Information for Authors
Manuscript submission
Papers must be submitted in Portable Document Format (PDF) at our Submission Site in OpenReview according to the following deadlines (UTC-12 or Anywhere on Earth):
- May 31, 2024. Paper submission deadline
- July 31, 2024. Acceptance notification
- September 9, 2024. Final manuscripts for WAFR website
- October 7-9, 2024. WAFR 2024
- November 22, 2024. Camera-ready manuscript for SPAR book
Manuscript preparation
Manuscripts should be prepared using the Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics (SPAR) format. You can download the style/template files below:
- Proceedings LaTeX2e package (preferred)
- MS Word
Submissions should not exceed 16 pages in this format.
Detailed information on manuscript preparation can be found here.
Supplementary Material
In the submissions before the conference, you can submit supplementary material together with the main manuscript. Please note that the program committee members are not required to check the supplementary material when preparing their reviews and we encourage you to make sure your paper is self-contained. No supplementary material will be included in the book.
Keywords
When submitting your manuscript, please use at least one of the following suggested keywords:
- Algorithmic Completeness and Complexity
- Algorithms for Novel Robot Mechanisms and Sensors
- Automation, Manufacturing & Logistics
- Collision Avoidance
- Computational Biology
- Computational Geometry
- Computer Animation & Simulation
- Control Theory and Optimization
- Dynamics
- Field Robotics
- Human-Robot Interaction
- Humanoids and Legged Systems
- Kinematics
- Localization and Mapping
- Formal Methods
- Machine Learning in Robotics
- Manipulation & Grasping
- Medical & Surgical Robots
- Micro/Nano Robots
- Mobile Robots
- Motion and Path Planning
- Multi-Agent Systems and Distributed Robotics
- Perception
- Service Robots
- Task Planning
- Vision and Sensor-based Control
