Costelha, HugoCalado, JoãoBento, Luís CondeOliveira, Paulo2025-09-232025-09-232020-01-02Costelha, H., Calado, J., Bento, L.C. et al. Special Issue on ICARSC 2018. J Intell Robot Syst 98, 133 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-019-01131-w.0921-0296http://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/14108Dear colleagues and readers: We are pleased to present you this special issue, bringing you the most relevant papers describing work whose roots were initially published in ICARSC2018, an international conference held every year in Portugal, together with a Robotics competition, promoting and discussing Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions. The conference had 42 accepted papers from 21 countries in six continents, reviewed by 85 committee members, from 22 countries.engAutonomous Robot SystemsRobotics competitioneditorial10.1007/s10846-019-01131-w1573-0409