Knowledge-exchange between robots

The RoboEarth project targets at building a “World Wide Web for Robots” where robots with their programmers can collectively build “action recipes”.

These libraries of action recipes that are shared between robots will drastically reduce the efforts for building new robot applications.

Within the RoboEarth project, our group investigates the knowledge representation and processing mechanisms for uploading, exchanging, downloading and applying action recipes.

More information can be found on the RoboEarth project homepage.

Publications

Key publications within RoboEarth include:

[1] RoboEarth Action Recipe Execution (Daniel di Marco, Moritz Tenorth, Kai Häussermann, Oliver Zweigle, Paul Levi), In 12th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, 2012.

[2] Exchange of Action-related Information among Autonomous Robots (Moritz Tenorth, Michael Beetz), In 12th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, 2012.

[3] The RoboEarth language: Representing and Exchanging Knowledge about Actions, Objects, and Environments (Moritz Tenorth, Alexander Clifford Perzylo, Reinhard Lafrenz, Michael Beetz), In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2012. (Best Cognitive Robotics Paper Award.)

[4] RoboEarth - A World Wide Web for Robots (Markus Waibel, Michael Beetz, Raffaello D'Andrea, Rob Janssen, Moritz Tenorth, Javier Civera, Jos Elfring, Dorian Gálvez-López, Kai Häussermann, J.M.M. Montiel, Alexander Perzylo, Björn Schießle, Oliver Zweigle, René van de Molengraft), In Robotics & Automation Magazine, IEEE, volume 18, 2011.

Software

Most of our code is available open-source in this repository

Acknowledgements

This project has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013 under grant agreement number 248942 RoboEarth.