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XXVIII RoboCup International Symposium 2025
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. July 21th 2025
Venue
The 28th RoboCup International Symposium will be held on 21 July 2025, in conjunction with RoboCup25 (July 15 to 20, 2025) in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
We are looking for submissions of papers reporting innovative and original research with relevance to areas of robotics and artificial intelligence. A full list of topics welcomed to this year’s symposium can be found below. Within the described scope of topics, we also encourage submissions of high-quality overview articles, papers describing real-world research, and papers reporting theoretical results. Researchers are invited to submit their work independently of whether they participate in the RoboCup competitions or have a RoboCup team.
The symposium will include technical sessions of an oral presentation of full papers of recognized importance in the area.
The event will take place at Salvador Convention Center (CCS):
We are looking forward to seeing you in RoboCup International Symposium 2025.
Call for Papers
In addition to the regular track with regular research papers, the development track encourages reports on innovative hardware developments, software frameworks, and open-source releases of software components. A review of papers describing these contributions will be based on technical aspects and benefits to the practice of communities specifically working in RoboCup.
The proceedings of the RoboCup International Symposium will be published and archived within the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI) series by Springer after the conference. The LNCS/LNAI series has an impact factor of 0.407.
Important Dates:
Templates:
All papers will be peer-reviewed and evaluated by members of the senior program committee. The proceedings of the RoboCup International Symposium will be published and archived within the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI) series by Springer-Verlag after the conference. Submissions are limited to 12 pages including references. Papers should be formatted following the LNAI author guidelines (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines).
Please submit contributions using this link: https://meteor.springer.com/robocup2025
After paper acceptance, if you need an invitation letter for a visa application, please check this page: To be announced
Conference topics of interest are, but not limited to:
- Mobile robotics;
- Humanoid robotics;
- Sensors and actuators;
- Embedded and mobile devices;
- Robot construction and new materials;
- Robot system integration;
- Robot software architectures;
- Robot programming environments and languages;
- Real-time and concurrent programming;
- Robot simulators;
- Sim2real learning.
- 3D perception;
- Distributed sensor integration;
- Sensor noise filtering;
- Real-time image processing and pattern recognition;
- Motion and sensor models;
- Sensory-motor control;
- Robot kinematics and dynamics;
- High-dimensional motion control.
- World modelling and knowledge representation;
- Learning from demonstration and imitation;
- Localisation, navigation, and mapping
- Planning and reasoning;
- Decision making under uncertainty;
- Neural systems and deep learning;
- Complex motor skill acquisition;
- Reinforcement learning and optimisation;
- Motion and sensor model learning.
- Robot social intelligence;
- Fluency of interaction;
- Speech synthesis and natural language generation;
- Natural language recognition;
- Explainable robot behaviours;
- Emotion recognition and reaction;
- Understanding human intent and behaviour;
- Safety, security and dependability;
- Enabling humans to predict robot behaviour.
- Team coordination methods;
- Communication protocols;
- Learning and adaptive systems;
- Teamwork and heterogeneous agents;
- Dynamic resource allocation;
- Adjustable autonomy.
- Robotics and artificial intelligence education;
- Educational robotics;
- Robot kits and programming tools;
- Robotic entertainment.
- Search and rescue robots;
- Robot surveillance service and social robots;
- Robots at home, at work and in public spaces;
- Robots in the real world;
- Performance metrics;
- Human-robot interaction.
Keynote Speakers
Profa. Dra. Iolanda Leite
Title: Robots (Still) Need Humans in the Loop
Short Bio: Iolanda Leite is an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Her research goal is to develop robots that can perceive, learn from, and respond appropriately to people in real-world situations, allowing for truly efficient and engaging interactions. She holds a PhD in Information Systems and Computer Engineering from IST, University of Lisbon. Before joining KTH, she had postdoctoral appointments at Yale University and Disney Research. She has been awarded the Future Research Leaders Grant of the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, a Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship, and received funding from sources including the Swedish Research Council and the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. Her work has been recognized with best paper awards at the International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction and the International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, and best paper nominations at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. She was recently appointed co-editor-in-chief of the ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI) journal.
Prof. Dr. Timothy Chung
Program
| RoboCup International Symposium 2025 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Activity | Title |
| 8:00-8:45 | Registration | |
| 8:45-9:00 | Plenary Welcome | Greetings and announcement best paper candidates |
| 9:00-10:00 | Keynote | To be announced |
| 10:00-11:00 | Coffee break + Poster (session 1) | |
| 11:00-12:00 | Oral presentations (session 1) | |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:00-14:00 | Keynote | To be announced |
| 14:00-15:00 | Oral presentations (session 2) | |
| 15:00-16:00 | Coffee break + Poster (session 2) | |
| 16:00-17:00 | Oral presentations (session 3) | |
| 17:00-17:30 | RCF Projects | RCF Innotation Projects |
| 17:30-17:45 | Best paper award and closing remarks | |
| 17:45-18:45 | Drinks | |
Program Committee
Organizing Chairs
- Profa. Dra. Ana Patrícia Fontes Magalhães Mascarenhas – UNEB (apmagalhaes@uneb.br)
- Prof. Dr. Alexander Antoine Ferrein (ferrein@fh-aachen.de)
- Prof. Dr. Rudi Villing (rudi.villing@mu.ie)
Technical Program Members
- To be confirmed shortly
Paper Presentation
The paper presentation instructions are not available yet.
Organization
