Bilevel planning, in which a high-level search over an abstraction of an environment is used
to guide low-level decision-making, is an effective approach to solving long-horizon tasks in …

In the not too distant future, assistive humanoid robots will provide versatile assistance for
coping with everyday life. In their interactions with humans, not only safety, but also security …

Learning temporal relations between actions in a bimanual manipulation task is important
for capturing the constraints of actions required to achieve the task's goal. However, given …

We examine the mechanisms required to handle everyday activities from the standpoint of
cognitive robotics, distinguishing activities on the basis of complexity and transparency. Task …

When facing the problem of autonomously learning to achieve multiple goals, researchers
typically focus on problems where each goal can be solved using just one policy. However …

Robots are already making large strides in their abilities, but as the generalizable
knowledge repre senta tion prob lem is addressed, the growth of robot capabilities will begin …

The shift in demand towards more customised products is driving small and medium-sized
enterprises to adopt flexible solutions for their production systems. The ability to quickly …

Robots have revolutionized industrial automation. Automation has many advantages—for
employees and companies alike—and counteracts the shortage of skilled workers. That is …

While there is significant research in the psychology literature that human's use of egocentric
representations of space, almost all work in AI plan recognition and planning has assumed …