The Scientific Track was first introduced at the ERF 2024 in Rimini, Italy. Thanks to its success, it is continued at the ERF 2025 in Stuttgart.
The Scientific Track is composed of peer-reviewed papers, which will be published in the Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics (SPAR) series.
A total of 100 papers were submitted for consideration. Each submission underwent thorough evaluation, receiving at least two independent reviews from members of the scientific community. Based on these evaluations, 49 papers were, representing high-quality contributions to the field. The accepted papers are categorized into two subject areas:
- Robotics: This category focuses on classical robotics topics, including mechatronics, kinematics, dynamics, safety, and many more. These papers emphasize foundational and applied advancements in traditional robotics domains.
- AI for Robotics: This category centers on the integration of artificial intelligence into robotics, with topics such as machine learning, foundation models, computer vision, hybrid AI approaches, just to name a few. These contributions highlight innovative methods and technologies at the intersection of AI and robotics.
There is a Best Paper Award for each subject area. The winners will be awarded at the ERF Award Ceremony on 26 March 2025 and listed here.
Formats and Locations
To foster the discussion between researcher and industry, the contributions of the Scientific Track are be presented in an “oral” or a “pitch and poster” format.
Oral presentations and poster pitches will all take place at the Maritim Hotel. Oral presentations are a classical scientific talk of 15 minutes length including discussion. Poster pitches give a very brief introduction of four minutes length, while the actual poster presentations are in the Hegel Hall on the afternoon of 26 March, starting from 13.30.
Agenda
Oral Presentations
Tuesday, 25 March 2025 – Robotics I (WS#85)
Start: 8.30. Each presentation 15 minutes including Q&A.
Location: Maritim
Session Chair: Alexander Verl, Marco Huber
Time | ID | Title | Authors |
8.30 – 8.45 | 7 | Autonomous E-Scooters for Sustainable Urban Mobility: Achievements and Insights from an Experimental Prototype |
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| Robin Strässer (University of Stuttgart) Felix Brändle (University of Stuttgart) David Meister (University of Stuttgart) Marc Seidel (University of Stuttgart) Frank Allgöwer (Universität Stuttgart) |
8.45 – 9.00 | 14 | Aerial, Autonomous & Safe Solution for the Inspection of Underground Power Line Galleries |
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| Marco Antonio Montes Grova (CATEC) Francisco Javier Perez Grau (CATEC) Daniel Diaz Gil (Segula Technologies) Antidio Viguria (CATEC) |
9.00 – 9.15 | 50 | Advances on Affordable Hardware Platforms for Human Demonstration Acquisition in Agricultural Applications |
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| Alberto San Miguel (Eurecat) Gennaro Scarato (Eurecat) Alejandro Hernández (Eurecat) Mario Cavero (Eurecat) Aakash Maroti (Eurecat) Néstor García (Eurecat) |
9.15 – 9.30 | 69 | Dual-Piston Hoop Gear Driven MR Safe Pneumatic Stepper Motor |
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| Vincent Groenhuis (University of Twente) Stefano Stramigioli (University of Twente) |
9.30 – 9.45 | 70 | Structuring Social Robot Requirements: Integrating User Perception and Emotional Goals in Technical Development |
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| Anu Piirisild (University of Tartu) Leonid Zinatullin (University of Tartu) Alina Roštšinskaja (University of Tartu) Rasmus Eist (Pallas University of Applied Sciences) Renno Raudmäe (University of Tartu) Anneli Kolk (Tartu University Hospital) Alvo Aabloo (University of Tartu) Karl Kruusamäe (University of Tartu) |
Tuesday, 25 March 2025 – AI for Robotics (WS#86)
Start: 14.00. Each presentation 15 minutes including Q&A.
Location: Maritim
Session Chair: Marco Huber, Florian Mayer
Time | ID | Title | Authors |
14.00 – 14.15 | 26 | Task-oriented Visual Object Pose Estimation for Robot Manipulation: A Modular Approach |
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| Ahmed Abdelrahman (Technical University of Munich) Abdalla Swikir (Technical University of Munich) Peter So (MIRMI) Hoan Le (MIRMI TUM) Sami Haddadin (Technical University of Munich) |
14.15 – 14.30 | 42 | Model-Based Reinforcement Learning for Robust End-to-End UAV Control from Simulation to Real System Application |
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| Maximilian Mehl (Inria Rennes) Alberto Dalla Libera (University of Padova) Ruggero Carli (University of Padova) Marco Tognon (Inria) |
14.30 – 14.45 | 61 | Addressing Failures in Robotics using Vision-Based Language Models (VLMs) and Behavior Trees (BT) |
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| Faseeh Ahmad (Lund University) Jonathan Styrud (KTH Royal Institute of Technology,) Volker Krueger (LTH) |
14.45 – 15.00 | 79 | MarineLLM-PDDL: Generation of Planning Domains for Marine Vessels Using Past Incident Response Plans |
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| Mahya Mohammadi Kashani (IT University of Copenhagen) Stefan Heinrich (IT University of Copenhagen) Andrzej Wąsowski (IT University of Copenhagen) |
15.00 – 15.15 | 82 | Robot Pouring: Modeling and Sim-to-Real Evaluation Using Causal Discovery |
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| Jaime Maldonado (University of Bremen) Malte Huerkamp (University of Bremen, Institute for Artificial Intelligence) Jonas Krumme (University of Bremen, Cognitive Neuroinformatics) Christoph Zetzsche (University of Bremen, Cognitive Neuroinformatics) Michael Beetz (University of Bremen, Institute for Artificial Intelligence) |
Wednesday, 26 March 2025 – Robotics II (WS#87)
Start: 8.30. Each presentation 15 minutes including Q&A.
Location: Maritim
Session Chair: Alexander Verl, Marco Huber
Time | ID | Title | Authors |
8.30 – 8.45 | 78 | A Blimp-based Robot That Moves Under the Ceiling |
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| Marcus Baum (University of Goettingen) |
8.45 – 9.00 | 83 | Elasto-Kinematic Calibration of the Lunar Rover Mini 6 DOF Robotic Arm |
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| Marco Conenna (TU Delft) Jian Guo (TU Delft) Armin Wedler (German Aerospace Center (DLR)) |
9.00 – 9.15 | 85 | Automotive Wire Harness Connector Installation Using Skill-Based Robotic Programming |
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| Andreas Kernbach (University of Stuttgart) Daniel Bargmann (Fraunhofer IPA) Manuel Zürn (University of Stuttgart) Carsten Schmerback (KIT) Alper Yaman (University of Stuttgart) Mara Kläb (University of Stuttgart) Lukas Zeh (University of Stuttgart) Philipp Tenbrock (-) Samiha Durnagoez (Audi AG) Mathias Mayer (Audi AG) Michael Heizmann (KIT) Armin Lechler (University of Stuttgart) Alexander Verl (University of Stuttgart) Marco Huber (Fraunhofer IPA) Werner Kraus (Fraunhofer IPA) |
9.15 – 9.30 | 87 | SketchGuide: A Baseline Vision-Based Model for Rapid Robot Programming via Freehand Sketching on Any Surface |
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| Christoph Heindl (PROFACTOR/JKU) Gerhard Ebenhofer (Profactor GmbH) |
9.30 – 9.45 | 89 | Performance Analysis of a Mass-Spring-Damper Deformable Linear Object Model in Robotic Simulation Frameworks |
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| Andrea Govoni (Unibo) Nadia Zubair (Unibo) simone soprani2 (Unibo) Gianluca Palli (University of Bologna) |
Poster Pitches
Pitches give a quick introduction to the work. The actual poster presentations are on the afternoon of 26 March, starting from 13.20 (Session I) and 15.20 (Session II). The posters are presented at the Hegel Hall, while the pitches are at the Maritim Hotel.
Wednesday, 26 March 2025 – Pitch Session I (WS#88)
Start: 11.10, 4 minutes per pitch.
Location: Maritim
Session Chair: Alina Benze, Marco Huber
Poster Presentation: from 13.20 in Hegel Hall
# | ID | Title |
1 | 9 | Coastal Management through Safe Event-Triggered Predictive Control for UAVs |
2 | 11 | Excerpt from a practical risk assessment of the hand-arm region for workplaces with collaborative robots |
3 | 13 | Shopfloor-Ready High Accuracy Robotics – Mark II |
4 | 25 | Automated Leaf-Level Inspection of Crops Combining UAV and UGV Robots |
5 | 28 | Codeless teaching of robot-arm positioning in VR |
6 | 29 | A Novel DMPs Based Approach to Comply ISO/TS 15066 |
7 | 31 | Planning under Uncertainties with Closed-Loop Sensitivity: Recent Results and Perspectives |
8 | 32 | Friday: The Versatile Mobile Manipulator Robot |
9 | 34 | Performances of a hybrid drive robot for steel machining |
10 | 41 | Acceleration-based Inner-loop Control and MPC for Aerial Robots: Advantages and Drawbacks |
11 | 45 | Modelling and Simulation of Industrial Delta Robots in ROS2 and Gazebo |
12 | 51 | Automated Multi-Agent Assembly: Collaborative Robot-Crane Concept and Capability Matching Implementation for the Automated Assembly of Heavy Construction Components |
13 | 54 | Factors Affecting Passive Stability of Quadruped Trotting with An-isotropic Compliant Legs |
14 | 60 | Automated Euro NCAP testing of vehicles and mobile robots on automotive proving grounds |
15 | 66 | Enhancing Construction Steel Assembly through Semantic Data Connectivity: Insights from an Adaptive Welding Procedure and in-process monitoring |
16 | 72 | Pilot test to evaluate Ergonomic risk of industrial Exoskeleton with semi-autonomous method that relies on AzKCLI and the Equivalent Weight |
17 | 77 | The Next Frontier: Deploying Autonomous Robotic Systems for Safer Nuclear Decommissioning in Europe |
Wednesday, 26 March 2025 – Pitch Session II (WS#89)
Start: 14.00, 4 minutes per pitch
Location: Maritim
Session Chair: Alina Benze, Marco Huber
Poster Presentation: from 15.20 in Hegel Hall
# | ID | Title |
18 | 81 | DARKO-Nav: Hierarchical Risk- and Context-aware Robot Navigation in Complex Intralogistic Environments |
19 | 88 | Anticipatory Regulation for Service Robotics Safety |
20 | 91 | Simple Estimation Algorithm for Laser Tracker Localization in Industrial Robot Calibration |
21 | 95 | Specification and Execution of Robotic Acceptance Tests for Object Sorting |
22 | 96 | Robotic Activities in Harsh Environments: Summary of 2024 Interventions at CERN |
23 | 97 | Evaluation of a Haptic-Actuated Glove for Remote Human-Robot Interaction (HRI): A Proof of Concept |
24 | 98 | Heterogeneous multi-robot systems Cooperative Exploration of Unknown Environment |
25 | 15 | Leveraging Synthetic Training Data for Object Detection to Enhance Autonomous Depalletizing Systems |
26 | 23 | Recovering dense metric depth in indoor scenes from monocular depth foundation models and 2D LiDARs |
27 | 43 | A Low-Cost, Multi-Modal Grasping Point Estimation System for Shop Floor Applications |
28 | 46 | Modular Multi-View AI-Based 3D Human Pose Estimation Edge Computing Architecture |
29 | 49 | Defining High-Risk AI Systems: Understanding the complexity of the AIA definitions |
30 | 53 | Reinforcement Learning for Legged Robots: Truncated Quantile Critics with Path Following Tracking |
31 | 68 | Autonomous robotized detachment of wiring connectors< |
32 | 74 | Efficient 6D Object Pose Estimation for Robotic Grasping using Lightweight Neural Network Architectures |
33 | 75 | Improving Off-Road LiDAR Semantic Segmentation with Spatial Context and Auxiliary Tasks |
34 | 92 | Robotic Perception of Underwater Plastic Bottles for Augmented Telepresence |