<div dir="ltr"><p>Dear colleagues,<br>
</p>
<p><i><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);font-family:Arial">Apologies for
any cross-posting</span></i></p><p><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);font-family:Arial"><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);font-family:Arial">We are very pleased
to invite you to the <b>26th RoboCup International </b><b><span class="gmail-il">Symposium</span></b> will be held on 10 July <span class="gmail-il">2023</span>, in conjunction with RoboCup <span class="gmail-il">2023</span> (July 4 to 10, <span class="gmail-il">2023</span>) in Bordeaux, France.</span></span></p><table><tbody><tr><td><b><span class="gmail-il">Conference</span> website</b></td><td><a href="https://2023.robocup.org/en/symposium/" target="_blank">https://<span class="gmail-il">2023</span>.robocup.org/en/<span class="gmail-il">symposium</span>/</a></td></tr><tr><td><b>Submission link</b></td><td><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcsymposium2023" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcsymposium2023</a></td></tr><tr><td><b>Submission deadline</b></td><td><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><b>April 16, <span class="gmail-il">2023</span></b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><i><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);font-family:Arial"></span></i></p><p><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);font-family:Arial">Please find
attached the full call for proposals and papers for <span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);font-family:Arial"><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);font-family:Arial"><b>the International </b><b><span class="gmail-il">Symposium</span> <span class="gmail-il">2023</span></b></span></span>.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial">Kindest regards,</span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial">Alessandra Rossi, <span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Cédric Buche, <span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Marco Simões, <span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Ubbo Visser</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><i><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);font-family:Arial"></span></i></p><img src="cid:ii_lcgsx1zc0" alt="image.png" class="gmail-CToWUd gmail-a6T" tabindex="0" width="569" height="211"><br><br><p><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">The 26th RoboCup International <span class="gmail-il">Symposium</span> will be held on <strong>10 July <span class="gmail-il">2023</span></strong>, in conjunction with RoboCup <span class="gmail-il">2023</span> (July 4 to 10, <span class="gmail-il">2023</span>) in Bordeaux, France</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">We
are looking for submissions of papers reporting innovative and original
research with relevance to areas of robotics and artificial
intelligence. A full list of topics welcomed to this year's <span class="gmail-il">symposium</span>
can be found 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. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">The
<span class="gmail-il">symposium</span> is planned to be held in person in Bordeaux, France. However,
a hybrid version will be evaluated in case circumstances should require
it. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">In addition to the <strong>regular track</strong> with regular research papers, the <strong>development track</strong>
encourages 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 specifically working
in RoboCup.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Submission deadline:</b> April 16, <span class="gmail-il">2023</span></span></span></span></p>
<h2>List of Topics</h2>
<ul><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Robot Hardware and Software</span></span></span>
<ul><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">mobile robotics</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">humanoid robotics</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">sensors and actuators</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">embedded and mobile devices</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">robot construction and new materials</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">robot system integration</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">robot software architectures</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">robot programming environments and languages</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">real-time and concurrent programming</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">robot simulators</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">sim2real learning</span></span></li></ul>
</li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Perception and Action</span></span></span>
<ul><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">3D perception</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">distributed sensor integration</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">sensor noise filtering</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">real-time image processing and pattern recognition</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">motion and sensor models</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">sensory-motor control</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">robot kinematics and dynamics</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">high-dimensional motion control</span></span></li></ul>
</li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Robot Cognition and Learning</span></span></span>
<ul><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">world modelling and knowledge representation</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">learning from demonstration and imitation</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">localisation, navigation, and mapping</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">planning and reasoning</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">decision making under uncertainty</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">neural systems and deep learning</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">complex motor skill acquisition</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">reinforcement learning and optimisation</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">motion and sensor model learning</span></span></li></ul>
</li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Human-Robot Interaction</span></span></span>
<ul><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">robot social intelligence</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">fluency of interaction</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">speech synthesis and natural language generation</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">natural language recognition</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">explainable robot behaviours</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">emotion recognition and reaction</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">understanding human intent and behaviour</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">safety, security and dependability</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">enabling humans to predict robot behaviour</span></span></li></ul>
</li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Multi-Robot Systems</span></span></span>
<ul><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">team coordination methods</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">communication protocols</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">learning and adaptive systems</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">teamwork and heterogeneous agents</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">dynamic resource allocation</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">adjustable autonomy</span></span></li></ul>
</li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Education and Edutainment</span></span></span>
<ul><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">robotics and artificial intelligence education</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">educational robotics</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">robot kits and programming tools</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">robotic entertainment</span></span></li></ul>
</li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Applications and Benchmarking</span></span></span>
<ul><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">search and rescue robots</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">robot surveillance service and social robots</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">robots at home, at work and in public spaces</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">robots in the real world</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">performance metrics</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">human-robot interaction</span></span></li></ul>
</li></ul>
<h2>Submission Guidelines</h2>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">All
papers will be peer-reviewed and evaluated by members of the senior
program committee. The proceedings of the RoboCup International
<span class="gmail-il">Symposium</span> will be published and archived within the Lecture Notes in
Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI) series by Springer-Verlag after the
<span class="gmail-il">conference</span>. Papers should be formatted following the LNAI author
guidelines (</span><a style="text-decoration:none" href="https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><u>https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/<span class="gmail-il">conference</span>-proceedings-guidelines</u></span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">) and must be electronically submitted through the EasyChair electronic submission system (</span><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcsymposium2023" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><u>https://easychair.org/my/<span class="gmail-il">conference</span>?conf=rcsymposium2023</u></span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">).</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Submissions are limited to 12 pages including references.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Springer’s proceedings LaTeX templates are also available in Overleaf: </span><a style="text-decoration:none" href="https://de.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer-science/kzwwpvhwnvfj" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><u>https://de.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer-science/kzwwpvhwnvfj</u></span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></span></span></p>
<h2>Invited Speakers</h2>
<ul><li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Laurence Devillers, Sorbonne University, France <strong><em>(confirmed)</em></strong></span></span></li><li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Cynthia Breazeal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA <strong><em>(confirmed)</em></strong></span></span></li></ul>
<h2>Committees</h2>
<h3>Organizing committee</h3>
<ul><li><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Cédric Buche, CNRS/ENIB, France - <a href="mailto:cedric.buche@enib.fr" target="_blank">cedric.buche@enib.fr</a></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Alessandra Rossi, University of Naples Federico II, Italy - <a href="mailto:a.rossi@herts.ac.uk" target="_blank">a.rossi@herts.ac.uk</a></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Marco Simões, Universidade do Estado da Bahia, Brazil - <a href="mailto:msimoes@uneb.br" target="_blank">msimoes@uneb.br</a></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Ubbo Visser, University of Miami, USA - <a href="mailto:visser@cs.miami.edu" target="_blank">visser@cs.miami.edu</a></span></span></li></ul>
<h2>Venue</h2>
<p><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The <span class="gmail-il">conference</span> will be held in the Bordeaux Exhibition Center (Parc des Expositions de Bordeaux), Bordeaux, France.</span></span></p>
<h2>Contact</h2>
<p><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Please feel free to ask for further information by emailing Alessandra Rossi - <a href="mailto:a.rossi@herts.ac.uk" target="_blank">a.rossi@herts.ac.uk</a></span></span></p></div>