- Paper submission deadline: March 16, 2025, 11:59 p.m. (Anywhere on Earth)
- Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2025
- Camera-ready submission: May 1, 11:59 p.m. (Anywhere on Earth)
- Workshop date: May 19, 2025
This workshop will bring together experts, researchers, and practitioners to discuss the latest advancements in field robotics. Participants will gain valuable insights into the challenges and opportunities that arise in deploying robots in diverse field scenarios, such as rugged terrains, remote locations, and hazardous environments. Practical case studies and real-world applications will be presented to showcase the successful, and not-so-successful cases of field robotics. The workshop will encourage fruitful dialogues and collaborative discussions, culminating by a panel at the end of the workshop. Attendees will leave with a comprehensive understanding of the state-of-the-art technologies, the main actors, and upcoming challenges. As major outcomes, we aim to consolidate the community around field robotics and prepare an editorial article on the current status of robotics deployed in real environments.
All invited speakers are confirmed.
| Time | Speaker | Topic/title |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30- 8:50 | Organizers | Welcome and opening remarks |
| 8:50- 9:20 | Robin Murphy (Texas A&M University) | Invited talk #1 - 30 Years of Robotics for Disasters |
| 9:20- 10:00 | Ten emerging researchers | Spotlight talks #1 (3 min/pers) |
| 10:00- 10:50 | - | Coffee break and poster session |
| 10:50- 11:20 | Kazuya Yoshida (Tohoku University) | Invited talk #2 - Terrestrial field tests for a modular and heterogeneous AI robot system for lunar exploration |
| 11:20- 11:50 | Marco Hutter (ETH Zurich) | Invited talk #3 - Robot Navigation with Common Sense |
| 11:50- 13:10 | - | Lunch |
| 13:10- 14:10 | Vijay Kumar (University of Pennsylvania) | Keynote - Tentative title: The Future of Flying Robots |
| 14:10- 14:40 | Panel | Questions: What is the role of simulation, and data sets in field robotics? Should we keep an annual workshop or create a separate conference? Why do old laboratories stop doing field deployments? |
| 14:40- 15:00 | Organizers | Result announcement for the dataset competition |
| 15:00- 16:00 | - | Coffee break and poster session |
| 16:00- 16:30 | Frank Dellaert (Georgia Institute of Technology) | Invited talk #4 - Precision Robotics for Agriculture 2.0 |
| 16:30- 17:00 | Josh Marshall (Queen’s University) | Invited talk #5 - Digging Deep: Robotics for Mining in the 21st Century |
| 17:00- 17:30 | Organizers | Conclusion |
| 18:00- 19:30 | - | ICRA Welcome Reception |
*Note: All times are in the local time zone of ICRA 2025 (Atlanta).
The workshop topics include, but are not limited to:
- Agriculture
- Construction
- Forestry
- Healthcare
- Intelligent Transportation Systems
- Marine Robotics
- Mining
- Search and rescue
- Space exploration
FR workshop accepts contributions based on the following criteria:
- The submission should be from 2 to 8 pages long. The paper should follow the IEEE RAS template.
- The review process is single-blind.
- Submissions should contain a clear focus on field robotics and feature lessons learned and/or field experience reports.
- We welcome prospective and conceptual papers as well.
- The papers should be submitted on Microsoft CMT.
- Accepted papers will be available on the workshop website. The authors of accepted papers will be invited to present their results in a poster session during the workshop.
This year, the field robotics workshop features multiple competition tracks designed to address key challenges in field robot deployment. The competition focuses on vision-based tasks of 2D and 3D Semantic Segmentation in challenging environments like dense vegetation. Participants have access to extensive datasets, including recordings from wheeled, tracked, and multi-legged robots navigating challenging off-road terrains from the GOOSE and GOOSE-Ex dataset.
The top-performing teams are invited to present their results during the workshop poster sessions and receive prizes. The competitions are open to all field robotics researchers and practitioners.
Please visit the competition websites for more details:
Vision Tracks:
Any questions about the competition can be directed at field-robotics-competition-icra-25@googlegroups.com.
French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE)
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 Jan Faigl |
 Gerald Steinbauer-Wagner |
 Miloš Prágr |
 Raphael Hagmanns |
 Miguel Granero |
 Vladimír Kubelka |
 Peter Mortimer |