EK-Lyon:
Robot Command, Control and Interrogation by Spoken Language
EK-Lyon is
French-Mexican Project on Human Robot Interaction. The goal is to provide a flexible spoken language interface, to
be demonstrated by “coaching” robots in the context of RoboCup, and RoboCup at
Home.
Our cooperative project is financed by the LAFMI – the Laboratoire Franco-Mexicain
d'Informatique, a joint project linking computer science and robotics
laboratories in France and Mexico.
Thanks to this funding, we have been able to achieve some impressive
results.
At the RoboCup 2006 In Bremen, we competed in
the first RoboCupAtHome
competition. This was a very exciting
event in which robots had to interact with humans in an “at home”
environment. We successfully completed
the “Follow a human” test, which allowed us to participate in the Open
Challenge. In the Open Challenge, we
used the technology developed in the LAFMI project to demonstrate spoken
language control and on-line real-time behavior learning, corresponding to a “robot
coach” capability. In the Open Challenge we placed 2nd behind the
team from Carnegie Mellon, and placed 4th overall within the group
of 11 competing teams. Here is a video
of the Open Challenge of RoboCupAtHome.
The Robotica Group at ITAM in Mexico is
directed by Prof. Alfredo Weitzenfeld, and specializes visually guided
autonomous robot control.
The Sequential Cognition and Language Group of
the CNRS in Lyon is directed by Peter F. Dominey, and specializes in
neurocomputational studies of language processing and learning.
VIDEO DEMOS of HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION VIA
SPOKEN LANGAUGE
PUBLICATIONS
ON HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION
Contacts
Dominey at isc.cnrs.fr
Alfredo at itam.mx