Alberto Olivares‐Alarcos

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Alberto Olivares‐Alarcos is a leading researcher in robotics and automation, specializing in the development of formal ontologies to enhance robot autonomy, collaboration, and adaptability. His major contributions center on creating standardized knowledge frameworks that enable robots to understand, share, and reason about information in complex environments. He has been instrumental in the IEEE Ontologies for Robotics and Automation (ORA) Working Group, contributing to foundational standards like the Autonomous Robotics (AuR) Ontology (IEEE 1872.2), which provides a common vocabulary for the field. His highly cited work, "A review and comparison of ontology-based approaches to robot autonomy" (120 citations), offers a comprehensive analysis of how ontologies can reduce programming effort for autonomous systems. Olivares‐Alarcos has also advanced human-robot collaboration, developing the OCRA ontology for collaborative robotics and using recurrent neural networks to infer human intentions in shared industrial tasks. His research on cloud robotics information sharing and modular robot design further demonstrates his impact, with over 300 total citations. Through these efforts, he is shaping the future of trustworthy, adaptive robots that can work seamlessly alongside humans.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   A review and comparison of ontology-based approaches to robot autonomy

   120 citations · 2019
2. 2
   A Suite of Ontologies for Robotics and Automation [Industrial Activities]

   53 citations · 2017
3. 3
   OCRA – An ontology for collaborative robotics and adaptation

   42 citations · 2022
4. 4
   Ontological concepts for information sharing in cloud robotics

   28 citations · 2020
5. 5
   Ontology based design, control and programming of modular robots

   22 citations · 2018
6. 6
   On Inferring Intentions in Shared Tasks for Industrial Collaborative Robots

   18 citations · 2019
7. 7
   IEEE Standard for Autonomous Robotics Ontology [Standards]

   12 citations · 2021
8. 8
   IEEE Standard for Autonomous Robotics (AuR) Ontology

   10 citations · 2021
9. 9
   Recurrent Neural Networks for Inferring Intentions in Shared Tasks for Industrial Collaborative Robots

   7 citations · 2020
10. 10
    Robot explanatory narratives of collaborative and adaptive experiences

    6 citations · 2023

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