Grounding the Interaction: Anchoring Situated Discourse in Everyday Human-Robot Interaction

Séverin Lemaignan (1, 2) , Raquel Ros (1) , Emrah Akin Sisbot (1) , Rachid Alami (1) , Michael Beetz (2)

1 LAAS - Laboratoire d'analyse et d'architecture des systèmes
2 Intelligent Autonomous Systems

This paper presents how extraction, representation and use of symbolic knowledge from real-world perception and human-robot verbal and non-verbal in-teraction can actually enable a grounded and shared model of the world that is suitable for later high-level tasks such as dialogue understanding. We show how the anchoring process itself relies on the situated nature of human-robot interactions. We present an integrated approach, including a specialized symbolic knowledge representation system based on Description Logics, and case studies on several robotic platforms that demonstrate these cognitive capabilities.

Mots clés: human-robot interaction; symbol grounding; ontologies

Domaines: Robotique [cs.RO]

Séverin Lemaignan, Raquel Ros, Emrah Akin Sisbot, Rachid Alami, Michael Beetz. Grounding the Interaction: Anchoring Situated Discourse in Everyday Human-Robot Interaction. International Journal of Social Robotics, 2012, 4 (2), pp.181-199. ⟨10.1007/s12369-011-0123-x⟩. ⟨hal-00664546⟩