Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
X. Zang, A. Pokle, K. Chen, M. Vazquez, J. Niebles, A. Soto, and S. Savaresse. “Translating Navigation Instructions in Natural Language to a High-Level Plan for Behavioral Robot Navigation”. In Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2018. (2018)

Translating Navigation Instructions in Natural Language to a High-Level Plan for Behavioral Robot Navigation

Revista : Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
Tipo de publicación : Conferencia No A* ni A

Abstract

We propose an end-to-end deep learning model for translating free-form natural language instructions to a high-level plan for behavioral robot navigation. We use attention models to connect information from both the user instructions and a topological representation of the environment. We evaluate our model’s performance on a new dataset containing 10,050 pairs of navigation instructions. Our model significantly outperforms baseline approaches. Furthermore, our results suggest that it is possible to leverage the environment map as a relevant knowledge base to facilitate the translation of free-form navigational instruction.