IROS2025-Shiyu Zhao's Lab

Update: The date and venue of our workshop are out. Please see below.

Date: Morning of Oct 24th (Friday)

Venue: 103A

IROS 2025 Workshop

Multi-Robot Systems Empowered by Large Language Models

Multi-robot systems have long been a core field of robotics research, yet their full potential remains untapped due to challenges in generalizability and intelligence. While single-robot systems have seen significant advancements in the last year, particularly with the help of large language models (LLMs), multi-robot systems are now poised for a transformative leap.

This workshop aims to explore the intersection of large models and multi-robot systems, focusing on key areas such as collaborative task planning, navigation, object transport, decision-making, formation control, and motion planning. By bringing together leading experts in the field, we will discuss how large models can enhance the capabilities of multi-robot systems, enabling them to tackle complex, real-world tasks with greater efficiency and adaptability. This workshop will not only highlight the latest advancements but also foster interdisciplinary collaboration, attracting researchers from both robotics and AI communities.

Speakers

	Ming Cao, Professor of systems and control with the Engineering and Technology Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands. His main research interests include autonomous agents, multiagent systems, and complex networks.
	Zhiqiang Pu, Professor at the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests include decision intelligence, collective intelligence, and their applications in unmanned systems.
	Tanja Katharina Kaiser, Senior researcher at the University of Technology Nuremberg, Germany. Her main research interests include multi-robot systems, evolutionary robotics, and generative AI techniques in multi-robot systems.
	Dong Xue, Associate Professor at East China University of Science and Technology, China. His research interests include opinion dynamics and social networks, distributed modeling, control and optimization.
	Zhiyong Sun, Assistant Professor at Peking University, China. His research interests include multi-robotic systems, autonomous motion planning, distributed control and optimization.
	Shiyu Zhao, Associate Professor in the Department of Artificial Intelligence at Westlake University, Hangzhou, China. His research interests include multi-robot systems, decision-making and control based on reinforcement learning and large language models.

Schedule

Time	Speaker	Talk Title
08:45 - 09:15	Shiyu Zhao	Opening speech & Multi-Robot Task Planning via Large Language Models
09:15 - 09:45	Ming Cao	Cooperative Navigation and Exploration via Large Language Models
09:45 - 10:15	Zhiqiang Pu	How Large Models and Multi-Agent Learning Empower Each Other
10:15 - 10:25	Tea Break
10:25 - 10:55	Tanja Katharina Kaiser	Collective Object Transport Using Foundation Models
10:55 - 11:25	Dong Xue	LLM-Driven Formation Control and Path Planning for Multi-Robot Systems
11:25 - 11:55	Zhiyong Sun	LLM-Enabled STL-Centered Robot Motion Planner
11:55- 12:25	Panel Discussion	Open discussion with all speakers & Summary and future directions

Organizers

Shiyu Zhao, Associate Professor, Westlake University, Hangzhou, China

Website: https://www.shiyuzhao.net

Zhiyong Sun, Assistant Professor, Peking University, Beijing, China

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/zhiyong-sun/home

Roderich Gross, Professor, Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany & The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

Website: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/naturalrobotics

This workshop is partially supported by the EU Horizon project OpenSwarm.（https://openswarm.eu/）