Thesis and Dissertation Contest in Robotics (CTDR 2025)
CCE Auditorium (Auditório do Centro de Ciências Exatas)
Universidade Federal de Espírito Santo, Vitória, ES, Brazil
Ocotober 13 to 15, 2025
About
CTDR 2025 (Competição de Teses e Dissertações em Robótica, or in english, National Contest of PhD and MSc Theses on Robotics) will take place in parallel to SBR 2025. The main goals of CTDR are to divulge and award the best academic work in Robotics concluded in Brazilian Universities from October, 2023 to October, 2025 (works that have already participated in past events will not be able to compete again). CTDR expects papers with concluded work, with evaluation and results. Selected works will be presented and judged during SBR 2025. Notice that in the submission phase, the main object of judgment is the paper; while during the conference, the main object of judgment is the full thesis or dissertation (that is submitted along with the paper).
Important Note: Papers submitted to CTDR should differ at least 70% from other publications of the author, this includes submissions to SBR 2025. Please make sure that your paper is not a copy/partial copy of your previously published work, thus avoiding auto-plagiarism issues.
Call for papers
Papers can be written in English or in Portuguese and must not exceed 12 pages, including title, abstract, all tables, figures, and references. Authors should use the style file of SBC. More detailed information can be found at: SBC Template.
We expect submission of papers to CTDR with concluded work, with evaluation and results.
Papers should include the following information in the first page after the abstract: student level (MSc or PhD) and expected date of conclusion or the date of conclusion (CTDR). In addition, include the name of the advisor (and co-advisors) as co-authors. Other co-authors are not allowded. Articles must have abstract and keywords (if written in Portuguese, abstract and keywords in English and, also, in Portuguese).
Submissions violating the formatting guidelines will be excluded from the reviewing process. Only papers in pdf format will be accepted.
The thesis (or dissertation) must be submitted together with the paper using the JEMS system.
The five best papers submitted to the CTDR on each category (M.Sc. and Phd) will be presented at the CTDR while the remaining will be presented together with the accepted SBR papers. All CTDR papers will be published in online proceedings, with DOI, at SOL-SBC
As additional motivation, at least one of the top three works/authors from the CTDR will be awarded with an invitation to publish in the Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems - JIRS
At least one author of each accepted paper must be registered at SBR and attend the conference to present the work. We recommend that the students present their works, as the events may be a valuable experience for them.
Important Dates
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Paper Registration/Submission Site Open
May 9th, 2025 -
Paper Submission Deadline (Extended!)
August 11th, 2025 (new!) -
Notification of Acceptance
August 25th, 2025 -
Camera Ready Submission Deadline
September 15th, 2025 -
Conference date
October 13th to 15th, 2025
Conference topics of interest are, but not limited to:
- Active sensory processing and control
- Aerial vehicles
- Autonomous vehicles
- Bio-Inspired robotics
- CAD-based robotics e.g. CAD-based vision, reverse engineering
- Evolutionary robotics
- Human-Robot Interaction and Interfaces
- Humanoids
- Industrial applications of autonomous systems
- Micro/nano-robotics, new Devices, and materials for robots
- Microelectromechanical robots
- Mobile robot platforms
- Multi-Robot and Multi-Agents, Cooperation and Collaboration
- Multi-robot systems
- Robot control architectures
- Robot modeling
- Robot planning, reasoning, communication, adaptation, and learning
- Robot programming e.g. on-line and off-line programming, discrete event dynamical systems, fuzzy logic
- Robot simulation and visualization tools
- Robot soccer
- Robotic Manipulators
- Robotics and Education
- Robots for robotic surgery and rehabilitation
- Robust techniques in AI and sensing e.g. uncertainty modeling, graceful degradation of systems
- Self-Localization, Mapping and Navigation
- Sensor modeling and data interpretation e.g. models and software for sensor data integration, 3D scene analysis, environment description and modeling, pattern recognition
- Sensor Networks, architectures of embedded Hardware and software
- Sensory mediated robot behavior control
- Service robots and entertainment robots
- Symbol mediated robot behavior control
- Underwater robots
- Vision in robotics and automation
Submissions
Schedule
Presentation Guidelines
- Time Allotment: Authors will have 15 to 20 minutes for their presentation and 5 minutes for Q&A.
- Presentation Mode: Presentations can be delivered either in-person or online. Authors who wish to present online must contact the chairs (Thiago or Matheus) to make the necessary arrangements.
- Scheduling: Please note that it is not possible to change the date or time of your presentation due to the fixed event schedule.
- Venue: The SBR, WRE and CTDR conferences will be held at the CCE Auditorium (Auditório do Centro de Ciências Exatas) - Ufes, located near the main entrance of the Federal University of Espírito Santo in Vitória, ES. The main Robótica event (CBR, OBR and MNR) will take place at the Cidade da Inovação, approximately 1.3 km from the auditorium (about a 15-minute walk). Event check-in and registration will also be at the CCE Auditorium.
Presentations - MSc
| Date | Time | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 10/13/2025 | 17:00:00 | Adaptive Team Formation for Collaborative Perimeter Defense |
| 10/13/2025 | 17:25:00 | A DRL Approach for Mapless Planar Pushing of Arbitrary Objects in Cluttered Environments |
| 10/13/2025 | 17:50:00 | Slip detection methods and slip direction estimation on Quadruped Robots |
Presentations - PhD
| Date | Time | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 10/13/2025 | 17:00:00 | Autonomous and Cooperative Pathfinding Technique for Swarms of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Dynamic Environments |
| 10/13/2025 | 17:25:00 | Built to Learn: An Intrinsically Motivated Approach to Incremental Learning in Robotics |
| 10/13/2025 | 17:50:00 | Efficient Routing for Approaching Individuals in Environments with Obstacles Based on Social Norms |
| 10/13/2025 | 18:15:00 | DreamerRL: An RL Framework for Autonomous Development in Humanoid Robotics |
Best Paper Awards - PhD
Best Paper Awards - MSc
Congratulations to the awardees for their outstanding research contributions!
Organization
- CTDR 2025 Chairs
- Prof. Dr. Thiago Pedro Donadon Homem - IFSP
- Prof. Dr. Matheus Machado dos Santos - USP
- Contact
- thiagohomem at ifsp.edu.br
IFSP - INSTITUTO FEDERAL DE SÃO PAULO