The 4th edition of the International Conference on Cloud and Robotics (ICCR 2017 - http://cloudrobotics.info) will be held on November 22-23 2017 in Saint-Quentin, France. The conference is co-located with the industry exposition Robonumerique (http://www.robonumerique.fr).

The domain of cloud robotics aims to converge robots with computation, storage and communication resources provided by the cloud. The cloud may complement robotic resources in several ways, including crowd-sourcing knowledge databases, context information, computational offloading or data-intensive information processing for artificial intelligence. As the challenges in this domain are multi-disciplinary, the session aims at building a bridge between experts from academia and industry working in different fields, such as roboticists, machine learning, artificial intelligence, software architecture, big data analytics, Internet-of-Things and distributed cloud systems.

The conference is welcoming all papers related to Cloud and Robotics, but will also devote specific attention to the following themes:

• the integration of Internet-of-Things with robots (leading to the so-called Internet of Robotic Things)
• Agricultural robotics and automation
• requirements, use cases and experience from industry

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Full research papers, limited to 6 pages in 2-column conference paper format
• Application papers, presenting lessons learnt during practical field trials and/or with commercial applications in the domain of cloud robotics and cyber-physical systems, limited to 4 pages in 2-column format
• Industry presentations, expressing industry viewpoints and requirements that may help in shaping future research agendas. Prospective presenters should submit a short abstract of their presentation.

List of Topics

• Architectures and middleware solutions for cyber-physical systems, integrating the IoT, the cloud/edge with robots and other actuators
• Distributed sensing, planning and actuation
• Cloud-based control systems, possibly using deterministic wireless or wired networking
• Domain Specific Languages for cloud robotics and cyber-physical systems
• Software engineering practices for networked robots
• Tele-robotic systems
• Computational offloading and load balancing in robotics
• Multi-robot coordination and orchestration
• Self-adaptive cyber-physical and robotic systems
• Cloud-supported collective knowledge and parameter sharing between actuation systems
• Sensor fusion for improved control policies
• Transfer learning between tasks or across robotic systems
• Hands-on experiences and use cases in the fields of manufacturing, Industry 4.0, healthcare, active assisted living, logistics and transportation, security and surveillance, precision agriculture and others
• Special Session: Agriculture robotics and Automation
• Special Session: Internet of Robotic Things

Venue

The conference will be held in Saint-Quentin, France on November 22-23. The conference is co-located with the industry forum RoboNumerique.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to pieter.simoens@ugent.be