ICRA 2023 Workshop on Unconventional spatial representations: Opportunities for robotics

[Francesco Verdoja (Aalto University)]

ICRA 2023 Workshop on Unconventional spatial representations: Opportunities for robotics

May 29th 2023 London - Full Day

https://usr2023.github.io/

It is our pleasure to invite you to the workshop on Unconventional spatial representations: Opportunities for robotics. The workshop is organised as part of ICRA 2023 in London.

The goal of the workshop is to further advance in the direction of developing unconventional, possibly richer and informative, environment representations for autonomous robots, building on recent results and extending them beyond the boundaries of methods currently used in robotics. Here, “unconventional” refers both to the representations (e.g., beyond grids and point clouds) and to the features of the environments that are included in the model.

We invite you to submit your novel contribution aligned with the following indicative (and non-exhaustive) list of topics.

• Representations of challenging environments (e.g., underwater and space environments, heavily crowded environments).

• Implicit environment representations based on neural networks and machine learning models.

• Representations of other agents (humans and robots) operating in the same environment.

• Representations of implicit environmental features (points of interest, “attention grabbers”, etc.).

• Representations of map meta information (quality, accuracy, etc.).

• Representation of evolving features as volatile quantities (e.g., gas concentrations) or long-term settings

• Representations for context-aware motion planners. 

• Simulations, digital twins, and sim2real.
   

Guide for authors

Please submit an extended abstract of up to 4 pages, including references, to the workshop chair at tomasz...@aalto.fi.

For the paper template, please use the standard IEEE conference template.

Submissions that are re-elaborations of recently published papers are welcome. The workshop will not have archival proceedings.  

All the submitted papers will undergo review by the organising committee and will be accepted based on their quality, merit and timeliness.

Important dates - regular submission
Deadline for submission: 14th of March 2023
Notification of acceptance: 28th of March 2023
Deadline for final paper submission: 15th of May 2023

Important dates - breaking results
Deadline for submission: 14th of April 2023
Notification of acceptance: 28th of April 2023
Deadline for final paper submission: 15th of May 2023

Publication and dissemination

The accepted papers will be presented during a poster session accompanying the workshop during ICRA 2023. After the workshop, the papers with accompanying posters will be available on the workshop's web page.

Organising committee:

• Tomasz Piotr Kucner - Aalto University, Finland

• Francesco Amigoni - Politecnico di Milano, Italy

• Matteo Luperto - Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

• Martin Magnusson - Örebro University, Sweden

• Francesco Verdoja - Aalto University, Finland

• Jan Faigl - Czech Technical University in Prague, Czechia

For any enquires, please contact: tomasz...@aalto.fi

We look forward to seeing you at ICRA 2023

Sincerely,

Organizers