Affordance-based ontology design for ubiquitous robots

Abstract

Affordance concept is very powerful in coupling perception and action. However, this concept originally came from ecological approach and it is suitable for living creatures such as animals, therefore it’s difficult to identify and apply in practice for robots. In order for a robot to get benefits from this concept, this paper proposes ontology approach based affordance theory for ubiquitous robots. The goal of this affordance-based ontology effort is to develop and begin to populate a knowledge representation capturing relevant information about robots capabilities and what the environment afford to assist human life in ubiquitous robots environment.