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3rd International Workshop on the Applications of Knowledge Representation and Semantic Technologies in Robotics (AnSWeR19)

Description of the AnSWeR19 Workshop

Autonomous mobile agents and robotics, in general, are experiencing a growing interest due to a number of factors, e.g. the advancements in Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, and Computer Vision; the amount of new efficient techniques for basic robotic tasks (perception, manipulation, navigation etc.); and the increasing number of cost-accessible robotic platforms in the market. As a consequence, robots will be required to achieve more and more complex tasks, hence exposing the ability to deal with different sources of knowledge about the world in order to improve their behaviors.

While the problem of enabling robots to use available sources of heterogeneous knowledge has attracted attention relatively recently in the robotics community (e.g. the RoboEarth or RoboBrain projects), the Knowledge Representation and Semantic Web communities have been studying techniques to model, integrate and exploit heterogeneous sources knowledge for a long time. We argue that such techniques should also have a role to play in the context of robotic applications, as they could be beneficial for robots to achieve their tasks. The goal It is therefore important to understand how these communities are interfacing, and how they can benefit from each other.

The goal of the AnSWeR workshop is to address these issues by studying the involvement and applications of Knowledge Representation formalisms and semantic technologies in robotic applications, by giving the researchers and practitioners the opportunity to compare and debate on common problems. The AnSWeR workshop will, therefore, allow addressing and debating on problems that have been tackled so far by two communities that worked on overlapping topics.

The first two editions of AnSWeR were held in 2017 and 2018 in Semantic Web conferences to investigate the interests in establishing synergies between both sides. An exciting dialogue between roboticists and knowledge representation practitioners was triggered, encouraging us to maintain and evolve the conversation. We turn this time towards the robotics community and aim at running the third edition of AnSWeR at IROS2019 to strengthen the dialogue and engage a new, wider audience, bridging the gap between these overlapping, but complementary communities. We also firmly believe that by hosting AnSWeR at IROS2019, we will be able to foster conversations among the Asian community, that put profound efforts into the robotics research, and the EU audience, which presents a long-standing tradition in knowledge management and representation.

Topics of interest

Authors will be encouraged, but not limited, to consider the following set of topics:

• Usability of available Semantic Web resources in Robotics

• Semantic methods to support the development of robotic systems

• Knowledge Representation and Reasoning techniques for Robotics

• Knowledge-based systems for robots

• Semantic solutions to enable spatiotemporal planning and reasoning

• Ontologies and standardization of terminology for robotics applications

• Semantic Mapping

• Knowledge acquisition in robotic applications

• Integration of local robotic knowledge with data from the Web

• Planning and navigation using knowledge graphs

• Robotics within the Web of Things/Internet of Cloud Robotic Things

• Knowledge and perception

• Semantic technologies to support Cloud Robotics systems

• Semantic approaches for entity linking, grounding, and anchoring

• Concrete use cases of working robotic systems exploiting semantic technologies

• Future trends at the intersection of Robotics and Knowledge Representation

• Knowledge Graphs, Linked Data and semantic technologies for robots

• Impact and relation of knowledge-based technologies in social robotics and robot ethics

• F.A.I.R. data for robotics systems

• Knowledge-based embodied conversational agents (e.g., chatbots)

Past Workshop Editions and Related Workshops

• The first edition of AnSWeR was held as a half-day workshop at Extended Semantic Web Conference in 2017

• MIRROR workshop at IROS 2016

MIRROR-16, held at IROS in 2016, focused on issues related to the integration of several reasoning systems., i.e. the problem of jointly reasoning about heterogeneous and interdependent aspects of the world, expressed in different forms and at different levels of abstraction.

• AGAINST workshop at ICRA 2019

AGAINST workshop focuses on bias-sensitization of robot behavior on issues such as gender, race, age, and culture. The goal of this workshop is to raise awareness of and provide new insights into, the biases involved in robot models, human-robot interaction, datasets, and knowledge representation; as well as the techniques which will be required to avoid harmful bias and discrimination by robots.

• SmartIoT 2018 Workshop: AI enhanced IoT data processing for Intelligent Applications at AAAI 2018

• 2nd Workshop Semantic Web Technologies for the Internet of Things (SWIT 2017) co-located with International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2017, Vienna, Austria

• Knowledge Extraction for the Web of Things (KE4WoT) Challenge co-located with International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) 2018

• Semantic Sensor Networks Workshop (SSN) 2018 co-located with International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2018

• Workshop and Tutorial on Best Practices and Dynamic Knowledge Graphs co-located with 1st Iberoamerican Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web Conference 2019