M2VIP


The eighteenth annual Conference on 
Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice
was held near Brisbane, December 6-7 2011

The last-minute change of venue meant that
several papers had to be shown as video presentations
but the demonstrations of equipment and techniques
by CSIRO Pullenvale made for an exciting conference.

The welcome event started with a stroll through South Bank parklands
to a Turkish restaurant.  Many delegates will be considering a diet
after the many sumptuous meals and refreshents provided by CSIRO hosts.

Next year's conference will be held in early December
in Auckland, New Zealand.
Details will appear here shortly.


A selection of the best papers from this and the previous conference
will be publishedin book form by Springer-Verlag, extending the series


Springer 2008

Scope of the conference series

'Mechatronics' has become accepted for what it is, the blending of mechanics,
electronics and computer control into an integrated design.  Degree courses in mechatronics are now widespread.
 
That does not mean that mechatronics has lost its 'art'.

It continues to be the basis of an ever growing list of products and techniques of great technical and commercial value. Mechatronic design can result in products which are much simpler than their intricate and costly predecessors
and can make commonplace the miracles of yesterday.

Machine-vision has emerged from the laboratory to find real applications in areas
which include vehicle guidance, robot control and agriculture. Low-cost cameras have been developed for multimedia applications - but with their ease of interfacing they offer a whole new field of low-cost vision-based control.

Like its seventeen predecessors, M2VIP 2011 will provide a forum for international experts and researchers to present and review advances in mechatronics and machine vision which have culminated in practical applications, or which promise practical implementation in the very near future.

Presentations are encouraged to include video material of experimental systems.