IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing 2022 (IRC)

The boundaries between Computer Science 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.

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Robotic Computing (RC) addresses the synergetic interaction of computing technologies and robotic technologies. The synergy between Robotics 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.

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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

Natural language understanding

Service oriented computing

Cloud computing

Semantic computing

Multimedia computing

Internet of Things

Virtual reality

Computer security



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



The Conference is also inviting innovative contributions that discuss the future of the field including, but not limited to:

What are the challenges to robotic computing?

What are the main unresolved theoretical and/or methodological controversies?

What are the stakeholders’ (e.g., industries, public bodies, educators) research and development problems?

What can be learned from other disciplines and what can they learn from robotic computing?

What is the real world experience of Robotic Computing over the past 10 years, and how might it continue to evolve as we look toward the next decade?