Towards Collaboration with Robots in Shared Space: Spatial Perspective and Frames of Reference
Abstract
Imagine mobile robots of the future working side by side with humans, collaborating in a shared workspace. For this to become a reality, robots must be able to do something that humans do constantly: understand how others perceive space and the relative positions of objects around them -- they need the ability to see things from another person's point of view. The authors' research group and others are building computational, cognitive, and linguistic models that can deal with frames of reference. Issues include dealing with constantly changing frames of reference, changes in spatial perspective, understanding what actions to take, the use of new words, and common ground. Their approach is an implementation informed by cognitive and computational theories. It is based on developing computational cognitive models (CCMs) of certain high-level cognitive skills humans possess that are relevant for collaborative tasks. They then use these models as reasoning mechanisms for their robots. Why do they propose using CCMs as opposed to more traditional programming paradigms for robots? They believe that by giving the robots similar representations and reasoning mechanisms to those used by humans, they will build robots that act in a way that is more compatible with humans.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 01, 2005
- Accession Number
- ADA480177
Entities
People
- Alan C. Schultz
- J. G. Trafton