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Call for Papers
ICARSC'2016 - IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions
http://icarsc2016.ipb.pt/
May 4-6, 2016
Bragança – Portugal
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Dear colleague,
We are pleased to inform you that ICARSC’2016 – IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions will be held in Bragança, Portugal, on May 4-6, 2016.
The conference is organized within ROBOTICA 2016 - 16th Portuguese Robotics Open, a RoboCup-sponsored local event, and it is promoted by the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança and the Portuguese Robotics Society.

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Conference Scope
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ICARSC gathers participants from academia and industry working in the field of autonomous robotics and related areas. The conference started as the meeting point of the Portuguese community working on Mobile Robotics Competitions and soon grew to an open International event to share related research work.
ICARSC’2016 is an IEEE co-sponsored event (the conference has the co-sponsorship of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, IEEE Portugal Section and IEEE Portugal Section Robotics and Automation Chapter) and its proceedings will be indexed in IEEExplore and Scopus and submitted for indexing to Inspec, EI’s Engineering Information Index, Compendex®, and ISI Thomson’s Scientific and Technical Proceedings®, ISTP®/ISI Proceedings, and Current Contents on Diskette®.
Extended versions of selected best papers will be invited for publication at a special issue of the “Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems”.

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Conference Topics
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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

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Invited Speaker
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The conference will feature a plenary talk by Dr. Rainer Bischoff, Head of KUKA's Corporate Research department responsible for research and technology development.

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Paper Submission
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Authors are invited to submit original research contributions in English. Six pages in the standard IEEE format are allowed for each paper, including tables and figures. Full draft papers should be submitted electronically, in PDF format, using the URL: http://icarsc2016.ipb.pt/submission/openconf.php. For evaluation purposes, 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 should register at the Conference and present the paper.
If the authors of an accepted paper, either for oral presentation or poster, do not show up at the conference, the corresponding paper will not be submitted to IEEExplore.
Authors of the best conference papers will be invited to submit an extended contribution to be evaluated for possible publication in the journals “Industrial Robot: An International Journal” and “Sensor Review”.

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Important Dates
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Submission Feb 29, 2016
Notification Mar 28, 2016
Camera Ready Apr 11, 2016
Registration Apr 10, 2016
Conference May 04-06, 2016

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ICARSC’2016 General/Program Chairs
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José Lima Polytechnic Institute of Bragança / INESC-TEC (Portugal)
Paulo Leitão Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (Portugal)
Manuel Silva ISEP - Polytechnic Institute of Porto / INESC-TEC (Portugal)
Bernardo Cunha University of Aveiro (Portugal)

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Please check further details at the ICARSC’2016 conference website (http://icarsc2016.ipb.pt/).
Should you have any question please don‘t hesitate contacting us (robotica2016@ipb.pt).