RCC-ICRA2022: Robotics for Climate Change - ICRA 2022 Philadelphia, PA, United States, May 23, 2022 |
Conference website | https://scalar.seas.upenn.edu/icra-2022-workshop/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rccicra2022 |
Submission deadline | April 20, 2022 |
Program Details
ICRA 2022 Workshop "Robotics for Climate Change"
Monday, May 23 (full day)
Philadelphia, PA
https://scalar.seas.upenn.edu/icra-2022-workshop/
Workshop Overview
In the fight against climate change, robots have become increasingly important for understanding the complex phenomena that both cause and result from climate change. In the past few decades, there have been efforts in academic research in robotics for environmental monitoring, exploration, and information acquisition in support of better understanding climate change. Such deployments are broadly approached in two ways: in-laboratory robot hardware and software design for relatively controlled environments and simple instrumentation and data collection for scientific analysis. In both of these categories, researchers have accumulated a vast amount of domain-specific knowledge. However, there is great need for meaningful synergy between roboticists and leaders in climate related fields to understand the technical challenges and societal impacts of such technologies.
The primary aim of this workshop is to identify and foster developments that will integrate robotics technology into climate related applications. The workshop will bring together roboticists, earth scientists, oceanographers, machine learning experts, climate scientists, ethicists, and many other disciplines to share their insights from the past, latest developments, and outlooks for the future. We will bring together researchers across academia and industry in disparate fields with the goal of identifying key technical challenges in this domain and fostering cross-disciplinary discussions and collaborations. To that end, we will have talks by experts across multiple fields, contributed paper and poster presentations, focused group activities, with emphasis on recruiting and providing accessibility to historically excluded groups in robotics.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Active sensing
- Adaptive sampling
- Aerial Robotics and UAVs
- Agricultural Robotics and Automation
- Data-driven modeling and learning
- Energy, Environment, and Safety Issues in Robotics and Automation
- Joint modeling of remote satellite and robot sensing
- Hyperspectral imaging
- Informed exploration techniques
- Long-term persistent autonomy
- Long-term and long-distance deployments with energy autonomy
- Environmental monitoring
- Marine Robotics
- Methods for capturing features of data (e.g. modeling the dynamics of fluids and atmospheric phenomena, segmentation and feature characterisation)
- Novel algorithm formulations
- Multi-scale and multi-sensor data fusion
- Robotics and Automation in Nuclear Facilities
- Situational awareness in extreme environments
- Smart Buildings
- Sustainable Production Automation
Submission Details
We invite students and researchers to submit extended abstracts to be presented during the workshop. We encourage submissions related to all fields related to new trends in robotics for climate change, in particular (but not limited to) the topics listed above. We specially encourage innovations from "non-traditional" robotics and late breaking results. A best paper and presentation with a prize will be provided.
The abstracts proposed to the workshop will be evaluated on relevance to the workshop theme, novelty, and impact. Accepted contributions will be proposed for a poster or video demonstration presentation and their extended abstract will be in the program proceedings.
Each extended abstract is limited to 4 pages (including references). The IEEE conference template in two-column format must be used. More information about the template can be found here: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html.
All abstracts should be submitted through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rccicra2022.
Important dates
20 April 2022: Deadline for abstract submission
27 April 2022: Notification of acceptance
23 May 2022: Workshop (full-day)
Invited Speakers
Britney Schmidt, Associate Professor at Cornell University
Fabio Ramos, Professor at University of Sydney
Justin Donhauser, Assistant Professor at Bowling Green State University
Luz Abril Torres-Méndez, Professor at CINVESTAV, Saltillo, Mexico
Mandar Chitre, Associate Professor at National University of Singapore
Stefan Williams, Australian Centre for Field Robotics
Program Schedule
9:00 – 9:10: Opening remarks and welcome from the organizers
9:10 – 10:00 Britney Schmidt: Overview of Robotics for Climate Applications
10:00 – 10:30 Justin Donhauser
10:30 – 10:45 Spotlight talks
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break and poster session
11:15 – 11:45 Fabio Ramos
11:45 – 12:45 Lunch
12:45 – 13:15 Luz Abril Torres-Méndez
13:15 – 13:30 Spotlight talks
13:30 – 14:00 Stefan Williams
14:00 – 15:00 Group activity (Birds of a feather)
15:00 – 15:30 Mandar Chitre
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break and poster session
16:00 – 17:00 Panel discussion