LingoDroids

LingoDroids 2017-10-24T21:09:52+00:00

Project Description

Lingodroids are language learning robots that play games to construct shared lexicons. These fascinating mobile robots have learnt lexicons for places, distances, directions, and time. Our latest work demonstrates how to handle referential uncertainty, that is, how to resolve a word’s meaning between multiple candidates.

Further, we have demonstrated language learning between robots that have different embodiment and cognitive capabilities. They differed in their sensors (camera images versus laser ranges); algorithmic approach (biologically-inspired network versus probabilistic particle filter); and spatial representation (semi-metric topological map versus occupancy grid).

Camera iRat talking to the Laser iRat

Camera iRat talking to the Laser iRat

Publications

S. Heath, D. Ball, R. Schulz, J. Wiles (2013) Communication between Lingodroids with different cognitive capabilities, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Karlsruhe, Germany.

S. Heath, R. Schulz, D. Ball, J. Wiles (2012) Long summer days: grounded learning of words for the uneven cycles of real world events, IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development , 4 (3), 192-203

S. Heath, R. Schulz, D. Ball, J. Wiles (2012) Lingodroids: learning terms for time, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Minneapolis, USA