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The sixteenth annual Conference on
Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice
has had to be postponed.
(Firm date!)
A list of hotels with prices from $70 upwards can be found at
http://www.holidaycity.com/bandarseribegawanhotels/
The call for papers is again open.
As a first step, please email a plain-text abstract by December 14th to
billings@usq.edu.au (see the notes below).
If your proposed paper is unsuitable on the grounds of
novelty, application or interest to the delegates, we will tell you.
You can still submit a full paper for the second round of review,
even if we have tried to dissuade you, though its chances might be slim!
For full papers, please use the template at
www.m2vip.com/template.doc
Papers accepted for the conference will receive a third stage of review
for their inclusion in a textbook to be published by Springer.
You can download a PDF Call for papers
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and is famous for its rainforests
The airport at Brunei is 'Bandar Seri Begawan'
and Royal Brunei Airlines run many services.
Call for Papers
The topics of the conference are defined in its title,
Mechatronics
and Machine Vision in Practice -
and the emphasis is on practical applications.
A fuller description is given at the foot of this page.
Special encouragement is given to applications of robotics and machine
vision in agriculture.
Please send your extended abstract as a plain email (no
attachments)
equivalent to no more than two pages of text with subject line 'M2VIP
Abstract'
to billings@usq.edu.au
by December 14th, 2009.
The international panel of referees will select the
abstracts
they wish
to review from a list of titles.
They will be sent links to your HTML abstracts that have been edited
to
make them
anonymous.
They will be asked to make a judgment, scoring on:
Successful authors will be invited to submit full papers, which will be reviewed again
- Acceptability (1 is best, 5=reject)
- Originality or Novelty
- Interest for delegates
- Language/presentation
- Evidence of practical application
- Relevance to M2VIP
- Confidence of their opinion
for acceptance and any need for amendment.
A selection of the best papers will be published
in book form by Springer-Verlag
extending the series
We are also seeking additional members for the International Programme Committee
to review abstracts in the first instance, then full papers. The process is 'reviewer friendly'!
Please email billings@usq.edu.au with a subject line 'M2VIP - Reviewers'
Scope of the conference
'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 fifteen predecessors, M2VIP
2009/10 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.