Call for Papers | 2nd Workshop on Robot Execution Failures and Failure Management Strategies at RSS 2024

Important dates

Submission deadline: ~~May 15~~ June 05, 2024, 11:59 p.m. (Anywhere on Earth)
Notification to authors: ~~June 15~~ June 30, 2024
Deadline for submitting final versions: ~~July 01~~ July 10, 2024, 11:59 p.m. (Anywhere on Earth)
Workshop day: July 15, 2024

Topics of interest

The topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following:

Failures in HRI and HRC, including:

Techniques for robot execution monitoring, avoidance, and recovery
Robot verification and/or testing approaches that consider failure scenarios
Approaches for preventing and handling failure propagation
Datasets and tools on how to study failures in HRI (such as augmented reality, virtual reality, extended reality)
Long-term studies on failures

Role of human factors in HRI and HRC failures, including:

Human perception of robot failures
Failures with humans in the loop
Trust repair after failures have occurred

Role of failure explainability, including:

Role of LLMs in the ability to explain, correct, and alleviate errors
Causal learning for failure understanding

Submission guidelines

Submissions to the workshop can be up to 4 pages long (+n pages for references and an appendix) using the IEEE RAS 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=robotfailuresrss2024. 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.

Accepted papers will be presented in the form of spotlight presentations and during a poster session.