Meet HanS, the Health&Safety autonomous inspector

Emanuele Bastianelli, Gianluca Bardaro, Ilaria Tiddi, Enrico Motta

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Abstract

We present here one of the demonstrators we implemented as part of our research on the integration of robots in smart cities, where an autonomous mobile platform is employed for monitoring and assessing the Health&Safety rules in a smart office environment in combination with a centralised infrastructure for data integration, processing and reasoning. Monitoring of the status of infrastructures and environments still presents a number of challenges in terms of knowledge acquisition and representation, as data need to constantly be re-evaluated due to their high dynamism. Common solutions, ranging from human monitoring to sensor deployment, fail in flexibility, costs and, in the case of large scale scenarios, scalability. We focus on the idea that autonomous mobile agents can be used as moving sensors deployed by a larger, knowledge-based infrastructure, where the central unit collects and reasons over the information produced by the agents. In particular, the paper presents HanS, the Health&Safety inspector, with the goal of showing that applications integrating robots as data consumers and collectors can be deployed thanks to a combination of state-of-the-art semantic and robotics technologies.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationISWC-P&D-Industry-BlueSky 2018 - ISWC 2018 Posters & Demonstrations, Industry and Blue Sky Ideas Tracks
Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of the ISWC 2018 Posters & Demonstrations, Industry and Blue Sky Ideas Tracks co-located with 17th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2018) Monterey, USA, October 8th to 12th, 2018
EditorsMarieke van Erp, Medha Atre, Vanessa Lopez, Kavitha Srinivas, Carolina Fortuna
PublisherCEUR-WS.org
Pages1-4
Number of pages4
Publication statusPublished - 2018
Event2018 ISWC Posters and Demonstrations, Industry and Blue Sky Ideas Tracks, ISWC-P and D-Industry-BlueSky 2018 - Monterey, United States
Duration: 8 Oct 201812 Oct 2018

Publication series

NameCEUR Workshop Proceedings
PublisherCEUR Workshop Proceedings
Volume2180
ISSN (Print)1613-0073

Conference

Conference2018 ISWC Posters and Demonstrations, Industry and Blue Sky Ideas Tracks, ISWC-P and D-Industry-BlueSky 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityMonterey
Period8/10/1812/10/18

Keywords

  • Knowledge Acquisition
  • Mobile Sensors
  • Robots

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