ABOUT WTDR

WTDR 2023 is part of SBR/LARS 2023, which will be held on October 09-11, 2023 . WTDR provides an opportunity for PhD and MSc students in Brazil to present their ongoing and/or recently concluded research with a panel of established researchers in Robotics. The workshop aims to:

• Provide a setting for mutual feedback on participants’ current research and guidance on future research directions;
• Develop a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research;
• Contribute to the conference goals through interaction of graduate students with other researchers as well as participation in conference events;
• Increase the visibility of ongoing work for the academic and industrial community.

ABOUT CTDR

CTDR 2023 will take place in parallel to WTDR 2023. The main goals of CTDR are to divulge and award the best academic work in Robotics concluded in Brazilian Universities from October, 2021 to September, 2023 (works that have already participated in past events will not be able to compete again). CTDR expects papers with concluded work, with evaluation and results. Selected works will be presented and judged during ROBOTICA 2023. Notice that in the submission phase, the main object of judgment is the paper; while during the conference, the main object of judgment is the full thesis or dissertation (that is submitted along with the paper).

Provide a setting for mutual feedback on participants’ current research and guidance on future research directions;

Develop a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research;

Contribute to the conference goals through interaction of graduate students with other researchers as well as participation in conference events;

Increase the visibility of ongoing work for the academic and industrial community

CALL FOR PAPERS

Papers can be written in English or in Portuguese and must not exceed 10 pages (WTDR) and 12 pages (CTDR), including title, abstract, all tables, figures, and references. Authors should use the style file of SBC. More detailed information can be found at: SBC Template

We expect submission of papers to WTDR with research purposes and appropriate motivation, literature review, and methods. Results (preliminary, at least) are desirable, but not necessary. Submission to CTDR expects papers with concluded work, with evaluation and results.

Papers should include the following information in the first page after the abstract: student level (MSc or PhD) and expected date of conclusion or the date of conclusion (CTDR). In addition, include the name of the advisor (and co-advisors) as co-authors. Other co-authors are not allowded. Articles must have abstract and keywords (if written in Portuguese, abstract and keywords in English and, also, in Portuguese).

Submissions violating the formatting guidelines will be excluded from the reviewing process. Only papers in pdf format will be accepted.

Papers must be submitted using the JEMS system.

The five best papers submitted to the CTDR on each category (M.Sc. and Phd) will be presented at the CTDR while the remaining will be presented together with the accepted WTDR papers. All WTDR and CTDR papers will be published in online proceedings, with DOI and ISBN, at SOL-SBC

As additional motivation, at least one of the top three works/authors from the CTDR will be awarded with an invitation to publish in the Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems - JINT

At least one author of each accepted paper must be registered and attend the conference to present the work. We recommend that the students present their works, as the events may be a valuable experience for them.

Important Dates

• Paper Registration/Submission Site Open: April 30th, 2023
• Paper Submission Deadline: June 5th, 2023 June 19th July 17th, 2023 (hard deadline)
• Notification of Acceptance: July 31th, 2023August 25th, 2023
• Camera Ready Submission: August 21th, 2023 August 27th, 2023

Templates

You can download the SBC Template.

SUBMIT

WTDR/CTDR welcome research work in Robotics topics. They include but are not limited to:

• Vision in robotics and automation
• Symbol mediated robot behavior control
• Sensory mediated robot behavior control
• Active sensory processing and control
• Industrial applications of autonomous systems
• Sensor modeling and data interpretation (e.g. Models and software for sensor data integration, 3D scene analysis, environment description and modeling, pattern recognition)
• Robust techniques in AI and sensing (e.g. Uncertainty modeling, graceful degradation of systems)
• Robot programming
• Multi-robot and multi-agents, cooperation and collaboration
• CAD-based robotics e.g. CAD-based vision, reverse engineering

• Robot simulation and visualization tools
• Tele-autonomous systems
• Micro-electromechanical robots
• Robot control architectures
• Robot planning, communication, adaptation and learning
• Mechanical design
• Robot soccer
• Evolutionary robotics
• Robots for robotic surgery and rehabilitation
• Micro/nano robotics, new devices and materials for robots

• Micro/nano robotics, new devices and materials for robots
• Recognition and synthesis of voice and natural language generation
• Education issues in robotics
• Computing architectures
• Sensor networks, architectures of embedded hardware and software
• Self-localization, mapping and navigation
• Aerial vehicles
• Mobile robot platforms
• Underwater robots

CERTIFICATES

Certificates are not available yet

RESULTS

Master

First Place

Aprendizado por Reforço Profundo para Navegação Sem Mapa de um Veículo Híbrido Aéreo-Aquático usando Imagens

Junior Costa de Jesus (VersusAI Team),

Paulo Lilles Drews Jr (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG)),

Rodrigo Guerra (FURG)

Second Place

SLAM Visual Em Ambientes Dinâmicos Usando Segmentação Panóptica

Gabriel Fischer Abati (Pontificia Universidade Catolica (PUC-Rio)),

Joao Soares (PUC-Rio),

Marco Meggiolaro (DEM-PUC-Rio)

Third Place

Trajectory Planning of an Aerial-Underwater Hybrid Vehicle Based on Heuristics for Energy Efficiency

Pedro Miranda Pinheiro (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande),

Armando Neto (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais),

Paulo Lilles Drews Jr (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG))

Doctorate

First Place

HOPE-G: A new design for gait rehabilitation robotic structure

Lucas Antonio Rodrigues (Universidade Federal de Uberlândia)

Second Place

Distributed Control And Reorganization Of Heterogeneous Vehicle Platoons Subject to Time Delay and Limited Communication Range

Daniel Godinho (UFMG),

Armando Neto (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais),

Fernando Souza (UFMG)

REGISTRATION

LARS/SBR/WRE - Authors registration: Each accepted paper must have at least 1 (one) author registered in the Professional category. If the paper is not covered by a Professional registration, the student must pay his registration and a publication fee. Publication fee is the difference between what the student paid for his category and the "Professional (SBC or IEEE Member)" category, for the same deadline. Additionally, each Professional registration can cover up to 2 (two) papers. The student registration + publication fee covers 1 (one) paper.

Publication Fee: R$ 300,00 for each paper

WTDR/CTDR - Authors registration: Authors of thesis/dissertations on the WTDR/CTDR only need the corresponding student registration to be eligible to present their work, no professional registration/publication fee is required.

Conference Dinner:The conference dinner is included in the Professional Registration, however other categories or extra dinner needs to pay the amount of R$200,00 per person. This is subject to availability of tickets.

Payment: The payment of the registrations may be made through bank slip (boleto), credit card, account debit, commitment and billing through the SBC registration system. Payments through bank slip can be made until October 4th, 2023. Payments through credit card, commitment and billing will be accepted until October 11th, 2023.

Commitment and Invoice Registration:The participant must access the ECOS system and make the registration by selecting the payment method "commitment note" or "invoicing" and clicking pay, the system will provide the necessary information that must be included in the invoice, commitment or billing request.

Note: Registrations covered by Institutional Associations affiliated to SBC are not allowed for LARS-SBR-WRE authors, since this kind of registration is not transferred to the conference budget.

Q&A: If you have any questions about payment or registration, fell free to contact the conference chairs.

Cancellation policy: Up to October 2nd, 2023, a refund of 50% of the amount paid for the registration can be made. After this date there will be no refund of any amount paid. The policy applies to both unsubscribing and cancellation of any additional activity. To request cancellation, send an email to faturamento@sbc.org.br

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PROGRAM

The event will take place at Centro de Convenções de Salvador (CCS), Av. Octávio Mangabeira, 5.490 Boca do Rio - Salvador - Bahia - Brazil