Speaker:
Felix Lindner
 
Title:
Conceptual Modeling for Social Robots
 
Abstract:
Social robotics is concerned with the design of robots that smoothly integrate themselves in everyday environments, and that ultimately establish and maintain social relationships with humans. This talk discusses some of the modeling challenges that arise from these objectives. Whereas many conceptual models have been built formalizing domain knowledge for business software, conceptual models for social-robot software need to capture completely different notions that have, however, long been studied in philosophy. I argue that logics-based conceptual modeling builds a natural bridge between philosophy and software engineering for robotics. Two case studies showcase how the concepts "reason for action" and "will" were incorporated into a social robot's decision-making module.