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2021</span></p>
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International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a href="https://www.festivalnacionalrobotica.pt/icarsc/" style="text-decoration:none;" id="LPlnk857168" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">https://www.festivalnacionalrobotica.pt/icarsc/</span></a></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">April
28-29, 2021</span></p>
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Maria da Feira, Portugal</span></p>
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Due to the COVID19 pandemic, the conference will take place only in virtual modality.</span></p>
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colleague,</span></p>
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are pleased to inform you that ICARSC 2021 - IEEE International Conference</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">on
Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions will be held at Santa Maria da</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Feira,
Portugal, on April 28-29, 2021.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">The
conference is co-located with ROBOTICA 2021 - The Portuguese Robotics Open,</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">a
RoboCup-sponsored local event, and is promoted by the University of Aveiro,</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">University
of Coimbra, Polytechnic Institute of Tomar and the Portuguese</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Robotics
Society.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">The
conference is planned to take place in a hybrid mode, allowing remote</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">participation
along with physical presence.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">UPDATE</span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">:
Due to the COVID19 pandemic, the conference will take place only in virtual modality.</span></p>
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Conference Scope ==</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">ICARSC
gathers participants from academia and industry working in the field of</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">autonomous
robotics and related areas. ICARSC is a well established IEEE conference</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">that
has been growing continuously for over a decade and is nowadays a truly</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">international
forum attracting worldwide quality research papers.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">ICARSC
has long been an IEEE co-sponsored event and its proceedings will be</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">indexed
in IEEExplore and Scopus. Moreover, similarly to previous editions,</span></p>
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versions of selected best papers will be invited for publication</span></p>
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relevant indexed journals.</span></p>
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Invited Speakers ==</span></p>
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Stone, Austin University, USA</span></p>
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Ángel Sotelo, University of Alacalá de Henares, Spain</span></p>
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Important Dates ==</span></p>
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Feb 15, 2021</span></p>
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Mar 22, 2021</span></p>
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Ready Mar 29, 2021</span></p>
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Apr 9, 2021</span></p>
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Apr 28-29, 2021</span></p>
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Conference Topics ==</span></p>
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conference aims to gather researchers from the industry and academia to</span></p>
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and discuss the latest trends in research and technology in the</span></p>
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of robotics and related areas.</span></p>
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from researchers, industry and outputs from collaboration</span></p>
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industrial and academic R&D units are welcome in, but not limited to,</span></p>
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following topics.</span></p>
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Agricultural Robotics</span></p>
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Applications of Autonomous Intelligent Robots</span></p>
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Artificial Intelligence</span></p>
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Autonomous Robotic Systems</span></p>
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Computer Vision and Image Processing</span></p>
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Control Architectures and Programming</span></p>
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Cooperative Perception</span></p>
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Cooperative Planning and Task Allocation</span></p>
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Dexterous Manipulation and Grasping</span></p>
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Educational Robotics</span></p>
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Entertainment Robots</span></p>
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Evolutionary Robotics</span></p>
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Humanoid Robotics</span></p>
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Human-Robot Interaction</span></p>
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Localization, Mapping, and Navigation</span></p>
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Locomotion and Actuation Systems</span></p>
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Multi-Robot Coordination</span></p>
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Multi-Robot Systems</span></p>
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Planning, Reasoning and Modelling</span></p>
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Recognition and Tracking</span></p>
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Robot Learning</span></p>
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Robotic Competitions</span></p>
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Robotic Simulation</span></p>
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Sensors and Sensor Integration</span></p>
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Swarm Robotics</span></p>
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Underwater Robotics</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">==
Paper Submission ==</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Authors
are invited to submit original research contributions in English.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Six
pages in the standard IEEE format: </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a href="https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html" style="text-decoration:none;" id="LPlnk695566" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html</span></a></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">are
allowed for each paper, including tables and figures. Full papers should</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">be
submitted electronically, in PDF format, using the easychair.org platform:</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icarsc2021" style="text-decoration:none;" id="LPlnk804140" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icarsc2021</span></a><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> </span></p>
<br>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Reviewing
for ICARSC 2021 will be </span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">*double
blind*</span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> so authors
must remove their</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">names
from the submitted papers and should take reasonable care not to indirectly</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">disclose
their identity. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Accepted
papers will be scheduled for presentation, which requires that at least</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">one
of the authors must register at the Conference and present the paper. Failure</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">to
meet this requirement will imply removing the paper from the online version</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">of
the proceedings. </span></p>
<br>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">A
selection of the presented papers will be invited to propose extended versions</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">for
a special issue of the Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems (</span><a href="https://www.springer.com/journal/10846" style="text-decoration:none;" title="Ctrl+Click or tap to follow the link" id="LPlnk929454" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">https://www.springer.com/journal/10846</span></a><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">).</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Besides
the conference best paper award, there will also be a best paper award</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">promoted
by the Industrial Robot Journal that can be further extended for</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">publication
in the journal.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">See
you in Santa Maria da Feira!</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">UPDATE</span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">:
Due to the COVID19 pandemic, the conference will take place only in virtual modality.</span></p>
<br>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Vitor
Santos, Universidade of Aveiro, IEETA, Portugal</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Nuno
Lau, Universidade of Aveiro, IEETA, Portugal</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Pedro
Neto, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal</span></p>
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Lopes, Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Portugal</span></p>
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of ICARSC 2021)</span></p>
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check further details at</span><a href="https://www.festivalnacionalrobotica.pt/icarsc/" style="text-decoration:none;" id="LPlnk511695" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">
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