Trends like mass-customisation and the increasing number of models produced and parts
used on a single assembly line promote interest in the field of assembly line feeding. The …

The requirement of flexibility in the modern industries demands robots that can be efficiently
and quickly adapted to different tasks. A way to achieve such a flexible programming …

Small Manufacturing Entities (SMEs) have not incorporated robotic automation as readily as
large companies due to rapidly changing product lines, complex and dexterous tasks, and …

In this paper, we introduce a novel robot programming paradigm. It focuses on reducing the
required expertise in robotics to a level that allows shop floor workers to use robots in their …

The development of cognitive robots in ROS still lacks the support of some key components:
a knowledge integration framework and a framework for autonomous mission execution. In …

The need for autonomous robot systems in both the service and the industrial domain is
larger than ever. In the latter, the transition to small batches or even “batch size 1” in …

The working group Ontologies for Robotics and Automation, sponsored by the IEEE
Robotics & Automation Society, recently proposed a Core Ontology for Robotics and …

This work surveys the state of the art in applying semantic technologies and ontology-based
knowledge representation frameworks to the domains of robotics and cyber-physical …

The effort described in this paper attempts to integrate agility aspects in the “Agility
Performance of Robotic Systems”(APRS) project, developed at the National Institute of …

In this paper, we present foundations of the Socio-physical Model of Activities (SOMA).
SOMA represents both the physical as well as the social context of everyday activities. Such …