IROS 2025 Cooperative Aerial Robots Inspection Challenge (CARIC@IROS2025)

1. Introduction

    Due to their unique mobility, aerial robots are widely used for inspections. The next breakthrough is expected from Cooperative Aerial Robots Inspection (CARI) systems. Heterogeneous CARI systems can offer greater efficiency, quality, and versatility than single-UAV or homogeneous systems. However, new cooperative strategies are needed to optimally coordinate multiple robots. To aid this, we introduce the Cooperative Aerial Robots Inspection Challenge (CARIC) Benchmark, a software stack for simulating and benchmarking multi-UAV inspection systems.
    The objective of CARIC is twofold. First, it aims to faithfully simulate multi-UAV systems operating in typical real-world inspection missions. Second, based on this tool, different cooperative inspection schemes can be benchmarked based on a common metric. The software stack is made public to benefit the community and we would like to welcome all who are interested to participate in the challenge to be held at IROS 2025.

2. CARIC at IROS 2025

2.1. How to participate?

• Sign up via the following Form.
• Read through the description of CARIC software stack in the Guideline.
• Send your code / executable to Dr. Thien-Minh Nguyen via thienminh.npn@ieee.org and cc muqingc@andrew.cmu.edu.
• If you have any technical inquiry, please raise an issue on our github. You may also join our Discord group and chat with our developers!

2.2. Important dates (All dates and time are in GMT+4)

• Last day to register for the challenge 10th October 2025.
• Last day to update your code 10th October 2025.
• Annoucement of results 24th October 2025.
• Workshop date 24th October 2025.

2.3. Prize

    The winner will receive a material or monetary prize of SGD2000 and a certificate. If you are interested in being a sponsor of the challenge, please contact thienminh.npn@ieee.org and cc muqingc@andrew.cmu.edu.

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