ICRA 2025 Workshop: Autonomy Under Duress – Robots in Wildland Fire

Abstract

This workshop will showcase the cutting edge of research and practice in autonomous robotics for the management and control of wildland fire. Wildland fire management presents daunting challenges due to unstructured uncertainty, scale, and complex multiscale nonlinear interactions between the process and its environment. This workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners working to advance the integration of heterogeneous autonomous robots across all stages of wildland fire management through multidisciplinary work in guidance, navigation, control, sensing, computer vision, communications, novel design, security, high fidelity computation, operations, policy, and beyond. While deliberations will center on wildland fire resiliency, the scope of this forum will extend to broader questions concerning robotics and health of the wildland fire ecosystem and climate science. The following list provides broad areas of interest for technical content to be presented in the proposed workshop:

• Autonomous robotics missions in wildland life

• Multi-agent autonomy

• Human-robot teaming

• Flight under the canopy

• Communication and coordination

• Computer vision, machine learning and AI

• Online decision making

• Novel Design in Ground, Air and Space

• Advances in Sensing and Data fusion

• Lifecycle of Wildland Fire: Needs and Policy

• Role of robotics in climate science

Mrinal Kumar
Professor
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
The Ohio State University
E-mail: kumar.672 [@] osu [DOT] edu

Xi Yu
Assistant Professor
School of Manufacturing Systems & Networks
Arizona State University
E-mail: xyu [@] asu [DOT] edu

Debdipta Goswami
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
The Ohio State University
E-mail: goswami.78 [@] osu [DOT] edu

Amit Sanyal
Professor
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Syracuse University
E-mail: aksanyal [@] syr [DOT] edu

Roger Williams
Associate Professor
School of Environment and Natural Resources
The Ohio State University
E-mail: williams.1577 [@] osu [DOT] edu