The papers listed below have been selected as "Best Papers" based on the reviews of the original submission, the camera-ready version, and the presentation during the conference. For the awarded papers, a digital award will be issued in the name of the authors. The authors of these papers are also receiving invitations to submit an extended article version to one of the IARIA Journals.

Awarded Papers (also Invited for IARIA Journals)

A Ground-Aware LiDAR Intensity Filter for Reliable SLAM in Challenging Reflection Environments
Federico Rollo, Valentina Pericu, Marco Roveri, Arash Ajoudani, Navvab Kashiri

VaMAI-Validator: Agent Validation Platform for Autonomous Maritime Navigation
Christoph Baier, Joel Aschmann, Feryal Fulya Horozal, Marcel Dechert, Sebastian Scholze

The following papers have been selected on the basis of their contents, specificaly for lending themselves to an interesting extended work. The authors of these papers are receiving invitations to submit an extended article version to one of the IARIA Journals.

Papers Invited for IARIA Journals

The Energy and Autonomy Deficit: Barriers to Fielding Large Logistics UAS
Keirin Joyce, Keith Joiner, Mark Hargreaves, John Young, Vincent Daria

Agentic AI and the Autonomic Computing Vision: Continuity, Evolution, and Beyond
Roy Sterritt