Call for Papers Title Robotics: Science and Systems 2019 Workshop Robust autonomy: tools for safety in real-world uncertain environments<https://sites.google.com/view/rss19safe/home>
Overview When autonomous systems such as self-driving cars and robotic manipulators are deployed in real-world environments, it is of the utmost importance to consider---and ideally to guarantee---safe runtime operation. Since these systems often operate in highly uncertain and dynamic environments, it is crucial for them to model and quantify environmental uncertainty, understand its impact on system dynamics, predict the motion of other agents, and make safe, risk-aware decisions. Safety and robustness have been studied extensively from a theoretical perspective, and there are several prominent success stories in application, e.g. in aviation. However, techniques with strong theoretical safety properties have yet to penetrate many new and exciting robotic application areas, such as autonomous driving, in which uncertainty in environmental perception and prediction overwhelm traditional safety analysis. https://sites.google.com/view/rss19safe/home Topics and Objectives This workshop aims to: (1) raise open questions on safety issues when robots operate autonomously in uncertain, real-world environments (2) discuss meaningful theoretical relaxations of strict safety guarantees which could be more easily used in practice (3) encourage conversation between perception and control communities on handling uncertainty from the sensors, down to actuation, and (4) provide a forum for discussion among researchers, industry, and regulators as to the core challenges, promising solution strategies, fundamental limitations, and regulatory realities involved in deploying safety-critical systems Areas of interest: Modeling uncertainty, safe motion planning, collision avoidance, decision-making in dynamic environments, intent prediction, safe exploration, safety and risk analysis, etc. Techniques include: Optimal control, Robust control, Probability theory, Bayesian inference, POMDPs, etc. Submissions Submission website: https://openreview.net/group?id=roboticsfoundation.org/RSS/2019/Workshop/Robust_Autonomy The workshop welcomes short papers (maximum 2 pages, excluding references) with theory, applications, or attempts to improve efficiency in existing modeling techniques as well as novel techniques. Please format submissions in RSS paper format using anonymous double blind submission standards (more information and a template can be acquired at http://www.roboticsconference.org/information/authorinfo/). Submissions will be double blind to the general public and to the reviewers. Every submission will be reviewed by two members of the program committee according to the usual criteria such as relevance to the workshop, significance of the contribution, and technical quality. Submissions sent to other conferences are allowed. It is the responsibility of the authors to ensure that those venues allow for papers submitted to be already published in "informal" ways (e.g. on proceedings or websites without associated ISSN/ISBN). The workshop is meant to be an open and inclusive forum, and we encourage papers that report on work in progress or that do not fit the mold of a typical conference paper. Non-trivial negative results are welcome to the workshop, but we expect the authors to argue for the significance of the presented results to alternative lines of research on the topic of choice. Accepted papers will be available online on OpenReview and presented as contributed talks and/or posters. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop in order to present a related poster. The top 4 accepted papers will be invited to give a 15-minute talk during the workshop. Deadlines and Dates * Submission deadline: 27 May 2019 AOE * Notification: 5 June 2019 * Camera-ready submission: 20 June, 2019 AOE * Workshop: 23 June 2019 Contact * Ransalu Senanayake, Stanford University, ransalu at stanford.edu * Sylvia Herbert, UC Berkeley, sylvia.herbert at berkeley.edu Organizers * Ransalu Senanayake, Stanford University * Sylvia Herbert, UC Berkeley * Andrea Bajcsy, UC Berkeley * David Fridovich-Keil, UC Berkeley * Somil Bansal, UC Berkeley * Jaime Fernández Fisac, UC Berkeley
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