For the development of the human society, there are extensive opportunities for robots to work long-term in the vast marine environment, e.g. for observation, transportation, environment protection, etc. Significant challenges exist as well, e.g. in autonomy, energy, communication, robustness, and so forth.

To advocate the research for long-term marine robotics, this workshop will gather scholars to share their insights on how to enable marine robots to arrive at remote locations, explore for longer time, become more autonomous, overcome faults, perceive and so forth.

Topics include but not limited to:

• Robot design and control for long-term function
• Robotic perception of various marine signals
• Cognition to enable robotic autonomy in the ocean for various tasks
• Human-robot interaction to cope with complex tasks
• Energy harvesting, recharging and management for robot sustainability

Confirmed speakers include:

• Prof. Fumin Zhang, Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
• Prof. Francesco Maurelli, Professor, Constructor University, Germany
• Prof. John Leonard, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
• Prof. João Sousa, Professor, University of Porto, Portugal
• Prof. Ralf Bachmayer, Professor, University of Bremen, Germany
• Prof. Nina Mahmoudian, Associate Professor, Purdue University, USA
• Prof. Erdal Kayacan, Associate Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark
• Prof. Huihuan Qian (Alex), Assistant Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China
• Prof. Lantao Liu, Assistant Professor, Indiana University, USA
• Prof. Corina Barbalata, Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University, USA
• Dr. Gabriele Ferri, Research Scientist, NATO STO-CMRE - Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation, Italy

We encourage 3(min)-4 pages extended abstract of relevant work on the topics, in the format of IEEE conference paper template: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html. New ideas, concepts, discoveries, etc. will be prioritized.

The authors can send via email to: IROS2023MarineRoboticsWorkshop@gmail.com. The organizers will review each of the submitted paper according to the relevance, technical quality, and ethics. All the accepted papers will appear in the poster session and will be documented as workshop papers on the workshop website (not the official IEEE proceedings). To promote the interaction, we allocate an extra 4-5 minutes’ introductory time slot for the selected papers.

Paper Submission Deadline: July 31, 2023

Notification of Acceptance: August 7, 2023

Organizers:

• Prof. Francesco Maurelli, Constructor University, Germany
• Prof. Huihuan Qian (Alex), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China
• Prof. Nina Mahmoudian, Purdue University, USA
• Prof. Hyun-Taek Choi, Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering, Korea