论文标题
Casper：社会感知和机器人参与的认知建筑
CASPER: Cognitive Architecture for Social Perception and Engagement in Robots
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论文摘要
我们的世界越来越被具有不同自治程度的智能机器人所笼罩。为了将自己无缝整合到我们的社会中，这些机器即使在没有人类的直接投入的情况下，也应该具有导航我们日常工作的复杂性的能力。换句话说，我们希望这些机器人了解其合作伙伴的意图，以预测帮助他们的最佳方法。在本文中，我们介绍了Casper（社会感知和在机器人中参与的认知架构）：一种象征性认知体系结构，使用定性的空间推理来预测另一个代理的追求目标并计算最佳的协作行为。这是通过平行过程的集合来执行的，该过程对低级动作识别和高级目标理解进行建模，这两者都经过正式验证。我们已经在模拟的厨房环境中测试了这种体系结构，我们收集的结果表明，机器人能够认识到一个持续的目标并适当合作实现其成就。这证明了对定性空间关系的新用途应用于人类机器人相互作用领域的意图阅读问题。
Our world is being increasingly pervaded by intelligent robots with varying degrees of autonomy. To seamlessly integrate themselves in our society, these machines should possess the ability to navigate the complexities of our daily routines even in the absence of a human's direct input. In other words, we want these robots to understand the intentions of their partners with the purpose of predicting the best way to help them. In this paper, we present CASPER (Cognitive Architecture for Social Perception and Engagement in Robots): a symbolic cognitive architecture that uses qualitative spatial reasoning to anticipate the pursued goal of another agent and to calculate the best collaborative behavior. This is performed through an ensemble of parallel processes that model a low-level action recognition and a high-level goal understanding, both of which are formally verified. We have tested this architecture in a simulated kitchen environment and the results we have collected show that the robot is able to both recognize an ongoing goal and to properly collaborate towards its achievement. This demonstrates a new use of Qualitative Spatial Relations applied to the problem of intention reading in the domain of human-robot interaction.
