Call for Workshops and Tutorials

In IROS 2022, an extensive program of workshops and tutorials will be held prior to and after the conference (October 23 and 27). The IROS 2022 organizers strongly encourage workshop organizers to consider involving sponsors to support their workshop proposal and provide support to enhance the workshop experience.  For example, a sponsor can support a lunch during the workshop or provide student registration or travel support to help broaden participation.  Additionally, all workshop proposal submissions should show evidence of endorsement (e.g., a supporting letter or an email by an IEEE RAS Technical Committee, RSJ Committees, etc). Please provide the contact information and a brief statement (a few sentences) from a TC chair that describes how the TC will support the workshop and encourage long-term engagement with the topic of the workshop after its conclusion.  Please refer to this link for templates and detailed instructions: https://www.ieee-ras.org/about-ras/257-new-tc/1076-ras-guidelines-for-workshop-and-tutorial-organizers

Proposals for half-day or full-day workshops and tutorials with topics related to the conference theme are all welcome.

Workshops should concentrate on presenting results and promoting discussions about an active research topic or a well-defined area of interest for the robotics community.  Proposals with content or presentation formats that are not found within the main conference are preferred. Workshop proposals should discuss how the workshop will be organized in order to attract active participation of the attendees, encourage effective interactions between established experts and early-career researchers, promote comprehensive discussion on the selected topic, establish useful links to fields outside of robotics, and if applicable, describe how sponsors will contribute to enhance the workshop. Organizers are also asked to describe the contributions of the invited speakers for enhancing the development of an engaging workshop.

Whereas workshops focus on breaking research results, tutorials are more pedagogical in nature and are a sort of short course to present modern methods in a classroom-like setting. A tutorial can have multiple speakers, like a workshop, or can have a single speaker.

When an invited speaker or organizer is on more than one workshop or tutorial proposal, this must be noted, including identifying which proposal he/she identifies as the most relevant to them. If good proposals on closely related topics are received, acceptance may be conditional based on merging similar proposals into one workshop/tutorial.