[Journals] CFP: Special Issue on 'Social Robot Navigation – Opportunities, Algorithms, Tools, and Systems'

[Allan Wang]

Dear fellow roboticists,

We are bringing key social navigation researchers together in a focused special issue on “Social Robot Navigation – Opportunities, Algorithms, Tools, and Systems”, in Frontiers in Robotics and AI.

We cordially invite you to contribute a submission to our special issue. Please find all information about the opportunity in our special issues's website.: https://www.frontiersin.org/researchtopic/68960

If you plan to contribute, please register your interest by clicking "Participate in this topic".

Timeline:

The Special Issue operates on a rolling submission basis, through Fall 2025:

- Last abstract submission for the year: 10 July 2025

- Last manuscript submission for the year: 13 November 2025

Topic Editors:

- Allan Wang (Miraikan, PhD at Carnegie Mellon University)

- Phani Teja Singamaneni (Laboratoire d'analyse et d'architecture Des Systèmes (LAAS))

- Jonathan Francis (Bosch Center for AI + Carnegie Mellon University)

- Dražen Brščić (Kyoto University)

Other Featured Events: 

We are providing an opportunity for submissions to this track to be featured and presented at the Workshop on Advances in Social Navigation: Planning, HRI and Beyond, at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2025), which will be held on 23 May 2025 in Atlanta, USA.

- Manuscripts must be submitted to this Special Issue by March 31 2025

- Authors must register their Special Issue submission via the following form, to have the submission considered for presentation at the ICRA workshop: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSefpulju5PGdZneHNHHHuCPsnn-PZ6PJoqsKjs040Aq5BweJA/viewform?usp=dialog

- For workshop-specific event details, visit its website: https://socialnav2025.pages.dev/

Please feel free to let us know if you have any questions.

Best regards,

Allan