Important dates
April 14, 2022: Deadline for abstract submission
April 30, 2022: Notification of acceptance
May 23, 2022: Workshop (full-day)
Submission site (details below)
https://openreview.net/group?id=ICRA.org/2022/Workshop/CAARRWR
Abstract Submission
We invite abstracts pertaining to potential challenges in applying academic research to real-world robotics problems.
Example areas of interest for submissions include:
Practical challenges that arise in real-world domains such as Autonomous driving, Manipulation, Locomotion, Assistive robotics, Medical robotics, UAVs, etc.
Technology-specific challenges such as applying Reinforcement Learning, Imitation learning, Real-world perception, Deep Learning etc.
Issues such as reproducibility, privacy, robustness, safety, IP, interpretability that are quite important from an industrial point of view, but may have less of a focus from an academic perspective.
Submission template: Submissions should be no more than two pages in length (not including references). Submissions should clearly define a challenge that could be related to one of the areas highlighted above, and describe in detail a potential solution to tackle this challenge. See the end of this section for some brief example templates.
We encourage submitters to focus on novel issues brought-to-light by recent advances in robotics, particularly issues that have yet to be highlighted in the academic literature. We are also interested in submissions that focus on out of the ordinary issues not often discussed. We welcome submissions from students and researchers with diverse backgrounds.
Abstracts should be submitted to OpenReview no later than April 14, 2022. Notification of acceptance will be made by April 30, 2022. Selected abstracts will be invited to participate in a lightning talk session during the workshop. We have several grants available for students which will cover registration costs for the conference and workshops. Please indicate in your submission if you would like to be considered for a grant.
Some example abstract templates:
Challenge: Critical information needed to reproduce published methods/algorithms/etc. is missing from published literature.
Solution: Journals require supplemental information to be submitted along with the paper. This supplemental information would be linked to the paper (but not published and, therefore not subject to the per-page publishing fee) and would outline step-by-step what is needed to reproduce the experiment/obtain the published results. Information listed/linked could include code developed, libraries used, data-collection platforms, etc.
Challenge: Novel algorithms are often evaluated in isolation in academic papers.
Solution: ICRA, or a similar professional organization, sponsors research into and creates a journal that publishes systems papers and evaluations of interaction effects between various robotic subsystems (e.g., slam and motion planning).
Contact
For questions please email the organizers at schenckc@cs.washington.edu.