[robocup-worldwide] ROBOT'2015 - Special Session on Robot Compettions

[Bernardo Cunha]

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            Call for Papers for Robot Competitions Special Session

           https://web.fe.up.pt/~robot2015/index.php/special-sessions

           ROBOT'2015  - The Second Iberian Robotics Conference



                November 19-21, 2015, Pavilhao do Conhecimento, 

                                        Lisbon, Portugal

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ROBOT'2015 - Second Iberian Robotics Conference - main goal is to show 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. The conference is organized in several Special Sessions one of which is Robot Competitions.

The event is co-located with RoCKIn Competition 2015 (http://rockinrobotchallenge.eu/).



The conference proceedings will be published in a Springer book of the Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series, indexed by Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge and SCOPUS (English papers) and in an electronic volume with ISBN (Spanish and Portuguese papers).

Extended versions of the conference best papers will also be published in Special Issues from several top Journals.



## Invited Speakers



ROBOT'2015 will feature three Plenary Talks:



- Manuela Veloso - Carnegie Mellon University, USA

- Bill Smart - Oregon State University, USA

- Jon Agirre Ibarbia - TECNALIA Research & Innovation, Spain



## Important Dates



10 Jul-2015: Paper Submission Deadline

30 Jul-2015: Author Notification/Registration Open

15 Sep-2015: Camera Ready / Early Registration

19-21 Nov-2015: ROBOT'2015 Conference



## Robot Competitions Special Session Objectives and Topics



Robot Competitions is, for nearly two decades now, an efficient way of testing, in real or simulated environments, the outcome of robotics research in comparison with the results from other scientific teams in similar fields. The competition provides, out of the lab, challenging scenarios where each team can verify, in a sort of common benchmark, the efficiency, error tolerance, resilience, stability, reliability and conformity of their solutions.



Topics that can be addressed in this special session should focus specifically on robot competitions and may include but are not limited to areas such as: 

·         Robot Hardware and Software including – mobile/humanoid robots, sensors and actuators, new materials, system integration, software architectures, robot simulators 

·         Perception and Action including cognition, learning, pattern recognition, image processing, motion and sensor models, efficient motion control 

·         Multi-Robot Systems including team coordination, swarm learning and adaptive systems, teamwork of heterogeneous agents, team adjustable autonomy 

·         Applications including service robots, search and rescue, surveillance, robots at home 

·         Human-Robot Interaction including speech synthesis, natural language generation, data visualization, emotion recognition, understanding human intent, safety and dependability 



This topics' list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the topics, and authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in the Special Session main subject.



## Paper Submission



Authors are invited to submit original research contributions in English, Spanish or Portuguese. Authors should submit their papers electronically in PDF format via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robot2015



Papers must follow the Springer AISC template. Twelve pages in the Springer AISC format are allowed for each paper, including all figures, tables and references. Please check the Author Guidelines for the Preparation of Contributions to Springer Computer Science Proceedings for more complete information (http://www.springer.com/series/11156).



Authors must remove their names from the submitted papers, and should take reasonable care not to indirectly disclose their identity. Three program committee members will be assigned to review each paper. Acceptance will e based on the paper's significance, technical quality, clarity, relevance and originality.



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.



## Special Session Chair



Bernardo Cunha, University of Aveiro, Portugal - mbc at det.ua.pt



## Institutions



ROBOT'2015 is Organized by: SPR - Sociedade Portuguesa de Robotica,

SEIDROB - Sociedad Espanola para la Investigacion y Desarrollo en Robotica and

GTROB - Grupo de Robotica de CEA. 
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