Cognitive Robotics

Papers from the 2006 AAAI Workshop

Michael Beetz, Kanna Rajan, Michael Thielscher, and Radu Bogdan Rusu, Program Cochairs

Technical Report WS-06-03
Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California

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Sample Citation

Jones, Gareth F. 2006. Integrated Intelligent Knowledge Management. In Cognitive Robotics: Papers from the AAAI Workshop: Papers from the 2006 AAAI Workshop, ed. Michael Beetz, Kanna Rajan, Michael Thielscher, and Radu Bogdan Rusu, 24-31. Technical Report WS-06-03. American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Menlo Park, California.

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Contents

Preface / vii
Michael Beetz, Kanna Rajan, Michael Thielscher, and Radu Bogdan Rusu

Organizing Committee / vii
Michael Beetz, Kanna Rajan, Michael Thielscher, and Radu Bogdan Rusu

Instance-Based Action Models for Fast Action Planning / 1
Mazda Ahmadi and Peter Stone

Towards Human-Aware Cognitive Robots / 9
Rachid Alami, Raja Chatila, Aurélie Clodic, Sara Fleury, Matthieu Herrb, Vincent Montreuil, and Emrah Akin Sisbot

Reasoning about Actions in Biophysical Systems / 17
Chitta Baral, Juraj Dzifcak, Nam Tran, and Jicheng Zhao

Robust Execution of Contingent, Temporally Flexible Plans / 25
Stephen A. Block and Brian C. Williams

Cooperative Solving of a Children's Jigsaw Puzzle between Human and Robot: First Results / 33
Catherina Burghart, Christian Gaertner, and Heinz Woern

A Layered Heterogeneous Cognitive Robotics Architecture / 40
Alistair E. R. Campbell and Debra T. Burhans

Factored Planning for Controlling a Robotic Arm: Theory / 47
Jaesik Choi and Eyal Amir

An Unmanned Aerial System for Autonomous Surveillance / 55
Michael Freed, Will Fitzgerald, and Robert Harris

Learning Predictive Features in Affordance-based Robotic Perception Systems / 61
Gerald Fritz, Lucas Paletta, Georg Dorffner, Ralph Breithaupt, and Erich Rome

Embodied Enumeration: Appealing to Activities for Mathematical Explanation / 69
Albert Goldfain

Co-Designing Agents / 77
Albert Goldfain, Michael W. Kandefer, Stuart C. Shapiro, and Josephine Anstey

Incremental Plan Recognition in an Agent Programming Framework / 83
Alexandra Goultiaeva and Yves Lespérance

Classification of Composite Actions Involving Interaction with Objects / 91
Rakesh Gupta and Trupti Devdas Nayak

Robotic Partners’ Bodies and Minds: An Embodied Approach to Fluid Human-Robot Collaboration / 95
Guy Hoffman and Cynthia Breazeal

Monocular Virtual Trajectory Estimation with Dynamical Primitives / 103
Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, Germán González, and Matthew M. Loper

A Machine Consciousness Approach to Autonomous Mobile Robotics / 111
Raúl Arrabales Moreno and Araceli Sanchis de Miguel

Designing and Implementing a Plan Library for a Simulated Household Robot / 119
Armin Müller and Michael Beetz

Integrated Hybrid Cognitive Architecture for a Virtual Roboscout / 129
Alexei V. Samsonovich, Giorgio A. Ascoli, Kenneth A. De Jong, and Mark A. Coletti

Kalman Based Temporal Difference Neural Networks for Policy Generation under Uncertainty (KBTDNN) / 135
Alp Sardag and H. Levent Akin

Gestures Reflect Cognitive as Well as Interactional Capacities (position paper) / 141
Candace L. Sidner and Christopher Lee

Long Term Requirements for Cognitive Robotics / 143
Aaron Sloman, Jeremy Wyatt, Nick Hawes, Jackie Chappell, and Geert-Jan M. Kruijff

Object Discovery through Motion, Appearance and Shape / 151
Tristram Southey and James J. Little

Autonomous Planned Color Learning on a Mobile Robot without Labeled Data / 159
Mohan Sridharan and Peter Stone

Expectation-Based Vision for Precise Self-Localization on a Mobile Robot / 167
Daniel Stronger and Peter Stone