ETFA 2025: Call for Papers

The 30th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2025) will be held in Porto, Portugal, from September 9-12, 2025.

ETFA is the flagship event of the IEEE IES Technical Committee on Factory Automation (TCFA).

The conference aims to bring together the international community to present the latest research results, share new ideas and engineering breakthroughs, and discuss state-of-the-art challenges and future directions in technology and innovation in the broad domain of Automation with a focus on Industrial and Factory Automation.

Topics of Interest

The organizing committee cordially invites high-quality papers representing original work, including but not limited to the following topics:

• Adaptive and Intelligent Control Systems
• Advanced Motion Control
• Autonomous Robotic Systems, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning
• Automotive Control and Transportation Systems
• Biomechatronics and Bioengineering Systems
• Compliant and Soft Robotics
• Haptics and Human-Robot Interaction
• Industry Applications, Information Technology, and Advanced Manufacturing
• Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) and Nanotechnologies
• Network-based Control Systems and Applications
• Sensors and Actuators
• Smart Materials and Structures
• Visual Servo Systems, Machine Vision, and Image Processing

Important Dates

Event	Date
Special Session Proposal Deadline	February 13, 2025
Notifications for proposed Special Sessions	February 21, 2025
Deadline for Workshop proposals	February 28, 2025
Notifications for proposed Workshop	March 14, 2025
Deadline for submission of regular and SS papers	April 18, 2025
Notifications for submitted regular and SS papers	May 30, 2025
Deadline for submission of Work-in-Progress and Workshop papers	May 30, 2025
Deadline for submitting final versions of regular and SS papers	June 20, 2025
Notifications for submitted Work-in-Progress and Workshop papers	July 4, 2025
Deadline for submitting final versions of Work-in-Progress and Workshop papers	July 15, 2025

Initial Manuscript Submission

Authors are invited to submit full regular papers (6-8 pages) of their work, reporting original research using the online submission system. Submissions of papers shorter than 5 pages may be automatically rejected.

Authors of accepted papers must submit the final paper version according to the deadline, register for the conference, and attend to present their paper(s). The maximum length for final papers is 8 pages without exceptions.

Initial Author Instructions - Work-In-Progress Papers, Technical Tracks and Special Session Papers

The submissions in the Work in Progress papers category describe research that have not yet produced the results required for a regular paper, but that due to its novelty and potential impact deserves to be shared with the community at an early stage. These submissions need to follow the guidelines for the regular and special session but limited to four (4) pages (total length including references).

WiP contributors are expected to give a short presentation of their work and to prepare a poster for the discussion forum that will take place after the presentations. More specifically, each WiP paper shall be presented by one of the authors in a very short oral presentation of 5 minutes, without any ensuing discussion, in its respective session.

Accepted and presented papers will be copyrighted to IEEE and published in conference proceedings and in the IEEE Xplore® Digital Library.

Submission System Instructions

In the case you are using the new IES submission system for the first time, you will need to register at the ConfComm Login page. After registering wait for the confirmation email and verify your email address. If you don't get the confirmation email or have some problem with your submission, please contact us.

In case you already have an account with the IEC submission system you can submit a paper to ETFA2025 here.

When submitting papers in the submission system, please select the correct track:

• TT01 ... TT11 – technical tracks (regular papers).
• SS01 … SS12 – special sessions (regular papers)
• WS01, WS02, WS03 – workshops based on solicited papers (regular papers)
• WIP TT01 … WIP TT11 – technical tracks (work-in-progress papers)
• WIP SS01 … WIP SS12 – special sessions (work-in-progress papers)

Papers are solicited for regular Technical Tracks and Special Session tracks both as Regular papers and Work in progress (WIP) papers. Workshops based on solicited papers are instead accepting only regular papers (no WiP submissions will be accepted).

Final Manuscript Submission

Preparation of the Camera Ready version of your paper - Technical Tracks, Special Session and Workshop Papers

1. Generate an IEEE Xplore compatible manuscript using PDF Xpress

All authors of accepted papers are required to submit their camera ready versions to the PDF Xpress tool prior to uploading into the system.

• Create your IEEE PDF eXpress Account (https://ieee-pdf-express.org/).
  • Previous users: PDF eXpress should enter the same email address and password that was used for previous conferences, just specifying the ETFA 2025 Conference ID in the topmost field.
  • First time users: Please create a new account following the link for new users Create Account.
  • Please note that in order to access the service, you need to allow the use of cookies from the PDF eXpress web site.
• You will be asked to create a password, and to insert the proper Conference ID
• The Conference ID for IEEE ETFA 2025 is 65518X

Preparation of the Poster for Work-in-Progress Papers

If you are presenting a Work-in-Progress paper you are also required to prepare a poster describing your work. Additionally you are expected to be present during the discussion forum in the which the poster is to be displayed.

When preparing your poster please consider the following:

• The poster should be A1 size, with vertical orientation.
• In the poster clearly identify the paper title, the authors, and their contacts and affiliations.
• It is the responsibility of the authors to bring their printed poster with them.
• All materials to affix the poster will be provided by the conference organization.