[PlanetKR] CFP: RSS 2013 Workshop on Combined Robot Motion Planning and AI Planning for Practical Applications

[Esra Erdem]

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   Call for Papers and Poster Abstracts

   RSS 2013 Workshop on Combined Robot Motion Planning
   and AI Planning for Practical Applications

   http://faculty.cua.edu/plaku/CombinedPlanningRoboticsAI2013RSSws.html

   June 27, 2013

   Berlin, Germany

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Planning plays a crucial role as robots are deployed into less and
less structured environments and are expected to complete
sophisticated tasks autonomously. The objective of this workshop is to
bring together researchers from Robotics and AI communities, who have
generally approached the planning problem from very different
perspectives. On the one hand, AI has emphasized symbolic abstractions
to allow for sophisticated tasks composed of discrete sub-tasks. On
the other hand, robotics has emphasized the continuous aspects of
planning to compute feasible motions. This workshop will discuss
current progress and open challenges in unifying these approaches with
an emphasis on both practical applications and theoretical issues. The
workshop will include invited speakers and presentations from authors
of accepted papers. It follows up on successful workshops at AAAI
2010, ICAPS 2011, ICAPS 2012, ICRA 2013 on bridging task and motion
planning.


*** Objectives ***

The workshop aims to spark vibrant discussion with talks from invited
speakers, presentations from authors of accepted papers, and a poster
session. We are soliciting two
types of contributions:

- Papers (4-6 pages) for oral presentation
- Extended abstracts (2 pages) for interactive poster presentation

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Applications of combined planning in search-and-rescue missions,
surveillance, manipulation, legged  robots, robotic-assisted surgery,
and other domains
- Reasoning about actions and change
- Diagnostic reasoning
- Planning in mixed discrete and continuous domains
- Planning with PDDL, temporal logic specifications, and other high-level models
- Manipulation planning
- Multi-robot planning
- Closing the perception-planning loop
- Planning with kinodynamic constraints
- Classical, HTN, temporal logics, and timeline-based planning
- CSP-based reasoning
- Decision-theoretic planning
- Optimal or approximately optimal planning
- Planning software tools

*** Invited speakers ***

Stefan Edelkamp
Professor
Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics
University of Bremen

Gerhard Lakemeyer
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Aachen University of Technology

Alessandro Saffiotti
Professor of Computer Science
Department of Technology
Örebro University, Sweden

Siddhartha Srinivasa
Associate Professor
Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University

*** Important dates ***

June  5: Paper submission deadline
June 12: Notification of paper acceptance
June 19: Final version due
June 27: Workshop date


*** Organizers ***

Erion Plaku
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Catholic University of America
http://faculty.cua.edu/plaku
email: plaku/AT/cua.edu
office: 202-319-6465
fax: 202-319-5195

Kris Hauser
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~hauserk
email: hauserk/AT/indiana.edu
office: 812-856-7496
fax: 812-855-4829

Esra Erdem
Associate Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Sabanci University, Turkey
http://people.sabanciuniv.edu/esraerdem/
email: esraerdem/AT/sabanciuniv.edu
office: +90 (216) 483-9574
fax: +90 (216) 483-9550