NSF-Sponsored Workshop: Research Issues at at the Boundary of AI - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

robotics.cs.tamu.edu/nsfboundaryws Nancy Amato, Texas A&M (ICRA-15 Program Chair) Sven Koenig, USC (AAAI-15 Program Co-Chair) Dylan Shell, Texas A&M

NSF-Sponsored Workshop: Research Issues at at the Boundary of AI and Robotics

Year of “Shakey” Celebrations

 SRI, roughly 50 years ago  A* search algorithm  STRIPS  the Hough transform  …

[Wikipedia]

AAAI-15 (AAAI)

 2 Tutorials on robotics topics  2 Workshops on robotics topics (including this one)  Shakey celebration  Invited RSS spotlight talk and “What’s Hot” Talk on IROS  Robotics exhibition, including RoboCup demonstrations

(in cooperation with the RoboCup Federation)

 10 Robotics: Science and Systems 2014 presentations  13 Robotics fellowship student talks

AAAI-15

 We hope that you will consider exploring AAAI-15!

There is an open house tomorrow that everyone can attend (even if not registered for AAAI-15).

 Download guidebook (guidebook.com/getit)  Redeem code: aaai15

ICRA-15 (IEEE RAS)

 Shakey celebration

 2 Conference keynotes  Planned panel discussion  2 Conference sessions with 16 papers

at the intersection of AI and robotics

 Travel funding for participating AI students

RSS-15 (RSS Foundation)

 Planned Shakey workshop on

“The Role of AI to Harmonize Robots and Humans”  Blue sky idea contest for students with travel funding

AI and Robotics

Artificial Intelligence

AAAI, IJCAI, ICAPS (with robotics track), AAMAS (with robotics track), …

Robotics

ICRA, IROS, RSS, …

AI and Robotics

[Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach]

AI and Robotics

[Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach]

Core AI

Multi-Robot Path Planning

 Multi-Robot Path Planning – Multi-Agent Path Planning

A A’ B B’ C C’ D D’ Get robot A to A’ Get robot B to B’ Get robot C to C’ Get robot D to D’

[www.ilex-press.com]

AAAI 2012 Workshop on Multi-Agent Pathfinding

AI and Robotics

 AAAI 2011: roughly 1,000 submissions, 25% accepted  AAAI 2015: roughly 2,000 submissions, 27% accepted  ICRA 2012: about 2,000 submissions, 40% accepted  ICRA 2014: about 2,100 submissions, 43% accepted

[www.adaptivebox.net/CILib/CICON_stat.html and other sources]

Workshop Outcome

 List of recommendations to

 funding agencies,  professional organizations and  individual researchers

 how to push the boundary of AI and robotics  The resulting roadmap will be made available to the public via

the world wide web as well as distributed to funding agencies and within AAAI and IEEE RAS.

Workshop Participants

 Invited speakers

 Robotics: ICRA-15 SPC meeting in College Station  AI: Likely AAAI-15 attendees in Austin

 Open call among AAAI-15 attendees and AAAI members

Position Statements and Talks

 What do you see as particular research areas that stand to benefit

most from the collaboration of AI and robotics researchers? What specific problems do you feel lie at the boundary between AI and robotics? How can these be tackled, and the boundary pushed?

 What particular activities could bring these communities of

researchers together? Do you have ideas for the way the various stakeholders such as funding agencies, professional organizations and individual researchers should play a role?

 Do you have recommendations, such as possible challenge

problems or task-force activities, which could solidify various efforts?

 28 position statements: robotics.cs.tamu.edu/nsfboundaryws

Agenda

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9:15 Lightning talks from invited speakers (7 minutes each)

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9:45 Funding agency session (7 minutes each)

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10:00 Lightning talks from invited speakers (7 minutes each)

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10:30 Coffee Break

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11:00 Lightning talks from invited speakers (7 minutes each)

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12:00 Panel: "Research at the boundary of AI & Robotics: Lessons from the past"

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12:30 Lunch

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1:30 Lightning talks from invited speakers (7 minutes each)

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2:15 Open Forum (= open mic session for all attendees)

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2:45 Concurrent breakout discussions

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Recommendations for professional organizations & funding agencies

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New challenge problems

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Identification of task-force activities to solidify efforts

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3:30 Coffee Break

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4:00 Breakout summaries and report back

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4:30 Final Wrap-up

Funding Agencies

 Program directors present

 Lynne Parker — National Science Foundation  Ben Knott — AFOSR