We are excited to announce the 1st IEEE International Conference on Engineering Reliable Autonomous Systems (ERAS) will be held in Worcester, MA, USA from May 29 to May 30, 2025.

ERAS aims to offer a space for all stakeholders across autonomous system reliability to come together to discuss the key progress made towards solving them. The scope of the conference is the aspects of engineering reliable autonomous systems, ranging from systems and software engineering to their verification purpose of this conference, “autonomous systems” is synonymous with “systems that make their own decisions and can take their own actions” and includes everything from autonomous decision-making software running in a virtual environment to teams of autonomous robots operating in a distributed physical environment, everything from simple reactive systems with no planning capability to complex systems incorporating machine learning and reasoning engines. Contributions addressing aspects of reliability across the entire life cycle of the system are welcome. 

Full details, including a list of keynote speakers, are at the conference website: https://erasrobotics.org/2025/index.html

Technical Scope: We invite submissions of original unpublished technical papers on topics including but not limited to:

• General Understanding of Autonomy
• Specification and User Needs
• Design and Systems Engineering for Reliability
• Assessing and Communicating Reliability
• Reliability in Context
• Reproducibility of Research in Autonomous Systems
• Performance Evaluation of Autonomous Systems
• Epistemological Issues in Autonomous Systems

Important Dates:

• Regular paper submission: January 30, 2025
• Short/position paper submission: February 20, 2025
• Workshop/panel proposal submission: February 20, 2025
• Acceptance notification: March 20, 2025
• Camera-ready paper deadline: April 3, 2025
• Author registration and early registration deadline: April 3, 2025

Location: The venue is in Worcester, MA, USA, “the Heart of the Commonwealth,” a center of higher education that is home to eight colleges and universities, including Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). WPI is known for its strong emphasis on combining theory with hands-on learning, as well as being home to the first Robotics Department and the second-largest robotics program in the US in the United States.