ICARSC 2026
IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions
Barcelos, Portugal
April 22-23, 2026
ICARSC
2026
Scientific Meeting
April 22-23, 2026
Welcome
Dear colleague,
We are pleased to inform you that ICARSC 2026 26th IEEE(*) International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions will be held in Barcelos, Portugal, on April 22-23, 2026. The conference is organized within ROBOTICA 2026 – 26th Portuguese Robotics Open, a RoboCup-sponsored local event, and it is promoted by the Universidade de Aveiro, Universidade do Porto, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Universidade de Coimbra and Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave.
(*) IEEE co-sponsorship pending approval
Conference Scope
ICARSC gathers participants from academia and industry working in the field of autonomous robotics and related areas. ICARSC is a well-established IEEE conference that has been growing continuously for over a decade and is nowadays a truly international forum attracting worldwide quality research papers.
ICARSC has long been an IEEE co-sponsored event and its proceedings will be indexed in IEEExplore and Scopus. Moreover, similarly to previous editions, extended versions of selected best papers will be invited for publication in relevant indexed journals.
Important Dates
Conference Topics
The conference aims to gather researchers from industry and academia to present and discuss the latest trends in research and technology in the fields of robotics and related areas. Contributions from researchers, industry, and outputs from collaboration between industrial and academic R&D units are welcome in the following topics.
- Agricultural Robotics
- Applications of Autonomous Intelligent Robots
- Artificial Intelligence
- Autonomous Robotic Systems
- Computer Vision and Image Processing
- Control Architectures and Programming
- Cooperative Perception
- Cooperative Planning and Task Allocation
- Dexterous Manipulation and Grasping
- Educational Robotics
- Entertainment Robots
- Evolutionary Robotics
- Humanoid Robotics
- Human-Robot Interaction
- Localization, Mapping, and Navigation
- Locomotion and Actuation Systems
- Multi-Robot Coordination
- Multi-Robot Systems
- Planning, Reasoning and Modelling
- Recognition and Tracking
- Robot Learning
- Robotic Competitions
- Robotic Simulation
- Sensors and Sensor Integration
- Swarm Robotics
- Underwater Robotics
Paper Submission
Authors are invited to submit original research contributions in English. Six pages in the standard IEEE A4 format are allowed for each paper, including tables and figures. Full draft papers should be submitted electronically, in PDF format, using the URL: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icarsc2026. For evaluation, authors must remove their names from the submitted papers, and should take reasonable care not to indirectly disclose their identity.
Submitted contributions categorized as review papers will not be considered for the conference, ensuring the focus remains on original research contributions.
Accepted papers will be scheduled for presentation, which requires that at least one of the authors should register at the Conference and present the paper. If the authors of an accepted paper, either for oral presentation or poster, do not show up at the conference, the corresponding paper will not be submitted to IEEExplore.
