RedUS

San Diego.

Natural Born Presenters

Natural Born Presenters.


Dynamic, by mistake.


Oooom me.


Some guy.


Every day, after conference, we try to get home. However, the U.S. American public transport system is ridiculously lousy. Crappy. Ridiculous.

IROS 2007, San Diego - Downtown

This place is totally crazy for Halloween these days.



However, it is tilted towards religion as well. In fact, my impression is this country is trying hard to fill some void, fill some lack of ideals by putting religion in its place. To have at least something to cling to, since there is nothing else - no common history, no cultural heritage, no social ideal.



Church service and church look different here.



So do cars.



Architecture, especially functional one, is interesting at times. Most times, it is just plain functional, however. This whole country seems to be a collection of cardboard houses and concrete containers, with a few glass towers sprinkled in for good measure.





You couldn't complain about sunset, however.



Since there is no other bond between people here, it seems the armed forces are a unifying force - which means there are many displays of military power around.



Sunrise is not bad either, especially when you're jetlagged enough to actually witness it.





Hotel.



Eh... oom.



One of the most stunning things so far is the ubiquitous, absolutely thick and gorgeous lawn. It's not lawn in the sense of grass, but more in the sense of carpet. Everywhere, even next to major streets. Obviously it really is some kind of carpeting. Look at the incredibly straight border.



San Diego Metropolitan Trolley Service.



Travelling party.

IROS 2007, San Diego

After an totally, exhilaratingly, excessively long day - no sleep, driving to Frankfurt, flight to San Diego via Philadelphia, with only intermittent ambushes at sleep, PJS finally arrived in San Diego, CA/USA, in the company of both Jan and Techno, for this year's IROS conference.


Jan and Techno. The crème of UBT's robotics researchers.


Our plane, and... uh... tons of cargo.


Terminal.


Philadelphia Airport.


Stunning, every time.


Days Inn Sea World, in a jetlagged night.

IROS 2007

To: Mr. Philipp J Stolka
From: Prof. Thomas C. Henderson
Re: (209) Using Maps from Local Sensors for Volume-Removing Tools

Dear Colleague:

It is my pleasure to inform you that the paper referenced
above, for which you are listed as the corresponding
author, has been accepted for publication in the
Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on
Intelligent Robots and Systems to be held in San Diego, CA,
USA during Oct 29 - 2 Nov.

We received more than 1300 submissions for review and
evaluation, and it is commendable that your paper is among
the 681 selected for publication. The advance program for
the conference will be available by early September at

http://www.iros07.org

[...]

Congratulations on this fine achievement! I look forward to
welcoming you in San Diego in October, to the 20th
anniversary IROS.

Sincerely,

Tom Henderson
Program Chair
2007 IEEE Int'l Conference on Intelligent Robots and
Systems

----------------------------------------------
Decision: Accepted as Contributed papers
Schedule Code: TuA7.2
Session: Medical Modeling and Mapping I (Regular Sessions)
Tentative time of presentation: Tuesday October 30, 2007, 09:30-09:50 hrs

----------------------------------------------
Submission information

Authors and title:
Philipp J Stolka*, Dominik Henrich
Using Maps from Local Sensors for Volume-Removing Tools

Type of submission: Contributed papers
Conference: 2007 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
Submission number: 209




[Note by the blog owner:
However, this time something is different. Our lab got a humongous acceptance rate of 80%. Which means, fighting's officially opened.]