[robocup-worldwide] CfP IROBOT'2021 - 10th Int. Them. Track on Intelligent Robotics

Wed Apr 14 12:01:53 EDT 2021

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IROBOT'2021 CALL FOR PAPERS
10th International Thematic Track on Intelligent Robotics

To be held at EPIA 2021, September 7-9, 2021
Online Event
http://www.appia.pt/epia2021/
epia2021 at appia.pt
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The EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence is a well-established
European conference in the field of AI. The 20th edition, EPIA 2021,
will take place online in September 7-9, 2021.
This international conference is hosted with the patronage of the
Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA).
Its purpose is to promote research in all areas of Artificial Intelligence
(AI), covering both theoretical/foundational issues and applications, and
the scientific exchange among researchers, engineers and practitioners in
related disciplines.
EPIA 2021 will feature a set of thematic tracks, covering a wide spectrum
of AI topics.
Accepted papers will be published in a Springer's Lecture Notes in
Artificial Intelligence volume.

## Important Dates

30 Apr 2021: Paper Submission Deadline (extended)
31 May 2021: Author Notification/Registration Open
15 Jun 2021: Camera-Ready Deadline
7-9 Sep 2021: EPIA'2021 Conference

## Keynote Speakers

- Virginia Dignum, Umeå University, Sweden
- Shimon Whiteson, University of Oxford, UK
- Lucia Specia, Imperial College London, UK
- Fredik Heintz, Linköping University, Sweden

## Registration Fees

#With paper

Regular              200 Eur*
Regular Student      100 Eur**
APPIA Member         150 Eur (offers 1-year APPIA membership fee)
APPIA Student Member  75 Eur (offers 1-year APPIA membership fee)
*  (+15 Eur offers APPIA registration and 1-year APPIA membership fee)
** (+10 Eur offers APPIA registration and 1-year APPIA membership fee)

#Without paper: 50 Eur

## IROBOT Description

IROBOT'2021 poses itself as a follow-up on the previous nine International
Thematic Tracks/Workshops on Intelligent Robotics held at EPIA since 2005.
Its main purpose is to bring together researchers, engineers and other
professionals interested in the application of AI techniques in real/simulated
robotics to discuss current work and future directions.

Robotics, from the point of view of AI, has been an important
application field, from which AI has also gained. Namely, the dynamic
and unforeseen nature of the environment, especially for mobile robots,
has fostered research in these aspects of AI. Together with the developments
in Robotics Research, the use of Robotics in industry and services has
changed a lot in recent years. New paradigms and approaches for industrial
robots and service robots have emerged, for example, on mobile robots
learning, localization, mapping and navigation in unstructured environments.
IROBOT 2021 will discuss these new developments on industrial and service
robotics with focus on robot learning.

## Topics of Interest

The Thematic Track will be structured around the following themes:

- Adaptive and flexible industrial robotics
- Agriculture robots
- AI Planning for robotics
- Autonomous vehicles
- Cognitive robotics
- Computer vision and object recognition
- Coordination in robotics
- Evolutionary robotics and reactive intelligence
- Human-robots interface and interaction
- Humanoid robotics
- Intelligent buildings and warehouses
- Intelligent transportation systems
- Mobile robots localization and navigation
- Modelling and simulating complex robots
- Multi-Robot systems
- Field Robots
- Real-time reactivity
- Robot behaviour engineering
- Robot learning and adaptation
- Robotic surveillance
- Sensor fusion

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 thematic track main
subject.

## Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit original research contributions or
experience reports in English. Scientific or technical articles describing
state-of-the-art techniques, algorithms, systems, environments, problems
or applications relevant to the area of Intelligent Robotics may
be submitted. Papers discussing application transfer from simulated to
real robots and papers showing socially useful robotic applications
generated by participations in robotic competitions are also welcome.
Although the main focus is on robot learning, there will be space for
reporting research in AI applied to other types of robots.

Submissions must follow the guidelines specified in the EPIA'2021 site.
The Springer LNCS format must be used (instructions in
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines).
The length of submitted full papers must not exceed 12 pages. Authors must remove
their names from the submitted papers, and should take reasonable care
not to indirectly disclose their identity. Paper submissions will be made
in PDF format, through the submission page:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=epia2021

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. Accepted papers, must be
presented at the conference by one of the authors. Accepted papers will
be scheduled for presentation, which requires that at least one of the
authors should register at the Conference. All accepted papers will be
published in the Conference Proceedings.

## IROBOT'2021 Organizing Committee

João Alberto Fabro (Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Brazil)
Reinaldo Bianchi (centro universitário da FEI, Brazil)
Nuno Lau (University of Aveiro, Portugal, nunolau at ua.pt)
Luis Paulo Reis (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)

## Program Committee

Andre Conceicao, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil
André Luís Marcato, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil
António J. R. Neves, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Antonio Paulo Moreira, University of Porto, Portugal
Armando Pinho, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Armando Sousa, University of Porto, Portugal
Axel Hessler, DAI-Labor, TU Berlin, Germany
Brígida Mónica Faria, Higher School of Health/Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal
Carlos Carreto, Polytechnic of Guarda, Portugal
Cesar Analide, University of Minho, Portugal
Fei Chen, Advanced Robotics Department, Italy
Fernando Osorio, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Jorge Dias, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Josemar Rodrigues de Souza, Bahia State University, Brazil
Luís Correia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Luis Moreno, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
Luís Seabra Lopes, Universidade of Aveiro, Portugal
Marco Dorigo, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Mikhail Prokopenko, The University of Sydney, Australia
Nicolas Jouandeau, Paris8 University, France
Paulo Urbano, University of Lisboa, Portugal
Saeed Shiry, Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran
Urbano Nunes, University of Coimbra, Portugal

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