@unpublished{AwaadKraetzschmarHertzberg2014, author = {Iman Awaad and Gerhard Kraetzschmar and Joachim Hertzberg}, title = {Challenges in Finding Ways to get the Job Done}, institution = {Fachbereich Informatik}, year = {2014}, abstract = {Humans exhibit flexible and robust behavior in achieving their goals. We make suitable substitutions for objects, actions, or tools to get the job done. When opportunities that would allow us to reach our goals with less effort arise, we often take advantage of them. Robots are not nearly as robust in handling such situations. Enabling a domestic service robot to find ways to get a job done by making substitutions is the goal of our work. In this paper, we highlight the challenges faced in our approach to combine Hierarchical Task Network planning, Description Logics, and the notions of affordances and conceptual similarity. We present open questions in modeling the necessary knowledge, creating planning problems, and enabling the system to handle cases where plan generation fails due to missing/unavailable objects.}, language = {en} }