Natural Language Instructions for Human-robot Collaborative Manipulation - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Natural Language Instructions for Human-robot Collaborative Manipulation

Rosario Scalise, Shen Li, Henny Admoni, Stephanie Rosenthal, and Siddhartha S. Srinivasa
Journal Article, International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 37, No. 6, pp. 558 - 565, May, 2018

Abstract

This paper presents a dataset of natural language instructions for object reference in manipulation scenarios. It comprises 1582 individual written instructions, which were collected via online crowdsourcing. This dataset is particularly useful for researchers who work in natural language processing, human–robot interaction, and robotic manipulation. In addition to serving as a rich corpus of domain-specific language, it provides a benchmark of image–instruction pairs to be used in system evaluations and uncovers inherent challenges in tabletop object specification. Example code is provided for easy access via Python.

BibTeX

@article{Scalise-2018-113229,
author = {Rosario Scalise and Shen Li and Henny Admoni and Stephanie Rosenthal and Siddhartha S. Srinivasa},
title = {Natural Language Instructions for Human-robot Collaborative Manipulation},
journal = {International Journal of Robotics Research},
year = {2018},
month = {May},
volume = {37},
number = {6},
pages = {558 - 565},
}