---------------------------------------------------------------------- POSTER SESSION CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- New Horizons in Cognitive Robotics and AI: Exploiting Recent Advances for Predictive Control and Prospective Interaction between Agents Friday 25 May, 2018 Brisbane, Australia (An ICRA 2018 workshop) URL: http://btcc.nagoya.riken.jp/icraworkshop2018/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission deadline: April 18th, 2018 Notification of acceptance: April 24th, 2018 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have resulted in a wide range of commercial and industrial applications. Coupled with developments in sensing technologies, AI has also seen important applications to robotics; especially in areas such as robot vision, mapping and localization. Despite these advances, the impact of AI to the area of robot behavior and control has been more modest. While AI based languages and tools for high-level robot control have been developed, nevertheless there is still considerable effort required to understand how to robustly embed these high-level control paradigms within low-level robot controllers and sensors. Robots are generally controlled with feedback control loops. Feedback control loops respond to environmental changes in real-time, coping with the uncertainty of the environment through controller robustness. One of the important characteristic of a strong coupling of AI and robot control is to control robot behaviors with predictions of future events beyond simple real-time responses to environmental changes. In this multi-disciplinary workshop, we will discuss the problem of integrating high-level and low-level robot control. This workshop represents a collaboration between the AI-based cognitive robotics community (CogRob) and members of the IEEE Technical Committee on Cognitive Robotics (CoRo). WORKSHOP AIMS This workshop aims to bring together researchers from a wide range of disciplines with an interest in robot behavior and control. The workshop is concerned with foundational research questions within cognitive robotics, as well as robotic system design and robotic applications that utilize AI methods. TOPICS We invite submissions of short research papers from all researchers and practitioners interested in AI and robotics, and their integration. Topics of interests include (but are not limited to) cognitive robotics, adaptive robotics, robot control, knowledge representation and reasoning, reasoning and robot planning under uncertainty, diagnostic reasoning, machine learning, symbol grounding, cognitive science, cognitive vision, perception, motion planning, human-robot interaction, and AI for robotics. We especially welcome discussions and demonstrations of robotic applications and implemented robotic systems that utilize AI methods. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Potential participants are invited to submit an extended abstract (i.e., a position paper describing specific questions and issues that the participants feel should be addressed; a demo paper describing a demonstration of a robotic application, system or tool; a technical communication aimed at describing recent developments, and new projects that are not ready for publication as regular papers). All papers will be presented at a poster session during the workshop. FORMATTING Submissions are accepted in PDF format only Submission format: - Extended abstract of up to 1 page. - Author names and authors affiriations should be included. - Papers must be submitted by the due date at the following EasyChair submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=horizons2018 PROCEEDINGS The workshop contributions will be available electronically. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTACT WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Shingo Shimoda, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan (shimoda[at]brain.riken.jp) David Rajaratnam, University of New South Wales, Australia (David.Rajaratnam[at]unsw.edu.au)