Language grounding with 3d objects

J Thomason, M Shridhar, Y Bisk… - … on Robot Learning, 2022‏ - proceedings.mlr.press
Seemingly simple natural language requests to a robot are generally underspecified, for
example" Can you bring me the wireless mouse?" Flat images of candidate mice may not …

A joint network for grasp detection conditioned on natural language commands

Y Chen, R Xu, Y Lin, PA Vela - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider the task of gras** a target object based on a natural language command
query. Previous work primarily focused on localizing the object given the query, which …

Robot object retrieval with contextual natural language queries

T Nguyen, N Gopalan, R Patel, M Corsaro… - ar** with one-grasp adaptation
Y Yang, Y Liu, H Liang, X Lou… - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robotic gras** is one of the most fundamental robotic manipulation tasks and has been
actively studied. However, how to quickly teach a robot to grasp a novel target object in …

Doro: Disambiguation of referred object for embodied agents

P Pramanick, C Sarkar, S Paul… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robotic task instructions often involve a referred object that the robot must locate (ground)
within the environment. While task intent understanding is an essential part of natural …

Talk-to-Resolve: Combining scene understanding and spatial dialogue to resolve granular task ambiguity for a collocated robot

P Pramanick, C Sarkar, S Banerjee… - Robotics and Autonomous …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
The utility of collocating robots largely depends on the easy and intuitive interaction
mechanism with the human. If a robot accepts task instruction in natural language, first, it has …

Multimodal attention branch network for perspective-free sentence generation

A Magassouba, K Sugiura… - Conference on Robot …, 2020‏ - proceedings.mlr.press
In this paper, we address the automatic sentence generation of fetching instructions for
domestic service robots. Typical fetching commands such as “bring me the yellow toy from …

Alleviating the burden of labeling: Sentence generation by attention branch encoder–decoder network

T Ogura, A Magassouba, K Sugiura… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Domestic service robots (DSRs) are a promising solution to the shortage of home care
workers. However, one of the main limitations of DSRs is their inability to interact naturally …

A multimodal target-source classifier with attention branches to understand ambiguous instructions for fetching daily objects

A Magassouba, K Sugiura… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this study, we focus on multimodal language understanding for fetching instructions in the
domestic service robots context. This task consists of predicting a target object, as instructed …

Affordance-based robot object retrieval

T Nguyen, N Gopalan, R Patel, M Corsaro, E Pavlick… - Autonomous …, 2022‏ - Springer
Natural language object retrieval is a highly useful yet challenging task for robots in human-
centric environments. Previous work has primarily focused on commands specifying the …