Automatic robot programming from learned abstract task knowledge

Robots with the capability of learning new tasks from humans need the ability to transform gathered abstract task knowledge into their own representation and dimensionality. New task knowledge that has been acquired e.g. with Programming by Demonstration approaches by observing a human does not a-priori contain any robot-specific knowledge and actions, and is defined in the workspace and action space of the human demonstrator. This paper presents an approach for mapping abstract human-centered task knowledge to a robot execution system based on the target system properties. Therefore the required background knowledge about the target system is examined and defined explicitely. The mapping process is described based on this knowledge, and experiments and an evaluation are given.