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A Natural Language Instruction Disambiguation Method for Robot Grasping

  • Rongguang Ye
  • , Qingchuan Xu
  • , Jie Liu
  • , Yang Hong
  • , Chengfeng Sun
  • , Wenzheng Chi*
  • , Lining Sun
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Soochow University

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Abstract

Robot grasping under the instruction of natural language has attracted increasing attention in various applications for its advantages in enabling natural and smooth human-robot interaction. At present, mainstream algorithms mainly solve problems of utilizing simple natural language instructions to guide the robot arm to perform some specific grasping. However, for two natural language instructions with different temporal logic and the same semantics, it is usually difficult for the robot to achieve semantic disambiguation, which further leads to the failure of the grasping task. In order to address this problem, we propose a new natural language instruction disambiguation method for robot grasping by combining sentence vector similarity calculation model and sentence temporal logic model. Firstly, the word vector is obtained through the Skip-gram model in Word2vec and a sentence vector is constructed. The semantic similarity of the sentence is then calculated by using the proposed cost function. Based on the semantic similarity of the sentence, the correct temporal logic form of the sentence is then extracted according to the temporal adverbial priority to further guide the grabbing process of the robot arm. The experimental results show that our method can successfully realize the semantic disambiguation for natural language instructions with different temporal logics and the same semantics, and further guide the robot arm to complete more complicated tasks than previous tasks.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2021
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages601-606
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781665405355
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Externally publishedYes
Event2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2021 - Hybrid, Sanya, China
Duration: 27 Dec 202131 Dec 2021

Publication series

Name2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2021

Conference

Conference2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2021
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHybrid, Sanya
Period27/12/2131/12/21

Keywords

  • Natural Language Instruction
  • Robot Arm
  • Sentence Vector Similarity Calculation
  • Temporal Logic

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