Four special sessions will be organized during the conference:

• Session Interactive Robotics & Human-Robot Interaction.
  Organizers: Rachid Alami, Harmish Khambhaita and Michelangelo Fiore.
• Session Human Vehicle Interaction. Organizer: Dirk Wollherr.
• Session Off-road mobile robots: perception and control for a useful and effective autonomous navigation.
  Organizers: Roland Lenain and Eric Lucet.
• Session Service Robotics Organizers: Ren Luo and Raja Chatila.

For memory, here is the list of all the submitted special sessions:

• Session 1 (Code: g9bq1)
  Interactive Robotics & Human-Robot Interaction.
  Organizers: Rachid Alami, Harmish Khambhaita and Michelangelo Fiore.
• Session 2 (Code: 963y1)
  Assistive Robotics.
  Organizers: David Daney,  Anne Spalanzani and Jean-Pierre Merlet.
• Session 3 (Code: 7a674)
  Humanoid Robots.
  Organizers: Jean-Paul Laumond and Abderrahmane Kheddar.
• Session 4 (Code: q4ua1)
  Autonomous Vehicles.
  Organizers: Philippe Bonnifait, Philippe Martinet and Fawzi Nashashibi.
• Session 5 (Code: c57d4)
  Medical Robotics.
  Organizers: Jocelyne Troccaz and Philippe Cinquin.
• Session 6 (Code: 1p2dy)
  Human Vehicle Interaction.
  Organizers: Dirk Wollherr.
• Session 7 (Code: ti9xq)
  Human Movement Modeling and Rehabilitation Robotics: at the Intersection of Medicine and Robotics Algorithms.
  Organizers: Roberto Bartoletto and Davide Piovesan.
• Session 8 (Code: d4898)
  Service Robotics.
  Organizers: Ren Luo and Raja Chatila.
• Session 9 (Code: ck19c)
  Off-road mobile robots: perception and control for a useful and effective autonomous navigation.
  Organizers: Roland Lenain and Eric Lucet.

Important Note: When submitting papers to a special session, please do not forget to fill-in the session code field. The codes are listed above in italics.