From hari@robotics.jpl.nasa.gov Fri Mar 25 07:37:32 PST 1994 Article: 11277 of sci.virtual-worlds Path: news.u.washington.edu!scivw From: Hari Das Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: CFP: Telemanipulation and Telepresence Date: 21 Mar 1994 15:38:27 GMT Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory Lines: 115 Approved: scivw@u.washington.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <2mkf1j$p7l@news.u.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: stein.u.washington.edu Originator: scivw@stein2.u.washington.edu =========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS Telemanipulator and Telepresence Technologies Part of SPIE's International Symposium on Photonic Sensors & Sensors and Controls for Commercial Applications October 31 - November 1, 1994 Boston, Massachusetts USA =========================================================================== Program Chair: Hari Das, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Program Committee: Bernard D. Adelstein, NASA Ames Research Center Robert J. Anderson, Sandia National Laboratories Thomas P. Caudell, University of New Mexico Janez Funda, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Blake Hannaford, University of Washington Won Soo Kim, Jet Propulsion Laboratory James M. Manyika, Oxford University Thomas B. Sheridan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cooperating Organization: IEEE NNC Virtual Reality Technical Committee This program will address issues and recent advances in telemanipulator and telepresence technology. Advantages offered by teleoperation systems are to enhance task performance in remote manipulation by increasing positioning resolution or range, to allow controlled application of extremely large or small forces, to improve operator perception of the task, and to facilitate manipulation in hazardous environments by isolating the environment from the operator or manipulation in clean environments by isolating the operator from the environment. Common to all teleoperation systems is a human operator in a manual or supervisory control loop overseeing task performance. Applications areas include operations in radioactive, underwater, space, surgical, rehabilitation and "clean-room" environments and the manufacturing and construction industries. In teleoperator systems, the remote manipulator system can be augmented with various end effector tools and sensors and by providing semi-autonomous functions. An operator interface at the local site supports human sensory information processing and decision-making thus enabling flexible operations with efficiency, reliability and safety. Augmentation at the operator interface could be with calibrated overlaid simulated graphics, text or animation presented in an intuitive manner. A variety of fields related to telemanipulation and telepresence will be covered in this program. Topics include application examples of telemanipulation and telepresence technology, augmented reality (augmenting natural feedback to the operator with with simulated cues), hardware implementation (e.g., electronics and computer architectures, master-slave systems, anthropomorphic manipulators, master controllers, and sensors), new developments in teleoperator modeling, analysis, and control (e.g., redundancy management, impedance control, force reflection, and sensor-based control), and efficient operator interface designs (e.g., graphical user interface, graphics aids, stereo video presentation and sensor data visualization) for both manual teleoperation and supervised autonomy. Also to be included are advanced techniques to cope with communication time delay (e.g., preview/predictive displays, sensor-based shared control, and teleprogramming) and enhance human visual and haptic sensory perception, and virtual environments. Papers in the following areas and related topics are being solicited: - applications in medicine, surgery and rehabilitation, - development and applications for augmented reality, - applications in business, industrial design, manufacturing and entertainment, - applications in nuclear, underwater, space, and other hazardous environments, - hardware and software architectures and implementations of teleoperators and teleoperator components, - modeling, analysis, and control of teleoperators including sensor-based and manual control, -sensor referenced graphics and shared control under communication time delay, - virtual environments, - multimedia, sensory information processing and human sensory perception, - human-machine interface issues, ergonomics and operator aids including graphics visualization, human perception and psychometrics, - operator training, - experimental results and performance evaluation. =========================================================================== Abstract Due Date: 4 April, 1994 Manuscript Due Date: 3 October, 1994 Send abstracts to: E-mail: abstracts@mom.spie.org - ASCII format or Fax: SPIE (206) 647-1445 - USA or Mail 4 copies: BOSTON '94 SPIE, P. O. Box 10, Bellingham, WA 98227-0010 USA =========================================================================== Abstracts submitted should include the following information: 1. Abstract title 2. Author listing (full names and affiliations) 3. Correspondence address for each author (mailing address, telephone, fax and e-mail address) 4. Indicate on abstract that the paper is to be submitted to the Telemanipulator and Telepresence Technologies Conference. 5. Indicate your preference of presentation - oral or poster. 6. Abstract text - 250 word description of work to be presented. 7. Brief biography of principal author. =========================================================================== -- Hari Das Jet Propulsion Laboratory hari@telerobotics.jpl.nasa.gov 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109