The symposium will create a unique opportunity for the development and exchange of research ideas and technical solutions. As always, emergency responders and other expected users will be involved in presentations and discussions to ensure the practical relevance of technology developments for actual usage.
Important Dates
Deadline for Papers: June 15, 2021, July 15, 2021
Notification of Acceptance: August 10, 2021, August 31, 2021
Deadline for Final Papers: September 10, 2021
Conference Dates: October 25-27, 2021
Submission site: https://ras.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/start.pl
Papers should be submitted in standard IEEE format:https://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/tex.php
Six pages including figures and references are allowed for each paper. The authors can have 2 optional additional pages with extra cost. A multimedia supplementary material up to 10MB in mpeg, mpg, mp4 format can also be submitted.
Topics for papers and demonstrations, include:
• Aerial robotics
• Rescue robotics
• Artificial Intelligence
• Autonomous search and rescue
• Casualty assessment, care, and extraction
• Detection and mitigation of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive (CBRNE) events
• Emerging technologies (sensors, actuators, power sources)
• Field robotics
• Humanitarian applications
• Humanitarian demining
• Humanoid robotics
• Human-robot interaction
• Inspection of critical infrastructure
• Localization, Mapping, and Navigation
• Locomotion and Actuation Systems
• Manipulation
• Marine robotics
• Mechanisms, Mechatronics, and Embedded Control
• Mobile Robotics
• Multi-robot systems
• Novel sensors and mechanisms
• Nuclear decommissioning
• Perception for navigation, hazard detection, and victim identification
• Performance evaluation and benchmarking
• Planning, reasoning, and modeling
• Robot communications
• Robotics and automation for safety and security
• Robotics for infectious diseases (COVID-19)
• Robotics simulation
• Safety standards for robots and systems
• Sensing and sensor fusion
• Serious gaming for training rescue missions
• SLAM in complex or extreme environments
• Structural assessment
• Swarm Robotics
• Telemedicine