Monitoring the State of a Ubiquitous Robotic System: A Fuzzy Logic Approach

— A trend is emerging in the fields of ambient intelligence (AmI) and autonomous robotics, which points in the direction of a merger between these two fields. The inclusion of robotic devices in AmI system, sometimes named ubiquitous robotics, makes one of the hard problems in this field even harder: how can we provide a comfortable, natural interface between the everyday user and a complex system which consists of a large multitude of highly heterogeneous devices? In this paper, we address a specific, important aspect of this problem: to monitor the state of the ubiquitous system by the user of the system. The solution that we propose is based on two mechanisms: an expression-based semantics to represent in a uniform way the status of heterogeneous devices; and a common interface point to aggregate the information from all devices into a summary status presented to the user. For both mechanisms, we propose to use the tools of fuzzy logic. We justify this choice by arguments grou...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: FUZZIEEE
• Authors: Donatella Guarino, Alessandro Saffiotti
• Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, FUZZIEEE 2007, Fuzzy Logic, Heterogeneous Devices, Ubiquitous Robotic