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<span style="margin: 0px">Extended submission deadline: February 17, 2020<br>
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Dear Colleague,<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">IEEE ICARSC 2020 will take place next April 15-17 at Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal.</div>
<div style="margin: 0px">Below you will find a summary of the Call for Papers of IEEE ICARSC 2020.<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">The detais are in the web https://icarsc2020.uac.pt/<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">ICARCS 2020 will have proceedings published by IEEE and indexed at Scopus and IEEEXplore and excellent plenary speakers.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">Best papers will be invited to submit extended versions in a Special Issue of the Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems (5-Year Impact Factor: 2.41) and others at Industrial Robot (5-Year Impact Factor: 1.27), both indexed by Clarivate
Analytics Web of Science Core Collection.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">We aim to gather researchers from academia and industry to present and discuss the latest trends in research and technology in the fields of robotics and related areas.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">The deadline for Paper submission is next February 17. Please submit your papers before this deadline.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">We are looking to meet you in Azores next April 15-17, 2020.<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">Best regards.<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">On behalf of the General/Program Chairs.<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">PS: We would be grateful if you would disseminate IEEE ICARSC 2020 CfP among your research group and colleagues.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">IEEE ICARSC 2020<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">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.</div>
<div style="margin: 0px">ICARSC is an IEEE conference and its proceedings will be indexed in IEEExplore and Scopus.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">Extended versions of selected best papers will be invited for publication in a Special Issue of the Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems (5-Year Impact Factor: 2.41) and others at Industrial Robot (5-Year Impact Factor: 1.27),
both indexed by Clarivate Analytics Web of Science Core Collection.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">== Confirmed Invited Speakers ==<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">António Pascoal (<span style="margin: 0px">University of Lisbon, ISR, Portugal</span>): Exploring the Blue Frontier with Cooperative Marine Robots: Theory and Practice<br>
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<span style="margin: 0px">Jan Peters (<span style="margin: 0px">Technische Universitaet Darmstadt and </span><span style="margin: 0px">Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany</span>): Towards Robot Skill Learning</span><br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">== Important Dates ==<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">Submission Feb 17, 2020<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">Notification Mar 16, 2020<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">Camera Ready Mar 23, 2020<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">Early<span style="margin: 0px"> </span></span>Registration Mar 23, 2020<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">Conference Apr 15-17, 2020<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">== Paper Submission ==<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">Authors are invited to submit original research contributions in English. Six pages in the standard IEEE format:</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">are allowed for each paper, including tables and figures. Full papers should be submitted electronically, in PDF format, using the easychair.org platform:</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">== Conference Topics ==<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">- Agricultural Robotics<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">- Applications of Autonomous Intelligent Robots<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">- Artificial Intelligence<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">- Autonomous Robotic Systems<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">- Computer Vision and Image Processing<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">- Control Architectures and Programming<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">- Cooperative Perception<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">- Cooperative Planning and Task Allocation<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">- Dexterous Manipulation and Grasping<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">- Educational Robotics<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">- Entertainment Robots<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">- Evolutionary Robotics<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">- Humanoid Robotics<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">- Human-Robot Interaction<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">- Localization, Mapping, and Navigation<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">- Locomotion and Actuation Systems<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">- Multi-Robot Systems<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">- Planning, Reasoning and Modelling<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">- Recognition and Tracking<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">- Robot Learning<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">- Robotic Competitions<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">- Robotic Simulation<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">- Sensors and Sensor Integration<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">- Swarm Robotics<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">- Underwater Robotics<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">See you in Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal!<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">Nuno Lau, Universidade of Aveiro, IEETA, Portugal<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">Manuel Silva, ISEP - Polytechnic Institute of Porto, INESC-TEC, Portugal<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">Luis Paulo Reis, University of Porto, LIACC, Portugal<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">Jose Cascalho, University of Azores, FCT-NIDeS - BioISI, Portugal<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">(Co-chairs of ICARSC 2020)<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">Please check further details at the (http://icarsc2020.uac.pt/).<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">Should you have any question please email<br>
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