Authors:
Tamás Mészáros
and
Tadeusz Dobrowiecki
Affiliation:
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Keyword(s):
Human-Machine Interaction (HMI), Human-Robot Interface (HRI), Human/Robot-Communication (HCL), Controlled Natural Language (CNL), Robot Operating System (ROS).
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Applications
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Human-Computer Interaction
;
Intelligent User Interfaces
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Natural Language Processing
;
Pattern Recognition
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
We present the architecture of a flexible natural language based interface to robots involved in tasks in a
mixed-initiative human-robot environment. The designed interface uses a bidirectional natural language
communication pertinent to the user, the robot and the tasks at hand. Tasks are executed via agents that can
communicate and engage in conversation with the user using task-specific controlled natural languages. The
final interface language is dynamically composed and reconfigured at the interface level according to the tasks
and skills of the robotic system. The multi-agent infrastructure is fused with the ROS robotic middleware to
provide seamless communication to all system components at various level of abstraction.