The 2018 IEEE Colombian Conference on Robotics and Automation (CCRA 2018) is the second edition of the biannual technical summit related to robotics and automation organized by the IEEE RAS Colombian chapter. CCRA 2018 will be held in Barranquilla; Atlantico; Colombia; on November 1-3; 2018; with the support of the IEEE Caribbean Colombian Subsection and the IEEE Colombian Section. The venue for CCRA 2018 is Universidad del Norte.

CCRA's objective is to gather academic and industrial community of robotics and automation to discuss advances in the fields and related areas; such as control engineering; and to discuss how to transfer this knowledge into the society.

As part of CCRA 2018; the event will include a Doctoral Symposium were current research in the areas of the conference will be presented by doctoral students; in order to show ongoing innovations in the scholar community and discuss its potential impact in industry.

For more Information; please visit the IEEE CCRA website: http://ieee-ccra.org

– Paper Contributions

IEEE CCRA 2018 seeks for English written high-quality papers presenting original results in all areas of robotics; automation; and related fields such as machine learning; computer vision and control engineering. Spanish written contributions can be submitted but will not be published by IEEE. All submissions should use the IEEE Transaction; letter size format; with a maximum of 6 pages including references and figures. The template can be found in http://ieeeauthorcenter.ieee.org/create-your-ieee-article/use-authoring-tools-and-ieee-article-templates/ieee-article-templates/templates-for-transactions/.

The papers must be sent via Easy Chair through the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeeccra2018.

The CCRA 2018 conference proceedings will be submitted to the IEEE Xploreu00AE digital library. Previous editions of CCRA proceedings can be consulted in this link. There will be also a special track for undergraduate student's projects and PhD students; which will be evaluated for publication. Among others; this conference encourages the submission of contributions in the following topics:

– Agricultural robotic systems
– Medical robots
– Educational robotics
– Robotic competitions
– Systems and signals
– Multi-agent systems
– Control architectures
– Localization; mapping and navigation
– Path and motion planning
– Intelligent control
– Multi-Robot systems
– Process optimization
– Process Control and Automation
– Unmanned aerial systems
– Swarm robotics
– Sensors & actuators
– Mechatronics
– Ethical & legal robotic issues
– Personal & service robotics
– Biomimetic robots
– Applied control for robots
– Distributed & networked systems
– Systems Identification
– Applied control for Robots
– Modeling of dynamic Systems
– Marine robotics
– Tactile & haptics devices
– Computer vision for robotics
– Sensing & sensor fusion
– Field robotics
– Human machine interaction
– Locomotion
– Flexible manufacturing systems
– Decision support systems
– Process automation
– Applied control for industrial and non-industrial areas
– System Identification

– Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: August 10th; 2018.
Notifications: September 14th; 2018.
Camera ready version submission deadline: September 28th; 2018.
CCRA 2018 dates: November 1-3; 2018.

– Conferences Organizers

CCRA 2018 is organized by IEEE RAS Colombian chapter; IEEE Colombian Caribbean Subsection and Universidad del Norte.

General Chairs
Henry Carrillo; Ph.D.; Universidad Sergio Arboleda; henry.carrillo@usa.edu.co
Pedro Wightman; Ph.D.; Universidad del Norte; pwightman@uninorte.edu.co

Program Chair
Winston Percybrooks; Ph.D.; Universidad del Norte; wpercyb@uninorte.edu.co

Financial Chair
Lorena Garcia; M.Sc.; IEEE Region 9

Publication Chair
Carlos Quintero; M.Sc.; Universidad de los Andes