Towards a Neuronally Consistent Ontology for Robotic Agents

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Main Authors: Ahrens, Florian, Pomarlan, Mihai, Beßler, Daniel, Fehr, Thorsten, Beetz, Michael, Herrmann, Manfred
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author Ahrens, Florian
Pomarlan, Mihai
Beßler, Daniel
Fehr, Thorsten
Beetz, Michael
Herrmann, Manfred
author_facet Ahrens, Florian
Pomarlan, Mihai
Beßler, Daniel
Fehr, Thorsten
Beetz, Michael
Herrmann, Manfred
contents The Collaborative Research Center for Everyday Activity Science & Engineering (CRC EASE) aims to enable robots to perform environmental interaction tasks with close to human capacity. It therefore employs a shared ontology to model the activity of both kinds of agents, empowering robots to learn from human experiences. To properly describe these human experiences, the ontology will strongly benefit from incorporating characteristics of neuronal information processing which are not accessible from a behavioral perspective alone. We, therefore, propose the analysis of human neuroimaging data for evaluation and validation of concepts and events defined in the ontology model underlying most of the CRC projects. In an exploratory analysis, we employed an Independent Component Analysis (ICA) on functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) data from participants who were presented with the same complex video stimuli of activities as robotic and human agents in different environments and contexts. We then correlated the activity patterns of brain networks represented by derived components with timings of annotated event categories as defined by the ontology model. The present results demonstrate a subset of common networks with stable correlations and specificity towards particular event classes and groups, associated with environmental and contextual factors. These neuronal characteristics will open up avenues for adapting the ontology model to be more consistent with human information processing.
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spellingShingle Towards a Neuronally Consistent Ontology for Robotic Agents
Ahrens, Florian
Pomarlan, Mihai
Beßler, Daniel
Fehr, Thorsten
Beetz, Michael
Herrmann, Manfred
Neurons and Cognition
Robotics
The Collaborative Research Center for Everyday Activity Science & Engineering (CRC EASE) aims to enable robots to perform environmental interaction tasks with close to human capacity. It therefore employs a shared ontology to model the activity of both kinds of agents, empowering robots to learn from human experiences. To properly describe these human experiences, the ontology will strongly benefit from incorporating characteristics of neuronal information processing which are not accessible from a behavioral perspective alone. We, therefore, propose the analysis of human neuroimaging data for evaluation and validation of concepts and events defined in the ontology model underlying most of the CRC projects. In an exploratory analysis, we employed an Independent Component Analysis (ICA) on functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) data from participants who were presented with the same complex video stimuli of activities as robotic and human agents in different environments and contexts. We then correlated the activity patterns of brain networks represented by derived components with timings of annotated event categories as defined by the ontology model. The present results demonstrate a subset of common networks with stable correlations and specificity towards particular event classes and groups, associated with environmental and contextual factors. These neuronal characteristics will open up avenues for adapting the ontology model to be more consistent with human information processing.
title Towards a Neuronally Consistent Ontology for Robotic Agents
topic Neurons and Cognition
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.14841