Important Dates
Submission Deadline: June 7, 2026 AOE
Decision Notification: June 21, 2026 AOE
Workshop Day: July 17, 2026
Submission Information
TLDR:
Max 2 pages main text w/o references
Single-blind review
We invite submissions of short papers in IEEE conference format, with a maximum length of 2 pages for the main text, including figures but excluding references. Authors may include supplementary appendices, though reviewers are not required to consider them. Submissions will be reviewed single-blind and therefore do not need to be anonymized.
We welcome submissions within the broad areas of sampling-focused methods in optimization, optimal control, and robotics. We encourage the submission of early ideas, late-breaking results, position papers, or open research questions that are likely to generate interesting discussions. All submitted contributions will go through a single-blind review process.
All accepted papers are expected to be presented in a poster session and will be featured on the workshop website. Some selected contributions will also be introduced in lightning talks during the workshop.
We encourage submissions from young researchers, women, minorities, and members of other underrepresented groups.
Examples of topics of interest (in random order):
Applications of sampling methods to robotics, e.g. MCMC or diffusion samplers
New sampling methods within robotics
New sampling-based optimization methods within robotics
Sampling based MPC methods
Optimality or convergence guarantees of sampling-based methods for robotics use cases
Sampling methods for reinforcement learning
Sampling methods for planning
Large-scale simulation for robotics