ECMR Workshop 2025

About

Resilient SLAM in Challenging Settings: Recent Advancements, Open Problems, and Competitions

Despite decades of SLAM research, real-world deployment remains challenging, especially in perceptually degraded or structurally complex environments. This workshop aims to unite researchers across Europe to address SLAM robustness in such conditions. Topics include radar-visual-inertial fusion, low-cost sensor configurations, resilience to sensor dropouts, and architectural designs for long-term autonomy. A key goal is fostering discussion on robust SLAM backends, adaptive fusion strategies, and benchmarking under degenerative conditions. The workshop will feature invited talks, poster sessions, a World Café-style discussion, and a SLAM competition to evaluate new methods on real datasets collected with quadruped and wheeled robots using diverse sensors.

Call for papers

During this workshop, we will also hold a poster session to present recent developments. We invite you to submit your novel contribution aligned with the following indicative (and non-exhaustive) list of topics.

Important dates

01. 08. 2025 — Deadline for submission
15. 08. 20025 — Notification of acceptance
05. 09. 2025 — Deadline for final paper submission
Two weeks before ECMR 2025 — Competition deadline
02. 09. 2025 — Workshop

Program

Full-day schedule with keynotes, technical sessions, and competitions: 02. 09. 2025

09:00–09:10 — Welcome & Introduction
09:10–10:10 — Invited Speakers Session 1
10:10–11:00 — Poster & Competition Session 1 + Coffee
11:00–13:00 — Presentations of Accepted Papers
13:00–14:00 — Lunch Break
14:00–15:30 — Invited Speakers Session 2
15:30–16:15 — Poster & Competition Session 2 + Coffee
16:16–17:15 — World Café Discussion
17:15–17:30 — Closing Remarks

Invited speakers

Matteo Matteucci Politecnico di Milano
Topic: Radar-based SLAM for Robust Localization

Giorgio Grisetti Sapienza University of Rome (online)
Topic: TBD

Achim Lilienthal Technische Universität München
Topic: TBD

Konstantinos Alexis NTNU
Topic: TBD

Martin Saska CTU in Prague
Topic: TBD

Tentative speaker from Cyrill Stachniss lab University of Bonn
Topic: TBD

Competition

The workshop hosts a SLAM benchmarking competition with datasets that include radar, multispectral imagery (NDVI, thermal), and low-cost sensors on quadruped and wheeled robots.