PlanRob 2015 - Workshop on Planning and Robotics

Robotics is one of the most appealing and natural applicative area for the Planning and Scheduling (P&S) research activity, however such a natural interest seems not reflected in an equally important research production for the Robotics community. In this perspective, the aim of the PlanRob workshop is twofold. On the one hand, this workshop would constitute a fresh impulse for the ICAPS community to develop its interests and efforts towards this challenging research area. On the other hand, it aims at attracting representatives from the Robotics community to discuss their challenges related to planning for autonomous robots (deliberative, reactive, continuous planning and execution etc.) as well as their expectations from the P&S community.
The PlanRob workshop aims at constituting a stable, long-term forum on relevant topics concerned with the interactions between Robotics and P&S communities where researchers could discuss about the opportunities and challenges of P&S when applied to Robotics.
Started during ICAPS 2013 in Rome (Italy) and followed by the second edition at ICAPS 2014 in Portsmouth (NH, USA), the PlanRob WS series (http://pst.istc.cnr.it/planrob/) has gathered very good feedback from the P&S community which is also confirmed by the organisation of a specific Robotics Track at ICAPS 2014 chaired by Felix Ingrand and Leslie Kaelbling (http://icaps14.icaps-conference.org/specialtracks/...) and also this year at ICAPS 2015 chaired by Reid Simmons and Micheal Beetz (http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/ icaps15/tracks/robotics.html).
Call for Papers
This third edition of the PlanRob workshop has been proposed in synergy with the Robotics Track to further enforce the original goal and to maintain a more informal forum where also more preliminary/visionary work can be discussed as well as more direct and open interactions/discussions may find the right place. Finally, even less mature works may find space, benefit of suitable feedback and contribute to stimulate discussions.
Topics of interest include, but not limited to:
planning domain representations for robotics applications;
robot motion, path, and mission planning;
integrated planning and execution in robotic architectures;
planning and coordination methods for multi-robots;
mixed-initiative planning and sliding autonomy for robotic systems;
human-aware planning and execution in human-robot interaction;
adversarial action planning in competitive robotic domains;
formal methods for robot planning and control;
P&S methods for optimization and adaptation in robotics;
benchmark planning domains for robots;
real-world planning applications for autonomous robots.