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          CFP:  Call for Papers - LARS/SBR 2018
    João Pessoa - Paraíba - Brazil / November 2018
                          http://sbr.sbc.org.br/
                          www.robotica.org.br 
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IEEE LARS 2018 - 15th Latin American Robotics Symposium
SBR 2018 - 6th Brazilian Robotics Symposium

The IEEE LARS and SBR (Latin American Robotics Symposium / Brazilian Robotics Symposium) aim at promoting a comprehensive scientific meeting in the area of Intelligent Robotics, bringing together researchers, undergraduate and graduate students of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, Computer Engineering and related fields.

The event will include technical sessions of an oral presentation of full papers and technical lectures of recognized importance in the area.

The LARS and SBR are the major scientific/academic meetings of a broader event that has other relevant events in robotics, named ROBOTICA 2018.  This event also comprises the  LARC/CBR (Latin American Robotics Competition / Brazilian Robotics Competition), OBR (Brazilian Robotics Olympiad), MNR (National Robotics Fair), WRE (Workshop of Robotics in Education) and EXPOTEC (Technological Expo from Paraíba).

The LARS/SBR will take place in João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil from November 6th to 10th, 2018.

We are looking forward to seeing you at LARS/SBR 2018.
ROBOTICA 2018: http://www.robotica.org.br/   


*** IMPORTANT DATES ***

Paper registration/submission site open: March 5th, 2018
Paper Submission DEADLINE: July 20th, 2018 - FINAL EXTENSION
Notification of Acceptance: August 21st, 2018
Camera Ready Submission: September 9th, 2018

*** PAPER SUBMISSION INFO ***

Papers must be written in English and must not exceed 6 pages in standard IEEE format including title, abstract, all tables, figures, and references. Papers should present substantial new results in theoretical, empirical and applied research related to the topics of the conference. This year the reviewing process will be DOUBLE BLINDED, so authors must hide their names, contact information, acknowledgments and any other reference to where their research takes place.

All papers must be registered and uploaded by using JEMS
     https://jems.sbc.org.br/  
     https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=3018  

Templates
    http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/files/ieeeconf_A4.dot
    http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/tex.php (set to A4)

PROCEEDINGS

The proceedings will be published by IEEE, and it will be available through the IEEE Xplore site.

PUBLICATION IN JOURNALS

A selected number of outstanding papers will be invited to submit extended versions of the papers to important qualified journals, including JINT (Journal of Intelligent & Robotics Systems). 

*** TOPICS OF INTEREST ***

1.  Vision in robotics and automation;
2.  Symbol mediated robot behavior control;
3.  Sensory mediated robot behavior control;
4.  Active sensory processing and control;
5.  Industrial applications of autonomous systems;
6.  Sensor modeling and data interpretation e.g. models and software for sensor data integration, 3D scene analysis, environment description and modeling, pattern recognition;
7.  Robust techniques in AI and sensing e.g. uncertainty modeling, graceful degradation of systems;
8.  Robot programming e.g. on-line and off-line programming, discrete event dynamical systems, fuzzy logic;
9.  Multi-Robot and Multi-Agents, Cooperation and Collaboration;
10. CAD-based robotics e.g. CAD-based vision, reverse engineering;
11. Robot simulation and visualization tools;
12. Tele-operated and autonomous systems;
13. Microelectromechanical robots;
14. Robot modeling;
15. Robot control architectures;
16. Sensor-Motor control of Robots;
17. Robot planning, reasoning, communication, adaptation, and learning;
18. Mechanical design;
19. Robotic Manipulators;
20. Robot soccer;
21. Evolutionary robotics;
22. Bio-Inspired robotics;
23. Robots for robotic surgery and rehabilitation;
24. Micro/nano-robotics, new Devices, and materials for robots;
25. Human-Robot Interaction and Interfaces;
26. Education issues in Robotics;
27. Computing architectures;
28. Sensor Networks, architectures of embedded Hardware and software;
29. Self-Localization, Mapping and Navigation;
30. Multi-robot systems;
31. Aerial vehicles;
32. Autonomous vehicles;
33. Mobile robot platforms;
34. Service robots and entertainment robots;
35. Underwater robots;
36. Humanoids.

*** ORGANIZATION ***

Program Chair: Prof. Dr. Alisson Vasconcelos de Brito  UFPB
Program Chair Profa. Dra. Esther Colombini - IC/UNICAMP 

*** PROMOTION ***

SBC  Brazilian Computer Society [*]
CER - Robotics Council of SBC/Special Interest Group on Robotics (CER)
IEEE RAS - Latin American Robotics Council of IEEE
IEEE CSS - Latin American Control Systems Council of IEEE [*]

*** ROBOTICA 2018 ***

Robotica 2018 Co-events:

LARS/SBR: Latin-American Robotics Symposium / Brazilian Robotics Symposium.  
LARC/CBR: Latin American Robotics Competition / Brazilian Robotics Competition
OBR: Brazilian Robotics Olympiad (www.obr.org.br)
MNR: National Robotics Fair (www.mnr.org.br)
WRE: Workshop of Robotics in Education
WTDR / CTDR:  Workshop on MSc Dissertation and PhD Thesis in Robotics and 
              Best MSc Dissertation and PhD Thesis Contest in Robotics  
EXPOTEC: Technology Expo from Paraíba.

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Profa. Dra. Esther Luna Colombini
Institute of Computing 
University of Campinas, SP - Brazil
http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~esther
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