Call for Papers
We invite researchers and practitioners to submit original work on cutting-edge robotics technologies for space exploration. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Mechanical Design of Robots
- Autonomous Mobile Platform
- Perception and Motion Planning
- Task-specific Autonomy
- Robot Simulation Environments for Space Exploration
Important Dates
Submission Deadline:
March 2, 2026
Acceptance Notification:
June 16, 2026
Accepted Papers
According to the Special Session guidelines, eight papers were submitted and five were ultimately accepted. All accepted papers are scheduled for presentation on Tuesday afternoon in Room 406.
PAPER #2251 — SpaceSense-Bench: A Large-Scale Multi-Modal Benchmark for Spacecraft Perception and Pose Estimation
Authors: Aodi Wu, Jianhong Zuo, Zeyuan Zhao, Xubo Luo, Ruisuo Wang, Xue Wan
Tuesday, 2:30 PM | Room 406
PAPER #3072 — Distributed Multi Robot Lunar Cargo Transportation Via Phase Decomposed Reinforcement Learning
Authors: Ashutosh Mishra, Elian Neppel, Shreya Santra, Antoine Jonquières, Muhammad Athallah Naufal, Kentaro Uno, Kazuya Yoshida
Tuesday, 2:41 PM | Room 406
PAPER #3192 — Precision Pointing of Dual-Module MagLev Space Observatories Via Hierarchical Fixed-Time-Synchronized Control
Authors: Hanzhou Wang, Biyue Pan, Siyang Li, Rongchuan Zhang, Jianwei Liu, Dongyu Li
Tuesday, 2:52 PM | Room 406
PAPER #3943 — Dual-Horizon Hybrid Internal Model for Low-Gravity Quadrupedal Jumping with Hardware-In-The-Loop Validation
Authors: Haozhe Xu, Yifei Zhao, Wenhao Feng, Zhipeng Wang, HongRui Sang, Cheng Cheng, Xiuxian Li, Zhen Yin, Bin He
Tuesday, 3:03 PM | Room 406
PAPER #4446 — Multi-Agent Off-World Exploration for Sparse Evidence Discovery Via Gaussian Belief Mapping and Dual-Domain Coverage
Authors: Zhuoran Qiao, Tianxin Hu, Thien-Minh Nguyen, Shenghai Yuan
Tuesday, 3:14 PM | Room 406
Poster Template
We provide an optional poster template for presenters. Feel free to download and use it for your poster presentation.
Special thanks to Zhuoran Qiao for contributing this template!
Organizers
Inquiries
For any questions, please contact: syuan003@e.ntu.edu.sg & doongli@ieee.org