20 Years of Workshops on Benchmarking and Reproducibility: Part I Reproducibility

June 5th 2026

Time Presenter Title
09:00
09:05
Welcome Organizers
09:05
09:30
Prof. Fabio Bonsignorio, University of Zagreb FER and Heron Robots Why Reproducibility Matters. 20 more years?
09:30
10:00
Prof. Robert Katzschmann, ETH, Zurich Reproducibility in Soft Robotics  
10:00
10:30
Dr. Enrica Zereik, CNR-INM  The R-articles; Reproducibility in IEEE RAM and beyond  
10:30
11:00
Partecipants    Coffee Break
11:00
11:30
Prof. Enric Cervera, UJI, Castellon  Benchmarking and Software Platforms for Reproducibility in Robotics
11:30
12:00
Prof. Pedro Lima, Instituto Superior Tecnico – Universidade de Lisboa    The Role of Competitions
12:00
12:30
Dr. Paolo Forte, Orebro University, Orebro EuroCore: Robotics on the European AI on Demand Platform
12:30
14:00
Partecipants    Lunch Break
14:00
14:30
Prof. Francesco Amigoni, Politecnico di Milano Reproducibility in mobile robotics: our small review in 2009. Did we make any progress since then?
14:30
15:00
  Prof. Stefano Carpin, University of California Merced   The first R-Article in 2019 on R&A Mag. Lessons Learned
15:00
15:30
Adam Norton, University of Massachusetts Lowell    The NSF Compare project. Lesson Learned and Road Ahead
15:30
16:00
Partecipants    Coffee Break
16:00
16:30
Prof. Lydia Kavraki, Rice University, Houston, TX     OMPL 2.0 and benchmarking in robotics in the last and next 20 years
16:30
17:00
Nikki Hart, Rice University, Houston, TX     The iMETRO Dynamic Simulation: An Open-Source Simulator for Intravehicular Space Robotics Research
17:00
17:30
All   Final Discussion and Closing remarks