**2.2 Standard ontologies beyond CORA**

As said, CORA is a quite general standard that is not very effective for concrete applications. The above-mentioned ontologies by Olszewska or Fiorini try to provide more specific ontologies directly usable in concrete applications.

This fact is recognized by the Standards Association of the IEEE who is currently developing a collection of CORA-based standards to address different aspects of the robotics domain. These standards address different aspects of relevance like task specification, autonomy, ethics, agility, or verification of autonomous behavior.

In particular, the Robotics and Automation Society Standing Committee on standards working group 1872.2<sup>2</sup> is elaborating a CORA-based standard ontology for autonomous robotics [13]—the Autonomous Robotics (AuR) Ontology.

The AuR standard under development shall extend the CORA ontology by defining additional ontologies for the autonomous robots domain. These ontologies will address different aspects of relevance: (i) general concepts for autonomous robots; (ii) core design patterns specific to autonomous robot systems; and (iii) general use cases and/or case studies.
