MovingTo and MovingAway

[shoeffner]

MovingTo is defined as a Navigating < Task, while MovingAway is a Motion < ProcessType.

Is there a direct opposite of MovingAway, e.g., MovingTowards? Is there a direct opposite of MovingTo such as MovingFrom?
Or are they inherently opposite but categorized differently (after all, both are events, but I don't understand how one can be a ProcessType while the other is a Task).

In SCG, there is a GeneralDirectionNearing used (which is not defined in SOMA, see https://gitlab.informatik.uni-bremen.de/vanja/scg/-/issues/9) which could map (in the context of "take the cup to the table") to MovingTo (as it is a navigation task), but one could also understand it as a Motion towards ("The robot moves to the table").

How should this be handled?

[daniel86]

In principle action and process is not disjoint. So there could be an event conceptualized as task and as motion.
As a rule of a thumb, motions may be unintentional while tasks are always intentional.
So at the moment you could say that there was an event where the task was to move close to somewhere, and that this was done through a directed motion.

But I see the confusion with the naming...

[shoeffner]

But that means I would have to model "moving to the table" in a very different fashion than "moving away from the table", right?

[ayden175]

What is the state of this issue? Is there a plan to adapt the naming or definitions?