[agents] Call for Participation - Workshop on Planning and Robotics - International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling - ICAPS 2020

Fri Oct 16 06:15:52 EDT 2020

Apologies for multiple copies

We are glad to invite you to attend the 8th ICAPS workshop on Planning 
and Robotics (PlanRob 2020).

The event will be an online virtual event and the program is full of 
interesting papers.
The workshop program is also enriched by a keynote talk of Rachid Alami 
(LAAS-CNRS) on
"Planning and Controlling Human-Robot Joint Activities".

You may find more details about the program on the workshop web page and 
just below.

Thanks for your attention

Best,
AndreA Orlandini, Alberto Finzi, Michael Cashmore
PlanRob 2020 Chairs

                          ** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION **

                 8th ICAPS Workshop on Planning and Robotics
                                     (PlanRob‚ 2020)

https://icaps20subpages.icaps-conference.org/workshops/planrob/

                                ICAPS 2020 Workshop
                             (Virtually in) Nancy, France
                              June 22 and June 23, 2020
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Program   (Schedule in CET)
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22 October 2020

12:00-12:15 PlanRob: Welcome and Introduction

*12:15-13:20 Keynote talk by Rachid Alami – “Planning and Controlling 
Human-Robot Joint Activities”*

Session “Robots in Logistics”
13:20-13:40 Fabian Maas Genannt Bermpohl and Andreas Bresser.
Towards Autonomous Intralogistics: A Testbed Environment for the 
Coordination of a Robotic Fleet
13:40-14:00 Marco De Bortoli and Gerald Steinbauer.
The RoboCup Logistics League from a Planning Perspective

14:00-14:30 Break

Session “Robots in Extreme Environments (1/2)”
14:30-14:50 Robert Morris, Emma Zemler, Shaun Azimi, Kevin Chang and 
Jeremy Frank.
Integrating Task Planning with Robust Execution for Autonomous Robotic 
Manipulation in Space
14:50-15:10 Daniel Wang, Joseph A. Russino, Connor Basich and Steve A. 
Chien.
Using Flexible Execution, Replanning, and Model Parameter Updates to 
Address Environmental Uncertainty for a Planetary Lander
15:10-15:30 Filip Klaesson, Petter Nilsson, Tiago Stegun Vaquero, Scott 
Tepsuporn, Aaron D. Ames and Richard M. Murray.
Planning and Optimization for Multi-Robot Planetary Cave Exploration 
under Intermittent Connectivity Constraints
15:30-15:50 Sarah Bhaskaran, Jagriti Agrawal, Steve Chien and Wayne Chi.
Using a Model of Scheduler Runtime to Improve the Effectiveness of 
Scheduling Embedded in Execution

15:50-16:20 Break

Session “Task, Path and Motion Planning (1/2)
16:20-16:40 Valentin Noah Hartmann, Ozgur Oguz and Marc Toussaint.
Planning Planning: The Path Planner as a Finite State Machine
16:40-17:00 Or Wertheim, Ronen I. Brafman, Shashank Shekhar, Tal Feiner 
and Igal Pinsky.
ROS-POMDP – A Platform for Robotics Planning using PLPs and RDDL in ROS

Session “Human-Robot Interaction”
17:00-17:20 Stefan-Octavian Bezrucav and Burkhard Corves.
Improved AI Planning for Cooperating Teams of Humans and Robots
17:20-17:40 Tianyi Gu, Momotaz Begum, Naiqian Zhang, Dongpeng Xu, Sajay 
Arthanat and Dain LaRoche.
Adaptive Software Framework for Dementia-care Robot

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Session “Robot Planning with uncertainty”
12:00-12:20 Marcus Hoerger, Hanna Kurniawati and Alberto Elfes.
A Software Framework for Planning under Partial Observability
12:20-12:40 Jan Vermaelen, Hoang Tung Dinh and Tom Holvoet.
A Survey on Probabilistic Planning and Temporal Scheduling with Safety 
Guarantees
12:40-13:00 Alexander Kovalchuk and Ronen Brafman.
Verifying Plans and Scripts for Robotics Tasks Using Performance Level 
Profiles
13:00-13:20 Kaiyu Zheng and Stefanie Tellex.
pomdp_py: A Framework to Build and Solve POMDP Problems

13:20-14:00 Break

Session “Robots in Extreme environments (2/2)”
14:00-14:20 Andrew Branch, James Mason and Steve Chien.
Golden Section Search for Single Beacon Homing
14:20-14:40 James Mason, Andrew Branch, Guangyu Xu, Michael Jakuba, 
Christopher German, Steve Chien, Andrew Bowen, Kevin Hand and Jeffrey 
Seewald.
Evaluation of AUV Search Strategies for the Localization of Hydrothermal 
Venting

Session “Task, Path and Motion Planning (2/2)”
14:40-15:00 Balazs Nemeth and Andras Kovacs.
Robot Path Planning over a Sequence of Points Speciﬁed in Task Space
15:00-15:20 Nicolò Botteghi, Khaled Mustafa, Beril Sirmacek and Mannes Poel.
Entropy-Based Exploration for Mobile Robot Navigation: A Learning-Based 
Approach
15:20-15:40 Sarah Keren, Michael Cashmore, Gerard Canal and Daniele 
Magazzeni.
Task-Aware Waypoint Sampling for Planning Robots
15:40-16:00 Bhargav Adabala and Zlatan Ajanovic.
A Multi-Heuristic Search-based Motion Planning for Autonomous Parking

16:00-16:20 Workshop Conclusion

DIRECT ACCESS (not-so-short) LINK:
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