Abstract
The WITAS project addresses the design of an intelligent, autonomous UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle), in our case a helicopter. Its dialogue-system subprojects address the design of a deliberative system for natural-language and graphical dialogue with that robotic UAV. This raises new issues both for dialogue and for reasoning in real time. The following topics have been particularly important for us in various stages of the work in these subprojects:
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spatiotemporal reference in the dialogue, including reference to past events and to planned or expected, future events
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mixed initiative in the dialogue architecture of a complex system consisting of both dialogue-related components (speech, grammar, etc) and others (simulation, event recognition, interface to robot)
and more recently as well
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identification of a dialogue manager that is no more complex than what is required by the application
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uniform treatment of different types of events, including the robot’s own actions, observed events, communication events, and dialogue-oriented deliberation events
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a logic of time, action, and spatiotemporal phenomena that facilitates the above.
This paper gives a brief overview of the WITAS project as a whole, and then addresses the approaches that have been used and that are presently being considered in the work on two generations of dialogue subsystems.
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Sandewall, E., Doherty, P., Lemon, O., Peters, S. (2003). Words at the Right Time: Real-Time Dialogues with the WITAS Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. In: Günter, A., Kruse, R., Neumann, B. (eds) KI 2003: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. KI 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2821. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39451-8_5
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