Learning in Autonomous Robots
Guest editors: Henry Hexmoor and Maja Mataric
Joint special issue of
Autonomous Robots Journal, Vol. 5, No. 3-4, Jul/Aug
1998
and
Machine Learning Journal, Vol. 31, No. 1-3
The issue is in-press.
Autonomous Robots is an international journal published by Kluwer Academic Publishers;
Editor-in-Chief: George Bekey, USC Robotics Research Laboratory.
Machine Learning is an international journal published by Kluwer Academic Publishers;
Editor-in-Chief: Thomas Dietterich, Oregon State University.
Call For Papers
Current applications of machine learning in robotics explore learning
behaviors such as obstacle avoidance, navigation, gaze control, pick
and place operations, manipulating everyday objects, walking,
foraging, herding, and delivering objects. It is hoped that these are
first steps toward robots that will learn to perform complex
operations ranging from folding clothes, cleaning up toxic waste and
oil spills, picking up after the children, de-mining, look after a summer
house, imitating a human teacher, or overseeing a factory or a space
mission.
As builders of autonomous embedded agents, researchers in robot
learning deal with learning schemes in the context of physical
embodiment. Strides are being made to design programs that change
their initial encoding of know-how to include new concepts as well as
improvements in the associations of sensing to acting. Driven by
concerns about the quality and quantity of training data and real-time
issues such as sparse and low-quality feedback from the environment,
robot learning is undergoing a search for quantification and
evaluation mechanisms, as well as for methods for scaling up the
complexity of learning tasks.
This special issue of Autonomous Robots will focus on novel robot
learning applications and quantification of learning in autonomous
robots. We are soliciting papers describing finished work preferably
involving real manipulator or mobile robots. We invite submissions
from all areas in AI and Machine Learning, Mobile Robotics, Machine
Vision, Dexterous Manipulation, and Artificial Life that address robot
learning.
We expected submitted papers to be delivered by September 1, 1997.
Manuscripts were expected to be typed or laser-printed in English
(with American spelling preferred) and double-spaced. Both paper and
electronic submission are possible, as described below.
All correspondences should be directed to:
Dr. Henry Hexmoor
Department of Computer Science
University of North Dakota
Corner of University and Tulane
Grand Forks, ND 58201-5548
PHONE: (701) 777-2891 (office)
(701) 787-5682 (home)
FAX: (701) 777-3330
For electronic submissions, use Postscript format, ftp the file to
ftp.cs.und.edu, and send an
email notification to hexmoor@cs.und.edu
Detailed ftp instructions:
compress your-paper (both Unix compress and gzip commands are ok)
ftp ftp.cs.und.edu (but check in case it has changed)
give anonymous as your login name
give your e-mail address as password
set transmission to binary (just type the command BINARY)
cd to incoming
put your-paper
send me an email notification
(hexmoor@cs.und.edu) to let
me know you transferred the paper
Editoral Board:
- James Albus, NIST, USA
- Sven Anderson, University of North Dakota, USA
- Cesar Bandera, Amherst Systems, USA
- Peter Bonasso, NASA Johnson Space Center, USA
- Adam J. Cheyer, SRI International, USA
- Trevor Darrell, Interval Research, USA
- Marco Dorigo, Universite' Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
- Judy Franklin, Mount Holyoke College, USA
- Olac Fuentes,Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico
- Rod Grupen, University of Mass, USA
- John Hallam, University of Edinburgh, UK
- Inman Harvey, COGS, Univ. of Sussex, UK
- Ian Horswill, Northwestern University, USA
- Sven Koenig, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Kurt Konolige, SRI International, USA
- David Kortenkamp, NASA Johnson Space Center, USA
- Sridhar Mahadevan, Michigan State University, USA
- Lisa Meeden, Swarthmore College, USA.
- Francois Michaud, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
- Robin R. Murphy, Colorado School of Mines, USA
- Jose del R. MILLAN, Joint Research Centre of the EU, Italy
- David J. Musliner, Honeywell Technology Center, USA
- Ulrich Nehmzow, University of Manchester, UK
- Martin Nilsson, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden
- Stefano Nolfi, Institute of Psychology, C.N.R., Italy
- Tony J Prescott, University of Sheffield, UK
- Ashwin Ram, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
- Rajesh Rao, University of Rochester, USA
- Justinian Rosca, Siemens Corporate Research, USA
- Julio Rosenblatt, University of Sydney, Australia
- Alan C. Schultz, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
- Noel Sharkey, Sheffield University, UK
- Barry Werger, USC, USA
- Brian Yamauchi, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
- Uwe R. Zimmer, Schloss Birlinghoven, Germany
Relevant Dates:
September 1, 1997 submission deadline
November 30, 1997 review deadline
December 30, 1997 acceptance/rejection notifications to the authors
February 1, 1998 AR and MLJ camera-ready deadline for revised
manuscripts. This is a unified deadline for both journals (in press
status)