IEEE RO-MAN 2025 Workshop on
Efficient Visual Programming
of Multi-Robot Behavior
for Untrained Users – VisProgMR

Friday, August 29 – Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Objectives

This workshop intends to raise the awareness for the need of behavior creation tools for untrained users. Real-life service robot use in changing, interactive scenarios is still not as wide-spread as desired by researchers and industry. One reason for this is the partly low usability level of the behavior creation process, especially for multi-robot scenarios. Therefore, in commercial settings where multiple robots are supposed to work together, e.g. in a restaurant with a greeter/waiter and a server robot, the owner in most cases cannot easily adapt and change the scenario to changing business needs.

In this workshop, we plan to discuss the needs of untrained users, develop interaction scenarios, showcase a method and tooling. Eventually, research directions for efficient visual programming in multi-robot scenarios are derived and summarized to promote the establishment of service robots as easily customizable and flexible team members.

Important Dates

  • June 30 July 7: Submission Deadline
  • July 25: Acceptance Notification
  • August 8: Camera-Ready Deadline