Qualitative Spatial Modelling of Human Route Instructions to Mobile Robots

Author

Shi, Hui ; Jian, Cui ; Krieg-Bruckner, B.

Author_Institution

DFKI, Univ. Bremen, Bremen, Germany

fYear

2010

fDate

10-15 Feb. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper describes our work on improving interaction between humans and mobile robots on navigation tasks. To represent and reason about humans´ route instructions, a user-centered qualitative spatial model- the Conceptual Route Graph - is introduced. Three reasoning strategies based on this conceptual model are discussed, which enable a mobile robot to generate different clarification responses if spatial mismatches are detected in route instructions. Moreover, results of an empirical study to evaluate and compare their effects on people´s navigation activities are presented.

Keywords

graph theory; human-robot interaction; mobile robots; path planning; conceptual route graph; human route instructions; mobile robots; navigation tasks; qualitative spatial modelling; Cognition; Cognitive robotics; Collaboration; Computer aided instruction; Humans; Mobile robots; Natural languages; Navigation; Robot control; Robotics and automation; human-robot interaction; mode confusion; qualitative spatial representation and reasoning; user focus;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advances in Computer-Human Interactions, 2010. ACHI '10. Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Saint Maarten

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5693-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACHI.2010.25

Filename

5430131