Planning and Robotics (PlanRob)

Topic and Objectives

Robotics is one of the most appealing and natural applicative area for the Planning and Scheduling (P&S) research activity, however such a natural interest seems not reflected in an equally important research production for the Robotics community. In this perspective, the aim of the PlanRob workshop is twofold. On the one hand, this workshop would constitute a fresh impulse for the ICAPS community to develop its interests and efforts towards this challenging research area. On the other hand, it aims at attracting representatives from the Robotics community to discuss their challenges related to planning for autonomous robots (deliberative, reactive, continuous planning and execution etc.) as well as their expectations from the P&S community. The PlanRob workshop aims at constituting a stable, long-term forum on relevant topics concerned with the interactions between the Robotics and P&S communities where researchers could discuss the opportunities and challenges of P&S when applied to Robotics. Started during ICAPS 2013 in Rome (Italy) and followed by a second edition at ICAPS 2014 in Portsmouth (NH, USA) and a third one at ICAPS 2015 in Jerusalem (Israel), the PlanRob WS series (http://pst.istc.cnr.it/planrob/) has gathered very good feedback from the P&S community which is also confirmed by the organisation of a specific Robotics Track from ICAPS 2014.

This fourth edition of the PlanRob workshop has been proposed in synergy with the Robotics Track to further enforce its original goals and to maintain a more informal forum where more preliminary/visionary work can be discussed as well as more direct and open interactions/discussions may find the right place.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

• planning domain representations for robotics applications;
• robot motion, path, and mission planning;
• integrated planning and execution in robotic architectures;
• planning and coordination methods for multiple robot;
• 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.

Schedule

Monday (June 13, 2016)

Tuesday (June 14, 2016)

Important Dates

• Paper submission: March 11
• Notification of acceptance: April 1
• Workshop Date: June 13-14

Organization Chairs

• Alberto Finzi,
  DIETI - Università di Napoli "Federico II", Italy
  alberto.finzi@unina.it
  
• Erez Karpas
  Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
  karpase@technion.ac.il
  

Programme Committee

• Rachid Alami (LAAS-CNRS, France)
• Sara Bernardini (King's College, UK)
• Amedeo Cesta (ISTC-CNR, Italy)
• Marcello Cirillo (Orebro University, Sweden)
• Patrick Doherty (Linkoping University, Sweden)
• Erez Karpas (Technion, Israel)
• Sven Koenig (University of Southern California, USA)
• Alberto Finzi (Naples University, Italy)
• Robert Fitch (University of Sydney, Australia)
• Malik Ghallab (LAAS-CNRS, France)
• Joachim Hertzberg (Osnabrück University, Germany)
• Felix Ingrand (LAAS-CNRS, France)
• Luca Iocchi (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy)
• Matteo Leonetti (University of Leeds)
• Daniele Magazzeni (King's College, UK)
• Karen Myers (SRI International, USA)
• Daniele Nardi (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy)
• Goldie Nejat (University of Toronto, Canada)
• Andrea Orlandini (ISTC-CNR, Italy)
• Frederic Py (Independent)
• Enrico Scala (ANU, Australia)
• David Smith (NASA Ames, USA)
• Tiago Stegun Vaquero (MIT, USA)