ROBOTICA 2010 - The 10th Conference on Mobile Robots and Competitions

The 10th Conference on Mobile Robots and Competitions - ROBOTICA2010, to be held in Leiria, Portugal, March 2010, is promoted by the Portuguese Robotics Society (SPR), is organized by the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria (IPL) through its Superior School of Technology and Management (ESTG). The conference is co-sponsored by IEEE through the IEEE Portuguese Section and has the support of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS), through its Portuguese Chapter.

This international conference provides an excellent opportunity for researchers worldwide to present their most recent work in fields such as Education through robots, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. The conference is part of a larger event, the 10th Portuguese Robotics Open, which dedicates to fostering the research and public awareness on the field of mobile robots through robotic competitions, demonstrations and workshops.

You can download the CfP flyer in PDF format from here http://robotica2010.ipleiria.pt/robotica2010/image...[1].

Submissions

Papers must follow the IEEE guidelines and authors are encouraged to accompany their papers with videos. Submissions will be peer reviewed anonymously by the International Program Committee, and selected based on the quality and relevance to the topics of the conference. At least one author per accepted paper must attend the conference and present their paper.

Besides having all accepted (and presented) papers published in the ROBOTICA2010 proceedings, the eight best papers will also be published in the robotica http://www.robotica.pt/[2] magazine, the main technical publication in Portugal in the field of Robotics and Automation.

The best PhD student paper will be published in the IEEE Multidisciplinary Engineering Education Magazine http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/e/sac/meem/index.php/m...(MEEM) [3], the official publication of the IEEE Education Society Student Activities Committee.

To submit your paper, or for more information regarding the conference, please check the conference webpage http://robotica2010.ipleiria.pt/robotica2010/index... [4].

Important conference dates:

??? 15th January, 2010 - Submission of full-length papers

?? 22nd February, 2010 - Notification of acceptance

??? 1st March, 2010 - Camera Ready Papers

?? 24th March, 2010 - ROBOTICA2010 begins

Steering Committee

Alessandro De Luca (URoma - IT)

Alicia Casals (UPC - ES)

Bruno Siciliano (UNINA - IT)

Hideki Hashimoto (UTokyo - JP)

Toshio Fukuda (UNagoya - JP)

Vijay Kumar (UPENN ? USA)

International Program Committee

Alexandre Bernardino (IST - PT)

Alfredo Martins (ISEP - PT)

Aníbal Matos (FEUP - PT)

Aníbal Ollero (US - ES)

António Jesus Bandera Rubio (UM - ES)

António Paulo Moreira (FEUP - PT)

António Pascoal (IST - PT)

António Ruano (UALG - PT)

Bernardo Cunha (UAveiro - PT)

Carlos Cardeira (IST - PT)

Carlos Carreto (IPG - PT)

Danica Kragic (KTH -SE)

Dimos Dimarogonas (MIT - USA)

Eduardo Silva (ISEP - PT)

Estela Bicho (UMinho - PT)

Fernando Ribeiro (UMinho - PT)

Fernando Lobo Pereira (FEUP - PT)

Filipe Silva (UAveiro - PT)

François Chaumette (IRISA - FR)

Gerhard Kraezschmar (Fh-Bonn-Rhein-Sieg - D)

Gil Lopes (UMinho - PT)

Helder Araújo (UCoimbra - PT)

Huosheng Hu (U. Essex - UK)

João Caldas Pinto (IST - PT)

João Miguel Sousa (IST - PT)

João Sequeira (IST - PT)

Jorge Dias (UCoimbra - PT)

Jorge Ferreira (UAveiro - PT)

José Miguel Almeida (ISEP - PT)

José L. Lima (IPB - PT)

José Sá da Costa (IST - PT)

José Santos-Victor (IST - PT)

J. Felippe Souza (UBI - PT)

José L. Azevedo (UAveiro - PT)

José Tenreiro Machado (ISEP - PT)

Luigi Villani (UNINA - IT)

Luís Almeida (UAveiro - PT)

Luís Paulo Reis (FEUP - PT)

Luís Seabra Lopes (UAveiro - PT)

Maria Isabel Ribeiro (IST - PT)

Nicolás García-Aracil (UMH - ES)

Norberto Pires (UCoimbra - PT)

Paolo Dario (SSSUP - IT)

Paolo Fiorini (UNIVR - IT)

Paulo Costa (FEUP - PT)

Paulo Menezes (UC - PT)

Paulo Oliveira (IST - PT)

Paulo Goncalves (IPCB - PT)

Pedro Lima (IST - PT)

Philippe Martinet (LASMEA - FR)

Roland Siegwart (ETHZ - CH)

Rui Cortesão (UCoimbra - PT)

Toshio Fukuda (UNagoya - JP)

Urbano Nunes (UCoimbra - PT)

Vicente Matellán (ULeon - ES)

Vítor Santos (UAveiro - PT)

We would appreciate if you could forward this CfP to your colleagues.

Best regards,

Carlos Neves

ROBOTICA2010 Chair

Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria

Director of the Superior School of Technology and Management of Leiria

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