MA: Self-Explanation of Robot Plans

15.05.2009, Diplomarbeiten, Bachelor- und Masterarbeiten

One characteristic of cognitive robots is their ability to explain what they are doing. The goal of this project is to use the existing plan structure of a robot to generate natural-language explanations about its behavior.

Project overview

We develop an autonomous household robot using a declarative plan language with the ability to learn. A robot program in this language is a hierarchy of plans, which is known during plan execution. This plan structure must be translated into an intermediate (logical) representation that can be transformed to natural language statements.

Task description

• Translation of the robot's task network into a logical representation
• Output of this representation as natural language (written and speech generation)

Prerequisites

• Experience in natural language processing or logic
• Lisp programming skills are a plus, but not required

Kontakt: Alexandra Kirsch (kirsch@in.tum.de)

More Information

http://www9.in.tum.de/teaching/student-projects/self-explanation-of-robot-plans