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[Update Dec 30, 2021]: AIR 2021 Proceedings published by ACM.

[Update July 11, 2021] 

Advances in Robotics (AIR) is a series of biennial conference organized by The Robotics Society (earlier referred to as Robotics Society of India). The conference aims to create a forum to present and exchange new ideas by researchers and developers from India and abroad working in the fields of robotics and its applications. The conference would have plenary talks, oral and poster presentations, and special industry oriented sessions.

AIR 2021, the 5th conference of the series, will be conducted in “Fully Online Mode”  by IIT Kanpur, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India during June 30-July 4, 2021. The previous editions of AIR’s were held at R&DE, DRDO Pune (AIR 2013), BITS Pilani Goa Campus, Goa (AIR 2015), IIT Delhi (AIR 2017) and IIT Madras (AIR 2019).

Contributed Papers

The organizers of the conference invite unpublished research work in the various fields of Robotics. The conference follows a strict double-blind review process

Author names should not be mentioned, else the paper will get rejected without review.

All the accepted and presented papers will be published as ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) as International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS) with ISBN No. 978-1-4503-8971-6. All the previous AIR conference proceedings are available here.

Second Call For Papers is here.

Camera Ready Paper Submission Instructions

Registration Payment using SBI Collect

Schedule of AIR 2021 is here

Instructions and Templates for Full Paper and Poster Presentations

Online Conference Portal Registration and Instructions

AIR2021 Souvenir 

AIR 2021 Proceedings published by ACM

Plenary and Keynote Lectures

AIR2021 has lectures/talks by eminent researchers worldwide on the topics related to robotics and its applications. They are:

Prof. Minoru Asada
Prof. Paolo Fiorini
Prof. Seul Jung
Prof. Prathyush P. Menon

Few of the speakers from earlier AIR conferences were:

Prof. Seth Hutchinson
Prof. Roland Seigwart
Prof. Steven LaValle
Prof. Peter Corke
Prof. Nancy Amato
Prof. Burkhard Corves
Prof. Eduardo Nebot
Prof. Blake Hannaford

 

Workshop and Tutorials

A full day workshop and/or tutorials will be held during the conference on June 30, 2021 (Wed). The speakers are eminent roboticists from academia, research organizations and industry.

More details are here.