Call for Special Sessions

IROS 2018 seeks to provide focused discussions on new topics and innovative applications of established approaches during the conference. Therefore, the organization of Special Sessions is encouraged.

IMPORTANT DATES

All deadlines are 23:59 PST

Jan 21, 2018

Special Session Proposals submission deadline

Feb 09, 2018

Notification of acceptance

Mar 9, 2018

Special Session Papers submission deadline

Oct 2-4, 2018

Special sessions

A special session consists of eight related papers, which could all address for example a particular theme or consist of work done in some particular international project, or a specific subfield of robotics. The goal of these sessions is the proposed authors can meet to discuss the topic and their papers.

IROS 2018 welcome active members or coordinators of ongoing collaborative projects, focused PhD research training groups, special interest groups, or any other organizers to submit their proposals for Special Sessions.

How to write a proposal for a Special Session

Sessions are divided into eight slots. Proposals for special sessions should include:

A proposed title for the session,
A brief 2-3 paragraph summary for the session explaining the goal of the session and the overarching themes of the submitted papers,
A list of papers with name and a short biography of contributing authors, and tentative abstracts (max. 2 page extended) for the papers, which will not be published in the proceedings.

Prospective organizers are invited to submit their "Special Session Proposals" according to the template for Word, and submit it completed to specialsession@iros2018.org. Proposals with significant overlap will possibly be merged.

Once a Special Session is accepted, the papers organized under that session will then be submitted to the PaperPlaza system by March 9, 2018. These papers will undergo the same strict review process like all other IROS 2018 papers and, if accepted, published in the proceedings.

Special sessions proposals will be revised by the

PROGRAM CHAIRS

Cecilia Laschi – SSSA, Pisa

Tamim Asfour – KIT, Karlsruhe

Christian Laugier - INRIA, Grenoble

Nikos Papanikolopoulos - U Minnesota

Alberto Sanfeliu - UPC, Barcelona

Jing Xiao - UNC, Charlotte

Eiichi Yoshida - AIST, Tsukuba

List of Competitions, Challenges and Events (in order of submissions)

List of Competitions, Challenges and Events (in order of submissions)

List of Competitions, Challenges and Events (in order of submissions)

As the results of the reviews, 14 proposals had been accepted for the Special Session at the 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robot and Systems (IROS2018).

Each organizer collects at least 8 papers for each Special Session. They will be reviewed similar to the regular papers and only the accepted ones will be published in the IROS2018 Proceedings. The organizer will be invited to be the Chair of the Special Session and responsible for.

As the results of the reviews, 14 proposals had been accepted for the Special Session at the 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robot and Systems (IROS2018).

Each organizer collects at least 8 papers for each Special Session. They will be reviewed similar to the regular papers and only the accepted ones will be published in the IROS2018 Proceedings. The organizer will be invited to be the Chair of the Special Session and responsible for.

As the results of the reviews, 14 proposals had been accepted for the Special Session at the 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robot and Systems (IROS2018).

Each organizer collects at least 8 papers for each Special Session. They will be reviewed similar to the regular papers and only the accepted ones will be published in the IROS2018 Proceedings. The organizer will be invited to be the Chair of the Special Session and responsible for.

October, 1-5, 2018 Madrid, Spain