Call for Papers
The 2018 Robotics: Science and Systems Conference will bring together researchers working on
all aspects of robotics including scientific foundations, applications, and
analysis of robotic systems. We seek your best work in all areas of robotics
and solicit papers that cover both the “Science” and the “Systems” of robotics.
The conference will be single-track, and the final program will be the result
of a thorough review process to give attendees an opportunity to see the most
exciting research in all areas of robotics. Submissions will be evaluated in
terms of their novelty, technical quality, significance, potential impact, and
clarity. Selected papers will be invited for submission to special issues of
the International Journal of Robotics Research and Autonomous Robots, and for
expedited review as regular submissions to the IEEE Transactions on Robotics.
The program will include invited talks as well as oral and poster presentations
of refereed papers. The three-day main session will be followed by two days of
workshops and tutorials. Every effort is being made to keep the conference
affordable, particularly for student attendees.
This year, we are especially excited to showcase the following two themes via
special sessions at the conference:
- Field Robotics: Underwater Robotics, Aerial/Space Robotics, Agricultural
and Mining Robotics, Building and Construction, Environmental Monitoring,
Autonomous Vehicles
- Mechanisms and Design: Humanoids, Hands, Legged Systems, Snake Robots,
Novel Actuators, Reconfigurable Robots, MEMS/NEMS, Micro/Nanobots, Novel
Sensors, Haptics, Tactile Interfaces, Soft Robots, Wearable Robots, Design
Optimization of Robotic Systems, Minimality in design
Important Dates
- Full Paper Submission: Thursday, February 1, 2018, Anywhere on Earth
- Paper Notification: April 23, 2018
- Conference Dates: June 26-30, 2018 (Main Conference: June 26-28, Workshops: June 29-30), Pittsburgh, USA
Themes
RSS is actively seeking papers in areas that have not been traditionally
represented at the conference and will stay true to its name covering both the
“Science” and the “Systems” of robotics. Papers containing original and
unpublished work are solicited in all areas of robotics, including (but not
limited to) the following themes:
- Kinematics, Dynamics, and Control: Dexterous Manipulation, Locomotion,
Nonlinear Control, Visual Servoing
- Mechanisms and Design: Humanoids, Hands, Legged Systems, Snake Robots,
Novel Actuators, Reconfigurable Robots, MEMS/NEMS, Micro/Nanobots, Novel
Sensors, Haptics, Tactile Interfaces, Soft Robots, Wearable Robots, Design
Optimization of Robotic Systems, Minimality in design
- Planning and Algorithms: Motion Planning, Task Planning, Complexity and
Completeness, Computational Geometry, Simulation, Planning under Uncertainty
- Manipulation: Contact Modeling, Grasp Synthesis, Assembly, Force Control,
Manipulation Planning
- Human-Robot Interaction and Human Centered Systems: Human Augmentation,
Assistive Robots, Rehabilitation Robots, Social Robots, Safe Interaction,
Robots and Art, Grounded Language Understanding, Natural Language Generation,
Human-Robot Dialogue, Novel Interfaces, Proximate or Remote Human-Robot
Teaming, Co-Robots, Intention Detection
- Field Robotics: Underwater Robotics, Aerial/Space Robotics, Agricultural
and Mining Robotics, Building and Construction, Environmental Monitoring,
Autonomous Vehicles
- Formal Methods: Safety, Verification, Validation, Correct-by-construction
Systems, Controller Synthesis, Certification
- Distributed Systems: Multi-Robot Systems, Networked Robots, Robot Soccer,
Swarms, Coordination, Task and Resource Allocation
- Healthcare and Medical Robotics: Rehabilitation Robotics, Mobility Aids,
Navigation Aids, Robotic Prostheses, Exoskeletons, Robot-assisted
Procedures, Smart Surgical Tools, Clinical Support Robots, Robots for
Behavioral and Mental Health, Telehealth Robots, Ambulatory Care Robots
- Biological Robotics: Biomimetic Robotics, Robotic Investigation of
Biological Science and Systems, Neurobotics, Prosthetics, Robotics and
Molecular Biology
- Robot Perception: Vision, Tactile and Force Perception, Range Sensing,
Inertial and Proprioceptive Sensing, Sensor Fusion, Calibration &
Identification
- Mobile Systems and Mobility: Mapping, Localization, Navigation, SLAM, Collision Avoidance, Exploration
- Learning and Estimation for Robotic Systems: Reinforcement Learning,
Bayesian Techniques, Deep Learning, Graphical Models, Imitation Learning,
Programming by Demonstration, Diagnostics
Submissions may be up to 8 pages in length, excluding references. The review
process is double-blind: authors should not be listed on the title page, and
reasonable anonymity should be maintained in the paper. The conference’s dual
submission policy establishes that submissions that are identical (or
substantially similar) to papers that have been previously published, or
accepted for publication, or that have been submitted in parallel to other
conferences are not appropriate for RSS; Exceptions to this rule are detailed
on the author instructions page on
the RSS 2018 website.
Submissions will be evaluated in terms of their technical quality, novelty,
significance, potential impact, and clarity. All papers accepted for
presentation at the main conference will be published in the online
proceedings. Selected papers will be invited for submission to special issues
of the International Journal of Robotics Research and Autonomous Robots, and
for expedited review as regular submissions to the IEEE Transactions on
Robotics.
Please visit the author instructions
page for further details.
