Robots have been applied in a large number of settings over the last decades. However the robots have typically been endowed with rather limited cognitive capabilities in terms of handling general environments and interaction with other agents. Recently there has been significant progress on design of systems that have extended autonomy, methods for acquisition of knowledge, reasoning about environments, tasks and actions and engaging in dialogues with users for task completion. The workshop will review current state of the art on cognitive systems and robotics and will provide an overview of current research on human-robot interaction, architectures, task and skill acquisition, perception and integration.

Spatial cognition
Space and object learning and recognition
Human-robot interaction
Learning
Cognitive architectures
Cognitive assistants
Decision-making

        Rachid Alami, LAAS-CNRS, France
        Ronald Arkin, Georgia Tech, USA
        Cynthia Breazeal, MIT, USA
        Raja Chatila, LAAS-CNRS, France
        Rüdiger Dillmann, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
        Patric Jensfelt, KTH, Sweden
        Ben Kröse, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
        Benjamin Kuipers, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
        Yasuo Kuniyoshi, University of Tokyo, Japan
        Nicholas Roy,  MIT, USA
        Alan C. Schultz, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
        Adriana Tapus, University of Southern California, USA
        Shrihari Vasudevan, EPFL, Switzerland

Room: Salon 8

   8:25 - 8:30   Welcome -  Introduction
   8:30 - 9:00   Behavioral Development for a Humanoid Robot: Towards Life-long human-robot partnerships. Ronald Arkin
   9:00 - 9:30   Towards a Cognitive Probabilistic Representation of Space for mobile robots. 
                        Shrihari Vasudevan, Viet Nguyen, Roland Siegwart.
   9:30-10:00   Cognitive Systems for Cognitive Assistants. Henrik I Christensen,  Patric Jensfelt
 10:00-10:30   The Hybrid Spatial Semantic Hierarchy: Factoring the Mapping Problem. Benjamin Kuipers
 10:30-11:00   Coffee Break
 11:00-11:30   From Sensor Data to Human Spatial Concepts: An Appearance-Based Approach. Ben Kröse, Zoran Zivkovic, Olaf Booij
 11:30:12:00   From Human-like Robot Navigation to Human-Robot Interaction. Adriana Tapus
 12:00-12:30  Model-Uncertainty Planning and Control. Nicholas Roy 
 12:30-14:00  Lunch Break
 14:00-14:30  Body Image Acquisition for Robotic Tool Use and Imitation. Yasuo Kuniyoshi
 14:30-15:00  Tracking and interpretation of human body motion. Rüdiger Dillmann, Steffen Knoop
 15:00-15:30  Toward Human-Aware Robot Task Planning. Rachid Alami
 15:30-16:00  Coffee Break 
 Common session with workshop WF1: Collaborative Human-Robot Teamwork 
 16:00-16:30  Using Computational Cognitive Models to Build Better Human-Robot Interaction. Alan C. Schultz, J. Gregory Trafton
 16:30-17:00  Socio-cognitive skills to support human-robot collaboration.  Cynthia Breazeal
 17:00-17:30  An Architecture for Cognitive Robots.  Raja Chatila
 17:30-18:00  Concluding discussion

Abstracts (pdf)

The COGNIRON project: http://www.cogniron.org
The COSY project: http://www.cognitivesystems.org

 Raja Chatila Raja.Chatila@laas.fr