Quadrupedal Robotic Guide Dog with Vocal Human-Robot Interaction

Kavan Mehrizi

Quadrupedal Robotic Guide Dog with Vocal Human-Robot Interaction

Human-Computer Interaction 2021-11-29 v2 Robotics

Authors: Kavan Mehrizi

Abstract

Guide dogs play a critical role in the lives of many, however training them is a time- and labor-intensive process. We are developing a method to allow an autonomous robot to physically guide humans using direct human-robot communication. The proposed algorithm will be deployed on a Unitree A1 quadrupedal robot and will autonomously navigate the person to their destination while communicating with the person using a speech interface compatible with the robot. This speech interface utilizes cloud based services such as Amazon Polly and Google Cloud to serve as the text-to-speech and speech-to-text engines.

Keywords

human-robot interaction

Cite

@article{arxiv.2111.03718,
  title  = {Quadrupedal Robotic Guide Dog with Vocal Human-Robot Interaction},
  author = {Kavan Mehrizi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.03718},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

Hopper Dean & NSF REU: Transfer-to-Excellence Research Experiences for Undergraduates (TTE REU), University of California, Berkeley

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