Grounding Dynamic Spatial Relations for Embodied (Robot) Interaction
This work addresses the challenge of embodied robotic interaction by providing a foundational integration of disparate research strands, though it appears incremental in combining existing approaches.
The paper tackles the problem of enabling autonomous robots to produce and interpret dynamic spatial phrases in English within environments of moving objects, by introducing a computational model that integrates computational cognitive semantics with commonsense spatial representation and reasoning.
This paper presents a computational model of the processing of dynamic spatial relations occurring in an embodied robotic interaction setup. A complete system is introduced that allows autonomous robots to produce and interpret dynamic spatial phrases (in English) given an environment of moving objects. The model unites two separate research strands: computational cognitive semantics and on commonsense spatial representation and reasoning. The model for the first time demonstrates an integration of these different strands.