Given the COVID-19 events, we will continue with the original schedule for organizing the paper submissions, reviews, and
proceedings generation and posting on the website of the conference.
The face-to-face organization of the conference is left to be reevaluated one week before the event (May 3).
The FCRAR 2020 will take place at the Florida Institute of Technology between May 14 and May 16, 2020.
The registration to this conference has historically been free, and we try to keep it like this.
Important Dates:
- Abstract Submission: April 6st
- Paper Submission: April 12
- Review Submission: April 25
- Answer to Reviews & Paper Withdrawals: May 1
- Deleting Sentences from Reviews: May 5
- Deleting Sentences from Answer to Reviews: May 10
- Final Paper Version: May 10
Submissions should upload PDF files. Ideally prepare paper submissions using the following LaTeX style files.
The paper submission / review / answer-to-review mechanism employed at FCRAR 2020 follows the
next procedure:
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The paper abstracts have to be submitted before the abstracts deadline. Papers are not anonymized.
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Once the abstract submission deadline passes, reviewers start bidding on papers to review.
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Papers are assigned to bidders.
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Each review associates a paper with two values in dollars: the value that the paper brings to society,
and the value that the paper brings to the community.
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Reviews are uploaded as sets of separate statements/issues (that can later be individually retracted if the answer to review cancels their need).
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After the review-submission deadline, authors can access the reviews and reply with separate statements for each statement of the reviewer, also specifying a utility of the review in dollars.
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After the answers deadline has passed, the reviewer can delete any statements made useless by the answer (e.g., proven wrong or result of lack of careful reading by the reviewer).
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After the deadline for deleting reviewer statements, the authors can also delete statements in their answer made now irrelevant due to deletion of statements in the reviews.
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The remaining reviews and answer to reviews are published as articles in the proceedings of the open review process.
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The papers are ranked by the given utility to community, as order of presentation in the conference. Final versions of the papers with corrections based on reviews are also received and included in the proceedings.
References for the open reviewing method:
Conference papers are invited in the following areas:
- Artificial Intelligence for Robots: Planning, Mapping, Localization, Interaction
- Robot Kinematics, Dynamics, and Controls
- Design and Modeling of Robotic Mechanical Systems
- Robot Applications and Software Development
- Serial and Parallel Manipulators
- Mobile and Humanoid Robots
- Autonomous and Unmanned Vehicles
- Micro and Nano Scale Robotics
- Automation and Teleoperation
- Biomedical and Assistive Robotics
- Control Theory and Applications
- Sensor Applications and Sensor Fusion
- Material Science in Robotics and Mechatronic Applications
- Mechatronics
- Machine Vision
- Education issues related to Robotics, Automation, and Mechatronics
Conference robotics Showcase projects can be in one of the following forms:
- robot prototype
- video
- poster board
Expo submissions may include any of the above, but especially:
- K-12 student robotics and STEAM projects
- Undergraduate robotics and mechatronic projects
- Competition robots
- Community outreach in robotics and related areas (including maker spaces)
Important Dates:
- Abstract Submission: April 6st
- Paper Submission: April 12
- Review Submission: April 25
- Answer to Reviews & Paper Withdrawals: May 1
- Deleting Sentences from Reviews: May 5
- Deleting Sentences from Answer to Reviews: May 10
- Final Paper Version> May 10
Use the following interface to submit your papers and reviews.
FCRAR General Chair
- Marius Silaghi, Florida Institute of Technology
FCRAR Senior Committee
- Khalid Ahmad, Ryad IPA
- Bala Chandrasekaran, FPU
- Jonathan Clark, FSU
- Daniel Cox, Georgia Southern
- Carl Crane, UF
- Joerg Denzinger, U. Calgary
- Rajiv Dubey, USF
- Hadi Fekrmandi, South Dakota School of Mines
- Roman Filipovich, Apple
- Ryan Integlia, IEEE
- Edward Jones, FSU
- Oren Masory, Florida Atlantic University
- Melissa Morris, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
- Rodney Roberts, FSU
- Zvi Roth, Florida Atlantic University
- Abdulrahman Alqahtani bin Saad, Najran Univ
- Julien Savaux, Univ. Valenciennes, France
- Eric M. Schwartz, UF
- Hakki Erhan Sevil, UWF
- Sang-Eun Song, UCF
- Ibrahim Nur Tansel, FIU
- Sabri Tosunoglu, FIU
- Ni Zhen, FAU
Local Organization Committee
- Thomas Eskridge, Florida Institute of Technology
- Hector Gutierez, Florida Institute of Technology
- Ryan Stansifer, Florida Institute of Technology
- Lucas Stephane, Florida Institute of Technology
- Markus Wilde, Florida Institute of Technology
- Stephen Woods, Florida Institute of Technology
Program Committee (in construction)
- Osamah Alqahtani, Idaho Univ
- Adrian Barbu, FSU
- Roman Bartak, Charles Univ
- Shakre Elmane
- Thomas Eskridge
- Hector Gutierez
- Rene Mandiau, Univ. Valenciennes
- Sylvain Pienchoviak, Univ Valenciennes
- Roussi Roussev, Splunk
- Lucas Stephane, Halden Norway
- Markus Wilde
- Stephen Woods
Program
The Proceedings were generated based on submisions, after the review period.
The proceedings are available here in PDF version.
A printed version can be obtained a 0 cost (other than manufacturing and shipping) from Lulu.
For this year, the style files used were LaTeX.
The scheduled Venue is Conference Room 118 in the Olin Engineering,
but might be moved completely online if COVID-19 events require it.
We will continue with the original schedule for organizing the paper submissions, reviews, and
proceedings generation and posting on the website of the conference.
The face-to-face organization of the conference is left to be reevaluated one week before the event (May 3).