Dear Roboticists,
We are pleased to announce the 19th edition of the “Robotics: Science and Systems” (RSS) conference to be held in Daegu, Republic of Korea in July 10-14, 2023. This will be the first time that RSS is taking place in Asia and we are excited to be opening up the conference to a broader community of robotics researchers.
RSS is a single-track conference that connects researchers working on all aspects of robotics including scientific foundations, mechanisms, algorithms, applications, and analysis of robotic systems. The single-track format gives attendees an opportunity to learn about state-of-the-art research in all areas of robotics. The conference will consist of oral and poster presentations of accepted papers, demonstrations, invited talks, and panels.
The conference will preserve the RSS tradition of selecting excellent papers via a thorough and fair review process. Paper submissions will be evaluated in terms of their novelty, technical quality, significance, potential impact, and clarity. RSS also features a series of vibrant and engaging workshops across a diverse range of topics. The workshops are a highlight of the conference and offer participants an opportunity to discuss bleeding-edge topics in depth with renowned experts. This year the conference will include a new category of contributions in the form of Demos, similar to conferences in related research areas, which will be highlighted in Demo Session(s) during the main, single-track conference.
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Important Dates
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* January 4, 2023: Submission Website Opens
*** February 3, 2023: Paper and Demo Submission Deadline ***
*** February 17, 2023: Workshop Submission Deadline ***
* March 17, 2023: Workshop Acceptance Notification
* April 22, 2023: Paper and Demo Acceptance Notification
* July 10 – July 14, 2023: RSS 2023 in Daegu, Republic of Korea
Detailed submission instructions will be made available under the conference website by January 4, 2023.
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Highlights of RSS 2023
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* RSS 2023 is planned as an in-person conference, excluding any unexpected developments with the COVID-19 pandemic or similar unfortunate global events.
* A new type of submission, Demos, will be available to RSS 2023 contributors. These single-blind submissions can range from early research demos (e.g., innovative, proof-of-concept given the state-of-the-art) to mature production-ready systems (e.g., accessible, large-scale industrial systems). Open-source and open-access systems or interactive systems that are accessible by the community are especially encouraged. Demos can relate to hardware or software contributions or their integration. They can also relate to critical system components and useful tools for the community. The review process for demos will take place in parallel with the review of regular RSS paper submissions. Detailed submission instructions will be made available under the conference website by January 4, 2023.
* The review process will continue RSS' strong tradition in emphasizing quality, fairness, and rigor. Reviews for RSS papers, including both for “science” and “systems” papers, will remain double-blind. A subset of authors will be invited by Area Chairs to submit a rebuttal. Author rebuttals will be directed to the ACs and considered during the program committee meeting. As in previous iterations of the conference, authors are encouraged to submit “systems” papers and the program committee will be encouraged to evaluate them by gauging their potential impact and usefulness to the community.
* RSS maintains a strong on-going relationship with top robotics journals. Authors of RSS papers have been invited to submit extended versions of their papers to Special Issues of the International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), Autonomous Robots (AuRo) and the IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO).
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Subject Areas
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RSS seeks high-quality research papers and demos that introduce new ideas and stimulate future trends in robotics. We invite paper and demo submissions in all areas of robotics, including:
* Assembly, Logistics and Manufacturing;
* Assistive, Entertainment and Service Robots;
* Autonomous Vehicle Navigation & Mobile Robots;
* Bioinspired Robots;
* Control & Dynamics;
* Cognitive Modeling & Knowledge Representation for Robots;
* Field Robotics (e.g., Aerial, Agricultural, Construction, Space, Underwater, etc.);
* Formal Methods for Robotics;
* Grasping & Manipulation;
* Human-Robot Interaction;
* Humanoid & Walking Robots;
* Mechanisms & Design;
* Medical Robotics;
* Multi-Robot & Networked Systems;
* Robot Learning;
* Robot Modeling & Simulation;
* Robot Perception, Sensors & Vision;
* Robot Planning;
* Robot State Estimation, Localization & Mapping;
* Soft Robots.
Please check the conference website as well as the conference’s social media accounts (links available on the website) for additional and updated information:
2nd CfP – RoboCup 2023 Humanoid League Soccer Competition – Deadline in 10 days
December 9th, 2022 
Daniela Lopez de Luise * 2nd Call for Participation – Deadline in 10 days *
RoboCup 2023
Humanoid Soccer Competition https://humanoid.robocup.org/
July 06 – 09, 2023, Bordeaux, France
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The RoboCup Humanoid League invites teams to apply for participation at the RoboCup 2023 Humanoid Soccer Competition and the Humanoid Research Demonstration in Bordeaux, France.
The Humanoid League will host competitions in the following categories:
* Humanoid Soccer Competition
* KidSize: 40 – 100cm robot height (FIFA size 1 ball)
* AdultSize: 130 – 200cm robot height (FIFA size 5 ball)
* Humanoid Research Demonstration
In addition, we may organize a Humanoid Open Competition with a CfP following later this year.
For more detailed class definitions and more information about the humanoid league, please refer to the humanoid league home page at https://humanoid.robocup.org/ and join the humanoid league mailing list at: https://lists.robocup.org/listinfo/robocup-humanoid
Teams are also encouraged to form and apply as joint teams. Joint proposals will be judged on their combined merit. Teams must provide the following qualification material:
1) Humanoid Soccer Competition
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You do not need to provide a full robot team to apply for competing in the Humanoid Soccer Competition. The qualifying round of Drop-In games will be played with only one robot per team. Teams that cannot provide a full team of robots (four robots in KidSize and two in AdultSize) will be grouped to form a playable team for the main tournament games.
In case of a sufficient number of qualified teams, the sub-leagues (KidSize and/or AdultSize) will be divided into League A and League B. Teams are seeded into the leagues based on the results of an initial round of Drop-In games.
Each application to the Humanoid Soccer Competition will be reviewed by two members of the Technical Committee and two other teams applying to the Humanoid Soccer Competition. The combined reviewing score will decide whether a team qualifies for participation.
Reviewing other team's material is mandatory for teams that want to participate in the Humanoid Soccer Competition. Failing to provide an adequate review by the provided deadline will have consequences for the teams own qualification status.
1.1) Robot Video
International Eminent Conference – Call for Presentation!!!
December 9th, 2022 Daniela Lopez de Luise Conference Details: https://www.brainymeet.com/conference_details/international-virtual-conference-on-engineering-science-and-medicine
Submit your Abstract to bimconfer@gmail.com
Key Features
* Online Meeting
* Hard Copy of the Certificate will be sent to your residential address
* Dragon fly membership (6 month Membership) will be added
We sincerely hope that you are willing to present here.
For More Support, Contact:
Ms. Riya,
Event coordinator,
Ph: +91 9894912496 (What’s app also)
5th Workshop on Tabletop Games
December 7th, 2022 Daniela Lopez de Luise We welcome research papers at the 5th Workshop on Tabletop Games, held on 11th of April at the Foundations of Digital Games conference, Lisbon, Portugal.
Analog games have seen a surge of interest: board game cafés, new titles, and a more accepting culture to role-playing games as a pass-time has fueled a boom in sales. However, academic research is relatively stagnating upon the analog domain as an object of design, due to both the interdisciplinary nature taking cues from computer science, narrative creation, psychology, and due to a lack of good publication venues for such works. Although being integrated to achieve crucial outcomes such as brain health diagnosis, industrial training, recruitment process, analog games have been under-studied in terms of human factors consideration and design improvisation. The workshop endeavors to highlight such issues by discussing existing solutions and potential areas of improvement. Furthermore, the aim of this workshop is to address the gap between research and practice, looking at the ways in which academics can apply their tools to the discussion of analog games; this includes but is not limited to board games, war games, and tabletop role-playing.
We welcome paper submissions describing novel research, with a page limit of 8 pages. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM proceedings of the Foundations of Digital Games conference. The deadline for papers is 27 January 2023. Submissions can be made via EasyChair at the following address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fdg2023 (choose the Workshop on Tabletop Games track)
TOPICS
Tabletop games span a broad range of applications, but indicative topics for papers include but not limited to:
* Player/User Experience Testing and Playtest Methodologies
* Design and Manufacturing of Physical Game Objects
* Impact of 3D printing and rapid prototyping
* Rules Generation, Development, and Extraction
* Crowd-Funding Development and Processes
* Social Networks and Discussion Groups on Analog Games
* Impact of YouTube (i.e. video rule-books) on games rules presentation
* IoT Technologies in Games Objects
* Procedural Content Generation
* Technology applied to the understanding of play
* Historical Reviews, Post Mortem, and Lessons Learned
* Dos and Don'ts of Game Design
* Applications of tabletop games (education, personal transformation, cultural heritage, etc)
* Digital support/extensions to tabletop games (including XR)
* Ancient tabletop games.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Papers submissions will be subject to double-blind peer review, and each submission will be peer reviewed. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to give an oral presentation of their paper at the workshop. Presenters are expected to attend physically.
All submissions should be anonymized, as the review process is double-blind. All submissions should be in PDF format and comply with the new ACM interim template and need to import ACM CCS 2012 concepts. Both one-column and two-column ACM format options are acceptable, and both LaTeX and Word ACM templates are acceptable for producing the PDF file.
Papers should be submitted through EasyChair (to the “Workshop on Tabletop Games” track).
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline: 27 January 2023
Author notification deadline: 3 March 2023
Camera-ready paper deadline: 24 March 2023
WEBSITE
More details can be found on https://tabletopgamesworkshop.org/
ICME 2023: Call for workshop proposals
December 6th, 2022 Daniela Lopez de Luise July 10-14, 2023, Brisbane, Australia
The IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) is a flagship multimedia conference sponsored by four IEEE societies since 2000. ICME serves as a premier forum to promote the exchange of the latest advances in multimedia technologies, systems and applications, from both the research and development perspectives of the circuits and systems, communications, computer, and signal processing communities. ICME workshops aim to explore emerging research topics, bridge the multimedia research advances with other research areas, and trigger live discussions among researchers and practitioners. The Workshops will be held in conjunction with ICME 2023 in Brisbane, Australia.
We seek proposals from individuals and teams interested in organizing exciting and compelling workshops. A workshop proposal should provide the following information:
- Title, scope, topics and duration (half or full day) of the workshop
- Workshop format (papers, posters, demos, panels, invited speakers, etc.)
- Rationale
- How is the workshop related to ICME2023;
- Why the workshop topic is current and important;
- Why the workshop may attract a significant number of submissions of good quality;
- Its difference from other workshops and conferences covering similar topics
- History of the workshop if any (organizers, where it was held, number of submissions, number of accepted papers, numbers of attendees in past years)
- Organizing team and tentative committee lists (organizers, steering committee if any, confirmed TPC members, endorsement by society TCs, etc.).
- A draft of the call for papers, if available.
Workshop proposals should not exceed four pages and should be submitted to the Workshop Co-Chairs.
Important Dates:
- Workshop proposal submission: Dec. 15, 2022
- Workshop paper submission: March 23, 2023
Workshop Co-chairs:
- Chaker Larabi (chaker.larabi@univ-poitiers.fr), Université de Poitiers, France
- Manoranjan Paul (mpaul@csu.edu.au), Charles Stuart University – Australia
- Maggie Zhu (zhu0@purdue.edu), Purdue University – USA
Main conference website: http://2023.ieeeicme.org