9th International Workshop

Wi-DroIT 2027

Wireless Sensors & Drones in IoT

June 21–23, 2027 Montreal, Canada

Co-located with DCOSS 2027

Call for Papers Important Dates

Submission link: coming soon.

  • DatesJune 21–23, 2027
  • LocationMontreal, Canada
  • Co-located withDCOSS 2027
  • Submission deadlineTBA

About

Scope

Since its first edition, Wi-DroIT has focused on drones and their synergy with the Internet of Things (IoT), from remote sensing and smart agriculture to parcel delivery and post-disaster recovery. Today, drones are only one kind of autonomous agent operating in the IoT: ground and underwater vehicles, robot swarms, and software agents driven by learning and foundation models now sense, decide, and act in the same environments, facing the same problems of planning, coordination, communication, and energy under tight constraints.

Yet there is no unified methodology for these systems: solutions remain tied to a specific platform and scattered across the robotics, networking, distributed computing, and AI communities, with few results that transfer from one kind of agent to another. For this reason, this edition broadens its scope from drones to autonomous agents in general, while keeping its focus on algorithmic foundations and experimental validation.

We seek papers that combine algorithm design with testbed implementations, drawing on computer networks, artificial intelligence, distributed computing, security, and signal processing.

Call for Papers

Author Information

Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate current research on distributed sensor systems related to Wi-DroIT topics of interest. Please use the US letter size (8.5 x 11 in) standard IEEE conference LaTeX format or Microsoft Word template available here.

All submissions should be written in English and submitted as a full paper. Full papers should have a maximum of six (6) printed pages including figures and references at submission. After acceptance, authors will have eight (8) pages available for the camera-ready version. Full papers are expected to describe fully developed ideas with a thorough evaluation. Note that Wi-DroIT does not follow the double-blind review policy. The names and affiliations of all the authors must be present in the submitted manuscript.

Research areas

Topics of Interest

  • Agentic AI and LLM-based agents for IoT and cyber-physical systems
  • Multi-agent systems: coordination, consensus, and negotiation
  • Multi-agent and deep reinforcement learning for autonomous systems
  • Federated and distributed learning across autonomous agents and IoT devices
  • Algorithmic foundations: distributed, online, and approximation algorithms for mobile agents
  • Constrained and multi-objective optimization for autonomous agents
  • Path planning, scheduling, and task allocation for autonomous agents
  • Swarms, flocking, and cooperative control of multi-agent systems
  • Collaboration of heterogeneous air, ground, and underwater autonomous systems
  • Autonomous sensing and data collection with mobile agents
  • Optimal deployment and coverage strategies
  • Localization, tracking, and mapping (SLAM)
  • Communication protocols for autonomous agents in IoT
  • Aerial and ground autonomous vehicles in 5G/6G and non-terrestrial networks
  • Space-air-ground integrated networks: drones, HAPS, and satellites
  • Edge and fog computing with mobile agents
  • On-device and TinyML intelligence for resource-constrained agents
  • Energy-efficient communication, charging, and operation of autonomous agents
  • Security, privacy, and trust for autonomous agents and IoT systems
  • Safe, explainable, and trustworthy autonomy
  • Human-agent interaction and teaming
  • Precision agriculture and environmental monitoring
  • Parcel delivery and logistics with autonomous vehicles
  • Search and rescue, disaster response, and infrastructure inspection
  • Smart cities and Industry 4.0 with autonomous agents
  • Test-beds, simulators, digital twins, and experimental results

Timeline

Important Dates

  1. TBA
    Paper Submission Deadline
  2. TBA
    Notification of Acceptance
  3. TBA
    Camera Ready Deadline

People

Committees

Workshop Chairs

  • Lorenzo Palazzetti – Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA
  • Yazan Otoum – Algoma University, ON, Canada

Steering Committee

  • Enrico Natalizio – Technology Innovation Institute, United Arab Emirates
  • Cristina M. Pinotti – University of Perugia, Italy
  • Federico Corò – University of Padova, Italy
  • Francesco Betti Sorbelli – University of Perugia, Italy

Publicity Chair

  • Giorgia Pazzi – University of Pisa, Italy

Web Chair

  • Lorenzo Palazzetti – Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA

Program Committee

  • Alessandro Brighente – University of Padova
  • Enrico Casella – Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA
  • Punyasha Chatterjee – Jadavpur University, India
  • Ziheng Fu – Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA
  • Nathaniel Hudson – Illinois Institute of Technology, IL, USA
  • Amin Kargar – Tyndall National Institute, Ireland
  • Arindam Khanda – Missouri S&T, MO, USA
  • Tathagata Mukherjee – University of Alabama in Huntsville, AL, USA
  • Alfredo Navarra – Università degli Studi di Perugia
  • Giorgia Pazzi – University of Pisa, Italy
  • Tahmid Rashid – Illinois State University, IL, USA
  • Anurag Satpathy – Missouri S&T, MO, USA
  • Savio Sciancalepore – Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Holland
  • Pietro Tedeschi – Leonardo S.p.A., Italy

June 21–23, 2027 · Montreal, Canada

Program

To be announcedThe program will be published here.

Invited talk

Keynote

To be announcedThe keynote speaker will be announced soon.