Hi all,
Software is the invisible thread that weaves the fabric of robotics: it turns sensors into perception, models into decisions, and hardware into reliable behavior in the real world. As our systems scale from demos to deployment, robust engineering practices: architecture, testing, tooling, debugging, benchmarking, and reproducibility, often determine success.
With that in mind, we’re inviting submissions to
RoSE’26 (Robotics Software Engineering) Workshop @ ICRA Vienna
Submission deadline: March 8 (20 days to go)
What we’re looking for?
We welcome contributions that share actionable software engineering insights for robotics, including (but not limited to):
- ROS/ROS 2 system & package architecture patterns (and lessons learned)
- Testing & quality: CI, simulation + HIL, regression testing, reproducibility
- Tooling: build/release workflows, dependency management, static analysis
- Runtime robustness: logging, introspection, monitoring, debugging, recovery
- Benchmarking & evaluation practices for robotics software
- Deployment at scale: updates, configuration, fleet/edge deployment practices
- Maintenance realities: migrations, long-lived systems, technical debt management
If you’ve built something others could reuse, or learned something the hard way, RoSE is a great venue to share it.
Examples of ROS-focused RoSE papers from previous editions
To give a sense of the kinds of ROS/ROS 2 topics that have fit well at RoSE:
-
Energy Efficiency of ROS Nodes in Different Languages: Publisher-Subscriber Case Studies (RoSE’24)
https://rose-workshops.github.io/files/rose2024/papers/rose_2024_1.pdf -
Towards Automated Verification of ROS 2 Systems – A Model-Based Approach (RoSE’24)
https://rose-workshops.github.io/files/rose2024/papers/rose_2024_7.pdf -
Getting started with ROS2 development: a case study of software development challenges (RoSE’23)
https://rose-workshops.github.io/files/rose2023/papers/RoSE2023_paper_1.pdf -
ROMoSu: Flexible Runtime Monitoring Support for ROS-based Applications (RoSE’23)
https://rose-workshops.github.io/files/rose2023/papers/RoSE2023_paper_3.pdf
Submission details and workshop info
Website (CFP + instructions):
Questions about fit or format? Feel free to reply here.
We also appreciate it if you share with your peers 
Hope to see many ROS-flavored software engineering lessons represented at RoSE’26!
–
Ricardo Caldas
on behalf of the RoSE’26 Organizing Committee