2017/09/27 by Raj Korpan, Susan L. Epstein, Korpan, Raj +5
Computer Science · #AI-based Problem Solving and Planning #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC) #Robotics (cs.RO) #Semantic Web and Ontologies #Speech and dialogue systems
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1709.09741
openalex publication_date 2017/09/27 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
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.