Call for Papers

IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics

Nov. 5-8, 2012

(Nov 9, 2012 Field Exercise on Casualty Care and Evacuation)

Theme: 10 Years and Beyond!

The 10th anniversary of the IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics with continue its tradition of attracting cutting-edge papers in the theory and practice of robots for rapid and secure inspection of critical infrastructure, travelers,luggage, and paces; disaster response and recovery; humanitarian demining, disaster mitigation and recovery; detection of chemical, biological and radiological risks and operations in these dangerous sites; etc

SSRR 2012 will also serve as an entry point for researchers and technologists who want to learn more about SSR robotics, through tutorials and keynotes including:

• Dr. Gill Pratt, DARPA Grand Robotics Challenge
• Dr. Richard Voyles, NSF National Robotics Initiative
• Prof. Hajime Asama, University of Tokyo, Nuclear Decommissioning
• Prof. Satoshi Tadokoro, Tohoku University, Retrospective of RoboCup Rescue Contributions

The conference is co-located with Disaster City® and will host demonstrations organized around challenge problems (TBD), plan to bring your robots!

Papers and participation fall into:

• regular papers (4-6 pages) that describe original work in SSR or work that can be applied to SSR domains
• center/project papers (2-4 pages) that describe work at centers or active multi-institutional projects
• Outrageous Visions for Computing papers (2-4) that present long-term challenges or new ideas outside of the mainstream in computing for SSR robotics

Topics include but are not limited to:

• Biologically inspired solutions
• Casualty assessment, care and extraction
• Chemical, biological, or radiological events
• Computer vision
• GPS-denied navigation and mapping
• Humanoid robots
• Humanitarian demining
• Human-robot interaction
• Inspection of critical infrastructure
• Manipulation
• Multi-agent coordination
• Nuclear decommissioning
• Sensing and sensor fusion
• SLAM in extreme environments
• Structural assessment
• Telemedicine
• Unmanned ground, aerial, and marine vehicles
• Urban search and rescue
• Wildland fire fighting

In addition, SSRR 2012 encourages the submission of "non-traditional" papers which contribute to understanding robot systems for Public Safety but may not have results in a Public Safety domain.

SSRR 2012 will have four paper awards:

• Best Paper Award
• Best Student Paper Award
• Best Non-Traditional Robotics Paper Award
• Outrageous Visions for Computing in SSRR

Important Dates

• Jul 30, 2012 Submission of proposals for tutorials, special sessions
• Aug 15, 2012 Submission of regular papers, center/project papers, and visioning papers
• Oct 1, 2012 Notification of acceptance
• Oct 1, 2012 Submission of 2 page Late Breaking Reports
• Oct 22, 2012 Submission of final papers