Robotics Science and Systems V

The paper review process was rigorous. All papers received a minimum of four high-quality reviews (that is over 600 reviews from over 170 program committee members). After the reviews were completed, the program committee members and area chairs discussed reviews for each paper in an on-line forum within the conference management system. Then the authors were invited to rebut the reviews. Following the rebuttals, the program committee members and area chairs discussed further and finalized their reviews.
Final acceptance decisions and presentation categories were made at the area chair meeting in Seattle with the program chair. Of the 154 submissions, 19 were selected for poster presentation and 20 were selected for podium presentation. The papers cover a wide range of topics in robotics spanning manipulation, locomotion, machine learning, localization, visual SLAM, haptics, biologically inspired design and control, etc.
The conference spanned two and a half days. Following the RSS tradition, there were four invited talks by leaders in fields that inspire robotics.