[meetings] ICRA'16 Workshop on AI for Long-term Autonomy: Second Call for Papers

[Lars Kunze]

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Call for papers

ICRA 2016 Workshop on AI for Long-term Autonomy
Monday, May 16, 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden

https://sites.google.com/site/icra2016ailta/
http://www.icra2016.org/

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Important dates

March 15th (UTC-12): Submission deadline
April 1st: Notification of acceptance
April 15th: Camera ready paper
May 16th: Workshop (full-day)

Authors are required to submit a 2-4 pages extended abstract or short paper in PDF. Please send the submission to ailta.icra2016@gmail.com

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Overview & Topics

Autonomous systems have a long history in the fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics. However, only through recent advances in technology has it been possible to create autonomous systems capable of operating in long-term, real-world scenarios. Examples include autonomous robots that operate outdoors on land, air, water, and space, and indoors in offices, care homes, and factories. Designing, developing, and maintaining autonomous systems that operate over long periods of time, i.e. weeks, months, or years, poses many challenges. In this workshop we will focus on such challenges for autonomous intelligent systems in long-term scenarios.

Related to this workshop are previous events that have been held at major robotics conferences (e.g. ICRA, Long-term Autonomy 2011-2014) and events on AI and Robotics (http://ai-robotics.wikispaces.com/events)

The aim of the AI for Long-term Autonomy (AI-LTA) workshop is to bring researchers from the AI and Robotics communities together to exchange ideas and discuss problems in the context of long-term autonomous systems.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Suitable representations for long-term, large-scale data
- Reasoning about environmental change
- Long-term mission planning and exploration
- State estimation in dynamic environments
- Lifelong learning and adaptation
- Context-dependent decision making
- Verification of long-term autonomous systems


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Invited Speakers

- Paul Newman, University of Oxford, UK
- Wolfram Burgard, University of Freiburg, Germany
- Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University, US 
- Joydeep Biswas, UMass Amherst, US
- Steve Chien, NASA JPL, US
- Kanna Rajan, University of Porto, Portugal
- Reid Simmons, Carnegie Mellon University, US 
- Nick Hawes, University of Birmingham, UK

Here is the tentative schedule: https://sites.google.com/site/icra2016ailta/program

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Submissions

We invite extended abstracts and short papers of 2-4 pages in the standard ICRA conference format. Submissions should describe AI techniques which are applied to problems relevant to autonomous systems in long-term scenarios. 

Submissions will be judged based on relevance to the workshop topics, technical quality, and novelty.

Authors of accepted papers are expected to give a lightning talk (2-3 minutes) and to present a poster at the workshop. A few selected papers will be presented by a 20 minute talk.

Please send the submission to ailta.icra2016@gmail.com

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Organizers

- Dr. Lars Kunze, University of Birmingham, UK
- Dr. Nick Hawes, University of Birmingham, UK
- Prof. Tom Duckett, University of Lincoln, UK
- Prof. Gabe Sibley, University of Colorado, US

For more information and for submissions please contact ailta.icra2016@gmail.com

This full-day workshop is supported by the IEEE Technical Committee on Cognitive
Robotics (http://www.ieee-coro.org/) and the European Union Seventh Framework Pro-
gramme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement No 600623, STRANDS (http://strands-project.eu/).