Mobile autonomous robots can perform complex tasks in unstructured and dynamic environments. Advances in autonomous mobile robotics over the last decade have been extraordinary, and the potential for future scientific breakthroughs and applications is breathtaking. However, a number of bottlenecks to future advancement have been identified such as building cognitive robots that are aware of what they are doing, and that can adapt to changing conditions and requirements.

This workshop 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.

This workshop aims at soliciting research ideas and results from practical research on implementing knowledge representation and high-level reasoning into mobile autonomous robots. Papers on autonomous robots in general are all welcome, but the following areas are highly encouraged,

• Grounding representations to sensorimotor experiences
• Integrating knowledge representation into behaviour based robots
• Inter-robot and human-robot interaction and communication
• Inter-robot and human-robot cooperation and collaboration
• Robot self-awareness: How to build robots that know what they are doing
• Semantic Web or agent applications for robots
• Cognitive Robotics
• Robot world modelling
• Robot perception
• Robot planning
• Autonomous Multi-robot exploration, navigation and collaboration
• Intelligent robotic applications
• Autonomous Cognitive Robots and the Law

Live demos are invited. The organisers will bring NAOs and a bear robot for demonstration.