7 accepted papers
In many robotic applications, especially those involving humans and the environment, linguistic and visual information must be processed jointly and bound together. Existing works either encode the image or the language into a subsymbolic space, like the CLIP model, or create a symbolic space of ext…
Autonomous agents embedded in a physical environment need the ability to correctly perceive the state of the environment from sensory data. In partially observable environments, certain properties can be perceived only in specific situations and from certain viewpoints that can be reached by the age…
Autonomous agents embedded in a physical environment need the ability to recognize objects and their properties from sensory data. Such a perceptual ability is often implemented by supervised machine learning models, which are pre-trained using a set of labelled data. In real-world, open-ended deplo…
The way in which humans behave, speak and interact is deeply influenced by their culture. For example, greeting is done differently in France, in Sweden or in Japan; and the average interpersonal distance changes from one cultural group to the other. In order to successfully coexist with humans, rob…
Social norms are the understandings that govern the behavior of members of a society. As such, they regulate communication, cooperation and other social interactions. Robots capable of reasoning about social norms are more likely to be recognized as an extension of our human society. However, norms…
Reliable autonomous navigation is still a challenging problem for robots with simple and inexpensive hardware. A key difficulty is the need to maintain an internal map of the environment and an accurate estimate of the robot's position in this map. Recently, a stigmergic approach has been proposed i…
Many species in nature store information in the environment to facilitate the performance of tasks and enable cooperation. This principle is known as stigmergy. Stigmergy has been widely studied in robotic systems, but so far mostly in simulation or in laboratory proofs of concept. In this paper, we…