Clock-Model-Assisted Agent’s Spatial Navigation

Joanna Isabelle Olszewska

2017

Abstract

Intelligent agent’s navigation remotely controlled by means of natural language commands is of great help for robots operating in rescue activities or assistive aid. Whereas full conversation between the human commander and the agent could be limited in such situations, we propose thus to build human/robot dialogues based directly on semantically meaningful instructions like the directional spatial relations, in particular represented by the clock model, to efficiently communicate orders to the agent in the way it successfully gets to a target’s position. Experiments within real-world, simulated scenario have demonstrated the usefulness and effectiveness of our developed approach.

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Olszewska J. (2017). Clock-Model-Assisted Agent’s Spatial Navigation . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-758-220-2, pages 687-692. DOI: 10.5220/0006253706870692


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@conference{icaart17,
author={Joanna Isabelle Olszewska},
title={Clock-Model-Assisted Agent’s Spatial Navigation},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,},
year={2017},
pages={687-692},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006253706870692},
isbn={978-989-758-220-2},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,
TI - Clock-Model-Assisted Agent’s Spatial Navigation
SN - 978-989-758-220-2
AU - Olszewska J.
PY - 2017
SP - 687
EP - 692
DO - 10.5220/0006253706870692