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- | ==== LIving with Robots and InteractivE Companions ==== | + | ====== LIving with Robots and InteractivE Companions |
- | LIREC aims to establish a multi-faceted theory of artificial long-term companions (including memory, emotions, cognition, communication, | + | < |
- | Key areas of the research will focus on are: | + | http:// |
+ | See also [[Project Lirec]] | ||
- | ==Long term companions== | + | =====Theory===== |
- | Robots and agents which build up a long term relationship with their users. | + | |
- | ==Agent migration== | + | |
- | In order to maintain a long term companionship, | + | * [[Theory of Mind in Robotics]] |
- | * Mobile robot | + | |
- | * Fixed robot | + | |
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- | * Fixed graphical system | + | |
- | This migration between these devices, and how people relate to this migration is a core element of the research. | + | =====Ethics===== |
- | ===Scenarios=== | + | * [[Lirec Ethical Issues]] |
- | The scenarios are to be considered preliminary ideas for showcasing the technology developed for lirec, and highlight companionship and mostly exercise migration between devices. | + | =====Architecture===== |
- | ==Heriot Watt== | + | See [[Lirec Architecture]] for an overview |
- | Spirit | + | [[Yet Another Robot Platform]] is part of/ |
- | - Team buddy, mobile robot, collective memory | + | |
- | - Personal guide - for navigating around a university campus, remember appointments etc | + | |
- | - In the wild - a gossip/chat robot - appears on a large screen in social area | + | |
- | ==INESC-ID== | + | =====Agent platforms===== |
- | - Game companion for young children | + | |
- | - Personal trainer (migrate to mobile robot for jogging exercises etc) | + | |
- | - Welcome to the jungle - talk to game characters through a robot, robot can alternate | + | |
- | between real and game world | + | |
- | ==University of Hertfordshire== | + | The platforms currently under consideration for long term companions are: |
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- | - Cognitive prosthetic - memory aid for tasks etc | + | |
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- | ===Architecture=== | + | =====Migration===== |
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+ | An interesting feature of the research is migration between these platforms. Agents which need to build up a long term relationship with their users will have to switch forms depending on the needs of the user at different times. The migration of an agent between devices, and how people relate to it, is a core element of the research. | ||
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+ | =====Scenarios===== | ||
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+ | In order to test and showcase the technology developed for Lirec, several scenarios have been designed to promote companionship. These scenarios are shared between three of the research partners. | ||
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+ | ====Heriot Watt==== | ||
+ | Spirit of the building: | ||
+ | - Team buddy, a mobile robot/ | ||
+ | - Personal guide - for navigating around a university campus, remembering appointments, | ||
+ | - In the wild - a gossip/chat robot - appears on a large screen in a social area | ||
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+ | ====INESC-ID==== | ||
+ | - Game companion for young children | ||
+ | - Personal trainer - which can migrate to mobile robot for jogging exercises | ||
+ | - Welcome to the jungle - talk to game characters through a robot which can alternate between real and game world | ||
- | Has to: | + | ====The University of Hertfordshire==== |
- | - Run on very different platforms | + | - Fetch and carry, |
- | - Reuse code across these platforms | + | - Cognitive prosthetic - memory aid for tasks |
- | - Support | + | - Telepresence card player - a robot mediates play between two people |
+ | - Teaching proxemic preferences - a robot learns where to be relative to the user in different situations | ||
+ | - Travelling companion - agent migration, to stay with user during home, work, shopping | ||
- | Platforms can consist of 4 main types, mobile robot, fixed robot, handheld device or fixed graphical system. Each has it's inherent restrictions. | + | =====Experimental testing===== |
- | ==Existing robot architectures== | + | All scenarios developed are to be experimentally tested and showcased to the public. |
- | In the whole, there is a lack of sharing of this kind of technology. This is partly because generalising is hard in this field, considering all types of robots possible. However, Lirec has to generalise as it's using a wide variety of architectures. | + | |
- | NASREM/NIST RCS - NASA + ESA use a generic system with their subcontractors. | + | TODO |
- | ==Methodology== | + | =====Software===== |
- | In the past there have been 2 broad approaches to robot design: | + | |
- | * Hierarchical, | + | |
- | * Behavioural approach | + | |
- | This can be summed up as predictive vs reactive. | + | |
- | The plan is to use a hybrid approach, example BIRON. Where the predictive constrains the reactive to combine local decisions with a world model. | + | * [[lirec: |
- | The architecture will consist of 3 layers of abstraction: | + | =====Links===== |
- | * Level 1 - device layer, platform dependant | + | |
- | * Level 2 - platform dependant -> logical mappings | + | |
- | * Level 3 - ION, platform independent | + | |
- | Level 2 will provide a reference architecture with modular capabilities called competencies. Not all competencies will make sense for all platforms, and different implementations of the same competency will be needed for different platforms. | + | [[Lirec Work Packages]] |
- | Example competencies: | + | [[http:// |
- | * Face finding | + | |
- | * Expression recognition | + | |
- | * Text to speech | + | |
- | * Obstacle avoidance | + | |
- | YARP |