Representations and Reasoning for Robotics

Dear Colleagues,

As the field of robotics matures, the development of ever more intelligent robots becomes possible. However, robots deployed in homes, offices and other complex domains are faced with the formidable challenge of representing, revising and reasoning with incomplete domain knowledge about their capabilities, their environments, and how the former interacts with the latter.

Many algorithms have been developed for qualitatively and quantitatively representing and reasoning with knowledge and uncertainty. Unfortunately, research contributions in this area are fragmented, making it difficult for researchers with different expertise to share advances in their respective fields. The objective of this special issue is therefore to promote a deeper understanding of recent breakthroughs and challenges in knowledge representation and reasoning for robots. We are interested in efforts that integrate, or motivate an integration of algorithms for knowledge representation and/or commonsense reasoning, on one or more robots, in different application domains.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Knowledge acquisition and representation
• Symbolic and probabilistic representations
• Reasoning with incomplete knowledge
• Interactive and cooperative decision-making
• Learning and symbol grounding
• Qualitative representations and reasoning

We particularly encourage the submission of papers that ground these topics in research areas such as robot perception, human–robot (and multirobot) collaboration, and robot planning.

Dr. Nicola Bellotto
Dr. Nick Hawes
Dr. Mohan Sridharan
Prof. Dr. Daniele Nardi
Guest Editor

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