Proceedings of the 2006 international symposium on Practical cognitive agents and robots

Abstract

Currently, cognitive systems like intelligent agents and autonomous robots can perform complex tasks in unstructured and dynamic environments. Advances in intelligent agents and autonomous robotics over the last decade have been extraordinary, and the potential for future scientific breakthroughs and applications is breathtaking. At the present time, however, a number of research bottlenecks to future advancement have been identified such as the creation of robots that know what they are doing, and that can adapt to changing conditions and requirements. This volume contains the papers presented at the Intemational Symposium on Practical Cognitive Agents and Robots (PCAR) which takes a contemporary transdisciplinary view of cognitive systems. This symposium seeks to move the research frontier by focusing on the scientific bottlenecks, namely equipping robots with more knowledge about internal representations and the external world, as well as developing an awareness of oneself and others. PCAR has attracted research that describes practical ideas and results from human-robot interaction to high-level reasoning capabilities. The papers and invited talks address the following important issues: • Life-long interaction between robots and humans • Grounding representations to sensorimotor experiences • Integrating knowledge representation into behaviour based robots • Inter-robot and human-robot interaction and collaboration • Cognitive robotic unmanned aerial vehicle applications • Robot perception, world modelling, and planning