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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><a name="_Hlk126861387"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>Dear Colleagues,</span></a><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>We would like to inform you that the paper submission deadline for the <b>IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC 2023) has been extended to February 20, 2023 (hard deadline)</b>. We look forward to receiving your submission and welcoming you in Tomar, Portugal for ICARSC 2023 from 26-27 April, 2023.</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>You can find details of the Call for Papers below and at </span></span><a href="https://www.icarsc.pt/"><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>https://www.icarsc.pt/</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'></span></a><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>The IEEE ICARSC 2023 will be held in Tomar, Portugal, on April 26-27, 2023. The conference is organized within ROBOTICA 2023 -22nd Portuguese Robotics Open, a RoboCup-sponsored local event, and it is promoted by the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar, University of Porto, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, University of Aveiro, and the Portuguese Robotics Society. </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'> </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>ICARSC has long been an IEEE co-sponsored event and its proceedings will be indexed in IEEExplore and Scopus. Extended versions of selected best papers will be invited to propose an extended version for a Special Issue of the Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems (Springer), and for a Special Issue of the Journal of Industrial Robot (Emerald). </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'> </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>------------------------ </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>Conference Scope </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>------------------------ </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>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 two decades and is nowadays a truly international forum attracting worldwide quality research papers. </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'> </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>---------------------- </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>Important Dates </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>---------------------- </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>Submission Feb 20, 2023 </span></b></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>Notification Mar 20, 2023 </span></b></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>Camera Ready Apr 02, 2023 </span></b></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>Registration Apr 14, 2023 (Reduced price) </span></b></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>Conference Apr 26-27, 2023 </span></b></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'> </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>---------------- </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>Paper Submission </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>---------------- </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>Authors are invited to submit original research contributions in English. Six pages in the standard IEEE format (</span></span><a href="http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html"><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'></span></a><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>) are allowed for each paper, including tables and figures. Full draft papers should be submitted electronically, in PDF format, using the URL: </span></span><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icarsc2023"><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icarsc2023</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'></span></a><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>. For evaluation purposes, authors must remove their names from the submitted papers, and should take reasonable care not to indirectly disclose their identity. Accepted papers will be scheduled for presentation, which requires that at least one of the authors should register at the Conference and present the paper. If the authors of an accepted paper, either for oral presentation or poster, do not show up at the conference, the corresponding paper will not be submitted to IEEExplore. </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'> </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>See you in Tomar, </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>--------------------------------- </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>ICARSC 2023 General/Program Chairs </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span lang=PT style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>--------------------------------- </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span lang=PT style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span lang=PT style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>Ana Cristina Lopes (IPT-Portugal) </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span lang=PT style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span lang=PT style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>José Lima (IPB-Portugal) </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span lang=PT style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span lang=PT style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>Gabriel Pires (IPT-Portugal) </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span lang=PT style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span lang=PT style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>Vítor Pinto (FEUP- Portugal) </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span lang=PT style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span lang=PT style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>Pedro Fonseca (UA - Portugal) </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span lang=PT style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span lang=PT style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'> </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span lang=PT style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>--------------------------------- </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>Please check further details at the ICARSC 2023 conference website (</span></span><a href="https://www.icarsc.pt/"><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>https://www.icarsc.pt/</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'></span></a><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>). Should you have any question please do not hesitate contacting us (</span></span><a href="mailto:icarsc2023@icarsc.pt"><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>icarsc2023@icarsc.pt</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'></span></a><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk126861387'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>).</span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>