Call for book chapters

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS

Book Title: Computational Intelligence in Autonomous Robotic Systems
The book will be published by Springer in its "Studies in
Computational Intelligence" Series, and the estimated publication date
is June 2008.

Call for Contributions:

The intended book will include the state-of-the-art studies on
applications of computational intelligence (CI), including
evolutionary computation, neural networks, fuzzy systems, and many
others, to autonomous robotic systems carried out in recent years. It
will focus on the most recent and unpublished research work on actual
autonomous robots in real world based on CI methods. The preference
will be given to those with physical realizations/implementations. The
issues on transition of robotic behaviors from simulation to real
world implementation should be addressed, and practical performance in
physical environments needs to be evaluated. While this book will be
more interested to research students, engineers and researchers in
mechatronics, electrical, mechanical and computer system disciplines,
it should also be interesting to persons in other fields such as
recognition sciences due to its interdisciplinary feature.

Chapters of original research on CI applications are solicited in, but
not limited to, the following areas:

Perception and environment awareness, robot navigation, multi-robot
coordination and control, intelligent control of autonomous robots,
terrain mapping and recognition, real-time robot vision and control,
motion and path planning and coordination, autonomous wheeled and
tracked vehicles, distributed architectures for learning, healthcare
robotics, entertainment robotics, rescue robotics, biorobotics,
humanoid robots, swarm robotics, self-calibration and self-repair,
self-reproducing intelligent structures, CI as models for robotic
system development, and other related fields.

Important Dates:
Author's intentions to contribute a book chapter: June 28th, 2007
Submission deadline: September 28th, 2007
Author feedback and notification of decisions: December 28th, 2007
Final manuscript submission: February 28th, 2008

Electronic Submission:
Book chapters should be prepared according to the standard Springer-
Verlag format. An author kit will be sent to the intended
contributors. All potential chapters should be submitted
electronically as email attachment in PDF file format to Dr. Dikai Liu
(Email: dikai.liu@uts.edu.au).

Editors:

Dikai Liu
ARC Center of Excellence for Autonomous Systems (CAS)
Faculty of Engineering, L6, B2,
University of Technology, Sydney
P.O.Box. 123, Broadway,
NSW 2007,
Australia
Email: dikai.liu@uts.edu.au

Lingfeng Wang
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-3128
USA
Email: l.f.wang@ieee.org

Kay Chen Tan
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
National University of Singapore
4 Engineering Drive 3
Singapore 117576
Email: eletankc@nus.edu.sg