ICRA18_WMLR: ICRA 2018 Workshop on Multilegged Robots: Towards Robust Real-World Deployments The Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre Brisbane, Australia, May 25, 2018 |
Conference website | http://research.csiro.au/robotics/multilegged-robots-workshop-icra2018/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icra18-wmlr |
Abstract registration deadline | April 20, 2018 |
Submission deadline | April 20, 2018 |
Multilegged robots have unique potential advantages over wheeled and tracked systems in regard to traversal of rough and unstructured terrain, and this has led to a growing interest and body of research in legged systems. However, there are very few actual real-world deployments of multilegged robots, and so far there has been no significant uptake of legged robots in domains such as agriculture, mining, manufacturing, environmental monitoring and others. This workshop will explore the “missing ingredients” that are holding back widespread real-world deployment of multilegged robots, and will feature both distinguished invited speakers and solicited papers.
Submission Guidelines
We invite submissions related to multilegged robots to overview the current state of the art, and to propose new directions. Submissions will be judged on novelty, scientific contribution, clarity, and relevance. We welcome submissions of 2-4 page short papers in the double-column IEEE ICRA format in the following areas:
- Multilegged robot designs for complex industrial environments or challenging outdoor terrain
- Motion planning for high DOF robots in complex, 3D environments
- Energy aware motion planning for multilegged robots
- State estimation for multilegged robots
- Control architectures for multilegged robots
Authors of accepted papers are expected to give a 3 minute oral presentation, and to present a poster at the workshop. All submissions must be original and not previously or simultaneously submitted to another venue.
If you have a robot related to your submission, we strongly encourage you to bring the robot to the workshop with you to be demonstrated. Please contact the organizers to discuss and arrange logistics.
Important dates
- Submission deadline - Friday 6 April 2018 (Extended)
- Notification of acceptance - Friday 13 April 2018
- Final submission - Tuesday 1 May 2018
- Workshop day - Friday 25 May 2018
All dates and times are Anywhere on Earth (AoE)
Organizing Committee
- Navinda Kottege - Senior Research Scientist, Robotics and Autonomous Systems Group, CSIRO
- Alberto Elfes - Chief Research Scientist and Research Group Leader Robotics and Autonomous Systems Group, CSIRO
- Tirthankar Bandyopadhyay - Research Scientist, Robotics and Autonomous Systems Group, CSIRO
- Marco Hutter - Professor and Head of Lab, Robotics Systems Lab, ETH Zürich
- Nicolas Hudson - Senior Roboticist, X - The Moonshot Factory Mountain
Invited Speakers
We have a line up of internationally recognized speakers who would present the state-of-the-art in multilegged robots at the workshop.
- Alberto Elfes - CSIRO (Large ultralight multilegged systems)
- Marco Hutter - ETHZ (Traversing natural terrain with multi-legged robots)
- Bong-Huan Jun - KRISO (Crabster project)
- Claudio Semini - IIT (HyQ-REAL quadruped from the research lab to the real world)
- Sangbae Kim - MIT (Cheetah 3: dynamic mobile platform for disaster response)
- Erwin Coumans - Google Research (Narrowing the Reality Gap for Deep Reinforcement Learning of Quadrupedal Locomotion)
- Georg Heppner - FZI (Lauron V: Autonomous Walking with a Robust Hexapod)
- Xing Wang - Unitree Robotics (Laikago: Towards an easily accessible quadruped robot platform)
- Avik De - Ghost Robotics (Toward robust locomotion subject to variations in robot scale, mass, payload, and environmental conditions)
Publication
All accepted presentations will be made available on the workshop website and Arxiv. After the workshop, selected authors will be invited to extend their work for submission to a special issue of a prominent robotics journal (TBC).
Venue
This workshop will be held as part of ICRA 2018 on Friday 25th of May 2018 at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre in Brisbane, Australia.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to Navinda Kottege.