International Workshop on Ontologies and Standards for Robotics and Automation (WOSRA 2025) @ RO-MAN 2025, August 25-29, Enindhoven, the Netherlands

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The development of applications in which robots and humans interact and communicate is flourishing both in research and industrial environments, raising new challenges and issues. In this context, ontological formalization and standardization emerge as essential elements for shaping a hybrid future with robots that reliably collaborate with and/or assist humans. Related to interaction, it is crucial to identify the best practices and requirements for designing and executing human-subject studies in human-robot interaction. Regarding communication, a vocabulary with clear and concise definitions (e.g. ontologies) is a sine qua non component to enable information exchange among any group of agents, which can be human or non-human actors (e.g. robots).

Established and shared vocabularies and practices play a relevant role when legal and ethical aspects are at stake. Hence, the creation of new robotic standards and specifically ontological standards for robots is of utter importance to help with robot certification and safe and ethical design. Hence, this workshop aims to increase interest in standardization and ontology formalization for the Robotics and Automation (R&A) domain, as well as the challenges involved with the interaction between humans and robots.

IMPORTANT DATES

  • Submission deadline: TBD
  • Notification: TBD
  • Camera ready: TBD (details on ‘Accepted papers’ page)
  • Workshop: TBD

CALL FOR PAPERS

Participants are invited to submit extended abstract papers of 2+n pages (n pages for references), or short papers of 4+n pages (IEEE format) for poster presentation in person at RO-MAN in Eindhoven. Contributions shall be submitted through the EasyChair conference system. Extended abstracts shall focus on insights on new or ongoing projects on ontologies. The goal is to foster engaging technical and scientific discussions among ontology users and cultivate new collaborations. Short papers shall discuss previous or on-going research, preliminary results, use cases. The aim is to disseminate to the community research works but also encourage fruitful discussions on open problems and novel ideas.

All papers will be peer-reviewed (single-blind) and published on our website with the permission of authors. Submissions shall focus on subjects including but not limited to the following topics:

TOPICS OF INTEREST

  • Autonomous Robotics
  • Ontology-based development for reasoning in Robotics and Automation
  • Ontology-based Standards for reasoning in Robotics and Automation
  • Ontology-based Internet of Robotics Things (IoRT), Sensors
  • Ontology-based planning in Robotics and Automation
  • Knowledge representation and reasoning for robotics and automation using Ontologies
  • Representation, reasoning, and behaviors for autonomy
  • Artificial intelligence and machine learning for autonomous robots
  • Multiple autonomous robots and cloud robotics
  • Affordances in human robot interaction
  • Robot-robot interaction and/or Human-robot interaction
  • Metrics for Human-robot interaction studies
  • Building ethical AI and Robot systems
  • Ethical design and development of AI and Robot systems
  • Data privacy and protection within world of AI and Robots
  • Trust and security for (autonomous) robotics
  • Explainability in Robotics and Automation
  • Ontology-based approaches for explainable agents and robots
  • Fairness and Transparency in AI and Robots
  • AI, Robotics and law