NDLI: Towards cognitive robot companions

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Chatila, R.
Copyright Year	2008
Description	Author affiliation: LAAS, Toulouse, France (Chatila, R.)
Abstract	If robots have to be, one day, part of our environment and assist humans in their daily life, they will have to be endowed not only with the necessary functions for sensing, moving and acting, but also and inevitably, with more advanced cognitive capacities. Indeed a robot that will interact with people will need to be able to understand the spatial and dynamic structure of its environment, to exhibit a social behavior, to communicate with humans at the appropriate level of abstraction, to focus its attention and to take decisions for achieving tasks, to learn new knowledge and to evolve new capacities in an open-ended fashion. The COGNIRON (The Cognitive Robot Companion) $project^{1}$ studies the development of robots whose ultimate task would be serve and assist humans. Research is carried out in four main domains: Perception and spatial cognition. The project addresses the fundamental questions of scene understanding, object learning and recognition, and semantic labeling of space through interacting with humans. Human-Robot interaction. Enabling an embodied dialogue capability is essential for a cognitive robot companion interacting with humans. One of the crucial aspects is handling multi-modality to cope gestures and other non-verbal signals and to make references to the environment shared with humans. Another aspect of Human-robot interaction lies in understanding human actions by the robot so that it can act in an appropriate manner and understand human needs. This requires visual detection and tracking of humans, of their faces, 3D modeling of human body, interpretation of human activities based on gestures, postures, attitudes, and motions. Finally, the robot must exhibit an acceptable social behavior, respecting human social spaces and affective factors (e.g., user comfort). Decision-making and expression of intentions. Making decisions, be it for autonomous task achievement or for humanrobot interaction, is a fundamental capability of a cognitive robot. The project studies decision-making abilities in uncertain and varying environments, shared decision-making and actions with humans, intentionality expression by robots during interaction with humans, as well as cognitive architectures for the integration of robot capabilities. Learning. For a robot companion to show adaptive, life-long learning behavior, it must be capable of acquiring new skills when required, and of incremental acquisition of skills for learning complete tasks. Imitation learning from humans is one of the main approaches investigated by the project to achieve this learning capability. The talk will overview the achievements of the project and its results that are demonstrated in three main experimental settings, enabling to exhibit the abovementioned cognitive capacities : the robot home tour, the curious and proactive robot and the robot learner.
Sponsorship	Assoc. Comput. Mach.
Starting Page	391
Ending Page	391
File Size	41836
Page Count	1
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781605580173
ISSN	21672148
e-ISBN	9781605580173
DOI	10.1145/1349822.1349876
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2008-03-12
Publisher Place	Netherlands
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM)
Subject Keyword	Robot kinematics Decision making Humans Europe Computer architecture Robot sensing systems
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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