Reasoning About the Functionality of Tools and Physical Artifacts
Ergun Biçici, Robert St. Amant · NCSU Libraries Repository (North Carolina State University Libraries) · 2003
Tool use is an important characteristic of intelligent human behavior.Representing, classifying and recognizing tools by their functionality can provide us new opportunities for understanding and eventually improving an agent's interaction with the physical world.Techniques have been developed in a wide range of areas within artificial intelligence to represent and automatically reason about the functionality of tools.This article surveys past approaches to reasoning about functionality in the literature and gives an extended example to illustrate the application of the techniques.