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Description / Abstract:
This standard defines a core ontology that allows for the
representation of, reasoning about, and communication of knowledge
in the robotics and automation (RA) domain. This ontology
includes generic concepts as well as their definitions, attributes,
constraints, and relationships. These terms can be specialized to
capture the detailed semantics for concepts in robotics
sub-domains.
This standard contains the Core Ontology for Robotics and
Automation (CORA) with the representation of fundamental concepts
from which the more detailed concepts belonging to other Ontologies
for Robotics and Automation Working Group (ORA WG) ontologies are
constructed. This standard also defines the ontology engineering
methodology used to construct the ORA ontologies.
Purpose
The purpose of this standard is to provide a methodology for
knowledge representation and reasoning in robotics and automation
(RA) together with the core ontology for the RA domain.
The standard provides a unified way of representing knowledge and
provides a common set of term definitions, allowing for unambiguous
knowledge transfer among any group of humans, robots, and other
artificial systems.
The standard aims to provide a common vocabulary along with
clear and concise definitions from the RA domain. With the
growing complexity of behaviors that robots are expected to
perform, as well as the need for multi-robot collaboration and
human-robot collaboration, the need for a standard and well-defined
knowledge representation is becoming more evident. The standard
knowledge representation methodology and terminology:
a) More precisely define the concepts in the robot's knowledge
representation
b) Promote common understanding among members of the
community
c) Facilitate data integration and transfer of information among
robotic systems
Information included in this knowledge representation
encompasses, but is not limited to, robot hardware and software,
activities and goals, environment, cause and effects of performing
actions, and relationship among other robots and people.
The intended audience for this standard is robot manufacturers,
system integrators, robot end users (part manufacturers, automotive
industry, construction industry, service and solution providers,
etc.), robot equipment suppliers, robot software developers, and
researchers/developers.