Bilingual Robots: Extracting Robot Program Statements from Swedish Natural Language Instructions

In the English-speaking world, the idea of human-robot interaction in natural language has been well established. The tools for other languages are lacking, more specifically, Scandinavian languages are not supported by robot programming environments. The RobotLab at Lund University has a programming environment with English natural language programming. In this paper a module for Swedish natural language programming is presented. Program statements for force-based assembly tasks for an industrial robot are extracted from unstructured Swedish text. The goal is to create action sequences with motion and force constraints for the robot. The method produces tuples with actions and objects and uses the dependency relations to find nested temporal conditions. (Less)