Standard Ontologies and HRI
Sandro Rama Fiorini, Abdelghani Chibani, Tamás P. Haidegger, Joel Luís Carbonera, Craig I. Schlenoff, Jacek Malec, Edson Prestes, Paulo J. S. Gonçalves, S. Veera Ragavan, Howard Li, Hirenkumar Nakawala, Stephen B. Balakirsky, Sofiane Bouznad, Noauel Ayari, Yacine Amirat · Human-Robot Interaction · 2019
The Ontology for Robotics and Automation (ORA) group was formed to develop a standard ontology specifying the most general concepts and relations in robotics and automation (R&A). The result of its work has been published as the IEEE standard 1872-2015. Its main component is CORA, a core ontology that extends the top-ontology Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO) with concepts such as robot, robot group, robotic systems and robot interaction. CORA serves as basis for creating more specific domains ontologies for subfields of robotics. It can be used as a basis for the construction of a robot/human-robot communication system, where the robot can represent itself, other agents and the environment. Different groups have been working in specializing the main standard with additional knowledge structures referring to other areas of R&A. In this chapter, we navigate among the concepts and processes used during the development of CORA, showing how it is being used and how it is currently being developed for human-robot interaction.