The Journal of Korea Robotics Society (로봇학회논문지)

Korea Robotics Society (한국로봇학회)
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Development of Conversational Interface Platform Based on MS Robotics Studio for Integrated Service Robots

통합 서비스 로봇을 위한 MS 로보틱스 스튜디오 기반 대화 인터페이스 플랫폼 구축

  • Received : 2009.01.05
  • Accepted : 2009.02.12
  • Published : 2009.02.27
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Abstract

The development of IT technology makes the functions and services of robots be integrated, and thus the robots become more intelligent and useful. As sophisticated usage of robots has evolved, direct communication by human language is necessary to increase the efficiency of their usage. In this paper, we propose a conversational interface platform for integrated service robots using MS Robotics Studio. The proposed platform consists of three types of components: a conversation manager to control the flows of the integrated service robots, a user interface to interact with users, and multiple service robots to perform actions or services. For a test-bed of the proposed platform, we build a schedule manager system and confirm the usability through SUS subject test by comparing the schedule manager system with MS Outlook.

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