Thomas M. Howard

Contextual awareness: Understanding monologic natural language instructions for autonomous robots

2017

Today, there are many examples of humans and robots regularly interacting in a variety of domains, such as manufacturing, coordinated assembly, and rehabilitation. A resulting demand for more generally accessible communication interfaces has motivated several …

Efficient Grounding of Abstract Spatial Concepts for Natural Language Interaction with Robot Manipulators

2016

Our goal is to develop models that allow a robot to understand natural language instructions in the context of its world representation. Contemporary models learn possible correspondences between parsed instructions and candidate groundings that include …