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CFP - Call for Papers - LARS/SBR 2014
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SBR'2014 - 2nd Brazilian Symposium on Robotics
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LARS'2014 - 11th Latin American Robotics Symposium

October 18-23, 2014 - São Carlos-SP, Brazil


ABOUT LARS/SBR 2014
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The LARS/SBR Robotics Symposium is part of the Joint Conference on Robotics 2014, and aims 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 and related areas. This symposium will be through technical sessions of oral presentation of full papers, short papers presented as posters, and technical lectures of recognized importance in the area. We are looking forward to seeing you in LARS/SBR 2014.

The SBR was formerly known as the EnRI - Brazilian Intelligent Robotics Meeting.
The LARS can be considered as the most important Latin American Robotics Symposium.
The LARS/SBR were also organized together in 2012 at Fortaleza-CE (Brazil).

The LARS/SBR and Robocontrol are the three major scientific/academic events on Robotics of the Joint Conference on Robotics and Intelligent Systems Meeting (JCRIS2014). This conference, JCRIS2014, also covers the BRACIS (Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems) and other important satellite events, exhibitions and competitions.


** SUBMISSIONS IS OPEN! **

https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/sbr2014


Papers must be written in English and must not exceed 6 pages 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.

Papers must be submitted using the JEMS system: https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/


** TOPICS OF INTEREST (but not limited to)

- Vision in robotics and automation;
- Symbol mediated robot behavior control;
- Sensory mediated robot behavior control;
- Active sensory processing and control;
- Industrial applications of autonomous systems;
- Sensor modeling and data interpretation e.g. models and software for sensor data integration, 3D scene analysis, environment description and modeling, pattern recognition;
- Robust techniques in AI and sensing e.g. uncertainty modeling, graceful degradation of systems;
- Robot programming e.g. on-line and off-line programming, discrete event dynamical systems, fuzzy logic;
- Multi-Robot and Multi-Agents, Cooperation and Collaboration;
- CAD-based robotics e.g. CAD-based vision, reverse engineering;
- Robot simulation and visualization tools;
- Tele-operated and autonomous systems;
- Micro electromechanical robots;
- Robot modeling;
- Robot control architectures;
- Sensor-Motor control of Robots;
- Robot planning, reasoning, communication, adaptation and learning;
- Mechanical design;
- Robotic Manipulators;
- Robot soccer;
- Evolutionary robotics;
- Bio-Inspired robotics;
- Robots for robotic surgery and rehabilitation;
- Micro/nano robotics, new Devices and materials for robots;
- Human Robot Interaction and Interfaces;
- Education issues in robotics.
- Computing architectures;
- Sensor Networks, architectures of embedded Hardware and software;
- Self-Localization, Mapping and Navigation;
- Multi-robot systems;
- Aerial vehicles;
- Autonomous vehicles;
- Mobile robot platforms;
- Service robots and entertainment robots;
- Underwater robots;
- Humanoids.


ORGANIZATION

USP/SC - Universidade de São Paulo / Campus of São Carlos
CROB - Center for Robotics of USP São Carlos
ICMC - Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of USP
EESC - São Carlos School of Engineering / USP


PROMOTION

SBC – Brazilian Computer Society
CER - Robotics Council of SBC/Special Interest Group on Robotics (CER)
SBA - Brazilian Automation Society


Joint Conference on Robotics 2014 - ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

JCRIS 2014 General Chair
Profa. Dra. Roseli A. Francelin Romero (USP/ICMC)


LARS/SBR 2014 - ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Program Chairs
Prof. Dr. Denis Fernando Wolf (USP/ICMC)
Prof. Dr. Fernando Santos Osório (USP/ICMC)
Profa. Dra. Kalinka Castelo Brando (USP/ICMC)


FINANCIAL SUPPORT and SPONSORS

CNPq - National Council for Scientific and Technological Development
FAPESP - São Paulo Research Foundation


IMPORTANT DATES

- PAPERS

Paper registration/submission site open: February 1, 2014
Paper Submission DEADLINE: June 01, 2014 *
Notification of Acceptance: July 06, 2014
Camera Ready Submission: August 03, 2014

* It should be noted that this is a firm deadline and that the processing of late papers will not be possible.

PUBLICATION

- PROCEEDINGS

The proceedings will be published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS) and will be submitted to the IEEE Xplore site.

- JOURNALS SPECIAL ISSUES

A selected number of outstanding papers will be invited to submit extended versions of the papers to important journals (to be announced).


Contact Information:

LARS/SBR 2014 - { fosorio, denis, kalinka } @icmc.usp.br

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