RobotFailuresICRA2023: ICRA Workshop on Robot Execution Failures and Failure Management Strategies ExCeL London London, UK, June 2, 2023 |
Conference website | https://robot-failures.github.io/icra2023/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robotfailuresicra2023 |
Submission deadline | April 15, 2023 |
An important aspect of autonomous robot behaviour is the ability to recognise failures and take steps to correct those, both during online operation (so that the ongoing activity can be continued) and over long-term deployment (so that failures are not constantly repeated). Failure awareness is important in different contexts: to prevent the propagation of failures in autonomous operation (particularly for mobile manipulators) and thus avoid downtime as much as possible without requiring constant human intervention, to enable a robot to communicate its failures to users and thus be more trustworthy, or to guide learning so that scenarios that lead to failures can be avoided.
This workshop provides a forum for discussing robot execution failures, strategies for failure modelling, avoidance, and analysis, as well as techniques for learning from failures. A combination of invited talks, paper presentations, and interactive sessions will provide participants with an opportunity to analyse failure management strategies in different robot applications and to discuss open challenges for dealing with robot execution failures in order to make autonomous robots more reliable and suitable for use in human-centered applications.
Submission Guidelines
Submissions to the workshop can be up to 4 pages long using the IEEE conference template. Submissions describing work in progress that authors would like to discuss with the workshop participants are particularly encouraged and welcome. The workshop does not have official proceedings, but the submitted papers will be posted on the workshop website if the authors agree.Paper submissions should be made via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robotfailuresicra2023. Please note that submissions via other means, such as email, will not be accepted.Each submitted paper will receive at least two reviews, based on which an acceptance decision will be made.
List of Topics
The topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Robot failure modelling approaches
- Techniques for robot execution monitoring, avoidance, and recovery
- Approaches for preventing and handling failure propagation, particularly in mobile manipulation
- Approaches for robot fault diagnosis
- Causal learning for failure understanding
- Failure-aware learning
- Failure explainability
- Failure management in human-robot collaboration
- Datasets that include execution and/or interaction failures
- Robot verification and/or testing approaches that consider failure scenarios
Organising Committee
- Alex Mitrevski (main organiser), Research associate, Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg
- Santosh Thoduka, Research associate, Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg
- Paul G. Plöger, Professor, Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg
- Karinne Ramirez-Amaro, Associate professor, Chalmers University of Technology
- Maximilian Diehl, PhD student, Chalmers University of Technology
Contact
Questions about the workshop should be emailed to aleksandar.mitrevski@h-brs.de