2025 Theme: MAD-GAMES: Multi-Agent Dynamic Games
Roboracer Autonomous Racing https://roboracer.ai/is an international competition organized by a community of researchers, engineers, and autonomous systems enthusiasts. Roboracer is used in over 89 universities for research, teaching and participation in competitions. The teams
participating in this Roboracer Grand Prix at ICRA 2025 will build a 1:10 scaled autonomous race car according to a reference specification. The teams write software for this scaled race car to fulfill the objectives for the competition: Don’t crash, minimize lap time and overtake all opponents. This competition considers the challenging scenario of multi-agent (many-on-many) racing and aims to assess the state-of-the-art for perception, planning and competitive control algorithms in real world scenarios, inviting contributions from a broad spectrum of research directions spanning model-based classical planning and control to model-free reinforcement learning end-to-end agile navigation approaches.
Following the success of the Roboracer Autonomous Racing competitions at ICRA’22 Philadelphia (100+ participants and 20 teams), and ICRA’23 London (130+ participants and 24 teams), ICRA’24 Japan (135+ participants, 19 teams) for the ICRA 2025 competition we propose to set up the 24th Roboracer Autonomous Grand Prix in the form of both: (A) In-person hardware-based competition and a (B) virtual simulation-based race. These versions of the competition allow for accessible and equitable participation of teams worldwide.
