The 2017 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA2017) will be held in Sydney in December this year.

Authors are invited to submit their papers in the standard ACRA format (PDF of 6-10 pages).

All full papers submitted to ACRA 2017 will undergo a peer-review process. Each manuscript will be reviewed by at least two reviewers who will give detailed comments.

The deadline for submissions is September 22, with notification of acceptance October 30.

This year’s conference will be held at the The University of Technology Sydney and hosted by the Centre for Autonomous Systems  of the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology from December 11-13.

Student Travel Awards

This year the Australian Robotics and Automation Association (ARAA) will award two Student Travel Awards worth $500 + free student registration ($350) to participants in ACRA. Undergraduate and postgraduate students are welcome to apply.

For application details visit: http://www.araa.asn.au/conferences/acra-2017/

Established in 1999, ACRA brings together Australian and New Zealand researchers and students in the fields of robotics, automation and mechatronics.