An Experimental Testbed for Knowledge Distributed Robot Systems

A knowledge distributed robot system is proposed to generate sophisticated robotic behavior for real world applications with minimal programming effort. Whenever new products are brought into our daily life, robots should integrate them into existing recognizable environments. To solve robot programming difficulties, a distributed knowledge network connecting heterogeneous knowledge resources is proposed to collectively build up robots' knowledge required to accomplish a task. Specifically, the knowledge integrator merges specific knowledge with existing knowledge into a task requiring knowledge. For this, manufacturers put their product data tailored to bring out robot behaviors online and robots may access the data without authorization. To verify the validity of the proposed system, a testbed is built and table clearing task is performed.