Web Perspectives in Robotics Applications

Abstract

The realms of commonsense knowledge and reasoning, vehicle automation with full as well as partial autonomy, and human-robot collaboration, present growing areas of research in recent times, with much of the concerned data being disseminated through the Web and devices encompassing IoT (Internet of Things); the data per se being heterogeneous including plain text, images, audiovisuals, hypertext and hypermedia. Due to the advent of autonomous vehicles, there is a greater need for the embodiment of commonsense knowledge within their development in order to simulate subtle, intuitive aspects of human judgment. The field of robotics has often encountered collaborative tasks between humans and robots to enhance the respective activities involved and produce better results than humans or robots would achieve working by themselves. Accordingly, this article outlines and organizes some of the research occurring in these areas along with its Web perspectives and applications. Context related to human-robot collaboration and commonsense knowledge appears via a survey of the literature. Vehicle automation is significant with the relevant studies: its definition and methods of improvement are of focus in the article. Some work in this area makes an impact on smart manufacturing. There is discussion on how human-robot collaboration is beneficial, and how commonsense knowledge is useful for the collaboration to occur in an enhanced manner. This article would be potentially interesting to various communities, e.g. AI professionals, Web developers, robotics engineers, and data scientists.