Existing unconventional sensors can boost the applicability of robotic solutions to challenging scenarios, and improve their performance in several existing ones. On the other hand, certain application cases would require the design of sensing hardware and algorithms that do not yet exist. In both cases, the challenges are varied and may involve several research communities (perception, learning, control and hardware).
The sensing modalities of interest include, but are not necessary limited to:
- Tactile sensing (for example: Vibration, pressure or temperature sensors for robotic skin)
- Unconventional vision-based sensors (for example: Event-based, polarisation, novel approaches to time of flight and structured light sensors, computational imaging)
- Olfaction (chemical sensors)
- Auditory sensors
- Electric sensors
- Magnetic field sensors
- Anemometers
For those above, and other unconventional sensing modalities, we are happy to receive papers related to all robotic research areas and robotic applications that make use of them, including:
- Control algorithms using unconventional sensing
- Learning approaches using data from unconventional sensors
- Novel sensing devices and/or paradigms
- Perception/estimation algorithms from unconventional data
- Navigation algorithms that use unconventional sensors
- Applications, field reports and system papers related to unconventional sensing
Submission should be done via the Conference Management Toolkit.
Important dates:
- Paper submission:
March 15th Extended to March 29th - Notification of acceptance:
April 19th - Final version submission:
May 29th