Human-Robot Interaction Through Gesture-Free Spoken Dialogue

  • Authors:

  • Vladimir Kulyukin

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Computer Science, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322, USA. vladimir.kulyukin@usu.edu

  • Venue:
  • Autonomous Robots
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

We present an approach to human-robot interaction through gesture-free spoken dialogue. Our approach is based on passive knowledge rarefication through goal disambiguation, a technique that allows a human operator to collaborate with a mobile robot on various tasks through spoken dialogue without making bodily gestures. A key assumption underlying our approach is that the operator and the robot share a common set of goals. Another key idea is that language, vision, and action share common memory structures.We discuss how our approach achieves four types of human-robot interaction: command, goal disambiguation, introspection, and instruction-based learning. We describe the system we developed to implement our approach and present experimental results.