Using semantic fields to model dynamic spatial relations in a robot architecture for natural language instruction of service robots

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 143-150

  Fasola, Juan ^a   Mataric, Maja J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOME ENVIRONMENT; INTERACTIVE INSTRUCTIONS; NATURAL LANGUAGES; REAL WORLD ENVIRONMENTS; ROBOT ARCHITECTURE; SPATIAL LANGUAGE; SPATIAL PREPOSITIONS; USER-SPECIFIED CONSTRAINTS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MOBILE ROBOTS; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 84893767648     PISSN: 21530858     EISSN: 21530866     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2013.6696345     Document Type: Conference Paper

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