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Special Session on <br>
Safe and Acceptable Human-Robot Collaboration<br>
for <br>
the 29th IEEE International Symposium on Robot <br>
and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN 2020)<br>
31/8-4/9/2020 Naples, Italy<br>
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<b>Deadline: 29th of April 2020</b><br>
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Motivation and goals of the session: The purpose of this special
session is to explore how collaborative robots can interact with
humans in a safe and acceptable way fostering their integration in
real world contexts. The special session will focus any human-robot
collaboration (HRC) application with a specific attention to
industrial scenarios (one of the most promising application areas
for HRC). This special session will focus on three aspects of
human-robot collaboration: (1) investigation of cognitive features
and functions to support human-robot interaction during the
execution of collaborative tasks, (2) technological development for
guaranteeing safe and effective human-robot collaboration and (3)
human behavior and expectations as a means to understand the
acceptance aspects of collaborative robots in real scenarios. This
special session is also related to a Workshop held in RO-MAN 2017
“Human-Robot Collaboration for an improved Quality of Work” and will
continue to pursue deeper understanding on HRC.<br>
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List of Topics (not limited to):<br>
- Cooperative and Collaborative Human-Robot Interaction;<br>
- New enhancing safety functions for the current status of ISO
Robotics Standards or future directions in relating to HRI;<br>
- Vocal and gesture commands and physical contacts in real world
applications;<br>
- Communication and coordination between human and robot;<br>
- Robot motion and navigation in realistic environments<br>
- Cognitive features for collaborative robots;<br>
- Long-term autonomy in human-robot collaborative scenarios;<br>
- Human-aware planning and execution in human-robot collaboration;<br>
- Generation of robust robot controllers;<br>
- Failure detection and recovery in HRC control systems;<br>
- Evaluation methods for HRC workplaces and process (productivity,
flexibility etc.);<br>
- Benchmarking and objectively & quantitatively evaluating
performance of robots during the cooperation with human;<br>
- Ergonomics of HRC (Physical, Intensity of signals, alarms, visual
field etc.);<br>
- Vision and control of industrial robots for HRI applications;<br>
- Novel Sensing and grasping technologies for HRI;<br>
- Interfaces for real-time path and motion planning and collision
avoidance;<br>
- HRC design;<br>
- Case Studies, Experiments, Ethics and Outreach<br>
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TEMPLATES AND SUBMISSION PROCEDURE FOR REGULAR AND SPECIAL SESSION
PAPERS<br>
All papers submitted to RO-MAN 2020 will undergo a peer-review
process. A manuscript will be reviewed by at least two reviewers,
who will provide detailed comments and - if the submission gets
accepted - the authors submit a revised ("camera-ready") version
that takes into account this feedback. The review process is managed
by the program chair, the program co-chairs, the editors, and the
conference associate editors.<br>
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All papers are reviewed using a single-blind review process: authors
declare their names and affiliations in the manuscript for the
reviewers to see, but reviewers do not know each other's identities,
nor do the authors receive information about who has reviewed their
manuscript.<br>
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Authors should use the templates provided by the electronic
submission system. The templates for US Letter format paper should
be used.<br>
<br>
The manuscript submission website will require that you submit your
abstract and make any final changes to the author list and title of
the paper before uploading the paper.<br>
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All authors and co-authors must be registered in the electronic
system. It is the corresponding author's responsibility to ensure
that the complete author list and the correct title are being
entered. This information will be used for the conference program
and the proceedings.<br>
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IMPORTANT DATES<br>
Submission deadline: APRIL 29, 2020<br>
Notification of acceptance: MAY 27, 2020<br>
Camera-ready deadline: JUNE 15, 2020<br>
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AUTHORS SHOULD ADHERE TO THE FOLLOWING STEPS FOR SUBMITTING THE
PAPER (FOR INITIAL SUBMISSION):<br>
Create an account: go to <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ras.papercept.net/">https://ras.papercept.net/</a>, then PIN and
fill out the form. Ask all your co-authors to do the same if they do
not have an account on the system yet, write down the authors' PINs
(this information is needed for manuscript processing purposes).<br>
Go to Support Menu and depending on how you are preparing your
paper, download a template: LaTeX or MS-Word, Use these
templates/style files to create the paper and save in PDF format.<br>
Upload the paper: go to <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ras.papercept.net/">https://ras.papercept.net/</a> and click on
"Submit a contribution to RO-MAN 2020".<br>
Submit (special session paper). Use the session code: <b>y7g7h </b><br>
Fill in the form presented on the next page (make sure to enter all
author PINs created in Step 1).<br>
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List of organizers:<br>
Dr.-Ing. Mohamad Bdiwi, Fraunhofer Institute for machine tools and
forming technology, Chemnitz, Germany,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mohamad.bdiwi@iwu.fraunhofer.de">mohamad.bdiwi@iwu.fraunhofer.de</a><br>
Alberto Finzi, Federico II University of Naples, Naples, Italy
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:alberto.finzi@unina.it">alberto.finzi@unina.it</a><br>
AndreA Orlandini, Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology
(CNR-ISTC), Rome, Italy, Nicola Pedrocchi, Institute of Intelligent
Industrial Technologies and Systems for Advanced Manufacturing
(STIIMACNR), Milan, Italy, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:nicola.pedrocchi@stiima.cnr.it">nicola.pedrocchi@stiima.cnr.it</a><br>
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The special session is promoted by SHAREWORK project (H2020
Factories of the Future G.A. 820807).<br>
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