<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica,sans-serif;">The Second International Workshop on Benchmarking and Measuring Service Robots</span></strong></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 19px;">£¨</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 19px;">Call for Papers </span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 19px;">£©</span></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 19px;"></span></strong></span><span style="font-size: 16px;">The
aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers to share
their research progress and ideas on the significance and challenges of
benchmarking and measuring service robots, and promote the research on
quantitative measurements for the performanceof autonomous service
robots. The first international workshop on benchmarking and measuring
service robots was successfully organized in Hefei on July 2015,
co-located with RoboCup 2015. The second workshop will be held jointly
with ICIRA 2017 (</span><a style="font-size: 16px; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.icira2017.org/"><span style="font-size: 16px;">http://www.icira2017.org</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px;">), in Wuhan, China on August 15-18, 2017. </span><span style="color: rgb(192, 0, 0);"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">All
papers accepted to be presented at the conference as well as the
workshop are to be published in LNAI/LNCS series of Springer (indexed in
EI Engineering Index).</span></strong></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"> The CFP for ICIRA 2017 can be found in: </span><a style="text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.icira2017.org/index.php?id=paper1&cate=call-for-papers" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Call for paper</span></a></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Apart
from the paper presentations, the workshop will also include several
keynote speeches from both academia and industry and extensive
discussions about the scientific issues of benchmarking and measuring
service robots.</span></p><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Keynote Speakers<br></span></strong><ul class=" list-paddingleft-2" style="list-style-type: disc;"><li><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">David Hsu, National University of Singapore, Singapore<br></span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Luca Iocchi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Xiaogang Song, China Robot Industry Alliance, China</span></p></li></ul><p><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Objectives</span></strong></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Benchmarking
and measuring service robots has drawn increasing interest from
researchers and professionals in recent years. A common form of
benchmarking and measuring service robots is service robot competitions,
such as DARPA Robotic Challenge, RoboCup@Home, and RoCKIn. Although
these competitions try to decompose the task into parts to be
quantitatively evaluated, they still include subjective judging by
humans. Therefore, these competitions are not objective and accurate.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Specific
quantitative measurements on robot performance would enable to directly
and accurately identify the strengths and weaknesses of robot
technologies through scientific tests. We are therefore organizing the
second international workshop on benchmarking and measuring service
robots towards further understanding and proposing quantitative
measurements in robotics research. </span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Topics<br></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">The related themes or topics of this workshop include but do not limit to:</span></p><ul class=" list-paddingleft-2" style="list-style-type: disc;"><li><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Methodology of benchmarking and measuring service robots</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Quantitative measurement in robotics research</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Standard platforms and test-beds for service robots</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Robotic techniques and applications based on motion-perception systems</span></p></li></ul><p><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Organization Committee</span></strong></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Chair£ºXiaoping Chen, University of Science and Technology of China</span></p>