A review and comparison of ontology-based approaches to robot autonomy

Within the next decades, robots will need to be able to execute a large variety of tasks autonomously in a large variety of environments. To relax the resulting programming effort, a knowledge-enabled approach to robot programming can be adopted to organize information in re-usable knowledge pieces....

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Authors: Olivares Alarcos, Alberto|||0000-0002-7733-7715, Bebler, Daniel, Khamis, Alaa, Goncalves, Paulo, Habib, Maki K., Bermejo Alonso, Julita, Barreto, Marcoss, Diab, Mohammed, Rosell Gratacòs, Jan|||0000-0003-4854-2370, Quintas, João, Olszewska, Joanna, Nakawala, Hirenkumar, Pignaton de Freitas, Edison, Gyrard, Amelie, Borgo, Stefano, Alenyà Ribas, Guillem|||0000-0002-6018-154X, Beetz, Michael, Li, Howard
Format: article
Publication Date:2019
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repository:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/179204
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/179204
https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0269888919000237
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Knowledge representation
Robotics and automation
Ontologies
Review
Classificació INSPEC::Automation
Classificació INSPEC::Automation::Robots
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Robòtica
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Summary:Within the next decades, robots will need to be able to execute a large variety of tasks autonomously in a large variety of environments. To relax the resulting programming effort, a knowledge-enabled approach to robot programming can be adopted to organize information in re-usable knowledge pieces. However, for the ease of reuse, there needs to be an agreement on the meaning of terms. A common approach is to represent these terms using ontology languages that conceptualize the respective domain. In this work, we will review projects that use ontologies to support robot autonomy. We will systematically search for projects that fulfill a set of inclusion criteria and compare them with each other with respect to the scope of their ontology, what types of cognitive capabilities are supported by the use of ontologies, and which is their application domain.