Workshop Program

The workshop schedule follows:

July 16:

08:30-08:40Opening Remarks (Michael Beetz)
08:45-09:45Invited talk by Rachid Alami/LAAS
09:45-10:30Session
  • 09:45-10:05
Mohan Sridharan and Peter Stone - "Autonomous Planned Color Learning on a Mobile Robot Without Labeled Data"
  • 10:05-10:25
Mazda Ahmadi and Peter Stone - "Instance-Based Action Models for Fast Action Planning"
10:30-11:00coffee break
11:00-12:30Session
  • 11:00-11:20
Daniel Stronger and Peter Stone - "Expectation-Based Vision for Precise Self Localization on a Mobile Robot"
  • 11:20-11:40
Alistair Campbell and Debra Burhans - "A Layered Heterogeneous Cognitive Robotics Architecture"
  • 11:40-12:00
Albert Goldfain, Michael Kandefer, Stuart Shapiro and Josephine Anstey - "Co-Designing Agents"
  • 12:00-12:20
Albert Goldfain - "Embodied Enumeration: Appealing to Activities for Mathematical Explanation"
12:30-14:00lunch break
14:00-15:30Session
  • 14:00-14:20
Raul Arrabales Moreno and Araceli Sanchis de Miguel - "A Machine Consciousness Approach to Autonomous Mobile Robotics"
  • 14:20-14:40
Alexei Samsonovich, Giorgio Ascoli, Kenneth De Jong and Mark Coletti - "Integrated Hybrid Cognitive Architecture For a Virtual Roboscout"
  • 14:40-15:00
Rakesh Gupta and Trupti Devdas Nayak - "Classification of Composite Actions involving Interactions with Objects"
  • 15:00-15:20
Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, German Gonzalez and Matthew M. Loper - "Monocular Virtual Trajectory Estimation with Dynamical Primitives"
15:30-16:00coffee break
16:00-17:30Session
  • 16:00-16:20
Guy Hoffman and Cynthia Breazeal - "Robotic Partners' Bodies and Minds: An Embodied Approach to Fluid Human-Robot Collaboration"
  • 16:20-16:40
Rachid Alami, Raja Chatila, Aurélie Clodic, Sara Fleury, Matthieu Herrb, Vincent Montreuil and Emrah Akin Sisbot - "Towards Human-Aware Cognitive Robotics"
  • 16:40-17:00
Armin Mueller and Michael Beetz - "Designing and Implementing a Plan Library for a Simulated Household Robot"
  • 17:00-17:20
Gerald Fritz, Lucas Paletta, Georg Dorffner, Ralph Breithaupt and Erich Rome - "Learning Predictive Features in Affordance-based Robotic Perception Systems"
17:30-18:30Panel

July 17:
08:30-10:30Session
  • 08:30-08:50
Catherina Burghart, Christian Gaertner and Heinz Woern - "Cooperative Solving of a Children's Jigsaw Puzzle between Human and Robot: First Results"
  • 08:50-09:10
Jaesik Choi and Eyal Amir - "Factored Planning for Controlling a Robotic Arm: Theory"
  • 09:10-09:30
Alp Sardag and H.Levent Akin - "Kalman Based Temporal Difference Neural Networks for Policy Generation under Uncertainty (KBTDNN)"
  • 09:30-09:50
Tristram Southey and James Little - "Object Discovery through Motion, Appearance and Shape"
  • 09:50-10:10
Michael Freed and Will Fitzgerald - "An Unmanned Aerial System for Autonomous Surveillance"
  • 10:10-10:30
Aaron Sloman, Jeremy Wyatt, Nick Hawes, Jackie Chappell and Geert-Jan M. Kruijff - "Long Term Requirements for Cognitive Robotics"
10:30-11:00coffee break
11:00-12:30Session
  • 11:00-11:20
Chitta Baral, Juraj Dzifcak, Nam Tran and Jicheng Zhao - "Reasoning about Actions in Biophysical Systems"
  • 11:20-11:40
Stephen Block and Brian Williams - "Robust Execution of Contingent, Temporally Flexible Plans"
  • 11:40-12:00
Alexandra Goultiaeva and Yves Lespérance - "Incremental Plan Recognition in an Agent Programming Framework"