Semantic Task Planning for Service Robots in Open Worlds

Guowei Cui, Wei Shuai and Xiaoping Chen
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Guowei Cui: School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
Wei Shuai: School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
Xiaoping Chen: School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China

Future Internet, 2021, vol. 13, issue 2, 1-19

Abstract: This paper presents a planning system based on semantic reasoning for a general-purpose service robot, which is aimed at behaving more intelligently in domains that contain incomplete information, under-specified goals, and dynamic changes. First, Two kinds of data are generated by Natural Language Processing module from the speech: (i) action frames and their relationships; (ii) the modifier used to indicate some property or characteristic of a variable in the action frame. Next, the task’s goals are generated from these action frames and modifiers. These goals are represented as AI symbols, combining world state and domain knowledge, which are used to generate plans by an Answer Set Programming solver. Finally, the plan’s actions are executed one by one, and continuous sensing grounds useful information, which makes the robot use contingent knowledge to adapt to dynamic changes and faults. For each action in the plan, the planner gets its preconditions and effects from domain knowledge, so during the execution of the task, the environmental changes, especially those conflict with the actions, not only the action being performed but also the subsequent actions, can be detected and handled as early as possible. A series of case studies are used to evaluate the system and verify its ability to acquire knowledge through dialogue with users, solve problems with the acquired causal knowledge, and plan for complex tasks autonomously in the open world.

Keywords: general purpose service robot; task planning; open world (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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