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<span style="font-family:"Courier New";margin:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);text-align:center">ROBOT2022 - Fifth Iberian Robotics Conference</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New";margin:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">The ROBOT2022 organization wants to kindly remind the robotics community of the
</span><span style="font-family:"Courier New";margin:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><b>imminent dates for submission</b></span><span style="font-family:"Courier New";margin:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"> of contributions.
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<b>extra 3-days period</b> for submitting <b>final updates to papers already submitted</b> by the deadline.</span></p>
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<span style="font-weight:400;font-family:"Courier New";margin:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);text-decoration:line-through">Apr 15, 2022 Submission of Special Session proposals</span></p>
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<span style="font-weight:400;font-family:"Courier New";margin:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);text-decoration:line-through">Apr 22, 2022 Notification of Special Session acceptance</span></p>
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<span style="font-weight:700;font-family:"Courier New";margin:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Jul 10, 2022 Submission of draft papers (DEADLINE EXTENDED)</span></p>
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<span style="font-weight:700;font-family:"Courier New";margin:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Jul 13, 2022 Submission of final drafts (UPDATES TO SUBMISSIONS)<br>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New";margin:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Aug 12</span><span style="font-family:"Courier New";margin:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">,</span><span style="font-family:"Courier New";margin:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"> 2022 Notification of paper
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<span style="font-weight:400;font-family:"Courier New";margin:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Sep 06, 2022 Submission of final (camera ready) papers</span></p>
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<span style="font-weight:400;font-family:"Courier New";margin:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Sep 06, 2022 Early bird registration (reduced fee)</span></p>
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<span style="font-weight:400;font-family:"Courier New";margin:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Nov 23-25, 2022 Conference</span></p>
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<span style="font-weight:400;font-family:"Courier New";margin:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">ROBOT2022, the Fifth Iberian Robotics Conference, will take place in Zaragoza, Spain, from 23 to 25 November 2022, following the four previous editions held in Madrid in 2013,
Lisbon in 2015, Seville in 2017 and Porto in 2019.</span></p>
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<span style="font-weight:400;font-family:"Courier New";margin:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">ROBOT2022 is Organized by: SEIDROB – Sociedad Española para la Investigación y Desarrollo en Robótica, SPR – Sociedade Portuguesa de Robótica</span></p>
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<span style="font-weight:400;font-family:"Courier New";margin:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">ROBOT2022 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 good quality submissions from any country in the world.</span></p>
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<span style="font-weight:400;font-family:"Courier New";margin:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">As in previous editions we plan to publish the conference proceedings with Springer, within the Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems series indexed by Thomson ISI Web of
Knowledge and SCOPUS. Extended versions of the conference best papers will also be published in Special Issues from top Journals.</span></p>
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<span style="font-weight:400;font-family:"Courier New";margin:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">We are hereby announcing the new dates for the CALL FOR PAPERS. Please pass on the information to your colleagues that might be interested.</span></p>
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<span style="font-weight:400;font-family:"Courier New";margin:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">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.</span></p>
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<span style="font-weight:400;font-family:"Courier New";margin:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">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.</span></p>
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<span style="font-weight:400;font-family:"Courier New";margin:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Vicente Matellán - University of León, Spain</span></p>
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<span style="font-weight:400;font-family:"Courier New";margin:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Guillermo Heredia - University de Sevilla, Spain</span></p>
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<span style="font-weight:400;font-family:"Courier New";margin:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Manuel F. Silva - ISEP/Porto Polytechnic, Portugal</span></p>
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<span style="font-weight:400;font-family:"Courier New";margin:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Lino Marques - University of Coimbra, Portugal</span></p>
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