<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">[Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement]</span></div>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Call for Papers! <br>ICARSC 2025<br>International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions <br><a href="https://www.icarsc.pt/2025">https://www.icarsc.pt/2025</a><br>April 2-3, 2025 <br>Funchal – Madeira Island<br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Dear colleague<br><br>We are pleased to inform you that ICARSC 2025 25th IEEE(*) International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions will be held in Funchal, Madeira Island, on April 2-3, 2025. The conference is organized within ROBOTICA 2025 – 25th Portuguese Robotics Open, a RoboCup-sponsored local event, and it is promoted by the Universidade de Aveiro, Universidade do Porto, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Instituto Politécnico de Tomar and the Portuguese Society of Robotics, with logistic support from Secretaria Regional da Educação Ciência e Tecnologia da Região Autónoma da Madeira<br>(*) IEEE co-sponsorship pending approval<br> <br>----------------<br>Conference Scope<br>----------------<br><br>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.<br><br>ICARSC has long been an IEEE co-sponsored event and its proceedings will be indexed in IEEExplore and Scopus. Moreover, similarly to previous editions, extended versions of selected best papers will be invited for publication in relevant indexed journals.<br><br>---------------<br>Important Dates<br>---------------<br><br>Submission: Jan 17, 2025<br>Notification: Feb 26, 2025<br>Camera Ready: Mar 09, 2025<br>Registration: Mar 16, 2025 (Reduced price)<br>Conference: Apr 2-3, 2025<br><br>-----------------<br>Conference Topics<br>-----------------<br><br>The conference aims to gather researchers from industry and academia to present and discuss the latest trends in research and technology in the fields of robotics and related areas. Contributions from researchers, industry, and outputs from collaboration between industrial and academic R&D units are welcome in the following topics.<br>Agricultural Robotics<br>Applications of Autonomous Intelligent Robots<br>Artificial Intelligence<br>Autonomous Robotic Systems<br>Computer Vision and Image Processing<br>Control Architectures and Programming<br>Cooperative Perception<br>Cooperative Planning and Task Allocation<br>Dexterous Manipulation and Grasping<br>Educational Robotics<br>Entertainment Robots<br>Evolutionary Robotics<br>Humanoid Robotics<br>Human-Robot Interaction<br>Localization, Mapping, and Navigation<br>Locomotion and Actuation Systems<br>Multi-Robot Coordination<br>Multi-Robot Systems<br>Planning, Reasoning and Modelling<br>Recognition and Tracking<br>Robot Learning<br>Robotic Competitions<br>Robotic Simulation<br>Sensors and Sensor Integration<br>Swarm Robotics<br>Underwater Robotics<br><br>----------------<br>Paper Submission<br>----------------<br><br>Authors are invited to submit original research contributions in English. Six pages in the standard IEEE format (<a href="http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html">http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html</a>) are allowed for each paper, including tables and figures. Full draft papers should be submitted electronically, in PDF format, using the URL: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icarsc2025">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icarsc2025</a>. For evaluation, authors must remove their names from the submitted papers, and should take reasonable care not to indirectly disclose their identity. <br>Papers submitted for review that fall into the category of review papers will not be considered during the evaluation process, ensuring that the assessment is focused on original research contributions.<br>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.<br><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:9pt;color:darkslategray"><table width="620pt" border="0" style="font-family:sans-serif"><tbody><tr valign="top"><td><b>Pedro Fonseca</b><br><div style="font-size:9pt">Vice-Chair, IEEE Portugal Section</div><div style="font-size:9pt">Past-Chair, IEEE Portugal Section Education Chapter</div><div style="font-size:9pt">ICARSC 2025 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (<a href="http://icarsc.pt/2025" target="_blank">icarsc.pt/2025</a>)</div><div style="font-size:9pt"><br></div><div style="font-size:9pt"><br></div></td><td align="right"><div style="font-size:9pt"> <br>l<br></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="color:gray;font-size:8pt">DISCLAIMER: This message is confidential and may contain privileged information. 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