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Interest in Participating in the RobocupRescue International - Medio Metro Robotics Team
by ING. JESUS GUADALUPE HERRERA VANOYE 09 May '23

09 May '23

Dear organizers of the RobocupRescue International, My name is Jesús Guadalupe Herrera Vanoye and I am writing to you on behalf of our robotics team, Medio Metro. Recently, we won first place in the RoboRescue Major category at the Mexican Robocup Open, which has given us the opportunity to represent our country at the international event. We would like to express our interest in participating in the RobocupRescue International in France and we are excited about the idea of competing with other teams from around the world in this exciting challenge. We are also grateful for the support we have received from our city, which has encouraged us to take this opportunity to showcase our passion and skills in the field of robotics. We would like to know what steps we need to take to register for the competition and ensure that we meet all the necessary requirements. We would also like to receive information about any important deadlines we should be aware of. We would love to be able to resolve everything quickly and efficiently so as not to miss out on this valuable opportunity. The enthusiasm and excitement of all the young people involved in our team is very high, and we hope to be able to carry out our plans to travel to France and compete in the RobocupRescue International. We look forward to your response and thank you for your time and consideration. Sincerely, Jesús Guadalupe Herrera Vanoye Medio Metro Robotics Team

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Second Call For Papers - BRACIS 2023 - 12th Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems
by Reinaldo A. C. Bianchi 08 May '23

08 May '23

Second Call For Papers - BRACIS 2023 - 12th Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems 12th Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems (BRACIS) Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil, September 25th to 29th, 2023. https://www.bracis.dcc.ufmg.br/ *** Deadline for paper submissions EXTENDED: May 18th, 2023 *** The Program Committee of the 12th Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems (BRACIS) invites submissions of original research papers for the conference to be held in Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil, from September 25th to 29th, 2023, at the UFMG. BRACIS is one of the most important events in Brazil for researchers interested in publishing significant and novel results related to Artificial and Computational Intelligence. The Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems (BRACIS) originated from the combination of the two most important scientific events in Brazil in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Computational Intelligence (CI): the Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence - SBIA (21 editions), and the Brazilian Symposium on Neural Networks - SBRN (12 editions). The conference aims to promote theoretical aspects and applications of Artificial and Computational Intelligence and exchange scientific ideas among researchers, practitioners, scientists, and engineers. IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission - May 18th, 2023. - Notification to authors - July 19th, 2023. - Camera-ready copy due - August 10th, 2023. SPECIAL ISSUES Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their work to be appreciated for publication in special issues after the conference. SUBMISSION DETAILS *Please, note that BRACIS submission is double-blind* This means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process. To facilitate this, authors need to ensure that their manuscripts are prepared in a way that does not reveal their identity. Submissions should include significant and unpublished research on all aspects of Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Computational Intelligence (CI). Submitted papers must be written in English and not exceed 15 pages, including all tables, figures, references, and appendices. Formatting instructions, as well as templates for Word and LaTeX, are available at Conference Proceedings guidelines. Springer’s proceedings LaTeX templates are also available in Overleaf. Submissions must be made online using the JEMS system: https://jems.sbc.org.br/bracis2023 All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three experts in the field. Accepted papers will be included in the BRACIS proceedings and submitted for publication in Springer in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. Only PDF files can be uploaded to the submission system. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to): - Agent-based and Multi-Agent Systems - Cognitive Modeling and Human Interaction - Constraints and Search - Foundations of AI - Distributed AI - Information Retrieval, Integration, and Extraction - Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (including Commonsense Reasoning, Model-Based Reasoning, Probabilistic Reasoning, and Approximate Reasoning) - Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in Ontologies and the Semantic Web - Logic-based Knowledge Representation and Reasoning - Natural Language Processing - Planning and Scheduling - Evolutionary Computation and Metaheuristics - Fuzzy Systems - Neural Networks - Deep Learning - Machine Learning and Data Mining - Meta-learning - Reinforcement Learning - Molecular and Quantum Computing - Pattern Recognition and Cluster Analysis - Hybrid Systems - Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering - Combinatorial and Numerical Optimization - Computer Vision - Education - Forecasting - Game Playing and Intelligent Interactive Entertainment - Intelligent Robotics - Multidisciplinary AI and CI - Foundation Models - Human-centric AI - Ethics GENERAL CHAIR Gisele Pappa (UFMG) Wagner Meira Jr (UFMG) PROGRAM CHAIRS Reinaldo A. C. Bianchi (Centro Universitário FEI) Murilo Nardi (UFSCAR) Esta mensagem, juntamente com qualquer outra informação anexada, é confidencial e protegida por lei. Somente os seus destinatários estão autorizados a usá-la. Se você não for o destinatário, por favor, informe o remetente e, em seguida, apague a mensagem, observando que não há autorização para usar, copiar, armazenar, encaminhar, imprimir ou tomar qualquer ação baseada no seu conteúdo.

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[meetings] [news] Hard submission deadline in less than two weeks: 2nd Benchmark for Autonomous Robot Navigation (BARN) Challenge -- ICRA 2023 Competition
by Xuesu Xiao 07 May '23

07 May '23

Hard submission deadline in less than two weeks! Submission Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScYKxIZ2HYSDMLx3BxlYkxugmpy1OrrewY… Competition Website: https://cs.gmu.edu/~xiao/Research/BARN_Challenge/BARN_Challenge23.html Participation Instructions: https://github.com/Daffan/nav-competition-icra2022 Lessons Learned from The BARN Challenge 2022 Last Year: https://cs.gmu.edu/~xiao/papers/barn22_report.pdf Dear roboticists, are you interested in agile robot navigation in highly constrained spaces with a lot of obstacles around, e.g., cluttered households or after-disaster scenarios? Do you think mobile robot navigation is mostly a solved problem? Are you looking for a hands-on project for your robotics class, but may not have (sufficient) robot platforms for your students? If your answer is yes to any of the above questions, we sincerely invite you to participate in our (2nd) ICRA 2023 BARN Challenge (https://cs.gmu.edu/~xiao/Research/BARN_Challenge/BARN_Challenge23.html)! The BARN Challenge aims at evaluating state-of-the-art autonomous navigation systems to move robots through highly constrained environments in a safe and efficient manner. The task is to navigate a standardized Clearpath Jackal robot from a predefined start to a goal location as quickly as possible without any collision. The challenge will take place both in the simulated BARN dataset and in physical obstacle courses at ICRA2023. 1. The competition task is designing ground navigation systems to navigate through all 300 BARN environments (https://cs.gmu.edu/~xiao/Research/BARN/BARN.html) and physical obstacle courses constructed at ICRA2023 as fast as possible without collision. 2. The 300 BARN environments can be the training set for learning-based methods, or to design classical approaches in. During the simulation competition, we will generate another 50 unseen environments unavailable to the participants before the competition. 3. We will standardize a Jackal robot in the Gazebo simulation, including a Hokuyo 2D LiDAR, motor controller of 2m/s max speed, etc. 4. Participants can use any approaches to tackle the navigation problem, such as using classical sampling-based or optimization-based planners, end-to-end learning, or hybrid approaches. We will provide baselines for reference. 5. A standardized scoring system is provided on the website. 6. We will invite the top teams in simulation to compete in the real world. The team who achieves the fastest collision-free navigation in the physical obstacle courses wins. If you are interested in participating, please submit your navigation system at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScYKxIZ2HYSDMLx3BxlYkxugmpy1OrrewY… Co-Organizers: Xuesu Xiao (George Mason University / Everyday Robots) Zifan Xu (UT Austin) Garrett Warnell (US Army Research Lab / UT Austin) Peter Stone (UT Austin / Sony AI) Sponsor: Clearpath Robotics, https://clearpathrobotics.com/ Thanks Xuesu ----------------------- Xuesu Xiao, Ph.D. -- Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science George Mason University xiao(a)gmu.edu<mailto:xiao@gmu.edu> https://cs.gmu.edu/~xiao/

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[meetings][CFP][RO-MAN 2023] SCRITA - Trust, Acceptance and Social Cues in Human-Robot Interaction Workshop
by Alessandra Rossi 07 May '23

07 May '23

Dear colleagues, it is with great pleasure that we are inviting you to participate at this year edition of SCRITA workshop <http://scrita.herts.ac.uk>, that will be held in conjunction with RO-MAN 2023, in Busan, South Korea, August 28-31, 2023. The workshop will be open to a broad audience from academia and industry researching social robotics, machine learning, robot behavioural control, and user-profiling, but also experts from psychology and sociology insights and experiences from a multidisciplinary and human-focused point of view. In this year edition, we would like to continue exploring the challenges and dynamics between people and robots to foster short interactions and long-lasting relationships in different fields, from educational, service, collaborative, companion, care-home and medical robotics. For that, this workshop aims to *facilitate a discussion about people's trust towards robots “in the wild”*, inviting workshop participants to contribute their experiences and lessons learnt. However, we also want to *jointly develop novel methods to assess people's trust towards them*. Please find below the full CFP, and do not hesitate to contact us for further information. kind regards Alessandra -- Dr. Alessandra Rossi Assistant Professor PRISCA research lab University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy Visiting Researcher Fellow of the Higher Education Academy Adaptive Systems Research Group University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom emails: a.rossi(a)herts.ac.uk, alessandra.rossi(a)unina.it, alessandra.rossi(a)ieee.org website: alessandrarossi.net twitter: @alhandra81 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCRITA 2023 Trust, Acceptance and Social Cues in Human-Robot Interaction Busan, South Korea, August 28-31, 2023 Workshop website http://scrita.herts.ac.uk Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scrita2023 Submission deadline June 30, 2023 Submission & List of Topics The workshop will be open to a broad audience from academia and industry researching social robotics, machine learning, robot behavioural control, and user-profiling, but also experts from psychology and sociology insights and experiences from a multidisciplinary and human-focused point of view. We invite authors to submit two-page abstracts, discussing their prior experience using tools for measuring trust and other constructs. We also welcome submissions of two-page position papers on topics covering the scope of the workshop. Topics of position papers will be fuel for a spin-date discussion, following the “world café” method, where groups revolve around fixed topics - each for discussing one factor influencing people’s trust in robots - as recognised by most influenced works in literature. We further encourage authors of the accepted papers to present a video or demonstrate their works and achievements. All accepted papers will have an oral presentation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Impact of Social Cues on Trust in HRI - Measuring Trust in HRI - Trust Violation and Recovery Mechanism in HRI - Effects of Humans’ Acceptance on Trust of Robots - Humans Sense of Control and Trust in Robots - Trust and Assistive Robotics - Overtrust in Robots - Antecedent of Trust and Robot Trust - Enhancing Humans Trust in Robots - Enhancing Trust in a Robot Companion - Privacy Implications on Trust in HRI - Mental Models and Trust in HRI - Trust and Safety in HRI - Ethics Implications on Trust in HRI - Trustworthy AI - XAI in HRI - Legal Frameworks for Trustworthy Robotics Invited Speakers The following keynote speaker has already confirmed her participation to this session: - Dr. Jessie Y.C. Chen, ST - Soldier Performance, U.S. Army Research Laboratory Submission Guidelines Authors should submit their papers formatted according to the IEEE two-column format <http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/support.php>, which is also used for contributions to the main conference. Use the following templates to create the paper and generate or export a PDF file: LaTeX <http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/tex.php> or MS-Word <http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/word.php>. Authors needs to submit their PDF via EasyChair <https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=scrita2023>. Each paper will receive at least two reviews. All papers are reviewed using a single-blind review process: authors declare their names and affiliations in the manuscript for the reviewers to see, but reviewers do not know each other's identities, nor do the authors receive information about who has reviewed their manuscript. Committees - Dr Alessandra Rossi, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Naples Federico II (Italy) - Dr Patrick Holthaus, School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire (UK) - Sílvia Moros, School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire (UK) - Dr Gabriella Lakatos, School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire (UK) - Lewis Riches, School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire (UK) Contact All questions about submissions should be emailed to scrita(a)herts.ac.uk - a.rossi(a)herts.ac.uk - p.holthaus(a)herts.ac.uk

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[news] Announcing Verti-Wheelers: Toward Wheeled Mobility on Vertically Challenging Terrain
by Xuesu Xiao 07 May '23

07 May '23

Dear roboticists, the Verti-Wheelers project developed at the RobotiXX lab at George Mason University is officially open-sourced and public to the whole robotics community! In this project, we developed platforms, datasets, and algorithms to empower conventional wheeled robot platforms to move through off-road terrain with vertical protrusions from the ground, such as steep slopes, rocky outcroppings, and uneven surfaces. Without specialized hardware, the Verti-Wheelers project encourages the community to develop enhanced wheeled mobility on such vertically challenging terrain together. The build of our Verti-Wheelers (both hardware and software), hours of demonstrated crawling datasets, and three baseline algorithms are all open-sourced for the community’s use. With the Verti-Wheelers, we look forward to superior robot mobility that allows mobile robots to venture to many difficult spaces which are previously inaccessible to wheeled robots. Please feel free to use the Verti-Wheelers resources for your next research project and your education effort! Verti-Wheelers Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gffm4WHdNyg&t=1s Verti-Wheelers Website: https://cs.gmu.edu/~xiao/Research/Verti-Wheelers/ Verti-Wheelers Preprint: https://cs.gmu.edu/~xiao/papers/vw.pdf Verti-Wheelers Datasets: https://dataverse.orc.gmu.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.13021/orc20… Verti-Wheelers Resources: https://github.com/RobotiXX/Verti-Wheelers Thanks Xuesu ----------------------- Xuesu Xiao, Ph.D. -- Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science George Mason University xiao(a)gmu.edu https://cs.gmu.edu/~xiao/

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CFP: ICIST2023, December 8-14, 2023, Cairo, Egypt
by Pub Conference 28 Apr '23

28 Apr '23

*Call for Papers* *https://conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/icist <https://conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/icist>* Sponsor: British University in Egypt Co-Sponsors: City University of Hong Kong and Chongqing Three Gorges University Technical co-sponsor: IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society The 13th International Conference on Information Science and Technology (ICIST 2023) will be held in Cairo, Egypt during December 8-14, 2023. As a cradle of civilization, the conference site features long historical and rich cultural heritages. Following the successes of previous events, ICIST 2023 aims to provide a high-level international forum for scientists, engineers, and educators to present the state of the art of research and applications in related fields. The conference will feature preconference, tutorials, plenary speeches given by world-renowned scholars, regular sessions with broad coverage, and special sessions focusing on popular topics and pre-conference tutorials/workshops to warm up the main event. *Call for Papers and Special Sessions* Prospective authors are invited to contribute high-quality papers to ICIST 2023. In addition, proposals for special sessions within the technical scope of the conference are solicited. Special sessions, to be organized by internationally recognized experts, aim to bring together researchers on special focused topics. Papers submitted for special sessions are to be peer-reviewed with the same criteria used for the contributed papers. Researchers interested in organizing special sessions are invited to submit formal proposals to ICIST 2023. A special session proposal should include the session title, a brief description of the scope and motivation, names, contact information, and brief biographical information on the organizers. *Topic Areas* Topics of contributing papers include, but are not limited to, the following areas: *Computer Science and Engineering* Computer networks, computer vision, pattern recognition, virtual, reality, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, computer graphics, big data, cloud computing, database management systems, mobile agent computing, quality of services and communication protocol, mobile computing for e-commerce, cryptography and information security, scientific and engineering computing, hybrid computational methods, data visualization and virtual reality, web- and grid-based computing and simulation, possibility theory, Bayes network and hidden Markov models, computational intelligence, granular computing *Control and Automation* Autonomous systems, linear and nonlinear control, robust control, learning and adaptive control, intelligent control, optimization-based and optimal control, model predictive control, fault detection and identification, hybrid intelligent systems, neural control, fuzzy logic control, networked control, industrial automation, process control, robot control, mechatronic systems, vehicle control systems, intelligent transportation systems, environmental monitoring and control, intelligent manufacturing systems, microprocessor-based control, motor control, power control, vehicle control, aerospace control applications. *Signal Processing and Telecommunications* Adaptive filtering & signal processing, audio/speech processing and coding, compressive sensing and sparse representation, higher-order spectral analysis, nonlinear & blind signal processing, neural signal processing, component analysis, array signal processing, parallel and distributed processing, time series analysis, multimedia signal processing, design and implementation of signal processing systems, DSP Implementations and embedded systems, image and multidimensional signal processing, image processing & understanding, multimedia communications, next-generation wireless/wireline communications, communication signal processing, modulation and channel coding, network coding, sensor networks *Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering* Microarray data analysis, gene regulation, network, and pathway analysis, identification and classification of genes, protein structure prediction, next-generation sequencing and metagenomics, protein, DNA/RNA structure, function, and interactions, functional genomics and proteomics, molecular evolution and phylogeny, neuroinformatic, brain-computer interface, clinical engineering, rehabilitation engineering, neural engineering, biomedical signal analysis and modeling, bio-imaging, sensing, and data fusion, biomarker discovery, health informatics, healthcare data acquisition, analysis, and modeling, biomedical data knowledge extraction, biomedical data integration, modeling, and preprocessing, biological data mining, knowledge sharing, visualization, and knowledge utilization, biomedical data mining systems and computing platforms, electronic health record acquisition, analysis, and decision support, high performance computing for biomedical data analysis, smart clinical diagnosis and decision systems *Paper Submission* Authors are invited to submit full-length papers (the nominal number of pages is 10) by the submission deadline through the online submission system. Special session organizers are also invited to enlist six or more papers with cohesive topics to form special sessions. The submission of a paper implies that the paper is original and has not been submitted under review or is not copyright-protected elsewhere and will be presented by an author if accepted. All submitted papers will be refereed by experts in the field based on the criteria of originality, significance, quality, and clarity. The authors of accepted papers will have an opportunity to revise their papers and take into consideration of the referees' comments and suggestions. Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements. Selected high-quality papers will be included in several journal special issues. *Important Dates* Special session proposals deadline………………………………………………………………………….July 1, 2023 Paper submission deadline…………………………………………………………………...…………......... August 1, 2023 Notification of acceptance……………………….………………………………………...………………..September 1, 2023 Camera-ready copy and author registration………………………………………………..………………..…October 1, 2023

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[Meetings][CfP] Workshop on Multimodal, Interactive Interfaces for Education at ICMI 2023
by Lise Aubin 20 Apr '23

20 Apr '23

*** WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT *** [Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement] ****************************************************** Workshop on Multimodal, Interactive Interfaces for Education https://irecheck.github.io/icmi2023/ Paris, France October 13th, 2023 In conjunction with 25th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction https://icmi.acm.org/2023/ ****************************************************** AIM AND SCOPE ------------------------------------------------------ From tablets to augmented reality, from virtual avatars, to social robots, multimodal, interactive interfaces emerged as interesting tools to facilitate learning in educational scenarios by improving the engagement and the motivation of students towards the learning activities. Research has also shown the potential of such technologies as convenient instruments for the personalization of teaching strategies to the learning styles of each student, proposing appropriate feedback and adapted levels of difficulty in a wider set of learning activities. Such kind of tailoring might become a new, particularly helpful resource to meet the demands of students with special needs. The development and the adoption of such interfaces in educational scenarios relies on new pedagogies and new didactics co-designed in an interdisciplinary effort involving engineers, psychologists, cognitive scientists, educators, students, and families. The aim of this workshop is to provide a venue for all the involved stakeholders to present scientific advances on the design, the development, and the adoption of multimodal, interactive interfaces for education, fostering discussions, ideas and interdisciplinary collaborations between researchers on the domain as well as industrial partners. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ------------------------------------------------------ The workshop welcomes the submission of short papers (max 4 pages) matching the ACM Conference Template through the EasyChair submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icmi2023miie All contributions will be subject to blind peer review by a minimum of two independent experts in the field. The Program Committee made of academic experts in social interfaces, education, and children with special needs will ensure the acceptance of high-quality contributions. Accepted papers will be published on the conference proceedings. - Workshop submission deadline, July 23rd, 2023 - Workshop acceptance notification, August 1st, 2023 - Workshop camera ready (hard deadline), August 14th, 2023 - Workshop day, October 13th, 2023 We kindly ask the authors to strictly follow the guidelines of the conference for the submissions: https://icmi.acm.org/2023/guidelines-for-authors/ LIST OF TOPICS ------------------------------------------------------ Topics of interest will include, but will not be limited to: - Theoretical and practical approaches to education with multimodal, interactive interfaces - Socially intelligent agents for education; - Multimodal, assistive interfaces for learning disabilities; - Educational interfaces for students with special needs; - Serious games and gamification; - Tailored education and personalization; - Teachers perception and trust on multimodal, interactive interfaces - Collaborative design for education; - Attention and engagement metrics; - Long-term interaction; - Affective interaction and emotional understanding; - Socio-cognitive skills training; - Verbal, non-verbal communication and backchannels; - Context aware social interaction; - Social interaction in joint activities; - Timing, synchrony and coordination; - Multi-party interaction in educational environments; - Multimodal perception for human intent estimation in the wild. INVITED SPEAKERS ------------------------------------------------------ - Denis Alamargot Institut National Supérieur du Professorat et de l’Éducation de l’académie de Poitiers, Université de Poitiers, France - Pierre Dillenbourg Computer-Human Interaction for Learning and Instructions Lab, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ------------------------------------------------------ - Daniel C. Tozadore, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland - Lise Aubin, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, AP-HP, France - Soizic Gauthier, Forward College, France - Barbara Bruno, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland - Salvatore M. Anzalone, Université Paris 8, France This workshop is sponsored and partially financed by the French ANR project iReCheck. CONTACTS ------------------------------------------------------ Email: https://irecheck.github.io/icmi2023/ Website: icmi2023miie (at) easychair.org

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[meetings] The 6th ROS Developers Day Call for Speakers
by Yuhong Lin 19 Apr '23

19 Apr '23

Call for Speakers - The 6th ROS Developers Day (ROSDevDay2023) Hi Roboticists, if you know something interesting about ROS and WOULD LIKE TO TEACH IT to the community, present your knowledge at ROS Developers Day (ROSDevDay) <https://www.theconstructsim.com/ros-developers-day-2023/?utm_source=robocup…> ! *About ROS Developers Day (ROSDevDay)* The ROSDevDay is an annual conference organized by The Construct, a company that provides online education for ROS (Robot Operating System) developers. The conference brings together experts and enthusiasts in the field of robotics and ROS to share their knowledge and experiences with the community. ROS Developers Day features a series of hands-on presentations covering various aspects of ROS development, such as navigation, manipulation, perception, and control. The conference is designed for both beginners and advanced ROS developers, providing them with an opportunity to program robots with ROS experts in real-time. This year's ROSDevDay will be held on July 7th, 2022. From 7 am to 7 pm CEST. How to prepare & submit your proposal? Check out the instructions here: https://www.theconstructsim.com/ros- developers-day-2023-call-for-speakers/ <https://www.theconstructsim.com/ros-developers-day-2023-call-for-speakers/?…> <https://discourse.ros.org/t/call-for-speakers-ros-developers-day-2023/30516…>Presentation Requirements: - ROS-related topics are eligible, including ROS 1 & 2 and ROS basic, intermediate and advanced levels. - You can apply as long as the subject matter is interesting for the ROS community. - The presentation must be around a project that all the attendants can execute within a rosject Deadlines <https://discourse.ros.org/t/call-for-speakers-ros-developers-day-2023/30516…> - Proposal submission deadline: May 5, 2023 - Evaluation period: May 5 – May 15, 2023 - Rosject preparation period: May 15 – June 15, 2023 - Final rosject submission: June 15, 2023 – <https://discourse.ros.org/t/call-for-speakers-ros-developers-day-2023/30516…> For any questions please contact us at info(a)rosdevday.com. Yuhong Lin VP of Marketing The Construct [image: emailAddress] ylin(a)theconstructsim.com [image: website] www.theconstructsim.com <https://www.theconstructsim.com/ros-developers-day-2023/?utm_source=email_s…>

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[meetings][CFP] EXTENDED Deadline for paper submission at the 26th RoboCup International Symposium
by Alessandra Rossi 17 Apr '23

17 Apr '23

Dear colleagues, *Apologies for any cross-posting* Please notice that the paper submission deadline has been extended to *01 May 2023*. The *26th RoboCup International **Symposium* will be held on 10 July 2023, in conjunction with RoboCup 2023 (July 4 to 10, 2023) in Bordeaux, France. *Conference website* https://2023.robocup.org/en/symposium/ *Submission link* https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcsymposium2023 *Submission deadline* May 1, 2023 Please find attached the full call for proposals and papers for *the International **Symposium 2023*. Kindest regards, Alessandra Rossi, Cédric Buche, Marco Simões, Ubbo Visser [image: image.png] The 26th RoboCup International Symposium will be held on *10 July 2023*, in conjunction with RoboCup 2023 (July 4 to 10, 2023) in Bordeaux, France. We are looking for submissions of papers reporting innovative and original research with relevance to areas of robotics and artificial intelligence. A full list of topics welcomed to this year's symposium can be found below. Within the described scope of topics, we also encourage submissions of high-quality overview articles, papers describing real-world research, and papers reporting theoretical results. Researchers are invited to submit their work independently of whether they participate in the RoboCup competitions or have a RoboCup team. The symposium is planned to be held in person in Bordeaux, France. However, a hybrid version will be evaluated in case circumstances should require it. In addition to the *regular track* with regular research papers, the *development track* encourages reports on innovative hardware developments, software frameworks, and open-source releases of software components. A review of papers describing these contributions will be based on technical aspects and benefits to the practice of communities specifically working in RoboCup. *Submission deadline:* May 1st, 2023 List of Topics - Robot Hardware and Software - mobile robotics - humanoid robotics - sensors and actuators - embedded and mobile devices - robot construction and new materials - robot system integration - robot software architectures - robot programming environments and languages - real-time and concurrent programming - robot simulators - sim2real learning - Perception and Action - 3D perception - distributed sensor integration - sensor noise filtering - real-time image processing and pattern recognition - motion and sensor models - sensory-motor control - robot kinematics and dynamics - high-dimensional motion control - Robot Cognition and Learning - world modelling and knowledge representation - learning from demonstration and imitation - localisation, navigation, and mapping - planning and reasoning - decision making under uncertainty - neural systems and deep learning - complex motor skill acquisition - reinforcement learning and optimisation - motion and sensor model learning - Human-Robot Interaction - robot social intelligence - fluency of interaction - speech synthesis and natural language generation - natural language recognition - explainable robot behaviours - emotion recognition and reaction - understanding human intent and behaviour - safety, security and dependability - enabling humans to predict robot behaviour - Multi-Robot Systems - team coordination methods - communication protocols - learning and adaptive systems - teamwork and heterogeneous agents - dynamic resource allocation - adjustable autonomy - Education and Edutainment - robotics and artificial intelligence education - educational robotics - robot kits and programming tools - robotic entertainment - Applications and Benchmarking - search and rescue robots - robot surveillance service and social robots - robots at home, at work and in public spaces - robots in the real world - performance metrics - human-robot interaction Submission Guidelines All papers will be peer-reviewed and evaluated by members of the senior program committee. The proceedings of the RoboCup International Symposium will be published and archived within the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI) series by Springer-Verlag after the conference. Papers should be formatted following the LNAI author guidelines ( *https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines* <https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>) and must be electronically submitted through the EasyChair electronic submission system ( *https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=rcsymposium2023* <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcsymposium2023>). Submissions are limited to 12 pages including references. Springer’s proceedings LaTeX templates are also available in Overleaf: *https://de.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer-science/kzwwpvhwnvfj* <https://de.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer-…> Invited Speakers - Laurence Devillers, Sorbonne University, France *(confirmed)* - Cynthia Breazeal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA *(confirmed)* Committees Organizing committee - Cédric Buche, CNRS/ENIB, France - cedric.buche(a)enib.fr - Alessandra Rossi, University of Naples Federico II, Italy - a.rossi(a)herts.ac.uk - Marco Simões, Universidade do Estado da Bahia, Brazil - msimoes(a)uneb.br - Ubbo Visser, University of Miami, USA - visser(a)cs.miami.edu Venue The conference will be held in the Bordeaux Exhibition Center (Parc des Expositions de Bordeaux), Bordeaux, France. Contact Please feel free to ask for further information by emailing Alessandra Rossi - a.rossi(a)herts.ac.uk

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Final Call for Participation - RoboCup ARM Challenge - Remote
by Jose Avendano Arbelaez 12 Apr '23

12 Apr '23

Final Call for Participation: RoboCup Autonomous Robot Manipulation (ARM) Challenge The RoboCup ARM Challenge will be hosted again for the 2023 RoboCup season and registrations are still open. This year the finalists will have a chance to attend the RoboCup finals in Bordeaux, France to program a real Franka Emika robot as they compete for several prizes and learning certificates. Submissions are due May 22nd 2023. The challenge is centered around autonomous robot manipulation and grasping and organized in two phases: 1) On-line for submitting solutions that will be tested in a dynamic simulated scenario 2) During RoboCup 2023 in Bordeaux for the best teams to run the task in a real scenario. You can find more information on the challenge website below along with the registration form. https://arm.robocup.org/ Best, Jose Avendaño Senior Robotics Technical Evangelist The MathWorks

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