2021/11/05 by Kavan Mehrizi, Mehrizi, Kavan
Computer Science · Engineering · Psychology · #Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence #Robotics and Automated Systems #Social Robot Interaction and HRI #cs.HC #cs.RO
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2111.03718
Hopper Dean & NSF REU: Transfer-to-Excellence Research Experiences for Undergraduates (TTE REU), University of California, Berkeley
arxiv created 2021/11/25 · arxiv updated 2021/11/29
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.