Desire-Driven Reasoning for Personal Care Robots

Guang Yang; Shuoyu Wang; Junyou Yang

doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2921112

IEEE Access (Jan 2019)

Desire-Driven Reasoning for Personal Care Robots

Guang Yang,
Shuoyu Wang,
Junyou Yang

Affiliations

Guang Yang: ORCiD; Department of Intelligent Mechanical Systems Engineering, Kochi University of Technology, Kami, Japan
Shuoyu Wang: Department of Intelligent Mechanical Systems Engineering, Kochi University of Technology, Kami, Japan
Junyou Yang: School of Electrical Engineering, Shenyang University of Technology, Shenyang, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2921112
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 7
pp. 75203 – 75212

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In this paper, in order to reduce the burden of caring for individuals who are bedridden, we present a method of reasoning about the objects and actions that could satisfy their physiological needs. First, we introduce a method of representing knowledge about everyday objects in terms of their properties and functions. Based on this representation, we then propose a desire-driven reasoning approach that bridges the gap between physiological desires and robot actions. This can also deal with issues caused by uncontrolled domains, including incomplete knowledge and dynamic environments. Finally, we evaluate the proposed method by applying our newly developed KUT-PCR personal care robot to real household scenarios.

Published in IEEE Access

ISSN: 2169-3536 (Online)
Publisher: IEEE
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Technology: Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
Website: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6287639

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