The boundaries between Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Robotics are continuing to be softened. On one hand computers are continuing to be humanized and a large number of cyber-physical systems are being developed to act upon the physical world. On the other hand the robotic community is looking into the robots of the 21st century that are versatile computing machines with high social impact potential, such as enhance transportation safety, reduce agricultural pesticide use, and improve public safety and crime-fighting efficacy, among other things. The barriers that restrain their diffusion significantly correlate to the complexity of developing their software control systems, which must be reliable, maintainable, intelligent, and safe.

Robotic Computing (RC) addresses the synergetic interaction of computing technologies and robotic technologies. The synergy between Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Computer Science is both realistic and strategic. Their mutual benefit is to make it possible to build and evolve new robotic systems, to reduce their development cost, and to enhance their quality.

The Third IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC 2019, aka Robotic Computing 2019) is inviting high quality research papers addressing the synergies between Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Robotics in all applications:

Topics related to Computer Science

    Formal methods for analysis and design
    Software architectures
    Middleware infrastructures
    Model-driven engineering
    Component-based engineering
    Software product line engineering
    Data, ontology, and knowledge engineering
    Autonomic computing
    Service oriented computing
    Cloud computing
    Multimedia computing
    Internet of Things
    Virtual reality
    Computer security

Topics related to Artificial Intelligence

    Natural language understanding
    Machine learning
    Reasoning
    Multi agent system
    Context and intention awareness
    Affective computing
    Conversational computing
    Planning
    Problem solving
    Semantic computing
    Knowledge representation
    Human computer interaction

Topics related to Robotics

    RAMS abilities of robotic systems
    Hardware modeling and abstraction
    Resource awareness
    Sensor fusion, integration
    Place recognition, localization
    Object recognition, tracking
    Scene interpretation
    Robot cognition
    Manipulation, grasping
    Robot kinematics, dynamics
    Motion planning, control
    Navigation
    Task planning, monitoring
    Human-robot Interaction
    Robot simulation
    Multi-robot systems