Call for Short Papers
Call for Short Papers
The UR 2026 workshop “Toward Smart Farming 4.0 and Digital Farming: Challenges and Opportunities in Agricultural Robotics” invites short paper submissions on emerging research, systems, datasets, field deployments, and position perspectives at the intersection of agricultural robotics, smart farming, and digital agriculture.
Motivation
Agricultural robotics is moving beyond isolated automation tasks toward connected, adaptive, and data-driven production systems. However, reliable deployment remains difficult because robots must operate under changing illumination, weather, crop growth stages, plant morphology, terrain variation, occlusion, sparse labels, and site-specific operational constraints.
This workshop welcomes contributions that examine both robotic capabilities and the broader digital farming ecosystem needed for scalable field and greenhouse deployment.
Submission Types
We invite:
- Short research papers
- Extended abstracts
- Work-in-progress papers
- Position papers
- Dataset or benchmark descriptions
- Robotic system and field deployment reports
- Demonstration proposals
- Industry and translational perspectives
Suggested Topics
Submissions may address, but are not limited to:
- Robotic harvesting and selective picking
- Crop perception and fruit/plant detection
- Agricultural manipulation under occlusion and deformability
- Greenhouse and field robot navigation
- Worker-assist robots and human–robot collaboration
- Agricultural robot learning and adaptation
- Multimodal sensing for crop monitoring
- Digital twins for smart farming and robot-enabled agriculture
- Long-term monitoring and time-series analytics
- Disease, stress, and growth-stage detection
- Farm management system integration and interoperability
- Safety, robustness, usability, and economic feasibility
- Lessons learned from field trials and commercialization
Paper Format
- Length: 2–4 pages, including references
- Format: IEEE conference paper format
- File type: PDF
- Language: English
Please use the standard IEEE conference template.
Review and Selection
Submissions will be reviewed by the workshop organizers and program committee for relevance, clarity, technical contribution, and potential to stimulate discussion. The workshop welcomes preliminary and work-in-progress results, especially when they identify important challenges, field lessons, or research directions.
Accepted submissions may be invited for one of the following formats:
- Short spotlight talk
- Poster presentation
- Demonstration or video presentation
- Panel or roadmap discussion contribution
Important Dates
| Item | Date |
|---|---|
| Submission method | Email to organizers |
| Submission deadline | June 20, 2026, 23:59 AoE |
| Acceptance notification | June 25, 2026 |
| Final materials due | June 30, 2026 |
| Workshop date | July 15, 2026 |
Submission Link
Submission method: Please email to chpark@gwu.edu with the title “UR2026 Smart Farming Workshop Submission (type) - (Your Name)” with the required information as above.
Publication and Archival Status
Publication status: “Accepting Submissions”
Accepted workshop submissions will be used for workshop presentation and discussion. Unless otherwise announced, workshop papers are non-archival and will not appear in the official IEEE conference proceedings.