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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Call for papers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">RoboCup International Symposium 2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"><a href="https://2024.robocup.org/?page_id=2734">https://2024.robocup.org/?page_id=2734</a></span><span lang="EN-US">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Monday 22 July 2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Eindhoven, Netherlands.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The 27th RoboCup International Symposium will be held on 22 July 2024, in conjunction with RoboCup 2024 (15 July to 21 July 2024), in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. We call for submissions of papers reporting innovative,
original research with relevance to areas of robotics and artificial intelligence as listed below. Within the described scope of topics, we also encourage submissions of high-quality overview articles, papers describing real-world research, and papers reporting
theoretical results. Researchers are invited to submit their work independently of whether they participate in the RoboCup competitions or have a RoboCup team. The symposium will be held in person at the Evoluon Conference Center in Eindhoven. In addition
to the regular track with regular research papers, there is the development track encouraging reports on innovative hardware developments, software frameworks, and open-source releases of software components. A review of papers describing these contributions
will be based on technical aspects and benefits to the practice of communities working in the above fields in general and RoboCup in particular.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">IMPORTANT DATES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Submission of full papers: 30 January 2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Notification to authors: 04 May 2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Submission of camera-ready copies: 20 May 2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">RoboCup Symposium 2024: 22 July 2024 (RoboCup on 15-21 July 2024)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">All papers will be peer-reviewed and evaluated by members of the senior program committee. The proceedings of the RoboCup International Symposium will be published and archived within the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
(LNCS/LNAI) series by Springer-Verlag after the conference. Papers should be formatted following the LNAI author guidelines (<a href="https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines">https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines</a>)
and must be electronically submitted through Springer</span><span lang="JA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">’</span><span lang="EN-US">s electronic-submission system EquinOCS (<a href="https://equinocs.springernature.com/service/RoboCup2024">https://equinocs.springernature.com/service/RoboCup2024</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Submissions are limited to 12 pages including references.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span lang="EN-US">The LNAI author guidelines site contains a Springer</span><span lang="JA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">’</span><span lang="EN-US">s proceedings LaTeX template (v2.23),
an older version of this template (v2.21) is also available in Overleaf: (<a href="https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-conference-proceedings-template-updated-2022-01-12/wcvbtmwtykqj">https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-conference-proceedings-template-updated-2022-01-12/wcvbtmwtykqj</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">TOPICS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* Robot Hardware and Software<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- mobile robotics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- humanoid robotics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- sensors and actuators<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- embedded and mobile devices<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- robot construction and new materials<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- robot system integration<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- robot software architectures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- robot programming environments and languages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- real-time and concurrent programming<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- robot simulators<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- sim2real learning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* Perception and Action<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- 3D perception<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- distributed sensor integration<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- sensor noise filtering<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- real-time image processing and pattern recognition<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- motion and sensor models<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- sensory-motor control<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- robot kinematics and dynamics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- high-dimensional motion control<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* Robot Cognition and Learning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- world modelling and knowledge representation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- learning from demonstration and imitation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- localisation, navigation, and mapping<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- planning and reasoning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- decision making under uncertainty<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- neural systems and deep learning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- complex motor skill acquisition<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- reinforcement learning and optimisation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- motion and sensor model learning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* Human-Robot Interaction<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- robot social intelligence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- fluency of interaction<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- speech synthesis and natural language generation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- natural language recognition<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- explainable robot behaviours<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- emotion recognition and reaction<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- understanding human intent and behaviour<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- safety, security and dependability<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- enabling humans to predict robot behaviour<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* Multi-Robot Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- team coordination methods<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- communication protocols<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- learning and adaptive systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- teamwork and heterogeneous agents<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- dynamic resource allocation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- adjustable autonomy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* Education and Edutainment<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- robotics and artificial intelligence education<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- educational robotics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- robot kits and programming tools<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- robotic entertainment<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* Applications and Benchmarking<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- search and rescue robots<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- robot surveillance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- service and social robots<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- robots at home, at work and in public spaces<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- robots in the real world<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- performance metrics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- human-robot interaction<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">DEVELOPMENT TRACK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">To encourage open-source release of hardware and software systems, the RoboCup International Symposium has included a development track in recent years. In 2024, we expand the scope of this track to include datasets and
benchmarks. We encourage the submission of papers describing open-source hardware and software, tools and frameworks that facilitate development of robotics hardware and software, datasets that enable new robotic capabilities, as well as benchmarks that establish
reproducible test beds and performance metrics to advance research. If applicable, contributions to the special track should include evidence of the released system or dataset, and highlight past, ongoing, and/or potential future impacts on the RoboCup community.
A review of these contributions will be based on technical merit and benefits to the RoboCup community, and the research topics listed above.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hiroyuki Okada (Tamagawa University, Japan)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Elena Torta (Eindhoven University of Technology, NL)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Josiah Hanna (University of Wisconsin </span>
<span lang="JA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">–</span><span lang="EN-US"> Madison, USA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Edna Barros (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">LOCAL ORGANIZERS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Elena Torta (Eindhoven University of Technology, NL)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ömür Arslan (Eindhoven University of Technology, NL)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Femke van Beek (Eindhoven University of Technology, NL)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Arnoud Visser (University of Amsterdam, NL)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">CONTACT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">You can contact via the PC chairs via the contact button in EquinOCS
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">BONUS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">You can download a Poster version of the Call for Papers for your lab from<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/a.visser/activities/robocup/RoboCup2024/PosterRoboCupSymposium2024_v3.pdf">https://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/a.visser/activities/robocup/RoboCup2024/PosterRoboCupSymposium2024_v3.pdf</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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