Proceedings of The Austrian Robotics Workshop 2022

The Austrian Robotics Workshop (ARW) emerged as a series of annual events by the Austrian robotics institutions, during which there is an exchange of thoughts and ideas. This workshop has been taking place since the beginning of the 21st century and is organized alternately by the individual robotics institutions in Austria, each time focusing on different topics.

This year's Austrian Robotics Workshop (ARW2022) is focusing on the topic of 'robotics for assistance and in healthcare'. While being open to many facets of robotics, the ARW 2022 is including, but not limited to topics such as mobile manipulation, multi robot coordination, artificial intelligence for sustainability. The contributions for the 2022 workshop covered a wide range of topics, ranging from industrial robots, service robotics to sensor-based applications. A student session was dedicated to ongoing or early work to encourage Master- and PhD-students to present and discuss their research topics. Students and young researchers from individual institutions and robotic companies presented their scientific work and thus entered into a lively exchange of ideas with the other researchers from other robotics institutions.

We would like to thank all authors, reviewers, presenters and speakers for their contributions to the workshop. Furthermore, we would like to thank Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation, and Technology, OVE: Oesterreichischer Verband fuer Elektrotechnik, GMAR: Gesellschaft fuer Mess-, Automatisierungs- und Robotertechnik, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Austrian Chapter and Carinthia University of Applied Sciences: FH Kaernten for their support and contributions to the workshop.