[Meetings][CFP] ICRA 2025 Workshop on Advances in Social Navigation: Planning, HRI and Beyond

[Phani-Teja Singamaneni]

Dear fellow researchers,

We cordially invite you to join our ICRA2025 Workshop “Advances in Social Navigation: Planning, HRI and Beyond”. If you are working on social robot navigation algorithms or any related fields, we invite you to share your work with us and the broader community by submitting a short paper to our workshop. We accept papers from a broad range of topics in social robot navigation such as:

• Motion and Task Planning

• Foundation Models 

• Human-Robot Interaction and Communication strategies

• Human understanding and Behavior Modelling

• Pedestrian and Crowd Modelling

Website: https://socialnav2025.pages.dev/

Submission link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ADVSOCNAV2025

Coming Soon: Our workshop is also hosting a benchmark challenge. The details will be updated soon.

Important Dates:

Paper Submission Deadline: March 24th, 2025

Acceptance Notification: April 14th, 2025

Camera-ready paper: May 5th, 2025

Workshop day: May 23rd, 2025

Workshop Description:

Robots navigating through uncontrolled human spaces face many challenges due to the uncertainty of human behavior and the unstructured nature of environmental context and social rules. With recent rapid transformations in AI, social robot navigation is changing, and the proposed Advances in Social Robot Navigation workshop explores these innovations in areas including planning, human-robot interaction, and beyond. This proposed, full-day workshop brings together experts in these fields for invited talks, panel discussions, and participant presentations on advances in social robot navigation. Building on our successful series of workshops at ICRA'22, IROS'23, and RSS'24, this proposed workshop aims to investigate key aspects that make robot navigation more acceptable, legible, and social.

Invited Speakers:

Peter Stone, University of Texas at Austin

Nicholas Roy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ilaria Torre, Chalmers University of Technology

Dhruv Shah, Google DeepMind

Luigi Palmieri, Robert Bosch GmbH Corporate Research

Marynel Vázquez, Yale University

Organizers:

Phani Teja Singamaneni, LAAS-CNRS

Allan Wang, Miraikan

Nathan Tsoi, Yale University

Linh Kästner, National University of Singapore

Jorge de Heuvel, University of Bonn

Anthony Francis, Logical Robotics

Erica Weng, Carnegie Mellon University

Shashank Rao Marpally, National University of Singapore

Luis J. Manso, Aston University

Claudia Perez D’Arpino, NVIDIA

Aaron Steinfeld, Carnegie Mellon University

Maren Bennewitz, University of Bonn

Harold Soh, National University of Singapore

Rachid Alami, LAAS-CNRS

Thank you,

Advances in Social Navigation Organizers