Call for Papers

The goal of our workshop is to foster communication between academic researchers, industry entities, and regulatory agencies on the topic of large-scale verification and deployment of robots in real-world applications. How can we validate that robots are operating safely in the real, uncertain, and interactive world? 

Some topics of interest include:

• Regulation and certification

• Safety verification

• Reachability analysis 

• Rare-event simulation

• Fault detection

• Risk-aware decision making

• Out-of-distribution detection

We invite contributions in the form of a two page extended abstract (excluding references and appendices) using the ICRA format. Contributions should make some novel algorithmic, theoretical, hardware, or perspective advancement that promotes safe deployment for robots in the real world. Additionally, contributions may be on-going, under review, or recently published work. Contributions should expect to receive two reviews on OpenReview. 

Selected contributions will be invited to present a 5 minute talk and participate in a poster session during the workshop. These submissions will be non-archival and made available on our website (only with author permission). 

Key dates:

• Submission deadline: Friday, April 14, 2023 Tuesday, April 18, 2023 (midnight AoE) 

• Now accepting rolling submissions through May 5 (midnight AoE). Notification of acceptance will also be rolling.

• Notification of acceptance (for submissions received before April 18): Friday, April 28, 2023

• Workshop date: Friday, June 2, 2023

Please send any questions about the workshop to lab2realgap@gmail.com.