Workshop on Planning, Scheduling and Dependability in Safe Human-Robot Interactions

about the workshop

This workshop aims to bring together experts active in the field of planning and scheduling (P&S) and those active in human-robot interaction, with a particular emphasis on safety. The manufacturing sector is experiencing a paradigm shift from the traditional, heavy-duty robot operating separated from the human worker in a fenced area, to robots that work close to humans, adapting to their movements and even interacting with them. The workshop will explore potential applications of P&S to robots operating in a modern factory environment where human-robot interaction is used as a means for accelerating manufacturing whilst reducing costs.

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fields of interest

• Potential application of P&S to robots, within the programming framework, as well as the task and motion planners
• Emerging techniques within P&S that can be applied to robots
• Dependability of the P&S methods, which is critical within the context of safety for close human-robot interaction
• Validation and verification (V&V) and its interaction with P&S
• Advantages and challenges of using P&S and V&V for collaborative industrial robots, especially with regards to safety
• Building bridges between researchers in P&S, V&V and robotics, and providing a form to discuss relevant issues

call for papers

Paper submission: March 18, 2016
Reviews due: March 25, 2016
Notification to authors: April 1, 2016

Paper submission in PDF only, formatted in AAAI style. Refer to the authors instructions on theAAAI website for detailed formatting instructions and LaTeX style files. Final papers will be in the same format, keep them to at most 8+1 pages (8 pages + 1 for references).

We also welcome the submission of short position papers (at most 4 +1 pages).
Paper submission should be made through the workshopEasyChair website.