DRAGON: A dialogue-based robot for assistive navigation with visual language grounding

S Liu, A Hasan, K Hong, R Wang… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2024ieeexplore.ieee.org
Persons with visual impairments (PwVI) have difficulties understanding and navigating
spaces around them. Current wayfinding technologies either focus solely on navigation or
provide limited communication about the environment. Motivated by recent advances in
visual-language grounding and semantic navigation, we propose DRAGON, a guiding robot
powered by a dialogue system and the ability to associate the environment with natural
language. By understanding the commands from the user, DRAGON is able to guide the …
Persons with visual impairments (PwVI) have difficulties understanding and navigating spaces around them. Current wayfinding technologies either focus solely on navigation or provide limited communication about the environment. Motivated by recent advances in visual-language grounding and semantic navigation, we propose DRAGON, a guiding robot powered by a dialogue system and the ability to associate the environment with natural language. By understanding the commands from the user, DRAGON is able to guide the user to the desired landmarks on the map, describe the environment, and answer questions from visual observations. Through effective utilization of dialogue, the robot can ground the user's free-form language to the environment, and give the user semantic information through spoken language. We conduct a user study with blindfolded participants in an everyday indoor environment. Our results demonstrate that DRAGON is able to communicate with the user smoothly, provide a good guiding experience, and connect users with their surrounding environment in an intuitive manner.
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