This project employs a humanoid torso to explore human-robot interaction. Topics to be investigated include natural language interaction, teaching by showing, manipulation and tactile sensing, data fusion and sound localisation.
This project is part of the the ARC
Centre of Excellence for Autonomous
Systems (CAS) and is also supported by the joint ARC and NH&MRC initiative on Thinking Systems. The main contributors are Nawid Jamali and Waleed Kadous.
Selected Publications
Sammut, C. A., & Banerji, R. B. (1986). Learning Concepts by Asking Questions. In R. S. Michalski Carbonell, J.G. and Mitchell, T.M. (Eds.), Machine Learning: An Artificial Intelligence Approach, Vol 2. (pp. 167-192). Los Altos, California: Morgan Kaufmann.
Sammut, C. (2001). Managing Context in a Conversational Agent. Linkoping Electronic Articles in Computer and Information Science. 6(27).
D'Este, C. and Sammut, C. (2005). Active Object Discovery for Communicating with Humans. In C. Sammut (Ed.), Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (7 pages). Sydney: Australian Robotics and Automation Association.
Jamali, N. and Sammut, C (2009). Texture recognition by tactile sensing. In Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation.
Jamali, N. and Sammut, C. (2010). Material Classification by Tactile Sensing using Surface Textures. In International Conference on Robotics and Automation.