The Conversation is the Command: Interacting with Real-World Autonomous Robot Through Natural Language

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Main Authors: Nwankwo, Linus, Rueckert, Elmar
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Published: 2024
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author Nwankwo, Linus
Rueckert, Elmar
author_facet Nwankwo, Linus
Rueckert, Elmar
contents In recent years, autonomous agents have surged in real-world environments such as our homes, offices, and public spaces. However, natural human-robot interaction remains a key challenge. In this paper, we introduce an approach that synergistically exploits the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) and multimodal vision-language models (VLMs) to enable humans to interact naturally with autonomous robots through conversational dialogue. We leveraged the LLMs to decode the high-level natural language instructions from humans and abstract them into precise robot actionable commands or queries. Further, we utilised the VLMs to provide a visual and semantic understanding of the robot's task environment. Our results with 99.13% command recognition accuracy and 97.96% commands execution success show that our approach can enhance human-robot interaction in real-world applications. The video demonstrations of this paper can be found at https://osf.io/wzyf6 and the code is available at our GitHub repository (https://github.com/LinusNEP/TCC_IRoNL.git).
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spellingShingle The Conversation is the Command: Interacting with Real-World Autonomous Robot Through Natural Language
Nwankwo, Linus
Rueckert, Elmar
Robotics
Human-Computer Interaction
In recent years, autonomous agents have surged in real-world environments such as our homes, offices, and public spaces. However, natural human-robot interaction remains a key challenge. In this paper, we introduce an approach that synergistically exploits the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) and multimodal vision-language models (VLMs) to enable humans to interact naturally with autonomous robots through conversational dialogue. We leveraged the LLMs to decode the high-level natural language instructions from humans and abstract them into precise robot actionable commands or queries. Further, we utilised the VLMs to provide a visual and semantic understanding of the robot's task environment. Our results with 99.13% command recognition accuracy and 97.96% commands execution success show that our approach can enhance human-robot interaction in real-world applications. The video demonstrations of this paper can be found at https://osf.io/wzyf6 and the code is available at our GitHub repository (https://github.com/LinusNEP/TCC_IRoNL.git).
title The Conversation is the Command: Interacting with Real-World Autonomous Robot Through Natural Language
topic Robotics
Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11838