Radar in Robotics:
Resilience from Signal to Navigation

2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

May 17th, 2024 - Yokohama, Japan (Conference Center 411-412)



Workshop Overview

We witness wider adoption of autonomous robots in our society. This means they will need to work reliably for long-term autonomy, even facing adverse weather conditions, such as dense fog, heavy rain and snowfall. Although last decades the robotics community has made significant progress in these areas, achieving robust and reliable perception in all-weather conditions is still challenging.


The robustness and performance of robot autonomy strongly rely on its perceptual capability, for which radar technology is considered as indispensable. Compared with the popular vision and LiDAR techniques, radar sensing clearly offers some merits: longer range, measurement of relative velocity from Doppler effect, and robust operation in extreme weather conditions. However, its noisy characteristic caused by multi-path reflection, speckle noise and so on also bring in new problems on radar based robot perception, e.g., localization, mapping, SLAM and navigation, which requires significant fundamental research to tackle.


This Workshop aims to provide a platform for researchers, from both academia and industry, to share the state-of-the-art advances and lessons learned on radar perception, exchange ideas, and identify key challenges and opportunities to advance this field.

Invited Speakers

Departmental Lecturer,
University of Oxford

Nikhil Khedekar

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)


Sam Wood

Product Manager, Navtech


Shane Murray

Radar Perception Lead, NVIDIA


Associate Professor, University of Colorado


Professor, University of Chile


Prof. Ayoung Kim

Associate Professor, Seoul National University (SNU)


Program

This workshop will be held in person during ICRA 2024 . Please see the tentative schedule below.

Call for Posters & Competition

The workshop is designed to advance research in radar-based robotics.
We welcome submissions of papers that focus on the application of radar technology in robotics. Additionally, we are organizing a competition for the development of radar odometry algorithms. 

For more details, please refer to the relevant section.

Go to [Call for Poster]

Go to [Call for Competition]

Important Dates

Sponsorship

We acknowledge the generous sponsorship from Navtech and Seadronix


Organisers

Seoul National University, South Korea

Örebro University, Sweden

Seoul National University, South Korea

University of Toronto, Canada

Örebro University, Sweden

Imperial College London, UK

University of Klagenfurt, Austria

University of Toronto, Canada

Örebro University, Sweden

For any inquires regarding the workshop, please contact the organisers.