Cooperative Task-Solving with an Embodied Artificial Agent - Einzelansicht

”Alexa, can you help me assemble this shelf?” Interactions like these are still far from the scientific reality and that’s not merely because robotic hardware development is still lacking behind. The amount of
reasoning and human-robot cooperation that is required to solve this task is complex: The robot needs to understand what a shelf is, what needs to be done to assemble one, observe what the human is doing and infer what actions could best support the human in the given task. The aim of this project is to get an understanding of the complexity of such human-agent collaboration from a practical and theoretical perspective. To abstract from the challenges of robotic hardware, we will use Minetest (an open-source version of Minecraft) as a testbed in this course. Given a simple embodied Minetest agent, your task will be to write a dialogue- and action-system for this agent that is able to perform meaningful tasks by listening to the commands and observing the actions of the human player. The project work will be performed in teams and the focus of each project, as well as the collaborative task to perform, can be decided freely by each team. The practical project work will be enhanced by a series of seminar talks and paper discussions to get a better understanding of the fundamentals of embodied interaction.

The weekly meetings take place on Zoom: https://uni-potsdam.zoom.us/j/63968682642 (Passcode: 67347105)

The first meeting is Monday, April 12th at 12:15 on Zoom. If you want to join the project, please make sure to be present during the first session or write me an e-mail if you cannot make it.

To follow the course, you need to have completed your Basic Modules and have a solid foundation in programming, ideally in Python.