science (InnoC) in cooperation with the Austrian Society for Artificial Intelligence (OEGAI).

 

Download Conference Proceedings as PDF (2 MB)

 

Timetable

Friday, May 23

 

14:00 – Session 1 (chaired by Roland Stelzer)

 

Project presentations of World Robotic Sailing Championship contestants

 

14:00 – Team Austria

14:15 – Team Canada

14:30 – Team Great Britain

14:45 – Team Portugal

15:00 – Coffee Break

 

15:30 – Session 2 (chaired by Igor Hantuch)

 

15:30 A Biologically Inspired Approach to Long Term Autonomy and Survival in

Sailing Robots, Colin Sauze and Mark Neal.

 

15:50 A reconfigurable computing system for an autonomous sailboat, Jose C.

Alves, Tiago M. Ramos, Nuno A. Cruz.

 

16:10 Design Considerations for Sailing Robots Performing Long Term Autonomous Oceanography, Colin Sauze and Mark Neal.

 

16:30 Ocean sampling and surveillance using autonomous sailboats, Nuno A. Cruz, Jose C. Alves.

 

Saturday, May 24

 

19:00 – Conference Banquet Cruise on Lake Neusiedl

 

Call for Papers

Submissions for oral presentation are invited from researchers, practitioners, and students worldwide.

 

IRSC welcomes paper submissions on a wide range of topics around autonomous sailing including the following:

 

  • analysis robot-environment interaction
  • applications of autonomous sailing boats
  • advanced algorithms for rudder and sail control
  • advanced data communication technology
  • advanced sensors and actuators
  • control architectures
  • emergency strategies
  • energy issues
  • hardware issues, advanced materials, advanced hull design
  • learning and adaptation
  • legal issues for autonomous vessels
  • reliability on sea
  • route planning and optimisation
  • weather data processing and prediction

 

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and on the conference website. The best papers will additionally be published in the OEGAI-Journal (ISSN 0254-4326). The Journal is listed in the scientific databases INSPEC and LISA.

Conference Committee

General Co-Chairs

 

Roland Stelzer, Austrian Association of innovative Computer Science, Austria

Karim Jafarmadar, Austrian Association of innovative Computer Science, Austria

 

Reviewers and Judges

 

Richard Balogh, Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia

Yves Brière, Institut Supérieur de l’Aéronautique et de l’espace, France

Simon Coupland, De Montfort University, United Kingdom

Igor Hantuch, Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia

Alexander Hofmann, University of Applied Science Technikum Wien, Austria

Christian Kargl, sailing expert, Austria

Melanie Landamore, Newcastle University, United Kingdom

Andrej Lúčny, Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia

Tobias Pröll, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Robert Schepp, yacht engineer, Germany

Kurt Wimmer, YCBb, Austria

 

Important Dates
  • Submission deadline: 01.03.2008 15.03.2008
  • Acceptance notification: 07.04.2008 14.04.2008
  • Early Registration Deadline: 30.04.2008
  • Camera ready: 30.04.2008
  • Acceptance notification for OEGAI journal: 01.05.2008
  • Camera ready for OEGAI journal: 09.05.2008
  • Conference: 23.05.2008
  • Conference Banquet: 24.05.2008
Paper Submission

Only papers prepared in PDF format will be accepted.

 

Papers have to be in English language, can be up to eight pages long and can contain colour. However, please note that the proceedings will be printed in greylevel so make sure that your coloured figures still make sense without colour. The online and CD versions will be in colour. Also, make sure that pages are not numbered. Make sure that all fonts are included in the pdf file you send, including that of characters in your figures. This can be verified in the "Document properties" in Adobe Reader. Ensure that all figures and diagrams are readable at the resolution you use, and when printed in monochrome. The file size of the manuscript must not exceed 3.0MB.

 

Note: Violations of any of the above paper specifications may result in rejection of your paper.

 

Please use one of the sample files to write your paper: IRSC_word.doc (MS Word) / IRSC_latex.zip (LaTeX / zip-archive)

 

Please send your manuscript via e-mail in time to irsc@innoc.at.

Oral Presentation

The presentation room has a PC with PowerPoint 2003 and Acrobat Reader 8.0 plus a data display projector. 20 minutes are allowed for each oral presentation, with a few minutes for questions and change over. In order to keep to this timetable, please ensure your presentation is loaded onto the conference computer in the lecture room BEFORE the session starts, and let your session chair know that you have done this.