IEEE SSRR 2024

The safety, security, and rescue robotics community focuses on the ethical use of robots for public safety and security applications, such as law enforcement, anti-terrorism, nuclear decommissioning, and inspection of critical infrastructure, all phases of emergency management (presentation, preparedness, response, and recovery), and humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. Robot safety and risk of robots in general, for example preventing injuries or guaranteeing real-time execution, are not topics included in the symposium’s purview but safety and risk in the context of the extreme environments and operating conditions of SSRR applications is.  SSRR is a field robotics domain, and although papers describing theoretical results are welcome, all papers should be motivated by real users’ needs, both clearly stating who are the end users and what are the anticipated or demonstrated practical end user requirements.

IEEE SSRR was started in 2002 with a special mission to bring together roboticists and practitioners, where academics can present domain-relevant research and engage with agencies, responders, and companies. The conference is single track with full papers published in IEEE Xplore. It traditionally sets aside time for field tours of training facilities or hosts exercises, in this case, with the Fire Department New York at their training facilities on Roosevelt Island. it is a hands-on, community-oriented conference. There is a best paper award.

Extended abstracts (3-4 pages) are due 21 July, with acceptances announced on 10 September and full papers due 10 October. All submissions must adhere to the IEEE 2-column conference template.

Please submit your contribution via Paper Plaza.

1. Format Guidelines [Available Here]

2. LaTex Template [Available Here]

3. MS Word Template [Available Here]

As peer-reviewed archival publications, all accepted papers will be hosted on IEEE Xplore.

Six pages including figures and references are allowed for each paper. Two additional pages are allowed at an additional cost. A multimedia supplementary material up to 10MB in mpeg, mpg, mp4 format can also be submitted. The number of pages includes the references, appendices, etc.

All papers must be in English and submitted electronically in PDF (up to 6 MB) format via PaperPlaza. To ensure formatting compliance (e.g. margins, fonts and size) the templates should be used (links provided above). Please contact admin@ssrr2024.org with any questions.

Details will be announced soon!