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[robotic]

International Conference:
Going Beyond the Laboratory Ethical and Societal Challenges for Robotics
February 13-15, 2014, Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK)
? Institute for Advanced Study, Delmenhorst, Germany,
Website: http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/ast/gbtl



CONFERENCE OVERVIEW:
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The conference deals with societal consequences arising from the
introduction of advanced robot technology into everyday life, focusing on
the real-world applications of service and welfare robots such as
companionship, nursing or child care. The intent of the conference is to
examine how the increasing sophistication of robots and their deployment
outside the laboratory may exert crucial effects on man-machine
relationship, disrupt institutional orders of modern society, and require
rethinking of various normative issues. When robots go beyond the
laboratory, it is a challenge for robotics as well as for lay people who are
the expected interaction partners of such robots. Which new institutional
rules are needed to guide the expected man-machine relationship? From a
sociological point of view it is likely that society will not react with one
voice to these developments. Probably engineers/scientists, lay persons,
lawyers, politicians or entrepreneurs will hold different views on
autonomous robots. Therefore an interdisciplinary discussion is required.

The main subject areas of the conference are:
(1) The agency of the robot: To what extend do robots act autonomously? Are
robots able to perceive or to have expectations? Do robots have social
agency? Does robotics urge us to reconsider our concepts of agency,
personhood or companionship?
(2) Robots beyond the laboratory: Will they be accepted by lay persons? How
do lay people feel with a robot companion or a robot caregiver? How should
we deal with ethical questions raised by the replacement of human care
givers with robots?
(3) The social status of the robot: Which legal status is appropriate for an
autonomous robot? Are robots responsible agents? Or: Who else should be held
responsible for the robots actions? What are the standpoints of
science/engineering, economics or politics on robots?
(4) Cross-cultural analysis: How do people?s attitudes towards robots vary
due to the local cultural circumstances?

The organizers invite contributions for the poster session which provides an
occasion for presenting late-breaking results, ongoing research projects,
and innovative work in progress. Posters will be displayed for the duration
of the conference, giving presenters an opportunity for informal discussions
with conference attendees. Especially researchers and practitioners from the
area of human-robot interaction and social robotics are encouraged to submit
proposals for poster presentation.

PROPOSAL REQUIREMENTS:
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Posters should describe novel or interesting research topics in line with
the above mentioned themes, and give a brief overview of theoretical
framework, research questions, methodology and possibly preliminary results.
Submissions should consist of (1) a 1 page summary (as a DOC/DOCX-file; no
more than 500 words) and (2) a draft of poster layout (as a PDF file).
Please also attach (3) your full contact details (name and professional
affiliation of the author/s; name and e-mail address of the corresponding
author).
Submissions and questions should be sent to gbtl (at) uni-oldenburg.de by 15
November 2013, listing ?GBTL Poster Session? as the subject heading of
e-mail.

IMPORTANT DATES:
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- Submission deadline: 15 November 2013
- Notification of acceptance: 1 December 2013

IMPORTANT NOTES:
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Posters will NOT be printed by the conference organizer. The abstracts of
all accepted posters will be published on the conference website. Presenters
of an accepted poster must register for the conference (registration is
expected to open in mid-November 2013) and present their work at the
allocated space. The organizers should be contacted in case of any special
requirement.

ORGANIZERS:
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Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Dept. of Social Sciences,
Research Unit ?Sociological Theory? (AST) ? Prof. Dr. Gesa Lindemann
(Director), Dr. Gregor Fitzi, Hironori Matsuzaki, Ilona Straub

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS/PANELLISTS:
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For the oral presentations and the panel, we invite world-leading experts
from different scientific disciplines (Robotics, Jurisprudence, Social
Sciences, Philosophy, and Ethics) as well as industrial and governmental
circles to enable a wide-ranging exchange and in-depth discussions on the
above mentioned issues.

- Prof. Atsuo Takanishi, Waseda University, Japan (Keynote Address)
- Dr. Giorigio Metta, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
- Prof. Cecilia Laschi, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
- Dr. Birgit Graf, Fraunhofer IPA, Germany
- Prof. Yukie Nagai, Osaka University, Japan
- Prof. Morana Ala?, UC San Diego, USA
- Prof. Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
- Dr. Martin Meister, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
- Dr. Susanne Beck, University of W?rzburg, Germany
- Tomoko Nambu LL.M., River-City Legal Profession Corporation, Japan
- Bj?rn Juretzki, European Commission
- Bruno Maisonnier, Aldebaran Robotics, France
- Dr. Kohtaro Ohba, AIST, Japan
- Prof. Guglielmo Tamburrini, University of Naples, Italy
- Prof. Robert Sparrow, Monash University, Australia
- Dr. Diego Compagna, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
- Prof. Johanna Seibt, Aarhus University, Denmark
- Dr. Shuichi Nishio, ATR, Japan
- Prof. Selma ?abanovi?, Indiana University, USA
- Prof. Thomas Christaller, Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany
- Prof. Werner Rammert, Berlin Institute of Technology, Germany
- Dr. Mark Coeckelbergh, University of Twente, the Netherlands
- Dr. Karola Pitsch, Bielefeld University, Germany

For further details and updates, please consult the conference web site at
URL: http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/ast/gbtl, or e-mail to
gbtl(at)uni-oldenburg.de (replace (at) with @)

Thank you very much!

Sincerely

International Conference ?Going Beyond the Laboratory
? Ethical and Societal Challenges for Robotics?
Organizing Team:
Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg,
Department of Social Sciences, Research Unit "Sociological Theory"
* Gesa Lindemann (Director)
* Gregor Fitzi
* Hironori Matsuzaki
* Ilona Straub



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Hironori Matsuzaki M.A.
Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Department of Social Sciences,
Research Unit "Sociological Theory"
Ammerlaender Heerstr. 114-118
D-26129 Oldenburg Germany

Room: A6-4-430
Telefon: +49 441 798-2791
Telefax: +49 441 798-4584
E-Mail: hironori.matsuzaki@uni-oldenburg.de

http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/ast/matsuzaki
http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/en/robo-com/

[robotic]

Third Symposium on Binaural Active Audition for Humanoid Robots BINAAHR
September 30, October 1-2 2013
LAAS-CNRS (Europe Room), Toulouse, France

This symposium focuses on theoretical and pragmatical aspects of
binaural audition. It is organized in the framework of the
French-Japanese BINAAHR (BINaural Active Audition for Humanoid Robots)
project, jointly funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR)
and by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). A two-day series
of papers will be presented by three invited external lecturers and by
members of the BINAAHR consortium. A full-day tutorial on the
open-source robot audition ``HARK?? library will conclude the event

Registration is free, and will be opened until September 20, 2013.

More information (including an URL for hotels with special discounts) is
available at the URL
http://projects.laas.fr/BINAAHR/BINA...mposium-v1.pdf

Thank you very much.
Patrick

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Patrick DAN?S - LAAS-CNRS (room D27) & Univ Toulouse III Paul Sabatier
7 avenue du Colonel Roche, BP 54200, F-31031 Toulouse Cedex 4, France
mailto:patrick.danes@laas.fr | T: +33(0)561337825 | F: +33(0)561336455

[robotic]

Call for contributions to Springer Cosmos Series Book on Metrics of sensory motor integration in robots and animals

we are editing a book on Metrics of sensory motor integration in
robots and animals to appear in Springer's COSMOS series,
http://www.springer.com/series/8354.
It will be a survey and reference book on the
topic.
This is a reminder that you are kindly invited to submit a book chapter.
As you know Cosmos is the cognitive topic twin book series to the
robotics topic STAR, so it is an excellent venue to publish your work and
ideas.
The deadline for full chapters is November 15th. Acceptance will be
notified to successful contributions by December 15th. Final version
will be due by January 31st.
More details in the stub of the book below.
Feel free to contact any of us for any question which may arise
We look forward your contributions
All the best

Fabio. Angel, Elena and John

IMPORTANT DATES:

Full chapters (Springer COSMOS format): _November 15th_
Acceptance notification: December 15th.
Final version: January 31st.



Title: Metrics of sensory motor coordination and integration in robots
and animals
Subtitle:
How to measure the success of bio-inspired solutions with respect to
their natural models, and against more ?artificial? solutions?

Bio-inspiration, in various forms, is a popular trend in robotics
research. The methodologies adopted in Robotics are sometimes coarser
than those used by natural sciences such as
neurophysiology/neurosciences and biology to quantitatively evaluate
the performance in similar classes of functions. Also for those kinds
of considerations, the interest in experimental methodologies
increased dramatically within the robotics community, both from
researchers, aiming at more grounded and fast research advancement,
and from public funding agencies, according to the idea that good
experimental activities could reduce the gap between research and
industrial applications.
Some projects have been funded by the European Commission and a series
of workshops have been held in the latest years. Indeed, the
definition of proper benchmarking procedures has become a key
requisite of European project funding application.
The aim of this book is to discuss these fundamental issues in the
context of a specific subset of problems: namely, the metrics for
sensory motor coordination in Robotics/AI and Cognitive Science (also
with respect to the role of experiments) in artificial and natural
intelligent/cognitive systems, and the way the same or similar
functions are evaluated in biology, neuroscience/neurophysiology and
psychology.
We also aim to lay some foundations toward a replicable robotics
research publishing thread based on the publication of fully
replicable experiments.
This will reduce the distance from disciplines studying artificial and
natural autonomous systems.
The book has a broad interdisciplinary approach and covers some of the
more relevant issues related to the metrics of sensory motor
integration in robots and animals.
It is a widespread opinion that interdisciplinary research in
biomimetics is beneficial on both biology and engineering sides, as
engineering can provide insightful physical models of the animals and
natural cognitive systems, while biology provide inspiration to
engineering research. In particular the study of the actual modalities
of sensory motor coordination, which are the main focus of this books,
benefit and will benefit in the future from joint research involving
biologists, robotic and cognitive science researchers and
neuroscientists.
In robotics and cognitive sciences there is a clear need of more
replicable research and of objective
measurement methods and benchmarking procedures, the example coming
from other research fields is proving quite productive. A realistic
assessment of the situation forces us to recognize that there are
still gaps in the scientific modeling and understanding of important
cognitive processes in animals and their synthesis in engineering
artifacts. This makes the measuring and comparison of complex
cognitive behaviors more difficult. The contributions in this book
focus on one of the simpler animal and robot behavior: sensory motor
coordination. They are organized in four sections, addressing the main
areas of investigation in this area. In section I and II, methods for
measuring sensory motor coordination in animals, methods for measuring
sensory motor coordination in robots are described. Section III and IV
have a more theoretical nature, as in Section III, quantitative models
and mathematical tools are illustrated in detail, while Section IV
gathers more speculative contributions and position chapters.
The authors are some of the leading researcher in the biomimetics
growing areas of interdisciplinary research. As a whole this
proceeding book, originated by an IROS workshop on the same themes,
provides an insightful panorama of the ongoing work, and hopefully
inspiration for further research.
TOC?s Structure (final TOC will depend on accepted submissions to the
open call and invited chapter submissions)
Introduction (from the editors)
Section I
Engineering methods for measuring sensory motor integration and
coordination in animals
...
Section II
Engineering methods for measuring sensory motor integration and
coordination in robots
?
Section III
Quantitative Models and Mathematical Tools
?
Section IV
Ideas
IV.1 Discussion (by the editors)
...
List of topics for the open call:
* Metrics for sensory motor coordination and visual servoing
effectiveness and efficiency;
* Metrics for shared control effectiveness and efficiency;
* Benchmarking autonomy and robustness to changes in the environment/task;
*Measures of dexterity
* Scalable autonomy measurements;
* Design of Experiments in Robotics/AI;
* Execution of Experiments in Robotics;
* Comparison of experimental methodology in
neurosciences/neurophysiology and in Robotics;
* Comparison of experimental methodology in
neurosciences/neurophysiology and in AI;
* Comparison of experimental methodology in Biology and in Robotics;
* Comparison of experimental methodology in Biology and in AI;
* Success metrics in bioinspired Robotics;
* Experimental scenarios to evaluate performance, demonstrate
generality, and measure robustness in robots and animals;
* Well grounded experimental methods to compare artificial and natural
cognitive systems;
* Performance metrics based on Shannon entropy related measures;
* Performance metrics based on dynamical systems methods;
* Performance modeling of the relationship between a task and the
environment where it is performed
* Relationship between benchmarking and replication of experiments with
robots;
* Reporting experiments in Robotics;
* Epistemological issues;
* Examples of Good Practice;
* Evaluation of Experimental Robotics Work;
* Proposals for Promotion of Good Experimental Work;


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CONFIDENTIAL AND PRE-DECISIONAL INFORMATION


Fabio P. Bonsignorio

IEEE Senior Member

Ceo
Heron Robots s.r.l.
Via R.Ceccardi 1/18
I-16121 Genova
Italy
www.heronrobots.com

Founding Past Director
euRobotics aisbl

Professor
Banco de Santander Chair of Excellence in Robotics
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Edificio Agust?n de Betancourt, Despacho 1.3B01
Avda. Universidad, 30
28911 Legan?s
Spain

[robotic]

We Robot 2014: Risks and Opportunities
April 4 & 5, 2014
Coral Gables, FL


We invite submissions for "We Robot 2014: Risks & Opportunities" - a
conference at the intersection of the law, policy, and technology of
robotics, to be held in Coral Gables, Florida on April 4-5, 2014. We
Robot is now in its third year, returning to the University of Miami
School of Law after being hosted by Stanford Law School last
April. The conference web site is at http://robots.law.miami.edu/2014.

We Robot 2014 seeks contributions by academics, practitioners, and
developers in the form of scholarly papers or presentations of
relevant projects. We invite your reports from the front lines of
robot design and development, and invite contributions for
works-in-progress sessions. Through this interdisciplinary gathering,
we are encouraging conversations between the people designing,
building, and deploying robots, and the people who design or influence
the legal and social structures in which robots will operate. We
particularly encourage contributions resulting from interdisciplinary
collaborations, such as those between legal or policy scholars and
roboticists.

Robotics is becoming a transformative technology that presents many
legal and social challenges. This conference will build on existing
scholarship that explores how the increasing sophistication and
autonomous decision-making capabilities of robots and their widespread
deployment everywhere from the home, to hospitals, to public spaces,
and even to the battlefield disrupts existing legal regimes or
requires rethinking of various policy issues.

Scholarly Papers

- Topics of interest for the scholarly paper portion of the conference
include but are not limited to:
- Risks and opportunities of robot deployment in the workplace, the
home, and other contexts where robots and humans work side-by-side.
- Issues related to software-only systems such as automated trading
agents.
- Regulatory and licensing issues raised by robots in the home, the
office, in public spaces (e.g. roads), and in specialized
environments such as hospitals.
- Design of legal rules that will strike the right balance between
encouraging innovation and safety, particularly in the context of
autonomous robots.
- Issues of legal or moral responsibility, e.g. relating to autonomous
robots or robots capable of exhibiting emergent behavior.
- Usage of robots in public safety and military contexts.
- Privacy issues relating to data collection by robots, either built
for that purpose or incidental to other tasks.
- Intellectual property challenges relating to robotics as a nascent
industry, to works or inventions created by robots, or otherwise
peculiar to robotics.
- Issues arising from automation of professional tasks such as
unauthorized practice of law or medicine.
- How legal scholars should think about robots, and how roboticists
should think about the legal code.

These are only some examples of relevant topics. We are very
interested in papers on other topics driven by actual or probable
robot deployments. The purpose of this conference is to help set a
research agenda relating to the deployment of robots in society, to
inform policy-makers of the issues, and to help design legal rules
that will maximize opportunities and minimize risks arising from the
increased deployment of robots in society.

Discussants

We also invite expressions of interest from potential
discussants. Every paper accepted will be assigned a discussant whose
job it will be to present and comment on the paper. These
presentations will be very brief (no more than 10 minutes) and will
consist mostly of making a few points critiquing the author?s paper to
kick off the conversation. Authors will then respond briefly (no more
than 5 minutes). The rest of the session will consist of a group
discussion about the paper moderated by the discussant. Attendees will
need to read papers in advance to understand and participate in each
discussion.

Works-in-Progress Presentations

Unlike the scholarly papers, proposals for the works-in-progress
presentations may be purely descriptive and designer/builders will be
asked to present their work themselves. We?d like to hear about your
latest innovations ? and what's on the drawing board for the next
generations of robots as well, or about legal and policy issues you
have encountered in the design or deploy process.

How to Submit Your Proposal

Please send a 1-3 page abstract outlining your proposed paper, and a
c.v. of the author(s).

- Paper proposals accepted at http:/robots.law.miami.edu/papers
starting Oct. 1, 2013. See http:/robots.law.miami.edu/2014 for
further information.
- Call for papers closes Nov 4, 2013
- Responses by Dec. 2, 2013
- Full papers due by March 14, 2014. They will be posted on line at
the conference web site.

We Robot 2014 will be hosted by the University of Miami School of Law,
Coral Gables, Florida on April 4-5, 2014. Venue details are at the
conference web site.

We anticipate paying reasonable round-trip domestic coach airfare and
providing hotel accommodation for presenters and discussants.

[robotic]

11th International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics
WAFR

August 3-5, 2014
Bogazici University
Istanbul, Turkey
http://www.wafr.org/

AIM And SCOPE

The International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics
(WAFR) is a single-track workshop devoted to recent advances on
algorithmic problems in robotics. The workshop proceedings will be
published in a hardcover volume in the Springer STAR series, and
selected papers will be invited for publication in a special issue of the
International Journal of Robotics Research.

Robot algorithms are a fundamental component of robotic systems. These
algorithms process inputs from sensors that provide noisy and partial
data, build geometric and physical models of the world, plan high-and
low-level actions at different time horizons, and execute these
actions on actuators with limited precision. The design and analysis
of robot algorithms raise a unique combination of questions from many
fields, including control theory, computational geometry and topology,
geometrical and physical modeling, reasoning under uncertainty,
probabilistic algorithms, game theory, and theoretical computer
science.

TOPICS

The focus of WAFR is on the design and analysis of robot algorithms
from both theoretical and practical angles. The topics of interest are
very broad. We encourage papers on fundamental algorithmic issues,
such as complexity, completeness, machine learning, probabilistic
reasoning, and new programming paradigms, to name a few. We also
encourage papers on applications of robot algorithms to important or
new domains, such as manufacturing, legged locomotion, distributed
robotics, human-robot interaction, surgical robots, intelligent
prosthetics, and brain-controlled robots. Furthermore, robot
algorithms are being applied in domains beyond the traditional scope
of robotics, e.g., computational biology, computer animation, sensor
networks, etc. Papers on these topics are also welcomed.


WAFR 2014 will place strong emphasis on interactions and
discussions among participants.


IMPORTANT DATES

* Paper submission deadline March 10, 2014
* Notification of acceptance May 12, 2014
* WAFR: August 3-5, 2014
* Final Manuscript September 1, 2014


We look forward to seeing you in Istanbul!

WAFR Co-Organizers:
Levent Akin, Nancy Amato, Volkan Isler and Frank van der Steppen

[robotic]

ICAPS 2014 Robotics Track

This year, the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) introduced a new Robotics track as part of their technical program. The goal of this special track is to highlight research at the intersection of the Robotics and "Planning and Scheduling" fields. We think this track is a good opportunity to reunite the fields of planning and robotics, and that it will be significantly beneficial to both fields. Please consider submitting a publication to this conference to spread the word about our high-quality work in robotics!

Important dates:

* Abstract: October 29, 2013
* Full Paper Submission: November 5, 2013
* Notification: December 20, 2013
* Conference: June 21-26, 2014, Portsmouth, USA

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* combined task and motion/manipulation planning
* planning for perception
* multi-robot planning and coordination
* interleaved planning and execution
* planning in dynamic environments
* planning for human robot interaction
* planning for partially observable and stochastic domains
* acquisition of planning models for robotics
* integration of planning on robots
* learning action and task models
* planning in open domains

For more information, please see the track webpage at:
http://icaps14.icaps-conference.org/specialtracks/robotics.html

Regards,
Kris Hauser

Kris Hauser, PhD
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~hauserk
Office: (812) 856-7496 Fax: (812) 855-4829

[robotic]

Second International Conference on Cable-Driven Parallel Robots

24 - 27th September 2014, Duisburg, Germany

www.uni-due.de/CableCon2014


Objective

The first conference of this series successfully introduced a forum for research on cable robots worldwide. Fifty scientists from three continents gathered in Stuttgart and presented the state of the art, in summarizing contributions and latest research results. The second conference aims to present new results, to provide a forum to exchange ideas, and to establish contacts amongst all international teams in the world.



Conference Topics
Theory and application of cable-driven parallel robots including:

? Classification

? Kinematics, Workspace and Singularity Analysis

? Statics and Dynamics Cable Modeling

? Control and Calibration

? Design Methodology

? Hardware Development

? Experimental Evaluation

? Prototypes, Application Reports and new Application concepts

Organized by

University of Duisburg-Essen

Fraunhofer IPA



General Chair

Tobias Bruckmann, University of Duisburg-Essen

Andreas Pott, Fraunhofer IPA



Scientific Committee

Sunil Agrawal, University of Delaware

Cl?ment Gosselin, Laval University

Marc Gouttefarde, LIRMM

Jean-Pierre Merlet, INRIA

Dieter Schramm, University of Duisburg-Essen

Alexander Verl, University of Stuttgart



Conference Website

www.uni-due.de/CableCon2014



Location

Duisburg lies in one of the most vibrant regions of Germany, the so-called Ruhr, which was the European Capital of Culture in 2010. Once the heart of industrialization in Germany, the region reinvented itself as a cultural and tourism highlight. Duisburg is close to world-famous cities like D?sseldorf (20min by train) and Cologne (50min by train) which are themselves worth a trip. Duisburg can be easily reached by international flights to D?sseldorf Airport (DUS) or Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN).



Paper Electronic Submission

Full papers of 12 pages to be submitted in pdf and LaTeX format via conference website or via email.



Important dates:

Paper submission: 2. March 2014

Notification on acceptance: 30. March 2014

Final Paper: 20. April 2014



Instruction for authors

Guidelines will be available on the webpage.



Presentation and Proceedings

Conference language is English.

Proceedings are published by Springer.



You can find a pdf version of the flyer on the conference homepage. Best regards



Andreas Pott
______________________________
Fraunhofer Institut f?r Produktionstechnik und Automatisierung (IPA)
Dr.-Ing. Andreas Pott Tel.: +49 711 970 1221
Fax.: +49 711 970 1008
Nobelstrasse 12 andreas.pott@ipa.fhg.de <mailto:andreas.pott@ipa.fhg.de>
D-70569 Stuttgart http://www.ipa.fhg.de/ <http://www.ipa.fhg.de/>
Germany

[robotic]

Robotics Science and Systems (RSS) 2014
http://www.roboticsconference.org

University of California at Berkeley
July 12-16, 2014

CALL FOR PAPERS AND WORKSHOP PROPOSALS


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Robotics Science and Systems (RSS) brings together researchers working on
algorithmic and mathematical foundations of robotics, robotics applications,
and analysis of robotic systems. The conference is single-track, and the
final program will be the result of a thorough review process, to give
attendees an opportunity to see the best research in all areas of robotics.
The program will include invited talks as well as oral and poster
presentations of refereed papers. The main conference sessions will be
preceded by two days of workshops and tutorials. Every effort is being made
to keep conference expenses affordable, particularly for student attendees.
All papers presented at the conference will be made freely available for
download on the Internet.


Important Dates:
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Papers:
- Final Submission Deadline: January 30, 2014, 16:59 CST
- Acceptance Notification: April 30, 2014

Workshops:
- Final Submission Deadline: December 16, 2013
- Acceptance Notification: February 17, 2014

RSS 2014 Conference: July 14-16, 2014
RSS 2014 Workshops: July 12-13, 2014

Topic Areas:
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Papers containing original and unpublished work are solicited in all areas
of robotics, including (but not limited to) the following: Kinematics,
Dynamics, Control, Planning, Manipulation, Human-Robot Interaction,
Human-Centered Systems, Field Robotics, Distributed Systems, Medical
Robotics, Biological Robotics, Mechanisms, Robot Perception, Mobile Systems,
Mobility, Estimation, and Learning.


Paper Format:
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Submissions may be up to eight pages in length, including figures and
references. Reviewing for RSS 2014 will be double blind so authors should
not be listed on the title page and reasonable anonymity should be
maintained in the paper. Submissions will be refereed on the basis of
technical quality, novelty, significance, and clarity.

We are looking forward to seeing you in Berkeley!

Dieter Fox, RSS 2014 General Chair
Lydia E. Kavraki, RSS 2014 Program Chair
Tamim Asfour, RSS 2014 Publicity Chair

http://www.roboticsconference.org

[robotic]

The 13th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems - 2014

July 15-19, 2014, Padova and Venice, Italy

The University of Padova, Italy

CALL FOR PAPERS AND WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

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Recent results confirm that robots, machines and systems are rapidly achieving intelligence and autonomy, mastering increasing capabilities in mobility and manipulation, sensing and perception, reasoning and decision making. The Series of International Conferences on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS) founded in 1986 is one of the major events summarizing this trend. The aim of the 13th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems is to further witness the development of these technologies and to foster their adoptions in the industrial sector.

The 13th IAS invites researchers, engineers and experts to submit high quality papers to disseminate, to share and to fruitfully discuss their last achievements and results. IAS will provide forum and workshops where participants could exchange their ideas and experiences in the research and industrial fields through high quality peer reviewed papers.

After the successful IAS-12 Conference held in Korea with more than 300 participants, the 13th IAS will be held in Italy in July 2014.

The main sessions of the 13th IAS Conference and Workshop will be held in the historical city of Padua, from July 15 to July 18, 2014, in one of the oldest universities in the world. The venue will be the beautiful Padua Conference Center and participants will enjoy an exciting social program. From the evening of July 18 till the evening of July 19 a Post-Conference Workshop celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Foundation of IAS-Society will be held in Venice city, at Telecom Italia Future Center, close to Rialto Bridge. On Saturday 19, Participants join a wonderful social event in the Special Fireworks Night of Venetian "Feast of the Redeemer".

The organizing committee invites you to submit high quality papers, propose a workshop, organize a tutorial, participate in the conference and enjoy the rich cultural environment, the exciting social events and the beautiful locations of Padova and Venice.

Important Dates:
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Papers:

- Final submission deadline: February 1, 2014
- Acceptance notification: April 1, 2014

** Conference Proceedings will be published in Springer Series "Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing" indexed by ISI Proceedings, EI-Compendex, DBLP, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Springerlink **

Workshops & Tutorials:

- Final Submission Deadline: January 10, 2014
- Acceptance Notification: March 1, 2014


13th IAS - 2014 Conference: July 16-17-18, 2014

13th IAS - 2014 Workshops: July 15 & 18, 2014


Conference Scope and Topics:
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Submissions of original scientific works are solicited in all areas of autonomous systems research. IAS-13 extends its scope to cover special sessions which highlight some major fields of interest. The tracks and special themes will be composed of, but not limited to:
Underwater/Aerial Robots
Agriculture Robot
Space Robotics
Biomimetic robotics
Intelligent Transportation systems
Networked robots
Mobiligence
Rescue Robots
SWARM Intelligent Robot
Domestic Personal Robots
Visual servoing/Robot vision
Medical/rehabilitation robotics
Perception/learning
Robotic mechanism and design
Human-robot interface
Distributed Robot Coordination
Multi-agent systems
Micro Robot
Humanoids
Service/life support robots
Intelligent Security & Surveillance Systems
IAS for manufacturing
Professional Service Robots
Haptics/teleoperation
Motion Planning
Navigation/localization
Robot Simulations

Organizing Committee

Honorary Co-Chairs:
Ruediger Dillmann (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
Frans Groen (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Steering Committee:
Hajime Asama (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Henrik Christensen (Georgia Tech, USA)
Maria Gini (University of Minnesota, USA)
Sukhan Lee (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea)
Enrico Pagello (University of Padova, Italy)
Rolf Pfeifer (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
General Chair:
Emanuele Menegatti (University of Padova, Italy)


Asia Regional PC Chair:
Hiroaki Yamaguchi (Aiyama Gakuin Univeristy, Japan)

Americas Regional PC Chair:
Nathan Michael (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

Europe/Africa Regional PC Chair:
Karsten Berns (Kaiserslautern University of Technology, Germany)


IAS-13 Secretariat:
IT+Robotics srl
Meeting Management
Strada Prima 11, 35129 Padova (PD), Italy
Tel. : +39 049 80 75 216
Fax. : +39 049 21 08 819
Email : ias-13@it-robotics.it
Web : http://www.it-robotics.it



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Prof. Emanuele Menegatti, Ph.D.
General Chair of "13th IAS Conference" in July 2014
http://www.ias-13.org

Intelligent Autonomous Systems Laboratory (IAS-Lab)
Department of Information Engineering
The University of Padua
via g. gradenigo 6/A
I-35131 Padova - ITALY

Skype: emanuele.menegatti
Phone: ++39 049 827 7651
Mobile: ++39 347 090 77 97
FAX: ++39 049 827 7799
http://www.dei.unipd.it/~emg

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ISR/Robotik 2014

we would like to inform you about next year's "45st International
Symposium on Robotics (ISR 2014) and the 8th German Conference on
Robotics (ROBOTIK 2014) - ISR/ROBOTIK 2014", which will be held between
June 2nd and June 4th 2014 at the Munich Trade Fair Centre, Germany.

In about 150 presentations, ISR/ROBOTIK 2014 will, once again, give an
insight to the latest state-of-the-art robot technology to participants
from both industry and science. Sessions will be held on Research and
Development as well as Components & Technologies, also Robotics in
Production / Industrial Robots will be addressed as well as Robotics in
Service / Mobile Robotics. Additionally there will be sessions on
Robotics in New Markets & Applications and Economic, Social, Educational
and Environmental Issues.

The joint conference is organized in conjunction with the international
trade fair AUTOMATICA. The international trade fair for automation and
mechatronics AUTOMATICA has again been chosen as conference platform.
AUTOMATICA expects more than 800 exhibitors and more than 30,000
visitors from June 3-6, 2014. As the fair will last longer than ISR/
ROBOTIK 2014, there is the possibility and time for all conference
participants to visit this interesting exhibition during and after the
conference.

Authors are cordially invited to submit papers for ISR/ROBOTIK 2014
under the following link:

http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=16005

Your support is highly appreciated - please feel free to share this
information widely!

Please find the Call for Papers under the following link:

http://www.isr-robotik-2014.com

We would appreciate to receive your abstract until December 1st, 2013.

Looking forward to a good start of the preparations for ISR/ROBOTIK 2014!

Alexander Verl (Chair of ISR 2014 on behalf of the International
Federation of Robotics (IFR))

Karsten Berns (Chair of ROBOTIK 2014 on behalf of the German Society for
Robotics (DGR))


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Phone: +49 631 205 - 2627
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Email: armbrust@informatik.uni-kl.de
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