Dear colleague,

We are pleased to inform you that CLAWAR 2023 will be held in the Florianopolis, Brazil during 02 – 04 October 2023.

The conference will feature technical and social programs. The technical program will comprise plenary, regular, and special/invited sessions. All articles submitted for inclusion in the conference will be peer reviewed before acceptance. It is envisaged that all accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, to be published by Springer in the Springer’s Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems Series and indexed in SCOPUS, subject to registration of at least one author for presenting their paper.

Scope

The CLAWAR conference series provides a multidisciplinary forum for discussing original contributions in the general area of mobile robotics, covering climbing, walking, flying robots with assistance and service provided to humans and machines.

Key dates

15 February 2023: Proposals for workshops & special sessions

15 April 2023: Submission of full/draft papers

01 June 2023: Notification of paper acceptance

01 July 2023: Submission of final (accepted) papers

01 July 2023: Early bird (reduce fee) registration

01 July 2023: Author registration

15 August 2023: Preliminary program

02-04 Oct 2023: Conference

We would like to invite you to submit your contributions according to the above key dates.

Submission of Papers

The technical program of the conference will feature Regular Papers, Special Session Papers, and Poster presentations. Authors are invited to submit their full draft papers in PDF format from the paper submission page of the conference web-site by the indicated deadline for consideration for inclusion in the relevant category (special/regular paper).

All papers will be peer reviewed before acceptance, and all accepted papers (subject to registration of at least one author) will be published in the conference proceedings. Final accepted papers will be limited to 12 pages in length in the prescribed style and format given in the paper submission web page of the conference.

Workshop and Special Session Proposals

Proposals should be submitted to the Conference Secretariat and should be limited to one A4 page in length and must include title, aims/objectives, brief outline/scope, name and affiliation of the organizer(s).

Sponsorship:

Organisations wishing to sponsor the conference and gain the corresponding benefits, by promoting themselves and their products to the robotics community through conference publications, conference web-site and conference publicity, are invited to view relevant information on the conference web-site and further to contact the conference secretariat to discuss the terms of sponsorship and necessary arrangements.

Conference web-site: https://clawar.org/clawar23/

Secretariat:

CLAWAR 2023 Secretariat

Email: clawar2023@clawar.org

Kind regards

Ebrahim Samer El Youssef and M. Osman Tokhi,

Conference General Co-Chairs

Leonardo Mejia Rincon and Manuel F. Silva,

International Scientific Committee Co-Chairs

Gurvinder S. Virk,

International Advisory Committee Chair