[Meetings] ICRA 2025 Workshop on Advances in Social Navigation: Benchmark Challenge (Arena Challenge 2025)

[Phani-Teja Singamaneni]

Dear fellow researchers,

We are happy to announce that our Arena 2025 Social Navigation Challenge is now open.

Arena Challenge

As part of the workshop Advances in Social Navigation: Planning, HRI and Beyond, the Arena 2025 challenge aims to benchmark recent state-of-the-art social navigation approaches for navigation in crowded collaborative environments. We utilise our arena platform to host the competition. The Arena Challenge 2025 invites participants to tackle the complexities of social navigation in crowded, dynamic, and collaborative environments. The goal is to develop autonomous navigation solutions capable of efficiently manoeuvring through environments filled with pedestrians, dynamic obstacles, and realistic social interactions.

A prize of $100 will be awarded to the winner, who will be announced during our workshop on the 23rd of May. 

For detailed participation instructions, including a tutorial and an example on how to integrate your planner, please visit: https://linhdoan.io/arena-challenge/ and our workshop page: https://socialnav2025.pages.dev/benchmark.

Challenge Timeline

Challenge Begins: 01 April 2025 (AoE)

Submission Deadline: 19 May 2025 (AoE)

Winner Announcement: 23 May 2025 (3 pm ET)

Main Organizer: Linh Kästner (linh...@nus.edu.sg).

Please contact Linh Kästner if you have any issues or doubts.

Thank you,

Advances in Social Navigation Organizers

Organising committee: https://socialnav2025.pages.dev/organization