Call for Papers The Fifth International Cognitive Robotics Workshop (AAAI-06 Workshop on Cognitive Robotics) http://cogrob06.cs.tum.edu July 16-17, 2006 Boston, Massachusetts, USA Workshop Description: -------------------- Research in robotics has traditionally emphasized low-level sensing and control tasks including sensory processing, path planning, and manipulator design and control. In contrast, research in cognitive robotics is concerned with endowing robots and software agents with higher level cognitive functions that enable them to reason, act and perceive in changing, incompletely known, and unpredictable environments in a robust manner. Such robots must, for example, be able to reason about goals, actions, resources (linear and/or non-linear, discrete and/or continuous, replinishable or expendable), when to perceive and what to look for, the cognitive states of other agents, time, collaborative task execution, etc. In short, cognitive robotics is concerned with integrating reasoning, perception and action with a uniform theoretical and implementation framework. The use of both software robots (softbots) and robotic artifacts in everyday life is on the upswing and we are seeing increasingly more examples of their use in society with commercial products around the corner and some already onthe market. As interaction with humans increases, so does the demand for sophisticated robotic capabilities associated with deliberation and high-level cognitive functions. Combining results from the traditional robotics discipline withthose from AI and cognitive science has and will continue to be central to research in cognitive robotics. This workshop aims at bringing together researchers involved in all aspects of cognitive robots, and discussing cur-rent work and future directions. While all aspects of cognitive robotics are of interest to the workshop, we especially welcome discussions and demonstrations of implemented systems, lessons learned from deployed systems in the real world, developments in cognitive psychology and neuro-science relevant for developing more powerful computational models of cognition, and on the interplay of cognitive robotics with engineering fields such as control theory, mecatronics and modern sensing technologies. Submission information: ---------------------- Potential participants are invited to submit either * a full length technical paper * a statement of interest with a position paper For the sake of uniformity, all technical papers should follow the AAAI 2006 style guide and should be no longer than 8 pages in camera ready format. Author names should be included. Please refer to the AAAI style guide for details. Please disregard the AAAI submission instructions on this page. Simply retrieve the style files from this page and send the final formatted version to cogrob06@cs.tum.edu. Others wishing to attend should submit a 1-2 page description of their work or interest in this area (including a short list of related publications). This may include specific questions and issues that they feel should be addressed. Authors who would like to participate in systems demonstrations (either live, simulated, or video-taped) should indicate their audio-visual and/or computer needs at the time of submission. If the quality of the submissions is sufficiently high, we may look into the possibility of publishing extended versions of selected articles in a special journal issue. All submissions must arrive by April 17 (extended deadline), 2006. Only electronic submissions will be accepted and all papers must be in PDF format. All submissions should be sent to cogrob06@cs.tum.edu Organizers: ---------- Michael Beetz (contact) Dept of Computer Science Technische Universitaet Muenchen D-85748 Garching Germany beetz@in.tum.de www9.in.tum.de/people/beetz Kanna Rajan Monterey Bay Acquarium Research Institute (MBARI) Monterey, Ca USA kanna.rajan@mbari.org www.mbari.org/staff/kanna Michael Thielscher Dept of Computer Science Dresden University of Technology D-01062 Dresden Germany mit@inf.tu-dresden.de www.cl.inf.tu-dresden.de/~mit Important Dates: --------------- Extended Submission Deadline: April 17, 2006 Submission Deadline: March 31, 2006 Notification of Acceptance: May 8, 2006 Submission of camera ready copies: June 1, 2006