<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Workshop on Algorithms and Architectures for Learning in-the-Loop Systems in Autonomous Flight at International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2019</span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">May 24, 2019 </span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Montreal, Canada </span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a href="https://uav-learning-icra.github.io/2019/" class="" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://uav-learning-icra.github.io/2019/</span></a><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div><br class=""><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">===========================================================</span></div><br class=""><p dir="ltr" class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 15pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(47, 79, 79); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In past years, model-based techniques have successfully endowed aerial robots with impressive capabilities like high-speed navigation through unknown environments. However, task specifications, like goal positions, are often still hand-engineered. To achieve true autonomy in applications such as disaster response and environmental-monitoring, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) must additionally exhibit semantic understanding of tasks and environments, adaptation to unexpected changes, and robustness to unmodeled disturbances.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 15pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(47, 79, 79); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Machine learning and deep learning have emerged as promising tools for higher-level autonomy, but are more difficult to analyze and implement in real-time. Furthermore, maintaining high thrust-to-weight ratios for agility directly contradicts the need to carry sensor and computation resources, making hardware and software architecture equally crucial decisions.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 15pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(47, 79, 79); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This workshop aims to bring together researchers in the complementary fields of aerial robotics, learning, and systems to discuss the following themes:</span></p><ul class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(47, 79, 79); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Learning for autonomous robots - How should learning be incorporated into robots’ perception-action loops?</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(47, 79, 79); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Structure in learning - How can models, structure, and priors enhance learning on robots?</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(47, 79, 79); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Performance guarantees - How can we analyze closed-loop performance of learning-in-the-loop systems?</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(47, 79, 79); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 30pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Software+hardware co-design - How can we implement learning algorithms on resource-constrained UAVs? How should we simultaneously optimize algorithms and hardware choices to create lightweight, but highly-capable, UAVs?</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 30pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(47, 79, 79); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We have an exciting lineup of invited talks and paper presentations. We hope to see you in Montreal! </span></p><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">===========================================================</span></div><br class=""><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:</span></div><br class=""><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr. Marc Bellemare, Research Scientist, Google Brain</span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gareth Cross, Technical Lead of State Estimation, Skydio, Inc. </span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr. Ashish Kapoor, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research</span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Prof. Davide Scaramuzza, Director of Robotics and Perception Group, ETH Zurich</span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Prof. Lydia Tapia, Associate Professor, University of New Mexico </span></div><br class=""><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">===========================================================</span></div><br class=""><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The complete workshop schedule can be found at: </span><a href="https://uav-learning-icra.github.io/2019/" class="" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://uav-learning-icra.github.io/2019/</span></a><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div><br class=""><div class="" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please feel free to contact the workshop committee at lsaf19\at\<a href="http://easychair.org" class="">easychair.org</a></span></div><br class=""><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">===========================================================</span></div><br class=""><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ORGANIZERS:</span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr. Aleksandra Faust, Google Brain</span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr. Vijay Janapa Reddi, Harvard University</span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr. Angela Schoellig, University of Toronto</span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr. Sarah Tang, University of Pennsylvania/Nuro, Inc.</span></div></body></html>