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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">Call for Papers</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">ICARSC'2016 - IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">Dear colleague,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">We are pleased to inform you that ICARSC’2016 – IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions
will be held in Bragança, Portugal, on May 4-6, 2016.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">The conference is organized within ROBOTICA 2016 - 16th Portuguese Robotics Open, a RoboCup-sponsored local event,
and it is promoted by the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança and the Portuguese Robotics Society.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">Conference Scope</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">The ICARSC’2016 conference gathers participants from academia and industry working in the field of autonomous robotics
and related areas. The conference started as the meeting point of the Portuguese community working on Mobile Robotics Competitions and soon grew to an open International event to share related research work.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">ICARSC is an IEEE co-sponsored event and its proceedings will be indexed in IEEExplore and submitted for indexing
to Scopus, Inspec, EI’s Engineering Information Index, Compendex®, and ISI Thomson’s Scientific and Technical Proceedings®, ISTP®/ISI Proceedings, and Current Contents on Diskette®.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">Conference Topics</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">The conference aims to gather researchers from the industry and academia to present and discuss the latest trends
in research and technology in the fields of robotics and related areas.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">Contributions from researchers, industry and outputs from collaboration between industrial and academic R&D units
are welcome in the following topics.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">• Agricultural Robotics
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">• Applications of Autonomous Intelligent Robots
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">• Artificial Intelligence
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">• Autonomous Robotic Systems
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">• Computer Vision and Image Processing
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">• Control Architectures and Programming
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">• Cooperative Perception
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">• Cooperative Planning and Task Allocation
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">• Dexterous Manipulation and Grasping
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">• Educational Robotics
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">• Entertainment Robots
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">• Evolutionary Robotics
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">• Humanoid Robotics
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">• Human-Robot Interaction
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">• Localization, Mapping, and Navigation
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">• Locomotion and Actuation Systems
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">• Multi-Robot Coordination
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">• Multi-Robot Systems
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">• Planning, Reasoning and Modelling
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">• Recognition and Tracking
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">• Robot Learning
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">• Robotic Competitions
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">• Robotic Simulation
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">• Sensors and Sensor Integration
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">• Swarm Robotics
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">• Underwater Robotics</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">Paper Submission</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">Authors are invited to submit original research contributions in English. Six pages in the standard IEEE format are
allowed for each paper, including tables and figures. Full draft papers should be submitted electronically, in PDF format, using the URL: http://icarsc2016.ipb.pt/submission/openconf.php. For evaluation purposes, authors must remove their names from the submitted
papers, and should take reasonable care not to indirectly disclose their identity.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">Similarly to previous editions, a special issue will be set up in the “Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems”
to accommodate the publication of extended versions of selected papers. Authors of the best conference papers will also be invited to submit an extended contribution to be evaluated for possible publication in the journals “Industrial Robot: An International
Journal” and “Sensor Review”.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">Important Dates</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">Submission Feb 15, 2016</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">Notification Mar 21, 2016
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">Camera Ready Mar 31, 2016</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">José Lima Polytechnic Institute of Bragança / INESC-TEC (Portugal)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">Paulo Leitão Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (Portugal)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">Manuel Silva ISEP - Polytechnic Institute of Porto / INESC-TEC (Portugal)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">Bernardo Cunha University of Aveiro (Portugal)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">Please check further details at the ICARSC’2016 conference website (</span><a href="http://icarsc2016.ipb.pt/" id="LPlnk270115"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">http://icarsc2016.ipb.pt/</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#212121">).
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