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Call for Papers ICARSC'2022 - IEEE(*) International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions https://festivalnacionalrobotica.pt/icarsc/ https://festivalnacionalrobotica.pt/icarsc/ / April 29-30, Santa Maria da Feira Portugal
(*) IEEE co-sponsorship pending approval
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Dear colleague
We are pleased to inform you that ICARSC2022 IEEE(*) International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions will be held in Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, on April 29-30, 2022. The conference is organized within ROBOTICA 2022 - 22nd Portuguese Robotics Open, a RoboCup-sponsored local event, and it is promoted by the Portuguese Robotics Society.
(*) IEEE co-sponsorship pending approval
== 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 has long been an IEEE co-sponsored event and its proceedings are indexed in IEEExplore and Scopus. Moreover, similarly to previous editions, extended versions of selected best papers will be invited for publication at relevant indexed journals.
== Invited Speakers ==
George Nikolakopoulos, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Jorge Dias, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE
== Important Dates ==
Submission Feb 21, 2022
Notification Mar 22, 2022
Camera Ready Mar 29, 2022
Registration Apr 14, 2022
Conference Apr 29-30, 2022
== 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, but not limited to, 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
- Space Robotics
- Underwater Robotics
== Paper Submission ==
Authors are invited to submit original research contributions in English. Six pages in the standard IEEE format ( http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.htm l http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html ) are allowed for each paper, including tables and figures. Full draft papers should be submitted electronically, in PDF format, using the URL: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icarsc2022 https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icarsc2022. 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 do not show up at the conference, the corresponding paper will not be submitted to IEEExplore.
== ICARSC2022 General/Program Chairs ==
Pedro Fonseca, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Rodrigo Ventura, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Luís Louro, University of Minho, Portugal
Pedro Neto, University of Coimbra, Portugal