{"id":12633,"date":"2026-06-15T11:22:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T09:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isir.upmc.fr\/?post_type=isir_news&p=12633"},"modified":"2026-06-15T11:22:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T09:22:26","slug":"sim2real-and-classical-control-workshop-from-rigorous-theory-to-data-driven-robotics","status":"publish","type":"isir_news","link":"https:\/\/www.isir.upmc.fr\/actualites\/sim2real-and-classical-control-workshop-from-rigorous-theory-to-data-driven-robotics\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00ab\u00a0Sim2Real and Classical Control Workshop\u00a0\u00bb: From Rigorous Theory to Data-Driven Robotics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Join our workshop to explore state-of-the-art and new research methodologies at the edge between control and sim-to-real transfer.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

– \u00ab\u00a0Sim2Real and Classical Control Workshop\u00a0\u00bb, at IROS 2026, at Pittsburgh
– Date of the workshop: 1 October 2026<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

About the Workshop<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Simulation has long been a valuable tool for robotics, but its role is fundamentally shifting. Simulators are now integrated components of deployment pipelines, not merely prototyping aids. This shift, embodied in sim-to-real transfer, is rapidly redefining how robots are designed and validated at scale. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet the simulation-reality gap remains one of the most unsolved problems in modern robotics. The community is responding by exploiting real-world data to refine simulators through real-to-sim techniques. Together, sim-to-real and real-to-sim form a closed-loop framework that extends the classical foundations of system identification and adaptive control <\/strong>, fields with decades of rigorous theory that both communities have every reason to build upon. Two forms of fragmentation currently limit collective progress. First, model-driven and data-driven researchers often work in isolation. Second, system identification, adaptive control, and sim-to-real are treated as competing paradigms rather than complementary instruments facing the same problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this context, this full-day workshop<\/strong> makes a targeted intervention across IROS\u2019s core tracks, namely control, learning, and perception, with four concrete objectives: first, consolidate fragmented knowledge across communities; second, align research directions between control and learning communities; third, facilitate translation of academic advances into real-world deployment, and fourth, promoting inter-generational exchange between speakers from academia and industry, students, early-career researchers, and engineers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unlike prior events that have addressed sim-to-real at the application layer, this workshop treats it as a foundational methodological problem approached through the lens of control theory, a framing that so far has remained absent from the conference landscape.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Call for Contributions :
– Early Submission: June 20, 2026 (priority consideration)
– Final Submission: August 20, 2026 (last call – all paper types welcome)<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

We invite researchers and practitioners in mobile robotics, manipulation, sim-to-real transfer to contribute to our workshop by submitting a two-page<\/strong> paper (excluding references) in IROS format as a PDF (Guidelines here<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Sim-to-Real and Real-to-Sim Transfer for Whole-Body Control of Mobile Platforms and Manipulators
– Adaptive Control and Online System Identification
– Hybrid Methods: Combining Classical and Adaptive Control with Machine Learning
– World Models and System Identification for Sim-to-Real Gap Reduction
– Data Augmentation, Domain Randomization, and Benchmarking for Sim-to-Real
– Foundation Models and Large-Scale Pretraining for Robotics
– Transfer and Continuous Learning for Interaction Control
– Theoretical Guarantees, Safety, and Robustness in Sim-to-Real
– Iterative Co-Improvement of World Models and Controllers \/ Policies
– Data-Driven Modeling and Hybrid Control Architectures
– World Models for Synthetic Robot Data Generation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to research papers, we also welcome videos and presentations on relevant topics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All submissions will undergo a rigorous peer review, with at least two high-quality reviews per paper. Selected papers will be presented as posters at the workshop, and outstanding contributions will be selected for presentations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To recognize excellence, we are introducing a PAL funded Best Paper Award. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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More information about the workshop and its programme<\/strong>: https:\/\/sim2realgap.github.io\/sim2real-and-control-workshop-iros2026\/<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scientific contact at ISIR<\/strong>: Dario Sanalitro<\/a>, postdoctoral researcher<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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