ARMS 2026

Autonomous Robots and Multirobot Systems

A one-day workshop held on May 25, 2026
affiliated with
The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026)

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Call for Papers

Overview

Robots are agents, too. Indeed, agents researchers often use robotics problems as motivating examples. Both practical and analytical techniques developed by agents researchers influence, and are influenced by, research in autonomous robots and multi-robot systems. Despite the overlap between the agents and robotics research areas, researchers from these communities only have a few opportunities to meet and interact. The Robotics and Control Area of Interest in the main AAMAS conference (formerly, the "Robotics Track") is one such opportunity. The goal of this workshop is to build on this opportunity, offering an informal and dedicated forum where agents and robotics researchers can interact, discuss promising research directions and open problems, and foster further collaborations.

Contributions & Topics

Contributions are sought in all areas of robotics, in particular as related to autonomous agents research. Theoretical papers are welcome, as long as they clearly specify the connection to challenges in robotics. Empirical studies should ideally present experiments with real robots, though studies in simulation are also acceptable. Papers that focus on mechanical aspects and low-level control should make an effort to relate this work to the agents community. Areas of particular interest include (but are not limited to):

  • Knowledge representation and reasoning
  • Machine learning in robot/agent settings
  • Single- and multi-robot (agent) planning
  • Human-robot interaction and teamwork
  • Multi-robot teamwork
  • Game-theoretic coordination
  • Market-based methods for coalition formation
  • Large-scale multi-robot systems and swarms
  • Imitation and learning by demonstration
  • Canonical robotics problems (soccer, coverage, etc.)

We particularly welcome papers with accompanying demos of real robots, which can come as recorded videos (please use YouTube or general-purpose repositories to share the video if it is ready at the submission time) or as live demos during the workshop.

Fast-Track Review

As part of our coordination with the main AAMAS conference, we offer a fast-track review process to robotic papers that were initially submitted as full papers but have been accepted as extended abstracts ("short papers") to the main AAMAS conference. While extended abstracts are typically presented as posters at AAMAS, authors who submit their original full version to ARMS fast-track will have the opportunity to give a full oral presentation of their work at the workshop. Authors should submit their original full version of the paper. Please include the original AAMAS paper number with your submission.

Proceedings Policy

ARMS is a non-archival workshop that accepts both original contributions and papers that have been published elsewhere. Since there are no formal proceedings, presenting original work here usually does not preclude future publication. However, authors must verify the specific prior-publication policies of any journal or conference they intend to target.

Submission

Submissions and Publication

The submissions should follow AAMAS 2026 format. You can check the instructions here or directly download the LaTeX style file .

  • Length: Papers should not exceed 8 pages + references.
  • Review Process: Papers will be reviewed by at least 2 reviewers. The criteria for selection will include: originality, readability, relevance to workshop themes, soundness, and overall quality.
  • Anonymity: Papers do not have to be anonymized; we follow a single-blind review process.
  • Proceedings: There will be no archival proceedings; papers will be made available to the workshop participants upon request.

Important Dates

Feb 04, 2026 Feb 18, 2026 Feb 25, 2026
Paper submission deadline (Final Extension)
Mar 20, 2026 Mar 24, 2026
Notification of acceptance (Postponed)
May 24, 2026
Camera-ready deadline
May 25, 2026
Workshop Date

* All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE).

Program

This is a one-day workshop held on May 25, 2026.
Each presentation is 15 minutes, followed by 5 minutes for questions.

8:45 - 8:55
Intro
8:55 - 9:15
Decentralized Ergodic Coverage Control in Unknown Time-Varying Environments

Maria G. Mendoza, Victoria Marie Tuck, Chinmay Maheshwari, S. Shankar Sastry

9:15 - 9:35
MonkeyBot: A Planning Domain for Adhesion-Free Multi-Limb Robotic Climbing

Alexander Shleyfman

9:35 - 9:55
Multi-Agent Pickup and Delivery with Velocity

Filippo Cipollone, Benedetta Flammini, Francesco Amigoni

9:55 - 10:15
Intermittent Cooperation in Path Planning for Selfish Agents

Itay Shedlezki, Noa Agmon

10:15 - 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:20
Robust Visual Planning under Partial Observability and Perceptual Uncertainty

Guy Azran, Michael Navat, Sarah Keren

11:20 - 11:40
Joint Search and Track of Hostile Drones through Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning

Zeba Mohsin Wase, Katerina Papadaki, Panayiota Valianti, Panayiotis Kolios

11:40 - 12:00
Modular Reinforcement Learning For Cooperative Swarms

Erel Shtossel, Gal Kaminka

12:00 - 12:20
Seeing More by Seeing Less: The Hidden Power of Uninformed Robots

Mohammad Nomaan Husain, Mohammad Salahshour, Andreagiovanni Reina

12:30 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 14:20
Multi-Constrained Learning Robots under Full Signal Temporal Logic Specifications

Davide Bergamasco, Alessandro Farinelli, Daniele Meli

14:20 - 14:40
Towards Verifiable Multi-Robot Missions: From Logical Specifications to Behavior Trees

José-Luis Vilchis-Medina

14:40 - 15:00
More Views, More Problems? A Critical Analysis of Multi-View Aggregation for Agent Perception

Federico Tavella, Amber Drinkwater, Angelo Cangelosi

15:00 - 15:20
Beyond Kalman Filtering: A Dual Quaternion Geometric Observer for Robust 6DoF Pose Estimation

Ilya Afanasyev

15:30 - 16:15
Coffee break
16:15 - 16:35
Blending ontologies and language models to generate sound and natural robot explanations

Alberto Olivares-Alarcos, Muhammad Ahsan Fatwaddin Shodiq, Satrio Dwi Sanjaya, Hsien-I Lin, Guillem Alenyà

16:35 - 16:55
Trust in a Multi-Agent System: Using Natural Language Rules and a Policing Agent to Encourage Trustworthy Behavior

Cory Koster, Maria Gini

16:55 - 17:15
Exploring the Influence of Interaction with Embodied Autonomous Agents on Community Imaginaries of Robot Futures

Razanne Abu-Aisheh, Marisela Gutierrez Lopez, Laurene Cheilan, Marcela Munera, Helen Manchester, Sabine Hauert

Committees

Contact Organizers

NB

Nicola Basilico

University of Milan, Italy

nicola.basilico@unimi.it
MS

Mohan Sridharan

University of Edinburgh, UK

m.sridharan@ed.ac.uk

Organizing Committee

Noa Agmon

Bar Ilan University, Israel

Francesco Amigoni

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Joydeep Biswas

University of Texas at Austin, USA

Alessandro Farinelli

University of Verona, Italy

Maria Gini

University of Minnesota, USA

Gal Kaminka

Bar Ilan University, Israel

Program Committee

Chris Archibald

Brigham Young University, USA

Jacopo Banfi

Lila Sciences, USA

Simanta Barman

University of Minnesota, USA

Alberto Castellini

University of Verona, Italy

Benedetta Flammini

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Matteo Luperto

University of Milan, Italy

Ionut Moraru

University of Lincoln, UK

Manisha Natarajan

Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Carlo Pinciroli

Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA

Elizabeth Sklar

University of Lincoln, UK

Venue

Co-located with AAMAS 2026

The one-day workshop will take place on May 25, 2026, at the AAMAS 2026 conference venue in Cyprus.

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