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Special Issue on Mobile Microrobots in the International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems

The International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems invites you to submit
a paper for an upcoming Special Issue on *Design, Fabrication, Control, and
Planning of Multiple Mobile Microrobots*. The journal publishes
peer-reviewed articles covering all aspects of research within robotics and
is the only ISI-indexed Open Access journal in the field.



The proposed special issue (SI) focuses on new approaches and future
directions on developing microrobotic systems where multiple mobile robots
operate in parallel to perform complex manipulations. Such manipulations
are increasingly playing a major role in biology and medicine as for
example by realizing targeted drug therapy. They are also bringing about a
new paradigm in the manufacturing of miniature devices by enabling
microassembly of heterogeneous components in three dimensions.



The microrobots can be actuated in a variety of ways ranging from
electrical and magnetic to mechanical, optical, and even acoustic or
chemical. Design and fabrication of the robots depends a lot on the
actuation technique, and becomes quite challenging for autonomous
operations within constrained workspaces across large distances (orders of
magnitudes more than their characteristic dimensions) and for significant
time durations (minutes or more). Furthermore, controlling and planning
their motions provide additional challenges, particularly to generate
collision-free trajectories independently for each robot with the aim of
achieving coordinated behaviors to maximize the overall operation
efficiency and reliability. While significant progress has been achieved
over the past few years, we are still quite far off from deploying such
autonomous microrobot groups in clinical laboratories or industrial
manufacturing facilities.



This SI solicits original and unpublished high-quality research and
application results in the above-mentioned topic area. The submissions can
also present surveys that summarize state-of-the-art theories and practices
in the area. The topics to be covered include but are not limited to:



- Design of biomimetic and low power-consuming microrobots

- Parallel fabrication of microrobots with complex shapes

- Coordinated and networked control of multiple microrobots

- Motion and path planning of multiple microrobots

- Autonomous mobile microrobots actuated using hybrid techniques
(e.g. optoelectronic)

- Drug delivery, discovery, and screening using microrobots

- Cell sorting and assay formation using microrobotic manipulation

- Automated microassembly of 3D objects



Important Dates



- Deadline for initial paper submission: January 30, 2014

- Author notification after completion of first review: March 18,
2014

- Deadline for revised paper submission (if needed): April 18, 2014

- Final author notification: May 31, 2014

- Deadline for final accepted paper submission: June 15, 2014

- Anticipated publication date: August, 2014



To submit your research paper, please refer to the following link:

http://www.editorialmanager.com/ijars/.



To view further details about this SI, please visit
http://www.intechopen.com/journals/s...%20Microrobots
.



We look forward to receiving your paper in the forthcoming weeks and would
be happy to answer any questions that you might have.


Best Regards,



Dr. Ashis Banerjee, GE Global Resarch, USA

Dr. David Folio, PRISME, Ensi de Bourges, France

Dr. Sarthak Misra, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Dr. Quan Zhou, Aalto University, Finland



Guest Editors
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems

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Call for Papers
Special Issue of Robotics on "Robot Vision"
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/robotics...s/robot-vision
Final deadline for Submission 28 February 2014

Vision is one of the major senses that enables humans to act and
interact in changing environments. In a similar vein, computer vision
should play an equally important role in relation to intelligent
robotics. Vision and image understanding techniques are now applied in a
range of robotics applications either as an alternative or a supplement
to other sensing modalities. There have been significant recent advances
in robust visual inference for mobility and manipulation among other
tasks. This special issue welcomes submissions in both advances in the
theory of vision with relevance to robotics and applications of computer
vision in robotics. We particularly encourage papers with thorough
experimental evaluation.

Topics of interest include

new visual sensors
hardware implementations of visual processing algorithms
novel algorithms and architectures for vision
real-time visual processing
integration of vision and haptics
integration of vision and other modalities
recovery of 3D object shape
object recognition and categorisation
perception of objects with transparent and specular surfaces
vision for articulated and deformable objects
vision for manipulation
visual servoing
active vision
visual tracking and vision in multi-modal tracking
visual navigation
vision in unstructured environments
visual place recognition and categorization
visual recovery of scene structure
visual slam
vision for robot human interaction
biologically motivated vision approaches applied to robot systems
evaluation metrics for vision systems
applications of robot vision

Guest Editors:

Jeremy L. Wyatt
Danica Kragic
Norbert Kr?ger
Ales Leonardis

Submission Rules

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be
under consideration for publication elsewhere (N.B. Conference papers
may only be submitted if the paper was not originally copyrighted and if
it has been extended substantially and completely re-written). All
manuscripts are refereed through a peer-review process. A guide for
authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is
available on the Instructions for Authors page. Robotics is an
international peer-reviewed Open Access quarterly journal published by
MDPI. Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a
manuscript.

--
Prof Jeremy L Wyatt
Intelligent Robotics Lab
Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Robotics
School of Computer Science
University of Birmingham
www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~jlw || +44 121 414 4788

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CFP for SI on Neuronal Dynamics Approaches to Cognitive Robotics

http://versita.com/wp-content/upload...botics_v21.pdf

Paladyn. Journal of Behavioral Robotics invites manuscripts for the Special Issue on Neuronal Dynamics Approaches
to Cognitive Robotics. Neuronal dynamics provides a powerful theoretical language with which embodied and situated
cognitive systems can be designed and modeled. It is based on neural principles, but also enables robotic implementation
through simple interfaces with sensory and motor systems.

The special issue will be based on the materials from the summer school on Neuronal dynamics approaches to cognitive
robotics, organized by the Institut fur Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany: http://www.robotics-school.org.
The special issue also invites manuscripts from other interested researchers as well. The scope of the topical issue includes
but is not limited to:

- behavioral dynamics
- neural dynamics
- dynamics of learning
- cognitive robotics
- developmental robotics
- affective robotics
- neurally inspired robotics
- neural networks, neural computation
- humanoids
- human-robot interaction, symbiotic robots
- evolutionary robotics

Manuscript Submission

The authors are kindly invited to register at our paper processing system at: http://www.editorialmanager.com/paladyn/
and submit their contribution using a special track established for this topical issue. All papers will go through the
Paladyn's high standards, quick, fair and comprehensive peer-review procedure. Instructions for authors are available
online at: http://www.degruyter.com/view/supple...or_Authors.pdf . In case of any questions
please contact Managing Editor.

Important Dates

Full paper submission due: January 1, 2014
Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2014
Revised version due: July 1, 2014
Publication: September, 2014

Coordinating Editor
Prof. Gregor Schoner, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany

Managing Editor
Natalia Efremova, Versita, Poland
nefremova@versita.com

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SNF Workshop on Self-Organizing Robots
Registration is now open at http://sops2014.cs.upb.de/registration.html

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? SOPS 2014
? NSF Workshop SOPS
? January 8, 2014, co-located with SODA
? http://sops2014.cs.upb.de/

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The goal of this NSF-sponsored workshop is to bring together people from the
theory and practice of self-organizing robotic, physical and biological
systems in order to report on recent advances in this area and to identify
directions for interdisciplinary research that may help shape the future of
the field. The one-day meeting will consist of several invited talks and
discussion sessions around four major research areas, namely

- self-organizing robotic systems,
- amorphous computing,
- self-organizing biological systems, and
- self-assembling DNA

Invited speakers:

Bernard Chazelle (Princeton U.)????????????? ? Nikolaus Correll (U. Colorado
Boulder)
Eric Klavins???? (U. of Washington)?? John Reif??????? (Duke University)
Andrea Richa???? (Arizona State U.)?? Rebecca Schulman (Johns Hopkins U.)
Erik Winfree???? (Caltech)??????????? Mark Yim???????? (U. Pennsylvania)

Organizers:
???????????????
Andrea W. Richa????? ?Arizona State University, USA
Christian Scheideler? University of Paderborn, Germany

For more information, including the workshop program, please consult

http://sops2014.cs.upb.de/

Early registration deadline: December 2, 2013

NSF-funded travel grants are available for PhD students, postdocs, women,
and under-represented minorities. Application deadline: November 17, 2013

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CTS 2014 - Workshop on Collaborative Robots and Human Robot Interaction CR-HRI

Call For Papers

Submission Deadline: December 30, 2013

International Workshop on Collaborative Robots and Human Robot Interaction (CR-HRI 2014)
As part of The 2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2014)
(http://cts2014.cisedu.info/)
May 19-23, 2014
The Commons Hotel
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

LINK:
http://cts2014.cisedu.info/2-confere...shop-07-cr-hri

SCOPE AND OBJECTIVE
Applications of and research on robotic technologies are growing in both civilian and military contexts,
including small unmanned ground sensors, socially assistive and companion robots, and multi-ton
unmanned vehicles. In the near future, we anticipate that robots will be increasingly employed in
collaborative interaction with humans and other robots, working together to achieve common goals. The
study, design, and implementation of interaction among collaborative robots as well as between robots
and their human operators is critical to the successful employment of robots, and, therefore, needs
careful examination and further research.

This workshop on collaborative robots and human-robot interactions - to be held as part of the 2014
International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems -
will focus on the areas of human-robot interaction and human-robot collaborative technologies.
We invite original contributions from researchers in academia, research laboratories, and the computer industry on these emerging and
important areas of information technology. Our goals are to provide a dedicated refereed workshop that
fosters closer interaction among researchers from multiple relevant disciplines, including robotics,
human-robot interaction, design, cognitive science, psychology, computer science, anthropology,
human-computer interaction, as well as user communities, and to provide a forum in which they can exchange
their findings and ideas.

Technical Program Committee
Cecilio Angulo, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain
Amin Atrash, University of Southern California, CA, USA
Antonio Bandera, University of M?laga, Spain
Jacob Crandall, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, UAE
David Filliat, ENSTA-ParisTech, France
Ismael Garc?a-Varea, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Vicente Matell?n, University of Le?n, Spain
Abdel-Illah Mouaddib, University of Caen, France
Michael Walters, University of Hertfordshire, U.K.
Astrid Weiss, TU Wien , Austria

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
Adriana Tapus, ENSTA-ParisTech, France (adriana.tapus@ensta-paristech.fr)
Pablo Bustos, Extramadura University, Spain (pbustos@unex.es)

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TRTWR & RIE 2014 - Call for papers

Two distinguished events in the field of Educational Robotics, the International Workshop ?Teaching Robotics & Teaching with Robotics? (TRTWR) and the International Conference ?Robotics in Education? (RIE) join forces in 2014. The joint TRTWR & RIE 2014 event will be held in Padova, Italy, July 18, 2014.

Official website http://www.terecop.eu/TRTWR-RIE2014.htm

Additionally, the 13th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems http://www.ias-13.org/ has been chosen as conference platform. As the IAS conference will last from July 15 to July 18, 2014, there is a possibility and time for all participants to attend this interesting conference as well. On Saturday, July 19, participants can also join the Special Fireworks Night of Venetian Feast of the Redeemer.

TRTWR & RIE 2014 aims at providing an insight to the latest state-of-the-art educational robotics to participants from both academic and school education. Sessions will be held on Research and Development as well as Components & Technologies, also Robotics in Production?

Topics
Papers related, but not limited, to the following topics of interest are welcome:
?Robotics in school
?Robotics curricula
?International trends in educational robotics
?Project-based learning and robotics
?Didactic approaches in educational robotics
?Exemplary robotics projects in classes
?Web-based robotics and simulation
?Assessment and evaluation of robotics--enhanced class activities
?Integration of robotics in school science/informatics/technology curricula
?Integration of robotics in other subjects and school curricula
?Evaluation criteria and tools for measuring the impact of robotics on students? learning
?Constructivism / Constructionism and robotics
?Teacher training in educational robotics
?Methodologies for teaching robotics
?Robotics competitions/contests and their educational impact
?Robotics through Edutainment / Museums / Personal robots and their educational value
?Web-based Robotics, Simulation, remote educational robotics
?Humanoid Robots in education

International Program Committee
Co-Chairs
Dimitris Alimisis, School of Pedagogical & Technological Education, GR
Grzegorz Granosik, Lodz University of Technology, PL
Michele Moro, Information Engineering Dept, Univ. of Padova, IT

Program Committee Members
Richard Balogh, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
Ansgar Bredenfeld, Dr. Bredenfeld UG
Dave Catlin, Valiant Technology
Stavros Demetriadis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
G. Barbara Demo, Dipartimento Informatica, Universita Torino
Jean-Daniel Dessimoz, Western Switzerland University of Applied Sciences, HESSO.HEIG-VD
Nikolaos Fachantidis, University of Western Macedonia
Hugo Ferreira, LSA-ISEP
Paolo Fiorini, Univ. of Verona
Alexander Hofmann, University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien
Boualem Kazed,University of Blida, Algeria
Emanuele Menegatti, University of Padova
Stefano Monfalcon, Museo Civico di Rovereto
Gwen Nugent, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Micheal O Duill, Logios.org
David Obdrzalek, Charles University in Prague
Margus Pedaste, University of Tartu
Pavel Petrovic, Comenius University
Alfredo Pina, Public University of Navarra
Pericle Salvini, BioRobotics Institute Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa
Alexander Schlaefer, Universit?t zu L?beck
Gerald Steinbauer, Graz University of Technology
Roland Stelzer, INNOC - Austrian Society for Innovative Computer Sciences
Francis Wyffels, Department of Electronics and Information Systems, Ghent University
Elisabetta Zibetti, Universit? Paris

Venue
The joint conference TRTWR & RIE 2014 will take place at Congress Centre ?Papa Luciani?, Padova ? Italy, http://www.paduaconferencecenter.com, July 18, 2014 in conjunction with the IAS conference, which will be held July 15-18, 2014.

Paper Submission
Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously. The official language of the TRTWR & RIE 2014 is English. All submitted papers should include: Title of the paper, abstract, keywords, author?s name(s), speaker?s name, affiliation, e-mail, preference for oral or poster presentation. Authors have to submit their paper in pdf format (6-8 pages of DIN A4 sheet) via the EasyChair conference system using the following link:
https://www.easychair.org/conference...f=trtwrrie2014

Authors should follow strictly the typing instructions available in the conference website http://www.terecop.eu/TRTWR-RIE2014.htm

Poster session
We welcome the submission of short papers (2 pages) reporting good practices and successful experiences from educational robotics projects in the form of ?short
paper plus poster?. The short papers (2 pages) will be included in the proceedings; the posters will be presented at the workshop during a poster session.

Publications
All the submissions will be double peer-reviewed. Accepted papers and posters will be published in the proceedings. At least one author for each paper must register in the event to present a paper or a poster. The proceedings will be published in electronic format with ISBN and will be made available through the official conference website available at http://www.terecop.eu/TRTWR-RIE2014.htm Authors of the best published papers will be invited to publish extended versions of their papers in a special issue of an international journal.

Important dates
? submission deadline April 1, 2014
? notification of acceptance May 15, 2014
? Submission deadline for camera ready papers June 15, 2014

Contact
Any inquiries relating to TRTWR & RIE 2014 should be sent to the co-chairs:
Dimitris Alimisis alimisis@otenet.gr
Grzegorz Granosik, Lodz University of Technology, granosik@p.lodz.pl
Michele Moro, University of Padova, michele.moro@unipd.it

Official website http://www.terecop.eu/TRTWR-RIE2014.htm

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Call for Papers

Deadline: 20.12.2013

International Journal of Social Robotics (Springer)
Special Issue on
Artificial Empathy: An Interdisciplinary Investigation
Contact: luisa.damiano@unibg.it
Important Dates:
Paper submission deadline: 20 December 2013
Notification to authors: 20 February 2014
Submission of authors' revised papers: 20 April 2014
Final acceptance: 1 June 2014



Call for papers:
The special issue intends to bring together articles investigating one or
more aspects of Artificial Empathy in Social Robotics, Human Robot
Interaction (HRI) and/or related fields.
The special issue will deal with a variety of questions, related to
theoretical, epistemological, applicative, social, and ethical aspects of
Artificial Empathy. Some of the basic questions are the following.
? What theoretical models of emotions and empathy can be successfully
applied in the context of Social Robotics (e.g. in Assistive Robotics, in
Educational Robotics, etc.)?
? What features of robotic embodiment can facilitate robots in
participating competently in emotional and empathic dynamics with human
beings?
? In order to be effective, does the affective interaction between robots
and humans have to imitate human affective interaction, or should it
develop its own specificities?
? Under which conditions can the creation of robots with affective
competence positively contribute to the scientific study of human
affective development and interactive dynamics?
? What are the implications of introducing robots with affective
competence into our social environment(s)?
? How can/should we think about the (co-)evolution of human and robotic
emotional systems in possible mixed (i.e. human and robotic) future social
ecologies?
? Does handing over aspects of social care to robots mean abandoning
vulnerable individuals (elderly persons, children, persons with special
needs...) to inauthentic affective relations?
? Under which conditions can affective and empathic relations with robots
be considered authentic?
We ask for both position papers proposing specific methodologies or
approaches, and papers describing empirical or theoretical original
research. The idea is that of publishing papers from the special session
on Artificial Empathy that we organized at ICSR 2021, as well as papers
selected through a call for papers and a related peer reviewing process.
In particular, we are looking for papers focusing on:
-models of emotional and empathic HRI, and their applications in concrete
robotic architectures and HRI scenarios;
-paradigms of emotional and empathic HRI;
-the investigation of one or more aspects of Artificial Empathy through
concrete case studies.

Submission details:
- The Instruction for Authors and the standard templates of IJSR for Latex
and Word can be found on this link:
http://www.springer.com/engineering/.../journal/12369 (click
"Instructions for Authors" item on the right column).
- Recommended page limit: 8-14 pages in double column format.
- Please append short author biographies at the end of the manuscript
after the references:
http://www.springer.com/engineering/.../journal/12369 (click
"Vitae/biography" item on the right column).
- The journal now accepts electronic multimedia files (animations, movies,
audio, etc.) and other supplementary files to be published online along
with your article.

How to submit a paper:
Please, if you are interested in participating, write an email to:
luisa.damiano@unibg.it (cc: artificial.empathy@developmentalrobotics.com)
You will receive information about the sumbission procedure.


Guest Editors
Luisa Damiano (University of Bergamo, Italy)
Primary contact <luisa.damiano@unibg.it; luisa.damiano@gmail.com>
Paul Dumouchel (Ristumeikan University, Japan)
<dumouchp@ce.ritsumei.ac.jp>
Hagen Lehmann (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
<h.lehmann@herts.ac.uk>


Summary. One central issue of Social Robotics research is the question of
the affective involvement of users. The problem of creating a robot able
to establish and to participate competently in dynamic affective exchanges
with human partners has been recognized as fundamental, especially for the
success of projects involving Assistive or Educational Robotics. This
locates Social Robotics at the crossroad of many interconnected issues
related to various disciplines, such as Epistemology, Cognitive Science,
Sociology and Ethics.
Among these issues are, for example, the epistemological and theoretical
problems of defining how emotions could be represented in a robot and
under which conditions robots could be able to participate competently in
emotional and empathic dynamics with human beings. Can robots experience
emotions, or only express them? If we identify robotic ?emotions? as ?pure
simulations?, to which no actual experience corresponds, are there
conditions in which we can consider robots as partners in emotional and
empathic relations?
On the one hand these questions are related to basic scientific research,
to which Robotics can contribute through operational models and
experimentation carried out with the help of social robots. On the other
hand these questions are inseparable from the technical issue of an
efficient implementation of theoretical models in the diverse social
environments in which robots are interact with humans. Which are the
current technically feasible models? Which are the results of their
implementation?
The issue of application raises also problems connected to the social and
ethical dimension of Robotics. What are the implications of introducing
robots with affective competence into our social world(s)? To what extent
and in what way will supportive relations be improved if robots gain
affective competences? Does handing over aspects of social care to robots
mean abandoning vulnerable individuals (such as elderly persons, children,
or people with disabilities) to inauthentic affective relations?
These issues lead back to epistemological and theoretical questions. Under
which conditions can affective and empathic relations with robots be
considered authentic? This special session issue aims at offering an
interdisciplinary context in which the different dimensions of Artificial
Empathy can be explored and connected. Our goal is to stimulate the
interaction between applied research and theoretical and epistemological
reflections, and to promote a front line in Social Robotics research that
takes all its aspects (epistemological, theoretical, technical, social and
ethical) into consideration, without losing sight of its fundamental
question: Under which conditions can a robot become a social partner for
humans?



--
Luisa Damiano, PhD
Research Fellow (Epistemology of the Artificial Project)
University of Bergamo
Piazzale S. Agostino 2
Ufficio 13
24129 Bergamo
Italy

Tel. +393920176317
Tel. +44(0)7575019847

http://193.204.255.166/cerco/persone/user.asp?ID=80
http://unibg.academia.edu/LuisaDamiano

http://www.pt-ai.org/smlc/2013

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Call for Applications
RoCKIn Camp 2014
Dept. Computer, Control and Management Engineering
Sapienza University of Rome
Via Ariosto 25, Rome, Italy
January 26th-30th

RoCKIn is short for "Robot Competitions Kick Innovation in Cognitive Systems
and Robotics" and it is an EU-funded Coordination Action aiming at the
promotion of research and education through competitions
(http://rockinrobotchallenge.eu).
The RoCKIn Camp 2014 aims at supporting the preparation of teams to
participate in the RoCKIn@Home and RoCKIn@Work challenges, the competition
events that will be organized by RoCKIn in 2014 and 2015. RoCKIn@Home and
RoCKIn@Work take inspiration from the corresponding RoboCup leagues, but
they will focus on benchmarking robotic systems and networked robots. Both
challenges require basic navigation capabilities with no restrictions on the
mobile platform, advance perception, manipulation and human-robot
interaction. RoCKIn@Home focuses on tasks that service robots execute in a
real home environment, while the tasks to be performed in RoCKIn@Work target
an industrial automation scenario.
The event is partially supported by the IEEE RAS-TEP program ( IEEE Robotics
& Automation Society Technical Education Program - Summer Schools )
The RoCKIn Camp 2014 will take place from 26th to 30th January in Rome and
is designed as a hands-on week long school, where teams acquire new
capabilities and/or improve the performance of their systems in the
competition tasks. The activities planned in the first four days of the
RoCKIn Camp 2014 address the following topics: the robot platform and the
basic software infrastructure, perception, manipulation and human robot
interaction through speech. Each topic will include introductory lectures
and practical sessions. The last day will be devoted to finalizing a
demonstration in the competition scenario.
Students and researchers, who have an interest in entering the RoCKIn@Home
and RoCKIn@Work competitions, are invited to apply for the RoCKIn Camp 2014.
We accept application in two formats:
. Team applications (for teams of 3 people, not necessarily from the same
university, but with an already established team). Team applicants are
encourage to bring their robot to be used in the practical activities, but
this is not a requirement.
. Individual applications by existing or prospective team members.
For the practical sessions, participants will be arranged into teams.
Accepted applicant teams will become RoCKIn Camp 2014 teams; individual
participants may be joining existing teams with the goal of creating
additional collaborations and opportunities. If needed, additional teams
will be created from individual applicants. Each team will be assigned a
specific task, applying modules and tools presented in the lectures. The
selection will be based on the team submission material and will also
consider formation of new teams. The expected audience will be up to 12
teams and up to 36 participants.

All successful applicants will be offered:
. Accommodation in shared rooms (including breakfast, 6 nights)
. Lunch (5 days) and 1 social dinner
. Attendance to lectures and practical sessions
In addition, the teams of 3 people that will carry a robot to be used in the
practical sessions of the Camp are entitled to receive a travel support up
to 1200 Euros (per team), and the team of 3 people that plan to attend
without a robot are entitled to support of 600 Euros (per team).
Important Dates
. Application deadline: November 20th, 2013
. Notification of acceptance: November 27th, 2013
. Event Date: January 26th-30th, 2014 (Rome, Italy)
Applications
** Applications should be submitted via http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/rockin**
Team applications should include:
. For each member, a brief CV
. A team description (pdf, maximum 4 pages) in IEEE Conference Style
(http://www.ieee.org/conferences_even.../templates.htm
l), reporting: team name, affiliation, supervisor (optional), scientific
background, research objectives, expected knowledge / performance
improvement, team description (including previous experience, role and
competence of team members) and, in case the team plans to bring its own
robot, a brief description of this robot.
Individual applications should include:
. A brief CV of the applicant
. A team formation plan (pdf, maximum 4 pages) in IEEE Conference Style
(http://www.ieee.org/conferences_even.../templates.htm
l), reporting: applicant's scientific background, scientific objectives,
expected knowledge acquisition and performance improvement from RoCKIn
competitions, plan about the team formation, including details about the
applicant's devised role.
For further questions contact Alberto Pretto:
alberto.pretto@dis.uniroma1.it

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i-SAIRAS 2014 seeks papers on:
? In-space/in-orbit demonstration of robotics and AI systems
? Field work using autonomous systems and space robotics concepts in
terrestrial analogues
? Laboratory demonstration of advanced AI/robotics concepts for space missions
? Technology transfer to and from terrestrial applications

The main topics to be covered by the symposium include but are not limited to:
? Spacecraft autonomy: Onboard software for mission planning and
execution, resource management, fault protection, science data
analysis, guidance, navigation and control, smart sensors, testing and
validation, and architectures;
? Artificial intelligence for space systems:
? Mission operations automation: Decision support tools (for mission
planning and scheduling, anomaly detection and fault analysis),
innovative operations concepts, data visualization, secure commanding
and networking.
? Robotics technologies for space missions including: mobility,
manipulation, end effectors and tools, sensing and robot vision,
navigation, control, robot-friendly payload design, support equipment
and ground segments;
? Robotics and automation for space systems:
? Technology for space laboratory automation, payload control systems,
data communications, imaging, user interfaces, tele-presence and
tele-operation.
? Application scenarios (e.g. planetary and asteroid exploration,
space-based assembly, inspection and servicing, external and internal
payload tending, human-robot interaction), programmatic and
utilization aspects.

Abstract Submissions
Prospective authors should submit PDF versions of a 2 page abstract
using the standard i-SAIRAS 2014 template.
Paper acceptance is based solely on the submitted abstracts. Detailed
information is available in the conference web site.

Paper Presentations
Papers will be presented either during oral sessions or a poster
session. At paper submission, authors will be asked to select their
preferred presentation mode. Oral presentations will last 25 minutes
including the question period and transition to the next speaker. The
language of the workshop will be English. All submissions must be in
English.

Important Dates
? Abstract Submission Deadline: December 15, 2013

From: Ioannis Rekleitis yiannisr@gmail.com

[robotic]

Special Issue on Symbiotic Robotics (Advances in Mechanical Engineering) - Call for Papers

The effectiveness of biological symbiosis makes it an appealing design paradigm in contexts characterized by a close physical proximity of biological and artificial agents. Usually, in HRI, robots can be either stiff (machine in charge) or adaptable (machine and human adapt to each other). Recently, a third interaction modality is being more and more recognized, where the human and the machine dynamically interact with each other, giving rise to symbiotic emerging behaviors.
Symbiosis is more than coexistence, because the proper coupling of the machine and the human body enhances performance with respect to traditional interaction modalities.
We would like to invite authors to submit original research as well as review papers that explore the multifaceted challenges that must be tackled in order to harvest the potential of Symbiotic Robotics.

Potential topics covered by the special issue include, but are not limited to:


- Advances in the mechanical design of wearable robots for assistance, rehabilitation, and augmentation

- Synthesis of structures for human-robot symbiosis

- Design and expe rimentation of symbiotic robots

- Learning and adaptable controllers for unstructured environments

- Dependability of symbiotic robots

- Benchmarking of symbiotic behavior

- Sensing strategies related to symbiotic systems

- Ergonomics and kinematic compatibility issues in human-robot coupling

- Tools for modeling physical human-robot interaction

- Mechanical systems with embodied intelligence

- Design of compliant and variable impedance actuators

- Smart energy management and harvesting in symbiotic robots


Importante dates:


- Manuscript Due: Friday, 4 April 2014

- First Round of Reviews: Friday, 27 June 2014

- Publication Date: Friday, 22 August 2014


Detailed guidelines for paper preparation and submission are available at: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ame/si/819478/cfp/


Sincerely,

Dino Accoto, Universit? Campus Bio-Medico di Roma (d.accoto@unicampus.it)
Jos? L. Pons, Spanish National Research Council (jose.pons@csic.es)
Jan F. Veneman, Tecnalia Research and Innovation (jan.veneman@tecnalia.com)