FINAL SCHEDULE FOR MLC-COLT '94 ROBOT LEARNING WORKSHOP ------------------------------------------------------- (All talks are 20 minutes + 5 minutes for discussion) ROOM ASSIGNMENT: The morning and afternoon sessions will in Murray 212. The evening session (posters, videos, live demos) will be in Murray 213. MORNING SESSION I: (8:30 -- 10:15 A.M) --------------------------------------- Session Chair: Sridhar Mahadevan, Univ. of South Florida. Overview of Robot Learning: Sridhar Mahadevan, Univ. of South Florida. Explanation-based Learning for Mobile Robot Perception. Tom Mitchell, Joseph O'Sullivan, Sebastian Thrun: CMU. Active Exploration based ID-3 Learning for Robot Grasping. Marcos Salganicoff, Len Kunin, Lyle Ungar: Univ. of Pennsylvania. Learning Decision Trees for Mapping the Local Environment in Mobile Robot Navigation. Ian Sillitoe, Loughborough Univ. of Tech., and Tapio Elomaa, Univ. of Helsinki. (Discussion of papers initiated by session chair) (BREAK: 10:15 - 10:45 a.m.) MORNING SESSION II: (10:45 -- 12:00 P.M) ---------------------------------------- Session Chair: Leslie Kaelbling, Brown Univ. A Neural Network Pole Balancer that Learns and Operates in Real Time. Dean Hougen, John Fischer, Deva Johnam: Univ. of Minnesota. Purposive Behavior Acquisition On a Real Robot By Vision-Based Reinforcement Learning. Minoru Asada, Shoichi Noda, Sukoya Tawaratsumida, Koh Hosoda: Osaka Univ. The Role of the Trainer in Reinforcement Learning. Marco Dorigo, Universite' Libre de Bruxelles, and Marco Colombetti, Politecnico di Milano. (Discussion of papers initiated by session chair) (LUNCH BREAK: 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.) AFTERNOON SESSION I: (1:30 -- 2:30 P.M) ---------------------------------------- Session Chair: Maja Mataric, MIT AI Lab. Autonomous Agent Map Construction in Unknown Enclosed Environments. Keith Doty and Steven Seed, Univ. of Florida. Using and Learning Vision-based Self-Positioning for Autonomous Robot Navigation. Claudio Facchinetti and Heinz Hugli, Univ. of Neuchatel. (Discussion of papers initiated by session chair) AFTERNOON SESSION II: (2:30 -- 3:30 P.M) ------------------------------------------ Session Chair: Tom Mitchell, CMU. Learning Control Functions for Industrial Robots. C. Baroglio, A. Giordana, R. Piola: Universita' di Torino. An Evolutionary Approach to Learning in Robots. John Grefenstette, Alan Schultz: Navy Research Lab. (Discussion of papers initiated by session chair) (BREAK: 3:30 - 4:00 p.m.) EVENING SESSION I: (4:00 -- 6:00 P.M) ---------------------------------------- VIDEOS, LIVE DEMOS, POSTERS (this is a multi-activity session with lots of stuff going on in parallel.) This session will be held in Murray 213. EVENING SESSION II: (6:30 -- ?? P.M) ------------------------------------- Dinner + Discussions at a local resturant!