Robot Interaction Language: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 22:39, 29 October 2011

Revision as of 19:09, 7 March 2012

Line 1:

{{Orphan|date=May 2011}}

{{barelinksRefimprove|date=AugustMarch 20112012}}

The '''Robot Interaction Language''' ('''ROILA''') is the first spoken language created specifically for talking to robots. ROILA is being developed by the Department of Industrial Design at [[Eindhoven University of Technology]]. The major goals of ROILA are that it should be easily learnable by the user, and optimized for efficient recognition by robots. ROILA has a syntax that allows it to be useful for many different kinds of robots, including the [[Roomba]], and [[Lego Mindstorms NXT]]. ROILA is free for anybody to use and to contribute to, as the team has released all documentation and tools under a [[Creative Commons]] license.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://roila.org/about/ |title=About |publisher=ROILA |date= |accessdate=2012-03-07}}</ref>

The '''Robot Interaction Language''' ('''ROILA''') is the first spoken language created specifically for talking to robots. ROILA is being developed by the Department of Industrial Design at [[Eindhoven University of Technology]]. The major goals of ROILA are that it should be easily learnable by the user, and optimized for efficient recognition by robots. ROILA has a syntax that allows it to be useful for many different kinds of robots, including the [[Roomba]], and [[Lego Mindstorms NXT]]. ROILA is free for anybody to use and to contribute to, as the team has released all documentation and tools under a [[Creative Commons]] license.<ref>http://roila.org/about/</ref>

==History==

ROILA was developed due to the need for a unified language for humans to speak to robots. The designers performed research into the ability of robots to recognize and interpret natural languages. They discovered that natural languages can be very confusing for robots to interpret sometimes, due to elements such as [[homophones]] and [[tenses]]. Based on this research, the team set out to create a [[genetic algorithm]] that would generate an artificial vocabulary in a way that would be easy for a human to pronounce. The algorithm used the most common [[phonemes]] from the most popular natural languages and created easy to pronounce words. The team took the results of this algorithm and formed the ROILA vocabulary.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.scivee.tv/node/19096 |title=Robot Interaction Language (ROILA) &#124; SciVee |publisher=Scivee.tv |date= |accessdate=2012-03-07}}</ref>

==Language==

ROILA has an isolating grammar, meaning that it doesn't have suffixes or prefixes added to words to change their meanings. Instead, these changes are constructed by adding word markers that specify what the changes are, such as the tense of the previous verb. For example, in English the suffix “ed” is added to a word to show that it is in the past tense, but in ROILA the marker word “jifi” is placed after the verb.<ref>{{cite web|last=Zuras |first=Matthew |url=http://www.switched.com/2010/07/16/will-you-learn-roila-the-robot-language-to-befriend-your-robot/ |title=Will You Learn ROILA, the Robot Language, to Befriend Your Robot Overlords? |publisher=Switched.com |date=2010-07-16 |accessdate=2012-03-07}}</ref>

===Alphabet===

Line 110 ⟶ 109:

===Examples===

The following examples attempt to show what the syntax of the language looks like in various uses.

*'''Literal English: '''<span style="background-color: #ccffcccfc;">I love this fruit</span>

*'''ROILA: '''<span style="background-color: #ccccccccc;">Pito loki wikute</span>

*'''Translation: '''<span style="background-color: #ffffccffc;">I love fruit</span>

*'''Literal English: '''<span style="background-color: #ccffcccfc;">I love all fruits</span>

*'''ROILA: '''<span style="background-color: #ccccccccc;">Pito loki wikute tuji</span>

*'''Translation: '''<span style="background-color: #ffffccffc;">I love fruit <word marker for plural></span>

*'''Literal English: '''<span style="background-color: #ccffcccfc;">You are a good person</span>

*'''ROILA: '''<span style="background-color: #ccccccccc;">Bama wopa tiwil</span>

*'''Translation: '''<span style="background-color: #ffffccffc;">You good person</span>

*'''Literal English: '''<span style="background-color: #ccffcccfc;">I walked to the house</span>

*'''ROILA: '''<span style="background-color: #ccccccccc;">Pito fosit jifi bubas</span>

*'''Translation: '''<span style="background-color: #ffffccffc;">I walk <word marker for past tense> house</span>

*'''Literal English: '''<span style="background-color: #ccffcccfc;">Do not listen to her</span>

*'''ROILA: '''<span style="background-color: #ccccccccc;">Buse lulaw mona</span>

*'''Translation: '''<span style="background-color: #ffffccffc;">No listen her</span>

==Availability==

ROILA is currently only available for the Lego NXT. It uses the [[CMU Sphinx]] speech recognition library to interpret spoken commands to the NXT, and transform them into ROILA commands.

== References ==

<!--- See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Footnotes on how to create references using <ref></ref> tags which will then appear here automatically -->

{{Reflist}}

== External links ==

* [http://www.roila.org/ ROILA Official Website]

* [http://www.drhu.eu/reports/2011-OmarMubin-ROILA.pdf ROILA: Robot Interaction Language (Thesis, PDF)]