Title

Development Of A Squad Level Vocabulary For Human-Robot Interaction

Keywords

Human-robot interaction; human-robot teaming; mixed-initiative teams; speech recognition

Abstract

Interaction with robots in military applications is trending away from teleoperation and towards collaboration. Enabling this transition requires technologies for natural and intuitive communication between Soldiers and robots. Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) systems designed using a well-defined lexicon are likely to be more robust to the challenges of dynamic and noisy environments inherent to military operations. To successfully apply this approach to ASR development, lexicons should involve an early focus on the target audience. To facilitate development a vocabulary focused at the squad level for Human Robot Interaction (HRI), 31 Soldiers from Officer Candidate School at Ft. Benning, GA provided hypothetical commands for directing an autonomous robot to perform a variety of spatial navigation and reconnaissance tasks. These commands were analyzed, using word frequency counts and heuristics, to determine the structure and word choice of commands. Results presented provide a baseline Squad Level Vocabulary (SLV) and a foundation for development of HRI technologies enabling multi-modal communications within mixed-initiative teams. © 2014 Springer International Publishing.

Publication Date

1-1-2014

Publication Title

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volume

8525 LNCS

Issue

PART 1

Number of Pages

139-148

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07458-0_14

Socpus ID

84903627076 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84903627076

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