***** CALL FOR PAPERS ***** PLANNING UNDER UNCERTAINTY IN ROBOTICS A Special Issue Of Robotics and Autonomous Systems
http://staff.science.uva.nl/~vlassis/ras06.html ***** Deadline: October 15, 2005 ***** DESCRIPTION: The Reasoning with Uncertainty in Robotics (RUR-05) workshop held at IJCAI'05 brought together researchers from the AI and the robotics community. Like previous editions of the RUR workshop, this workshop welcomed new ideas on ways to deal with uncertainty in standard robotic problems, including mapping, sensing and localization. In addition, this year we proposed a special theme for the workshop: Planning under Uncertainty in Robotics. Many expressive models currently exist for dealing with single- and multi-agent planning under uncertainty (MDPs, POMDPs, PSRs, POSGs, factored representations, etc.) and several efficient techniques have been proposed for solving them (approximate dynamic programming, compression methods, policy search methods, etc.). Of particular interest are the following questions: (1) Which of the existing methods for planning under uncertainty are well suited for solving large-scale robotic planning tasks? (2) How can existing planning methods from AI be integrated with methods for solving traditional robot tasks like localization and map building? (3) What new techniques are needed that can effectively deal with the continuous and high-dimensional state, action, and observation spaces typically involved in a robotic application? We are now soliciting papers for a special issue of Robotics and Autonomoous Systems on the topic of Planning under Uncertainty in Robotics. Workshop presenters are encouraged to submit a revised (possibly expanded) version of their workshop paper. Researchers who did not attend the workshop are also welcome to submit relevant work. Potential topics include: Representations for dealing with uncertainty in robotics. Handling continuous state/action/observation spaces. Single- and multi-robot planning under motion and sensor noise. Simultaneous planning, localization, and map building (SPLAM). Dealing with dynamic environments. Successful applications. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Prospective authors should follow standard formatting for Robotics and Autonomous Systems (20 pages maximum). Submissions should be sent directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] by October 15. Any questions can also be directed to the same address. Further information at: http://staff.science.uva.nl/~vlassis/ras06.html Submission Deadline: October 15, 2005 Decisions to authors: December 15, 2006 Revised papers due: January 15, 2006 CO-EDITORS: Nikos Vlassis, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Geoff Gordon, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, USA Joelle Pineau, McGill University, Montreal, Canada _______________________________________________ uai mailing list [email protected] https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
