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