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The SPRING-ARI robot has a component-based architecture that instantiates the robotic application by encapsulating different functionalities. This architecture is documented in our Deliverable 7.3, public access possible from our results page. The aim of this document is to provide a first version of the software architecture of the SPRING-ARI [...]

One of the strategic objectives of the SPRING project is to enable robust robot perception in complex, unstructured and populated environments. A necessary component of it is a high quality self-localisation and tracking in cluttered and populated spaces. Given a 3D map of the environment, e.g. a hospital or [...]

2020: a special year for an international collaborative research project What a very peculiar year 2020 has been for everyone around the world! This is also true for all the partners involved in the Horizon 2020 project SPRING. Despite the tough challenges faced by the project in the midst [...]

What makes a conversation pleasant? How would you talk if your objective was to be as engaging and useful as possible with a person you’ve never met, without appearing annoying? Now with some context: you are a robot, and your role is to guide and help people in a [...]

Mandatory Requirements: Master’s degree in Computer Science/ Control / Robotics/ AI At least 3 years C++ experience Knowledge about SLAM algorithms Proactive team working attitude Good communication skills (at least in English) Good knowledge of ROS and the ROS Navigation Stack European work permit Desired Requirements: Experience with real [...]

How can an artificial intelligence find its bearing in a real environment? How can it understand that an object, or a living thing has moved and make a logic link between an environment at a specific moment and the same environment an instant later? These are all complex questions [...]

Dialogue may seem natural to you, but it involves a series of distinct, complex tasks in order for two or more people to interact smoothly. To recreate that for a conversational AI, such as the one to be featured in the ARI-SPRING robot, you need to emulate a dialogue [...]

Contract type: Fixed-term contract Level of qualifications required: Graduate degree or equivalent Fonction: PhD Position Theme/Domain: Vision, perception and multimedia interpretation, Information system Partner, country, city: Inria, France, Grenoble (Montbonnot) Starting date: 2020-10-01 Duration of contract: 3 years Deadline to apply: 2020-07-08 Remuneration: 1st and 2nd year: 1 982 [...]

The human ear, and information treatment by our brain is capable of wonders. Not only simply hearing, filtering and selecting important sounds over non important ones (noise), but also spatially situate the origin of sounds. A social robot, like ARI-SPRING, which needs to evolve in a real-world environment with [...]

Ever tried asking your AI assistant, or even a robot having cameras, "is there a free seat in the waiting room"? Probably not, because you know it won't be able to answer. This is actually a non-trivial issue of automated fusion of different sources of information, such as for [...]