A survey of knowledge representation in service robotics

D Paulius, Y Sun - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2019 - Elsevier
Within the realm of service robotics, researchers have placed a great amount of effort into
learning, understanding, and representing motions as manipulations for task execution by …

Planning for goal-oriented dialogue systems

C Muise, T Chakraborti, S Agarwal, O Bajgar… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
Generating complex multi-turn goal-oriented dialogue agents is a difficult problem that has
seen a considerable focus from many leaders in the tech industry, including IBM, Google …

Learning grasp affordance reasoning through semantic relations

P Ardón, E Pairet, RPA Petrick… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reasoning about object affordances allows an autonomous agent to perform generalised
manipulation tasks among object instances. While current approaches to grasp affordance …

[图书][B] Cognitive reasoning for compliant robot manipulation

DS Leidner - 2019 - Springer
This manuscript is the result of six years of research conducted between 2011 and 2017 at
the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). The …

[HTML][HTML] Unsupervised human activity analysis for intelligent mobile robots

P Duckworth, DC Hogg, AG Cohn - Artificial Intelligence, 2019 - Elsevier
The success of intelligent mobile robots operating and collaborating with humans in daily
living environments depends on their ability to generalise and learn human movements, and …

Library of actions: Implementing a generic robot execution framework by using manipulation action semantics

MJ Aein, EE Aksoy, F Wörgötter - The International Journal …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
When a robot has to imitate an observed action sequence, it must first understand the
inherent characteristic features of the individual actions. Such features need to reflect the …

Context-based affordance segmentation from 2D images for robot actions

T Lueddecke, T Kulvicius, F Woergoetter - Robotics and Autonomous …, 2019 - Elsevier
Affordances play a crucial role in robotics since they allow developing truly autonomous
robots, which can freely explore and interact with the environment. Most of the existing …

An embodied agent learning affordances with intrinsic motivations and solving extrinsic tasks with attention and one-step planning

G Baldassarre, W Lord, G Granato… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
We propose an architecture for the open-ended learning and control of embodied agents.
The architecture learns action affordances and forward models based on intrinsic …

Action representations in robotics: A taxonomy and systematic classification

P Zech, E Renaudo, S Haller… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Understanding and defining the meaning of “action” is substantial for robotics research. This
becomes utterly evident when aiming at equipping autonomous robots with robust …

Cognitive semantics for dynamic planning in human-robot teams

A Angleraud, Q Houbre, M Netzev… - 2019 IEEE 15th …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robots are making their way into our society and are foreseen to become an important part
in our everyday life, at work or at home. Industrial factory layouts are moving robots out of …