SIMPAR brings together researchers and engineers from academia and industry to identify and solve key issues in software development for autonomous robots and to boost a smooth shifting of results from simulated to real-world applications. The topics covered by the conference include but are not limited to novel robotics applications driven by research, industry, and society’s call for developing systems of ever-increasing complexity. In particular, systems with sliding autonomy, humanoid robots, distributed robots, cognitive robotics, and mobile sensor networks. Fundamental open problems are still waiting for sound answers, and the development of new robotics applications needs to be adequately addressed by innovative and practical tools, libraries, and algorithms ready to be incorporated into new projects. Furthermore, programming languages and simulation environments play a prominent role in reducing large-scale systems development time and cost.

International Conference on Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR) is technically sponsored by IEEE. The conference proceedings are likely to be indexed in Scopus and Web of Science.