Interface for communication between robotic and cognitive systems through the use of a cognitive ontology

Abstract

The demand for socially interactive robots has increased annually. In particular, service robots have invaded homes and worked directly with humans who, in general, are not familiar with such devices. Their acceptance is conditioned to the evolution of research in the area of human-robot interaction. This paper contributes towards this acceptance process presenting an ontology that accelerates the implementation of cognitive systems in robots and enables the reproduction of experiments associated with cognitive models and comparison among different implementations. The specific objective is the definition of an ontology that provides a protocol for communication between cognitive and robot part systems.