robots being aware of what they are doing, how to accomplish their goals and why
The collaborative research center
Everyday Activity Science and Engineering (EASE) is an interdisciplinary research initiative at the University of Bremen that attempts to advance our understanding of how human-scale manipulation tasks can be
mastered by robotic agents. The challenge is that the same task needs to be executed by the robot in different ways depending on, for example, what tools are available, and how the environment is shaped. The key to solve this issue is
generalization. However, the robot needs to know more then
what step it needs to execute next -- it further needs to decide on
how the next step is carried out through
motions of its body, and
interactions with its environment. SOMA is an ontological model, developped in CRC EASE, that attempts to equip robotic agents with abstract knowledge to enable them performing activities in a more flexible and robust manner. The main focus of SOMA is the characterization of physical and social activity context, as well as the motions carried out by agents, and the interactions caused by them.
releases
Take a look at SOMA releases, download released artifacts, or directly load them into an online evaluation or visualization tool for ontologies.
Please select one of the releases below.
metrics
Metrics quantify certain characteristics of an ontology such as its readability, adapatability, or reusability.
This is useful to compare different ontologies with each other, but it may also serve as quality control during development.
SOMA metrics are automatically computed by
OntoMetrics, a webservice for ontology evaluation that supports several different metrics.
For more information about the computed metrics, please visit the
OntoMetrics wiki.
The results of this computation for the latest SOMA version is displayed below.
