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<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">IAS-19 Call for Papers</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">We are all invited to contribute to the 19th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-19), which will be held in Genoa, Italy, from June 30 to July 4, 2025.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Since the first edition in 1985, IAS has been a venue for original, novel, and innovative papers with a theoretical or experimental flavor. For IAS-19, we look for papers centered
around the theme “Ethical, Responsible, and Inclusive Robotics”.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Mobile Robots Collaborative Robots/Cobots</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Robots for Industry 4.0</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Household Robots</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Humanoid Robots</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Climbing Robots</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Outdoor and Field Robots</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Autonomous Vehicles</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Healthcare Robots</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Flying Robots</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">On-Water/Underwater Robots</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Robot Swarms</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Biomimetic Robots</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Long-Term Autonomous Systems</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Intelligent Machines</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Cognitive Architectures for Robots</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Human-Robot-Interaction</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Software Architectures for Robots</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Cloud Robotics</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Robot Vision</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Tactile Sensing</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Intelligent Sensors and Systems</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Neuromorphic Sensing</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Semantic Modelling</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Data Fusion and Machine Learning</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Obstacle Avoidance</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Localization and SLAM</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Knowledge Representation and Reasoning</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Planning</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Task-Motion Planning</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Robot Foundation Models</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Vision and Language Models</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Robot Simulations</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Mechatronics for Intelligent Systems</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">All contributed papers will go through a rigorous peer-review process, which will be managed by Editors, Associated Editors, and Reviewers. Each manuscript will be reviewed by at
least two reviewers. If a paper will be accepted, the authors should submit a revised final version reflecting reviewers’ comments and present their paper orally and in presence.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">All accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings, and a post-proceedings book will be published by Springer, as is customary for IAS conferences.
A limited number of authors will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers for a special issue of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, published by Elsevier.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Proposals for special sessions, workshops, and tutorials are strongly encouraged. Workshops and tutorials will be scheduled on 30/6/2025.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Updates on
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.ias-19.org/"><span lang="EN-US">www.ias-19.org</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Important dates</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">20/9/2024 > First call for papers </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">30/11/2024 > Deadline for proposals for special sessions</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">7/12/2024 > Notification for proposals for special sessions</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">15/12/2024 > Deadline for proposals for workshops, and tutorials</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">15/1/2025 > Notification for proposals for workshops and tutorials</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">15/2/2025 > Deadline for papers submission </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">15/4/2025 > Papers acceptance notification </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">15/5/2025 > Papers final submission </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">30/6/2025 - 4/7/2025 > IAS-19 in Genoa, Italy</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">CONFIRMED: Plenary speakers</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Tomaso A. Poggio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Yoshihiko Nakamura, Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><b><span lang="IT" style="color:black">CONFIRMED: Keynote speakers</span></b><span lang="IT"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="IT"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="IT" style="color:black">Arash Ajoudani, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia</span><span lang="IT"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Perla Maiolino, University of Oxford</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">HIGHLIGHTS: Call for Workshops and tutorials</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">We look for proposals for workshops and tutorials on a broad set of topics in intelligent and autonomous systems. </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">A workshop or tutorial can be half or full day. Please send proposals for workshops or tutorials by email at
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:contact@ias-19.org"><span lang="EN-US">contact@ias-19.org</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">. Each proposal must include (a) the workshop or tutorial title, (b) the list of organizers with
contact information, (c) a brief statement of purpose for the workshop or tutorial, and (d) a list of potential contributors.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Workshops and tutorials chairs will review the submitted proposals. The management of the related Call for Papers will be managed autonomously by the workshop or tutorial organisers. </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">IAS-19 Workshops and Tutorials Chairs</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Ivan Petrovic, University of Zagreb, Croatia</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Nak Young Chong, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="IT" style="color:black">Monica Reggiani, University of Padua, Italy</span><span lang="IT"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="IT"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="IT"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="IT"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">STILL OPEN: Call for Special Sessions</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Methods and technologies to design and develop intelligent and autonomous systems have advanced remarkably in the past few years, with the rapid development of critical and foundational
approaches in robotics and artificial intelligence. Intelligent and autonomous systems are being deployed in various scenarios, such as nuclear power plants, defense, agriculture, industrial safety, aerospace, construction, and unmanned vehicles. Special sessions
are the ideal venues to highlight selected topics, spark debates, and narrow down applications of intelligent and autonomous systems, especially connected to innovative emerging areas of interest related to the main conference topics.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">We look for proposals for special sessions featuring emerging topics in intelligent and autonomous systems. We welcome submissions of proposals considering the conference theme, that
is, “Ethical, Responsible, and Inclusive Robotics”, along with scientific, methodological, and technological advances.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">A special session will consist of 4 papers. Please send proposals for special sessions by email at
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:contact@ias-19.org"><span lang="EN-US">contact@ias-19.org</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">. Each proposal must include (a) the special session title, (b) the list of organizers with contact
information, (c) a brief statement of purpose for the session, and (d) a list of potential contributors.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Special Sessions Chairs will review the submitted proposals. Papers addressed to approved special sessions will be provided with a session code and will undergo the same review process
as regular papers. Special session organizers can be involved in the review process and in the final decisions. Also, they will be offered a gift voucher as a sign of gratitude.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="IT" style="color:black">IAS-19 Special Session Chairs</span><span lang="IT"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="IT"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="IT" style="color:black">Alessandra Sciutti, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy</span><span lang="IT"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Jun Ota, The University of Tokyo, Japan</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="color:black">Stefano Carpin, University of California Merced, CA, USA</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">On behalf of the General & Program Chair<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="IT">Francesco Amigoni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT">Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, University of Genua, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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