[robocup-worldwide] IEEE ICARSC 2020: Submission deadline extended to February 17

[Nuno Lau]

Dear colleague,

We invite you to submit a paper to IEEE ICARSC 2020 - IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions - considering the new paper submission deadline: Feb 17, 2020.

IEEE ICARSC 2020 will take place next April 15-17 at Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal. Azores is a fantastic venue: "Certified by Nature".

IEEE ICARSC 2020 will have proceedings published by IEEE and indexed at Scopus and IEEEXplore and excellent plenary speakers:
- António Pascoal: Exploring the blue frontier with cooperative marine robots: theory and practice
- Jan Peters: Towards robot skill learning

Best papers will be invited to submit extended versions in a Special Issue of the Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems - JINT (5-Year Impact Factor: 2.41) and others at Industrial Robot (5-Year Impact Factor: 1.27), both indexed by Clarivate Analytics Web of Science Core Collection.

We aim to gather researchers from academia and industry to present and discuss the latest trends in research and technology in the fields of robotics and related areas.

Below you will find a summary of the Call for Papers of IEEE ICARSC 2020.

The details are in the web https://icarsc2020.uac.pt/

The deadline for Paper submission is next February 17. 
Please submit your papers before this deadline.

We are looking to meet you in Azores next April 15-17, 2020.

Best regards.

Nuno Lau
On behalf of the General/Program Chairs.

PS: We would be grateful if you would disseminate IEEE ICARSC 2020 CfP among your research group and colleagues.

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IEEE ICARSC 2020
IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions
April 15-17, 2020
Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal
http://icarsc2020.uac.pt/
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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.

ICARSC is an IEEE conference and its proceedings will be indexed in IEEExplore and Scopus.

Extended versions of selected best papers will be invited for publication in a Special Issue of the Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems (5-Year Impact Factor: 2.41) and others at Industrial Robot (5-Year Impact Factor: 1.27), both indexed by Clarivate Analytics Web of Science Core Collection.

== Confirmed Invited Speakers ==

António Pascoal (University of Lisbon, ISR, Portugal): Exploring the Blue Frontier with Cooperative Marine Robots: Theory and Practice

Jan Peters (Technische Universitaet Darmstadt and Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany): Towards Robot Skill Learning


== Important Dates ==

Submission Feb 17, 2020
Notification Mar 16, 2020
Camera Ready Mar 23, 2020
Early Registration Mar 23, 2020
Conference Apr 15-17, 2020


== Paper Submission ==

Authors are invited to submit original research contributions in English. Six pages in the standard IEEE format:
https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html
are allowed for each paper, including tables and figures. Full papers should be submitted electronically, in PDF format, using the easychair.org platform:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icarsc2020

== Venue ==

IEEE ICARSC 2020 will take place at the Campus of Azores University, Ponta Delgada, Azores. The campus is very close to city center and close to the main hotels at the city center.

Azores ("Certified by Nature") is an archipelago of nine islands located at northeast of Portugal, at Atlantic Ocean.
S. Miguel island is composed by two volcanic massifs separated by a low central ridge. The highest point is at Pico da Vara in the eastern massif, which rises to 1080 m. The large craters of Sete Cidades, Fogo and Furnas contain wonderful lakes of crystal-clear water which are the main touristic attractions of the island. Whales watching is also a common touristic activity.

There are hot springs very popular at Furnas and the organization will invite you to taste those waters. So please, don’t forget your swimsuit!

You may search for more information about Azores at https://www.visitazores.com/en

== Conference Topics ==

- 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
- Humanoid Robotics
- Human-Robot Interaction
- Localization, Mapping, and Navigation
- Locomotion and Actuation Systems
- Multi-Robot Coordination
- Multi-Robot Systems
- Planning, Reasoning and Modelling
- Recognition and Tracking
- Robot Learning
- Robotic Competitions
- Robotic Simulation
- Sensors and Sensor Integration
- Swarm Robotics
- Underwater Robotics


See you in Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal!

Nuno Lau, Universidade of Aveiro, IEETA, Portugal
Manuel Silva, ISEP - Polytechnic Institute of Porto, INESC-TEC, Portugal
Luis Paulo Reis, University of Porto, LIACC, Portugal
Jose Cascalho, University of Azores, FCT-NIDeS - BioISI, Portugal

(Co-chairs of ICARSC 2020)

Please check further details at the (http://icarsc2020.uac.pt/).
Should you have any question please email
(jose.mv.cascalho @ uac.pt).