Submission Guidelines

Extended abstracts (2–4 pages, IEEE RAS format). Non-archival review. Recently published or ongoing work is also welcome!

Deadline: August 9, 2026

Notification: August 27, 2026

Why Submit?Why Submit?

For successfully introducing Multi-Robot Systems (MRS) in real-world fields—e.g., construction, agriculture, healthcare, etc.—there is a need to address more complex and intelligent cooperative behaviors. An additional and increasingly critical dimension of this challenge lies in heterogeneity: the coordination of diverse robotic platforms (ground, aerial, marine, etc.), each with different capabilities, dynamics, and sensing modalities. Heterogeneous MRS promise enhanced robustness, flexibility, and task performance, but also raise unique control, planning, and communication challenges that remain open.

This 2nd workshop on Real-World Challenges in Multi-Robot Cooperation aims to address questions such as: how do we move from simple tasks to intelligent, cooperative missions among heterogeneous robots? What are the new frontiers and key challenges in this context? The objective is to collectively explore novel applications in which heterogeneous MRS could be developed and to identify and tackle the obstacles hindering their broader deployment in real-world environments.

List of Topics

• Novel robot designs for heterogeneous multi-robot cooperation
• Resilience in heterogeneous multi-robot systems
• Manipulation/transportation with heterogeneous multi-robot systems
• Multi-human/multi-robot cooperation
• Heterogeneous opinion dynamics
• Diversity and Heterogeneity in multi-robot networks
• Heterogeneous multi-robot systems on the field

Invited SpeakersInvited Speakers

• Giuseppe Loianno (UC Berkeley)
• David Saldaña (Lehigh University)
• M. Ani Hsieh (University of Pennsylvania)
• Edmund R. Hunt (University of Bristol)
• H. Jin Kim (Seoul National University)
• Andreas Kolling (Amazon robotics)
• Danilo Petrocelli (Maritime Robotics)

Organizing Committee

• Antonio Marino (University of Cambridge)
• Amanda Prorok (University of Cambridge)
• Esteban Restrepo (CNRS, IRISA)
• Paolo Robuffo Giordano (CNRS, IRISA)
• Héctor García de Marina (University of Granada)

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to esteban.restrepo@irisa.fr and antonio.marino@cl.cam.ac.uk