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<div> Call for papers - ICARSC 2019</div>
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<div> 19th IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions</div>
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<div> https://web.fe.up.pt/~icarsc2019/</div>
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<div> April 24-26, 2019</div>
<div> Porto - Gondomar, Multiusos Hall, Portugal</div>
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<div>An event integrated in: ** Robotica 2019 **</div>
<div> the 19th RoboCup Portugal Open</div>
<div> https://web.fe.up.pt/~robotica2019</div>
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<div>== Important! ==</div>
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<div>Submission deadline: February, 8th, 2019.</div>
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<div>== General Information ==</div>
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<div>The IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions gathers participants from academia and industry working in the field of autonomous robotics and related areas. It is organized within the 19th Portuguese Robotics Open, a RoboCup-sponsored
local event. ICARSC 2019 will take place at Porto - Gondomar, April 24-26, 2019. </div>
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<div>The conference is organized by the University of Porto - Faculty of Engineering, INESC-TEC, LIACC, CISTER, P.Porto and by the Portuguese Society for Robotic. ICARSC has long been an IEEE co-sponsored event with its proceedings indexed in IEEExplore and
in Scopus. Moreover, similarly to previous editions, special sections in top, indexed journals will be set up to accommodate the publication of extended versions of selected papers. </div>
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<div>ICARSC is typically organized in a single track to favor discussion and interactions, accompanied by poster sessions and keynote speeches. Contributions from the academy, industry, and outputs from the collaboration between industrial and academic R&D
units are welcome.</div>
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<div>ICARSC 2019 will feature invited talks from Bruno Siciliano (PRISMA Lab, University of Naples Federico II, Italy) on "Robotic Dynamic Manipulation", Pedro U. Lima (Institute for Systems and Robotics, Instituto Superior Técnico, U. Lisbon, Portugal) on
"Robot Competitions Driving Robotics Research" and Gerhard Kraetzschmar (B-IT Bonn-Aachen International Center of Information Technology, Germany) on “Developing Professional Robotic Service Applications”.</div>
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<div>== Important Dates ==</div>
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<div> Submission deadline: Feb. 08, 2019</div>
<div> Notification of acceptance: Mar. 01, 2019</div>
<div> Camera-ready papers: Mar. 15, 2019</div>
<div> Early registration deadline: Mar. 15, 2019</div>
<div> Conference: Apr. 24-26, 2019</div>
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<div>== Topics ==</div>
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<div> Agricultural Robotics;</div>
<div> Applications of Autonomous Intelligent Robots;</div>
<div> Artificial Intelligence;</div>
<div> Autonomous Robotic Systems;</div>
<div> Computer Vision and Image Processing;</div>
<div> Control Architectures and Programming;</div>
<div> Cooperative Perception;</div>
<div> Cooperative Planning and Task Allocation;</div>
<div> Dexterous Manipulation and Grasping;</div>
<div> Educational Robotics;</div>
<div> Entertainment Robots;</div>
<div> Evolutionary Robotics;</div>
<div> Field Robotics;</div>
<div> Humanoid Robotics;</div>
<div> Human-Robot Interaction;</div>
<div> Localization, Mapping, and Navigation;</div>
<div> Locomotion and Actuation Systems;</div>
<div> Multi-Robot Coordination;</div>
<div> Multi-Robot Systems;</div>
<div> Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking;</div>
<div> Planning, Reasoning and Modeling;</div>
<div> Recognition and Tracking;</div>
<div> Robot Learning;</div>
<div> Robot-based Fire Combat and Prevention;</div>
<div> Robotic Competitions;</div>
<div> Robotic Simulation;</div>
<div> Sensors and Sensor Integration;</div>
<div> Swarm Robotics;</div>
<div> Underwater Robotics.</div>
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<div>== Submission Guidelines ==</div>
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<div>Submission Guidelines</div>
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<div>The working language is English, only. Authors are invited to submit original research contributions electronically, in PDF format, via EasyChair: </div>
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<div>(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icarsc2019)</div>
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<div>Submitted papers should be up to six pages in total, in the IEEE conference format, following the standard IEEE guidelines. </div>
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<div>(http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html)</div>
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<div>Reviewing for ICARSC 2019 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. </div>
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<div>Accepted papers will be scheduled for presentation, which requires that at least one of the authors must register at the Conference and present the paper. Failure to meet this requirement will imply removing the paper from the online version of the proceedings. </div>
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<div>== Conference/Program Chairs ==</div>
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<div>Luis Paulo Reis, University of Porto, LIACC, Portugal</div>
<div>Luis Almeida, University of Porto, CISTER, Portugal</div>
<div>António Paulo Moreira, Univ. of Porto, INESTEC, Portugal</div>
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<div>== Organizing Committee ==</div>
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<div>Luís Paulo Reis - University of Porto - FEUP/LIACC</div>
<div>Luís Almeida - University of Porto - FEUP/CISTER</div>
<div>António Paulo Moreira - University of Porto - FEUP/INESCTEC</div>
<div>Pedro Costa - University of Porto - FEUP/INESCTEC</div>
<div>Manuel Fernando Silva - Polytechnic of Porto/INESCTEC</div>
<div>José Luís Lima - Polytechnic of Bragança/INESCTEC</div>
<div>Brígida Mónica Faria - Polytechnic of Porto/LIACC</div>
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<div>== Program Committee ==</div>
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<div>A. Fernando Ribeiro - University of Minho</div>
<div>Adrian Burlacu - The Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi</div>
<div>Alexandra Baptista - Polytechnic Institute of Leiria</div>
<div>Alexandre Bernardino - Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Instituto Superior Técnico</div>
<div>Alexandre Simões - Universidade Estadual Paulista "Julio de Mesquita Filho" (UNESP)</div>
<div>Andre Conceicao - Federal University of Bahia</div>
<div>André Luís Marcato - Federal University of Juiz de Fora</div>
<div>Andreas Nuechter - University of Wurzburg</div>
<div>Angel Sappa - Computer Vision Center</div>
<div>Anis Koubâa - Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia</div>
<div>Antonio Bandera - University of Malaga</div>
<div>António Paulo Moreira - University of Porto - FEUP/INESCTEC</div>
<div>António Pedro Aguiar - University of Porto</div>
<div>Antonios Gasteratos - Democritus University of Thrace</div>
<div>Arnoud Visser - University of Amsterdam</div>
<div>Brígida Mónica Faria - Higher School of Health/Polytechnic of Porto (ESS/P.Porto)</div>
<div>Bruno Siciliano - University of Naples Federico II</div>
<div>Carlos Neves - ESTG/Instituto politécnico de Leiria</div>
<div>Cristina P. Santos - School of Engineering, University of Minho</div>
<div>Danilo Tardioli - Centro Universitario de la Defensa</div>
<div>Diego Faria - School of Engineering and Applied Science, Aston University, Birmingham, UK</div>
<div>Diogo Baptista - School of Technology and Management, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria</div>
<div>Eduardo Zalama - Univeridad de Valladolid</div>
<div>Enrico Natalizio - Universitè de Lorraine, LORIA</div>
<div>Estela Bicho - University of Minho</div>
<div>Fabio Bonsignorio - The BioRobotics Institute Heron Robots</div>
<div>Francisco Campos - Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa</div>
<div>Francisco Martín Rico - Universidad Rey Juan Carlos</div>
<div>Francisco S. Melo - Instituto Superior Tecnico/INESC-ID, Univ. Lisbon</div>
<div>Gabriel Oliver - Universitat de les Illes Balears</div>
<div>Gerald Steinbauer - Graz University of Technology</div>
<div>H. Levent Akin - Bogazici University</div>
<div>Hugo Costelha - Instituto Politécnico de Leiria</div>
<div>Huimin Lu - National University of Defense Technology</div>
<div>Ibrahim A. Hameed - Norwegian University of Science and Technology</div>
<div>Isabel Ribeiro - IST, University of Lisbon</div>
<div>Itsuki Noda - Tokyo Institute of Technology</div>
<div>Jan Faigl - Czech Technical University in Prague</div>
<div>Jana Tumova - KTH Royal Institute of Technology</div>
<div>Jesus Savage - Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, UNAM</div>
<div>Joachim Meyer - Tel Aviv University</div>
<div>João Calado - ISEL - Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa</div>
<div>Joao Fabro - UTFPR - Federal University of Technology-Parana</div>
<div>Jorge Dias - University of Coimbra</div>
<div>Jose Carlos Castillo Montoya - Universidad Carlos III de Madrid</div>
<div>Jose Lima - Polytechnic Institute of Braganca</div>
<div>Jun Ota - The University of Tokyo</div>
<div>Klaus Dorer - Hochschule Offenburg</div>
<div>L. C. Bento - Polytechnic Institute of Leiria</div>
<div>Liao Wu - Queensland University of Technology</div>
<div>Lucia Pallottino - University of Pisa</div>
<div>Luciano Oliveira - UFBA, Brazil</div>
<div>Luis Contreras - Tamagawa University</div>
<div>Luis Gomes - Universidade NOVA de Lisboa</div>
<div>Luis Gustavo Nardin - Brandenburg University of Technology</div>
<div>Luis Merino - Pablo de Olavide University</div>
<div>Luis Montano - University of Zaragoza</div>
<div>Luis Moreno - Universidad Carlos III de Madrid</div>
<div>Marcelo Becker - USP-EESC-SEM, Brazil</div>
<div>Marcelo Petry - Federal University of Santa Catarina, INESC P&D, Brazil</div>
<div>Marco Simões - Universidade do Estado da Bahia (UNEB)</div>
<div>Mario Mendes - Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa</div>
<div>Nicolas Garcia-Aracil - UNIVERSIDAD MIGUEL HERNANDEZ</div>
<div>Nuno Lau - University of Aveiro</div>
<div>Nuno Lopes - Polytechnic Institute of Leiria</div>
<div>Oscar Martinez Mozos - Technical University of Cartagena</div>
<div>Paolo Fiorini - UNIVR, Italy</div>
<div>Paulo Oliveira - IST/DEM, University of Lisbon</div>
<div>Pedro Santana - ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL)</div>
<div>Pedro U. Lima - Institute for Systems and Robotics, Instituto Superior Técnico, U. Lisboa</div>
<div>Prithviraj Dasgupta - University of Nebraska, Omaha</div>
<div>Ramón Barber - University Carlos III of Madrid</div>
<div>Raul Morais - UTAD/ECT</div>
<div>Rodrigo Ventura - Universidade de Lisboa</div>
<div>Rui P. Rocha - University of Coimbra</div>
<div>Stefan May - Technische Hochschule Nuernberg Georg Simon Ohm</div>
<div>Tiago Nascimento - Federal University of Paraíba - UFPB</div>
<div>Urbano Nunes - University of Coimbra</div>
<div>Vicente Matellan - University of Leon</div>
<div>Vitor Santos - University of Aveiro</div>
<div>Yael Edan - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev</div>
<div>Zoltan-Csaba Marton - German Aerospace Center (DLR)</div>
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<div>See you in Porto, Portugal!</div>
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