LOC 2014 - Workshop on Learning Plans with Context From Human Signals

RSS Workshop on Learning Plans with Context From Human Signals
July 13, 2014 -AT- Berkeley, California, USA (full day)
In conjunction with the Robotics Science and Systems (RSS) 2014.
WEBSITE: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/conferences/ashesh/rss20...
***This workshop aims at a broader audience and will bring together people from machine learning, planning and HRI communities.
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION / CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS:
Human environments such as homes, warehouses and offices are
very rich with the context of the objects and humans present and
the task to be performed. Robots should incorporate this rich context
and plan human-preferred motions. Furthermore, the robots should learn from
different kinds of human feedback, which can range from optimal
demonstrations to sub-optimal incremental signals. From an HRI perspective,
signals come in various forms and we need new machine learning techniques
to use these signals for meaningful motion planning. Through this workshop
we bring together people from the areas of machine learning, planning
and HRI to discuss how robots can learn to plan and act in context-rich
human environments.
TOPICS of interest include, but not limited to:
* Learning from user feedback
* Understanding contextual information to plan desirable paths/trajectories
* Learning from Demonstration and imitation learning
* Beyond Imitation: Apprenticeship and self-improvement
* Overcoming computational limitations by leveraging learning and human expertise
* Path Planning
* Human robot collaboration
* Planning in Competition
* Planning in Semi-Autonomy
* Intent Inference
* Learning from large scale user data and its advantages in generalizing to new situations
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SPEAKERS:
Pieter Abbeel, University of California Berkeley
Alan Fern, Oregon State University
Manuel Lopes, INRIA
Maja Mataric, University of Southern California
Julie Shah, MIT
Andrea Thomaz, Georgia Institute of Technology
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SUBMISSIONS DETAILS:
Electronic submissions can be in the form of both extended abstracts
(2-3 pages) and full papers (up to 8 pages). They can be either a
presentation of work in progress or a summary of recent research
advances. Video supplemental materials are encouraged. Selected
contributions will be presented at the workshop as talks, spotlights
and/or posters. Accepted papers will not be archived.
Papers, abstracts and supplemental materials can be submitted at:
https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/LPCHS2014
Note that the reviews will not be double blind -- please include the
authors and affiliations in your submission. And we are allowing
submissions up to 8 pages in length.
The submissions should be in the standard RSS format. Instructions and
templates (Latex and Word) can be found on the RSS 2014 website:
http://www.roboticsconference.org/authors.html
We encourage the submissions of live demos and working systems. A demo
submission should be in the format of an extended abstract with
recorded videos, under the DEMO category, separate from the main paper
if any. Given sufficient interests, a special demo session will be
organized at the workshop.
IMPORTANT DATES:
* Deadline for submissions: June 10th, 2014
* Notification of acceptance: June 25th, 2014
* Workshop: July 13th, 2014
ORGANIZERS:
Drew Bagnell, CMU
Ashesh Jain, Cornell University
Jan Peters, TU Darmstadt
Ashutosh Saxena, Cornell University