The 1st IEEE International Conference on Engineering Reliable Autonomous Systems (ERAS) will be held in Worcester, MA, USA from May 29 to May 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.

We are excited to announce a special collaboration between ERAS and the Journal of Autonomous Vehicles and Systems. A select number of outstanding papers from the conference will be invited for revision and extension for publication in a special issue of the journal. More information is available from ASME at https://www.asme.org/publications-submissions/journals/administration/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-engineering-reliable-autonomous-vehicles

Technical Scope: We invite submissions of original unpublished technical papers on topics including but not limited to: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

Location: The venue is located 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 learning, as well as being home to the first Robotics Department in the United States.