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================================================================== 📣 Second Call for papers: 14th Workshop on Planning and Robotics (PlanRob 2026) ICAPS’26 Workshop, Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 2026 https://icaps26.icaps-conference.org/program/workshops/planrob/ ==================================================================

📌 Aim and scope:

AI Planning & Scheduling (P&S) methods are crucial to enabling intelligent robots to perform autonomous, flexible, and interactive behaviors, but they must be tightly integrated into the overall robot architecture in order to be effective. This requires strong collaboration between researchers from both the Planning and the Robotics communities. The workshop provides a stable, long-term forum for researchers from both communities. Recent advances in large-scale learning models, multi modal perception, and whole-body robotic systems are reshaping the landscape of planning and execution. The 2026 edition of PlanRob explicitly aims to address these emerging challenges, with a focus on integrating symbolic, geometric, and learning-based approaches for robust, scalable, and adaptive robot autonomy.

🎯 Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

🔸 Planning representations and models for robotics including domain modelling, abstraction, and formal representations

🔸 Robot planning at multiple levels, including mission, task, path, motion, and integrated task-and-motion planning

🔸 Learning-augmented planning for robotics, including: • learning-based methods for planning and control • generative models for planning • continual learning and planning architectures and algorithms

🔸 Foundation-model-based approaches for robot planning, including: • LLM-, VLM-, and action-model-based methods for task as well as task-and-motion planning • perception-grounded planning using vision-language representations

🔸 Planning, execution, and control integration, including robot architectures supporting tight coupling between deliberation and execution

🔸 Planning for complex robotic systems, including: • high-dimensional and whole-body robotic planning and execution • planning under real-world sensing • actuation, and computational constraints

🔸 Multi-agent and interactive planning, including: • coordination and cooperation in multi-robot systems • human-aware planning and execution for human–robot interaction • adversarial and competitive planning in robotic domains

🔸 Formal and algorithmic foundations of robot planning, including formal methods for verification, correctness, and safety

🔸 Large-scale and real-world robotic applications, including: • optimization of behavior in large-scale automated or semi-automated systems • deployment and evaluation of planning methods on autonomous and intelligent robots in real-world settings

📌 Submission instructions

There are two types of submissions: • short position papers (four pages) • regular papers (up to 10 pages)

Papers may have an additional page containing references. Regular papers may be scheduled with more time in the final program. A poster session may be considered to provide a further presentation opportunity. The guidelines for formatting are the same as is used for ICAPS 2026 papers: https://aaai.org/authorkit26-1/), but with the AAAI copyright removed. The papers must be submitted in PDF format via the EasyChair system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=planrob26). Please note that papers under review (e.g. which have been submitted to IJCAI-2026) are also welcome, however, in order to avoid potential conflicts, these manuscripts should be prepared as anonymous submissions for a double blind reviewing process.

⏰ Important dates

• Submission Deadline: April 20, 2026 (AoE) • Author Notification: May 15, 2026 • Camera-Ready Deadline: June 5, 2026 • ICAPS 2026 Workshops: June 28-29, 2026

📌 Workshop proceedings

Accepted papers will be published on the workshop’s website.

The organizers are investigating the availability of journal editors in order to invite a selection of accepted papers from the workshop to a special issue or post-proceedings volume.

📌 Organizing committee

Iman Awaad, i********d@h-brs.de
 Institute for AI & Autonomous Systems, Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Germany
 & German International University, Egypt

Alberto Finzi, a***********i@unina.it
 Università di Napoli “Federico II”, Italy

Andrea Orlandini, a**************i@istc.cnr.it
 Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC-CNR), Italy

📌Acknowledgements

This workshop is partially supported by TRIFFID whose aim is to revolutionize the landscape of emergency response by seamlessly weaving advanced robotics with the crucial work of First Responders, ensuring they’re equipped to tackle disasters with unparalleled efficiency and precision. Innovative hybrid robotic platforms aims at blend autonomous legged and aerial capabilities, enabling real-time reconnaissance even in the most challenging terrains, while our sophisticated Ground-Station interface empowers operators to visualize and analyze disaster scenarios like never before. TRIFFID has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No.101168042.