Leveraging Human Interaction to Learn and Reason over Multimodal Object Affordances

Abstract

The performer proposes to develop a domain-independent robotics framework that leverages semantic reasoning and situated interaction with a user and the environment in order to enable robust task execution in complex, novel environments. Specifically, their approach leverages three data sources - semantic networks, human interaction and exploration of the environment to 1) mine semantic language resources to construct an affordance knowledge base specific to the objects and locations in the robot s domain, 2) ground the knowledge base by modeling visual, tactile and auditory attributes and usability a affordances of objects in the environment through situated interaction, and 3) enable the robot to adapt to changes in its environment through inference over the resulting knowledge base.

Document Details

Document Type
DoD Grant Award
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2016
Source ID
N000141612835

Entities

People

  • Sonia Chernova

Organizations

  • Georgia Tech Research Corporation
  • Office of Naval Research
  • United States Navy

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Autonomous Systems
  • Autonomy