Spacepartner Project Summary Video
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SpacePartner is a co-sponsored project of
European Space agency and Aalto university
The problem is that humans and robots communicate differently
Robots cannot understand natural human speech
Humans, instead, cannot use efficiently fixed requests required by robots
Our solution is a robot with a human-like ability to utilise links between objects and actions
This kind of robot can interpret task-related action and object names as task requests
Four user experiments are used to evaluate the idea
Two are performed with a fully autonomous robot in a planetary exploration work context
Two with a simulated robot in a lander assembly work context
The results show decrease both in the human workload and in the task communication times
The method can facilitate any human-robot communication that includes recurring tasks
Human: "module"
Robot: "Take module"
Human: "Yes"
Robot: "New task, taking the module"
Please see our web page for more information
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