Scenario-Based Programming of Voice-Controlled Medical Robotic Systems.

An important issue in medical robotics is communication between physicians and robots. Speech-based communication is of particular advantage in robot-assisted surgery. It frees the surgeon's hands; hence, he can focus on the principal tasks.

Integration of Industrially-Oriented Human-Robot Speech Communication and Vision-Based Object Recognition.

This paper presents a novel method for integration of industrially-oriented human-robot speech communication and vision-based object recognition. Such integration is necessary to provide context for task-oriented voice commands. Context-based speech communication is easier, the commands are shorter, hence their recognition rate is higher.

Object Identification for Task-Oriented Communication with Industrial Robots.

To make the human-robot collaboration effective, it may be necessary to provide robots with "senses" like vision and hearing. Task-oriented man-machine speech communication often relies on the use of abstract terms to describe objects. Therefore it is necessary to correctly map those terms into images of proper objects in a camera's field of view.