The computation may be implemented in software, hard-wired electronics, biomolecular mechanisms, or purely mechanical devices. Because actions in the physical world are subject to physical laws and geometric constraints, the design and analysis of robot algorithms raises a unique combination of questions in control theory, computational and differential geometry, and computer science.
Algorithms serve as a unifying theme in the multi-disciplinary field of robotics.
WAFR aims to bring together a group of about sixty researchers to discuss recent trends and important future directions of research on the algorithmic foundations of robotics. The workshop consists of invited talks by key researchers in the field and twenty contributed presentations in a single track. The proceedings will be published in a hard-cover volume. The workshop will take place on the Dartmouth campus. Camera-ready copies of the papers are due by February 20.