ScoutBot: A Dialogue System for Collaborative Navigation
This work addresses the problem of human-robot interaction for exploration tasks, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing Wizard-of-Oz training methods without major breakthroughs.
The authors introduced ScoutBot, a dialogue system for collaborative navigation that allows users to issue unconstrained spoken commands to robots, prompting for clarification when needed, and demonstrated it using a simulated robot in a ROS environment.
ScoutBot is a dialogue interface to physical and simulated robots that supports collaborative exploration of environments. The demonstration will allow users to issue unconstrained spoken language commands to ScoutBot. ScoutBot will prompt for clarification if the user's instruction needs additional input. It is trained on human-robot dialogue collected from Wizard-of-Oz experiments, where robot responses were initiated by a human wizard in previous interactions. The demonstration will show a simulated ground robot (Clearpath Jackal) in a simulated environment supported by ROS (Robot Operating System).