IROBOT'2021 poses itself as a follow-up on the previous nine IROBOT International Thematic Tracks/Workshops on Intelligent Robotics – IROBOT'2005 (held at EPIA'2005), IROBOT'2007 (held at EPIA'2007), IROBOT'2008 (held at IBERAMIA'2008), IROBOT'2009 (held at EPIA'2009), IROBOT'2011 (held at EPIA'2011), IROBOT'2013 (held at EPIA'2013), IROBOT'2015 (held at EPIA'2015), IROBOT'2017 (held at EPIA'2017) and IROBOT'2019 (held at EPIA'2019 in Vila Real). As in previous editions, its main purpose is to bring together researchers, engineers and other professionals interested in the application of AI techniques in real/simulated robotics to discuss current work and future directions. 

Robotics, from the point of view of AI, has been an important application field, from which AI has also gained. Namely, the dynamic and unforeseen nature of the environment, especially for mobile robots, has fostered research in these aspects of AI. Together with the developments in Robotics Research, the use of Robotics in industry and services has changed a lot in recent years. New paradigms and approaches for industrial robots and service robots have emerged, for example, on mobile robots learning, localization, mapping and navigation in unstructured environments. IROBOT 2021 will discuss these new developments on industrial and service robotics with focus on robot learning.

Topics of Interest

The Thematic Track will be structured around the following themes:

• Adaptive and flexible industrial robotics 
• Agriculture robots 
• AI Planning for robotics 
• Autonomous vehicles 
• Cognitive robotics 
• Computer vision and object recognition 
• Coordination in robotics 
• Evolutionary robotics and reactive intelligence 
• Human-robots interface and interaction 
• Humanoid robotics 
• Intelligent buildings and warehouses 
• Intelligent transportation systems 
• Mobile robots localization and navigation 
• Modelling and simulating complex robots 
• Multi-Robot systems 
• Field Robots 
• Real-time reactivity 
• Robot behavior engineering 
• Robot learning and adaptation 
• Robotic surveillance 
• Sensor fusion

Organizing Committee

João Fabro (Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Brazil)
Reinaldo Bianchi (centro universitário da FEI, Brazil)
Nuno Lau (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal)
Luis Paulo Reis (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)

Program Committee

Andre Conceicao, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil
André Luís Marcato, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil
António J. R. Neves, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Antonio Paulo Moreira, University of Porto, Portugal
Armando Pinho, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Armando Sousa, University of Porto, Portugal
Axel Hessler, DAI-Labor, TU Berlin, Germany
Brígida Mónica Faria, Higher School of Health/Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal
Carlos Carreto, Polytechnic of Guarda, Portugal
Cesar Analide, University of Minho, Portugal
Fei Chen, Advanced Robotics Department, Italy
Fernando Osorio, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Jorge Dias, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Josemar Rodrigues de Souza, Bahia State University, Brazil
Luís Correia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Luis Moreno, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
Luís Seabra Lopes, Universidade of Aveiro, Portugal
Marco Dorigo, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Mikhail Prokopenko, The University of Sydney, Australia
Nicolas Jouandeau, Paris8 University, France
Paulo Urbano, University of Lisboa, Portugal
Saeed Shiry, Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran
Urbano Nunes, University of Coimbra, Portugal