Lana: A language-capable navigator for instruction following and generation

X Wang, W Wang, J Shao… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Recently, visual-language navigation (VLN)--entailing robot agents to follow navigation
instructions--has shown great advance. However, existing literature put most emphasis on …

Counterfactual cycle-consistent learning for instruction following and generation in vision-language navigation

H Wang, W Liang, J Shen… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Since the rise of vision-language navigation (VLN), great progress has been made in
instruction following--building a follower to navigate environments under the guidance of …

Learning to follow and generate instructions for language-capable navigation

X Wang, W Wang, J Shao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Visual-language navigation (VLN) is a challenging task that requires embodied agents to
follow natural language instructions to navigate in previously unseen environments …

Multimodal estimation and communication of latent semantic knowledge for robust execution of robot instructions

J Arkin, D Park, S Roy, MR Walter… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The goal of this article is to enable robots to perform robust task execution following human
instructions in partially observable environments. A robot's ability to interpret and execute …

Hierarchical reinforcement learning for pedagogical policy induction

G Zhou, H Azizsoltani, MS Ausin, T Barnes… - … IL, USA, June 25-29, 2019 …, 2019 - Springer
In interactive e-learning environments such as Intelligent Tutoring Systems, there are
pedagogical decisions to make at two main levels of granularity: whole problems and single …

Navigational instruction generation as inverse reinforcement learning with neural machine translation

AF Daniele, M Bansal, MR Walter - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM/IEEE …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Modern robotics applications that involve human-robot interaction require robots to be able
to communicate with humans seamlessly and effectively. Natural language provides a …

Personalized dynamics models for adaptive assistive navigation systems

E OhnBar, K Kitani, C Asakawa - Conference on Robot …, 2018 - proceedings.mlr.press
Consider an assistive system that guides visually impaired users through speech and haptic
feedback to their destination. Existing robotic and ubiquitous navigation technologies (eg …

Leveraging granularity: Hierarchical reinforcement learning for pedagogical policy induction

G Zhou, H Azizsoltani, MS Ausin, T Barnes… - International journal of …, 2022 - Springer
In interactive e-learning environments such as Intelligent Tutoring Systems, pedagogical
decisions can be made at different levels of granularity. In this work, we focus on making …

Improving student-system interaction through data-driven explanations of hierarchical reinforcement learning induced pedagogical policies

G Zhou, X Yang, H Azizsoltani, T Barnes… - Proceedings of the 28th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Motivated by the recent advances of reinforcement learning and the traditional grounded
Self Determination Theory (SDT), we explored the impact of hierarchical reinforcement …

Learning to give route directions from human demonstrations

S Oßwald, H Kretzschmar, W Burgard… - … on Robotics and …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For several applications, robots and other computer systems must provide route descriptions
to humans. These descriptions should be natural and intuitive for the human users. In this …