[socios-spr] [meetings] ROBOT2023 deadline approaching (June 30): 6th Iberian Robotics Conference (ROBOT)

[Lino Marques]

Dear colleague,

We would like to inform you that the deadline for paper submissions to 
ROBOT 2023 is approaching:

*June 30, 2023*

Please find below the CfP or visit http://robot2023.isr.uc.pt/ or 
https://easychair.org/cfp/ROBOT2023
We are looking forward to your contribution.

Best wishes,
Lino Marques, Cristina Santos, José Lima, Danilo Tardioli, and Manuel Ferre


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Call for Papers

ROBOT2023 – Sixth Iberian Robotics Conference

http://robot2023.isr.uc.pt/

November 22 - 24, 2023

Coimbra - Portugal

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The Sixth Iberian Robotics Conference will take place at the University 
of Coimbra on November 2023 and follows the previous editions of the 
Iberian Robotics Conference held in Zaragoza 2022, Madrid in 2013, 
Lisbon 2015, Seville 2017 and Porto 2019. These previous and successful 
events, both from the viewpoint of their scientific and technical 
quality, and for the important number of attending delegates, have 
motivated us in organizing ROBOT2023.
ROBOT2023 main goal is to continue the precedent efforts in showing the 
robotic research and development of new applications in the Iberian 
Peninsula. Although focused on the works developed at Iberia the 
conference is open for submissions from any country in the world.
The conference proceedings will be published by Springer Lecture Notes 
in Networks and Systems series, indexed in Web of Science, dblp and SCOPUS.
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended and 
improved contribution to the Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems 
(JINT) (https://www.springer.com/journal/10846). The best 
industry-related papers will be invited to submit an extended version to 
the Emerald Industrial Robot journal 
(https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/0143-991x).
The conference will also award a prize for the Best Paper and the Best 
Student Paper, the Best Iberian PhD in Robotics and Best Spanish Master 
Thesis (see details here). The winners of the best paper and the best 
student paper will be awarded by Springer with a year of free access to 
JINT and a book for the value of 150 euros from springer.com.
ROBOT2023 is Organized by: SEIDROB – Sociedad Española para la 
Investigación y Desarrollo en Robótica and SPR – Sociedade Portuguesa de 
Robótica and will feature a set of special sessions in distinct fields 
related to robotics.

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CONFERENCE SCOPE
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We invite original contributions in all areas relevant to robotics, 
covering mobile, walking, flying, marine, underwater, and industrial 
robots. The conference will cover analysis (modelling and simulation) 
techniques, design approaches, and practical applications and 
realisations of developed robotic systems. Support technologies for 
realisation of such systems, namely sensors and actuators, computer 
vision and image processing, tactile & haptics devices, control 
algorithms and architectures, localization, mapping and navigation, 
associated economic, ethical, legal and social considerations are 
integral part of the conference theme. Human-robot interaction, 
including medical robots, exoskeletons, prostheses and orthoses, as well 
as personal and service robots forms an increasingly active and 
important pertinent area. A non-exhaustive list of topics and activities 
can be found on the website.

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KEY DATES
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Apr 30,    2023    Submission of Special Session proposals
May  3,    2023    Notification of Special Session acceptance
Jun 30,    2023    Submission of full draft papers
Aug 31,    2023    Notification of paper acceptance
Sep 30,    2023    Submission of final (camera ready) papers
Sep 30,    2023    Early bird registration (reduced fee)
Nov 22-24, 2023    Conference

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WORKSHOP AND SPECIAL SESSION PROPOSALS
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Researchers interested in organizing workshops and special sessions are 
invited to follow the instructions on the website. Each proposal should 
be limited to one A4 page in length and must include title, a brief 
description of the motivation and relevance of the session, name and 
affiliation of the organizer(s) and (if already available) the contacted 
authors and titles for tentative papers for the session.

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SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
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The technical program of the conference will feature Regular Papers and 
Special Session Papers. Authors are invited to submit their full draft 
papers in PDF format from the paper submission page of the conference 
web site by the indicated deadline for consideration for inclusion in 
the relevant category (special/regular paper). Articles submitted for 
inclusion in the conference will be peer reviewed before acceptance. 
Final accepted papers will be limited to 12 pages and must follow the 
Springer AISC template, given in the Call & Instructions web page.

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AWARDS
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Best regular and student Paper Awards will be also selected by their 
respective committees judging technical merit, originality, potential 
impact on the field, clarity of the written paper, and quality of the 
conference presentation. Also, SEIDROB-SPR Best Iberian PhD in Robotics 
will be awarded during the conference.

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Conference General Co-Chairs
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Lino Marques - University of Coimbra, Portugal
Cristina Santos – University of Minho, Portugal
José Lima - Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal
Danilo Tardioli - CUD Zaragoza / I3A University of Zaragoza, Spain
Manuel Ferre - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain