RSAW: A situation awareness system for autonomous robots

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Abstract

Services and technologies are in evolution in order to develop a new generation of robotic systems that might operate in dynamic real-world environments. In this paper, we focus on the ability of robot to understand and to surpass the blocked situations autonomously without operator intervention. Such situations may occur when the robot cannot succeed the current action and cannot move to the next one. We remark that in the literature, the operator has a crucial role consisting in providing all information about the environment and in making interpretations. In this paper, we propose an RSAW (Robot Situation AWareness) system, developed in order to help a robot to surpass a blocked situation and accomplish its goal whilst minimizing the operator intervention. RSAW is a new general system aiming to increase the autonomy of the robot; It is inspired by the notion of Situation Awareness (SA). In fact, RSAW defines a knowledge representation using ontologies and a process in order to surpass a blocked situation. RSAW is designed according to the Model Driven Engineering (MDE) methodology. This choice is done to preserve the generality of our system. This paper focalizes on the process of the RSAW system and the interaction between the process and the knowledge representation. The experimentations conducted in real environment with the Smart Autonomous Majordomo (SAM) robot, have shown the robustness and the efficiency of the proposed system.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2014 13th International Conference on Control Automation Robotics and Vision, ICARCV 2014
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages450-455
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781479951994
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event2014 13th International Conference on Control Automation Robotics and Vision, ICARCV 2014 - Singapore, Singapore
Duration: 10 Dec 201412 Dec 2014

Publication series

Name2014 13th International Conference on Control Automation Robotics and Vision, ICARCV 2014

Conference

Conference2014 13th International Conference on Control Automation Robotics and Vision, ICARCV 2014
Country/TerritorySingapore
CitySingapore
Period10/12/1412/12/14

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