Title
Monitoring the execution of robot plans using semantic knowledge
Abstract
Even the best laid plans can fail, and robot plans executed in real world domains tend to do so often. The ability of a robot to reliably monitor the execution of plans and detect failures is essential to its performance and its autonomy. In this paper, we propose a technique to increase the reliability of monitoring symbolic robot plans. We use semantic domain knowledge to derive implicit expectations of the execution of actions in the plan, and then match these expectations against observations. We present two realizations of this approach: a crisp one, which assumes deterministic actions and reliable sensing, and uses a standard knowledge representation system (LOOM); and a probabilistic one, which takes into account uncertainty in action effects, in sensing, and in world states. We perform an extensive validation of these realizations through experiments performed both in simulation and on real robots.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1016/j.robot.2008.08.003
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Plan execution and monitoring,Mobile robots,Semantic knowledge
Journal
56
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
11
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
21
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.96
30
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Abdelbaki Bouguerra1828.23
Lars Karlsson255642.34
Alessandro Saffiotti32755284.17