From icarsc ipleiria.pt Tue Feb 6 18:46:13 2018 From: icarsc ipleiria.pt (18th IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions) Date: Tue Feb 6 22:45:31 2018 Subject: [socios-spr] [meetings] (SECOND KEYNOTE SPEAKER CONFIRMED) IEEE ICARSC 2018 Portugal - submission deadline until February 12, 2018 Message-ID: <1517942775612.28996@ipleiria.pt> (We request you to forward this email to other researchers in your institution. Apologies for multiple copies due to cross-posting.) ========================================= *** SECOND KEYNOTE SPEAKER CONFIRMED *** ========================================= IEEE ICARSC 2018 18th IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions http://robotica2018.festivalrobotica.pt/icarsc http://www.ieee-ras.org/conferences-workshops/technically-co-sponsored/icarsc April 25-27, 2018 Town Hall, Torres Vedras, Portugal Sponsored by: - IEEE Robotics and Automation Society - IEEE Technically Co-sponsored - IEEE Portugal Section - Portuguese Robotics Society = Keynote speaker: Anibal Ollero = Institution: University of Seville (Seville, Spain) Subject: Aerial Robotic Manipulation and its Application to Inspection and Maintenance = Keynote speaker: Jorge Dias = Institution: Khalifa University (Abu Dhabi, UAE) Subject: (to be announced) An event integrated in the 18th international Portugal Robotics Open http://robotica2018.festivalrobotica.pt == Important! == Submission deadline: February 12, 2018. The 18th IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems And Competitions (ICARSC 2018) gathers participants from academia and industry working in the field of autonomous robotics and related areas. It is organized within the 18th international Portugal Robotics Open, a RoboCup-sponsored local event. The conference will be held on April 25-27, 2018, at the Town Hall of Torres Vedras, Portugal, just a walking distance from EXPOTORRES, where the Robotics Open will take place. Conference content will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. Selected extended papers will be published in a special issue of a prestigious journal, indexed by Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge (Requested, pending approval). There will be a special track for papers describing work related with fire prevention and combat, particularly using autonomous and semi-autonomous systems. == Venue == Torres Vedras is located about 50 kilometers from Lisbon, being the territory of Torres Vedras populated by man since ancient times. Here passed communities of collector hunters, farmers, blacksmiths and later Greeks and Romans, as Rufus, one of many immortalized names spelled in stone. The village and the county grew, becoming a tourist destination, especially from the early twentieth century. Since then, many elect Torres Vedras as a destination, either in search of the spa or the beach of Santa Cruz, renewing encounters permanently. The same village amounted to town in 1979, witnessing a massive urban growth. In the municipality of Torres Vedras the agriculture (vineyards and horticulture), the food processing and metallurgical industry and the retail trade play a key role. A promotional video of Torres Vedras could be viewed through the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec_XjJaNJVI. Torres Vedras can be easily reached by bus or car from the International Airport of Lisbon. >From Lisbon by bus: You should take a bus that leave you close to the place where the event takes place. Further information can be found through the following link: http://www.rede-expressos.pt/default.aspx. >From Lisbon by car: You should take the motorway A8 in the direction towards Leiria getting out at exit 7 - Torres Vedras South. == Important Dates == Submission deadline: Feb. 12, 2018 Notification of acceptance: Mar. 5, 2018 Camera-ready papers: Mar. 15, 2018 Early registration deadline: Mar. 15, 2018 Conference: Apr. 25-27, 2018 All deadlines are on 23:59 GMT. == Topics == The conference is an open forum to most robotics topics, as listed below, although contributions addressing novel benchmarking methods, able to properly compare and evaluate the performance of different solutions to a given robotics problem, and works dealing with robotics competitions and challenges are particularly welcome. 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; Field Robotics; Humanoid Robotics; Human-Robot Interaction; Localization, Mapping, and Navigation; Locomotion and Actuation Systems; Multi-Robot Coordination; Multi-Robot Systems; Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking; Planning, Reasoning and Modeling; Recognition and Tracking; Robot-based Fire Combat and Prevention; Robot Learning; Robotic Competitions; Robotic Simulation; Sensors and Sensor Integration; Swarm Robotics; Underwater Robotics. == Submission Guidelines == The working language is English, only. Authors are invited to submit original research contributions electronically, in PDF format, via EasyChair: (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icarsc2018) Six pages in the standard IEEE format are allowed for each paper, including figures, with up to two extra pages with an extra payment per extra page. Papers must be written in English following the standard IEEE guidelines: ( http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html) Reviewing for ICARSC 2018 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. Three program committee members will be assigned to review each paper. Acceptance will be based on the paper's significance, technical quality, clarity, relevance and originality. All accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings and, being the conference an IEEE sponsored event for a long time, the proceedings have been indexed in IEEExplore and in Scopus. Selected extended papers will be published in a special issue of a prestigious journal, indexed by Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge (Requested, pending approval). 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. Failure to meet this requirement will imply removing the paper from the proceedings. We welcome you at ICARSC 2018 to share your latest research results. See you in Torres Vedras! Hugo Costelha, IPLeiria, Portugal João Calado, IPLisboa, Portugal Paulo Oliveira, IST, Portugal (General Chairs of the IEEE Int. Conf. on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions) -------------- próxima parte ---------- Um anexo em HTML foi limpo... URL: http://lists.sprobotica.pt/pipermail/socios-spr/attachments/20180206/3cb3fe56/attachment.html From pedro.lima tecnico.ulisboa.pt Mon Feb 12 09:13:32 2018 From: pedro.lima tecnico.ulisboa.pt (Pedro U Lima) Date: Mon Feb 12 09:13:38 2018 Subject: [socios-spr] Call for Participation: FREEBOTS Scientific Competition during Portuguese Robotics Open Message-ID: Call for Participation: FREEBOTS Scientific Competition during Portuguese Robotics Open ******************************************************************************************************************************************** XVIII Portuguese Robotics Open, April 25-29, 2018, Torres Vedras, Portugal collocated with the IEEE 2018 International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC 2018) ******************************************************************************************************************************************** Robot scientific competitions are a growing trend worldwide and particularly at the European level in the past few years, leading to the set up of the European Robotics League. However, most of them tend to constrain participation to a specific application domain. The FREEBOTS competition aims at challenging the international community of R&D to present their latest research results in the form of an *open* technical presentation and public demonstrations. Participation must involve real, terrestrial, airborne or aquatic robots - mobile or not, multiple or single. Teams are assessed by a panel of experts in the field of robotics with regards to technical and scientific achievement, potential application of demonstrated robots, quality and success of the presentation and its impact on the general public. FREEBOTS takes place on a regular basis since 2011 as a League of the Portuguese Robotics Open. The current official rules of this League, as well as the track record of previous events, can be found in the competition web page: http://www.isr.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/freebots The next competition will take place in the XVI|| Portuguese Robotics Open, 25-29 April, 2018, Torres Vedras, Portugal. URL: http://robotica2018.festivalrobotica.pt/en You can register your team in the FREEBOTS league until 24 March 2018, following the steps in http://robotica2018.festivalrobotica.pt/en/registo-equipas Chairs: ? Pedro U. Lima ? IST, U. Lisboa ? Luís Conde Bento - IPLeiria ? Nuno Vieira Lopes ? IPLeiria From escalera ing.uc3m.es Mon Feb 12 14:11:06 2018 From: escalera ing.uc3m.es (Arturo de la Escalera) Date: Mon Feb 12 14:11:14 2018 Subject: [socios-spr] Deadline extension Special Issue on Autonomous Driving and Driver Assistance Systems Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Apologies for multiple copies due to cross-posting. Please forward to colleagues who might be interested. Due to several requests, we have extended the submission deadline of the Special Issue on Autonomous Driving and Driver Assistance Systems: Submission deadline: March 8, 2018 --- CFP - Special Issue on Autonomous Driving and Driver Assistance Systems --- Call for Papers of Special Issue on Autonomous Driving and Driver Assistance Systems. Robotics and Autonomous Systems https://www.journals.elsevier.com/robotics-and-autonomous-systems/call-for-papers/call-for-papers-of-special-issue-on-autonomous-driving-and-d Objectives and Topics With the recent interest of all major players in the automotive industry, the time when intelligent vehicles begin to drive autonomously seems to be right around the corner. This implies a boost in the development on novel algorithms, techniques and methodologies with direct application not only to Autonomous Driving but also to advanced Driver Assistance Systems. This special issue will cover all these advances. The expected topics include, but are not limited to the following: Vision, lidar and radar perception; Sensor calibration-Multimodal sensor fusion; Perception in challenging conditions; Scene understanding; Software architectures for autonomous vehicles; Special sensors for autonomous navigation; Driver-vehicle interaction and assisted driving; Navigation, motion planning and maneuvering; Vehicle dynamics and control; Outdoors SLAM and Visual Odometry; Heads up Display for Vehicle to Driver Communication; Augmented Reality in DAS-V2V and V2I communications. Timeline: Submission deadline: March 8, 2018 Final decision notification: September 15, 2018 Submission Authors are invited to submit their work to this Special Issue following the guidelines found in https://www.elsevier.com/journals/robotics-and-autonomous-systems/0921-8890/guide-for-authors. To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into the special issue, it is important that authors select ?VSI:Autonomous Driving & DAS? when they reach the ?Article Type Name? step in the submission process. Special Issue Editors Vitor Santos, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Angel Sappa, ESPOL Polytechnic University, Ecuador and Computer Vision Center, Barcelona, Spain Miguel Oliveira, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Arturo de la Escalera, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain -- ___________________________________________ Dr. Arturo de la Escalera Hueso Intelligent Systems Lab Dpto. de Ingeniería de Sistemas y Automática Universidad Carlos III de Madrid C/ Butarque 15, 28911 Leganes (Madrid), SPAIN Phone:+34 916249480 E-mail: escalera@ing.uc3m.es Fax: +34 916249430 www: www.uc3m.es/islab From carlos.cardeira tecnico.ulisboa.pt Tue Feb 13 19:54:54 2018 From: carlos.cardeira tecnico.ulisboa.pt (Carlos Cardeira) Date: Tue Feb 13 19:54:58 2018 Subject: [socios-spr] =?utf-8?q?esquiadores_rob=C3=B3ticos_?= Message-ID: <20180213195502.706E4402FA85@smtp1.tecnico.ulisboa.pt> Para informação 😊 https://youtu.be/HQxbLkOsv5Q https://youtu.be/-mZR-92zRCI 😊 Cumps, CC Sent from Mail for Windows 10 -------------- próxima parte ---------- Um anexo em HTML foi limpo... URL: http://lists.sprobotica.pt/pipermail/socios-spr/attachments/20180213/2a43d702/attachment.htm From lda fe.up.pt Mon Feb 12 17:22:41 2018 From: lda fe.up.pt (Luis Almeida) Date: Wed Feb 14 10:21:16 2018 Subject: [socios-spr] Autonomous driving in CPS Week 2018 - Porto, 10-13 Abril Message-ID: Maybe this would interest the members of our autonomous driving community... The deadline is past but they are still accepting local registrations. Best regards Luis ------------------------------------- First time F1/10 competition takes place in Europe! F1/10 is an international competition which exposes you to the foundations of perception, planning and control in a fun, and challenging environment. Participating teams race vehicles with similar hardware specification and try to outsmart, and outpace each other in a battle of algorithms. Many former F1/10 race engineers are now employed in Tesla’s AutoPilot group, Nvidia’s DrivePX AV group, Ford’s AV group, among others. This year we will have more cars, higher speeds, and some wheel-to-wheel autonomous racing action. Plus hardware prizes sponsored by Nvidia for top teams. We invite teams to fill out the race participation form (https://goo.gl/forms/EH0XOil9lQaZiZrC3), indicating their commitment to race at CPS Week. The deadline to submit the participation form below is Friday, Feb 9, 2018 There will be a $200 registration fee, per participant to register for the competition in April. (You do not have to pay the fee when you fill the participation form below, but later, when you register to attend the CPS week competition.) Get started: All instructions to build, drive, and race a 1/10 scale car are available at http://f1tenth.org Timeline: Feb 26, 2018 - Webinar session for teams Mar 23, 2018 - Qualification videos due. Mar 29, 2018 - Detailed schedule released April 10 - Practice session April 11 - Race day Have Questions ! Visit the F1/10 forum, and race website (http://f1tenth.org/) Organizers Marko Bertogna, University of Modena, Italy Madhur Behl, University of Virginia, USA Rahul Mangharam, University of Pennsylvania, USA -------------- próxima parte ---------- Um anexo que não estava em formato texto não está incluído... Nome : F1tenth-CFP.pdf Tipo : application/pdf Tam : 87544 bytes Descr: não disponível Url : http://lists.sprobotica.pt/pipermail/socios-spr/attachments/20180212/ddf7e02d/F1tenth-CFP-0001.pdf From pedro.lima tecnico.ulisboa.pt Tue Feb 20 14:21:19 2018 From: pedro.lima tecnico.ulisboa.pt (Pedro U Lima) Date: Tue Feb 20 15:26:46 2018 Subject: [socios-spr] Message for Portuguese researchers from IROS 2018 General-Chair Message-ID: <04E4D754-4B91-41F8-B923-1D84CE7B4A40@tecnico.ulisboa.pt> Dear Portuguese colleague, As you probably know, the International Congress on Robots and Intelligent Systems (IROS'2018 - www.iros2018.org) will be held in Madrid during October 1-5th, 2018. IROS is one of the biggest events in the world in robotics. It will gather for a week in the Madrid Municipal Conference Centre to more than 3.000 participants of near 50 countries of the world. It can be said, without any doubt, that it will be one of the most important technological forums held in southern Europe in the coming years. This is why, we encourage Portuguese researchers in robotics and related technologies to submit their contributions in the field. Please remember that the deadline for the regular papers and videos is March 1st, 2018 and for workshops & tutorials is March 11th, 2018. We also invite Portuguese research teams and R & D centres in robotics to participate actively in the event by presenting your recent results at the IROS2018 robotics fair, which is expected to bring together about 150 exhibitors. To facilitate this participation, we offer you special conditions that are detailed in the attached letter. We also offer special offers for the robotics spin-offs and start-ups. We hope to see you in Madrid in the IROS, Yours sincerely, Carlos Balaguer General-Chair IROS´2018 -------------- próxima parte ---------- Um anexo que não estava em formato texto não está incluído... Nome : IROS2018_R&D v3.0.pdf Tipo : application/pdf Tam : 206801 bytes Descr: não disponível Url : http://lists.sprobotica.pt/pipermail/socios-spr/attachments/20180220/3c8f3eae/IROS2018_RDv3.0-0001.pdf -------------- próxima parte ---------- Um anexo que não estava em formato texto não está incluído... 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The event will include technical sessions of oral presentation of full papers and technical lectures of recognized importance in the area. The LARS and SBR are the major scientific/academic meetings of a broader event that has other relevant events in robotics, named ROBOTICA 2018. This event also comprises the LARC/CBR (Latin American Robotics Competition / Brazilian Robotics Competition), OBR (Brazilian Robotics Olympiad), MNR (National Robotics Fair), WRE (Workshop of Robotics in Education) and EXPOTEC (Technological Expo from Paraíba). The LARS/SBR will take place in João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil from November 6th to 10th, 2018. We are looking forward to seeing you in LARS/SBR 2018. ROBOTICA 2018: http://www.robotica.org.br/ *** IMPORTANT DATES *** Paper registration/submission site open: March 5th, 2018 Paper Submission DEADLINE: May 31th, 2017 Notification of Acceptance: July 18th, 2017 Camera Ready Submission: August 12th, 2017 *** PAPER SUBMISSION INFO *** Papers must be written in English and must not exceed 6 pages in standard IEEE format including title, abstract, all tables, figures, and references. Papers should present substantial new results in theoretical, empirical and applied research related to the topics of the conference. This year the reviewing process will be DOUBLE BLINDED, so authors must hide their names, contact information, acknowledgments and any other reference to where their research takes place. All papers must be registered and uploaded by using JEMS https://jems.sbc.org.br/ https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=3018 Templates http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/files/ieeeconf_A4.dot http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/tex.php (set to A4) PROCEEDINGS The proceedings will be published by IEEE, and it will be available through the IEEE Xplore site. PUBLICATION IN JOURNALS A selected number of outstanding papers will be invited to submit extended versions of the papers to important qualified journals, including JINT (Journal of Intelligent & Robotics Systems). *** TOPICS OF INTEREST *** 1. Vision in robotics and automation; 2. Symbol mediated robot behavior control; 3. Sensory mediated robot behavior control; 4. Active sensory processing and control; 5. Industrial applications of autonomous systems; 6. Sensor modeling and data interpretation e.g. models and software for sensor data integration, 3D scene analysis, environment description and modeling, pattern recognition; 7. Robust techniques in AI and sensing e.g. uncertainty modeling, graceful degradation of systems; 8. Robot programming e.g. on-line and off-line programming, discrete event dynamical systems, fuzzy logic; 9. Multi-Robot and Multi-Agents, Cooperation and Collaboration; 10. CAD-based robotics e.g. CAD-based vision, reverse engineering; 11. Robot simulation and visualization tools; 12. Tele-operated and autonomous systems; 13. Microelectromechanical robots; 14. Robot modeling; 15. Robot control architectures; 16. Sensor-Motor control of Robots; 17. Robot planning, reasoning, communication, adaptation, and learning; 18. Mechanical design; 19. Robotic Manipulators; 20. Robot soccer; 21. Evolutionary robotics; 22. Bio-Inspired robotics; 23. Robots for robotic surgery and rehabilitation; 24. Micro/nano-robotics, new Devices, and materials for robots; 25. Human-Robot Interaction and Interfaces; 26. Education issues in Robotics; 27. Computing architectures; 28. Sensor Networks, architectures of embedded Hardware and software; 29. Self-Localization, Mapping and Navigation; 30. Multi-robot systems; 31. Aerial vehicles; 32. Autonomous vehicles; 33. Mobile robot platforms; 34. Service robots and entertainment robots; 35. Underwater robots; 36. Humanoids. *** ORGANIZATION *** Program Chair: Prof. Dr. Alisson Vasconcelos de Brito – UFPB Program Chair Profa. Dra. Esther Colombini - IC/UNICAMP *** PROMOTION *** SBC – Brazilian Computer Society [*] CER - Robotics Council of SBC/Special Interest Group on Robotics (CER) IEEE RAS - Latin American Robotics Council of IEEE IEEE CSS - Latin American Control Systems Council of IEEE [*] *** ROBOTICA 2018 *** Robotica 2018 Co-events: LARS/SBR: Latin-American Robotics Symposium / Brazilian Robotics Symposium. LARC/CBR: Latin American Robotics Competition / Brazilian Robotics Competition OBR: Brazilian Robotics Olympiad (www.obr.org.br) MNR: National Robotics Fair (www.mnr.org.br) WRE: Workshop of Robotics in Education WTDR / CTDR: Workshop on MSc Dissertation and PhD Thesis in Robotics and Best MSc Dissertation and PhD Thesis Contest in Robotics EXPOTEC: Tecnology Expo from Paraíba. [*] Pending approval ------ Prof. PhD. Eng. Tiago P. do Nascimento Head of the Embedded Systems and Robotics Lab Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB) - Brazil E-mail: tiagopn@ci.ufpb.br Phone: (+55 83) 99911 5577 <(83)%2099911-5577> Skype: tiago.pn Curriculum: http://lattes.cnpq.br/1641673656667170 Personal Website: http://tiago.ci.ufpb.br LaSER Website: http://laser.ci.ufpb.br -------------- próxima parte ---------- Um anexo em HTML foi limpo... URL: http://lists.sprobotica.pt/pipermail/socios-spr/attachments/20180227/6d567b0f/attachment.html