IEEE MRS 2025

Programme

MRS 2025 will be held on 4-5 December at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD).

Programme at a glance
Day 1 (4 December 2025, Thursday)
Time Activity
8.00AM Registration
8.30AM Opening remarks
9.00AM Oral session 1
10.00AM Coffee break
10.30AM Oral session 2
11.24AM Special speech
12.00PM Lab tour / Lunch
1.30PM Young Pioneers session
3.15PM Keynote speech 1: Prof Alcherio Martinoli
4.00PM Coffee break
4.30PM Oral session 3
7PM Banquet

Day 2 (5 December 2025, Friday)
Time Activity
8.30AM Oral session 4
10.00AM Late-Breaking Results
10.45AM Oral session 5
12.00PM Lab tour / Lunch
1.30PM Oral session 6
3.15PM Keynote speech 2: Prof Lorenzo Sabattini
4.00PM Spotlight talks
4.40PM Poster session
5.30PM Closing remarks & award ceremony

 

Oral sessions (12 min talk + 2 min Q&A)

Day 1: Oral session 1

  • O1. From Language to Collective Behaviour: Compositional Multi-Robot Coordination Using Large Language Models
    Zhehui Huang, Guangyao Shi, Yuwei Wu, Vijay Kumar, Gaurav Sukhatme
  • O2. Hierarchical LLMs In-the-loop Optimisation for Real-time Multi-Robot Target Tracking under Unknown Hazards
    Yuwei Wu, Yuezhan Tao, Peihan Li, Guangyao Shi, Gaurav Sukhatme, Vijay Kumar, Lifeng Zhou
  • O3. Policies over Poses: Reinforcement Learning based Distributed Pose-Graph Optimisation for Multi-Robot SLAM
    Sai Krishna Ghanta, Ramviyas Parasuraman
  • O4. End-To-End Learning of Collaborative Loco-Manipulation for Load Transportation Using Quadrupeds with Manipulators
    Lokesh Kumar, Sarvesh Sortee, Titas Bera, Ranjan Dasgupta

 

Day 1: Oral session 2

  • O5. Voronoi-Based Area Coverage Algorithms: Turning Real-World Fragility into Strength
    Juan Bosco Román Camacho, Enric Morellà Violeta, Omur Arslan, Hector Garcia de Marina
  • O6. Anisotropic Diffusion-Driven Ergodic Coverage in Multi-Robot Systems
    Thales Costa Silva, Anoop Kiran, Nora Ayanian
  • O7. HMPCC: Human-Aware Model Predictive Coverage Control
    Mattia Catellani, Marta Gabbi, Lorenzo Sabattini
  • O8. COMPASS: Cooperative Multi-Agent Persistent Monitoring using Spatio-Temporal Attention Network
    Xingjian Zhang, Yizhuo Wang, Guillaume Adrien Sartoretti
  • O9. Distributed Surface Inspection Via Operational Modal Analysis by a Swarm of Miniaturised Vibration-Sensing Robots
    Thiemen Jouke Jonathan Siemensma, Niels de Boer, Bahar Haghighat

 

Day 1: Oral session 3

  • O10. SADCHER: Scheduling Using Attention-Based Dynamic Coalitions of Heterogeneous Robots in Real-Time
    Jakob Bichler, Andreu Matoses Gimenez, Javier Alonso-Mora
  • O11. Auction Consensus Algorithm with Loss Mechanism for Decentralised Task Allocation
    Jose Alberto Rodriguez, Wenjie Dong, Qi Lu
  • O12. Destination-To-Chutes Task Mapping Optimisation for Multi-Robot Coordination in Robotic Sorting Systems
    Yulun Zhang, Alexandre Ormiga Galvão Barbosa, Federico Pecora, Jiaoyang Li
  • O13. Optimisation of Pod Arrangements for Robotic Mobile Fulfilment Systems
    Xiaotao Shan, Sabine Hauert, Eddie Wilson
  • O14. To Assign or Not to Assign: A Metareasoning Framework for Efficient Sub-Game Computation in Multi-Agent Pursuit-Evasion Games
    Prannoy Namala, Jeffrey Herrmann

 

Day 2: Oral session 4

  • O15. Safe Decentralised Density Control of Multi-Robot Systems Using PDE-Constrained Optimisation with State Constraints
    Longchen Niu, Gennaro Notomista
  • O16. A Search-Based Collision Avoidance Strategy with COLREGs for Autonomous Surface Vehicles
    Kumar Katyayan Jaiswal, Mohammad Saifullah Khan, Rahul Vivek Kulkarni, Sujit PB
  • O17. Online Passive Localisation for Underwater Swarm Vehicles using a Low-cost Acoustic Modem
    Yuehan Jiang, Bernd-Christian Renner
  • O18. Design for One, Deploy for Many: Navigating Tree Mazes with Multiple Agents
    Jahir Alexander Argote Gerald, Genki Miyauchi, Julian Rau, Paul Trodden, Roderich Gross
  • O19. Decentralised Real-Time Planning for Multi-UAV Cooperative Manipulation Via Imitation Learning
    Shantnav Agarwal, Javier Alonso-Mora, Sihao Sun
  • O20. GameChat: Multi-LLM Dialogue for Safe, Agile, and Socially Optimal Multi-Agent Navigation in Constrained Environments
    Vagul Mahadevan, Shangtong Zhang, Rohan Chandra

 

Day 2: Oral session 5

  • O21. Operation Parallelism in Large Neighbourhood Search for Anytime Multi-Agent Path Finding
    Shao-Hung Chan, Zhe Chen, Dian-Lun Lin, Yue Zhang, Daniel Damir Harabor, Sven Koenig, Tsung-Wei Huang, Thomy Phan
  • O22. Bounded Sub-Optimal Algorithms for Teamwise Cooperative Multi-Agent Path Finding
    Zhenlong Fang, Zhongqiang Ren
  • O23. Efficient Routing and Scheduling for Marsupial USV-AUV System
    Donghyun Kim, Jinwhan Kim
  • O24. AVOID-JACK: Avoidance of Jackknifing for Swarms of Long Heavy Articulated Vehicles
    Adrian Schönnagel, Michael Harley Alan Dubé, Christoph Steup, Felix Keppler, Sanaz Mostaghim
  • O25. Efficient Realtime Traffic Routing for Heterogeneous Agents in Unregulated Intersections
    Rohan Chandra, Nilesh Suriyarachchi, Arya Anantula, John Baras, Dinesh Manocha

 

Day 2: Oral session 6

  • O26. Performance Evaluation of OLSR vs. SARNet in Search-and-Rescue FANETs
    Houssem Eddine Turki, Hideaki Takanobu
  • O27. Perch-Aware Decentralised Control for Extending the Lifetime of UAV Communication Networks
    Khawaja Ghulam Alamdar, Marijana Peti, Frano Petric, Matko Orsag
  • O28. Bandwidth-Aware Multi-Robot Coordination with Utility-Guided Coalition Formation
    Rhett Hull, Robert Fitch, Graeme Best
  • O29. Bayesian Decentralised Decision-making for Multi-Robot Systems: Sample-efficient Estimation of Event Rates
    Gabriel Aguirre, Simay Atasoy,Heiko Hamann, Jonas Kuckling
  • O30. Communication strategies for environment exploration using a frontier-guided Decentralised MCTS
    Mathilde Jeannin, David Filliat, Eric Goubault, Sylvie Putot
  • O31. Cooperative Primed Probabilistic Search of People in Industrial Outdoor Environments Using a Heterogeneous Robot Team
    Markus Kramer, Jonathan Lichtenfeld, Kevin Daun, Oskar von Stryk
  • O32. Multi-Agent Dynamically Networked and Decentralised Pursuit-Evasion
    Maryam Kouzehgar, Youngbin Song, Marcel Bartholomeus Prasetyo, Yi Loo, Malika Meghjani, Roland Bouffanais

Late-Breaking Results (Posters)

Day 2

  • L1. Approximate Set Membership for Resilient Communication
    Nicholas Smith, Jen Jen Chung, Graeme Best
  • L2. Hierarchical Multi-Robot Coverage Framework for Non-Convex Environments
    Marta Gabbi, Lorenzo Sabattini
  • L3. Multi-Arm Bin Packing Via a Hierarchical Framework with Heuristic Search and Deep Reinforcement Learning
    Beomjoon Lee, Changjoo Nam
  • L4. Byzantine-Tolerant Formation Control in Maritime Buoy Swarms
    Siddhant Shrivastava, Malika Meghjani
  • L5. Scalable Multi-Agent Navigation in Maze-Like Environments
    Julian Rau, Jahir Argote-Gerald, Genki Miyauchi, Roderich Groß
  • L6. Onboard Sliding Mode Control for Quadrotors in Stacked Formation
    Anoop Kiran, Thales Costa Silva, Nora Ayanian
  • L7. Memoryless Multi-Robot Ergodic Coverage through Online MPPI
    Mattia Mantovani, Mattia Catellani, Lorenzo Sabattini

Poster session (Spotlight talks + Posters)

Day 2

  • P1. Distributed Optimisation Driven by Geometric Mean Over an Unbalanced Network
    Yashaswini Mathur, Agniva Banerjee, Ashish Shukla, Ishaan Deo, Arijit Sen
  • P2. Queue-Based Traffic Management for Collision Reduction in Scalable Swarm Foraging
    Tameem Uz Zaman, Arturo Gonzalez, Tsz-Chiu Au, Qi Lu
  • P3. TACOS: Task Agnostic COordinator of a Multi-Drone System
    Alessandro Nazzari, Roberto Rubinacci, Marco Lovera
  • P4. Distributed Multi-Robot Ergodic Coverage for Estimating Time-Varying Spatial Processes
    Mattia Mantovani, Mattia Catellani, Lorenzo Sabattini
  • P5. Entropic Exploration for Constrained Multiagent Reinforcement Learning
    Ayhan Alp Aydeniz, Enrico Marchesini, Robert Loftin, Christopher Amato, Kagan Tumer
  • P6. Behaviourally Adaptive Multi-Robot Hazard Localisation in Failure-Prone, Communication-Denied Environments
    Alkesh Kumar Srivastava, Aamodh Suresh, Carlos Nieto-Granda
  • P7. Multi-Robot Sequential Stochastic Task Allocation for Mitigating Disruptive Event Impacts
    Colin Mitchell, Graeme Best, Geoffrey Hollinger
  • P8. Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Decentralised Task Allocation with Limited Fuel
    Vinita Sao, Sujoy Bhore, Tsetserukou Dzmitry, Sujit PB
  • P9. Learning Scalable Salp-Inspired Locomotion
    Manuel Agraz Vallejo, Kagan Tumer
  • P10. Opinion-Driven Decision-Making for Multi-Robot Navigation through Narrow Corridors
    Norah Alghamdi, Shinkyu Park
  • P11. Multi-Agent Feudal Networks for Warehouse Environment: A Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Approach
    Muthukumarasamy Manikandan, Shriman Keshri, Shivendra Singh Verma, Anuj Tiwari
  • P12. HEHA: Hierarchical Planning for Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Exploration of Unknown Environments
    Longrui Yang, Yiyu Wang, Jingfan Tang, Yunpeng Lyu, Shizhe Zhao, CHAO CAO, Zhongqiang Ren
  • P13. Conflict-Based Search and Prioritised Planning for Multi-Agent Path Finding among Movable Obstacles
    Shaoli Hu, Shizhe Zhao, Zhongqiang Ren