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               ICARSC 2018

  18th IEEE International Conference on
Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions

   http://robotica2018.festivalrobotica.pt/icarsc
   http://www.ieee-ras.org/conferences-workshops/technically-co-sponsored/icarsc

                       April 25-27, 2018
         Town Hall, Torres Vedras, Portugal

Sponsored by:
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
- IEEE Technically Co-sponsored
- IEEE Portugal Section
- Portuguese Robotics Society

Keynote speaker: Anibal Ollero
Subject: Aerial Robotic Manipulation and its Application to Inspection and Maintenance

An event integrated in the 18th international Portugal Robotics Open

   http://robotica2018.festivalrobotica.pt

== Important! ==

Submission deadline: January 21, 2018.

The 18th IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems
And Competitions (ICARSC 2018) gathers participants from academia and
industry working in the field of autonomous robotics and related areas.
It is organized within the 18th international Portugal Robotics Open,
a RoboCup-sponsored local event.
The conference will be held on April 25-27, 2018,
at the Town Hall of Torres Vedras, Portugal, just a walking distance
from EXPOTORRES, where the Robotics Open will take place.

Conference content will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore
as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases.
As in previous edition of the conference this 18th edition will
have a Special Issue of selected extended papers published in the
Robotics and Autonomous Systems journal, indexed by Thomson
ISI Web of Knowledge (5-Year Impact Factor: 2.373).

There will be a special track for papers describing work related with
fire prevention and combat, particularly using autonomous and
semi-autonomous systems.

== Venue ==

Torres Vedras is located about 50 kilometers from Lisbon, being
the territory of Torres Vedras populated by man since ancient times.
Here passed communities of collector hunters, farmers, blacksmiths
and later Greeks and Romans, as Rufus, one of many immortalized
names spelled in stone.
The village and the county grew, becoming a tourist destination,
especially from the early twentieth century. Since then, many elect
Torres Vedras as a destination, either in search of the spa or the
beach of Santa Cruz, renewing encounters permanently.
The same village amounted to town in 1979, witnessing a massive
urban growth.
In the municipality of Torres Vedras the agriculture (vineyards and
horticulture), the food processing and metallurgical industry and
the retail trade play a key role.
A promotional video of Torres Vedras could be viewed
through the following link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec_XjJaNJVI.

Torres Vedras can be easily reached by bus or car from the International
Airport of Lisbon.

>From Lisbon by bus: You should take a bus that leave you close to
the place where the event takes place. Further information can be
found through the following link: http://www.rede-expressos.pt/default.aspx.

>From Lisbon by car: You should take the motorway A8 in the direction
towards Leiria getting out at exit 7 - Torres Vedras South.

== Important Dates ==

     Submission deadline:              Jan. 21, 2018
     Notification of acceptance:    Feb. 21, 2018
     Camera-ready papers:            Mar. 4, 2018
     Early registration deadline:   Mar. 15, 2018
     Conference:                           Apr. 25-27, 2018

All deadlines are on 23:59 GMT.

== Topics ==

The conference is an open forum to most robotics topics, as listed
below, although contributions addressing novel benchmarking methods,
able to properly compare and evaluate the performance of different
solutions to a given robotics problem, and works dealing with robotics
competitions and challenges are particularly welcome.

       Agricultural Robotics;
       Applications of Autonomous Intelligent Robots;
       Artificial Intelligence;
       Autonomous Robotic Systems;
       Computer Vision and Image Processing;
       Control Architectures and Programming;
       Cooperative Perception;
       Cooperative Planning and Task Allocation;
       Dexterous Manipulation and Grasping;
       Educational Robotics;
       Entertainment Robots.
       Evolutionary Robotics;
       Field Robotics;
       Humanoid Robotics;
       Human-Robot Interaction;
       Localization, Mapping, and Navigation;
       Locomotion and Actuation Systems;
       Multi-Robot Coordination;
       Multi-Robot Systems;
       Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking;
       Planning, Reasoning and Modeling;
       Recognition and Tracking;
       Robot-based Fire Combat and Prevention;
       Robot Learning;
       Robotic Competitions;
       Robotic Simulation;
       Sensors and Sensor Integration;
       Swarm Robotics;
       Underwater Robotics.

== Submission Guidelines ==

The working language is English, only. Authors are invited to submit
original research contributions electronically, in PDF format, via
EasyChair:

(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icarsc2018)

Six pages in the standard IEEE format are allowed for each paper,
including figures, with up to two extra pages with an extra payment
per extra page.
Papers must be written in English following the standard IEEE guidelines:

( http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html)

Reviewing for ICARSC 2018 will be *double blind* so 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 be based on the paper's significance, technical quality,
clarity, relevance and originality.

All accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings
and, being the conference an IEEE sponsored event for a long time,
the proceedings have been indexed in IEEExplore and in Scopus.
Selected extended papers will be published in a special issue of the
Robotics and Autonomous Systems journal, indexed by Thomson ISI
Web of Knowledge (5-Year Impact Factor: 2.373).

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. Failure to meet this requirement will imply
removing the paper from the proceedings.

We welcome you at ICARSC 2018 to share your latest research results.

See you in Torres Vedras!

Hugo Costelha, IPLeiria, Portugal
João Calado, IPLisboa, Portugal
Paulo Oliveira, IST, Portugal

(General Chairs of the IEEE Int. Conf. on Autonomous Robot Systems and
Competitions)

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