@InProceedings{tenorth08cotesys,
  author    = {Moritz Tenorth and Michael Beetz},
  title     = {Towards Practical and Grounded Knowledge Representation Systems for Autonomous Household Robots},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Cognition for Technical Systems, M{\"u}nchen, Germany, 6-8 October},
  year      = {2008},
  url = {https://ai.uni-bremen.de/papers/tenorth08cotesys.pdf},
  bib2html_pubtype = {Workshop Paper},
  bib2html_rescat  = {Representation},
  bib2html_groups  = {K4C},
  bib2html_funding  = {CoTeSys},
  bib2html_domain  = {Assistive Household},
  abstract = {Mobile household robots need much knowledge about objects, places and actions
              when performing more and more complex tasks. They must be able to recognize
              objects, know what they are and how they can be used. This knowledge can
              often be specified more easily in terms of action-related concepts than by
              giving declarative descriptions of the appearance of objects. Defining chairs
              as objects to sit on, for instance, is much more natural than describing
              how chairs in general look like.
              Having grounded symbolic models of its actions and related concepts allows
              the robot to reason about its activities and improve its problem solving
              performance.
              In order to use action-related concepts, the robot must be able to find them in its
              environment. We present a practical approach to robot knowledge representation that
              combines description logics knowledge bases with data mining and (self-) observation
              modules. The robot collects experiences while executing actions and uses them to
              learn models and aspects of action-related concepts grounded in its perception and
              action system.
              We demonstrate our approach by learning places that are involved in mobile
              robot manipulation actions.}
}