Julita Bermejo–Alonso

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Julita Bermejo-Alonso is a prominent researcher specializing in knowledge representation, ontology engineering, and autonomous robotics. Her work sits at the critical intersection of artificial intelligence and robotics, where she has made substantial contributions toward standardizing how robots understand, share, and reason about knowledge. Most notably, she has been a driving force within the IEEE Ontologies for Robotics and Automation (ORA) Working Group — established in 2011 — helping shape international standards for knowledge representation across industrial and autonomous robotic systems. Her most influential work, a comprehensive review comparing ontology-based approaches to robot autonomy (2019, 120 citations), has become an essential reference for researchers navigating this rapidly evolving field. Alongside this, her contributions to autonomous robotics ontologies and robot task representation (collectively garnering over 180 citations) demonstrate her sustained impact on enabling robots to operate more intelligently in unstructured environments. More recently, she has extended her expertise into cloud robotics, exploring how ontological frameworks can facilitate information sharing across distributed robotic systems. Her self-adaptation framework for augmenting robot autonomy further illustrates her commitment to practical, robust solutions. Across more than a decade of research, Bermejo-Alonso has helped lay the conceptual foundations for tomorrow's truly autonomous machines.

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Top Papers

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

   120 citations · 2019
2. 2
   Ontology for autonomous robotics

   62 citations · 2017
3. 3
   A Suite of Ontologies for Robotics and Automation [Industrial Activities]

   53 citations · 2017
4. 4
   Requirements for building an ontology for autonomous robots

   44 citations · 2016
5. 5
   A self-adaptation framework based on functional knowledge for augmented autonomy in robots

   44 citations · 2018
6. 6
   Ontological concepts for information sharing in cloud robotics

   28 citations · 2020
7. 7
   Towards a Robot Task Ontology Standard

   23 citations · 2017
8. 8
   Model-based engineering of autonomous systems using ontologies and metamodels

   15 citations · 2016
9. 9
   Ontology-Based Engineering of Autonomous Systems

   14 citations · 2010
10. 10
    Ontologies for cloud robotics

    12 citations · 2020

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