A mobile agents based distributed speech recognition engine for controlling multiple robots

Abstract

Interaction with a robot has been an active area of research since the inception of robotics. Talking to a robot has always been considered the most natural way to communicate with it. But it is not always possible to have a full-fledged, standalone speech processing engine to be present on a robot or on a single machine. A dedicated system to convert the commands from audio to text is needed. However, as the number of commands and robots increases, it becomes necessary to eliminate all the single-point failure points in the system. Thus, distributed speech engine comes into picture. Also users may want to talk to the robot in different languages.The approach proposed in this paper is distributed, fault tolerant and scalable, such that any new recognition algorithm or language support can be added and used without any changes to the existing system.The work has been demonstrated on a freely available mobile agents based Internet of Things platform. However, any platform can be used.

Software for Voice Control Robot: Example of Implementation

“…Panek P., Mayer P. [3] propose to use a commercially available automatic speech recognition (ASR) serves as base. Mayank Gupta, Pulkit Verma, Tuhin Bhattacharya, Pradip K. Das [11] propose algorithm that is rather interesting but it is not good for industrial conditions. Stanislav Ondas, Jozef Juhar, Matus Pleva, Anton Cizmar, Roland Holcer [12] use HMM-Open Access Library Journal based acoustic models trained using the SpeechDatE-SK database.…”

Voice Control for an Industrial Robot as a Combination of Various Robotic Assembly Process Models

“…Panagiota Tsarouchi, Sotiris Makris, George Chryssolouris [13] discuss process of learning by demonstration as well as the instructive systems is reviewed, focusing mainly on programming through visual guidance and imitation, voice commands and haptic interaction. In [14] authors propose approach that is distributed, fault tolerant and scalable, such that any recognition algorithm or language support can be added and used without any changes to the existing system. Alberto Poncela [20] proposes even Web-based remote robotized cells voice control.…”