Objectives

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Situated agents must be able to rapidly create new concepts and react to unanticipated situations in the light of previously acquired knowledge by making generative use of experience utilizing predictive processes. This process is largely driven by internal models based on prior experience. Such agents must also be able to help and learn from others by sharing these generative, experience based theories through teaching and interaction.

The goal of the workshop is to bring together theoreticians and practitioners of robotics who are attempting to develop methods to bridge the gap from raw sensorimotor data to abstract conceptualizations of experience and to then exploit those concepts to guide robot behavior.

Topics of interest:

• Innate (or core) knowledge vs. learning from experience
• Parsing of sensorimotor data
• Languages (and grammars) for perception, actuation and communication
• Biological inspiration for affordance processes
• Ontology construction and exploitation
• Structural bootstrapping and generative models
• Physical interaction and world exploration
• Lessons learnt from AI and robotics research

Program

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8:45	Tom Henderson, University of Utah, USA Welcome
9:00	Florentin Wörgötter, University of Göttingen, Germany A Platform Independent Manipulation Library using the Grammar of Semantic Object-action Relations
9:30	Aaron Bobick, Georgia Tech, USA Structured representations of action for probabilistic perception in human-robot collaboration
10:00	Rüdiger Dillmann, Karslruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Programming by Demonstraiton of Planning Models
10:30	Coffee Break
11:00	Rod Grupen, University of Massachusetts, USA Representing and Exploiting Cumulative Experience with Objects for Autonomous Manipulation
11:30	Leslie Kaebling, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Learning How the World Works
12:00	Tetsunari Inamura, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Robotic Coaching System: Behavior Recognition and Demonstration for Human-Robot Cooperation
12:30	Lunch Break
14:00	Tom Henderson, University of Utah, USA Symmetry Bundles as Affordances
14:30	Norbert Krüger, The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute University of Southern Denmark Structural Bootstrapping on the Sensory-motor Level in a Deep Visual Hierarchy
15:00	Mike Stilman, Georgia Tech, USA Merging Abstract and Randomized Planning in Belief Space
15:30	Coffee Break
16:00	Tamim Asfour, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany It's All about Force
16:30	Discussion and Conclusions Tom Henderson, Mike Stilman, Tamim Asfour
17:30	End