(Hybrid) Workshop on Scaling Robot Learning

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

May 23th, 2022

Hybrid in both Philadelphia, USA and online

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/icra22-srl/

Overview

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With an increased adoption of thousands of robots in various industries comes the question of how to better deploy physical robots “at scale”. In this workshop, we are specifically interested in the challenges connected to “scaling” machine learning for robotic applications. This includes topics on both the algorithmic advancements (self-supervised learning, lifelong learning, multi-task learning, etc), and the systems side (data-acquisition at scale, distributed training, real-world challenges in deploying and maintaining a fleet of thousands of robots). The goal of this workshop is to bring together experts from different communities, industry and academia, to discuss challenges and explore new directions towards scaling robot learning.

Topics

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The focus topics for our workshop include, but are not restricted to:

• Self-supervised learning for robotics, robot vision, reinforcement learning….

• Lifelong learning

• Multi-task learning

• Data acquisition at scale

• Multi robot systems / learning from fleets

• Large scale robotics applications and systems

• Scaling task specification via language/video conditioned policies

Submission Instructions

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We encourage participants to submit their research in the form of a single PDF. Submissions may be up to 4 pages in length, including figures, excluding references and any supplementary material. Please use the ICRA conference template. Accepted papers will be presented in a poster session and selected papers as spotlight talks. All submitted contributions will go through a single blind review process. The contributed papers will be made available on the website of the workshop. Selected papers will be invited for a special issue of a major robotics journal.

Submission Website: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICRAWSRL2022

LaTeX Template: http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/tex.php

Important Dates

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– Submission deadline: April 11, 2022 AoE

– Notification of acceptance: April 24, 2022

– Camera ready submission: May 12th, 2022 AoE

– Workshop date: May 23, 2022

Invited Speakers

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– Jeannette Bohg (Stanford University)

– Dieter Fox (University of Washington & NVIDIA)

– Kendra Byrne (Robotics @ Google AI)

– Stephanie Tellex (Brown University)

– Yuning Chai (Cruise)

– Sean Wilson (Geogia Tech)

– Andy Marchese (Amazon Robotics)

Organizing Committee

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– Wolfram Burgard, TU Nuremberg

– Roberto Calandra, Facebook AI Research

– Raia Hadsell, DeepMind

– Serena Ivaldi, INRIA

– Danica Kragic, KTH

– Oier Mees, University of Freiburg

– Andy Zeng, Google Brain

We look forward to receiving your submissions!

For further information please contact us at <icra22-srl(at)googlegroups.com>.

Best,

Wolfram, Roberto, Raia, Serena, Danica, Oier, Andy