European Robotics Forum 2011

At the European Robotics Forum (Västerås, Sweden, April 6-8, 2011), formerly known as the EURON/EUROP Annual Meeting, the RoboEarth team organized a workshop together with the BRICS and the Rosetta projects, entitled Knowledge engineering in robotics. In this workshop, we informed and discussed with the participants on various aspects of knowledge representation

Topics included:

• Terminology. E.g., what are task descriptions, action recipes, skills and other primitives, in the context of each project, and what are their relationships?
• Conventions. Are there shared definitions, conventions (e.g., coordinate systems, units), and data structures between the projects?
• Scene graphs. How should data be represented (maps, objects, actions)? What data should be annotated and how? What kind of reasoning is performed or needed?
• Reuse of knowledge. How can a robot decide which knowledge (e.g. map or skill) to reuse in a new situation?
• Reuse of tools. What existing software modules, algorithms, libraries, or APIs can be reused?
• Knowledge engineering. How will/should the knowledge base grow? What are the processes leading to creation of a substantial knowledge base useful in real applications, i.e. the bootstrapping of the KB?