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...

Fifth ECHORD public summary. Project C-Kompai During February and March 2012 we have created of a document describing the capabilities and behavior of the Kompai robot before and after the C-Brain of Cognitive Robots is being installed. The enhanced capabilities are added to the original Kompai GUI with three buttons...

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...

The JILAS experiment has been chosen to be shown at the fair "Automatica 2012" in Munich. At the ECHORD booth a robot supported assembly of airplane components can partly be performed by the visitors.

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 the PsyIntEC project experiments on 70 participants have been conducted and data from ECG, eight EEG channels, EMG zygomatic, EMG corrugator and GSR sensors have been analyzed. The main purpose of the analysis was to detect any differences in psychophysiological measurements between completing the reference task with or...