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				CALL FOR PAPERS

			Second International Workshop on

			ALGORITHMIC FOUNDATION OF ROBOTICS

				July 3-5, 1996

			LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France

Scope
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Algorithms play a fundamental role in many aspects of robotics. WAFR
aims at bringing together around sixty researchers to discuss recent
trends and important future directions of research on algorithmic
foundations of robotics. The format of the workshop consists of about
10 talks by key researchers in the field and about 20 contributed
presentations in a single track. Topics to be covered include but are
not limited to:

  *   Holonomic motion planning		*   Grasping and Fixturing
  *   Nonholonomic motion planning	*   Sensor based planning
  *   Controllability and planning	*   Task level planning
  *   Manipulation			*   Assembly planning


Submissions
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Authors are invited to submit 4 copies of a full paper by February 1st,
1996 to:

		Mark H. Overmars
		Department of Computer Science
		Utrecht University
		Padualaan 14
		3584 CH Utrecht
		the Netherlands
		Email: markov@cs.ruu.nl

Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by May 1st, 1996.
Camera- ready copies of the accepted papers are required by June 1st,
1996. These will be printed and distributed to the workshop
participants. A selected subset of the papers will be published as a
book after the workshop.


Program Committee
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*   A. Bicchi (Pisa)		*   J.P. Laumond (co-chair, Toulouse)
*   S. Cameron (Oxford)		*   M. Mason (Pittsburgh)
*   B. Donald (Ithaca)		*   T. Matsui (Tsukuba)
*   K. Goldberg (Berkeley)	*   M.H. Overmars (co-chair, Utrecht)
*   D. Halperin (Stanford)	*   P. Raghavan (Almaden)
*   J.C. Latombe (Stanford)	*   R. Wilson (Albuquerke)


Further Information
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For further information about the workshop, contact the conference chair:

		Jean-Paul Laumond
		LAAS-CNRS
		7, Avenue du Colonel Roche
		31077 Toulouse Cedex
		France
		Email: jpl@laas.fr