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Call for Papers
ICARSC 2020
IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions
http://icarsc2020.uac.pt/
April 15-17, 2020
Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal
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Dear colleague,

We are pleased to inform you that ICARSC 2020 - IEEE International Conference
on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions will be held in Ponta Delgada,
Azores, Portugal, on April 15-17, 2020.
The conference is co-located with ROBOTICA 2020 - 20th Portuguese Robotics Open,
a RoboCup-sponsored local event, and it is promoted by the University of Aveiro,
University of Azores, Polythecnic of Porto, University of Porto and the
Portuguese Robotics Society.

== Conference Scope ==

ICARSC gathers participants from academia and industry working in the field
of autonomous robotics and related areas. ICARSC is a well established IEEE
conference that has been growing continuously for over a decade and is
nowadays a truly international forum attracting worldwide quality
research papers.

ICARSC is a IEEE co-sponsored event and its proceedings will
be indexed in IEEExplore and Scopus.

Extended versions of selected best papers will be invited for publication in a
Special Issue of the Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems
(5-Year Impact Factor: 2.41) and others at Industrial Robot
(5-Year Impact Factor: 1.27), both indexed by
Clarivate Analytics Web of Science Core Collection.


== Confirmed Invited Speakers ==

António Pascoal, University of Lisbon, ISR, Portugal
EXPLORING THE BLUE FRONTIER WITH COOPERATIVE MARINE ROBOTS: THEORY AND PRACTICE

Jan Peters, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany
TOWARDS ROBOT SKILL LEARNING


== Important Dates ==

Submission Feb 17, 2020
Notification Mar 16, 2020
Camera Ready Mar 23, 2020
Registration Mar 23, 2020
Conference Apr 15-17, 2020

== Conference Topics ==

The conference aims to gather researchers from the industry and academia
to present and discuss the latest trends in research and technology in the
fields of robotics and related areas.
Contributions from researchers, industry and outputs from collaboration
between industrial and academic R&D units are welcome in the following topics.
- Agricultural Robotics
- Applications of Autonomous Intelligent Robots
- Artificial Intelligence
- Autonomous Robotic Systems
- Computer Vision and Image Processing
- Control Architectures and Programming
- Cooperative Perception
- Cooperative Planning and Task Allocation
- Dexterous Manipulation and Grasping
- Educational Robotics
- Entertainment Robots
- Evolutionary Robotics
- Humanoid Robotics
- Human-Robot Interaction
- Localization, Mapping, and Navigation
- Locomotion and Actuation Systems
- Multi-Robot Coordination
- Multi-Robot Systems
- Planning, Reasoning and Modelling
- Recognition and Tracking
- Robot Learning
- Robotic Competitions
- Robotic Simulation
- Sensors and Sensor Integration
- Swarm Robotics
- Underwater Robotics

== Paper Submission ==

Authors are invited to submit original research contributions in English.
Six pages in the standard IEEE format:
https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html
are allowed for each paper, including tables and figures.
Full papers should be submitted electronically, in PDF format, using the
easychair.org platform:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icarsc2020

Reviewing for ICARSC 2020 will be *double blind* so authors must
remove their names from the submitted papers and should take
reasonable care not to indirectly disclose their identity.

Accepted papers will be scheduled for presentation, which requires
that at least one of the authors must register at the Conference and
present the paper. Failure to meet this requirement will imply
removing the paper from the online version of the proceedings.


See you in Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal!

Nuno Lau, Universidade of Aveiro, IEETA, Portugal
Manuel Silva, ISEP - Polytechnic Institute of Porto, INESC-TEC, Portugal
Luis Paulo Reis, University of Porto, LIACC, Portugal
Jose Cascalho, University of Azores, FCT-NIDeS - BioISI, Portugal

(Co-chairs of ICARSC 2020)

Please check further details at the (http://icarsc2020.uac.pt/).
Should you have any question please
(jose.mv.cascalho @ uac.pt).