RS4UAVs: The Role of Robotics Simulators for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ExCeL London, UK, June 2, 2023 |
Conference website | https://imrclab.github.io/workshop-uav-sims-icra2023/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rs4uavs |
Abstract registration deadline | April 3, 2023 |
Submission deadline | April 3, 2023 |
Workshop Objective
The workshop aims to provide the participants with the knowledge and experience of researchers who have struggled to find, customize, or design a robotic simulator for their own purposes or specific application. The focus is on aerial vehicles, especially multi-rotor aircraft, where we expect simulation solutions to be of continued importance for both research and industrial applications. Simulating Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is a specialized task, because of aerodynamic interactions (with the environment or other robots), the fast operating speed compared to other robots (e.g., mobile, legged), and the potentially large number of interacting robots in three dimensions (e.g., swarms of delivery drones).
Submission Guidelines
We invite the submission of extended abstracts in line with the workshop's objective with a maximum of 4 pages in the ICRA format, encouraging and prioritizing submissions of new ideas. Authors of the accepted papers will be invited to present their work during the poster session.
Every paper will be reviewed by at least two peers. The selection of accepted papers will be done by the organizing committee, based on the reviews.
The deadline for submission has been extended by two weeks to April 3rd! Check the important dates below.
List of Topics
- Application-specific challenges for UAV simulation: mapping, below-canopy navigation, smart agriculture, racing, etc.
- Aerial physical interaction simulation: actuated, under-actuated and passive mechanisms, aerial grasping, human-robot interaction, etc.
- Simulation/Modeling of Aerodynamic effects
- Case study of a researcher or group’s technical work in the context of Robotic Simulators for Aerial Robots and how their work fits into the broader discussion provided by the Workshop topics
- Control methods and benchmarks (simulation vs reality), parameters and model tuning,, robustness in edge conditions
- Digital twins, operator instruction, training and operation support, transfer from simulation to reality (Sim-to-Real)
- Data-driven methods
- Drone technology, with particular emphasis on the importance of simulation before deployment
- Hybrid simulation and hardware-in-the-loop simulation techniques
- Mission and motion planning
- Manipulation, path planning, navigation in dynamic and cluttered environments
- Methods supporting fast simulation and real-time simulation solutions
- Simulation of Multi-agent systems: cooperative manipulation, formation, communication handling, swarms, etc.,
- Multi-domain simulations
- Robotic toolboxes
- Verification and validation
- Robot behavior adaptation and personalization
- State estimation, localization, mapping, perception
Important Dates
- Extended abstract submission deadline:
March 20, 2023April 3, 2023 23:59 (Pacific Time). - Notification to authors: April 10, 2023
- Camera-ready paper: April 17, 2023
- Workshop day: June 2, 2023. Last day of ICRA'23. Half-day workshop.
Organazing Committee
- Kimberly McGuire
- Giuseppe Silano
- Chiara Gabellieri
- Wolfgang Hönig
Invited Speakers
- Davide Scaramuzza, Professor of Robotics and Perception at the University of Zurich
- Angela Schoellig, Professor for Robotics and Artificial Intelligence at the Technical University of Munich
- Tomas Baca, Postdoc Researcher at the Czech Technical University in Prague working with the MRS Group
- Jaeyoung Lim, PX4 Core Developer and Ph.D. Student, ETH Zurich
Venue
The workshop will be held on the last day of the International Conference of on Robotics and Automation 2023, June 2nd.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to the organization committee.
Support
- Flyflic
- Comp4Drones
- Aerial-Core
- AeroStream
- German Research Foundation
- Bitcraze
- DroneCode Foundation