Program

Below is the conference program. Click on the session links in the overview table to jump to the detailed schedule.

Time	Day 1 Oct 26 (Mon)	Day 2 Oct 27 (Tue)	Day 3 Oct 28 (Wed)	Day 4 Oct 29 (Thu)
AM	—	09:30–09:45 Opening 09:45–10:45 Keynote 1: Prof. Fumiya Iida 10:45–11:15 Coffee Break 11:15–12:15 S1: Modular Robots and Programmable Matter	09:30–10:30 Keynote 2: Prof. Xavier Defago 10:30–11:00 Coffee Break 11:00–12:15 S4: Multi-Robot Task Allocation and Coordination	09:30–10:00 Perspective Talk 1 10:00–10:30 Coffee Break 10:30–12:15 S6: Multi-Agent Planning, Learning and Exploration
Lunch	—	12:15–13:15	12:15–13:15	12:15–13:15
PM	13:00–18:00 Registration Open	13:15–14:30 S2: Multi-UAV Systems and Search & Rescue 14:30–14:45 Lightning Talk 1 14:45–16:00 LB1: Multi-Robot Coordination and Swarm Intelligence (Poster) & Coffee Break 16:00–17:30 S3: Swarm Intelligence and Bio-Inspired Systems	13:15–14:30 S5: Award Nominees 14:30–14:45 Lightning Talk 2 14:45–16:00 LB2: Modular, Reconfigurable, and Distributed Robotic Systems (Poster) & Coffee Break 16:00–17:30 Labo-tour	13:15–13:45 Perspective Talk 2 13:45–15:00 S7: Swarm Perception and Situation Awareness 15:00–15:30 Coffee Break 15:30–16:45 S8: Swarm Systems and Applications 16:45–17:15 Award Ceremony & Closing
Evening	18:00– Welcome Reception @ Tsubame Terrace	—	19:00–21:00 Banquet @ Tokyo Prince Hotel	—

* All presentation sessions and the award ceremony will be held at Kuramae Hall, Science Tokyo Front (excluding social events and the Labo-tour).

* Please refer to the Venue page for detailed maps and access information for each location.

Detailed Schedule

S1Modular Robots and Programmable Matter

Oct 27 (Tue) | 11:15 – 12:15

Linear-time Heterogeneous Permutation of Sliding-only Cubic Modular Robots in Environments with Obstacles Hiroshi Kawano
A Hybrid Strategy for Robust Navigation in a Self-Reconfigurable Modular Robot Gilles Abdel Ahad, Nancy Awad, Justin Werfel and Benoit Piranda
Multi-Line Locomotion in Programmable Matter via Distributed Pivot Reservation Joseph Gemayel, Jad Bassil, Charbel El Gemayel, Jacques Bou Abdo, Abdallah Makhoul and Jacques Demerjian
A Formal Framework for Meta-Module Design in Modular Robot-Based Programmable Matter Mathis Lamiroy, Jad Bassil and Benoît Piranda

S2Multi-UAV Systems and Search & Rescue

Oct 27 (Tue) | 13:15 – 14:30

Cooperative Risk Map Generation for Harbor Areas Using Multi-Drone Systems Minato Miyashita, Satoshi Otsuki, Ken-ichi Nakashima, and Takeshi Hatanaka
Noise-Aware Planning and Controlled Whitening in Multi-Drone Sound Source Tracking Tomohiro Miyoshi, Benjamin Yen, Takeshi Ashizawa, Masahiro Naito, Mikihisa Nakano and Kazuhiro Nakadai
Search and Rescue for Moving Targets Using Dynamic Belief Maps and Sparsely Connected Swarms Nicolas Beaudoin, Mathieu La Brie and Amaury Triomphe
Terrain-Aware Thompson Sampling for Multi-Drone Search and Rescue Riana Gagnon Souleiman and Giovanni Beltrame
Seeing Better Together: Perception-Driven Hemispherical Coverage for Multi-UAV Teams Mehdi Belal, Tiziano Manoni, Dario Albani and Lorenzo Sabattini

LB1Multi-Robot Coordination and Swarm Intelligence(Late-Breaking Results & Demo Session)

Oct 27 (Tue) | 14:45 – 16:00 (Posters)

Communication-Free Multi-Robot Task Allocation Using PHD-Based Density Estimation Takumi Ito and Akiya Kamimura
Facultative Swarming: Unifying Multi-Robot Control Ning Zhou and Edmund R. Hunt
Interactive Wildfire Suppression with Decentralized Brushbot Swarms Longchen Niu and Gennaro Notomista
Adaptive undulatory locomotion via decentralized control based on local shear force sensing Ryu Sato, Kotaro Yasui, and Akio Ishiguro
Reconstructing Self-Organized Phase Relations in Robotic Systems with Winfree-Type Synchronization Control Kohei Nishikawa and Daisuke Kurabayashi
A Human-Adaptive TAMP Approach applied to MRS in a Manufacturing Scenario Alberto Gottardi and Enrico Pagello
Bringing Hierarchical Coverage Scheduling to Reality: Flight Experiments on Robot Zoo Sky Soksereymongkoul Chhuon, Daisuke Hijikata, and Takeshi Hatanaka

S3Swarm Intelligence and Bio-Inspired Systems

Oct 27 (Tue) | 16:00 – 17:30

Adaptive Repulsive Pheromone Clustering for Foraging Robot Swarms Carlos Pena-Caballero and Qi Lu
From Active Search to Persistent Monitoring: A Blended Ergodic-Voronoi Control Strategy Marta Gabbi, Mattia Catellani, Mattia Mantovani and Lorenzo Sabattini
Mechanisms of Rotational and Circular Collective Dynamics in Tubificine Worm Blobs Katsuya Mori, Daiki Wakita, Shun Yoshida, Ryo Kobayashi, Akio Ishiguro and Takeshi Kano
A Swarm Approach to Public Transit Using On-demand Routing in a Slime-Mold-Inspired Framework Lindsay Burke, Maxfield Comstock, Jason Graham, Ruth Malenda, Simon Garnier and Petras Swissler
Beacon-Driven Control of Robotic Swarmalators Daniel Liu and Steven Ceron
Collective Ranking of Environmental Signals by a Patrolling Robot Swarm Zachary Madin, Connor York, Jonathan Lawry and Edmund Hunt

S4Multi-Robot Task Allocation and Coordination

Oct 28 (Wed) | 11:00 – 12:15

Attention-Based Reinforcement Learning for Energy-Constrained Multi-Robot Task Allocation Hakmo Son, Haggi Do, Hoon Jung and Jinwhan Kim
Relay-Based Coordination for Energy-Efficient Multi-Robot Pickup and Delivery Alkesh Kumar Srivastava, Jared Michael Levin and Philip Dames
Planner-Guided Reinforcement Learning for Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Task Allocation with Limited Communication Fengyun Shao, Michael Dubé and Sanaz Mostaghim
Grouping Auction-Consensus Algorithm for Decentralized Task Allocation in Multi-Robot Systems Jose Rodriguez, Sven Koenig, Wenjie Dong and Qi Lu
Preemptive Multiple Robot Coalition Reformation Neha G. Pusalkar and Julie A. Adams

S5Award Nominees

Oct 28 (Wed) | 13:15 – 14:30

MACH3: Multi-Agent Cooperative Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning via a Three-Layer Architecture Alessandro Bonetti, Xin Zhou, Yifeng Zhang, Silvia Proia, Tanishq Duhan, Tingguang Zhou, Lorenzo Sabattini and Guillaume Sartoret
Heterogeneous Sensor-Based Multi-Robot Exploration for Radiation Source Localization in Unknown Environments Akinori Watanabe, Yusuke Tamura and Yasuhisa Hirata
Experimental Evaluation of Decentralized Hemispherical Coverage for Multi-UAV Systems Mehdi Belal, Tiziano Manoni, Dario Albani and Lorenzo Sabattini
Safe and Energy-Aware Decentralized PDE-Constrained Optimization-Based Control of Multi-UAVs for Persistent Wildfire Suppression Longchen Niu and Gennaro Notomista
Probabilistic Multi-Robot Gas Source Localization with Uncalibrated Sensors: A Distributed Estimation Approach Wanting Jin, Marc Zoel Arias Mitjà and Alcherio Martinoli

LB2Modular, Reconfigurable, and Distributed Robotic Systems(Late-Breaking Results & Demo Session)

Oct 28 (Wed) | 14:45 – 16:00 (Posters)

Tapestry: An Operating System for Physically Reconfigurable Matter James V. Steele
Kastor: A Self-Assembling Robotic Conveyor System for Construction Site Waste Removal Mohammadali Rashidioun, Roberto Torres, Myungjin Jung, Mohammad Katibeh, and Petras Swissler
Soft Mobile Robot with Contact Memory Enabled by Fluidic Sheet Transistor-Based Logic Circuits Yuki Origane
Inward-Wave Self-Assembly of Magnetic Modular Cubes with Verified Per-Round Grounding Ben Lishman
Robust Adaptive Pathfinding for Interconnected Devices Maxfield R. Comstock, Jason M. Graham, Petras Swissler, and Simon Garnier
Topological Divide-and-Conquer for Gas Source Localization in Cluttered Indoor Environments Huu Quoc Dong Tran, Hayato Dan, and Daisuke Kurabayashi
Reduction of Gain-Crossover Frequency Spread for Ultra-Large Satellite Constellation Formations through H∞ Control and Graph Optimization Eiichiro Nishimiya, Hayato Dan, Riku Funada, Zhiyuan Lu, Takeshi Hatanaka, Atsushi Noda, and Sumio Morioka

S6Multi-Agent Planning, Learning and Exploration

Oct 29 (Thu) | 10:30 – 12:15

A Randomized Bug Algorithm for Swarm Navigation in Dense Obstacle Fields Parker Gutierrez and Alexandra Nilles
Huddle: Parallel Shape Assembly using Decentralized, Minimalistic Robots Khai Yi Chin, Tingwei Meng, Zhe Chen, Daniel Bassett and Yuri Ivanov
Diffusion-model-based Coordination of Multi-agent Systems Aki Matsutaka, Shun-Ichi Azuma and Ikumi Banno
A Unified Factor-Based Cost Function Formulation for Multi-Agent Path Planning Marianna Turrà, Silvia Proia, Alessandro Bonetti and Lorenzo Sabattini
To Explore or Not to Explore: A Dual-Role Strategy for Cooperative Multi-Robot Systems Facundo Benavides
Planner-Conditioned Diffusion for Coordinated Multi-Agent Exploration Marcus Yu Siong Teo, Jeric Lew, Tanishq Duhan and Guillaume Sartoretti
Resilient Ergodic Control for Multi-Robot Systems under False Data Injection Attacks Mohammad Tahmasbi and Azwirman Gusrialdi

S7Swarm Perception and Situation Awareness

Oct 29 (Thu) | 13:45 – 15:00

Enabling Motion-Induced WiFi-CSI Sensing in Multi-Robot Systems: A Simulation Framework Brendan Dijkstra, Ninad Jadhav, Maurice Stoffijn, Stephanie Gil and Bahar Haghighat
Lightweight Change Detection for Adaptive Collective Perception in Dynamic Environments Thiemen Siemensma, Tiago Travassos, Jiacheng Zhang and Bahar Haghighat
Environmental Perception in a Swarm of Conversational Agents Absera Yihunie, Boubacar Ballo, Lilly Schwarzenbach, Hanan Salam and Eliseo Ferrante
Distributed Swarm Formation Recognition via Local Features and Gossip-Averaged Graph Neural Networks Samuel Badalov and Michael Otte
SWIRL: Swarm Worker Intent Recognition and Localization Surya Prabhakaran, Michael Dubé, Christoph Steup and Sanaz Mostaghim

S8Swarm Systems and Applications

Oct 29 (Thu) | 15:30 – 16:45

Modeling Analysis of Inter-Robot Climbing Locomotion Inspired by Caterpillar Swarms Shura Suzuki, Yuki Origane and Akio Ishiguro
Optimal Performance of Cooperative Energy-Replenishment in Robot Swarms Julian Rau, Mohamed S. Talamali, Genki Miyauchi, Usama Ali, Mengyao Liu, Danny Hughes, Thomas Watteyne and Roderich Gross
Deploying Mobile Ad Hoc Networks for Coverage of Planar Worlds with Distributed Consensus Edwin Meriaux, Shuo Wen, Louis-Roy Langevin, Antonio Loria and Gregory Dudek
VILAS: A VLA-Integrated Low-cost Architecture with Soft Grasping for Robotic Manipulation Zijian An, Hadi Khezam, Bill Cai, Ran Yang, Shijie Geng, Yiming Feng, Yue Zheng and Lifeng Zhou
LLM-Foraging: Large Language Models for Decentralized Swarm Robot Foraging Peihan Li, Joanna Gutierrez, Fabian Hernandez, Qi Lu and Lifeng Zhou