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2012 IEEE International Conference on
Technologies for Practical Robot Applications
April 23-24, 2012, Greater Boston Area, USA

www.ieeerobot-tepra.org

Call for Papers

Important Dates

The 4th Annual IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot
Applications (TePRA) will be held in the Greater Boston Area, Massachusetts, USA on April
23-24, 2012. TePRA is aimed at catalyzing the development of enabling technologies and
encouraging their adoption by robot designers. With an emphasis on practical applications
and industrial participation, TePRA provides researchers, innovators, entrepreneurs and
robotics professionals with a forum balanced between an academic conference and an
exhibition, while presentations are selected through IEEE's rigorous peer-review process.
Past TePRA conferences featured leaders in the field as keynote speakers
including Colin Angle (iRobot), Helen Greiner (CyPhy Works), Gill Pratt (DARPA DSO), Mike
Rufo (Boston Engineering), Tom Ryden (Northend Technologies), Kevin Blankespoor
(Boston Dynamics), Charles Remsberg (Hocoma), Barry L. Shoop (USMA), Jim Overholt
(TARDEC), William Townsend (Barrett Technology). As an emerging robotics conference,
past three TePRA programs included more than 100 technical paper presentations
combined, robot demonstrations, student competitions sponsored by iRobot, panel
sessions and exhibits.
The conference theme this year will be new technologies in robotics and
automation and their practical applications. While papers are solicited in all related areas of
robotics and automation, the conference tracks include:
Robot Applications
x Medical & Rehabilitation
x Military & Security
x Actuation & Manipulation
x Consumer & Industrial
x Best Practices and
Experience Reports

Robot Technologies
x Robust and Reliable Robotics
Technologies
x Resource Aware Algorithms
x Power & Communications
x Sensing
x Software Development Tools

December 15, 2011
Submission of full papers
January 15, 2012
Notification of acceptance
February 15, 2012
Submission of final papers
April 23-24, 2012
4th Annual TePRA

Conference Chairs
Helen Greiner
Founder and CEO, CyPhy Works
Co-founder, iRobot
John Conrad
Textron Defense Systems

Technical Program Chairs
Michael A. Gennert
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Taskin Padir
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Conference Secretary

TePRA Conference Committee invites robotics researchers, developers, engineers,
scientists and industry representatives to submit their contributions. Detailed instructions
for paper submissions can be found on the conference website. Exhibit and demonstration
opportunities are available. TePRA will also feature a college-level student robotics
competition for which prizes will be awarded to top teams. More information can be found
on the conference website.

Peter Meyer
Independent Robotics
Consultant

2011 Industry Partners

Sponsored and Organized By

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