IEEE 1872.1-2024 ✓ Most Recent

The standard aims at providing a set of well-founded ontologies specifying vocabulary and definitions about shared concepts and relations in Industrial Robotics and Automation. By providing a standard vocabulary and control schema for industrial robots, end-users can utilize systems from different suppliers in their operations. This has the potential to increase competition and reduce prices for these systems. Human-robot and heterogeneous robot-robot communication and interaction require well-defined, implementation-independent, standard vocabulary and definitions. Such requirements become particularly relevant in industrial contexts where safe robot communication and integration require clearly defined standards. Ontologies constitute a tool to create semantically rich, formal vocabularies. Recent standardization efforts by IEEE are employing ontologies for standardization in Robotics and Automation (R&A). However, such efforts have been limited to general terminology covering the entire field. Individual subdomains of R&A, such as Industrial Robotics, require specific theories, implying the need for standardized ontologies.