Learning Flexible Translation between Robot Actions and Language Descriptions

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2207.07437v1
• Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2022 12:37:05 GMT
• Title: Learning Flexible Translation between Robot Actions and Language Descriptions
• Authors: Ozan \"Ozdemir, Matthias Kerzel, Cornelius Weber, Jae Hee Lee, Stefan Wermter
• Abstract summary: We propose a paired gated autoencoders (PGAE) for flexible translation between robot actions and language descriptions. We train our model in an end-to-end fashion by pairing each action with appropriate descriptions that contain a signal informing about the translation direction. With the option to use a pretrained language model as the language encoder, our model has the potential to recognise unseen natural language input.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Handling various robot action-language translation tasks flexibly is an essential requirement for natural interaction between a robot and a human. Previous approaches require change in the configuration of the model architecture per task during inference, which undermines the premise of multi-task learning. In this work, we propose the paired gated autoencoders (PGAE) for flexible translation between robot actions and language descriptions in a tabletop object manipulation scenario. We train our model in an end-to-end fashion by pairing each action with appropriate descriptions that contain a signal informing about the translation direction. During inference, our model can flexibly translate from action to language and vice versa according to the given language signal. Moreover, with the option to use a pretrained language model as the language encoder, our model has the potential to recognise unseen natural language input. Another capability of our model is that it can recognise and imitate actions of another agent by utilising robot demonstrations. The experiment results highlight the flexible bidirectional translation capabilities of our approach alongside with the ability to generalise to the actions of the opposite-sitting agent.

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