Communicating, Interpreting, and Executing High-Level Instructions for Human-Robot Interaction

Nishant Trivedi and Pat Langley and Paul Schermerhorn and Matthias Scheutz

In this paper, we address the problem of communicating, interpreting, and executing complex yet abstract instructions to a robot team member. This requires specifying the tasks in an unambiguous manner, translating them into operational procedures, and carrying out those procedures in a persistent yet reactive manner. We report our response to these issues, after which we demonstrate their combined use in controlling a mobile robot in a multi-room office setting on tasks similar to those in search-and-rescue operations.

@inproceedings{trivedietal11acs,
  title={Communicating, Interpreting, and Executing High-Level Instructions for Human-Robot Interaction},
  author={Nishant Trivedi and Pat Langley and Paul Schermerhorn and Matthias Scheutz},
  year={2011},
  month={November},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 2011 AAAI Fall Symposium on Advances in Cognitive Systems},
  url={https://hrilab.tufts.edu/publications/trivedietal11acs.pdf}
}