It is planned that accepted papers, whether presented orally or as posters, will be included in IEEE Xplore. A special issue of the Robotics and Autonomous Systems journal will be organized, where selected papers from ECMR 2025 will be invited for submission after the conference.
Call for Papers
17 April 2025
Paper submission deadline
European Conference on Mobile Robots
We are excited to invite submissions to the 12th European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR 2025). Following a successful journey from Radziejowice to Ancona, Freiburg, Mlini/Dubrovnik, Örebro, Barcelona, Lincoln, Paris, Prague, Bonn, and Coimbra, the next edition will be held in Padova. This time, we will focus on the cognitive capabilities of today’s and tomorrow’s mobile robots, emphasizing cognition, perception, interaction, and AI-enhanced autonomy.
We welcome contributions across all areas of mobile robotics, particularly those that push the boundaries of autonomous systems and cognitive mobile robotics. The conference will follow a single-track format, ensuring visibility for all accepted papers, with a peer review process that emphasizes novelty, technical quality, significance, potential impact, and clarity. The program will include invited talks as well as oral and poster presentations of accepted papers. The three-day main conference will be preceded by a workshop and tutorials day.
Topics
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Mobile robot design:
Wheeled and Legged Systems, Biomimetic Robotics, UAVs, USVs, UUVs, Sensors, Actuators, and Reconfigurable Robots
Perception and Cognition:
Environment Perception, Semantic Mapping, Cognitive Architectures, Active and Interactive Perception, Scene Understanding, and Memory-based Approaches
Learning:
Cognitive and Reinforcement Learning Systems, Imitation Learning, Learning-based Control, Adapting to Dynamic Environments, and Sim2Real
Cognitive Interaction:
Human-Robot Teaming, Natural Language Interaction, Autonomous Decision-Making, Shared Autonomy, Safe Interaction, and Human-AI Collaboration
Planning and Control:
Cognitive Planning, Exploration, Resilient Navigation Behaviors, Adaptive and Robust Control, and Learning-based Planning
Distributed Systems:
Multi-Robot Systems, Networked Robots, Swarms, Coordination, Task and Resource Allocation
Applications:
Cognitive Service Robots, Social Robotics, Industrial and Field Robots, Healthcare Robotics, and Intelligent Surveillance
Accepted Papers
Paper and Video Format:
It is planned that all accepted papers will be included in IEEE Xplore. Papers should follow the A4, two-column IEEE format. They can have six pages including references, with the option to add up to two additional pages at an extra cost.
A 1-minute video (up to 10 MB) can be submitted along with the paper to supplement it. Videos are not mandatory but provide a valuable opportunity to showcase results.
Please submit all papers, video attachments, workshop, and tutorial proposals through EasyChair.
We look forward to your contributions and to welcoming you to Padova for ECMR 2025, as we collectively explore the future of cognitive mobile robotics.