Paper Submission
August 28-31, 2023
Paradise Hotel, Busan, Korea
Robot Design Competitions
Important Dates
* All deadlines are 23:59:59 Pacific Time
Submission Deadline: June 10, 2023
Notification of Acceptance: June 20, 2023
Final versions Submission: June 30, 2023
For the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2023, we are inviting submissions to the Robot Design Competition. Building upon this year’s conference theme of Designing a New Bridge for H-R-I, participating teams will develop interactive robotic objects that enhance any level of H (health, happiness, and hope), R (recovery and reconnection), and/or I (interface and interaction). We encourage participants to identify and focus on a particular interaction context, develop their own interactive robotic objects, and create scenarios that illustrate how their robots fit within the lives of the humans involved.
Submission
Initial Submissions: Robot Design Competition participants should prepare an initial submission and email it to competition@ro-man2023.org by the deadline date of 10 June 2023. Creating and emailing an initial submission is how teams enter the competition, and indicate that they’re working on a project.
Each team’s initial submission should be a 2-4 page pictorial, following the call template open format (A4), that includes:
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Project title and authors (names, affiliations, and email addresses).
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An abstract of 150 words or fewer.
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A brief description of the design context, the people involved, and the activities in which they, and the interactive robotic object, will engage.
The description can be technical and/or behavioral, but should allow the Chairs to evaluate the proposed or ongoing project. -
One or more rough or refined representative images of the interactive robotic object, which can include hand-drawn sketches, digital renderings, CAD models, and/or photographs.
Click the link below to download a template for initial Submission
Final Submissions: Teams whose submissions are accepted should submit a final version of 2-4 page pictorial to the Robot Design Competition Chairs via email (competition@ro-man2023.org) by 30 June 2023, updated to reflect the team’s progress to that date. The final version should follow the call template open format (A4).
Click the link below to download a template for Final Submission
Award
Winners will be announced at the end of the conference during the closing ceremony. A jury of RO-MAN community luminaries will select winners in 2 categories. There will be 2 awards, with winners in each category (A: Design process, and B: Final designs) receiving a $500 prize.
Contact Information
Competitions Chair, Sonya S. Kwak, Maria Luce Lupetti, David Sirkin at competition@ro-man2023.org