Tenorth, Moritz (TU München), Perzylo, Alexander Clifford (Technische Universitaet Muenchen), Lafrenz, Reinhard (Technische Universität München), Beetz, Michael (Technische Universität München)

The RoboEarth Language: Representing and Exchanging Knowledge about Actions, Objects, and Environments

Scheduled for presentation during the Regular Session "Mapping" (TuC09), Tuesday, May 15, 2012, 15:45−16:00, Meeting Room 9 (Sa)

2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 14-18, 2012, RiverCentre, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA

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Abstract

The community-based generation of content has been tremendously successful in the World Wide Web -- people help each other by providing information that could be useful to others. We are trying to transfer this approach to robotics in order to help robots acquire the vast amounts of knowledge needed to competently perform everyday tasks. RoboEarth is intended to be a web community by robots for robots to autonomously share descriptions of tasks they have learned, object models they have created, and environments they have explored. In this paper, we report on the formal language we developed for encoding this information and present our approaches to solve the inference problems related to finding information, to determining if information is usable by a robot, and to grounding it on the robot platform.