FIRA World Summit 2023: The Federation of International Robot Sports Association Summit 2023 Startseite Lindenhalle Wolfenbüttel, Germany, July 17-23, 2023

FIRA 2023 World Summit

The FIRA World Summit 2023 will be held in conjunction with the FIRA RoboWorld Cup, from 17th to 23rd of July 2023. The purposes of organizing FIRA RoboWorldCup and Summit are to share many ideas and research results in AI and robotics areas. The FIRA Summit is soliciting novel research results on advanced robotics, intelligent systems, and building successful simulations for robots and systems. The organizing committee of the FIRA 2023 World Summit is preparing to hold this year's conference, as a hybrid event.

We call for submissions of short papers, reporting the innovative, original research with relevance to areas of robotics and artificial intelligence as listed below. Within the described scope of topics, we also encourage submissions of high-quality overview short articles, papers describing real-world research, and papers reporting theoretical results. Researchers are invited to submit their work independently of whether they participate in the FIRA competitions or have a FIRA team.

Submission Guidelines

Papers submitted should be written in English and at least two pages in single-column formats. All papers will be peer-reviewed, and evaluated by members of the senior FIRA Summit program committee.

Papers should be formatted following the LNAI author guidelines (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines) and must be electronically submitted through the EasyChair electronic submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=firasummit2023).

Important dates

• Submission of short papers: 5th June 2023
• Notification to authors: 30th June 2023
• FIRA World Summit 2023: 17th - 23th July 2023

FIRA World Summit Topics

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Robot Hardware and Software Design of intelligent robots
• Perception, Reasoning and Action
• Robot Cognition and Learning
• High speed walking gaits and running robots
• Guidance and Navigation of Autonomous Vehicles
• Path Planning and Collision Avoidance in Autonomous Vehicles
• Communication and Connectivity
• Multi Agent Systems (MAS)
• Cooperative Guidance and Navigation
• Aerial Manipulation
• Active balancing, posture generators, and push recovery
• High Accuracy Motion Control
• Complex motion planning
• Human-robot interaction
• High-speed object tracking
• Robot personalities (Marvin, the depressed robot magician)
• Labeled vision data and ground truth for localization
• Team play and role assignment 
• Attention to perception and reasoning 
• Efficient architectures for intelligent sports and entertainment robots
• Education, Entertainment and Edutainment

Committees

Program Committee

• Soroush Sadeghnejad, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic)

Organizing committee

• Soroush Sadeghnejad, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic)
• Jacky Baltes, National Taiwan Normal University
• Ku-Yang Tu, National Kaohsiung University of Science & Technology

Publication

Selected papers will be recommended to submit to the Special Issue of the Knowledge Engineering Review, indexed in the Science Citation Index (SCI) of Web of Science. 

Best Student Paper Award

FIRA Summit will award one best student paper award to the paper with a student as first author and that was presented by a student during the summit. The award will be judged by a jury whose members were selected from the FIRA community.

Venue

The conference will be held in a purely online platform.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to summit@firaworldcup.org or s.sadeghnejad@aut.ac.ir.