The workshop aims to explore the latest innovations and challenges in developing agile robotic systems with athletic behaviors, with a specific focus on leveraging learning techniques. Sports provide an ideal testbed for advancing robotic technology due to their demanding requirements of agility, autonomy, and precision. By addressing the unique challenges posed by sports applications, such as real-time control, dynamic adaptation, and intelligent game strategies, we can push the boundaries of robotic performance. The workshop will cover a wide range of vital topics including enhancing athletic behaviors through learning, improving real-time control in dynamic environments, overcoming challenges in deploying real-time machine learning systems, developing intelligent game strategies, and fostering interdisciplinary collaborations. By incorporating video demonstrations and various presentation formats, the workshop aims to facilitate knowledge exchange, inspire collaboration, and drive advancements in the integration of learning techniques in athletic robotics. The workshop is designed to engage a diverse audience from robotics, machine learning, sports science, and related disciplines, fostering interdisciplinary discussions and unlocking new possibilities for athletic and intelligent robotic systems.

Accepted Papers:

• Arka Mitra, Lukas Molnar, Jan-Nico Zaech, Yan Wu, Seonyeong Heo, Fisher Yu, Luc Van Gool, “Multi-Domain Referee Dataset: Enabling Recognition of Referee Signals on Robotic Platforms.” Download Link

• Andreas Ziegler, Thomas Gossard, Karl Vetter, Jonas Tebbe, Andreas Zell, “A multi-modal table tennis robot system.” Download Link

• Hongrui Zheng, Zhijun Zhuang, Johannes Betz, Rahul Mangharam, “Game-theoretic Objective Space Planning.” Download Link

• Brandon Ho, Batuhan Altundas, Matthew Gombolay, “Towards Learning Scalable Agile Dynamic Motion Planning for Robosoccer Teams with Policy Optimization.” Download Link

• Giuliano Albanese, Arka Mitra, Jan-Nico Zaech, Yupeng Zhao, Ajad Chhatkuli, Luc Van Gool, “Optimizing Long-Term Player Tracking and Identification in NAO Robot Soccer by fusing Game-state and External Video.” Download Link

• Aniket Datar, Chenhui Pan, Xuesu Xiao, “Learning to Model and Plan for Wheeled Mobility on Vertically Challenging Terrain.” Download Link

• Yikai Wang, Zheyuan Jiang, Jianyu Chen, “Learning Robust, Agile, Natural Legged Locomotion Skills in the Wild.” Download  Link

Accepted Demonstration Papers:

• Xuxin Cheng, Kexin Shi, Ananye Agarwal, Deepak Pathak, “Extreme Parkour with Legged Robots.” Download  Link

• Aniket Datar, Chenhui Pan, Mohammad Nazeri, Xuesu Xiao, “Toward Wheeled Mobility on Vertically Challenging Terrain: Platforms, Datasets, and Algorithms.” Download Link

• Simon Guist, Jan Schneider, Hao Ma, Vincent Berenz, Julian Martus, Felix Grüninger, Michael Muehlebach, Jonathan Fiene, Bernhard Schölkopf, Dieter Büchler, “A Robust Open-source Tendon-driven Robot Arm for Learning Control of Dynamic Motions.” Download Link

We invite researchers to submit their contributions to the workshop in the form of short papers (2 pages) accompanied by video demonstrations or standalone papers (4 pages). These submissions should align with the workshop's topics of interest and will serve as a basis for initiating discussions during the event. Accepted papers will be presented as posters, presentations, and videos, and with the authors' permission, they will be published on the workshop website. 

Topics of Interest include:

• Systems design enabling the learning of athletic behaviors in robots

• Learning-based real-time controllers and planners for athletic movements

• Safety frameworks for athletic robots

• Sensing and state estimation under time and compute constraints with incomplete and imperfect knowledge of the world

• Communication systems for robotic team sports

• Synthesizing strategies for sports-playing robots

• Human-robot collaboration for athletic and agile robots

We encourage submissions that demonstrate and benchmark their approaches on sports-related applications such as table tennis, tennis, soccer, air hockey, and others. 

Submission Website: CoRL 2023 Workshop RoboLetics | OpenReview 

Important Dates:

• Paper submission deadline: 15th October, 2023 (Anywhere on Earth) (FINAL DEADLINE)

• Video submission deadline: 15th October, 2023 (Anywhere on Earth) (FINAL DEADLINE)

• Author notification: 22nd October, 2023  (We are working to assign and receive reviews as soon as possible. If you have a submission that requires a faster review for any reason, please don't hesitate to reach out to us.)

• Camera-ready submission: 1st November, 2023

Authors can submit demo papers of 2 pages accompanied with videos or 4 pages standalone contributions. All papers must be submitted in PDF and must follow the CoRL format. All papers will be peer-reviewed (double-blind). Both unpublished original contributions and previously published work may be submitted.  

We look forward to receiving your submissions and engaging in fruitful discussions at the workshop.

Contact:

All questions about submissions or workshop should be emailed to any of the following people: 

• Zulfiqar Haider Zaidi (email: zzaidi8@gatech.edu) 

• Rohan Paleja (email: rpaleja3@gatech.edu)