Call for Contributions
Researchers in agricultural robotics are encouraged to contribute to the workshop by submitting a two-page paper (excluding references) in PDF format. Relevant work to any topics of interest listed below are all welcome:
Topics of Interest
- UAV-based remote sensing and crop monitoring
- Machine vision and deep learning for precision agriculture
- Mobile manipulation
- Sensing in precision agriculture
- Aerial and ground robotic platforms for agricultural applications
- Long-term autonomy and navigation
- Multi-robot coordination and applications
- User interfaces and human-robot interaction for end users
- Adaptive sampling and informative planning
- Soft robots for manipulation and grasping in agricultural applications
- Robots for efficient phenotyping
- New materials, designs, and mechanisms for automating unexplored agricultural applications
- Robots for urban, indoor, and emerging agriculture.
- Learning for agriculture robots
- Digital twins for agricultural automation
Submission link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/WARS2023
In particular, submitted papers must be formatted according to the guideline of IROS2023. The program committee will review each contribution, and the authors will be notified of the result.
For each accepted paper, the camera-ready version will be submitted, and also, at least one author must register for the workshop to give a "lightning" talk and present a poster on site. Authors who plan to attend remotely will be asked to submit a pre-recorded video of the presentation instead before the workshop.
Best Paper Awards:
We will have prizes of $500, $300, and $200 for each category for the best contributions in 1) Advancement in robotic farming technology and 2) Innovation in precision agriculture. The former will be evaluated on the technology by a panel of roboticists, and the latter will be evaluated on the science by a panel of agronomists.
The prizes will be announced during the closing remarks.
Prizes are sponsored by the Center for Digital Agriculture (UIUC) and CROPPS.
Important Dates
August 18th : Workshop contribution submission deadline
August 30th : Notification of acceptance
October 1st : Full-day workshop