Symposium – RoboCup 2025 – Salvador, Brazil

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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):

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.

Click Here to Register

https://meteor.springer.com/robocup2025

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	Competitions
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

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