WS 7: Planning and Robotics (PlanRob)

Robotics is one of the most appealing and natural applicative area for the Planning and Scheduling (P&S) research activity, however, this potential interest seems not reflected in an equally important research production for the robotics community. On the other hand, the fast development of field and social robotics applications poses planning as a central issue in the robotic research with several real-world challenges for the planning community.

In this perspective, the goal of this workshop is twofold. From one side, it aims at providing a fresh impulse for the ICAPS community to recast its interests towards robotics problems and applications. On the other side, its goal is to attract representatives from the robotics community to discuss their challenges related to planning for autonomous robots as well as their expectations from the P&S community.

The workshop aims at constituting a stable, long-term establishment of a forum on relevant topics concerned with the interactions between Robotics and P&S communities presenting a stimulating environment where researchers could discuss about the opportunities and challenges for P&S when applied to Robotics.

The first edition of the PlanRob workshop has gathered a very positive feedback and a major follow up was the organization of the ICAPS 2014 Robotics Track chaired by Felix Ingrand and Leslie Kaebling. This second edition of the PlanRob workshop has been proposed in synergy with this track to further enforce the original goal and to maintain a more informal forum where even less mature works may find space, benefit of suitable feedback and contribute to stimulate discussions.

The full PlanRob proceedings are now available.

Schedule

DAY 1 - Sunday June 22, 2014

DAY 2 - Monday June 23, 2014

Topics

Topics of interest include, but not limited to:

• planning domain representations for robotics applications;
• robot motion, path, and mission planning;
• integrated planning and execution in robotic architectures;
• planning and coordination methods for multi-robots;
• mixed-initiative planning and sliding autonomy for robotic systems;
• human-aware planning and execution in human-robot interaction;
• adversarial action planning in competitive robotic domains;
• formal methods for robot planning and control;
• P&S methods for optimization and adaptation in robotics;
• benchmark planning domains for robots;
• real-world planning applications for autonomous robots.

Accepted Papers

• Planning Under Temporal Uncertainty Using Hindsight Optimization.
  Scott Kiesel and Wheeler Ruml.
• A Fast and Effective Online Algorithm for the Canadian Traveler Problem.
  Furkan Sahin, Vural Aksakalli and Ali Fuat Alkaya.
• Efficient and Smooth RRT Motion Planning Using a Novel Extend Function for Wheeled Mobile Robots.
  Luigi Palmieri and Kai Oliver Arras.
• Multi-Robot Planning and Execution for an Exploration Mission: a Case Study.
  Guillaume Infantes, Charles Lesire and Cédric Pralet.
• Synthesis of Plans for Robots.
  Srinivas Nedunuri, Sailesh Prabhu, Mark Moll, Swarat Chaudhuri and Lydia Kavraki.
• A Flexible ANML Actor and Planner in Robotics.
  Fiip Dvorak, Arthur Bit-Monnot, Félix Ingrand and Malik Ghallab.
• Collision-free Path Planning for Remote Laser Welding.
  Andras Kovacs.
• Performance Level Profiles.
  Ronen Brafman, Guy Shani and Solomon Shimony.
• Heuristic Search for Task and Motion Planning.
  Caelan Garrett, Tomas Lozano-Perez and Leslie Kaelbling.
• Planning and Scheduling Single and Multi-Person Activities in Retirement Home Settings for a Group of Robots.
  Tiago Stegun Vaquero, Goldie Nejat and Chris Beck.
• Planning for Decentralized Control of Multiple Robots Under Uncertainty.
  Christopher Amato, George Konidaris, Gabriel Cruz, Christopher Maynor, Jonathan How and Leslie Kaelbling.
• Challenges in Finding Ways to get the Job Done.
  Iman Awaad, Gerhard Kraetzschmar and Joachim Hertzberg.
• Planning a Robot's Search for Multiple Residents in a Retirement Home Environment.
  Markus Schwenk, Tiago Stegun Vaquero and Goldie Nejat.
• Iterative Goal Refinement for Robotics.
  Mark Roberts, Swaroop Vattam, David Aha, Thomas Apker, Mark Wilson and Bryan Auslander.
• Extending Knowledge-Level Contingent Planning to Robot Task Planning.
  Ron Petrick and Andre Gaschler.
• Integrating Declarative Programming and Probabilistic Graphical Models for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in Robotics.
  Shiqi Zhang, Mohan Sridharan, Michael Gelfond and Jeremy Wyatt.
• Decentralized Adaptive Path Selection for Multi-Agent Conflict Minimization.
  Andrew Kimmel and Kostas Bekris.
• HATP: An HTN Planner for Robotics.
  Raphaël Lallement, Lavindra de Silva and Rachid Alami.
• A Cooperative Model-based Control Agent for a Reconfigurable Manufacturing Plant.
  Stefano Borgo, Amedeo Cesta, Andrea Orlandini, Riccardo Rasconi, Marco Suriano and Alessandro Umbrico.
• Continual Planning via Reconfiguration and Goal Revision.
  Enrico Scala.

Submission

There are two types of submissions: short position statements and regular papers. Position papers are a maximum of 2 (two) pages. Regular papers are a maximum of 10 (ten) pages. Papers should be submitted via the PlanRob 2014 EasyChair website. All papers should be typeset in the AAAI style, removing AAAI copyright. Accepted papers will be published on the workshop website.

The organizers will investigate the availability of journal editors in order to invite higher quality papers from the PlanRob 2014 edition to a special issue or post-proceedings volume.

Any additional questions can be directed towards the general workshop contact email: planrob14@easychair.org

Important Dates

• Paper submission: March 7th, 2014
• Notification of acceptance: March 20th, 2014
• Camera-ready paper submissions: TBA
• Workshop date: June 22nd and June 23rd (AM), 2014

Organization Chairs

• Alberto Finzi, DIETI-UNINA, Italy.
• Andrea Orlandini, CNR-ISTC, Italy

Program Committee

• Rachid Alami (LAAS-CNRS, France)
• Amedeo Cesta (CNR-ISTC, Italy)
• Alberto Finzi (Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy)
• Robert Fitch (University of Sydney, Australia)
• Malik Ghallab (LAAS-CNRS, France)
• Joachim Hertzberg (University of Osnabrueck, Germany)
• Andreas Hofmann (MIT, USA)
• Felix Ingrand (LAAS-CNRS, France)
• Leslie Kaebling (MIT, USA)
• Sven Koenig (University of Southern California, USA)
• Jonas Kvarnström (Linköpings University, Sweden)
• Daniele Magazzeni (King's College, UK)
• Dinesh Manocha (University of North Carolina, USA)
• Maria Dolores Moreno (Universidad de Alcala, Spain)
• Karen Myers (SRI, USA)
• Daniele Nardi (Sapienza University, Italy)
• Andrea Orlandini (CNR-ISTC, Italy)
• Frederic Py (MBARI, USA)
• Alessandro Saffiotti (Orebro University, Sweden)
• Kanna Rajan (MBARI, USA)
• Reid Simmons (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
• David Smith (NASA Ames, USA)
• Siddharth Srivastava (UC Berkeley, USA)
• Florent Teichteil-Königsbuch (ONERA, France)
• Manuela Veloso (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

Sponsor

PlanRob 2014 is partially supported by the SHERPA project (EU FP7 under the grant agreement ICT-600958)