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    Adding Common Sense to Robots Using Ontology
    (International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology, 2025-04-11) Ranathunga, R.A.A.L; Rajapaksha, S
    This work investigates how ontological frameworks might improve robots’ ability to reason using common sense. The goal of the project was to enhance robot decision-making in dynamic real-world situations by developing an ontology-based model retraining technique. The researchers wanted to incorporate organized commonsense knowledge into robotic systems, so they built extensive ontologies that captured knowledge about the physical world and human interactions. The research compared the performance of robots with conventional models (control group) to those with ontology-enhanced models (experimental group) across various measures. The results indicate that this strategy may be used to develop more competent and user-friendly robotic helpers for a variety of sectors, including industry, healthcare, and education. Although the study has limitations related to data quality and experimental design, it does demonstrate the promise of ontology-based techniques to advance autonomous systems and human-robot interactions. Extending ontology databases, multidisciplinary cooperation, and investigating applications in other sectors are some of the future research goals.
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    Automated Crop Harvesting, Growth Monitoring and Disease Detection System for Vertical Farming Greenhouse
    (2021 3rd International Conference on Advancements in Computing (ICAC), SLIIT, 2021-12-09) Jayasekara, C.; Banneka, S.; Pasindu, G.; Udawaththa, Y.; Wellalage, S.; Abeygunawardhane, P.K.W.
    - Greenhouses are a type of cultivation method used to optimize the production of crops by using controlled climatic conditions and other external factors. They are widely used in agriculture both globally and locally. Vertical farming is the modern practice of growing crops in vertically stacked layers in warehouses that aims to optimize and develop plant growth by using controlled environment agriculture. This type of agriculture concept is practiced in Sri Lanka at present. This research paper proposes a robot which consists of a specific navigation system and harvesting mechanism that can be used inside greenhouses. The proposed system can be implemented to harvest lettuce in the vertical farming greenhouses where lettuce needs to be harvested with care to ensure the supermarket quality. The above-mentioned system helps to detect the diseases of plants also where a lot of time can be saved, and less effort is made with the use of this type of implementation.