Call for Papers

We invite submissions to the Fresh Perspectives on the Future of Autonomous Driving workshop, hosted at ICRA 2022.

Paper Topics

A non-exhaustive list of relevant topics:

• Approaches to autonomous driving that break from traditional interfaces or abstractions

  • End-to-end approaches to autonomous driving

  • Approaches that account for interactions between traditional subcomponents (e.g., between perception and planning)

• Learned methods for planning and control and their ability to generalize

  • Learning from demonstrations / imitation learning

  • Reinforcement learning

  • Reward function learning

• The collection, curation, and sampling of datasets for end-to-end or learned decision making approaches

• Methods for validating / evaluating the performance of end-to-end / learned approaches

  • Benchmarks

  • Simulation

  • Verification

• Methods for interpreting or debugging learned approaches

Submission Guidelines

• Submission Portal: CMT

• Format:

  • Manuscripts should follow the ICRA 2022 paper template.

    • Direct links to ieeeconf.zip and IEEEtranBST.zip.

  • Paper Length: The page limit is 6 pages (excluding references and appendix).

• Dual Submission: We accept dual submissions, but the manuscript must contain substantial original contents not submitted to prior conferences, workshop, or journal.

• Non-archival: The workshop is a non-archival venue and will not have official proceedings. Workshop submissions can be subsequently or concurrently submitted to other venues.

• Visibility: Submissions and reviews will be private. Only accepted papers will be made public.

Review and Selection

• The review process will be double-blind. As an author, you are responsible for anonymizing your submission. You should not include author names, author affiliations, or acknowledgements in your submission.

• All accepted papers will be presented as posters. The guidelines for the posters are the same as at the main conference.

• At least one co-author of each accepted paper is expected to register for ICRA 2022 and attend the poster session. Remote attendance permitted.

  • If you need a Visa to enter the US, please apply for one as early as possible. See Visa information provided on the ICRA website.

• All the accepted submissions will be available on our workshop website, though authors could indicate explicitly if they want to opt out.

Important Dates

• Extended paper submission deadline : April 25th, 2022 (anywhere on earth)

• Notification to authors: May 9th, 2022

Information for authors of accepted papers

• Posters: Authors should prepare a poster to be presented at the conference.

  • The ICRA 2022 poster guidelines suggest a poster no larger than 60" wide and 40" tall (1.5m wide x 1m tall).

  • The following are some poster printing options near the Pennsylvania Convention Center:

    • FedEx Office Print & Ship Center, located at 1201 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19107, phone number: +1 (215) 923-2520

    • Media Copy, located at 1315 Walnut St # 1, Philadelphia, PA 19107, phone number: +1 (215) 717-5151