Dear Colleagues and Friends:

On behalf of the ICUAS'14 Organizing Committee, this is to invite you to submit your contributions to the 2014 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS'14, http://www.uasconferences.com, to be held in Orlando, FL, on May 27-30, 2014. The conference is co-sponsored by the IEEE CSS and RAS.

Orlando is the home of the Disney World, one of the best attractions and touristic locations worldwide. May 27 will be a Workshop/Tutorial day, followed by a three-day technical Conference. Judging from the interest ICUAS has drawn over the past six years and its growth, ICUAS'14 is expected to attract the highest number of participants from academia, industry, federal/state agencies, government, the private sector, users, practitioners and engineers who wish to be affiliated with and contribute technically to this highly demanding and rapidly evolving and expanding field. Information about the organization may be found at www.icuas.com. The theme of ICUAS'14 will focus on the very challenging topics of 'developing UAS standards'.

ICUAS'14 aims at bringing together different groups of qualified military and civilian representatives worldwide, organization representatives, funding agencies, industry and academia, to discuss the current state of UAS advances, and the roadmap to their full utilization in military and integration in civilian domains. Focused interests of diverse groups involved in UAS research and development will be discussed. Special emphasis will be given to current and future research opportunities, and to 'what comes next' in terms of the essential technologies that need to be utilized to advance further UAS.

Through Keynote/Plenary addresses, invited and solicited presentations, and round table discussions, it is expected that the outcome of the Conference will be a better understanding of what industry, the military and civilian national and international authorities need, and what are the crucial next steps that need to be completed before UAS are widely accepted even in everyday life applications.

HONORARY GUESTS AND KEYNOTE SPEAKERS (Currently Confirmed):
Peter van Blyenburgh
President and Founder
Unmanned Vehicle Systems International

Ing. Carmine Cifaldi
Italian Civil Aviation Authority
Director, Aeronautical Products Certification & Regulation

Dr. Naira Hovakimyan
Dept. of Mechanical Science and Engineering Advanced Control Research Laboratory University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Mark A. Motter, PhD, PE
NASA Langley Research Center

PAPER SUBMISSION:
Papers must be submitted electronically through controls.papercept.net. Go to https://contols.papercept.net. Click on the link "Submit a Contribution to ICUAS'14 and follow the steps. The paper format must follow IEEE paper submission rules, two-column format using 12 point fonts, Times New Roman. The maximum number of pages per paper is 12.

Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit significantly different versions of the ICUAS'14 papers to the Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems (JINT), which will be published in a JINT Special Volume and in a Special Volume Book as part of the Springer series on Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation (ISCA).

IMPORTANT DATES:
February 3, 2014: Full Papers/ Tutorial Proposals due
April 14, 2014: Acceptance/rejection notification
May 9, 2014: Upload final, camera ready papers
April 15 - May 9, 2014: Early Registration

GENERAL CHAIRS:
Kimon Valavanis, University of Denver, kimon.valavanis@du.edu
YangQuan Chen, UC Merced, yangquan.chen@ucmerced.edu

PROGRAM CHAIRS:
Youmin Zhang, Concordia University, ymzhang@encs.concordia.ca
Luis Mejias, Queensland University of Technology, luis.mejias@qut.edu.au
James Morrison, KAIST, james.morrison@kaist.edu

Thank you for your contributions to the ICUAS'14 and look forward to meeting you at Orlando during May 27-30, 2014!