[Event at CIG] [meetings] AAAI-23 Bridge Session on AI & Robotics

[AndreA Orlandini]

Apologies for multiple copies

*                           AAAI 2023 - Bridge Program
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https://aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI-23/bridge-program/

**                   Bridge Session on *AI and Robotics
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https://www.istc.cnr.it/en/content/aaai-23-bridge-session-artificial-intelligence-and-robotics***
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                                 Part of the

*Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 
<https://aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI-23/>*
*February 7 - 14 2023 Washington, DC, USA.*

*CONTEXT*
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics are strongly connected areas 
since the early days of AI. On the one hand, AI principles and methods 
play a crucial role in several areas of Robotics research and are 
pervasively exploited at various levels of robot architectures. On the 
other hand, Robotics provides several relevant challenges for the AI 
community where different AI methods and tools requires to be deeply 
integrated to obtain an embodied agent capable of an autonomous, 
adaptive and interactive behavior. In this direction, the scientific 
relevance of this proposal is related to how diverse areas of AI and 
Robotics research can be integrated to enable robots to face complex 
challenges in real-world tasks.

Notwithstanding the shared challenges and the widespread of learning and 
statistical methods in robotics, the AI and Robotics communities still 
need to further interact to integrate methods that are still not fully 
exploited. In particular, the integration of symbolic and sub-symbolic 
models and methods with different levels of abstraction are needed to 
face many relevant issues (e.g., combined task and motion planning, 
neuro-symbolic learning, task teaching, collaborative task execution, 
etc.) that require a strict collaboration between the two communities.

Some initiatives have already been started to create a stable, long-term 
forum where researchers from both AI and Robotics communities can openly 
discuss relevant issues such as research and development progress, 
future directions and open challenges related to AI methods in Robotics. 
A notable venue is the International Conference on Automated Planning 
and Scheduling (ICAPS) workshop series on Planning and Robotics (PlanRob 
[1]). Started during ICAPS 2013, in Rome (Italy), and followed by 
editions at every ICAPS from 2014 to 2021, the PlanRob Workshop series 
has gathered excellent feedback from the P&S community, as also 
confirmed by the organisation of a Special Track on Robotics starting 
with ICAPS 2014. On the Robotics side, a version of the PlanRob series 
was held at ICRA 2017 in Singapore (top conference for the IEEE Robotics 
and Automation Society). Some related events were also organized at the 
European Robotic Forum [2] (promoted by the European Commission)  to 
present results and challenges in EU-funded projects.

After such time, technological developments allow embedded devices to 
run complex algorithms and be more effective, a wide diffusion of data 
is enabling opportunities for ground-breaking impact from learning 
techniques when applied to robots and an increasing number of AI & 
Robotics results are being collected facilitating the deployment of 
intelligent robots in many applicative fields.

*AIM OF THE BRIDGE SESSION*
The goal of this Bridge Session is to keep fostering the interactions 
already ongoing within PlanRob and further stabilize such common ground 
where researchers can confront and broaden research frontiers, identify 
most crucial challenges and pave the way towards a shared research 
agenda. Gathering notable representatives from both communities in a 
unique venue contributes in achieving such objective and allow them to 
share their knowledge and expertise as well as take advantage of 
different perspectives.

*EXPECTED CONTRIBUTIONS AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS*
We look for*position papers*to discuss ideas and concepts, e.g., via 
critiques or new perspectives in AI and Robotics, historical 
perspectives and analysis. Some relevant areas are, e.g., long-term 
autonomy and robot learning, neural symbolic approach, task teaching, 
cognitive robotics, human-robot interaction, open world planning and 
acting, explainable AI in robotics, reliable and safe AI methods for 
robotics, technological and integration challenges. The list is no 
limited to the above areas and additional topics may be proposed by 
contributors.

We are also looking for*tutorial*, a*survey**presentation*or an 
integrated*application**showcase*proposals on (new) cross-disciplinary 
AI & Robotics topics, with a shared focus, and to engage and educate new 
researchers, as well as established researchers. The goal is also to 
set common grand challenges while discussing fundamental problems 
and educating each other about respective tools.

Both*position papers*and**proposals for *tutorial, survey presentation 
or application showcase *can be (max) 4 pages in AAAI style (plus up to 
one page of references).

*ENVISAGED STRUCTURE*
This session will be a one-day long event and it will be structured as a 
sequence discussion sessions, tutorials and interactive discussions to 
confront ideas and synthesize common views. A poster session will be 
organized to allow the presentation of open contributions and further 
stimulate the general discussion. A final panel session will aim to 
select the most crucial elements and identify a possible common research 
agenda for future steps.

Link to submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aaaiairob23

Link to style 
files:https://www.aaai.org/Publications/Templates/AnonymousSubmission23.zip

*IMPORTANT DATES*
Contribution submission due: November 18, 2022
AAAI early registration deadline: December 12, 2022
Bridge Sessions at AAAI-23: 7-8 February, 2023


Organizers

Arthur Bit-Monnot, LAAS-CNRS, France

Alberto Finzi, University of Naples Federico II, Italy

AndreA Orlandini, National Research Council of Italy


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