Call for Papers: RoboCup International Symposium 2018

25 Feb 2018
RoboCup International Symposium 2018    
Call for Papers         

The 22nd Annual RoboCup International Symposium will be held in conjunction with RoboCup 2018.          

* Submission of full papers: March 31, 2018
* Notification to authors: May 5, 2018
* Submission of camera-ready copies: May 19, 2018
* RoboCup 2018 Symposium: 22 June 2018         

The proceedings of the RoboCup International Symposium are published and archived within the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. Submitted papers are limited to 12 pages formatted according to the LNAI requirements (http://www.springer.com/series/1244) and must be electronically submitted through the symposium website:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robocupsymposium2018.    

We solicit submissions of papers reporting high-quality, original research with relevance to robotics and artificial intelligence; topics of interest include, but are not limited to:     


* Robot Hardware and Software
 - mobile robotics
 - humanoid robotics
 - sensors and actuators
 - embedded and mobile devices
 - robot construction and new materials
 - robotic system integration
 - robot software architectures
 - robot programming environments and languages
 - real-time and concurrent programming
 - robot simulators

 * Perception and Action
 - 3D perception
 - distributed sensor integration
 - sensor noise filtering
 - real-time image processing and pattern recognition
 - motion and sensor models
 - sensory-motor control
 - robot kinematics and dynamics
 - high-dimensional motion control

 * Robot Cognition and Learning
 - world modeling and knowledge representation
 - learning from demonstration and imitation
 - localization, navigation, and mapping
 - planning and reasoning
 - decision making under uncertainty
 - reinforcement learning
 - complex motor skill acquisition
 - motion and sensor model learning

 * Multi-Robot Systems
 - team coordination methods
 - communication protocols
 - learning and adaptive systems
 - teamwork and heterogeneous agents
 - dynamic resource allocation
 - adjustable autonomy

 * Human-Robot Interaction
 - human-robot interfaces
 - speech synthesis and natural language generation
 - visualization
 - emotion recognition
 - understanding human intent
 - affect detection and synthesis
 - robot response to external disturbances
 - safety and dependability

 * Education and Edutainment
 - robotics and artificial intelligence education
 - educational robotics
 - robot kits and programming tools
 - robotic entertainment

 * Applications and Benchmarking
 - search and rescue robots
 - robotic surveillance
 - service and social robots
 - robots at home
 - performance metrics