Installation

Please refer to the installation instructions here: http://www.knowrob.org/installation

Documentation and Package List

• Starting and accessing Prolog

  • rosprolog: Start an interactive Prolog shell

  • json_prolog: Start ROS service that offers a query interface

• Base system

  • ias_knowledge_base: Core ontology and basic reasoning modules

  • knowrob_common: Common utilities for handling OWL (import/export, OWL reasoner interface, convenience query predicates), units of measure, and other generic functionality

  • knowrob_objects: Object-related functionality, supporting spatio-temporal reasoning, generation of the internal object representation, representation and conversion of coordinates

  • knowrob_actions: Read action properties, project effects of actions and processes, reason about transformations of objects induced by actions

  • ias_semantic_map: Semantic environment map representation in OWL

  • ias_prolog_addons: Prolog extensions such as the interface to the Weka and Mallet classification libraries, Jython interface, computation of semantic similarity measures between concepts

  • semweb: Semantic Web library of SWI prolog with extensions, e.g. computable properties

  • thea: OWL parser library

• Reasoning packages

  • comp_spatial: Compute qualitative spatial relations from object poses

  • comp_temporal: Compute temporal relations, e.g. Allen's interval algebra

  • mod_vis: Visualization of the content of the knowledge base

  • knowrob_cad_models: Load Collada models for visualization and reasoning

  • mod_srdl: Description of robot components and capabilities and methods for matching these descriptions against requirements of actions

  • mod_probcog: Interface to the ProbCog statistical relational learning library

• Interfaces to perception components

  • prolog_perception: (deprecated) Integration of perception using a Prolog module

  • comp_cop: Interface to the CoP perception system

  • knowrob_objects: Generic library for creating the KnowRob-internal object representation

• Probabilistic reasoning

  • srldb: Package with the ProbCog library

• Related packages:

  • comp_ehow: Import of natural-language web instructions, removed from KnowRob to reduce dependencies

Further documentation can be found here: http://www.knowrob.org/doc

Tutorials

More tutorials can be found in the extensive documentation section of the KnowRob wiki.

Issue tracker

Please file bugs and feature requests here: https://github.com/knowrob/knowrob/issues

Publications

The most comprehensive overview of the KnowRob system and related research can be found in Moritz Tenorth's PhD thesis. The full list of KnowRob-related publications is available at http://www.knowrob.org/publications

When you publish a paper using KnowRob, please cite the 2013 IJRR article:

@Article{tenorth13knowrob,
  author  = {Moritz Tenorth and Michael Beetz},
  title   = {{KnowRob -- A Knowledge Processing Infrastructure for
              Cognition-enabled Robots. Part 1: The KnowRob System}},
  journal = {International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR)},
  year    = {2013},
  volume  = {32},
  number  = {5},
  pages   = {566 -- 590},
  month   = {April},
  year    = {2013}
}

Acknowledgments

The development of KnowRob has received funding from the DFG excellence initiative research cluster Cognition for Technical Systems (CoTeSys) and the EU FP7 projects RoboEarth and RoboHow.