Semantic based self-configuration approach for social robots in health care environments

Gorka Azkune, Pablo Orduña, Xabier Laiseca, Diego López-de-Ipiña, Miguel Loitxate

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Abstract

Health care environments, as many other real world environments, present many changing and unpredictable situations. In order to use a social robot in such an environment, the robot has to be prepared to deal with all the changing situations. This paper presents a robot self-configuration approach to overcome suitably the commented problems. The approach is based on the integration of a semantic framework, where a reasoner can take decisions about the configuration of robot services and resources. An ontology has been designed to model the robot and the relevant context information. Besides rules are used to encode human knowledge and serve as policies for the reasoner. The approach has been successfully implemented in a mobile robot, which showed to be more capable of solving not pre-designed situations.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAmbient Assisted Living and Home Care - 4th International Workshop, IWAAL 2012, Proceedings
Pages354-361
Number of pages8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Event4th International Workshop on Ambient Assisted Living, IWAAL 2012 - Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Duration: 3 Dec 20125 Dec 2012

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume7657 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference4th International Workshop on Ambient Assisted Living, IWAAL 2012
Country/TerritorySpain
CityVitoria-Gasteiz
Period3/12/125/12/12

Keywords

  • AAL
  • e-health
  • semantic-web
  • social-robotics

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