Commonsense knowledge in cognitive robotics: a systematic literature review

JP Töberg, AC Ngonga Ngomo, M Beetz… - Frontiers in Robotics …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
One of the big challenges in robotics is the generalization necessary for performing
unknown tasks in unknown environments on unknown objects. For us humans, this …

The diagrammatic image schema language (disl)

MM Hedblom, F Neuhaus… - Spatial Cognition & …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Image schemas are mental patterns learned from perceptual experiences capturing
conceptual constructions in expressions. In linguistic analysis, their visualizations are often …

Hanging around: Cognitive inspired reasoning for reactive robotics

M Pomarlan, S De Giorgis, R Ringe… - Formal Ontology in …, 2024 - ebooks.iospress.nl
Situationally-aware artificial agents operating with competence in natural environments face
several challenges: spatial awareness, object affordance detection, dynamic changes and …

[PDF][PDF] Panta Rhei: Curiosity-Driven Exploration to Learn the Image-Schematic Affordances of Pouring Liquids.

M Pomarlan, MM Hedblom, R Porzel - AICS, 2021 - ceur-ws.org
Despite rapid progress, cognitive robots have yet to match the facility with which humans
acquire and find ways to reuse manipulation skills. An important component of human …

Bridging Low-level Geometry to High-level Concepts in Visual Servoing of Robot Manipulation Task Using Event Knowledge Graphs and Vision-Language Models

C Jiang, M Jagersand - arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.03932, 2023 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we propose a framework of building knowledgeable robot control in the scope
of smart human-robot interaction, by empowering a basic uncalibrated visual servoing …

[PDF][PDF] A Balancing Act: Ordering Algorithm and Image-Schematic Action Descriptors for Stacking Object for Household Robots.

K Dhanabalachandran, MM Hedblom, M Beetz - JOWO, 2022 - researchgate.net
Optimising object order in stacking problems remains a hard problem for cognitive robotics
research. In this paper, we continue our work on using the spatiotemporal relationships …

[PDF][PDF] Steps towards generalized manipulation action plans-tackling mixing task

V Hassouna, H Alina, M Beetz - … and Reasoning for Robots (AKR3) at …, 2024 - ceur-ws.org
In the rapidly evolving field of household robotics, the ability to autonomously execute
complex tasks like" Serve Me Breakfast" introduces considerable technical challenges …

[PDF][PDF] Thinking in Front of the Box: Towards Intelligent Robotic Action Selection for Navigation in Complex Environments Using Image-Schematic Reasoning.

M Pomarlan, S De Giorgis, MM Hedblom, M Diab… - JOWO, 2022 - researchgate.net
One of the problems an agent faces when operating in a partially known, dynamic,
sometimes unpredictable environment is to keep track of aspects of the world relevant to its …

Curiously exploring affordance spaces of a pouring task

M Pomarlan, MM Hedblom, R Porzel - Expert Systems, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Human beings and other biological agents appear driven by curiosity to explore the
affordances of their environments. Such exploration is its own reward–children have fun …

[PDF][PDF] Beyond Space and Time: An Initial Sketch of Formal Accounts to Non-Spatiotemporal Conceptual Sensory Primitives

MM Hedblom - The Eighth Image Schema Day co-located with The …, 2024 - ceur-ws.org
Derived from the embodied cognition hypothesis, image schemas are conceptual primitives
thought to capture the spatiotemporal relationships underlying human conceptualisations …