In the field of domestic cognitive robotics, it is important to have a rich representation of
knowledge about how household objects are related to each other and with respect to …

Autonomous robots in unstructured and dynamically changing retail environments have to
master complex perception, knowledgeprocessing, and manipulation tasks. To enable them …

With recent technological advances, robotic agents are increasingly capable of performing
ever more sophisticated manipulation tasks. Perceptual capabilities of these robots need to …

The ability to build robotic agents that can perform everyday tasks heavily depends on
understanding how humans perform them. In order to achieve close to human …

The authors present a knowledge retrieval framework for the household domain enhanced
with external knowledge sources that can argue over the information that it returns and learn …

Mobile robots operating in a human environment face the challenge of recognizing objects
that possess a multitude of different visual characteristics, affordances, and are found in …

Kurzfassung In Zukunft wird von Robotern erwartet, Menschen in immer mehr Situationen zu
unterstützen, etwa in Haushaltsumgebungen oder im industriellen Umfeld. Dies erfordert …

A pressing question when designing intelligent autonomous systems is how to integrate the
various subsystems concerned with complementary tasks. More specifically, robotic vision …

Commonsense agents are intelligent agents that use commonsense knowledge and
commonsense reasoning in order to perform a task on behalf of or take a decision to help a …

Mobile robots, performing long-term manipulation activities in human environments, have to
perceive a wide variety of objects possessing very different visual characteristics and need …