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RESULTADOS DA ELEIÇÃO DA NOVA DIREÇÃO DO IEEE-RAS.PT

A Lista A ganhou as eleições para a Direcção do IEEE-RAS.PT com 92% dos votos. Existiram 8% de votos em branco. Votaram 22% dos membros IEEE listados e convocados para esta eleição.

A nova Direcção do RAS-IEEE Portuguese Chapter tomará posse no dia 7 de Outubro de 2012 pelas 18h, durante a conferência IROS 2012 na sala GEMINI I, em Vilamoura, Portugal ( http://www.iros2012.org )

Coimbra, 7 de Setembro de 2012

Jorge Dias
Chair do IEEE RAS.PT e Senior Member IEEE

Elections IEEE-RAS Portuguese Chapter

Caro Sócio do RAS – IEEE Portuguese Chapter,

A actual Direcção do RAS-IEEE Portuguese Chapter ( http://ieee-ras.isr.uc.pt ) está a promover a eleição de uma nova Direcção - (link) . A eleição decorrerá entre os dias 3 e 7 de Setembro de 2012 e nova Direcção do IEEE RAS tomará posse no dia 7 de Outubro de 2012, durante a conferência IROS 2012 em Vilamoura, Portugal ( http://www.iros2012.org ). 

 IROS 2012 - IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

October 7-11, 2012

Vilamoura, Algarve [Portugal]

Celebrating 25 Years of IROS 

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ROBOCOMP 2011 - 2nd Int. Robotics Competition 2011

Doctor Jorge Dias was an Invited Speaker as IEEE RAS Distinguished Lecture at the 2nd Int. Robotics Competition 2011 - ROBOCOMP 2011, that took place in Laico Hotel, Hammamet – Tunisia, from 18-20 December 2011, with a plenary talk on “Multi-Sensing Artificial Perception A Probabilistic Approaches for Robotic Perception.

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 SPR Awards

To all registered members of  “Sociedade Portuguesa de Robótica” (SPR),
This is a reminder that SPR annually grants the following awards:

   - Award for the best  national PhD Thesis in Robotics (to members and non members)
   - Award for the best  national MSc Thesis in Robotics (to members and non members)

It is also annually awarded by SPR a grant for expenses in mobility in Portugal to doctorate students that are registered members of SPR and that develop I&D research  in Robotics and similar, as a stimulus to the collaboration between national I&D institutions and the promotion of relevant research work.

The application submission deadline is 31 January of 2012.

The submission rules can be checked here:

http://www.spr.ua.pt/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=57&Itemid=73

Talks @ Robotica 2011 Scientific Meeting

http://robotica2011.ist.utl.pt/en/scientific-meeting/

The 11th International Conference on Mobile Robots and Competitions is an international scientific meeting in the field of Mobile Robotics technically co-sponsored by the IEEE and sponsored by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS), through its Portuguese Chapter. It will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, on April 6, 2011, in conjunction with the 11th Portuguese Robotics Open, a RoboCup Local Event. Its scope encompasses, but is not limited to, the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Education.

Talks by Professor Vijay Kumar, University of Pennsylvania

Prof. V. Kumar is a top international expert in Robotics and multirobot systems. He is a fellow of ASME and IEEE.

April 7 | 17:00 - 18:00 | Sala VA 2 | IST -Universidade Técnica de Lisboa "Swarming in Biological and Robotic Systems"   April 8 | 12:00 - 13:00 | Sala VA 3 | IST -Universidade Técnica de Lisboa "Autonomous 3-D Flight and Cooperative Control of Multiple Micro Aerial Vehicles"

Robótica 2011 | 11th Portuguese Robotics Open

Robótoca 2011 in Lisbon, Portugal April 6-10, 2011 http://robotica2011.ist.utl.pt/en/  click here for the proceedings

11th International Conference on Mobile Robots and Competitions

The 11th International Conference on Mobile Robots and Competitions is an international scientific meeting in the field of Mobile Robotics technically co-sponsored by the IEEE and sponsored by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS), through its Portuguese Chapter. It will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, on April 6, 2011, in conjunction with the 11th Portuguese Robotics Open, a RoboCup Local Event. Its scope encompasses, but is not limited to, the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Education.

 REACTS 2011 

Second CALL FOR PAPERS REACTS 2011 in Malaga, Spain September 1-2, 2011 http://www.reacts2011.uma.es

 The Workshop on Recognition and Action for Scene Understanding (REACTS) is an international event which will be hold in Malaga, Spain, on September 2011. Scene Understanding has become a popular topic in Computer Science which involves joining efforts and sharing knowledge from different research areas such as Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Machine Intelligence, Software Engineering and Cognitive Sciences. This workshop is meant to bring together researchers which address the problem of Scene Understanding from the perspective of the different involved research communities.
 
REACTS2011 is a satellite event of the 14th International Conference of Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP), which will be hold in Seville, Spain, on 29-31 August 2011(http://congreso.us.es/caip2011/ ). REACTS2011 is co-sponsored by the University of Malaga, EUCogII and CITIC.

 Topics
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 The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to:
 
- perceptual search and attention guidance in scenes,
- multimodal perception,
- spatio-temporal reasoning,
- active spatial exploration,
- object recognition from local features,
- structure for object recognition,
- 3D object recognition,
- object categorization,
- conceptualization and scene classification,
- grammars for objects and scenes,
- objects in context: scenes and objects,
- scene recognition without objects,
- visual localization,
- human behaviour understanding,
- mobile robot navigation: mapping and visual SLAM,
- surveillance,
- smart environments: computational perception of human activities,
- wearable sensors for visually impaired people,
- events and activities detection and understanding in video data...

Invited speakers (incomplete yet)
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Edwin Hancock (The University of York, UK)
Ales Leonardis (University of Ljubljana, SI)
Tamim Asfour (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, GE)
Ruben Martinez-Cantin (Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa, PT)
 
Conference Chairs
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Francisco Escolano
University of Alicante, Spain
Jorge Dias
University of Coimbra, Portugal
Antonio Bandera
University of Malaga, Spain
 
Publication
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The organization is managing to publish accepted papers in the Springer LNCS series. Authors of best papers will be encouraged to submit a revised version to a forthcoming special issue on Scenes Understanding and Behaviours Analysis of the PATTERN RECOGNITION LETTERS journal.
 
Important Dates
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Paper submission: March 15, 2011
Author notification: April 30, 2011
Final manuscript due: May 16, 2011

 Summer school at the Institut für Neuroinformatik

Neuronal dynamics approaches to cognitive robotics 

September 24 - October 1, 2010

Neuronal dynamics provides a powerful theoretical language with which embodied and situated cognitive systems can be designed and modeled. This summer school will provides a hands-on and down-to-earth introduction to neuronal dynamics ideas and will enable participants to become productive within this framework.  Dead-line for application: 15th July. For more information please visit: http://robotics-school.org/ and/or contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Workshop on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring

IROS2010 Workshop

 Homepage:  www.isr.uc.pt/WREM2010

 The workshop will be held on the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2010) in Taipei, Taiwan, 22nd of October 2010.

On the Way to Intelligent Sustainable Mobility

13th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems

 Madeira Island, Portugal, 19 – 22 September 2010

 Homepage:  http://itsc2010.isr.uc.pt

 The IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS) is sponsoring its 13th annual international conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). This conference is one of a few premier conferences focusing on research and applications of leading advances in communications, computer, control, and electronics technologies related to ITS. It is an international forum that brings together professionals from the fields of traffic engineering, information technology, automotive engineering, as well as many other ITS-related fields.

Seminar on Intelligent Vehicles and ITS

Date: 24 MAY 2010 Time: 11h00 - 11h45 am Local: Anfiteatro do ISR (DEEC-UC) Speaker: Professor Miguel Ángel Sotelo, University of Alcalá, Spain  Speaker Homepage: http://www.robesafe.com/personal/sotelo TITLE: Intelligent Vehicles and ITS Development Activities at RobeSafe Research Group

 The Robotics and eSafety (RobeSafe) Research group actively
co-operates with public and private partners from industrial sectors
in the field of Sensors and Perception applied to Intelligent
Transportation Systems and Robotics. Its expertise in these fields has
greatly consolidated during the last years throughout the development
of more than 30 technological projects. The RobeSafe group is also
involved in research activities in the topics of Intelligent Control,
Assistance for Disabled People, and Autonomous Vehicle Guidance. Some
of these research activities are realised in co-operation with both
national and international partners from Europe, Australia, Asia, and
Latin- America.

Benchmarking Intelligent (Multi-)Robot Systems (BIMRS)
workshop of the 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'10)

Website: http://labrococo.dis.uniroma1.it/bimrs/index.html Organizers: Xiao Ping Chen (Univ. of Science and Technology of China) Adam Jacoff (NIST, USA) Pedro U. Lima (Instituto Superior Tecnico,Lisboa, Portugal) Daniele Nardi ("Sapienza" Univ. of Rome, Italy)

 

IROS 2010 - Workshop On Grasp Planning and Task Learning by Imitation

Website: http://www.isir.fr/iros10ws   This workshop is held as a part of 2010 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. Visit the web page of IROS2010 for registration and site information.

 

 

In the News Media - Nanorobotics Conference by Prof. Ari Requicha

The news media has given very good visibility to the conference on nanorobotics given by Prof. Ary Requicha.

Here you can find a lot of news regarding the event. 

Check them here !

Conference @ ISR Coimbra

Nanorobotics Conference by Prof. Ari Requicha

14 April, 2010

This talk will address nanorobotics, an emerging area within nanotechnology. We will attempt to answer the fundamental questions of Why?, What?, and How? for this new field. We will discuss automatic manipulation of molecular-sized objects; sensors, actuators and other components and systems for nanorobots; and coordination and programming of swarms of nanorobots. The image of the current state of nanorobotics that will emerge from this survey is that of a highly interdisciplinary, vibrant, and rapidly evolving and growing field with remarkable future potential, but also with major challenges ahead.  Conference Program

Controlo'2010

It's our great pleasure to invite you to participate in the 9th Portuguese Conference on Automatic Control – CONTROLO’2010, to be held in Coimbra, from 8 to 10 September 2010. This event is organized in cooperation with APCA and the School of Sciences and Engineering of the University of Coimbra (FCTUC). APCA is the Portuguese Association of Automatic Control, which is a national member organization of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). The event is also organized in close cooperation with the Mechanical Engineering Research Center of the University of Coimbra (CEMUC), which activity in automation and robotics is well known.

IEEE Workshop 2010 - Workshop on “Move from Research to Business”

Check out IEEE Workshop 2010 at http://workshop2010.ieee-pt.org/

RoboParty 2009

The University of Minho and "SAR - Soluções de Automação e Robótica" will be organizing the 4th edition of RoboParty. As happened on the previous editions, the events main goal is to teach young people to build a robot in a funny way. There will be sport activities occurring also during the event. There are some news in this years edition. Check more at http://www.roboparty.org/

Critical Challenge

 Critical Challenge is an event promoted by Critical Move in association with MIT Portugal.

The challenge intends to promote and award research and development activities that will have a direct and lasting impact on the terrestrial transportation sector enhancing the competitiveness of our industry and economy.

Check the details in our Events section.

1ST IEEE Iberian Student Branch Congress

IEEE's 125th Anniversary

The official IEEE anniversary date is 13 May 2009. Join us throughout the year as we celebrate 125 years of innovation and ingenuity with special events online and across the globe.

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