Proceedings of the 2005 ACM workshop on Research in knowledge representation for autonomous systems

Abstract

Welcome to the "Research in Knowledge Representation for Autonomous Systems" Workshop. This is the second in what is expected to be a long series of workshops focusing on leveraging different knowledge representation techniques to benefit autonomous systems.This workshop is predicated on the observation that a large body of work exists in various knowledge representation and ontology areas, yet relatively little has been applied to the area of world modeling in autonomous systems. The field of autonomous systems has reached a level of maturity such that it could greatly benefit from the work that has been ongoing in these areas. World modeling in autonomous systems can also serve as a prime problem domain in which to apply theoretical and practical knowledge representation, ontological, and data fusion techniques.For the purpose of this workshop, we are treating knowledge representation in a very all-encompassing manner to include the representation of parametric knowledge, spatial, temporal and iconic knowledge (including images and maps), symbolic knowledge (including ontologies), a priori and in situ knowledge, risk knowledge, value judgments, task knowledge, system knowledge, etc.The objective of this workshop is to bring together colleagues in the autonomous systems, knowledge representations, ontology, and data fusion communities to find ways of leveraging existing knowledge technologies to benefit autonomous systems. This workshop will be unique in that is will be driven by the needs of the robotics community.This half-day workshop will feature presentations from Bjorn Gottfried on collision avoidance using quantitative spatial relations, Mike Foedisch on a combined sensory processing/knowledge-based approach as applied to road detection for autonomous vehicles, Michael Cebulla on ontologies and fuzzy description logics to assess behavior in autonomous systems, Craig Schlenoff on the development of a robot ontology for Urban Search and Rescue application, and Stephen Balakirsky on efforts to encode self awareness in a simulation architecture called MOAST.Please be aware that the next in the series of Knowledge Representation for Autonomous Systems workshop will be proposed to be held as part of ICRA in Orlando, Florida USA in May 2006.