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Quadrupedal Robotic Guide Dog with Vocal Human-Robot Interaction

Mehrizi, Kavan

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Guide dogs play a critical role in the lives of many, however training them is a time- and labor-intensive process.

We are developing a method to allow an autonomous robot to physically guide humans using direct human-robot communication.
The proposed algorithm will be deployed on a Unitree A1 quadrupedal robot and will autonomously navigate the person to their destination while communicating with the person using a speech interface compatible with the robot.
This speech interface utilizes cloud based services such as Amazon Polly and Google Cloud to serve as the text-to-speech and speech-to-text engines.

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