Workshop on Public Trust in Autonomous Systems

Full-day workshop at the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation in Atlanta, GA, USA

Author Instructions

Important dates

  • Paper submission: To be announced (Anywhere on Earth).

  • Notification of acceptance: To be announced.

  • Camera-ready submission: To be announced (Anywhere on Earth).

  • Workshop date: To be announced.

Submission guidelines

  • The submission should be extended abstracts (1-2 pages, excluding references) in the standard ICRA conference format.

  • Following ICRA standards, the review process will be single-blind. At least two reviewers will review the submitted abstracts based on the novelty and relevance, and an area chair will provide the meta review. The final decisions will be made by all organizers.

  • The submission site will be announced soon. Please stay tuned!

  • Accepted extended abstracts will be made available on the workshop website.

Scope

The PTAS workshop expects fresh ideas and early proposals on the following topics:

  • Quantifying and measuring trust in human-centered autonomy

  • Law, regulation, and technical standards for autonomous systems

  • Frameworks for public oversight and governance of autonomy

  • Operationalizing and expressing safety assurances for autonomy

  • Explainability and interpretability of autonomous systems’ decisions

  • Open challenges and blue-sky ideas in trustworthy autonomy