Description
The Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR) is a biannual multi-disciplinary single-track meeting of international researchers presenting the latest advances on algorithmic problems in robotics. WAFR was created in 1994 as a small-size workshop. It has been held since 1994 and while it spans a relatively small community, it has an established reputation as one, if not the most, important venue for presenting algorithmic work related to robotics.
The focus of WAFR is on the design and analysis of robot algorithms from both theoretical and practical angles. These algorithms process inputs from noisy sensors, build geometric and physical models of the world, plan high-and low-level actions at different time horizons, and execute these actions on actuators with limited precision. The design and analysis of robot algorithms raise a unique combination of questions from many fields, including control theory, computational geometry and topology, geometrical and physical modeling, reasoning under uncertainty, probabilistic algorithms, game theory, machine learning, and theoretical computer science. In addition to these topics, we also encourage papers on applications of robot algorithms to important or new domains, such as manufacturing, legged locomotion, distributed robotics, human-robot interaction, surgical robots, intelligent prosthetics, and brain-controlled robots. Furthermore, we welcome papers on applications of robot algorithms in domains beyond the traditional scope of robotics, e.g., computational biology, computer animation, sensor networks. The workshop proceedings will be published in the Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics (SPAR) series and selected papers will be invited for publication in a special issue of the International Journal of Robotics Research.
Call for paper
Important Dates
Draft paper submission deadline：2018-07-23
Topics of submission
When submitting your manuscript, please use at least one of the following suggested keywords:
- Automation, Manufacturing & Logistics
- Collision Avoidance
- Completeness and Complexity
- Computational Biology
- Computational Geometry
- Computer Animation & Simulation
- Dynamics
- Field Robotics Algorithms
- Human-Robot Interaction
- Humanoids and Legged Systems
- Intelligent Prosthetics
- Kinematics
- Localization and Mapping
- Logic and Verification
- Machine Learning
- Manipulation & Grasping
- Medical & Surgical Robots
- Micro/Nano Robots
- Mobile Robots
- Motion and Path Planning
- Multiple and Distributed Robots
- Novel Robot Mechanisms and Design
- Optimization and Optimal Control
- Perception
- Probabilistic Reasoning
- Sensor Networks
- Service Robots
- Task Planning and AI Reasoning
- Vision and Sensor-based Control
Committee
Co-Chairs
- Marco Morales, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)
- Gildardo Sánchez-Ante, Universidad Politécnica de Yucatán
- Lydia Tapia, University of New Mexico
- Seth Hutchinson, Georgia Tech
Program Committee
- Srinivas Akella, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- Ron Alterovitz, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Nancy Amato, Texas A&M University
- Devin Balkcom, Dartmouth College
- Kostas Bekris, Rutgers University
- Dmitry Berenson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Timothy Bretl, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Nilanjan Chakraborty, Stony Brook University
- Suman Chakravorty, Texas A&M University
- Juan Cortes, LAAS-CNRS
- Jory Denny, University of Richmond
- Mehmet Dogar, University of Leeds
- Chinwe Ekenna, University at Albany
- Brendan Englot, Stevens Institute of Technology
- Esra Erdem, Sabanci University
- Claudia Esteves, Universidad de Guanajuato
- Aleksandra Faust, Google Brain Robotics
- Anthony Francis, Google Brain Robotics
- Emilio Frazzoli, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Stephen Guy, University of Minnesota
- Kris Hauser, Duke University
- Jean-Bernard Hayet, CIMAT
- Geoffrey Hollinger, Oregon State University
- David Hsu, National University of Singapore
- Volkan Isler, University of Minnesota
- Leslie Kaelbling, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Marcelo Kallmann, UC Merced
- Sertac Karaman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Lydia Kavraki, Rice University
- Ross Knepper, Cornell University
- Sven Koenig, University of Southern California
- Torsten Kroeger, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
- Hanna Kurniawati, University of Queensland
- Jyh-Ming Lien, George Mason University
- Ming Lin, University of Maryland College Park
- Tomas Lozano-Perez, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Dinesh Manocha, University of Maryland at College Park
- Nicolas Mansard , LAAS-CNRS
- Jose Martínez-Carranza, INAOE
- Troy McMahon, University of Queensland
- Mark Moll, Rice University
- Rafael Murrieta-Cid, CIMAT
- Jason O'Kane, University of South Carolina
- Songhwai Oh, Seoul National University
- Jia Pan, City University of Hong Kong
- Marco Pavone, Stanford University
- Florian Pokorny, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
- Elon Rimon, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
- Sam Rodriguez, Texas Wesleyan University
- Alberto Rodriguez, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- José Guadalupe Romero, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)
- Nicholas Roy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Dylan Shell, Texas A&M University
- Stephen L. Smith, University of Waterloo
- Stephen F. Smith, Carnegie Mellon University
- Dezhen Song, Texas A&M University
- Enrique Sucar, INAOE
- Subhash Suri, UC Santa Barbara
- Shawna Thomas, Texas A&M University
- Pratap Tokekar, Virginia Tech
- Chee Yap, New York University
- Jingjin Yu, Rutgers University
WAFR Steering Committee
- Nancy Amato, Texas A&M University
- Oliver Brock, Technische Universität Berlin
- Ken Goldberg, UC Berkeley
- Dan Halperin, Tel Aviv University
- Seth Hutchinson, Georgia Institute of Technology
- David Hsu, National University of Singapore
- Lydia Kavraki, Rice University
- Daniela Rus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Frank van der Stappen, Utrecht University
WAFR Advisory Committee
- Jean-Claude Latombe, Stanford University
- Jean-Paul Laumond, LAAS-CNRS
- Matt Mason, Carnegie Mellon University