<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div>* Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call * <br></div><div><br></div><div>17th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, ICAR 2015</div><div>27-31 July, 2015, Istanbul, Turkey</div><div><a href="http://www.icar2015.org/" target="_blank">http://www.icar2015.org/</a></div><div><br></div><div>*2nd Call for Papers*</div><div><br></div><div>The 17th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, ICAR 2015 is organized by Middle East Technical University in collaboration with Kadir Has University. The conference will take place in </div><div><br></div><div>Kadir Has University campus in Istanbul, Turkey, on July 27-31, 2015. </div><div><br></div><div>Keeping up with the same spirit of innovation, ICAR wants to bring high quality papers, workshops and tutorials to the geographical areas where the larger robotics conferences have not been </div><div><br></div><div>organized yet. After the successful conference last year in Montevideo, Uruguay (<a href="http://www.icar2013.org/" target="_blank">www.icar2013.org</a>), next year, the 17th ICAR will be held in Istanbul, Turkey where “the east meets the west”. The </div><div><br></div><div>conference is organized by Middle East Technical University (METU) in collaboration with Kadir Has University. The venue is Kadir Has Campus situated on the historic peninsula along Halic bay </div><div><br></div><div>(<a href="http://www.icar2015.org/" target="_blank">www.icar2015.org</a>).</div><div><br></div><div>ICAR 2015 will be technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. The technical program of ICAR 2015 will consist of plenary talks, workshops and oral presentations. Submitted </div><div><br></div><div>papers should describe original work in the form of theoretical modelling, design, experimental validation, or case studies from all areas of robotics, focusing on emerging paradigms and </div><div><br></div><div>application areas including but not limited to:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Robotics Vision<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Adversarial Planning</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Cognitive Robotics<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Robot Operating Systems</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Robotics Architectures<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Simulation and Visualization</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Mobile Robots<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Robot Swarms</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Humanoid Robots<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Biologically-Inspired Robots</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Self-Localization and Navigation<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Embedded and Mobile Hardware</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Spatial Cognition<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Robotic Entertainment</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Human-Robot Interaction<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Robot Competitions</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Multi-Robot Systems<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Unmanned Aerial Robots</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Search and Rescue Robots<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Underwater Robotic Systems</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Learning and Adaptation<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Educational Robotics</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Cooperation and Competition<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Rehabilitation Robotics</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Dynamics and Control<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Immersive Robotics</div><div><br></div><div>*Keynote speakers*</div><div><br></div><div>Danica Kragic</div><div>Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden</div><div><a href="http://www.csc.kth.se/~danik/" target="_blank">http://www.csc.kth.se/~danik/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Oussama Khatib</div><div>Stanford University, USA</div><div><a href="http://cs.stanford.edu/groups/manips/ok.html" target="_blank">http://cs.stanford.edu/groups/manips/ok.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Todd P. Coleman</div><div>University of California, San Diego, USA</div><div><a href="http://coleman.ucsd.edu/" target="_blank">http://coleman.ucsd.edu/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Noah J. Cowan</div><div>Johns Hopkins University, USA</div><div><a href="http://limbs.lcsr.jhu.edu/people/cowan/" target="_blank">http://limbs.lcsr.jhu.edu/people/cowan/</a></div><div><br></div><div>*Important Dates*</div><div><br></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Paper submission<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>February 1, 2015</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Workshop and tutorial proposals<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>February 1, 2015</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Notification of paper acceptance<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>April 15, 2015</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Camera-ready papers<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>May 15, 2015</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>ICAR 2015 Conference<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>July 27-31, 2015</div><div><br></div><div>*Paper Submission*</div><div><br></div><div>Original technical paper contributions are solicited for presentation at ICAR 2015. Accepted papers will be published in IEEE Xplore conference proceedings. Submissions should be 6-8 pages </div><div><br></div><div>following the IEEE Xplore format available at:</div><div><a href="http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html" target="_blank">http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html</a> </div><div> </div><div>Papers will be submitted online via EasyChair:</div><div><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icar2015" target="_blank">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icar2015</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>*For more information*</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.icar2015.org/" target="_blank">http://www.icar2015.org/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Sinan Kalkan, Erol Sahin</div><div>Publicity and Publication Co-chairs</div><div class=""><div id=":2qp" class="" tabindex="0"><img class="" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif"></div></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><br></div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">-- </span><br style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><div class="gmail_signature" style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Sinan KALKAN, Asst. Prof.<br>Dept. of Computer Engineering<br>Middle East Technical University<br>Ankara TURKEY<br>Web: <a href="http://kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr/~sinan" target="_blank">http://kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr/~sinan</a><br>Tel: + 90 - 312 - 210 5547 / 210 7372<br>Fax: +90 - 312 - 210 5544</div></div>
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