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<div>Dear colleague,</div>
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<div>Due to several requests, the deadline to submit papers to IEEE ICARSC 2021 </div>
<div>(Int. Conf. on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions) has been extended </div>
<div>to ** February 22, 2021 **.</div>
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<div>The conference will take place only in virtual modality. </div>
<div>We have a fair registration fee for this modality (see summary of CfP below).</div>
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<div>You can submit your papers following the instructions at:</div>
<div>https://www.festivalnacionalrobotica.pt/icarsc/</div>
<div>where you can also find the other conference details.</div>
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<div>To submit your paper use:</div>
<div>https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icarsc2021 </div>
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<div>All accepted papers will be published in the at IEEE Xplore, and </div>
<div>indexed in Scopus and other databases.</div>
<div>Best papers will be invited to submit extended versions in to</div>
<div>the Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems (5-Year Impact Factor: 2.52)</div>
<div>and others at Industrial Robot (5-Year Impact Factor: 1.29), both indexed by</div>
<div>Clarivate Analytics Web of Science Core Collection and Scopus.</div>
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<div>We have a list of excellent plenary speakers including Peter Stone</div>
<div>(University of Texas at Austin, USA) and Miguel Angel Sotelo </div>
<div>(University of Alcalá, Spain).</div>
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<div>We are looking forward to receiving your submission(s) and </div>
<div>to meet you at ICARSC2021, next April 28-29.</div>
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<div>Best regards.</div>
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<div>Nuno Lau</div>
<div>On behalf of the General/Program Chairs.</div>
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<div>PS: We would be grateful if you would disseminate IEEE ICARSC 2021 CfP </div>
<div>with the new deadline (below) among your research group. </div>
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<div>Call for Papers</div>
<div>ICARSC 2021</div>
<div>IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions</div>
<div>https://www.festivalnacionalrobotica.pt/icarsc/</div>
<div>April 28-29, 2021</div>
<div>Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal (Virtual Conference)</div>
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<div>ICARSC gathers participants from academia and industry working in the field of</div>
<div>autonomous robotics and related areas. ICARSC is a well established IEEE conference</div>
<div>that has been growing continuously for over a decade and is nowadays a truly</div>
<div>international forum attracting worldwide quality research papers.</div>
<div>ICARSC is an IEEE conference and its proceedings will be indexed in </div>
<div>IEEExplore and Scopus.</div>
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<div>Extended versions of selected best papers will be invited for publication </div>
<div>in a Special Issue of the Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems </div>
<div>(5-Year Impact Factor: 2.52) and others at Industrial Robot (5-Year </div>
<div>Impact Factor: 1.29), both indexed by Clarivate Analytics </div>
<div>Web of Science Core Collection.</div>
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<div>== Invited Talks ==</div>
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<div>- "Efficient Robot Skill Learning: Grounded Simulation Learning and </div>
<div> Imitation Learning from Observation"</div>
<div> Peter Stone, University of Texas at Austin, USA</div>
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<div>- "Advanced Motion Prediction for Self-Driving Cars"</div>
<div> Miguel Angel Sotelo, University of Alcalá, Spain</div>
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<div>== Important Dates ==</div>
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<div>Submission (extended deadline) ** Feb 22, 2021 **</div>
<div>Notification Mar 22, 2021</div>
<div>Camera Ready Mar 29, 2021</div>
<div>Registration Apr 9, 2021</div>
<div>Conference Apr 28-29, 2021</div>
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<div>== Paper Submission ==</div>
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<div>Authors are invited to submit original research contributions in English.</div>
<div>Six pages in the standard IEEE format: </div>
<div>https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html</div>
<div>are allowed for each paper, including tables and figures. </div>
<div>Full papers should be submitted electronically, in PDF format, using the </div>
<div>easychair.org platform:</div>
<div>https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icarsc2021 </div>
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<div>== Registration Fees (Early registration)</div>
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<div>SPR/IEEE members 100 Euros</div>
<div>Students 80 Euros</div>
<div>Others 120 Euros</div>
<div>Non author 30 Euros</div>
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<div>== Conference 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>- 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>- Planning, Reasoning and Modelling</div>
<div>- Recognition and Tracking</div>
<div>- Robot Learning</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>See you at ICARSC 2021!</div>
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<div>Vitor Santos, Universidade of Aveiro, IEETA, Portugal</div>
<div>Nuno Lau, Universidade of Aveiro, IEETA, Portugal</div>
<div>Pedro Neto, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal</div>
<div>Ana Lopes, Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Portugal</div>
<div>(Co-chairs of ICARSC 2021)</div>
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<div>Please check further details at https://www.festivalnacionalrobotica.pt/icarsc/</div>
<div>Should you have any question please contact sec@sprobotica.pt</div>
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