A message from the ECHORD coordinator Alois Knoll

We have built two example collection of commands to model the two application domains. The sentences have been collected from the students of the class “Seminars AI and Robotics”, section on Natural Language Processing. The goal was experimenting the process of acquiring domain specific information, and the collections...

In the last bimester, we have consolidated the S4R activities related with Task 1, and we have completed the S4R activities planned in Task 2, concerning the design of the process for the generation Vocal User Interface for specific robotic applications. The details are available in the Technical report released at the end of...

The latest development of the RODIN project contains the conception and design of the experiment system setup. After the requirements for the natural stone carving experiments were identified, now the analysis of the sculptor and the construction of the input handle have been discussed. In addition the system theoretic...

In the last bimester we have worked on with the activities of Task 3: System Development, Implementation, Integration and Testing, namely on the implementation and testing of the first prototype of the VUI for the chosen domains. According to the results of the design phase, we are focusing on the generalized components that...

In the last bimester we have worked on with the activities of Task 3: System Development, Implementation, Integration and Testing, namely on the implementation and testing of the first prototype of the VUI for the chosen domains. This effort will be reported in Deliverable 3.1, Mid-term Home Service Prototype and...

In the last bimester, we have focussed our work on with the refinement and testing of the Service Prototype and Demonstrator, (Deliverable 3.1) which is part of the Task 3: System Development, Implementation, Integration and Testing. Specifically, we have completed the interface to the MS dictation engine, in preparation to a...

In the last bimester, we have been working on the experimental evaluation of the prototypes (Task 4). On the one hand, we have defined and tested the procedure for performance evaluation of the vocal interfaces defined for different robots and environments. On the other hand, laboratory experiments have been performed to...

In this step of the experiment conception, the robot control design took place. There is now a robot control architecture with an extended impedance controller and an open communication interface to the industrial robot control box. Further the safety system has beeing integrated into the robot control and the experiment...

We have been improving the facial tracker in order to make it more robust than the original version to sudden illumination changes. The improvements have been focused principally in the learning strategy of the facial template for the calculation of the update of the 3D facial model configuration. Its previous version was...

The experiment system design addressing the design of the entire experiment system including safety system, mechanical parts, user interface and robot periphery is completed. The mechanical construction of the tool carrier includes an additional axis for changing configuration of tools without moving the robot through...