<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><span style="text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><font color="#1f4047" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(31, 64, 71);" class="">We invite contributions to the </span></font><span style="color: rgb(31, 64, 71);" class="">IEEE/RSJ <b class="">ICRA 2020</b> </span><span style="color: rgb(31, 64, 71);" class="">Full day Workshop </span></div><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 64, 71);" class=""><b class=""> "Unconventional Sensors in Robotics: </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 64, 71);" class=""><b class="">Perception for Online Learning, Adaptive Behavior, and Cognition” </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 64, 71);" class=""> (31.May/04.June, 2020, Paris, France): </span></div><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(31, 64, 71); color: rgb(31, 64, 71);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(31, 64, 71); color: rgb(31, 64, 71);" class=""><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/unconventional-sensors/home" class="">https://sites.google.com/view/unconventional-sensors/home</a></span></div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div></span><span style="text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><font color="#1f4047" class=""><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><b class="">Important dates:</b></div><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><ul class="MailOutline"><li class="">Extended abstract submission (2 pages): March 15th</li><li class="">Notification of acceptance: April 19th</li><li class="">Final submission: May 3rd</li></ul></div><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><b class="">Submissions:</b></div><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><ul class="MailOutline"><li class=""> Manuscripts of up to 2 pages (IEEE ICRA format) should be submitted via CMT: </li></ul></div><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <a href="https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/USR2020" class="">https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/USR2020</a></div><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: left;" class="">Accepted abstracts will be presented in a poster session or oral</div><div style="text-align: left;" class="">presentation (selected abstracts). Based on the quality of the submissions, a</div><div style="text-align: left;" class="">journal special issue may be edited.</div><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><b class="">Topic:</b></div><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: left;" class="">Existing unconventional sensors can boost the applicability of robotic</div><div style="text-align: left;" class="">solutions in challenging scenarios, but may require special purpose processing </div><div style="text-align: left;" class="">hardware and new algorithms. Various challenges that involve several research </div><div style="text-align: left;" class="">communities (perception, learning, control, and hardware) arise.</div><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: left;" class="">The sensing modalities that we will discuss include (but are not limited to):</div><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: left;" class="">- Tactile sensing </div><div style="text-align: left;" class="">- Unconventional vision-based sensors (e.g. Event-based, polarisation,</div><div style="text-align: left;" class=""> novel approaches to time of flight and structured light sensors)</div><div style="text-align: left;" class="">- Olfaction (chemical sensors)</div><div style="text-align: left;" class="">- Auditory sensors</div><div style="text-align: left;" class="">- Electric sensors</div><div style="text-align: left;" class="">- Magnetic field sensors</div><div style="text-align: left;" class="">- Anemometers</div><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: left;" class="">We welcome contributions on all robotic research areas and</div><div style="text-align: left;" class="">applications, where unconventional sensor are or may be used, including:</div><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: left;" class="">- Control algorithms using unconventional sensing</div><div style="text-align: left;" class="">- Learning approaches using data from unconventional sensors</div><div style="text-align: left;" class="">- Novel sensing devices and/or paradigms</div><div style="text-align: left;" class="">- Perception/estimation algorithms from unconventional data</div><div style="text-align: left;" class="">- Navigation algorithms that use unconventional sensors</div><div style="text-align: left;" class="">- Applications, field reports and system papers related to</div><div style="text-align: left;" class=""> unconventional sensing</div><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><b class="">Confirmed speakers:</b></div><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: left;" class="">- Chiara Bartolozzi (Italian Institute of Technology, Italy) -> spike-based tactile sensors</div><div style="text-align: left;" class="">- Davide Migliore (Prophesee, France) -> event-based vision sensors</div><div style="text-align: left;" class="">- Frederic Boyer (IMT Atlantique, France) </div><div style="text-align: left;" class="">- Takumi Kawasetsu (The University of Tokyo, Japan) -> new technology for tactile sensors</div><div style="text-align: left;" class="">- Piotr Dudek (The University of Manchester, UK) -> in focal plane processor arrays</div><div style="text-align: left;" class="">- Michael Schmuker (University of Hertfordshire, UK) -> olfaction</div><div style="text-align: left;" class="">- Shih-Chii Liu, INI (UZH/ETHZ, Switzerland) -> neuromorphic auditory sensing </div><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><b class="">Organising Committee:</b></div><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div style="text-align: left;" class="">- Javier Civera (University of Zaragoza)</div><div style="text-align: left;" class="">- Yulia Sandamirskaya (Neuromorphic Computing Lab, Intel Labs, Munich)</div><div style="text-align: left;" class="">- Inaki Rano (University of Southern Denmark)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></font></div><div style="color: rgb(31, 64, 71);" class=""><br class=""></div></span></div></body></html>