Symposium – RoboCup 2025 – Salvador, Brazil

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XXVIII RoboCup International Symposium 2025

Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. July 21st 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):

5490 Av. Octávio Mangabeira

Salvador - BA

Boca do Rio, 41706-690

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:

April 21th, 2025 (Firm Deadline)

Paper Submission Deadline

May 30th, 2025

Notification of Acceptance

June 13th

Camera Ready Submission

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:

Robot Hardware and Software

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.

Perception and Action

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.

Robot Cognition and Learning

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.

Human-Robot Interaction

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.

Multi-Robot Systems

Team coordination methods;
Communication protocols;
Learning and adaptive systems;
Teamwork and heterogeneous agents;
Dynamic resource allocation;
Adjustable autonomy.

Education and Edutainment

Robotics and artificial intelligence education;
Educational robotics;
Robot kits and programming tools;
Robotic entertainment.

Applications and Benchmarking

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

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

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.

Registration

RoboCup Symposium Registration Fees

For those interested in attending the Symposium only, we offer the following registration fees:

Faculty and Staff: 380 USD
Students: 245 USD

Important: Participants in the RoboCup competitions can attend the Symposium free of charge.

Registration is now closed

https://web.cvent.com/event/…

Symposium-only registration available until July 6!

Program

	Robocup International Symposium 2025
Time	Activity	Title
8:00 – 8:45	Registration
8:45 – 9:00	Plenary Welcome	Greetings and announcement of best paper candidates
9:00 – 10:00	Keynote	Dra. Iolanda Leite (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) Robots (Still) Need Humans in the Loop
10:00 – 10:45	Coffee break + Poster (session 1)	3 – Representation of Team Formation using Tile Coding and its Application to Opposing Team Identification 16 – Graph-based Robot Localization Using a Graph Neural Network with a Floor Camera and a Feature Rich Industrial Floor 23 – Nonlinear System Identification for an Underwater Soft Manipulators 28 – YOLO-BF: Enhancing Robot Detection and Localization using Base Footprint Point Detection 30 – Learning to Get Up Across Morphologies: Zero-Shot Recovery with a Unified Humanoid Policy 31 – Planning Steps for Humanoid Robots Using Model Predictive Control 34 – Applying Business Intelligence in the context of autonomous service systems in indoor environments 35 – SoccerDiffusion: Toward Learning End-to-End Humanoid Robot Soccer from Gameplay Recordings 40 – Deep Reinforcement Learning for Long-Range Aerial Kicks in Humanoid Soccer Simulation 41 – Predicting Opponent Behavior in SSL Robot Soccer Using Deep LSTM 46 – Footstep Planning using Sensitivity-based Empowerment for Humanoid Robots
10:45 – 11:30	Oral presentations (session 1)	14 – Multimodal Neural Network Approach for Real-Time Fault Detection, Isolation and Recovery on a NAO Robot 19 – Zero-Shot Environmental Sound Classification Onboard a Resource-Constrained Robot 27 – Dueling Behavior Leveraging Advanced Motion Control for the NAO Robot
11:30 – 12:00	Keynote	Petrobrás
12:00 – 13:00	Lunch
13:00 – 14:30	Panel	The future of RoboCup
14:30 – 15:15	Oral presentations (session 2)	05 – Robot Localization Using a Learned Keypoint Detector and Descriptor with a Floor Camera and a Feature Rich Industrial Floor 24 – WeRef: An Open-source and Extensible Dataset for Referee Gesture Recognition in RoboCup 43 – Self-supervised Feature Extraction for Enhanced Ball Detection on Soccer Robots
15:15 – 16:00	Coffee break + Poster (session 2)	37 – Performance Measurement and Software Quality Assurance in the RoboCup Standard Platform League: A Qualitative Interview Study 49 – From Global Localization to Contextual Perception — A Novel Approach to Stable Decisions in Robot Soccer 53 – Efficient Lines Detection for Robot Soccer 54 – Dribble in the Mind: Exploring Causality with Cognitive Soccer Agents 56 – Hybrid system model-data driven approach for state estimation of omnidirectional robot 57 – ArucoSLAM: Enhancing Visual SLAM with Fiducial Marker Integration 60 – A Review on Dataset Collection Strategies for Learning Methods in Robotic Manipulation 64 – ViTHL: A ViT-Based Hybrid Localization Method for a Humanoid Soccer Robot 70 – Attention on the Pitch: Ultra-Light Vision Transformers Bring Global Context to Embedded Robot Vision 71 – From Production Logistics to Smart Manufacturing: The Vision for a New RoboCup Industrial League 32 – GameSight: Augmented Reality Visualisation for the RoboCup Soccer SPL 68 – CABSL 2 – Specification Language for Complex Behaviors
16:00 – 16:45	Oral presentations (session 3)	20 – DiDiGen – Dirty Dishes Generator for Randomized Visual Training Data 25 – Entity Component World Model: A Modular Framework for Robot Cognition and World Representation in Domestic Service Scenarios 66 – YCB@Home: A Large Scale Synthetic Object Detection Dataset for RoboCup @Home League
16:45 – 17:00	RCF Projects, Best Paper Award, and Closing Remarks	– Workshop on Action Planning for Logistics Applications – Robocup Athome Workshop
17:00 – 18:00	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

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