In this paper, we present the current results of the newly formed IEEE-RAS Working Group,
named Ontologies for Robotics and Automation. In particular, we introduce a core ontology …

The need to improve motion planning techniques for manipulator robots, and new effective
strategies to manipulate different objects to perform more complex tasks, is crucial for …

Socially assistive robotics (SAR) aims at designing robots capable of guaranteeing social
interaction to human users in a variety of assistance scenarios that range, eg, from giving …

Ontologies are now pervasive in biomedicine, where they serve as a means to standardize
terminology, to enable access to domain knowledge, to verify data consistency and to …

Objectives: Medical decision support and other intelligent applications in the life sciences
depend on increasing amounts of digital information. Knowledge bases as well as formal …

Abstract The diffusion of Human-Robot Collaborative cells is prevented by some barriers.
Classical control approaches seem not yet fully suitable for facing variability conveyed by …

The construction of complex ontologies can be facilitated by adapting existing vocabularies.
There is little clarity and in fact little consensus as to what modifications of vocabularies are …

Socially assistive robots should provide users with personalized assistance within a wide
range of scenarios such as hospitals, home or social settings and private houses. Different …

Reuse of elements from existing ontologies in the construction of new ontologies is a
foundational principle in ontological design. It offers the benefits, among others, of …

A key aspect of robotic assistants is their ability to contextualize their behavior according to
different needs of assistive scenarios. This work presents an ontology-based knowledge …