- Standards for Robotics and Autonomous Systems: Knowledge, Reasoning, Multiple Robots and HRI
Robotics and autonomous systems
- New standard development
- Standards for Robotics and Autonomous Systems: Knowledge, Reasoning, and AI for Multiple Robots
Robotics and autonomous systems
- New standard development
- Advancing Robotic Interoperability and Explainability through Ontological Standards
Robotics and autonomous systems
The contributions will make significant impact for the description of the robotics requirements on an industrial intralogistics scenario, where robots and humans operate. This will impact robot communication services that will use 6G. Moreover, the fellowship strongly focuses on ontologies, to achieve a better interoperability of concepts to enhance robot to robot and robot to humans’ communications. The use of the standardizes DOLCE upper ontology makes a significant difference. Also, EU have within its borders numerous renowned robotics companies. An increasing number of cutting-edge robotics and autonomous systems now rely on AI-driven reasoning to handle their growing complexity. Today, global regulations are shaping how knowledge is represented for robotics services and tasks, and EU SMEs must comply with these standards. As a result, these knowledge representation standards will significantly influence the development of future robotic and autonomous systems.
The outcomes of this activity are very important for the robotics industry because it tackles concepts very close to real world deployment of robots to perform tasks, autonomously, within a robot group, and/or cooperating and/or collaborating with humans. This is a clear evolution of the IEEE RAS standards portfolio (previously focused on high-level concepts and definitions) and a valuable contribution to the robotics standards landscape in Europe and worldwide.
- New standard development
- Virtual Worlds, 6G, Ethics and AI for Robotics and Autonomous Systems Standards
The contributions will make significant impact for the description of the robotics requirements on a healthcare scenario, where robots and humans operate. This will impact robot communication services that will use 6G. Moreover, the fellowship strongly focuses on ontologies, to achieve a better interoperability of concepts to enhance robot to robot and robot to humans’ communications. The use of the standardizes DOLCE upper ontology makes a significant difference. Also, EU have within its borders numerous renowned robotics companies. An increasing number of cutting-edge robotics and autonomous systems now rely on AI-driven reasoning to handle their growing complexity. Today, global regulations are shaping how knowledge is represented for robotics services and tasks, and EU SMEs must comply with these standards. As a result, these knowledge representation standards will significantly influence the development of future robotic and autonomous systems.
- New standard development
- ODXAI: Ontology-grounded Definitions and Metrics for Explainable Artificial Intelligence (02-1799)
- SAMRA : Standardized Semantic and Affordance Maps for Multi-Robot Systems Autonomy (02-1790)
Robotics and autonomous systems
- New standard development
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Custom funding impact (2nd Open Call 2029)In this Open Call, two different projects were funded:
ODXAI: Ontology-grounded Definitions and Metrics for Explainable Artificial Intelligence (02-1799)
This short-term fellowship contributes to the IEEE P2976 “Standard for Requirements and Classification of Explainable Artificial Intelligence Systems” by focusing on the part of the standard where I can add the most value: definitions and metrics for explainable AI. The fellowship support the Definitions subgroup and the Metrics subgroup with ontology-grounded terminology, relations between core concepts, and measurable assessment criteria. I will use robotics-derived use cases only as internal consistency checks, not as a separate applications stream and not as a source of standalone deliverables.
SAMRA : Standardized Semantic and Affordance Maps for Multi-Robot Systems Autonomy (02-1790)
This long-term fellowship contributes IEEE standardisation in autonomous robots, including:
- IEEE WG P1872.3 - Standard for Ontology Reasoning on Multiple Robots
- IEEE WG P3140.1 - Standard for Semantic Maps for Autonomous Robots - Part 1: Use Cases and Requirements
- IEEE WG P3140.2 - Semantic Maps for Autonomous Robots - Part 2: Framework and Application Development Interface.
Value of Research
Role: chair
Title & Organisation Name: Professor - Instituto Politecnico de Castelo Branco
Country: Portugal
