Call for Extended Abstracts for: 
Toward High-Performance Computing Support for the Simulation and Planning of Robot Contact Tasks

    The organizers invite you to submit an extended abstract to be considered for oral or poster presentation in the RSS workshop: Toward High-Performance Computing Support for the Simulation and Planning of Robot Contact Tasks.   The goal of this 1.5-day, NSF-supported workshop is to evaluate the state of the art in simulation methods for contact problems and related applications, especially in robotics (day one) and to chart a path toward meeting the future contact simulation needs of the robotics community (day two, morning).



Topics of Interest:

    The organizers are particularly interested in receiving submissions on analysis, simulation, design, and planning of all types of contact tasks that are difficult to simulate accurately or carry out automatically with a real system: assembly, locomotion, grasping, repair, cleaning, and loading.   We also encourage submissions on general methods that use simulation models such as particle filtering and model predictive control.  Application areas outside the mainstream robotics and problems in which bodies are flexible are desired as they will broaden the range of discussions.  Generally, submissions should focus on the state of the art in your research area and the shortcomings of current simulation tools in meeting your research goals.



Important Dates:

    Submission deadline: April 25, 2011
Notification of acceptance: on or before May 5, 2011
Workshop: June 27 (all day) and 28 (morning), 2011



Confirmed speakers:

    Erwin Coumins (Bullet Physics)
    Dan Negrut (U of Wisconsin)
    Sidd Srinivasa (Intel Pittsburgh)
    Chris Carothers (RPI)
    Jeff Trinkle (RPI)



For more information including the tentative schedule and motivational videos, please see the workshop web page: http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~trink/RSS-2011/rss2011wrkshp.html



For questions, contact Jeff Trinkle (trink@cs.rpi.edu).