3rd Workshop Toward Robot Avatars

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Tuesday, October 15th 2024, ADNEC Centre Abu Dhabi, UAE 

Organizers

• Sven Behnke, University of Bonn, Germany
• Jee-Hwan Ryu, KAIST, Korea
• Daniele Pucci, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
• Veronica J. Santos, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), USA

We are soliciting contributed presentations and demonstrations on all aspects related to robotic avatars, including but not limited to:

• Components for Avatar systems (sensors, mechanisms, displays, etc.)
• Methods for perception and control in Avatar systems
• Simulators for Avatar systems
• Integrated Avatar systems
• Telerobotics
• Haptics
• VR/AR technology
• Mitigating communication latency and bandwidth limitations
• Shared or supervised autonomy
• Benchmarking of Avatar systems
• Applications for Avatar systems
• Position presentations, e.g. on ways to further advance robotic Avatars

Submission deadline: August 31st, 2024

Acceptance notification: September 15th, 2024

Final version due: September 30th, 2024

Workshop date: October 15th, 2024

Presentation or demonstration proposals have to be submitted as a PDF in 2+n format (at most 2 pages of content and n pages of references in the IROS double column format). Templates are available here: LaTeX, Word. All submissions have to be made through EasyChair and will be peer-reviewed.

Final versions of accepted presentations and demonstrations will be made available on the workshop website.