UR-RAD

2024 AAAI Fall Symposium on Unifying Representations for Robot Application Development


Westin Arlington Gateway, Arlington, VA, USA

November 7-9, 2024

About UR-RAD

Behind any robot task or interaction is a representation that should (a) enable sufficient contextualization; (b) support any existing predefined, learned, and/or reusable skills onboard the robot; (c) be verifiable at design time and behave consistently at run-time; and (d) can be tested, executed, and modified for reuse on a variety of different robot morphologies. Enabling end users to express their intent within different representations has long played a pivotal role in robot application development, i.e., the construction of robot services, social interactions, and/or collaborative tasks.

The problem is that there is a lack of consistency and uniformity in how these representations are selected and used by robotics researchers. End users (i.e., robot application developers) face a myriad of challenges owing to this lack of cohesion.

The call for papers can be found here. We follow a double-anonymous review process (i.e. authors are unaware of reviewers' identity and reviewers are unaware of the authors' identity during the review process).

Get in touch with us! urrad.symposium@gmail.com

Keynote SpeakerS

We are excited to have members of the robotics and AI communities speak at UR-RAD 24.

Cynthia Matuszek

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Siddharth Srivastava

Arizona State University

Jamie Macbeth

Smith College

Brittany Johnson-Matthews

George Mason University

Symposium Goals

Broadly, UR-RAD seeks to categorize current representational trends for robot application development, discuss best practices for future adoption of languages, logical representations, development frameworks, etc. that integrate advances from the wider AI community, and (c) identify opportunities for collaboration between academia and industry.

UR-RAD '24 aims to generate additional discussion surrounding the following categories:


Symposium Format

The symposium will be made up of paper presentations, keynote talks, panels, and breakout discussions.