AAAI 2023 Fall Symposium on “Unifying Representations for Robot Application Development” (UR-RAD)

July 11th, 2023 Daniela Lopez de Luise

We are inviting submissions and participation in the 2023 AAAI Symposium on Unifying Representations for Robot Application Development (UR-RAD). The symposium will take place on October 25-27, 2023, in Arlington, VA, USA.

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Key Information

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Behind any robot task or interaction is a formal representation that should (a) enable sufficient contextualization; (b) support any existing predefined, learned, and/or reusable skills onboard the robot; (c) be verifiable at design time and behave consistently at run-time; and (d) can be tested, executed, and modified for reuse on a variety of different robot morphologies. Representations have long played a pivotal role in robot application development. Examples include behavior trees, finite state machines, hierarchical task networks, and many, many others.

The problem is that there is a lack of consistency and uniformity in how these representations are selected and used by robotics researchers. The goals of the symposium will therefore be to (a) categorize current representational trends for robot application development, (b) discuss best practices for future adoption of languages, formal representations, development frameworks, etc. that integrate advances from the wider AI community, and (c) identify opportunities for collaboration between academia and industry.

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Submission Topics of Interest

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We invite submissions related, but not limited, to the following topics:

  • Existing representations for robot applications

  • Proposals for standardizing representations for robotics

  • Robot end-user development

  • Robot programming paradigms

  • Robot programming interfaces

  • Robot control interfaces and runtime environments

  • Standardized application development for different robot morphologies

  • Application development frameworks for robotics (e.g., ROS)

  • Formal methods in robotics

  • Representations, frameworks, and models for robot learning

  • AI planning for robotics

  • Open-source initiatives in robotics

  • Interfaces for human-robot interaction

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Submission Information

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  • Submissions: August 4th, 2023

  • Acceptance: September 15th, 2023

  • Camera Ready: October 9th, 2023

The submission link can be found on the symposium website. The submission format can be any of the following:

  • Regular Research Papers: (4-6 pages, AAAI double-column format) describing robotics work related to any of the themes above.

  • Artifact Papers: (4-6 pages, AAAI double-column format) describing artifacts (e.g., software tools or libraries) related to any of the themes above.

  • Position Papers: (2-4 pages, AAAI double-column format), directly discussing themes outlined above.

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Organizing Committee

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  • David Porfirio (US Naval Research Laboratory)

  • Ross Mead (Semio)

  • Laura M. Hiatt (US Naval Research Laboratory)

  • Mark Roberts (US Naval Research Laboratory)

  • Amin Atrash (Amazon Lab 126)

  • Nick DePalma (Independent Researcher)

  • Ruchen Wen (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)

  • Laura Stegner (University of Wisconsin–Madison)

Please send any questions about the workshop to urrad.symposium@gmail.com

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