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<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px"> ROBOT'2019 – Fourth Iberian Robotics Conference </div>
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<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px"> November 20-22, 2019</div>
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<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">Dear colleague,</div>
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<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">We are pleased to inform you that ROBOT'2019 – Fourth Iberian Robotics Conference will be held in Porto, Portugal, on November 20-22, 2019.</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">The conference is organized by SPR – Sociedade Portuguesa de Robótica and SEIDROB – Sociedad Española para la Investigación y Desarrollo en Robótica and will be held within the premises of
the School of Engineering of the Porto Polytechnic.</div>
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<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">ROBOT'2019 main goal is to continue the precedent efforts in showing the robotic research and development of new applications in the Iberian Peninsula. Although focused on the works developed
at Iberia, the conference is open for good quality submissions from any country in the world.</div>
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<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">ROBOT’2019 will feature technical and social programs. The technical program will comprise plenary, regular and special sessions. All articles submitted for inclusion in the conference will
be peer reviewed before acceptance.</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">It is envisaged that all accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, which will be published by Springer – Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series, indexed by
Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge and SCOPUS, as well as on CD/flash drive, subject to registration of at least one author for presenting the work.</div>
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<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">A selection of the conference presented best papers will also be recommended for publication as extended versions in Special Issues from international top Journals.</div>
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<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px"> Conference Topics</div>
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<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">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.</div>
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<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">We invite original contributions in all areas relevant to robotics, covering mobile, walking, flying, marine, underwater, and industrial robots. The conference will cover analysis (modelling
and simulation) techniques, design approaches, and practical applications and realisations of developed robotic systems. Support technologies for realisation of such systems, namely sensors and actuators, computer vision and image processing, tactile & haptics
devices, control algorithms and architectures, localization, mapping and navigation, associated economic, ethical, legal and social considerations are integral part of the conference theme. Human-robot interaction, including medical robots, exoskeletons, prostheses
and orthoses, as well as personal and service robots forms an increasingly active and important pertinent area.</div>
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<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">Contributions from researchers, industry and outputs from collaboration between industrial and academic R&D units are welcome in the following topics:</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">• agricultural robotic systems</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">• assistive robotic</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">• biomimetic robots</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">• cloud computing</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">• cognitive systems</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">• cooperative systems</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">• control architectures</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">• decision support systems</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">• distributed & networked systems</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">• distributed robotic systems</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">• educational robotics</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">• ethical & legal robotic issues</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">• human-robot interaction</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">• humanoid robotics</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">• hybrid intelligent systems</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">• computer vision and image processing</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">• localization, mapping and navigation</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">• locomotion and actuation systems</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">• marine robotics</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">• medical robotics</div>
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<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">• multi-robot systems</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">• new mechanism design</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">• parallel robots</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">• personal and service robotics</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">• planning and control</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">• remote handling & telerobotics</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">• robotic competitions</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">• robot learning</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">• sensors & actuators</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">• robotic simulation</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">• social robots</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">• soft computing</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">• swarm robotics</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">• tactile & haptics devices</div>
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<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">The technical program of the conference will feature Regular Papers and Special Session Papers. Authors are invited to submit their full draft papers in PDF format from the paper submission
page of the conference web-site by the indicated deadline for consideration for inclusion in the relevant category (special/regular paper). Articles submitted for inclusion in the conference will be peer reviewed before acceptance. Final accepted papers will
be limited to 12 pages in length and must follow the Springer AISC template, given in the Call & Instructions web page.</div>
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<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">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.</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">A selection of the conference presented best papers will also be recommended for publication as extended versions in Special Issues from international top Journals.</div>
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<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">Proposals for special sessions........................... Apr 15, 2019</div>
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<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">Submission of full draft papers..........................Jun 21, 2019</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">Notification of paper acceptance.......................Jul 22, 2019 </div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">Submission of final (camera ready) papers........Sep 06, 2019</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">Early bird registration (reduced fee)..................Sep 06, 2019</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">Conference.........................................................Nov 20-22, 2019</div>
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<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">Manuel F. Silva, ISEP, Porto Polytechnic & INESC-TEC, Portugal</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">José Luís Lima, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança& INESC-TEC, Portugal</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">Luís Paulo Reis, University of Porto & LIACC, Portugal</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">Alberto Sanfeliu, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">Danilo Tardioli, Centro Universitario de la Defensa / I3A University of Zaragoza, Spain</div>
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<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">Please check further details at the ROBOT’2019 conference website (https://web.fe.up.pt/~robot2019/).</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">Should you have any question please do not hesitate to contact us (robot2019@fe.up.pt).</div>
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