The CLAWAR project

In Europe, there are two main thematic groups focusing on robotics, the Climbing and Walking Robots (CLAWAR) project (http://www.clawar.net) and the European Robotics Network (EURON) project (http://www.euron.org). The two networks are complementary: CLAWAR is industrially focused on the immediate needs, and EURON is focused more on blue skies research. This article presents the activities of the CLAWAR project

Unmanned Ground and Aerial Robots Supporting Mine Action Activities

During the Humanitarian‐demining actions, teleoperation of sensors or multi‐sensor heads can enhance-detection process by allowing more precise scanning, which is useful for the optimization of the signal processing algorithms. This chapter summarizes the technologies and experiences developed during 16 years through national and/or European‐funded projects, illustrated by some contributions of our own laboratory, located at the Royal Military Academy of Brussels, focusing on the detection of unexploded devices and the implementation of mobile robotics systems on minefields

Proceedings of the 1st Standardized Knowledge Representation and Ontologies for Robotics and Automation Workshop

Welcome to IEEE-ORA (Ontologies for Robotics and Automation) IROS workshop. This is the 1st edition of the workshop on! Standardized Knowledge Representation and Ontologies for Robotics and Automation. The IEEE-ORA 2014 workshop was held on the 18th September, 2014 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. In!the IEEE-ORA IROS workshop, 10 contributions were presented from 7 countries in North and South America, Asia and Europe. The presentations took place in the afternoon, from 1:30 PM to 5:00 PM. The first session was dedicated to “Standards for Knowledge Representation in Robotics”, where presentations were made from the IEEE working group standards for robotics and automation, and also from the ISO TC 184/SC2/WH7. The second session was dedicated to “Core and Application Ontologies”, where presentations were made for core robotics ontologies, and also for industrial and robot assisted surgery ontologies. Three posters were presented in emergent applications of ontologies in robotics. We would like to express our thanks to all participants. First of all to the authors, whose quality work is the essence of this workshop. Next, to all the members of the international program committee, who helped us with their expertise and valuable time. We would also like to deeply thank the IEEE-IROS 2014 organizers for hosting this workshop. Our deep gratitude goes to the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, that sponsors! the IEEE-ORA group activities, and also to the scientific organizations that kindly agreed to sponsor all the workshop authors work

A climbing autonomous robot for inspection application in 3D complex environment

Often inspection and maintenance work involve a large number of highly dangerous manual operations, especially within industrial fields such as shipbuilding and construction. This paper deals with the autonomous climbing robot which uses the “caterpillar” concept to climb in complex 3D metallic-based structures. During its motion the robot generates in real-time the path and grasp planning in order to ensure stable self-support to avoid the environment obstacles, and to optimise the robot consumption during the inspection. The control and monitoring of the robot is achieved through an advanced Graphical User Interface to allow an effective and user friendly operation of the robot. The experiments confirm its advantages in executing the inspection operations.This work has been partially funded by the Spanish government agency CICYT under project TAP95-0088. The authors would like to acknowledge the technical support of A. Jardón, E. Jiménez, C. Palazuelos, J.A. Campo and F. Manera and also the company of APTECA for its help in the mechanical development.Publicad

Ontology based robot reasoning in the elderly care domain - the EUROAGE projects

This paper describes the actions developed and currently in development within the EUROAGE projects related to the ontology-based robot reasoning in the elderly care domain. Recent ontology-based standards were developed (IEEE 1872-2015; IEEE 1872.2-2021; IEEE 7007-2021), and others are currently in development (IEEE P1872.1; IEEE P1872.3) to improve robot performance while executing tasks. This is a very hot topic in current standardization efforts worldwide. The elderly care domain has special characteristics related to interactions with humans and robots living in the same workspace. As such, robots must also commit to social and ethical norms (IEEE 7007-2021). The robot and the actions it can perform in such interactions are defined according to the IEEE 1872-2015. Moreover, a semantic map of the environment was developed (using some concepts from the IEEE 1872.2- 2021) where the robot can interact with the elder and the sensors in the smart home. In this environment, an ontology-based platform was developed that allows the robot to interact with the objects, e.g., to pick a cell phone or bottle of water, using semantic information from that environment to solve demanded tasks. Ongoing efforts are underway to thoroughly add to the reasoning framework of the previously stated standards and the concepts from the IEEE 7007-2021 to ensure that the robot's actions are ethically and socially correct.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio