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        <h1 class="title is-1">The Role of Robotics Simulators for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles</h1>
        <h2 class="subtitle is-2">Half-Day Workshop at ICRA 2023</h2>
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          The workshop aims to provide the participants with the knowledge and experience of researchers who have struggled to find, customize, or design a robotic simulator for their own purposes or specific application. The focus is on aerial vehicles, especially multi-rotor aircraft, where we expect simulation solutions to be of continued importance for both research and industrial applications.
          Simulating Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is a specialized task, because of aerodynamic interactions (with the environment or other robots), the fast operating speed compared to other robots (e.g., mobile, legged), and the potentially large number of interacting robots in three dimensions (e.g., swarms of delivery drones).
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          <h2 class="subtitle is-6">Important Dates</h2>

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              <s><span class="title">Extended abstract submission deadline: March 20, 2023 <p style="color:red;display:inline">April 3, 2023 23:59 (Pacific Time).</p></s>
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              <s>Notification to authors: April 10, 2023 (Pacific Time)</s>
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              <s>Camera-ready paper: May 5, 2023 (Pacific Time)</s>
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              <s>Workshop day: June 2, 2023. Last day of ICRA'23. Half-day afternoon workshop (14:00-18:00). Location: South Gallery Room 25</s>
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          <span class="title">Extended abstract submission deadline: <p style="color:red;display:inline">March 20, 2023.</p>
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          Notification to authors: April 10, 2023
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          Camera-ready paper: April 17, 2023
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          <span class="title"<b>Workshop day: June 2, 2023. Last day of ICRA'23. Half-day workshop.</b></span>
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        <li>We invite the submission of extended abstracts in line with the workshop's objectives with a maximum of 4 pages in the ICRA format,
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        <li>Every paper will be reviewed by at least two peers. The selection of accepted papers will be done by the organizing committee, based on
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        <li><i>The deadline for submission has been extended by two weeks to April 3rd. Check out <a href="#about">the important deadlines</a></i></li>
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        Participants are encouraged to submit their recent work on simulations of aerial robots involving, but not limited to, the following aspects.
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        <li> Application-specific challenges for UAV simulation: mapping, below-canopy navigation, smart agriculture, racing, etc.</li>
        <li>Aerial physical interaction simulation: actuated, under-actuated and passive mechanisms, aerial grasping,  human-robot interaction, etc.</li>
        <li>Simulation/Modeling of Aerodynamic effects</li>
        <li>Case study of a researcher or group’s technical work in the context of Robotic Simulators for Aerial Robots and how their work fits into the broader discussion provided by the Workshop topics</li>
        <li>Control methods and benchmarks (simulation vs reality), parameters and model tuning,, robustness in edge conditions</li>
        <li>Digital twins, operator instruction, training and operation support, transfer from simulation to reality (Sim-to-Real)</li>
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        <li>Drone technology, with particular emphasis on the importance of simulation before deployment</li>
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        <li>Manipulation, path planning, navigation in dynamic and cluttered environments</li>
        <li>Methods supporting fast simulation and real-time simulation solutions</li>
        <li>Simulation of Multi-agent systems: cooperative manipulation, formation, communication handling, swarms, etc.,</li>
        <li>Multi-domain simulations</li>
        <li>Robotic toolboxes</li>
        <li>Verification and validation</li>
        <li>Robot behavior adaptation and personalization</li>
        <li>State estimation, localization, mapping, perception</li>
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          13:50 - 14:00: Introduction and overview
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      <b>Session 1: Multi-robot simulation for learning and Interacting</b>
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          14:00 Tomáš Báča - Abstractions and Simulations as the Backbone of Reproducible Research
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          14:30 Angela Schoellig - Safe-control-gym and gym-pybullet-drones: Simulation and benchmarking tools for safe learning-based control and reinforcement learning
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        <li>15:30 - 16:00 Refreshments</li>
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      <b>Session 2: Software-in-the-loop and Realistic vision-based simulation</b>
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          16:00 Jaeyoung Lim - Simulating Workflows for Aerial Robots with Software-In-The-Loop
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          16:30 Davide Scaramuzza and Leonard Bauersfeld - Vision based Agile Flight, from simulation to reality
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      <b>Session 3: Breakout & Discussion</b>
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        <li>17:15 Presentation session + Open discussion</li>
        <li>17:45 Closing Remarks</li>
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