A knowledge base for robots to model the real-world as a hypergraph

Robotic systems operating in the real world would benefit from a clear semantic model to understand the real world. Such semantics are typically captured in a knowledge structure. The speed at which robots need to update their real-world knowledge (because of new sensory observations) prevented the use of complex knowledge structures, due to...

Architectural safety perspectives considerations regarding the AI-based AV domain controller

Persistent robot-assisted disaster response

We report on a field exercise in which a team of human fire-fighters used robots to enact a realistic disaster response mission in an industrial environment. In this exercise we evaluated the technical working of an integrated robotic system and gained insights concerning the manner in which robots and information streams can be utilized...

Incremental development of large-scale human-robot teamwork in disaster response environments

We report on the latest large-scale disaster-response exercise conducted by our project, which involves a robotic system with both ground robots (UGVs) and aerial robots (UAVs). In particularly, we focus on aspects related to Human-Robot teaming, and the uptake of new technology by end-users. © 2017 Authors. ACM SIGAI; ACM SIGCHI; IEEE Robotics...

On the need for a coordination mechanism to guarantee task completion in a cooperative team

To design good cooperative team members in robotics it is important to know what coordination mechanisms are required. Our approach to explore the need for a coordination mechanism is based on a systematic methodology to identify team coordination requirements. We show that a team combined of robots that each individually can solve a task not...