19th International conference on

Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice

The call for papers for M2VIP 2012 can be found at

www.m2vip.auckland.ac.nz

and at

http://homepages.engineering.auckland.ac.nz/~pxu012/m2vip/

It will be held in Auckland, New Zealand, November 28-30 2012.

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.

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 predecessors, M2VIP 2012 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.