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Proactive Human-Robot Interaction using Visuo-Lingual Transformers

Robotics 2023-10-05 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

Humans possess the innate ability to extract latent visuo-lingual cues to infer context through human interaction. During collaboration, this enables proactive prediction of the underlying intention of a series of tasks. In contrast, robotic agents collaborating with humans naively follow elementary instructions to complete tasks or use specific hand-crafted triggers to initiate proactive collaboration when working towards the completion of a goal. Endowing such robots with the ability to reason about the end goal and proactively suggest intermediate tasks will engender a much more intuitive method for human-robot collaboration. To this end, we propose a learning-based method that uses visual cues from the scene, lingual commands from a user and knowledge of prior object-object interaction to identify and proactively predict the underlying goal the user intends to achieve. Specifically, we propose ViLing-MMT, a vision-language multimodal transformer-based architecture that captures inter and intra-modal dependencies to provide accurate scene descriptions and proactively suggest tasks where applicable. We evaluate our proposed model in simulation and real-world scenarios.

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@article{arxiv.2310.02506,
  title  = {Proactive Human-Robot Interaction using Visuo-Lingual Transformers},
  author = {Pranay Mathur},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.02506},
  year   = {2023}
}

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Accepted to IROS'23 Workshop: Geriatronics: AI and Robotics for Health & Well-Being in Older Age and Workshop: Assistive Robotics for Citizens

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