We carry out a comparative study of the expressive power of different ontologies of matter in terms of the ease with which simple physical knowledge can be represented. In particu...
Currently, the viability of infrared IR as an accurate means of measuring distance depends on extensive prior knowledge of the surface. More speci cally, the manner in which a sur...
Accurate knowledge of depth continues to be of critical importance in robotic systems. Without accurate depth knowledge, tasks such as inspection, tracking, grasping, and collisio...
— In this paper, we consider the problem of how background knowledge about usual object arrangements can be utilized by a mobile robot to more efficiently find an object in an ...
Abstract— The future of robots, as our companions is dependent on their ability to understand, interpret and represent the environment in a human compatible manner. Towards this ...