WHY: Natural Explanations from a Robot Navigator
Artificial Intelligence
2017-09-29 v1 Computation and Language
Human-Computer Interaction
Robotics
Abstract
Effective collaboration between a robot and a person requires natural communication. When a robot travels with a human companion, the robot should be able to explain its navigation behavior in natural language. This paper explains how a cognitively-based, autonomous robot navigation system produces informative, intuitive explanations for its decisions. Language generation here is based upon the robot's commonsense, its qualitative reasoning, and its learned spatial model. This approach produces natural explanations in real time for a robot as it navigates in a large, complex indoor environment.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1709.09741,
title = {WHY: Natural Explanations from a Robot Navigator},
author = {Raj Korpan and Susan L. Epstein and Anoop Aroor and Gil Dekel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.09741},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
Accepted at AAAI 2017 Fall Symposium on Natural Communication for Human-Robot Collaboration