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Knowledge representation for a trash collecting robot: results from the 2004 AAAI Spring Symposium

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Author(s)

Stephen B. Balakirsky, Elena R. Messina, Craig I. Schlenoff, S Smith, M Uschold

Abstract

The attendees of the Knowledge Representation and Ontologies for Autonomous Systems Symposium applied their collective intelligence in an attempt to solve one of the universe?s great challenges: how do you autonomously collect garbage from an airport facility? The attendees divided into three pre-selected, cross-disciplinary groups that were headed by Stephen Balakirsky (NIST), Elena Messina (NIST), and Scott Smith (Boeing). The teams were given limited direction and 3 h to develop a solution to the problem. Results from the groups were briefed the following morning at a plenary session.
Citation
Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Volume
49

Keywords

autonomous systems, Challenge problem, Knowledge Engineering, knowledge representation, Mobility, Robotics & Intelligent Systems

Citation

Balakirsky, S. , Messina, E. , Schlenoff, C. , Smith, S. and Uschold, M. (2004), Knowledge representation for a trash collecting robot: results from the 2004 AAAI Spring Symposium, Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=822601 (Accessed October 3, 2025)

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Created December 30, 2004, Updated October 12, 2021
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