Participants are invited to submit papers describing original work in all areas of robotics focusing in particular on new emerging paradigms and application areas including but not limited to:
Vision and Image-Processing;
Omnidirectional Vision;
Sensor-Motor Control;
Distributed Sensor Networks;
Self-Localization and Navigation;
Mobile Robots and Humanoids;
Multi-Agent Systems;
Multi-Robot Systems;
Planning, Reasoning and Modeling;
Cooperation and Collaboration;
Adversarial Planning;
Heterogeneous Agents;
Learning and Adaptive Systems;
Simulation and Visualization;
Disaster Rescue Information Systems;
Adjustable Autonomy;
System Integration and Software Engineering;
Real-time and Concurrent Programming;
Speech Synthesis and Natural Language Generation;
Search and Rescue Robots;
Biologically-Inspired Robots;
Embedded and Mobile Hardware;
Computer and Robotic Entertainment;
Robot Soccer;
New Devices and Materials for Robots;
Education issues in robotics;
Robots as a motivation tool for children.

Important dates
Aug 26th, 2013 Deadline for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals
Sept 2nd, 2013 Deadline for Paper Submissions
Oct 7th, 2013 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
Nov 4th, 2013 Deadline for Final Camera Ready Papers
Nov 24-29th, 2013 ICAR 2013 Conference

Special Issue in Journal of Intelligent and Robotics Systems - Select papers from the Proceedings of ICAR 2013 will also be published in a special issue of the Journal of Intelligent and Robotics Systems (JINT). Selection of these papers will be based on the originality, significance, and clarity of the work; in particular, they shall well reflect the theme of the conference. The authors of these papers will be encouraged to submit an enhanced version of their work to this special issue, which will be subject to the same peer-review process required by JINT before acceptance for publication.