构建统一语义框架,让服务机器人更好理解任务与环境。
An Ontology for Unified Modeling of Tasks, Actions, Environments, and Capabilities in Personal Service Robotics
- 提出OntoBOT语义框架,整合任务、动作、环境与机器人能力
- 在4类机器人上验证,实现跨平台任务理解与执行
- 适合研究机器人知识表示与系统集成的开发者
个人服务机器人在家庭环境中日益用于协助老年人及需要支持的人群。有效运作不仅涉及物理交互,还需理解动态环境、解析任务,并根据上下文选择合适动作。这要求融合硬件组件(如传感器、执行器)与具备任务、环境和机器人能力推理能力的软件系统。虽然机器人操作系统(ROS)等框架提供了连接底层硬件与高层功能的开源工具,但实际部署仍高度依赖特定平台,导致解决方案孤立且硬编码,限制了互操作性、可复用性和知识共享。本研究提出面向机器人与动作的本体(OntoBOT),扩展现有本体以提供任务、动作、环境与能力的统一表示。主要贡献有二:(1)将上述要素统一为连贯本体,支持任务执行的正式推理;(2)通过在四类具身智能体——TIAGo、HSR、UR3和Stretch上评估能力问答,证明其通用性,展示OntoBOT如何实现上下文感知推理、任务导向执行与知识共享。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Personal service robots are increasingly used in domestic settings to assist older adults and people requiring support. Effective operation involves not only physical interaction but also the ability to interpret dynamic environments, understand tasks, and choose appropriate actions based on context. This requires integrating both hardware components (e.g. sensors, actuators) and software systems capable of reasoning about tasks, environments, and robot capabilities. Frameworks such as the Robot Operating System (ROS) provide open-source tools that help connect low-level hardware with higher-level functionalities. However, real-world deployments remain tightly coupled to specific platforms. As a result, solutions are often isolated and hard-coded, limiting interoperability, reusability, and knowledge sharing. Ontologies and knowledge graphs offer a structured way to represent tasks, environments, and robot capabilities. Existing ontologies, such as the Socio-physical Model of Activities (SOMA) and the Descriptive Ontology for Linguistic and Cognitive Engineering (DOLCE), provide models for activities, spatial relationships, and reasoning structures. However, they often focus on specific domains and do not fully capture the connection between environment, action, robot capabilities, and system-level integration. In this work, we propose the Ontology for roBOts and acTions (OntoBOT), which extends existing ontologies to provide a unified representation of tasks, actions, environments, and capabilities. Our contributions are twofold: (1) we unify these aspects into a cohesive ontology to support formal reasoning about task execution, and (2) we demonstrate its generalizability by evaluating competency questions across four embodied agents - TIAGo, HSR, UR3, and Stretch - showing how OntoBOT enables context-aware reasoning, task-oriented execution, and knowledge sharing in service robotics.
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