Workshop on Open Challenges in Robotics for Asset Inspection and Management

OCRAIM @ ICRA 2025
Bridging Innovation and Reality: Transforming Asset Inspection with Robotics for a Safer, Sustainable Future


This workshop aims to bridge the gap between cutting-edge research and real-world applications in robotics for asset inspection and management. In the context of this workshop, an “asset” refers to any valuable physical resource or piece of infrastructure that requires regular monitoring, maintenance, or management to ensure its proper functioning and longevity. While robotic inspection has made significant progress in recent years, many challenges remain unresolved when translating these innovations into practice. With invited talks from both world-leading researchers and industry representatives, this workshop will discuss the real problems faced by industry professionals and highlight the research at the forefront of addressing these problems. The outcome will be a clearer understanding of the open challenges in this field and a roadmap for future developments that meet industry expectations.

Important Dates:

  • Paper Submission Deadline:  Mar 28 Apr 4, 2025, 11:59PM (AoE)
  • Notification to Authors:  Apr 28 May 5, 2025.
  • Camera-Ready Deadline:  May 1 May 8, 2025, 11:59PM (AoE)
  • Workshop Date: May 19, 2025, Atlanta, USA.

Submissions will be accepted through CMT.
Check the call for papers.

Invited Speakers:

Ian Manchester, University of Sydney

Maurice Fallon, University of Oxford

Timothy Barfoot, University of Toronto

Davide Scaramuzza, ETH Zurich

Keiji Nagatani, University of Tsukuba

Dinesh Manocha, University of Maryland

Sam Seifert, Boston Dynamics

Lashika Medagoda, Abyss Solutions

Tentative Schedule:

Call for Papers:

We invite submissions related to asset maintenance, inspection and monitoring on the topics of:

  • Robotic Platforms
  • Multimodal and novel sensing 
  • Intelligent path planning and navigation
  • Data collection techniques 
  • AI-driven predictive maintenance
  • Human-robot collaboration
  • Edge computing and low-latency AI models
  • Autonomous Multi-Robot Systems
  • Robotics for Confined Space and Hazardous Environments
  • Cybersecurity and Data Integrity
  • Integration of robotic inspection data into digital twins
  • Enhanced Data Representation and Visualization
  • High-quality datasets and benchmarks

Submission Guidelines:

The workshop accepts contributions based on the following criteria:

  • The submission should be between 4-6 pages long (excluding references). The paper should follow the IEEE RAS template
  • Late breaking results as well as links to supplementary material, multimedia, and datasets are encouraged 
  • We welcome prospective, conceptual, and industrial application focused papers as well.
  • Submissions will be accepted through CMT.
  • The review process is single-blind
  • Accepted papers will be posted on the workshop website. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to present their contributions during the workshop’s lightning talk presentation session followed by a poster session.

Organisers:

Viorela Ila, University of Sydney

Ian Manchester, University of Sydney

Donald Dansereau, University of Sydney

Rahul Shome, The Australian National University

Thierry Peynot, Queensland University of Technology

Dimity Miller, Queensland University of Technology

Stefan Leutenegger, Technical University of Munich

David Flynn, University of Glasgow

Jaime Valls Miro, Basque Foundation for Science

Program Committee:

Mitch Byson, USYD
Guodong Shi, USYD
Hanna Kurniawati, ANU
Patrik Haslum, ANU
Marcus Hoerger, ANU
Niko Sunderhauf, QUT
Stefan Williams, USYD
James Gray, USYD
Damian Abood, USYD
William Jones, USYD
Alexandre Cardillac, USYD
Yiduo Wang, USYD
Gideon Billings, USYD

Workshop Contact:

Please direct all your queries to:
viorela.ila@sydney.edu.au