1. National Robotics Initiative
Robot Planning in the Real World: Research Challenges and Opportunities
Satyandra K. Gupta
Program Director
Robust Intelligence
National Robotics Initiative
Division of Information and Intelligent Systems National Science Foundation

2. Relevant NSF Programs
National Robotics Initiative
Robust Intelligence

3. Opportunity #1: Integrating Planning at Multiple Levels of Abstractions
Mission Planning
Task Planning
Path Planning
Coverage Planning
Trajectory Planning
Gait Planning
Grasp Planning ….

4. Opportunity #2: Perception and Planning Integration
Perception system performance varies over the workspace
Planning has to consider capabilities of the perception system and exploit it

5. Opportunity #3: Learning and Planning Integration
Planning need to include learning and improve performance
Learning from demonstrations
Reusable plan fragments

6. Opportunity #4: Human Intention Aware Planning
Robots interact with other humans in the environment
Planning needs to consider intentions of humans in the environments

7. Workshop Goals
Develop a shared understanding of what are the open problems in robotics planning area
Develop a strategy to make progress

8. Anticipated Outcome
Publicly accessible workshop report that can be cited by the community
Target deadline: November 30th