Title
Ontoslam: An ontology for representing location and simultaneous mapping information for autonomous robots
Date Issued
01 December 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
MDPI
Abstract
Autonomous robots are playing an important role to solve the Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) problem in different domains. To generate flexible, intelligent, and interopera-ble solutions for SLAM, it is a must to model the complex knowledge managed in these scenarios (i.e., robots characteristics and capabilities, maps information, locations of robots and landmarks, etc.) with a standard and formal representation. Some studies have proposed ontologies as the standard representation of such knowledge; however, most of them only cover partial aspects of the information managed by SLAM solutions. In this context, the main contribution of this work is a complete ontology, called OntoSLAM, to model all aspects related to autonomous robots and the SLAM problem, towards the standardization needed in robotics, which is not reached until now with the existing SLAM ontologies. A comparative evaluation of OntoSLAM with state-of-the-art SLAM ontologies is performed, to show how OntoSLAM covers the gaps of the existing SLAM knowledge representation models. Results show the superiority of OntoSLAM at the Domain Knowledge level and similarities with other ontologies at Lexical and Structural levels. Additionally, OntoSLAM is integrated into the Robot Operating System (ROS) and Gazebo simulator to test it with Pepper robots and demonstrate its suitability, applicability, and flexibility. Experiments show how OntoSLAM provides semantic benefits to autonomous robots, such as the capability of inferring data from organized knowledge representation, without compromising the information for the application and becoming closer to the standardization needed in robotics.
Volume
10
Issue
4
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería eléctrica, Ingeniería electrónica Ciencias de la computación Robótica, Control automático Sistemas de automatización, Sistemas de control
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85119898686
Source
Robotics
ISSN of the container
22186581
Sponsor(s)
Funding: This research was funded by FONDO NACIONAL DE DESARROLLO CIENTÍFICO, TEC-NOLÓGICO Y DE INNOVACIÓN TECNOLÓGICA-FONDECYT as executing entity of CONCYTEC under grant agreement no. 01-2019-FONDECYT-BM-INC.INV in the project RUTAS: Robots for Urban Tourism Centers, Autonomous and Semantic-based.
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