Accepted papers
Each presentation is 12 minutes + 2 minutes Q&A.
Session 1: Award FinalistsMonday 2 November, 10:30
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One Operator, Many Robots: Natural-Language Command of UAV-UGV Teams for Search, Victim Detection, and Rescue
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I See You: Validated Initial Multi-Robot LiDAR Registration via Mutual Observation
- 35
Prototyping and Functional Evaluation of a Tendon-Driven End-Effector for Robot-Assisted Combat Casualty Care
- 40
Decomposition-Based Multi-Objective Path Planning for Disaster Response
- 58
Jumper: A Centimeter-Scale Rolling and Jumping Robot for Search and Rescue
- 78
Tension Tells the Tail: Cable-Obstacle Interaction Sensing for Tethered Mobile Robot Navigation
Session 2: Multi-Robot Coordination and Task AllocationMonday 2 November, 13:00
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Reinforcement Learning Based Heterogeneous Task Allocation Under Spatio-Temporal Environmental Uncertainty for Multi-Robot Teams
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Measure-Based Task Allocation for Information Gathering in Disaster Response using Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Teams
- 55
Decentralized Hybrid Approach for Multi-UAV Search and Rescue
- 63
LLM-Flock: LLM-Driven Decentralized Multi-Robot Flocking via Influence-Based Consensus with Collision Avoidance
- 80
Frontier-Following: A Reactive Terrain-Conformal Path Planning Framework for Multi-Agent Search over Terrain with Varying Elevation
- 13
SwarmNxt: Open-Source Software-Hardware Platform for Fast and Agile Aerial Swarms
- 70
AoII-Based Persistent Monitoring for Unmanned Surface Vehicles in Spatiotemporal Fields
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A Heterogeneous UGV–UAV Collaboration Framework for LiDAR-Based Search-And-Rescue Navigation in Unknown Environments
Session 3: Ground Platforms, Manipulation, and Medical ResponseMonday 2 November, 15:30
- 88
Onix2: Design of a Portable and Robust Crawler Rescue Robot Based on Long-Term Competition and Field Experience
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Motion-Based Design Optimization of a Centrally Rotating Sub-Crawler Flipper Arm for Rescue Tracked Robots
- 86
SPARC: RoboCup Standard Platform for Autonomous Rescue Competition with Initial Datasets, Software, and Simulation Environments
- 25
Language-Guided Grasping under Partial Observation for Mobile Manipulation in Field Inspection and Maintenance
- 37
Off-Road and Human-Led Convoying for UGVs
- 67
Layered Risk Mapping for Autonomous Patient Transport in Expeditionary Medical Facilities
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A Guideline-Based Modular Robotic Airway-Management Workflow for Emergency and Military Rescue Scenarios
- 73
The Hybrid Emergency Tourniquet: Fail-Safe Mechatronic Hemorrhage Control for Human and Robotic First-Responders
Session 4: Localization, Mapping, and Resilient CommunicationTuesday 3 November, 10:30
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HDMAPPING-LIO: Discrete-Time, Tightly-Coupled, Fixed-Lag Smoothing Lidar-Inertial Odometry with Hierarchical Gaussian Voxel Map for agile, unpredictable maneuvers and mobile mapping of tiny spaces
- 17
SGM-SLAM: Scene Graph Matching for Data-Efficient Distributed SLAM
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Comparison and Fusion of Short-Range High-Resolution Positioning Methods for Tethered UAV-UGV Systems
- 68
OA-NBV: Occlusion-Aware Next-Best-View Planning for Human-Centered Active Perception on Mobile Robots
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The Resilient 6G Networking Challenge: Collaborative Design of a Hyper-Resilient Multi-Network Architecture for Rescue Robotics
- 85
HANSEL: Automated Mesh Network Planning for Search and Rescue Multi-Robot Missions
Session 5: Remote Sensing and Perception for Disaster AssessmentTuesday 3 November, 15:30
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Key Findings for Small UAS for Post-Disaster Damage Assessment from the CURSE’26 Exercise
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Large Multiple UAS Wildfire Response Aircraft Deconfliction: Remote Pilot Performance
- 41
Promptable Open-Vocabulary UAV Event Perception for Search and Rescue
- 57
RescueVLM: Model-Agnostic Vision-Language Framework for Rescue Drone Imagery
- 87
Counting What Matters: Reducing Redundant Object Detections in Overlapping UAV Mapping Imagery for Disaster Response
- 66
TriSAR-3D and PaintFusion: A Novel Trimodal LiDAR–RGB–Thermal Dataset and Method for 3D Person Detection in Search and Rescue
- 52
Drone-Deployable Seismic Sensors with Dual-Stage Impact-and-Harpoon Anchoring for Volcanic Disaster Monitoring
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An Anti-Snag, Shallow-Draft Catamaran USV for Disaster Reconnaissance in Debris-Choked Shallow Waters
Session 6: Security, Counter-UAS, and Humanitarian DeminingWednesday 4 November, 10:30
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Project SCOUT: Interceptor Drone for Perimeter Defense
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Security Drone: An End-to-End Framework for Adaptive UAV Patrolling
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From Detection to Threat Assessment: Context-Aware Drone Intent Classification for Critical-Infrastructure Security
- 18
Benchmarking Consensus Robustness in Multi-UAV Mine Detection under Controlled Visual Perception Degradation
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Towards replacing real images with synthetic data for surface landmine detection
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LiDAR-Based Semantic Next-Best-View Planning for Landmine Reconstruction
Session 7: Nuclear and CBRN ResponseWednesday 4 November, 14:00
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Development and Field Deployment of a 3D Scanning System at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station
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Evaluation of a Radiation-Tolerant LiDAR Prototype for Fuel Debris Retrieval in High-Radiation Environments
- 79
Seek, Don't Avoid: Radiation-Guided Exploration for Early Contamination Discovery
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Field Demonstration of a Tracked Hydraulic Mobile Manipulator for CBRN Sampling and Decontamination