Schedule

Schedule

The UR-RAD schedule is still subject to some minor tweaks.

Day 1 (Wednesday, October 25)

📢9:00am  – 9:30am

Opening Remarks

🎓9:30am  – 10:30am

Speaker #1: Chien-Ming Huang

🍵10:30am – 11:00am    

Coffee Break #1 

🎤11:00am – 12:00pm    

Full Talks #1

A Unified Formalism for Constructing Embodied Agents

Pat Langley, Edward Katz and Mohan Sridharan

Interface Design for Learning from Demonstration with Older Adults

Lakshmi Seelam, Erin Hedlund-Botti, Chuxuan Yang and Matthew Gombolay

Embracing the Lag: Real-Time Challenges in Multi-Agent Systems

Sarah Dumnich, William Birmingham and Britton Wolfe

🔥12:00pm – 12:30pm   

Breakout Discussion #1

😋12:30pm – 2:00pm      

Lunch 

🎓2:00pm  – 3:00pm      

Speaker #2: Stefanie Tellex 

🔥3:00pm  – 3:30pm      

Breakout Discussion Session #2 

🍵3:30pm – 4:00pm      

Coffee Break #2

🎤4:00pm  – 5:00pm       

Full Talks #2

Grounding Complex Natural Language Commands for Temporal Tasks in Unseen Environments

Jason Liu, Ziyi Yang, Ifrah Idrees, Sam Liang, Benjamin Schornstein, Stefanie Tellex and Ankit Shah

Considerations for End-User Development in the Caregiving Domain

Laura Stegner, David Porfirio, Mark Roberts and Laura Hiatt

Investigating Disclosure of Personal Information to Robots as a Function of Robot Appearance and Level of Self-Disclosure

Jessica Barfield

💤5:00pm  – 6:00pm       

Free time

🍕6:00pm  – 7:00pm      

Reception (Hosted by AAAI)

Day 2 (Thursday, October 26)

📢9:00am  – 9:30am

Announcements  

🎓9:30am  – 10:30am    

Speaker #3: Dana Nau

🍵10:30am – 11:00am    

Coffee Break #3 

🎤11:00am – 12:00pm    

Full Talks #3:

A Categorical Representation Language and Computational System for Knowledge-Based Robotic Task Planning

Angeline Aguinaldo, Evan Patterson, James Fairbanks, William Regli and Jaime Ruiz

Supporting AI Planning and Collaboration for Robotic Applications Using TAEMS

Shelley Zhang, Alexander Moulton, Abhijot Bedi and Eugene Chabot

Ground Manipulator Primitive Tasks to Executable Actions using Large Language Models

Yue Cao and C. S. George Lee

🔥12:00pm - 12:30pm  

Breakout Discussion Session #3

😋12:30pm – 2:00pm    

Lunch

🎤2:00pm  – 3:00pm      

Full Talks #4  

HomeRobot: An Open Source Software Stack for Mobile Manipulation Research

Chris Paxton, Austin Wang, Binit Shah, Blaine Matulevich, Dhruv Shah, Karmesh Yadav, Santhosh Ramakrishnan, Sriram Yenamandra and Yonatan Bisk

Forgetful Large Language Models: Lessons Learned from Using LLMs in Robot Programming

Juo-Tung Chen and Chien-Ming Huang

Petri Nets for the Iterative Development of Interactive Robotic Systems

Pragathi Praveena, Andrew Schoen, Michael Gleicher, David Porfirio and Bilge Mutlu

🎓3:00pm  – 4:00pm     

Speaker #4: Matthias Scheutz

🍵4:00pm  – 4:30pm      

Coffee Break #4  

🔥4:30pm  – 5:00pm      

Breakout Discussion Session #4

🏆5:00pm  – 5:15pm      

Paper Awards

💤5:15pm  – 6:00pm       

Free time

🎉6:00pm  – 7:00pm    

Plenary (Hosted by AAAI)

Day 3 (Friday, October 27)

🔥9:00am  – 12:30pm

Town hall/brainstorming session