<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><p dir="ltr" id="gmail-m_1334539703793218487gmail-m_7663527884379011860gmail-m_-3588123186622380383gmail-m_4377914904358574207gmail-docs-internal-guid-0220ae59-1c10-a10f-732e-3f60ad26d2d2" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">*** Apologies if you have received this <span class="gmail-m_1334539703793218487gmail-m_7663527884379011860gmail-m_-3588123186622380383gmail-il">call</span> for participation more than once ***</span></p><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="gmail-m_1334539703793218487gmail-m_7663527884379011860gmail-m_-3588123186622380383gmail-il">FINAL</span> <span class="gmail-m_1334539703793218487gmail-m_7663527884379011860gmail-m_-3588123186622380383gmail-il">CALL</span> FOR PARTICIPATION</span></p><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">DARS 2016</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">13th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Nov 6-9, 2016. Natural History Museum, London, UK</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="http://dars2016.org/" target="_blank">http://dars2016.org</a></span></p><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">51 presentations from 17 countries, including 4 keynotes by:</span></p><p dir="ltr" id="gmail-m_1334539703793218487gmail-m_7663527884379011860gmail-m_-3588123186622380383gmail-m_4377914904358574207gmail-docs-internal-guid-0220ae59-1c13-bdc8-290d-23677ee881ed" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">- Nikolaus Correll (University of Colorado Boulder): Material-integrated intelligence for robot autonomy</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">- Vijay Kumar (University of Pennsylvania): Coordination, cooperation, and collaboration in multi-robot systems</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">- James AR Marshall (The University of Sheffield): Go to the bee and be wise: Swarm engineering inspired by house-hunting honeybees</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">- Katia Sycara (Carnegie Mellon University): Robust human control of multi-robot swarms</span></p><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">NEWS</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">- Conference booklet available online</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">- Finalists for the Best Paper Award available online</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">- Last chance to join us in London: <a href="http://dars2016.org/registration/" target="_blank">http://dars2016.org/re<wbr>gistration/</a></span></p><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">MEDIA/PRESS</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">We invite journalists to cover DARS 2016. For details: <a href="http://dars2016.org/pressmedia/" target="_blank">http://dars2016.org/p<wbr>ressmedia/</a></span></p><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">SPONSORS & EXHIBITORS</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (technical co-sponsorship)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Multi-Robot Systems (technical support)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Vicon Motion Systems (Platinum)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">RS Components (Gold)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Amazon Robotics, Elsevier, Frontiers in Robotics and AI, K-Team, Rahal Technology (Silver)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">IET, Springer (Bronze)</span></p><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">ABOUT DARS</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">We warmly invite you to participate in DARS 2016. Now in its 13th edition, DARS provides a forum for scientific advances in the theory and practice of distributed autonomous robotic systems.</span></p><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Distributed robotics is an interdisciplinary and rapidly growing area, combining research in computer science, communication and control systems, and electrical and mechanical engineering. Distributed robotic systems can autonomously solve complex problems while operating in highly unstructured real-world environments. They are expected to play a major role in addressing future societal needs, for example, by improving environmental impact assessment, food supply, transportation, manufacturing, security, and emergency and rescue services.</span></p><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">DARS 2016 will build upon past successes and provide an exciting environment to present and discuss the latest technologies, algorithms, system architectures, and applications. The single-track symposium features a strong technical program, international keynote speakers, a welcome reception in a beautiful Victorian townhouse, a banquet offering finest Polish cuisine, and ample opportunity to network.</span></p><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Fittingly, DARS 2016 will be located in the famed Natural History Museum in London, a powerhouse of scientific enquiry and a voice of authority on the natural world. Its central location in London will give you the opportunity to explore the fabulous Kensington neighborhood, and provide easy access to the wider London area.</span></p><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">SOCIAL EVENTS</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">DARS 2016 is above all a social event for the advancement of knowledge in distributed autonomous robotic systems. Social events will include a welcome reception, poster & lunch sessions, a banquet and the presentation of the awards:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="http://dars2016.org/social-events/" target="_blank">http://dars2016.org/social-eve<wbr>nts/</a></span></p><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">SOCIAL MEDIA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Follow us on social media for all the latest updates.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/DARSSymposium" target="_blank">https://www.facebook<wbr>.com/DARSSymposium</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/DARS2016" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/D<wbr>ARS2016</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Google+: <a href="https://plus.google.com/104027908184261516130" target="_blank">https://plus.google.c<wbr>om/104027908184261516130</a></span></p><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">DARS 2016 CONFERENCE COMMITTEE</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Advisory Committee</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Hajime Asama - University of Tokyo, Japan</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Marcelo H Ang - National University of Singapore</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Tamio Arai - University of Tokyo, Japan</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Raja Chatila - UPMC, France</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Gregory S Chirikjian - Johns Hopkins University, USA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Young-Jo Cho - ETRI, South Korea</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Nak Young Chong - JAIST, Japan</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Nikolaus Correll - University of Colorado Boulder, USA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Ruediger Dillmann - KIT, Germany</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Toshio Fukuda - Nagoya University, Japan</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Maria Gini - University of Minnesota, USA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">M Ani Hsieh - Drexel University, USA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Alcherio Martinoli - EPFL, Switzerland</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Francesco Mondada - EPFL, Switzerland</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Lynne E Parker - University of Tennessee, USA</span></p><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">General Chair</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Roderich Gross - The University of Sheffield, UK</span></p><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">General Co-Chair</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Andreas Kolling - iRobot, USA</span></p><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Technical Program Co-Chairs</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Spring M Berman - Arizona State University, USA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Emilio Frazzoli - MIT, USA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Alcherio Martinoli - EPFL, Switzerland</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Fumitoshi Matsuno - Kyoto University, Japan</span></p><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Publication Chair</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Melvin Gauci - Harvard University, USA</span></p><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Publicity Chair</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Sabine Hauert - University of Bristol, UK</span></p><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Local Organization Team</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Louise A Caffrey - The University of Sheffield, UK</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Ana MacIntosh - The University of Sheffield, UK</span></p><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Stefan Trenkwalder - The University of Sheffield, UK</span><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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