April 1st, 2025 
Daniela Lopez de Luise Second call for papers
RoboCup International Symposium 2025
Monday 21 July 2025
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
The 28th RoboCup International Symposium will be held on 21 July 2025, in conjunction with RoboCup 2025 (15 July to 20 July 2025), in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. We call for submissions of papers reporting innovative, original research with relevance to areas of robotics and artificial intelligence as listed 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 be held in person at the Salvador Convention Center (CCS), Av. Octávio Mangabeira, 5.490 Boca do Rio – Salvador – Bahia – Brazil. In addition to the regular track with regular research papers, there is the development track encouraging 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 working in the above fields in general and RoboCup in particular.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of full papers: 7 April 2025
Notification to authors: 16 May 2025
Submission of camera-ready copies: 30 May 2025
RoboCup Symposium 2025: 21 July 2025 (RoboCup on 15-20 July 2025)
SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS
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. Papers should be formatted following the LNAI author guidelines (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines) and must be electronically submitted through Springer’s Meteor electronic-submission system.
To submit a paper, please visit https://meteor.springer.com/robocup2025, and follow the instructions to register (if you have not previously registered with Meteor), or login.
Submissions are limited to 12 pages including references.
The LNAI author guidelines site contains a Springer’s proceedings LaTeX template (v2.24), and a link to the template in Overleaf: (https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer-science/kzwwpvhwnvfj#.WuA4JS5uZpi)
TOPICS
Topics of interest include, but are 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
DEVELOPMENT TRACK
To encourage open-source release of hardware and software systems, the RoboCup International Symposium has included a development track in recent years. In 2025, the scope of this track includes datasets and benchmarks. We encourage the submission of papers describing open-source hardware and software, tools and frameworks that facilitate development of robotics hardware and software, datasets that enable new robotic capabilities, as well as benchmarks that establish reproducible test beds and performance metrics to advance research. If applicable, contributions to the special track should include evidence of the released system or dataset, and highlight past, ongoing, and/or potential future impacts on the RoboCup community. A review of these contributions will be based on technical merit and benefits to the RoboCup community, and the research topics listed above.
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Ana Patrícia Fontes Magalhães Mascarenhas (UNEB, Brazil)
Alexander Ferrein (FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences, Germany)
Rudi Villing (Maynooth University, Ireland)
LOCAL ORGANIZERS
Marco Antônio Costa Simões (UNEB, Brazil)
Reinaldo Bianchi (Centro Universitário FEI, Brazil)
CONTACT
You can contact via the PC chairs via the contact button in EquinOCS
VISA INFORMATION
If you are a citizen of a country that needs a Visa for traveling to the Brazil, please start the VISA process as soon as possible.
If you are not sure if you are eligible for a VISA-exemption, please consult the official website of the Brazilian government for information,
(Information is in English below each paragraph in Portuguese).