[Call for Papers]ICRA 2024 Workshop on Human-Robot Co-Manipulation

[Grace Zhou]

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CALL FOR PAPERS

ICRA 2024 Workshop on Human-Robot Co-Manipulation

Workshop Website: https://sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/icra24-co-manipulation/home-page

LinkedIn Group of the Workshop: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/9579825/   
Submission Deadline: April 13th, 2024
Workshop Date: May 13th, 2024
Contact: jihon...@york.ac.uk

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Overview
The Human-Robot Co-Manipulation Workshop, with the theme of Exploring Role Allocation in Human-Robot Co-Manipulation is endorsed by the Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) of the IEEE, with the sponsorship from NOKOV Motion Capture and co-organized by Chinese Association of Automation. The content will cover a range of trending research topics in the field, such as intent perception, robot learning, interaction control, and human-robot interface.

This workshop aims to provide a high-quality academic exchange platform for robotics researchers from all over the world to discuss in depth the cutting-edge research and technological development in human-robot co-manipulation.

Topics of Interest

• Perception and understanding of human behaviours
• Adaptation and flexible manipulation
• Safe and natural interaction
• Robots learning from humans
• Humans learning from robots
• Ethical and social considerations
• Fail-safe strategies
• Intuitive collaborative Interfaces for co-manipulation
• Collaborative dexterous manipulation

Submission Guidelines
Prospective authors are required to submit an extended abstract in standard IEEE conference template, 2 pages. Abstracts will be reviewed by the organizers. Please note that it is possible to use material that has already been presented in a previous conference. Papers and videos accepted by ICRA 2024 can be submitted directly.

Papers and videos are required to sent as attachments and links (available for download or watching online) respectively in an email to  jihon...@york.ac.uk.

Best presentation award: One best paper will be selected from the submissions and awarded with a certificate and a prize (300 USD) . The winner will be announced at the workshop.

The workshop is sponsored by NOKOV Ltd.

Important Dates
Submission Deadline: April 13th, 2024
Acceptance Notification: April 30th, 2024

Invited Speakers

• Fei Chen, CUHK, Hong Kong SAR
• Yang Cong, South China University of Technology
• Yiannis Demiris, Imperial College London 
• Abderrahmane Kheddar, CNRS 
• Jens Kober, TU Delft 
• Masashi Konyo, Tohoku University 
• Huaping Liu, Tsinghua University 
• Rong Xiong, Zhejiang University 
• Dorsa Sadigh, Stanford University 
• Tomohiro Shibata, Kyushu Institute of Technology

Organizers Information

• Jihong Zhu, University of York (jihon...@york.ac.uk)
• Xiang Li, Tsinghua University (xiangli@tsxia...@tsinghua.edu.cninghua.edu.cn)
• Bin Fang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (fangb...@bupt.edu.cn)
• Zackory Erickson, CMU (zac...@cmu.eduzac...@cmu.edu)
• Claire Dune, University of Toulon (clair...@univ-tln.fr)
• David Navarro-Alarcon, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (dna...@polyu.edu.hk)