Topics 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 Robotics and P&S communities where researchers could discuss about the opportunities and challenges of P&S when applied to Robotics.

Started during ICAPS 2013 in Rome (Italy) and followed by the second edition at ICAPS 2014 in Portsmouth (NH, USA), 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 at ICAPS 2014 chaired by Felix Ingrand and Leslie Kaelbling (http://icaps14.icaps-conference.org/specialtracks/robotics.html) and also this year at ICAPS 2015 chaired by Reid Simmons and Micheal Beetz (https://icaps15.icaps-conference.org/tracks/robotics.html).

Sponsors

PlanRob 2015 is partially supported by the FourByThree project (http://www.fourbythree.euc - EU H2020 G.A. FoF- 637095) and the SHERPA project (http://www.sherpa-project.eu EU FP7 G.A. ICT-600958).

Proceedings

The full PLANROB proceedings are available as a pdf file [file has been updated -June 14).

Schedule

DAY 1 - June 7, 2015 (Room E)

DAY 2 - June 8, 2015 (Room B)

Keynote Information

Accepted Papers

• Solomon Eyal Shimony, Gera Weiss and Liat Cohen
  Estimating the Probability of Meeting a Deadline in Hierarchical Plans
  
• Roi Yehoshua, Noa Agmon and Gal Kaminka
  Frontier-Based RTDP: A New Approach to Solving the Robotic Adversarial Coverage Problem
  
• Michael Cashmore, Maria Fox, Derek Long, Daniele Magazzeni, Bram Ridder and Francesco Maurelli
  Dynamically Extending Planning Models using an Ontology
  
• Pablo Muñoz, Amedeo Cesta, Andrea Orlandini and Maria D. R-Moreno
  A Framework for Performance Assessment of Autonomous Robotic Controllers
  
• Andreas Hofmann and Paul Robertson
  Active Perception: Using Goal Context to Guide Sensing and Other Actions
  
• Jonathan Ferrer-Mestres, Guillem Francès and Hector Geffner
  Planning with State Constraints and its Application to Combined Task and Motion Planning
  
• Ty Nguyen and Tsz-Chiu Au
  Motion Planning for Arrival Time and Velocity Requirements on Non-homogeneous Terrains
  
• Weifeng Chen and Martin Müller
  Continuous Arvand: Motion Planning with Monte Carlo Random Walks
  
• Mark Roberts, Swaroop Vattam, Ron Alford, Bryan Auslander, Tom Apker, Benjamin Johnson and David Aha
  Goal Reasoning to Coordinate Robotic Teams for Disaster Relief
  
• Gal Kaminka.
  No robot is an island, no team an archipelago: Plan execution for cooperative multi-robot teams
  
• Dylan O'Ceallaigh and Wheeler Ruml
  Metareasoning for Concurrent Planning and Execution
  
• Tim Niemueller, Gerhard Lakemeyer and Alexander Ferrein
  The RoboCup Logistics League as a Benchmark for Planning in Robotics
  
• Breelyn Kane Styler and Reid Simmons
  Robust Efficient Robot Planning through Varying Model Fidelity
  
• Enrique Fernandez Gonzalez, Erez Karpas and Brian Williams
  Mixed Discrete-Continuous Heuristic Generative Planning based on Flow Tubes (extended version)
  
• Tathagata Chakraborti, Tony Zhang, David Smith and Subbarao Kambhampati
  Planning with Stochastic Resource Profiles: An Application to Human-Robot Co-habitation
  
• Tathagata Chakraborti, Gordon Briggs, Kartik Talamadupula, Matthias Scheutz, David Smith and Subbarao Kambhampati
  Planning for Serendipity
  
• Mouaddib Abdel-Illah, Laurent Jeanpierre and Shlomo Zilberstein
  Handling Advice in MDPs for Semi-Autonomous Systems
  

Call for Papers

This third edition of the PlanRob workshop has been proposed in synergy with the Robotics Track to further enforce the original goal and to maintain a more informal forum where also 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 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.

Important Dates

• Paper submission: February 20, 2015 EXTENDED: March 8, 2015.
• Notification of acceptance: TBD
• Workshop Date: June 7-8th, 2015

Submissions

There are two types of submissions: short position statements and regular papers. Position papers are a maximum of 4 (four) pages. Regular papers are a maximum of 12 (twelve) pages. Papers should be submitted via the PlanRob 2015 EasyChair website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=planrob2015 All papers should be typeset in the AAAI style, described at: http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php removing AAAI copyright. Accepted papers will be published on the workshop website and printed as a hard-copy.

The organizers will investigate the availability of journal editors in order to invite higher quality papers from the PlanRob 2015 edition to a special issue or post-proceedings volume.

Any additional questions can be directed towards the general workshop contact email: mailto:planrob2015@easychair.org

Organization Chairs

• Alberto Finzi, DIETI-UNINA, Italy
• Felix Ingrand, LAAS-CNRS, France
• AndreA Orlandini, CNR-ISTC, Italy

Program Committee (To be completed)

• Rachid Alami (LAAS-CNRS, France)
• Sara Bernardini (King's College, UK)
• Amedeo Cesta (CNR-ISTC, Italy)
• Marcelo Cirillo (Orebro University, Sweden)
• Alberto Finzi (Federico II University, Italy)
• Robert Fitch (University of Sydney, Australia)
• Maria Fox (King's College, UK)
• Malik Ghallab (LAAS-CNRS, France)
• Joachim Hertzberg (University of Osnabrueck, Germany)
• Felix Ingrand (LAAS-CNRS, France)
• Luca Iocchi (Sapienza University, Italy)
• Gal Kaminka (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
• Sven Koenig ( University of Southern California, USA)
• Jonas Kvarnstrom (Linköpings University, Sweden)
• Daniele Magazzeni (King's College, UK)
• Daniele Nardi (Sapienza University, Italy)
• Goldie Nejat (Toronto University, Canada)
• Andrea Orlandini (CNR-ISTC, Italy)
• Federico Pecora (Orebro University, Sweden)
• Frederic Py (MBARI, USA)
• Maria Dolores Rodriguez Moreno (Alcala University, Spain)
• Enrico Scala (ANU Research School in Computer Science, Australia)
• Siddarth Srivastava (Berkeley University, USA)
• Florent Teichteil (Onera, France)