In this workshop, we plan to introduce the
ongoing
robotic standardization activities in Object Management Group
(OMG). We
also
envision this workshop to be an excellent forum for discussing closely
related topics.
OMG is an international software consortium aiming at establishing
distributed
computing specifications.
With the rapid progress in computer and communication technology, the
robot
systems are fast becoming larger and more complicated. Therefore, there
is a
real need for the software technologies to facilitate the efficient
development
of the robotic systems. Large numbers of research activities have been
done
separately to address the technological problems such as improving
reliability,
safety, operability and amenity for individual robotic systems.
Unfortunately,
it is extremely difficult to share the fruits of these works, because
most of the
software was developed either based on proprietary design architectures
or
created from scratch each time.
There are lots of activities seeking standards based on the commonality
of
robotic design and functions in the various fields. Unfortunately, most
of the pioneering
initiatives are developed independently of the others, driven by
specific
applications and objectives. To help alleviating this problem, this
workshop strives
to contribute to the notion of robotic standardization based on mutual
understanding
among the concerned parties.
In order to increase interoperability, compatibility and reusability
between
the various robotic common components, OMG established Robotics
Domain
Task
Force (Robotics-DTF) in December 2005. The Robotics-DTF is
looking to
begin a
dialog with vendors, end users, researchers, robotics organizations and
other
interested parties to lay the groundwork for a common
platform-independent
model of robotics software development.
Testing
method for Intelligent Robot Software Components
Sun-Myung Hwang (Daejeon Univ., Korea), Yun-Koo Chung, Gil Jo Kim and
Hyun Kyu Cho (ETRI, Korea)
Layered
Implementation of Robotic Middlewares to the Physical Agent System
Makoto Mizukawa (Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan)
16:20 - 17:20
Discussion
for Future Collaboration
All Participants
17:20 - 17:30
Closing
Remarks
Important
Dates:
Paper submission due: August
1, 2006
Notification of accepted papers: August 15, 2006
Camera-ready version due: to be announced
Workshop: October 10, 2006
Call for
Paper: New
The workshop will consist of several invited talks and paper
presentations. Interested authors are welcome to submit their
contributions.
Topics to be
covered include, but are not limited to:
Open robot
architecture
Robot middleware
Software
technology for robots
Network robot
systems
Modular and
interoperable system
Software design
patterns for robots
Robot programming languages
Robotic
performance measures
Needs for
standardization in Robotics
Proposal of robotic
standardization
Papers should be prepared according to the IROS2006 final camera ready
format, and should be 4 to 8 pages long. The detailed information on
the paper format is available from the
IROS 2006 page. Submissions should be sent toiros2006ws@m.aist.go.jp
in the Portable Document Format (PDF) no later than August 1,
2006.
December 4-8, 2006 OMG Technical Meeting in
Washington, DC
Contact
(Organaizers):
Tetsuo KOTOKU
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and
Technology
1-1-1 Umezono #32815, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8568 Japan
tel:+81-29-861-7284, fax:+81-29-861-5971,
http://staff.aist.go.jp/t.kotoku/
YunKoo CHUNG
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
161 Gajeong-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 305-700, Korea
tel:+82-42-860-5032, fax:+82-42-860-6790
Makoto
MIZUKAWA
Shibaura Institute of Technology
Shibaura 3-9-14, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8548 Japan
tel:+81-3-5476, fax:+81-3-5476-3068,
http://www.hri.ee.shibaura-it.ac.jp/
