Culturally aware Planning and Execution of Robot Actions

Khaliq, Ali Abdul; Köckemann, Uwe; Pecora, Federico; Saffiotti, Alessandro; Bruno, Barbara; Recchiuto, Carmine Tommaso; Sgorbissa, Antonio; Bui, Ha-Duong; Chong, Nak Young

doi:10.1109/iros.2018.8593570

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“…Beetz et al, 2018, Tenorth et al 2015Stenmark et al 2018In the context of CARESSES, Sgorbissa et al (2018) discuss how guidelines describing culturally competent assistive behaviors can be encoded in a robot to effectively tune its actions, gestures, and words. In the same context, an online constraint-based Planner is used together with the cultural knowledge base in order to adapt the execution of the robot's actions (Khaliq et al, 2018). When launched, the planner requests operators and actions from the Cultural Knowledge Base.…”

Section: Execution and Actionmentioning

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A review and comparison of ontology-based approaches to robot autonomy

Olivares-Alarcos

Beßler

Khamis

et al. 2019

The Knowledge Engineering Review

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Within the next decades, robots will need to be able to execute a large variety of tasks autonomously in a large variety of environments. To relax the resulting programming effort, a knowledge-enabled approach to robot programming can be adopted to organize information in re-usable knowledge pieces. However, for the ease of reuse, there needs to be an agreement on the meaning of terms. A common approach is to represent these terms using ontology languages that conceptualize the respective domain. In this work, we will review projects that use ontologies to support robot autonomy. We will systematically search for projects that fulfill a set of inclusion criteria and compare them with each other with respect to the scope of their ontology, what types of cognitive capabilities are supported by the use of ontologies, and which is their application domain.

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Section: Execution and Actionmentioning

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A review and comparison of ontology-based approaches to robot autonomy

Olivares-Alarcos

Beßler

Khamis

et al. 2019

The Knowledge Engineering Review

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“…As an example, consider the greeting scenario, which involves different type of gestures for different cultures (bowing, hand-waving, doing namaste, ...). A culturally competent robot should know what it is the most appropriate type of action to be executed, being also able to learn the specific user's preference and to (eventually) update its behavior accordingly [21].…”

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“…The scripts presented above are just examples; the interaction may be different every time, given the presence of random components in the underlying algorithms. Notice also that, for the sake of comparison, the same conversation topics have been selected in both examples 21 .…”

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“…20 Culturally appropriate suggestion. 21 Recent videos recorded in a CARESSES laboratory with the Experimental robot can be seen here https://youtu.be/jmfmuytMj-4) it knows about English breakfast). On the opposite, the first robot behaves as if it is were completely unaware of her cultural identity (sometimes with weird results, as when it addresses Mrs Smith as 'auntie", which is appropriate in the indian culture, but not for an English lady).…”

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Designing an Experimental and a Reference Robot to Test and Evaluate the Impact of Cultural Competence in Socially Assistive Robotics

Recchiuto

Papadopoulos

Hill

et al. 2019

2019 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)

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The article focusses on the work performed in preparation for an experimental trial aimed at evaluating the impact of a culturally competent robot for care home assistance. Indeed, it has been estabilished that the user's cultural identity plays an important role during the interaction with a robotic system and cultural competence may be one of the key elements for increasing capabilities of socially assistive robots.Specifically, the paper describes part of the work carried out for the definition and implementation of two different robotic systems for the care of older adults: a culturally competent robot, that shows its awareness of the user's cultural identity, and a reference robot, non culturally competent, but with the same functionalities of the former. The design of both robots is here described in detail, together with the key elements that make a socially assistive robot culturally competent, which should be absent in the non-culturally competent counterpart. Examples of the experimental phase of the CARESSES project, with a fictional user are reported, giving a hint of the validness of the proposed approach.

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“…Given the multiculturalism in some cities, and the global robotics market, explorations on culturally appropriate robotic behaviours have emerged. The work in [7] attempts to build robots with cultural knowledge so that the robot greets and converses in a culturally appropriate manner, but the idea that robots need to first determine the cultural background or origin of someone first suggests technology that can successfully discriminate between different races or cultures.…”

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Robot-Friendly Cities

Loke¹

2019

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Robots are increasingly tested in public spaces, towards a future where urban environments are not only for humans but for autonomous systems. While robots are promising, for convenience and efficiency, there are challenges associated with building cities crowded with machines. This paper provides an overview of the problems and some solutions, and calls for greater attention on this matter.1 Urban Environments, Not Just for Humans: a Problem? Urban environments will increasingly be spaces for autonomous systems, of which automated vehicles is only one popular type. Modern, but so far less common, forms of transport for people could be Segway type devices such as Loomo 1 and various kinds of delivery robots for goods.Robot wheelchairs could be used in public as well other robot-transporters to help the elderly. Also, indoors, there are robots helping to carry bags in hotels, e.g., Sheratons robots, 2 robots helping to transfer supplies and lab specimens in hospitals, robot trolleys (and other robots in shopping malls). There are now more examples of robots for hotels. 3

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Culturally aware Planning and Execution of Robot Actions

Cited by 25 publications

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A review and comparison of ontology-based approaches to robot autonomy

A review and comparison of ontology-based approaches to robot autonomy

Designing an Experimental and a Reference Robot to Test and Evaluate the Impact of Cultural Competence in Socially Assistive Robotics

Robot-Friendly Cities

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