10 accepted papers
As robots become more integrated into shared work environments, effective communication must balance clear task directives with social engagement to support both efficiency and user satisfaction. This letter examines how people perceive task-oriented versus social dialogue during human–robot collabo
Natural language serves as the primary mode of communication when an intelligent agent with a physical presence engages with human beings. While a plethora of research focuses on natural language understanding (NLU), encompassing endeavors such as sentiment analysis, intent prediction, question answ…
The usage of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are becoming omnipresent ranging from personal assistant to chatbots, home, and industrial automation systems, etc. Modern robots are also equipped with ASR capabilities for interacting with humans as speech is the most natural interaction moda…
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 language understanding, less effort is made to resolve ambiguity that may arise while grounding the task. Existing wor
Bin packing using a robotic arm is an important problem in the context of Industry 4.0. In this work, we present a reliable and efficient bin packing system, called Jampacker. We propose a new offline 3D bin packing algorithm, called Jampack that achieves higher packing efficiency in comparison to t
As the number of robots in our daily surroundings like home, office, restaurants, factory floors, etc. are increasing rapidly, the development of natural human-robot interaction mechanism becomes more vital as it dictates the usability and acceptability of the robots. One of the valued features of s…
Warehouse management system assigns a preferred completion time for every order based on the customer profile and the good(s) that is/are ordered. Even though employing multi-robot systems to manage goods movement bring operational efficiency in a warehouse, it is difficult to meet these soft deadli…
Multi-robot systems are deployed in a warehouse to automate the process of storing and retrieving objects in and out of the warehouse. The efficiency of the system largely depends on how the tasks are allocated to the robots. Though there exists a number of techniques that can perform multi-robot ta…
A robot as a coworker or a cohabitant is becoming mainstream day-by-day with the development of low-cost sophisticated hardware. However, an accompanying software stack that can aid the usability of the robotic hardware remains the bottleneck of the process, especially if the robot is not dedicated…
In modern warehouses, robots are being deployed to perform complex tasks such as fetching a set of objects from various locations in a warehouse to a docking station. This requires a careful task allocation along with route planning such that the total distance traveled (cost) is minimized. The numb…